God delights in the prosperity of His people so much that He reveals Himself as being our gold and silver (See Job 22:25). When it comes to the believer being sufficiently supplied with everything that they need to fulfill God's purpose, the idea in God's heart has always been that we lay up gold as dust. God wants every single member of His beloved family to be educated in things concerning His heart for us when it comes to experiencing this heritage life.God is the One who delights in the believer, and gives us the power to get wealth. Laying up treasures is a thing that God desires for His children. While we know that we are to lay up treasures in heaven, the entire concept does not leave out God's desire to have us lay up treasures in heaps.All through this Series, we will be teaching believers about God's plan to provide all that we need to accomplish His plans and purpose on the earth. Prosperity is not strange to the covenant of Grace that we have been drafted into and God wants our believing to be right in this regard.
The story of the cross is the greatest audacious story ever told. You don't need to look for a story of courage beyond the beautiful story of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. How daring was it for Jesus to lay down His life for the sins of the whole world. This was no little feat. Our journey into redemptive brilliance begins with Jesus' courage to lay down His life.Jesus wrecked havoc to death and the grave. The resurrection of Jesus brought an end to the death procession that Adam unleashed on our world. Nothing dies in the presence of the resurrection and the life. If you were planning to mourn the loss of a dream, vision, audacity, then you'd have to think again because Jesus does not live in grave clothes and you shouldn't also.Listen as we conclude the DARE series with our all-new episode- JESUS RUINS THE GRAVE.
Cross that line! Arrive at the end of your faith and do not give up before you arrive at the end. God is not only excited about starting things out, He is also faithful to finish what He has started. A major demonstration of courage is found in seeing things through to the end. Through faith in the finished work of Jesus, we learn to hold unto the promises of God in redemption and stay the cause till we cross the finished line.God gives strength to the weary and gives power to the weak. It is the energy of the Holy Spirit that keeps us moving till we cross the finished line. Don't forget that the ministry of the Spirit is the believer's heritage in Christ Jesus. What a delight!
In our kingdom, righteousness is the catalyst for bravery. Righteousness is a gift that bears fruits and produces a force. Boldness and audacity are unattainable without an understanding of this righteousness.Cast your mind on the boldness with which the second son approached His dad to ask for that which belonged to him as an inheritance in the story of the prodigal son. He walked in boldly and asked and he got it. Today, we have something greater than what that second son had, in that God has already freely given to us all that is in our heritage. When we put a magnifying glass on this righteousness that we have become, audacity becomes easy to express.In RIGHTEOUS HUMAN, we will dwell extensively on what righteousness does to us as believers, creating a link between our righteous standing and our bold disposition.
Everyone knows about new normals, the conversation/idea about how the world has changed drastically over the years and how that everyone now has to adjust to the way things have now been shaped and carefully arranged. If you check, people are now adjusting to things that many times do not reflect what God has provided for them in Christ’s finished work.Instead of settling for new normals that aren't normal if you look through redemptive eyes, we settle for the knowledge of God's provision, a provision that was designed to propel our lives forward. The “normal” that we believe should drive our lives is the normal that comes from knowledge. Knew normal is a normal that is driven by revelation knowledge of what God has provided in redemption and not what is obtainable in the environment.It's time to allow what you know about your heritage to determine what your normal would be and not what society is throwing at you.
Our life in redemption is a life of faith in the finished work of Jesus. The finished work of Jesus is the grace of God and we are pulled in by our faith in what God by His grace has accomplished.Take a look at the beauty of what Jesus has accomplished for us with a decision to engage in the most daring way you can. Dare to cast the weight of your life's best on the beauty of this redemptive brilliance. You'd go only go as far as your willingness to dare to trust in the Father's hearty provision- the light that shines from God's grace.
Spiritual perception and discernment are a function of alignment with the witness of the Holy Spirit concerning our identity, heritage, essence, development, and future. “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our Spirits that we are Children of God,” right? Since we know this to be true, it follows that the Spirit also bears witness with our Spirits that we are healed, wealthy, prosperous, blessed, and intelligent. This is true because everything we enjoy in Christ flows from our heritage as Sons of God. It is all that we are in Christ Jesus that the Holy Spirit bears witness with. You are not going to enjoy the witness of the Spirit if what you are believing is not aligned with what God has done for you in Christ Jesus. You'd only enjoy the witness of the Spirit as He helps you to understand everything that is yours because of what Jesus did.The witness of the Spirit only compliments the things that are true about us in redemption. “Can I get a witness that I'd be forever broken?” No! God's Spirit does not lead us to discern this way.
“...And has made us kings and priests, heirs and joint heirs with Christ.” This has always been the Father's heart for all of humanity and He demonstrated this love by sending His Son Jesus, the heir of all things, to lay His life down and be the ransom for our sins. What amazingness!We know that love is in the air because it is Valentine's season. Yet how brilliant would it be for people to realize that it is the love of God that is the root of all things love. No man can know anything about love without looking at how God so loved the world. Love is found in that God has made us heirs to His fortune and has brought us into a heritage life.
With eyes going dim, what brilliance can be seen? All this dimness in perception can be traced back to the fall. Why do people faint and lose hope? It's because they see, but dimly. Their perceptions of the life designed for them in Christ Jesus are no longer as sharp or bright. They have been overtaken by life's events. Jesus came so that He might effectively put an end to this dimness that the fall created. Anything that leads to blindness cannot be a good thing. God wants us to see and see clearly.Dim eyes are not just natural, they are symbolic spiritually also because our lives ought to be filled with EFFULGENCE, such that we see and perceive in the light of what is in God's will for us. Brightness is brilliance and God designed our lives to be lived from a place of brilliance in our perception, intuition, and revelation knowledge.
To know as you have been known by the Father-God is one of the most precious experiences of the believer's life. To be able to see like the Father cannot be compared to anything in this world. In the eyes of the Father, things for the believer look different, majestic, and splendid.This is a series on perception, discernment, seeing and knowing, just exactly how the Father desired it to be. That nothing should be incomprehensible to the believer because we were designed using the most sophisticated intelligence instrument that this world has ever known. Our intuition, witty inventions, innovations, and solutions should advance the world around us as long as we connect with God, trusting the way He sees with His eyes.Join us all through this series as we will dwell on perception, discernment, and forward advancement, God's way.
We have received a good heritage. We moved up and all our benefits are found in the Will. If someone left you a will, you will have to take the time out from being busy to read the will that was left for you. You leveled up in life because God left you a Will that Jesus' price has brought into fruition. This Will contains all that is in the Father's heart for you. Usually, when the will is being read, the attorneys and everyone included in the will are present, and rapt attention is paid. Each one, eager to know, “What did our patriarch leave behind for us? What can we have? What can we boldly lay claim to and how can we change the world with what was left for us?”
Have you ever heard the term, “It will cost a fortune?” Many times they use this phraseology to point to a person’s inability to afford something, or at least to point to how high the price of a thing is. The interesting thing is that whilst people are aware and often discouraged by the cost of things, they often do not realize that God left them a fortune.We live in a highly spiritual world and it is God’s dream that we match things, fortune for fortune! If a project is likely to cost a fortune, then you should embrace the consciousness that God left you a fortune and nothing about your Daddy is cheap. God is El-Shaddai not El-Cheapo. Scripture is replete with stories of how God made people wealthy simply because they believed in Him.God left you a fortune and that fortune is greater than (but includes) material wealth and prosperity. You have a fortune to your name because God gave birth to you.
Our fortune in Christ Jesus is in the Will. God has written His Will and His Will is in the Word. Our satisfaction from the Will comes from reading the Will. You'd have to partner with the Holy Spirit to come into the understanding of what God has made available to you according to His Will. God has a vision for your life. God has designed a vision for your life in the substitutionary work of Christ. It is important for us to embrace God's vision for our lives through being Inheritance-minded. We have to learn to love the life that God has designed for us and embrace the vision that God has for our lives, our organizations, our families and cities, our continents, and our world. The vision is not small. Our fortunes are not small. In this episode, we sit down around the vision that God has for our lives and our church.
God has made great plans for us in Redemption. God has made great provisions for us through the finished work of Jesus. Through the price Jesus paid for us in adopting us into His kingdom, He made us citizens of heaven. He made us sons of adoption and our most noble response would be to adopt an inheritance way of thinking. There are things that Jesus made available to us through His price paid and it is important to set our minds on these things. We ought to live our lives being conscious of the things freely given to us by God. You either live with an inheritance mind or you live with an orphan spirit. Imagine how beautiful it would be if you're able to cast your cares on your inheritance for the rest of your life!
God has designed a luxury life for everyone who is in Christ Jesus. When you hear luxury, don’t be tempted to reduce it to material things alone because there is a life in redemption that material things cannot equate. Would you not describe the life that Jesus lived before the cross as luxurious? Scripture says that He went everywhere and continued to do good everywhere He went. Is it not amazing that Jesus could not be held back by the influences of defeat that were in the earth at the time of His ministry exploits? The life of Jesus would count for luxury when you think about how He consistently experienced victory at all times.
Where is the joy if we are not operating with spiritual intelligence? Where is the joy if our redemptive story does not translate into seeing and knowing by the Holy Spirit? Have you noticed that in our world today, people will do anything even in the negative to visit the supernatural? People will do anything, pay anything even, just to get in tune with the spiritual realms. No wonder many people tap into all forms of witchcraft manifestations in their lives. Thank God that in Christ Jesus, God not only made us a masterpiece, but He also designed us with a masterplan and imputed in us the ability to know by the Spirit what this plan is. This is joy to your world!
God designed you to be a masterpiece and He has the masterplan for your life. Let’s face it, God did the design and He has the masterplan. He has the masterplan, not you. This means that you will have to stay intertwined with Him in fellowship to receive the plans that He has. Absolutely!You were not designed to run blindly. God gave you too much leverage in redemption; leverage that was designed to give you insider information about things that pertain to your life, your destiny, your ministry, and your calling. It is wrong for you to have all of these available to you and still run blindly in life. God has designed heads up for you through the redemptive work of Jesus and you should use it.
Christmas is here. This means decorations can be seen everywhere. Christmas trees and decorations are in order also. You cannot be wrong to decorate your living and working spaces with beautifully designed trees. However, while people are on the beautification quest, let's hope that they understand the greater idea that Christmas trees will mean nothing without an understanding of the family tree that Jesus came to make mankind a part of. God in making a masterpiece had to move us into a spiritual family tree, one that has now become our real identity and that is the fact that we are born of God. We now have a divine family tree and we are now characterized by many wonderful realities and experiences. In this episode of our all-new series- MASTERPIECES AND MASTERPLANS, we will be taking a look at our divine genealogy and the importance of paying attention to our heritage.
Christmas is here. This means decorations can be seen everywhere. Christmas trees and decorations are in order also. You cannot be wrong to decorate your living and working spaces with beautifully designed trees. However, while people are on the beautification quest, let's hope that they understand the greater idea that Christmas trees will mean nothing without an understanding of the family tree that Jesus came to make mankind a part of. God in making a masterpiece had to move us into a spiritual family tree, one that has now become our real identity and that is the fact that we are born of God. We now have a divine family tree and we are now characterized by many wonderful realities and experiences. In this episode of our all-new series- MASTERPIECES AND MASTERPLANS, we will be taking a look at our divine genealogy and the importance of paying attention to our heritage.
The Christmas Season is here and for us, it is an opportunity to reflect on the truth that became of us believers in Christ Jesus because the “Word became flesh.” The birth of Jesus was designed to be the commencement of the implementation of the Father's desire to move us into the New Creation zone, thereby making a masterpiece out of us! God in Christ produced us as His Masterpieces and this is something to rejoice about. We have not come to Christ, only to embrace a religious presentation of Christmas - but to embrace a meaningful presentation, one where we have become His masterpiece. Having become His masterpiece, we rejoice in that God has a Masterplan for our lives.
The Christmas Season is here and for us, it is an opportunity to reflect on the truth that became of us believers in Christ Jesus because the “Word became flesh.” The birth of Jesus was designed to be the commencement of the implementation of the Father's desire to move us into the New Creation zone, thereby making a masterpiece out of us! God in Christ produced us as His Masterpieces and this is something to rejoice about. We have not come to Christ, only to embrace a religious presentation of Christmas - but to embrace a meaningful presentation, one where we have become His masterpiece. Having become His masterpiece, we rejoice in that God has a Masterplan for our lives. We are excited to unveil our ALL-NEW series- MASTERPIECES AND MASTERPLANS.
We believe to see the end of what we have believed for.Join us in this episode to understand how you can believe and see the end of what you have believed for.
When the light of God's word comes on, then you know it is time to take flight. Believers must never be scared to dare! There is a reason why we have the lion face installed, it is so that we are bold to take on endeavors. Bold to take up new ventures and explore new possibilities. God is faithful to His vision for your life. You can trust that all through your life, God will put crazy impressions in your heart, impressions that make no sense. Impressions that you'd have to trust Him for their accomplishment. It is on the basis of your believing that these impressions will become possibilities. Some people wouldn't even dare to attempt it. Not you. Not only are you going to dare, you'd thrive while at it. Through this episode, we will be teaching you how to lay hold on BIG CRAZY DREAMS by trusting the impressions of the Spirit that God is putting inside your heart.
Believe. suspend your “impossibility” logic and travel into possibilities to see big pictures or if possible, replace old pictures, receive heart enlargement, and conceive ideas that seem impossible simply because you are willing to allow God's word to become your wings. “You have grown wings,” they say and you say, “blame it on the word.” In the realm of Big Crazy Dreams, the believer travels in God’s word, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit and begins to see with the eyes of the words that God has designed for their life! With eyes fixed on the Lamb Slain, you can make big moments, recognize big moments, and step into big moments.Through this episode, we will be teaching about how possibilities thinking opens doors for you to think BIG CRAZY DREAMS.
God is always pushing ideas from His mind into our souls to help us develop a framework for living our lives here on earth. Believing is an art and believers can develop skill and competence in believing. Conceptual arts are more ideas-driven than they are object-driven and this seems to be what believing looks like. Think about the idea of living in unlimited possibilities and consider that this idea of unlimited possibilities is a concept. It is not just a concept, it is God's concept. Believers can become so skilled in living in possibilities that it becomes an art. Have you ever seen a very well-drawn artwork? You know that the art had to have been done by a skilled artist. So is believing. The results of our "believing" can reveal a lot about how skillful we are. Join us as we bring you our ALL-NEW episode- CONCEPTUAL ART.
Jesus said, "If you can believe, all things are possible to them that believe," suggesting that our believing is very important when conversations about our love's outcomes and experiences begin to take place. God can have the most glorious plans for your life that you cannot enjoy without fixing the believing gap. Restrictions and restraints, fears and doubts are all learned habits and it takes consistent, high-intensity exposure to life as God designed it in Redemption to break the strongholds that abound from the culturing that people have been exposed to all their lives. With this constant exposure, people will increasingly live their lives expecting to experience NO impossibilities at all. Do you currently believe that all things are possible? To what degree do you believe that nothing is impossible? Would you like to be further encouraged down your road of possibilities thinking? If yes, then this NITTY-GRITTY series is for you.
It is important to be woke but it is also important to be woke in the matters of redemption. Like Paul, we can make a decision to determine to know nothing else except Christ and Him crucified. One of the ways of experiencing this is by looking to see Jesus revealed in the word. The concept of a "dry morsel" in Scripture points to what scripture calls "unleavened bread" which really speaks of bread that has no yeast. This points to something absolutely remarkable in scripture and that is the sinlessness of Jesus. A Dry Morsel therefore presents a state of sinlessness. The idea that we are without sin by the sacrifice of Jesus is a baseline foundation for traveling in JOY. This idea that God has made us without sin is also the basis for our healing and health. In this episode, see how our sinless Jesus has made us as He is. It is the revelation that our sins are forgiven that is the key to healing and health.
Joy brings color to the life of the believer. You can try to create a mental picture of what life would look like if a person stayed without being joyful. When you do life in joy, you'd come into the experience of all that joy was designed to give. Think about the redemption that you have been ushered into by the finished work of Jesus and you'd conclude that this redemption is giving. Redemption is always giving. Redemption never stops giving. It kept giving while we were yet sinners and it is still giving now that we have become the new creation in Christ. It's giving joy vibes, favor vibes, energy vibes, victory vibes. Redemption is giving vibes that color your world and you should allow it to give everything that it is meant to give. You do this by faith in Christ Jesus. In this episode, join us as we further the Joy Hue Series with our all-new episode- IT'S GIVING…
"I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth." Isn't it amazing that the new birth is greeted with joy, signifying the kind of life that the believer was designed to experience? When you became born again, you were received into the household of God with great joy, indicating that our kingdom is run by a joy culture. You are not going to see a sad day in heaven. You might think to yourself that you don't live in heaven and so there is no way that you can live in perpetual joy. Well, you are right about not being physically located in heaven, but you are also wrong because heaven is in your heart. God wants you to have a perspective of joy even though you are not physically located in heaven yet. The idea flows out of the fact that heaven now lives in your heart. Join us as we further the Joy Hue Series with our all-new episode- JOY CULTURE.
Travel in the light of the gospel and keep on being exposed to the light of the gospel in order to continuously experience the joy that comes from being exposed to light. Joy is color. You would agree that you have not come across anyone who has demonstrated joy, that did not have corresponding color. It is hard to see joy that isn’t colorful. Yet we also know that the amount of joy that you will experience would be directly proportional to the amount of light that is shining in your heart. If the light of the gospel is not shining in your heart, there can be no demonstration of joy and if there is no joy, then there will be no color.In this episode Hue and Saturation, we will be considering the relationship that our joy has with the amount of light that sits in our soul. The hope of traveling in joy is only made possible when there is a great light of the gospel shining in our hearts. Join us for this conversation.
Want to add color to your life? Go the way of joy! If you want to introduce new shades of brilliance and ebullience to your living experience, then an intentional demonstration of joy should be your most preferred option. You see, there is a reason why you can easily make a distinction between a house in which mourning exists and a house in which joy exists; it's always linked to the presence or absence of color. When the believer chooses to demonstrate joy at the revelation of the redemptive work that Jesus accomplished for us through His death, burial, and resurrection, they are intentionally coloring their lives' experience with beauty, splendor, and great grace. Joy is a disposition. Joy is an outlook. Joy is a way to see and a perspective to have and if you'd join us all Sundays and Wednesdays in October, you'd learn a lot about bringing color into your world through the demonstration of joy.
The expression of joy is largely related to being able to receive healing and health. Health and healing are found in the expression of Joy- the joy that is found in having God as the source of your salvation. Now we can choose to either rejoice today or postpone our expression of joy to “one day” and embrace a perspective that says things like, “One day I will be joyful, one day I will smile, one day I will find a reason to rejoice.” Every one of us will forever be presented with the choice of either pushing our joy into the future or deciding that we will express joy in this present moment, even when nothing has changed in our lives yet.So which would it be for you? One Day or Day One? If you choose the latter, what you are simply saying is that you are ready to begin to release joy in this present moment and that decision alone is as potent as potent can be.Join us as we conclude our “A Merry Heart” Series.
Joy takes us further. Progress in joy. Progress through joy. A merry heart is not going to leave you static or stagnated. A merry culture leads to advancement in life. It is not pointless to be merry hearted. Instead, being merry is a growth mindset that leads you into the accomplishment of the promises of God and the fulfillment of prophecy! The key to birthing prophetic words is joy! Truly, joy will take you further. Too many people consider being merry hearted as a pointless habit, but nothing could be further from the truth. A merry heart does good and part of the good it does is taking you further. Join us as we premiere our all-new episode- MERRY BUT NOT GOING ROUND from the A Merry Heart Series.
The believers’ journey in salvation was designed to be a journey in Joy. God designed that we will live our fullest believing experience bursting forth in the joy of the Lord. Many times, people have trained themselves to think that they would only experience unending joy when they get to heaven, not realizing that this was never the intention of our Father-God.Travel in Joy for the rest of your days because all of the benefits of redemption are only reaped when the believer exudes faith in the finished work of Jesus- the faith that produces joy unspeakable. There is no better way of doing life in Christ other than doing life in joy. Join us as we premiere our all-new episode- IN JOY from the A Merry Heart Series.
“Be of good cheer.” This is the template that Jesus left the earth with before He ascended into heaven. Jesus left us with the instruction to be cheerful and lively and He told us why. As our patriarchal progenitor, Jesus made it clear that He had overcome the world- its systems, concepts, and ideas, depriving it of its ability to harm us.Cheerfulness is God’s delivery system in redemption. The redemptive story was designed to be responded to with a merry heart. Joy is God’s culture. Sadness and gloom are not impressions that our God-culture deals with and these things are not conduits with which the Father delivers goods to His children. Our Father has designed that we live life being filled with good cheer.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life. If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations. Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life. If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations. Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life. If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations. Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life. If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations. Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth. Welcome to the Love Revolution Conference- where we receive institutions through the agency of God's love.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life. If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations. Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth. Welcome to the Love Revolution Conference- where we receive institutions through the agency of God's love.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life. If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations. Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth. Welcome to the Love Revolution Conference- where we receive institutions through the agency of God's love.
"In this is the love of God manifested, God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him." Since we were designed to live through Jesus, it is safe to conclude that the love that God revealed to mankind in Christ Jesus was designed to be the agency through which people live life.
If God designed us to live through His love, it follows that we can build institutions and impart creative legacies in the earth through His love. Things can be born through us that are patterned after the revelation of the love of God. The love of God that is revealed through us in the earth, should become an institution that transits generations.
Grace is the Fifth and the agency that grace has brought to us is the love of God. We believe that with this love revealed, there exists the supply of the Spirit that enables us to leave institutions in the earth.
Welcome to the Love Revolution Conference- where we receive institutions through the agency of God's love.
There are parameters with which God relates with His children today. There are mechanisms that God has put in place to ensure that He always has our trust and attention. Call it the Trust Spectrum and you will not be wrong. Imagine trying to purchase a piece of property, there are things that you will be inclined to request for that will boost your assurance about the deal. These items make up what we will consider to be the trust spectrum for this particular deal.
When it comes to our relationship with the Lord, there are things that the Father accomplished to get us to trust Him. One important reality is that He gave us His Son. God expects us to trust Him on the basis of the Son Jesus that He gave. The next thing that we should see in the spectrum is the promise that God gave to us in the Son. All things are ours because of the Father’s promise.
It is possible to live your life sponsored by the Spirit of God. Not only is it possible to live life sponsored by the Spirit, it is also available to you as a believer who is in Christ Jesus. You have to begin to learn to see yourself as God’s baby and might we mention that there is no trust fund in the world that is greater than the trust fund of our redemption in Christ Jesus.
Here is the troupe: while the world hunches over their desks grinding away for a steady paycheck, you have come to accept that you have a heavenly Father who has not designed you for toiling. You are not entitled or lazy. You are simply being aided by the Spirit of God with all the provisions of redemption. Agree that God in Christ has set aside all that you will need to live life to the full whilst you are on this earth.
Trusting in Jesus leads to a transfiguration- a change in form and appearance. Everyone who looks to Jesus experiences a radiance because you get to see what is on the face of Jesus and His face always carries on it the beautiful experiences and templates that the Father has designed for you. You will never see sadness on His face. Jesus is not weeping over you with sorrow. Jesus does not look at you and then begins to mourn. The face of Jesus is radiant and this same fate befalls everyone who will look steadfastly at Him.
There is a reason why God is teaching you to transfer your trust to Him in this season and that is because every other thing that is not built on the revelation of the finished work of Jesus, is bound to fail. Trusting the Father shifts your focus and your gaze because you will be occupied with whatever you trust.
In this episode, we are revealing what trusting Jesus looks like- it looks like Radiant Faces
God has a highly attractive picture of the life He has designed for you and He wants you to see it. You'd easily transfer your trust when attractive pictures of your life, paid for by the Lamb slain, stares you in the face. God does not have a picture of your future that isn't photogenic. In bringing you to trust, He paints pictures. This is what He does.
Seeing is a relevant aspect of trusting. What you see with the eyes of faith determines how you trust. How you see forms a tangible aspect of how you trust. You are in a relationship with a God who loves to help you see till your doubts are cleared.
In this episode, we further TRANSFER our TRUST as we lean in on the TRUST that God has given us access to in Redemption.
Trust is a very deep heart disposition. Very deep. Whatever you trust must have a great influence on your life. Trust demonstrates a deep heartfelt connection with something and what we trust must be closely observed studiously to ensure that what we are trusting is deserving of our trust. Interestingly, many people do not realize that there is a need to develop their trust quotient, especially when it comes to our trust in God.
By observation, you'd notice that without the right kind of training, people will put their trust in things that do not deserve trusting. It is not worthy of note that a few people have lived their lives trusting things that have faulty foundations.
In this Series, we will be teaching on how to trust in the finished work of Jesus, especially in the areas where people are quick to remove their trust- their finances.
There is a prosperity provision in Redemption that allows God to supernaturally provide for people through a system called favor. You see, the structure of our redemption starts with the rescue of our soul through faith in Jesus but does not end there. This redemption in Christ cascades down from that original lofty place of soulish salvation all the way to our prosperity. According to the picture in the Father's heart for us, all of mankind was designed to prosper by grace and ease.
Too many people, having lived so long in a scarcity-driven system might find themselves arguing with this reality but you see, argue with it or not, all of scripture is littered with examples of God's inclusion in the prosperity of His People through His favor alone. Otherwise, you'd need to explain how Israel won a lot of battles and gained material possessions if not for the help of God's Spirit in their lives.
Join us as we further the Series- Wild Grace. You'd learn how to see the grace of God in your life, your finances, and your everyday living. Truly God's grace can alter your life and set you up for a life of ease. Isn't this something you'd love?
Paul admitted his “Chief Daddy” status as a sinner. He identified himself as chief among sinners, but he did not stop there. He went further to reveal that the grace of God was responsible for his new status as saved, forgiven, righteous, and holy. Paul, with this, was pointing us to the truth about the grace of God that would not stop reaching out for you even if you have a chief daddy status in wrongdoing.
Think about how Paul’s life became such an embodiment of the mercies of God, supplied to Him through the finished work of Jesus and you should be encouraged. You should be encouraged because God’s grace does not give up on you simply because of your weaknesses, mistakes, and failures. Paul knew this and you should also.
Join us as we further our All New Series- Wild Grace. Sit around this new episode and take a front-row seat on what became of Paul. Learn to see how God revamped His well-being by removing the stigma of His guilt and shame.
Our relationship with God is driven by the Grace Construct. No one was created to arrange a relationship with God without the revelation of God's grace. It's simply impossible. The idea of this construct as it was given, was to guide and govern our relationship with Jesus from start to fullness. Notice that we did not say from "start to finish" because our relationship with God never comes to an end. Instead, it comes to fullness when we see Jesus face to face.
If your relationship with God is going to stand on solid grounds, then you'd have to be introduced to the construct of God's grace. You will struggle to enjoy fellowship with Jesus without an understanding of this construct. You will even struggle with fellowship with Jesus without an in-depth revelation about the construct of Grace.
When life looks like junk and things seem to always go awry; when we experience bad hair days, bad work days, bad class days, and we make bad choices that can potentially ruin our lives, friendship, families, and futures; God answers with just one word: Grace.
The challenge that people face many times is understanding God's grace in the light of how it relates to our everyday living. How does God's grace have anything to do with our lives? We may claim to know the grace of God, but the question is: have you been changed by grace, shaped by grace, strengthened by grace, emboldened by grace, softened by grace, and snatched by the nape of your neck and shaken to your senses by grace?
Grace rewires you. Grace moves you from insecure to God-secure, from traumatized to stabilized. This is the reason why you should sit down under the influence of this new teaching series called Wild Grace.
Citizens, that is who we are. Color, that is what the gospel adds to the living experience of mankind. The world would have no color at all if the gospel was not available. No matter how much progress a people have made, if they don't come in contact with the gospel, it's safe to say that no progress has been made. We are the beautiful people of a colorful country and our loyalty must be to the cause of Jesus Christ.
How do you get yourself to not live for the One who died for you? How do you make yourself distant from the cause of Christ that was focused on you with the aim of making you a citizen? Our citizenship is of heaven and our nation is colorful. Without the color of the gospel being spread on earth intentionally, mankind would be losing a lot.
In this episode, we further the conversation from our SERIES- DEVOTED as we consider a very important citizenship idea. We are the Beautiful People of a Colorful Nation and we want to sit around our nationhood and pay our alliance to Him.
For too long, the Church has been known for what it is against, and hardly are we known for the things we are for. The time has come for us to be loud about the cause of Christ and there is no doing that without loving the world that Jesus came for and letting them know how real His love is.Living for Jesus simply means serving His cause and being devoted to it with all that you have at your disposal. It also means that the gospel becomes at the center of your goals, dreams, and aspirations. To be FOR the cause of Christ means that you'd be no stranger to the giving culture. When we are for a thing, we serve it through our giving, our time, talent, resources, and intelligence.In this episode, we further the conversation from our SERIES- DEVOTED as we consider the idea of being FOR the cause of Christ. You'd learn how to keep yourself from living for yourself alone and learn what it means to live FOR His CAUSE.
Movement, from trusting in God's Devotion to you, to trusting in other things that do not have eternal value. It is the movement of the heart away from the Father-God that affects the Believer's Devotion. When people haven't come to fully realize how important the Father's Devotion is and why they should throw themselves recklessly at it, they begin to set up other "gods." To put it mildly, they begin to create alternatives. "You shall have no other God besides me" is still relevant today, only not from a place of legalism, but from a place of response to the efficacy of God's Devotion to us. People are setting up "other gods" and subtly so because they aren't carving sticks and cutting chicken blood. However, when the heart begins to migrate from wholly trusting God, people will begin to live like they have alternatives. You'd learn how not to allow your heart to migrate from trusting the Living God.
John had a very interesting perspective about the love that Jesus had for Him. Jesus loved everyone equally, but only John depicted an understanding of the love of Jesus in such a personal way. As a result, John was found to always follow Jesus. For instance, John was the only disciple who was there at the foot of the cross where Jesus was crucified. Why wasn't He hiding in fear like the rest of the other disciples? It seems that truly, love does cast away all fears. John had the perfect response to the love of Jesus- devotion. John was found following Jesus because He had personalized the love that Jesus had for Him. It is very easy to understand the progression which is "when God's love is revealed, the right response is a heart that is devoted to Jesus and His cause." Join us as we consider the conversation about DEVOTION to the cause of Christ. This is a believer's maturity series and it will rock your world.
Our Heavenly Father is game! No one can argue with this truth. Take a look at the heritage of our King and you'd agree that He is the most game anyone would ever see. Holy, Righteous, Eternal, Glorious, All-Powerful, and Majestic. Full of Beauty and Brilliance. God is pretty good at what He does and you should take that as a fact. Everything that we have learned that Jesus did was designed to make us just as dope as our heavenly heritage so that we too can boast of all the abilities that our Father has. Jesus paid a high price to bring us to a point where we are equipped and ready to do life with God's full abilities available at our disposal. We are game too. God recognized the beauty in us and sent His Son to pay the expensive price so that we could be ushered into the union that we now share. God is game and so are we. In this episode, we will take time to look at our being joined to the life of God as we conclude the RED SERIES.
The price Jesus paid with His own blood was designed to cleanse us from a weak and beggarly conscience. Never will anyone be able to obey the injunction to "come boldly" if their conscience does not go through a purge. God has given us a message to believe so that our conscience can be purged from feelings of unworthiness, guilt, shame, and condemnation. Ever wondered why so many believers are unable to stand up and be reckoned with, in a kingdom as beautiful as ours? So many people have been crippled by a weak conscience, simply because they have no understanding of how the finished work of Jesus was accomplished so that our conscience can be purged. With a clean conscience, you'd truly come boldly to obtain all that your journey requires because it's been paid for.
One of the things that the shed blood of Jesus accomplished for us is described in a concept called "GRAFTING." This grafting idea occurs when you take a plant shoot or twig and insert it into another living plant, hence making two plants become one. The shedding of Jesus' blood accomplished for us a joining to the very life of God. Because of what Jesus did, everyone in the world, that was once separated from the life of God, can now fully and truly boast about being rejoined to God's life. Something remarkable happened when Christ died and it is called the grafting. Usually, the grafted plant begins to enjoy everything that the parent plant has to supply. Isn't this how we became joined to the life of Christ and now have access to everything He's got? Join this episode- GRAFTED this and you'd love it tremendously.
The gospel story is set against the backdrop of brokenness, scandals, and weaknesses. God has never been known to be looking for human perfection before He sets His presence in the lives of men. Think about the stories of scripture and you'd realize that God has never been removed from anyone's life because of their scandalous strings, attachments, and lines crossed. Start from David and then go on to Solomon. Think about Judah, and then go on to Rahab, and you'd realize that God has always been identified with the weaknesses of mankind so that everyone has the hope of participating in this redemption. God gave forth His Son so that at no point will we think that there is anything that can disqualify us. Sit around the Crimson Stories episode and you'd be blessed out of your socks! By the shed blood of Jesus, we have been perfected forever.
Our crimson story begins with a vivid description of what it took for Jesus to pay the price for our ransom. Our crimson story would not be complete without the revelation of God giving His Son to the scourging of the crown of thorns. Everything that Jesus did to bring us the redemption that we now enjoy started with the brilliant scarlet.Without the price Jesus paid, there would have been no ransom for sin. Now that Jesus has paid the price for sin, we dare not live our lives as though we do not understand the implication of all that Jesus did. The Lamb was slain, for us to be owned and now that we are owned, we have to explore the intricacies of the new reality that we have now been ushered into. All through the month of April, we will sit around the energy that the price Jesus paid released us into- a new energy of God's righteousness revealed in the redemptive story. What Jesus did cannot be undone.In this Series, you'd learn about how we have come into a new place of Sonship because of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus.
Sins have been forgiven. The Holy Ghost has been given. You are anointed! Jesus has brought to us a perfect redemption and because of that, the Spirit has been given. The light of the anointing is righteousness. It is righteousness that powers the anointing of God's Spirit. So if a believer is declared righteous, they are consequently anointed. In the New Covenant, righteousness is used as a replacement for the use of the word "anointing." Consequent upon our sins being forgiven, we have received the gift of the Spirit and as a result, we have received the abilities of the Spirit because the Spirit that dwells in us produces all the works of God in us. It is these works that the Spirit produces that are our spice. His presence in us has the ordained works that have been fashioned to come out from within us. This weekend, sit under the influence of anointed teaching and learn about the works of the Spirit. Your consciousness needs to be opened to all the works that the Spirit is working in us. God works through us His wondrous works through the light of righteousness. In this episode, you'd learn about how the ministry of the Spirit has brought the light of righteousness to us. It is through this righteousness that we produce the works of God that are the spice of our living.
The endearing ministry of the Spirit has been given to us for the purpose of unveiling the fullness of God to us. The completeness and exactness of our Father-God are unveiled to us through the endearing nature of the Spirit. There is a darling-ness with which the Spirit of God ministers the beautiful life of Christ to us and the good thing is that we don't just receive a measure of our Father, rather, we have His fullness. The Spirit of God is our partner in our believers' journey, showing in all fullness, everything that Jesus paid for in full. We are not trying to be full, we are full already, finding out just how full we are. You'd rise up from this teaching with the eagerness to release all that you are full of.In this Pleroma Episode, you'd learn about how the ministry of the Spirit has brought God's fullness into your life.
Pumpkin is usually considered to be an endearing word, representing the sweetness of a thriving relationship. Our relationship with the Holy Spirit- His person, ministry, and abilities was designed to be exactly that- sweet. God designed our believers' walk of faith to be brilliant, beautiful, and full of spice and light because we were created to do it in partnership with the Holy Spirit. In this series, we will be teaching about the endearing ministry of the Holy Spirit, His sweet fellowship, and His ever-abiding presence which is the beauty and spice of the Believers' Experience.Join us in this New Series to learn about the Ministry of the Spirit in the life of the believer and how to take advantage of Him
Freely, God gave His Son Jesus for everyone proceeding out of the human race. Freely, the blood of Christ was poured out as a libation for the remission of the sin of mankind and freely, we have been given access to divinity. It is this access into this realm of living that has made our lives shatterproof. Since we are determined to continue to walk in the fullness of God's love, our lives will remain failure-proof. In Christ Jesus, all things consist. This means that everything is held together by the power of God's unfailing love. When our lives are healed together in God's love, we are kept safe from shattering under the pressure that comes from doing life with other people. The love of God holds our lives together, ensuring that we do not disintegrate or degenerate. We are delighted to welcome you to the concluding episode of the True Love in Bloom Series titled SHATTERPROOF.
Simple and straightforward, that is how the Father's love is to us. Easy to use and easy to understand, that is how God has demonstrated His unfailing love toward us. True love is uncomplicated. Any element that introduces mysteriousness to love is not from the Father. The only thing that makes love to become complicated is the human will that has refused to be subject to God's grace. When the will of man stands strong against the Father's heart, then you'd begin to see all sorts of complications. Think about it. How straightforward is life in heaven? Your guess is as good as mine- pretty straightforward, right? Do you know why? Bet you do. In heaven, the human will does not contend with God's design. In this episode, we desire to teach and train our hearts to align our human will to the Father's design, submitting to Him and allowing Him to reign over our hearts. If we all choose to love the way God does, there will be no complications.
It is bloom time! When it is bloom time, people should bloom. Sadly, too many times, many people are waiting for their own idea of what true love is before they bloom. Your life does not begin when someone is added to you. Rather, your life begins with the revelation of the love of God for you. It is therefore amazing how people put their lives on hold, withholding themselves from experiencing bloom until a significant other comes. The married ones also cease to intentionally receive the love and affection of the Father, because their focus has shifted to the one they have fallen in love with. Here is a statement of truth - no one can love you like Jesus, except of course they have received the Love of Jesus for themselves. This is a fact. If you struggle with it, it is because you are not aware of how loving Jesus is. No one should take the place of Jesus in your heart. No one. We think people should be going deeper in the love of God for them so that they're able to give the love they have received. How is life going to mirror what true love is if your heart does not resonate with the love that God has for you? True love is only in bloom when it has mirrored and effectively received the love that God has revealed in Christ Jesus. You cannot love outside Love Himself! Experience joy and bliss as we present to you the love of God which must be received, to be given.
Have some courage. Dare yourself to believe God and His word. The invitation to open your mouth wide can seem too-good-to-be-true, but true. So hey, it is time to throw your courage at the promises of God, backed by the covenant that God has made with His Son Jesus. This is better than throwing your courage at your hustle. If your eyes are fixed on courageously living out your redemption, you won't need to throw your courage at any hustle because redemption would be enough. The fear of failure has been responsible for holding people back from expressing their cravings. The thought that they may crave and not experience what they have craved is a major worry for many people. However, it is typical of all things that pertain to salvation, that people should believe to enjoy what has been given to them. The only thing that seems to be missing most times is the courage to take God at His word and respond to His invitation to have a huge appetite. I dare you to step out on the word and see if the weight of it won't carry the weight of your dreams and desires. Peter did not walk on water, He walked on the word Jesus spoke. When we respond with courage, we walk on the word. We sure do! Join us as we premiere the "I DARE YOU" EXPERIENCE.
Crave Large- Disruptor points to the idea that a person can bring about lasting changes to the world around them by yielding to the invitation of Abba to "open wide your mouth." The great invitation that has the potential of changing the outcome of things as we know it, from negative to superlative, from great distress to beauty and splendor. God's children can use their influence with Him to bring about massive transformative elements into the space where they are. Everything that Jesus has paid for is enjoyed by having a huge appetite. We can depend on the finished work of Jesus to bring about massive changes in our environment but this all depends on how free our minds are from the limitations around us, how daring we are to trust in what God has designed, and how much desire we have to see things change. If for instance, you do not desire or intensely crave to see the sick healed, you'd not experience the flow of God's power in that regard. Likewise, if you have no desire to see the gospel spread, you'd think you are exempted from the kind of prosperity that God gives to advance His kingdom. God can work through you and you must believe it. Join us as we premiere THE DISRUPTOR EXPERIENCE
Where there is no redemptive revelation, the people cast off restraint. We are masterpieces of divine origin, created in Christ Jesus with a vision, a purpose, and a sense of direction. God wants us to constantly envision ourselves in the story of redemption and out of that truth, embrace the vision that He has for our lives. Naturally, when people write visions, they write them with high hopes and great expectations, until they wake up to the harsh reality that their vision does not preserve them from sudden occurrences that people sometimes end up ignorantly labeling as the "acts of God." Someone can have a lofty vision for their health and still suddenly get caught in an unpleasant situation. This is why the atmosphere under which we find the liberty to write our vision, is as important, if not much more important than the vision we have written. The atmosphere that causes our vision to be valid and long-lasting is the atmosphere of God's grace. In God's grace, there are no negative eventualities. In God's grace, there are no maybes. God's grace is the parameter where all our visions finds expression. Our visions are preserved in the finished work of Jesus. Join us as we premiere the- VISION SUNDAY EXPERIENCE.
All design conception and creation start with cravings. No designer will be able to bring any creative body of work into existence without first desiring it. Nothing can be created without a craving for it. Interestingly, the largeness of the thing that is about to be created will depend on how intently and intensely the people have craved it.Before the airplane ever took its first flight, someone had to have a strong desire for it The height the airplane could attain also depended on the capacity/audacity of the person in custody of the craving. Imagine that airplanes could only go as high as 5000 feet above sea level. That extent would be a function of what the designers believed was possible. God brought us into Christ through the redemptive work of Jesus and in that process, installed in us the ability to desire and to crave according to the Father's heart. Even God had a craving for the redemption of mankind and that craving has been met because of the finished work of Jesus. Now, He has given us the same ability to crave and crave, we must and largely too. We have to believe that God is able to give us desires according to His purpose for our lives. Join us as we premiere the all-new series- CRAVE LARGE.
Desires are a very powerful thing and because we are children of God, God does not leave us on the earth without a mind that can crave to see things happen in a particular direction. You see, everything that God created began with a strong desire. You can go ahead to call it strong cravings. God craved Eden and He saw Eden. God craved redemption and He saw what He craved. The same idea has been passed down to us who are born of God such that we have the ability to crave, to desire, and to see the manifestation of all that we crave. Here's the conversation about the Good Shepherd who gives you what to desire and then meets the desires of your heart. This is where the conversation "you are not your own" finds its meaning. You have a guardian God who has taken ownership of your care. This is that year where you can crave and see them met. Lofty ideas that are not easily accomplished in the human scheme are accomplished because the Father has taken responsibility for your ownership. You are not your own! You are owned, with love. You are owned with care and your cravings are an important aspect of the responsibility of the One who owns you.This is the year where you will delight in the Lord and open your mouth wide so that you can watch the Lord fill your life with the things that you have desired. God loves to fill things up. The moment we make room, He fills it and this year would not be different. Welcome to 2023, the year where CRAVINGS ARE MET.
We see a picture of God our Father, and our picture of Him changes everything. Our picture of Abba, changes how we engage, how we receive, and what our expectations are when we enter into the union that we have with Him. The pictures that God always desires our hearts to see by the Spirit are pictures of an excessive lavish supply! God seems to have an unending desire to get us to see the abundance of His heart when He provides for us. Always, our Father responds to us with an urgent desire to cause His beauty, grace, and elegance to flow to us. How you see God’s heart will greatly influence how you position yourself to receive from Him. Every time God supplies something to His children, it is always a river and it is always flowing. God does not delight in revealing anything that is for us in trickles. No! God delights in helping you see the flow so that you can jump right into the flow. Wildernesses are turning into fruitful fields, God is running the show of your life and everything is large! There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God. If the streams of this river make God glad, it should do likewise to you. Get ready to jump into this River! Get ready to be soaked. In this year’s New Year's Eve Service Experience, there will be an outpouring like never before.
What experience is going to make your Christmas merry and bright? Would you like to experience the love of God in a new and special way? Would you like to explore and experience all the gifts of the Holy Ghost available to you? What is that one thing that is going to make your Christmas merry and bright? Would you like to give it a thought? Have you thought about it now? You see, one of the ways that we demonstrate our understanding of what the Father's dream was in putting this entire concept of Christmas together is that we begin to desire to experience all that the Father had in mind in the first place. It has always been the Father's heart for us that we live in this highly spiritual world with the sense of our advantage which is the person of the Holy Ghost. He'd have never desired anything other than this. While we wish you a Merry Christmas, we trust that you are aware that you have your Christmas gifts. No, we are not just referring to the nice packages that you have received from family and friends. We are referring to your unboxing and usage of the gift of redemption that has brought the Holy Ghost into your life, who is God's gift to you. Join us as we premiere the all-new episode- Christmas Gifts.
You must have seen at least one of those unboxing videos on social media right? You must have observed that depending on the circumstance, the person doing the unboxing, and the gift being unboxed, there's largely an atmosphere of glee, excitement, and palpable joy at the idea of unveiling what is in the box. Usually, the box (gift pack) is received privately but the unboxing sometimes is done right there on camera, in front of a viewing audience. When it comes to demonstrating the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the idea is really not so different. We stay in the box- the atmosphere of the influence of the Spirit and many times, the gifts of the Spirit are received on an individualized, private level. However, when it comes to unboxing our gifts, we should not be afraid to unpack what we have received in the presence of a needy and dying world. Sadly, when the need arises, people begin to draw back and cower down into oblivion because they become afraid of the glaring eyes of the world around them that may criticize their audacity to even dare believe that they can manifest the gifts of the Spirit. Well, we say to you, unbox anyway! Do it with glee and joy because your world needs them.Join us as we premiere THE UNBOXING TWO.
You must have seen at least one of those unboxing videos on social media right? You must have observed that depending on the circumstance, the person doing the unboxing, and the gift being unboxed, there's largely an atmosphere of glee, excitement, and palpable joy at the idea of unveiling what is in the box. Usually, the box (gift pack) is received privately but the unboxing sometimes is done right there on camera, in front of a viewing audience. When it comes to demonstrating the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the idea is really not so different. We stay in the box- the atmosphere of the influence of the Spirit and many times, the gifts of the Spirit are received on an individualized, private level. However, when it comes to unboxing our gifts, we should not be afraid to unpack what we have received in the presence of a needy and dying world. Sadly, when the need arises, people begin to draw back and cower down into oblivion because they become afraid of the glaring eyes of the world around them that may criticize their audacity to even dare believe that they can manifest the gifts of the Spirit. Well, we say to you, unbox anyway! Do it with glee and joy because your world needs them.Join us as we premiere the all-new episode- THE UNBOXING.
Christmas is in the air and there are gifts everywhere. We are yet to see that individual who isn't in absolute love with the Christmas season. What's not to love? The idea of a holiday season where everyone comes together to share fun moments is something that many people crave all year long. You probably have heard the statement "don't put yourself in a box" and that is true, except that the box can also represent a pleasant experience that you do not want to come to an end. Boxes are good to the degree that they hold a pleasant experience for you. To that end, people wouldn't mind being boxed into an experience of abundance or prosperity. No one would mind at all. Right?At Christmas, it is important to spend time like we are doing now reflecting on the gifts of the Spirit that the believer has been boxed into. This is a good box. It sure is. The Holy Spirit has made His gifts available to us and we have been hemmed right in. Imagine that what you enjoy this Christmas is a manifestation of all of the gifts of the Spirit. Wouldn't that just be amazing? Join us as we premiere this all-new episode from the Love Walked Here series. The episode title is Gifts and Boxes.
Strip yourself of religion and realize that "He gave gifts unto men." Love lived and walked here, not for the purpose of making people religious, but for the purpose of transferring gifts and abilities. It was no ordinary religion that we received. Instead, it was the gifts of the Spirit that were made available through the finished work of Jesus. The love of God walked on earth for the sake of giving gifts unto all men. Every religion has its narrative. Every religion has a story, a history, and an idea. However, what makes the love of God different is that what Jesus accomplished was designed to bring us into equality and participation in the life of God. What Jesus did counted as the ticket to bring us into the manifestation and the experience of God's life. What we received in Christ Jesus was more than a religion. We came to live in the life of God. Simple statement right? Yet the power of these words "We came to live in the life of God" cannot be exhausted. Living in the life of God means that we have access to all that the Father is and has and this is what it means when we say that love walked here. It is the love of God that has given us access to all of who the Father is.
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"Wherefore God also has highly exalted Him." The same can be said about everyone who has put their faith in Jesus. No kingdom thrives by hiding the truth about its identity. No kingdom flourishes or expands by dealing its identity treasures in stealth mode. Everything about the identity and abilities of the citizens of that kingdom has to make it to the light. Someone has to show the citizens what they are capable of and the citizens in turn have to believe in what is being revealed. Since God has highly exalted the Son- Jesus and given Him an identity of great reputation, it follows that God has done the same for the believer in Jesus and has given us the same identity of repute. We now get to be famous for carrying out the impressions on the heart of our King, making a beautiful world out of our redemptive rights. We are important to the cause of the Father's desire to make a beautiful country out of the whole earth. Jesus was the personage of His day, fulfilling the heartfelt desire of the Father to paint pictures of what life would look like in a God-ruled world and a certain kind of joy should radiate from your face the moment you realize that you also are heaven's personage. Join us as we conclude the Of God and Kings Series with an all-new episode PERSONAGE. Find out how important you are to God's dream.
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One unit- the love of God, is now the basis for the many pleasant experiences that belong to the one who has put faith in the redemptive work of Jesus. One unit- kings, people who are reigning in life because blood has been shed for them. We are narrowing down the focus to the very basis of the kingly lifestyle.
If you are going to accurately measure how loud God is about His care for you, you'd have to fix your gaze on the one unit out of which everything flows and that is the single unit of God's unending love for His kids. Too many crippled people exist today who simply cannot stand up and demonstrate any form of greatness because they have played down on the love of God and have effectively listened to people who deemphasized the revelation of God's love. It does seem as though the more deemphasized it is, the more people become incapable of rising to greatness because they simply do not know the depth of God's great love.
Join us as we further the Of God and Kings series. Learn exclusively how God has ushered us into a kingly position and state because of His great love. If believers will walk in authority, they have to be assured that their kingly position was brought about because of God's love. Purchased and sealed, it cannot be reversed.
The "designate" is supposed to be a very important position in the leadership helms of an organization. However, the designate is only going to be as important or powerful as the organization determines. If the organization does not place any real value on the person standing as a designate, then that individual remains as a mere figurehead with no impact or ability to influence outcomes. Is it not amazing that many people have become believers in Jesus without an in-depth understanding of the vastness of the office we have been called to occupy?
Unlike the situation that we tried to explain in the first paragraph, where an organization handpicks a designate just for the sake of it, we are born of a Father-God who has attached so much importance to the identity that He has given to His FRONTMEN- believers who have placed their faith in Jesus. These FRONTMEN are heaven's star men. These are the people God uses to make a boast and a name for Himself. God's frontmen are supposed to be the executors of the Kingdom's dream and how dare they appear ordinary, weak, and defeated?
When God designates, He empowers. God wants you to act in His stead so nicely that He has to ensure you are well equipped with all that you need to be effective as heaven's frontman. It is going to be absolutely impossible for you to be effective if you fail to see all that has been made available to you.
Join us as we further the Of God and Kings Series. Sit in and listen as we premiere our all-new episode titled FRONTMAN.
The world is in an identity game. Everyone ought to be aware of how big the image mapping and making industry is. We know that identity is worth several billions of dollars and much more. However, we also know that people are in an all-time high state of doubt and confusion about what their identity is. It is clearly an oxymoron that at a time when the image-making business is bringing in several millions of dollars in revenue, it is at this same time that people are trying to find themselves in what is probably the most alarming identity crises tragedy that the world has ever seen.
Knowing this, you can now understand why scripture is replete with stories after stories that point us to who we are and where we come from. It seems obvious that a clearly defined identity is an enabler of peoples' acceleration and abilities. Little wonder John writes his submissions to us where he lets us into the “Of God” conversation and reality. Identities are shaped when people are clear about what they are made up of.
Of God! Even the thought of it! The royal overtone that points us to what we should expect and how we should thrive. The weight of the idea! The beauty of the concept! We are of God and we are kings! Royal ribonucleotide flows through our veins. Of God and Kings is pride, victory, elegance, and a showing off of God’s glorious power.
Join us all Sundays and Wednesdays in November for the Of God and Kings Series. Sit in and learn about your glory-filled identity. You will love every bit of it!
God has made His story of redemption available to us. This story must be believed in its entirety, scope, design, and actualization. There is a rest in the story of redemption, there is a rest that has been made available through the finished work of Jesus. The story of our redemption contains a rest mode. Actually, this story not only contains a rest mode, the story itself in all the fullness of its spectrum speaks and points to God’s rest. We should not enter the story without seeing the rest of redemption.
We live in a busy, fast-paced culture where everyone seems to be drowning and caving in under the weight of stresses and stressors. We read about things in the news that make our hearts skip a beat, then we know things about our own inadequacies, weaknesses, frailties, and inabilities that never seem to be good enough to cancel out the weight of the pressure being thrown at us. Almost daily, people seem to be hard-pressed on every side, with little or no hope. Well, God did not design you to know yourself outside of the content of His story about you. When your eyes are open to see yourself in the light of His rest, then your heart would not need to skip a beat anymore, no matter what you hear.
There is a rest in His story that has to be believed, to be experienced, and here, we bring you the story of God’s rest. Join us as we conclude the LIT series with this all-new episode. You will love it!
We have come to know how God rests us- He does it by taking over the running of our world. We also know that He speaks to run our world. Have you tried to imagine the rest and peace you enjoy when a loving Father-God takes over the running of your life? Think about this as a highly elite idea and you wouldn't be wrong. Now isn't this elite concept meant to be reserved for special people? You'd imagine that only a select few should have access to this facility where an amazing and loving God gets to run their world right?
Well, you are not right to think of God like that. The idea of the rest that God gives is LIT alright but it is inclusive for everyone who believes. God does not reserve His best for a select few. Everyone who believes in Jesus will have the same kind of elite inclusion into God's rest plan! Wow!
Soon you'll find out that the influence and the spread of His governing ability are endless and you'd be glad that you have been included unconditionally in the execution of His rest idea.
Join us as we enter into the fourth episode of the LIT series. We are going to camp around the beautiful gaze of the increase of His government. Rest flows as we know His government never ends.
Our world is a very interesting place. It may be unpredictable sometimes, but it is an interesting world that we live in nonetheless. Interesting because sometimes you'd find people who had no plan, still finding a way to stumble into notoriety and success. The only problem with this kind of living is that such people will always be wishing that fortune favors them. Because without a clear plan, all we'd have left is a "wishing."
When you consider how some people engage their relationship with Jesus, you'd notice that they sometimes engage with the human ideology and tendencies in mind. They come to Jesus without an assurance that He planned out and executed the plan for our redemption with a flawless masterstroke. If Jesus left His redemption plan to the "drift- on today, off tomorrow" kind of uncertainty, then we'd have no assurance. We'd keep waiting for a certain fortune to favor us, even though we have come into redemption.
How can rest be assured in an unending, drifting redemption plan? How can peace be experienced if we are never assured of a living, loving Prince of Peace? Our rest always comes from an assurance of a Savior who doesn't drift in His plan for us.
Join us as we enter into the third episode of the LIT series. We are yet again taking time to dwell on God's idea to rest and refresh you.
Take a close look at the events going on in the world today and you'd quickly agree that the world is spinning terribly out of control. North America, China, and most of the big economic players are now either terribly slowing down or are now in a full-scale recession. Things are falling apart and no center is holding any longer. Today, we hear of wars and we hear of rumors of wars. Today, the nations of the earth are shaking and the streets are in turmoil.
Yet amid the "mad spins," we see Jesus calling out to everyone that is weary, broken, wounded, and hurting saying, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." While the world spins madly on, Jesus shows up to reveal the beautiful rest plan that He had designed for us to enjoy. The good news of the gospel includes the ability of the Savior to bring His rest and peace into every single situation that we may face.
Do not forget the idea that this is a trouble-laden planet. Jesus said that in this world we will have trouble. A more contemporary way of putting it would be that in this world, "things will spin madly on." Jesus however did not stop there. He went on to say that we should be of good cheer, He has overcome the world!
Light leads our way into the future. Light leads our way into new experiences. Everything rises on the weight of the light that we have come to receive. Life was designed to be lived giving out light and our light shines to the extent that we have received God's rest. Light best shines from a place of rest. God designed our lives to be lived out of the revelation of His rest and ease and we rest by believing.
Take a moment to reflect on the culture of labor that seems to be prevalent in our world today. Take a moment to reflect on how deeply buried people are in the hustle and bustle of living. It gets as crazy as it can get, then it gets even crazier! All the while, we can trace this craziness to the light that people are doing life with. Think about the panic attacks. Think about the uneasiness that bedevils the souls of many. It is just not fun to live life without the revelation of God's rest!
It's okay to put a stop to the hustle culture and find the LIT idea that God designed life to be lived by. It's okay to step away from it all and rest in the unfailing commitment of your heavenly Father to rest and refresh you. God spoke things so that by believing them, you can rest. God spoke things so that you can be refreshed!
We are entering into the LIT series where we would be taking time to dwell on God's idea to rest and refresh you. You will be transformed through the insights from this series and you can be assured it is not a series to miss.
Where is the gauge? Check the mood. People who have been made righteous should be radiant and ruddy. Remember that scripture “They look to Him?” because He is their righteousness and their faces become radiant. His face holds the promise of a bright future for all who would dare to look, behold, gaze, and get fixated on His face. There is an expected mood that should follow everyone who looks to Jesus as their righteousness. There sure is! If you take a look at redemption, you will see that the design concept that triggered the creation of the idea was initiated with an end in mind- the end where people are gleeful, cheerful, joyful, and bright-faced!
Why should our lives not be lived on the bright side? Why should the mood around our lives not be bright and inviting? Where have you been looking? What place has your heart been? What meditations have occupied your soul? Fix the gaze of a man’s heart and you would have fixed the mood that surrounds him- the mood that is the result of hearing that you have been given the gift of righteousness.
Imagine the idea that God does not blame you? Picture what will happen to a person’s heart if they were told that God does not blame them for anything that has happened in their life. If we decide to do a drawing of your life’s mood board, what will it look like after hearing that God puts no blame on you?
Join us as we reflect on the effects of righteousness on our well-being and living experiences. Explore with us the beauty of living life without any sense of blame.
Tags! Labels! Everyone loves to have some designer name tags on their owned items and we know that there are many solid stories behind a lot of brand names. It is easy to relate with the idea that most brands have name identifications that go a long way in revealing the personality of the owner of the brand. Some brands represent sophistication, while others represent exclusivity. In other words, everyone is aware that this brand is exclusive to a select group of people. A name truly tells many stories.
What is in that name tag- righteousness that God puts on every believer? What promise does that name hold for everyone who is labeled righteous? It seems as though the spectrum of possibilities attached to the name- righteous is endless and if a person is tagged as righteous, their expectations should be endless as well. This means that whilst what you get called is “the righteous one,” the implication of righteousness transcends being able to stand before God without guilt and condemnation. Righteousness goes into an area of your life and translates into victory in that area. In the same light, it goes into another area and translates into peace. The implications of being tagged “righteous” are multifaceted and as a result, expectations of believers who are righteous should be dynamic in nature.
In this episode, we will take a look at the implications of the label of righteousness and consider what it translates into. “What’s In a Name” is sure to bless you.
Where is the gauge? Check the mood. People who have been made righteous should be radiant and ruddy. Remember that scripture “They look to Him?” because He is their righteousness and their faces become radiant. His face holds the promise of a bright future for all who would dare to look, behold, gaze, and get fixated on His face. There is an expected mood that should follow everyone who looks to Jesus as their righteousness. There sure is! If you take a look at redemption, you will see that the design concept that triggered the creation of the idea was initiated with an end in mind- the end where people are gleeful, cheerful, joyful, and bright-faced!
Why should our lives not be lived on the bright side? Why should the mood around our lives not be bright and inviting? Where have you been looking? What place has your heart been? What meditations have occupied your soul? Fix the gaze of a man’s heart and you would have fixed the mood that surrounds him- the mood that is the result of hearing that you have been given the gift of righteousness.
Imagine the idea that God does not blame you? Picture what will happen to a person’s heart if they were told that God does not blame them for anything that has happened in their life. If we decide to do a drawing of your life’s mood board, what will it look like after hearing that God puts no blame on you?
Join us as we reflect on the effects of righteousness on our well-being and living experiences. Explore with us the beauty of living life without any sense of blame. Sit in on our all-new episode- Mood board.
The story of how God makes man righteous is the story of everyone who has crossed the line of faith and has intentionally put their faith in Jesus. The outcomes of this righteousness and the benefits therefrom are not exclusively reserved for a few. Instead, these benefits are available to everyone who believes.
The life of the righteous is typified by an assurance of peace with God and an experience of quietness and rest. There is a "design concept" way of identifying a righteous person and there are traits in the design of righteousness that are typical of the one who has placed their faith in Jesus. The idea is that everyone that has crossed the line of faith should expect to see these typical traits in their lives. The idea of this episode is to reveal the typical nature of righteousness and what should happen in the life of the person who has received the righteousness that God gives.
When people know what to expect with an installation, it becomes easier to follow through on what is expected once the installation has taken place. Just as it is typical for planes to fly without having to take permission from gravity, so is it typical for the righteous to flourish like a palm tree, without having to take permission from the environment. You get the point right?
We would love for you to join us for this in-depth exploration of the truths about our righteousness with this all-new episode.
Life is best lived in alignment. Every living individual is aligned with something. There is no one on earth who isn't aligned with an identity, idea, or belief. The only question is whether we are being aligned with the right identity or not. You see, our Father-God designed our lives to be aligned with the truth that we have been made righteous through the finished work of Jesus. This is how God changed the day.
The first thing that God went hard after was our identity and the one thing satan tried to attack when he attempted the temptation of Jesus, was Jesus' identity as the Son of God. One thing is sure- if the enemy succeeded in circumventing Jesus in the area of His Identity, he (satan) would have had an easy road into every other aspect of the life and purpose of Jesus.
"That's My Story" describes the beautiful case of reading the events in Scripture that led to us being made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. When you read the events that led up to us being pronounced as righteous, you must accept that your beautiful story has just been told. You are the one being talked about in the pages of the book and it is your identity that is being discussed! Lean back, look through the entire story, and align.
All through this series, we will explore the beautiful story of our righteousness. A story written and laid out in pure gold. Join us as we explore these amazing realities.
Let's begin with this episode- RIGHTEOUSNESS SPECTRUM
Everyone who has put their faith in Jesus has been invited to live the Big Life. Everyone. God has no select few favorites. When Jesus stood to make the bold shoutout to everyone who was weary and heavy-laden, He made that shoutout to all who would dare to believe in Him, and right after that invitation, He went ahead to pay on the cross to validate His invitation. He sure validated the Big Life by being slain for it.
One thing is certain and that is the idea that believers must know and be convinced about what Jesus paid for. No guesswork and no dilly-dallying. You have to unwaveringly accept that there is a depth of experience and an abundance of provision that Jesus wants you to enjoy that is precious and full of glory and Jesus was slain to bring it to you.
Every wave made begins with what has been believed. Every big thing accomplished is a function of what is believed to be possible because of the redemptive work that Jesus accomplished. Interestingly, there is an aspect of our faith that people may not consider to be so important, a concept Paul calls “the foolishness of preaching.” God has designed that people will come into this big expanse of living experience through what they believe that is powered by what is preached.
Join us as we further the series- Chronicles Of The Big Life with an all-new episode- MAKE WAVES. God is interested in you doing great things, things that are not just big in size, but big according to the design of His plan and purpose for our lives.
Cheers to the Big Life! Yes, the Big Life! We have explained that the Big Life is having an abundance of all that you need to accomplish God’s purpose for your life right? Well, here is the furtherance of the conversation, and it is found in the idea that the Big Life is dependent on one Spirit-inspired activity after the other. This means that the Big Life is built on consistent Spirit-inspired activities. The Holy Spirit and His ministry has to be culture for us, to experience the Big Life.
The Holy Spirit is the custodian of the Big Life that the Lamb was slain for. He knows the Big Life and the intricacies of it. He was assigned to us as our guide into all the truth of what Jesus accomplished. This simply means that our culture must center around staying engaged with the Holy Ghost so that our eyes are constantly cleared to see and our ears cleared to hear.
Here in the Big Life, we maintain a consistent culture of staying drunk in the Holy Ghost. We stay drunk so much to the point that all the negative things of the earth become hazy to us. Our eyes are trained by this culture to see only the things that the Holy Ghost has been assigned to guide us into- the things that the Lamb was slain to give to us.
This weekend, where would you rather be than to be with us as we further the Chronicles Of The Big Life series? Wouldn't you want to discover in an in-depth way, how this culture works and what this culture delivers to us? Well, join us and find out more.
Much of what we will find out about the Big Life that we now have in Christ would not have been possible without the substitutionary work of Jesus. The whole train of events that took place in the redemptive history was skillfully crafted by the masterstroke design of a loving Father, who orchestrated our big living with such intentionality, too beautiful to be set aside. It was before we were born that God had designed our lives to be interwoven with the price Jesus would pay so that once that price was paid, our new Big Life was now permitted to begin.
Who would have thought that it would be from the foundation of the world that the Lamb would be slain? Who would have imagined that this kind of surplus provision would be granted, long before humanity would even show up to discover that they would need it, or long before there was any guarantee that we would respond positively to the provision of God’s grace? It is like God to anticipate our need and meet it before we even get to ask.
When we chronicle the Big Life, it must include the swap, that is, the substitutionary work of Jesus on the cross. It is how Jesus took our place that made it possible for us to be joined together with Him. It is in taking our place that He took away all the realities that were consistent with the fall of Adam so that we can enjoy the beauties that are consistent with the life of God.
Join us as we consider The Chronicles of the Big Life as presented in The Swap.
If you found a place that guaranteed you a big living experience; a rich, productive, and elegant life, would you fix yourself there? If you found a place where the big and pleasant life is created, would you make sure to drive in and purchase what the factory has to offer?
Jesus said that He came so that we may have life, a life that is full, rich, and abundant. Each individual in Christ has been granted a massive amount of blessedness, too much for anyone to spend their time living life without these bountiful provisions that the Savior has made. Each one of us has been blessed with the great blessedness of Christ to such a vast extent that we do not need to spend time in unhealthy comparisons.
Every single person who has come into Christ should have a cross alarm that sounds loud in our hearts each time we are tempted to settle for small and every time we dance around nothingness for too long. The factory where Jesus produced the BIG life for all who believe is in Redemption and it is time spent beholding Redemption that makes the conversion of all that Jesus did from revelation to experience.
Understand that God did not create you to do life in a small way. The smallness that people feel comes from the unbelief that they have played around with for a long time.
Join us as we premiere an all-new series- Chronicles Of The BIG Life.
If you found a place that guaranteed you a big living experience; a rich, productive, and elegant life, would you fix yourself there? If you found a place where the big and pleasant life is created, would you make sure to drive in and purchase what the factory has to offer?
Jesus said that He came so that we may have life, a life that is full, rich, and abundant. Each individual in Christ has been granted a massive amount of blessedness, too much for anyone to spend their time living life without these bountiful provisions that the Savior has made. Each one of us has been blessed with the great blessedness of Christ to such a vast extent that we do not need to spend time in unhealthy comparisons.
Every single person who has come into Christ should have a cross alarm that sounds loud in our hearts each time we are tempted to settle for small and every time we dance around nothingness for too long. The factory where Jesus produced the BIG life for all who believe is in Redemption and it is time spent beholding Redemption that makes the conversion of all that Jesus did from revelation to experience.
Understand that God did not create you to do life in a small way. The smallness that people feel comes from the unbelief that they have played around with for a long time.
Join us as we premiere an all-new series- Chronicles Of The BIG Life.
We believe that the forces that have stood against your prosperity should by now have been deleted. By now, you should be fully convinced that God’s will is for you to prosper. As we close the age and usher in the glorious coming of the Lord Jesus, there will be a greater increase in the revelation of God’s heart for the believer’s prosperity. People must come to know that it is revelation that powers our beliefs and not effort. No matter how much effort you put in, without revelation, you will be stuck.
Right now, believers should be prepared to close out the age with a bang! Usually, when people speak about an endgame, they are referring to the rapidly depleted forces of an opponent in a game of chess. An endgame is symbolic that someone is already seeing victory in sight. It is okay to announce that the prosperity of the church in all things is going to announce the close of the age. If this is clear now, that means that we have to understand the purpose of prosperity to be properly aligned with this endgame design.
God prospers us with a purpose in mind. It is therefore important to understand the purpose of prosperity. Why does God make His kids prosper? What does He have on His mind? It is through the revelation of God’s heart that we will be able to use what He has blessed us with in the direction of our faith as stewards of God’s provision.
Good things don't come easy, Good things don't last. This is reality and let's face it, the man that will go far is the man that knows how to hustle his way through life. There are certain procedures that you have to go through in this world, suffer, suffer and more suffering and eventually, you'd make some good success. These are the conversations that are consistent with "the real world" and this would be the reality that many would like to embrace.
But not in Abba's world. In the reality of God's Kingdom, good things do come easy and good things do last. Abba created the system of ease for anyone who comes into His Kingdom when He gave up His Son Jesus. The only procedure that sets you apart is by believing in the finished work of Jesus such that by relying on this system, a man is separated from the real world and operates in God's world where things are pretty much easy peasy. Don't believe it?
Prosperity is God’s will and we are all in for it. We do not attempt to prosper in our own strength, rather we lean heavily on the provisions that God has made available to us in redemption. Speaking about being “all in,” we mean that we do not give room for contrary opinions or experiences that do not match the provision of prosperity made available to us. We are not in doubt one day and believing the next. We are not psyching ourselves to believe that our Father indeed has made provisions for us in redemption and no, we do not talk ourselves out of all that Jesus has offered. To talk ourselves out is to shortchange ourselves.
Imagine for a moment that you get a call that you have been given a weekend getaway and it's all expense paid. As you may know, there are weekend getaways and there are weekend getaways! This one is a weekend getaway with precious treasures. You will go on a boat cruise, meet new people, network, eat great food, and enjoy great music too! I am sure some of you are already in the clouds! What would your response be to this invite? I am guessing that you’d be all in. Phones off, work can wait, and everything else can pause because it's time to take a break!
Well, God does not just want you to take a break from having to toil for your prosperity, He wants you to enter into His rest and take His life and use it. You have to know that the influence of the Spirit is strong enough to meet your needs. Join the ALL IN conversation as we further the MONEYED series.
Sometimes when you observe the mind with which people engage the things of the Kingdom of God, you wonder if they are aware of the brilliance of God’s mind and the intelligence of God’s design of redemption because almost effortlessly, people are sometimes tempted to think about the things of God as basic, low, and undeserving of their best. This is the reason why any true association with God’s mind will leave you upgraded forever. It is religion that is usually culpable of trying to keep people in the space where they are constantly associating the mind of God with little, basic, or low.
Interestingly, not many people have been able to comprehend the idea that the time we spend here on earth was designed in the Father’s mind to be a time of infiltrating every man’s world with the lofty idea of the glorious and lavish nature of our heritage in Christ. We were not designed to join them, we were created to win them through God-class ideologies.
It is no wonder therefore that Paul was able to drop everything that he once considered to be of value, for the excellency of knowing Christ, and then he used his influence to encourage people to live their lives with the same focus. It is easy to accomplish when you know that your Kingdom has put your wellbeing and welfare as an important priority, right after your righteousness.
Take a look at the life that God brought Abraham into; a life that included dealings with The Possessor of the heavens and the earth. We all understand what it means to be called into important conversations with important people and we all can speculate what would happen to our careers if the top one percent of the successful people in our field were to decide to collaborate with us. Right now, your imagination is about to burst the roof open, and there you are smiling. You get it!
Yes, God called Abraham into a meeting and handed him things out of the repository of His possession. What Abraham did in response gives us an idea of what purpose money serves. God's will is prosperity alright but what is the purpose for prosperity? Why does our Father enjoy prospering His kids?
Let's share what His possible intent would be- borderlessness! God wants us to be without limits or constraints in our desire to accomplish things for the kingdom.
This weekend, join us as we further the MONEYED series with an all-new episode- THE POSSESSOR!
God designed you to be rich, with lots of money. True say! Yet God does not want money to have you in its grip. The design is that true riches are precious, this is why God does not want us to put our money to the swine. Rather, God wants us to put our money in what we consider to be the most valuable of all things- our faith!
Our faith? Yes, our faith. The idea of God’s heart is that our hope never migrates from God to the money that we own because if our hope migrates to our money, then it would be hard to let go of our resources; it would be difficult to put our resources to the use of the Gospel. We are either trusting in uncertain riches or we are trusting in our certain God who richly gives us all things.
The picture in God’s heart suggests that our resources should be used to lay up treasures for ourselves where things cannot be corrupted. You see, we already are seated together with Him beyond the corruption that is in the world and if there is one way to reflect this positional reality, it is in the use of our money. It does not make for sound spiritual intelligence to be seated beyond the corruptions of this world and not have your money reflect this.
We encourage you to join us all through this Series. Here we will share with you the design in God’s heart for riches and wealth.
Put things into proper perspective concerning your life; God loves you and He isn't going to stop! Do life with the weight of this truth sitting deep in your heart; God loves you and He's not going to stop. Here's a love story written with your name on it. Here you'd find the love of God given with no strange strings attached. Here's a story with an assured happy ending. We know how the story ends, it ends with you being warmly received by your Father, with a soft "well done."
What pictures have you struggled with all your life? What fears have tried to creep into the crevice of your life? God's answer to fear is His love. What is the hope of a "THEN" future if today's "NOW" moments are laced with fear? How can fear lead your way? Maybe you did not hear that "there's no fear in God's love." A love so designed to cast away fear, so that you can approach the days yet to be lived with the boldness that you are already loved!
God wrote a love story that doesn't end. Unending in brilliance, God's love story was written to help you to rest and increase. God's love and kindness have been made available for all. Now it is time to delve into the story and see how He describes you.
Imagine for one moment that the Bible is filled with promises of Prada clothes, shoes, and bags, in place of Jesus. Shocking as it may seem, many people would probably prefer to have more Prada things, more than they’d prefer to have Jesus. Just before you shout me down and act like I have lost my mind to even dare imagine such absurdity, take a look at your response to the revelation of God’s love and take a look at how you respond to a Prada gift. Which one tops the list in terms of excitement for you?
If you observe closely how people behave when they receive things and how they respond when they hear about God’s love, it is almost easy to know which one has more value to them. You can hide under the idea that “God sees your heart” with regard to your response to His love. How convenient? Suddenly, your excitement about your Prada gift is not a thing of the heart? Suddenly, it dawns on you that whoever gave you that gift would love to see you jump and rejoice in excitement. Right?
God gave us Jesus and that gift of the Son produces gratitude in our hearts when we deeply understand the beauty of the gift that God gave. The satisfaction that comes from knowing the Son is greater than the pleasure of owning a Prada item as a gift. The idea here is that God’s children will have to learn how to increasingly value the gift of our Savior’s love, more than any natural thing that exists. How can you know the love of God and still live such an uneventful life? How? If you check people’s lives, you will see that it is the absence of things that causes them to be so sad, when they should truly be excited because of the presence of the ONE- Jesus!
Have you ever wondered why medical science requires that you take certain medications three times daily? The idea is usually centered around the fact that the components of that medication are meant to stay in the bloodstream of the patient, at a particular level, all through the day in order to effect the desired changes or achieve the desired effect. The repetition of the intake of that medication allows the components of the medication to stay up in the bloodstream.
You wonder what this has to do with our conversation for this weekend, right? I'd tell you! The love of God for you should become the Buzzword that never leaves your consciousness and also never leaves your mouth. The idea that God loves you should be seated deeply in your consciousness and all the realities of God’s promises to you should flow from here. God wants faith-filled words (words that flow out of the finished work of Jesus) to stay in your consciousness at a consistent level at all times because the more you magnify God’s love, the more you grow in the revelation of God's love for you.
Out of the buzzword, “I am loved by God,” will flow other buzzwords- freedom, no guilt, prosperous, blessed, healed, whole, forgiven. This weekend, we are placing a magnifying glass on the truths that should lace our consciousness. Ready, set, BUZZWORDS!
Everyone lives in the present moment. Everyone wants to journey into a future that is filled with beautiful experiences. These are two distinct statements, yet these statements are so related in their relevance and in their significance. Whist we live in the moment, we all have to stay believing in the unveiled revelation of God’s amazing love so that we can then proceed into the future, expecting the most amazing experiences- experiences that are not hinged on fickle feelings, but hinged on the revelation of God’s unending love.
We will all move into the future and there is no doubt about that. However, while some will make their move into the future by leaning on feeble things, others will make their move into the future trusting the eternal nature of the love, mercy, and compassion of God. Knowing and being assured of God’s love is a prerequisite for advancement into the future. Now, we feed on God’s love so that we proceed into the “THEN” moments of our lives.
In the “NOW” moments of our lives, we ought to spend it believing in God’s love for us and not getting carried away by the events happening around us, so that we can then journey into the future with clear expectations of the good that the love of God has made available to us.
Join us for our LOVE REVOLUTION CONFERENCE.
Everyone lives in the present moment. Everyone wants to journey into a future that is filled with beautiful experiences. These are two distinct statements, yet these statements are so related in their relevance and in their significance. Whilst we live in the moment, we all have to stay believing in the unveiled revelation of God’s amazing love so that we can then proceed into the future, expecting the most amazing experiences- experiences that are not hinged on fickle feelings but hinged on the revelation of God’s unending love.
We will all move into the future and there is no doubt about that. However, while some will make their move into the future by leaning on feeble things, others will make their move into the future trusting the eternal nature of the love, mercy, and compassion of God. Knowing and being assured of God’s love is a prerequisite for advancement into the future. Now, we feed on God’s love so that we proceed into the “THEN” moments of our lives.
In the “NOW” moments of our lives, we ought to spend it believing in God’s love for us and not getting carried away by the events happening around us, so that we can then journey into the future with clear expectations of the good that the love of God has made available to us.
Join us this for our LOVE REVOLUTION CONFERENCE.
Jesus spoke about many truths, truths that have societal relevance and importance. One of the most important truths that Jesus spoke about, bordered around building relevance into your living experience. To sell that truth, Jesus used the analogy of architectural constructs; two builders, one who built his house on the rock and another who built his house on sand. This is a timeless conversation and building anything takes time-investments. It, therefore, is bewildering to see someone spend that energy investing in something that won't last.
Of course, we know that Jesus was not particularly speaking about housing and buildings. Rather, He was pointing to having the right foundation for living life here on earth. Jesus was pointing to the need for humans to spend their time building things that have eternal relevance and value. In other words, Jesus was addressing the temptation that people often face to build the essence of their living on earth on things that have no eternal value.
You can't imagine how problematic it would be to spend your life building something that crashes the moment pressure is put on it. Jesus addressed this truth so that people will build their lives on the Rock- His eternal truth that is timeless and does not shake.
So sandy or rocky? We'd see.
So many of us have that one friend that loves to tell stories. When you sit with them, there is never a dull moment. They share these beautifully crafted stories that keep you captivated, at the edge of your seat and just leaves you wanting more. Interestingly, each one of us has been shaped by the stories that we were told, stories that go all the way back into our childhood and defined the outcomes of our lives to a great extent.
We then arrive at a place where we begin to own our narratives and begin to write our own stories. However, no story is written without a belief. Each story starts with what people have chosen to believe and identify with. The delight of any human soul would be to create their own narratives, own their own trajectory, and sustain the momentum for the rest of their lives. Lovely right?
Thankfully our Gospel is a beautifully crafted story; a story that God Himself wrote, to share His amazing love, mercy, and grace with all of humanity so that through His story, our beliefs can be shaped. This story is captivating because each one is reminded of a life that is free from the travails of sin- the sin nature that Jesus has carried and now the church has to tell the entire world about this captivating story. If we do not tell 'em, they’d never know what Abba has done.
Join us as we take a look at the idea that we have been placed in a MESSY MIDDLE to tell the world around us the story of God’s amazing love.
So many of us have that one friend that loves to tell stories. When you sit with them, there is never a dull moment. They share these beautifully crafted stories that keep you captivated, at the edge of your seat and just leaves you wanting more. Interestingly, each one of us has been shaped by the stories that we were told, stories that go all the way back into our childhood and defined the outcomes of our lives to a great extent.
We then arrive at a place where we begin to own our narratives and begin to write our own stories. However, no story is written without a belief. Each story starts with what people have chosen to believe and identify with. The delight of any human soul would be to create their own narratives, own their own trajectory, and sustain the momentum for the rest of their lives. Lovely right?
Thankfully our Gospel is a beautifully crafted story; a story that God Himself wrote, to share His amazing love, mercy, and grace with all of humanity so that through His story, our beliefs can be shaped. This story is captivating because each one is reminded of a life that is free from the travails of sin- the sin nature that Jesus has carried and now the church has to tell the entire world about this captivating story. If we do not tell 'em, they’d never know what Abba has done.
Join us as we take a look at the idea that we have been placed in a MESSY MIDDLE to tell the world around us the story of God’s amazing love.
The world that we live in is driven by a lot of mundane things, things like power, influence, fame, and money- lots of money. These seem to be all that matters to people in the world around us. When it comes to faith in Jesus, people act like they are unaware of the importance that our faith in Jesus has. Even when they are slightly aware of the importance of their faith in Jesus, they are not convinced that faith can produce things like wealth or fame. They truly aren't.
Yet we see a design of things in God's mind that reveals that fame, wealth, influence, and notoriety were meant to be an outflow from our faith in Jesus. God designed that we'd have our roots in Christ, planted in the local church, and bear fruits outwards.
It is true that we are in the world, but Jesus said that we are not of it. This means that we don't depend on the world's system for our advancement. Scripture is replete with pictures of the church influencing the systems of this world. However, for this to happen, believers will have to begin to exalt their faith above every other achievement. Like Paul, we'd count all things a loss for the excellency of knowing Christ.
This weekend, join us as we further the conversation in our Messy: Middle series. See how God has designed for great things to flow out from our faith in Christ.
Everyone loves to find themselves. We all love it when meaning is given to things in our lives. Little wonder people spend thousands of dollars just to trace their ancestry, origin, and their heritage. It is a big deal and we can understand why. Everyone wants to know and have an insight into everything that makes up for who they are as they try to have an understanding of the chaos and madness around them.
The church is no different in many ways. We too have a rich heritage and we too have been left in a world filled with conflicting ideas and identities. The chaos in our world today is very loud yet God trusts that through His Word, we can find our identity, purpose, and voice in this world.
Abba wants us to live our lives constantly cutting through the noise that surrounds us and one of the tools He has given us to make this happen is the church- His body as we carry the Gospel into the chaos.
Join us as we further the conversation in our Messy: Middle series. You are sure to find your identity as part of an organization that God Himself is building- the church of Jesus Christ.
It's a messy world out there. We all know this as a reality. Everyone can attest to the reality of the mess that the world is in. Yet, God has placed the local church right in the middle of the mess to be sheep among wolves! Is this wisdom or not? Is God wise to have done this?
The world has always been a messy place since after the fall of Adam. Yet, despite the fall, Jesus was dropped right in the middle of the mess to shine the light of God's grace into man's mess and to bring as many who would believe out of darkness and into His glorious light! It is like God to step into chaos and turn it around into beauty.
Was God wise to plant His Church right in the middle of a dying world? The answer is yes! Why yes? Because we came armed with something that God trusts to be good enough to clean the world out and just before you think about cleaning the whole world, think about influencing your own world- the world around you.
Join us all Sundays and Wednesdays in May for an amazing teaching series on the beauty of the local church called Messy: Middle. You will be blessed out of your socks.
Bible days were truly interesting. You'd love the detail of God's mind when you read through Scriptures. It is beautiful to know that all kinds of scenarios were taken into consideration with a redemptive price allocated to each one. The "kinsman" concept fell into that category of provisions that God made, as a picture of the kind of redemption we were to receive when Jesus would be revealed.
During the time that scripture was written, Israel had an issue with people entering into heavy debts that they couldn't pay back. This resulted in the debtor forfeiting lands and precious items owned, in order to pay for their debt. However, a provision was made for people to recover those kinds of assets- a kinsman-redeemer had to show up to pay the debt and recover the resources that had been forfeited.
Can you see the details that the Scriptures cover? Something else is worthy of mention and that is the fact that this kinsman had to be a close relative by blood, who had the willingness and ability to pay off the debt that was owed.
In this episode, we will explore the Kinsman concept and you should come into our service experience to understand how this concept works and how it pertains to our Redemption in Christ Jesus.
Redemption is near and we live like we know it is. Redemption is here and we are here because of Him. Christ died and brought us the new life that is found in Jesus. Everything has been touched and changed for those that have believed in the new life that is found in Christ. Christ Jesus died for the sins of mankind to move us from the location of earth to a new location in Christ.
How would you feel if you were told that a huge debt that you owed had been paid off? How would you feel if your debt was paid and no one ever told you, for a long time? One year? More? All this while, you were living with the weight and the uncanny unrest that comes from being in debt, in such a huge way! How sad you would be!
Christ paid our debt and everybody ought to know. We will spend our lives knowing the depth of what it means to have our debts cleared and our sins forgiven, knowing that our lives are worth living.
Join us for an amazing teaching series on the redemptive work of Jesus called Silver Studs.
“It’s on the BIG SCREEN now, that commercial, and it is so attractive it’d make you want to sell all you have, if possible, to get all the products on that line.” “What? I cannot believe I fell for that commercial and bought the product, and it does not look like what they said. These companies and their over-exaggerated presentation of their products and services, you can never trust them.”
One brand decides they want people to know what they have to offer and they put out commercials to that effect. Sad thing is that too many times, the commercials are usually an overhype compared to the product and what it can do. Today, you can sell a bad product with a great commercial.
Sadly, many people relate with the Holy Spirit as though He is a bad commercial for the redemption story that we are told in Scripture. Why not? If all you know about Him is fault-finding, then that’s bad. Yet the Holy Spirit is a perfect commercial, inviting you to participate in the life of God provided in Christ Jesus.
The whole idea behind being on a diet is that people get to become a lot more intentional about what they eat because of the goals they set for themselves concerning their health, body shape, and wellness. If anyone tells you that they are dieting, you can be sure that they are following a strict feeding routine, with the intention of arriving at a determined destination. What is true about our physical diet is also true about what we feed ourselves with as believers.
One area where the ministry of the Spirit is magnified in our lives is in the area of what we are to feed on when it comes to our desire to be nourished in our Spirit man. As a believer, you must understand the ministry of the Spirit and the role He plays in guiding you to feed right. Every manifestation of the Spirit in our lives is tied to what we feed on. You cannot feed on the junk of relying on your human effort and hope to arrive at a place where you are accepted by God as pleasing to Him. That is just not going to happen.
We will further the Big Screen series with the Dieting episode. In this episode, we will allow the Spirit of God to show us what it means to feed right, following His ministry in our lives.
Everyone is concerned about having an edge in their lives. Everyone! This quest for having an edge drives almost every endeavor that people are engaged with. Much of what people rely on as their edge do not really hold them strong against the tumultuous tides that people experience in their lives.
Life was designed to be easy because life was designed to be lived from the place of the insight that the Holy Spirit brings us. Living in the world gets very complicated so quickly and easily, that people can get burnt out trying to figure out the complexities of life. Has anyone asked you lately how you are coping with the real world?
It is not okay to do life without a deep-seated understanding that God gave you an edge, an advantage for doing life. The Holy Spirit is a genius and listening to Him will make you look smart.
In this episode, we will explore THE EDGE that we have access to because of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
“Jesus, it is what you have been revealed to be doing to us for all of eternity that forms the basis of our relationship with the ministry of the Holy Spirit.”
Many people enjoy/endure the spooky nature of their relationship with the Holy Spirit. People have weird ideas of what the Holy Spirit enjoys doing to them and much of it borders around the notions that have been picked up from living in a corrupted world system.
The slaps, the kicks, the pushings, somersaults, insults, and all the other shady things that the “Holy Spirit” seems to do to people in order to get their attention do not seem to align with how the Holy Spirit is presented in scripture. There is no doubt about it that people want to be led. However, the methods that the Holy Spirit employs when leading people have to be consistent with what scripture reveals. Without this clarity, people will not only be led but they will be led away from the truth of God’s mind.
As we further the Big Screen Series, we are laying the foundation of what the Holy Spirit does to us as believers and what the parameters of His ministry to us are. How will you have peace without an assurance of what the Holy Spirit can do to you?
It takes two, yes, it always does! However in our relationship with Jesus, this “it takes two” idea will have to be understood properly because the church (the bride) is not expected to bring an equal amount of anything to this relationship. Jesus brings everything into the relationship and our job is to receive from Him. How then does it take two? Well, Jesus has agreed to be the giving party, and you (His bride) has to accept to rest and receive from Him.
Sounds simple right? Yes, it does, until culture begins to tug at you. It sounds simple until your emotions begin to pull you towards ideas that do not look like rest. It sounds simple, yet not many are enjoying its benefits.
During this final episode of the Code of the Elves Series, we want to establish the idea that we are in a union with our big-hearted significant other, Jesus, the gentleman groom who loves His bride so passionately. Imagine how healthy our experience as being married would be if we all experienced the beauty and pleasure of being the bride of Jesus. Let Him do to you what you are going to do to the other person.
Who took out this piece of important information from the narrative about marriage and relationships- the information that includes the truth that it is only by understanding, accepting, celebrating, and appreciating the essence and value of your significant other that true bliss and beauty can be achieved? Otherwise, how else do you want to explain the idea that you would be married to one person for the rest of your life?
If marriage and relationships were designed to mirror the relationship between Christ and the Church, then it is easy to notice and observe how Jesus treats His bride with honor, value, and essence, so much that He supplies new mercies every day. This is the picture of what marriage should be and this picture should not be redacted.
Before you think of this as a duty to perform, think of it first as a revelation to be believed and received; the idea that Jesus has chosen to see you for all eternity as valuable and relate with you from that standpoint. Are you ready to receive this truth?
The compromise culture is addictive yet appalling. It samples a situation where people that have the superior realities with regards to issues concerning life are either too timid to follow through with what they believe or are too apologetic for comfort for doing things God’s way.
The Code of the Elves for relationships and marriage definitely has to include a decision not to compromise on the things that we know to be the truth. Society may try to push people into corners where it would seem like something will be lost, but it is in those moments that believers should decide not to compromise. Here, we are not speaking about living for yet another feather to our caps, we are rather speaking about doing what is right to do, no matter who is watching.
Marriage and relationships are beautiful when lived according to God’s design and not according to the compromise culture. Join us as we further the Code of the Elves Series with the all-new episode; C-Culture.
Beautiful and delightful, this is how we define a magical marriage and yes, that is God’s design for relationships and marriage. We have lived in a failed world for so long that much of what people carry around in their minds is the mirror of the failures that they are surrounded by. One place where that failure is commonly evident is in marriage. Sad but true.
Our magical moments in relationships and marriage will be determined by the mirror effect; the things that we have accepted as true whether they be God's design or the failure that we see in our environment.
Outside God's design, things fail. Whatever we mirror, that is what we are going to experience. Relationships shouldn't begin with a feeling. Relationships should begin with an alignment to truth- the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. We owe ourselves to first grow in the knowledge of the love of Christ before we begin to express love one to another.
Here's what we know, that ABBA is RELENTLESS in His desire to be known. When we seek Him, we are seeking His relentless resolve to find us, know us, and be revealed to us.
RELENTLESS is a season at the Blueprint Church where we spend time to gaze on God's commitment to speaking to us as we begin a new year. We use this time to celebrate the revelation of our Father as the RELENTLESS One, who always loves to and is eager to speak, give guidance, as well as build our hopes/expectations for the future that He has for us.
This year’s theme is Premium Waves and this is what it represents. We know that Jesus came to give us access to the premium life and it is through the manifestations of the Spirit that our eyes are flooded with light to see all that Jesus has done. For us, we are dwelling on the ministry of the Spirit flooding us with waves upon waves of truth- the truth about all that Jesus has accomplished.
Here's what we know, that ABBA is RELENTLESS in His desire to be known. When we seek Him, we are seeking His relentless resolve to find us, know us, and be revealed to us.
RELENTLESS is a season at the Blueprint Church where we spend time to gaze on God's commitment to speaking to us as we begin a new year. We use this time to celebrate the revelation of our Father as the RELENTLESS One, who always loves to and is eager to speak, give guidance, as well as build our hopes/expectations for the future that He has for us.
This year’s theme is Premium Waves and this is what it represents. We know that Jesus came to give us access to the premium life and it is through the manifestations of the Spirit that our eyes are flooded with light to see all that Jesus has done. For us, we are dwelling on the ministry of the Spirit flooding us with waves upon waves of truth- the truth about all that Jesus has accomplished.
Here's what we know, that ABBA is RELENTLESS in His desire to be known. When we seek Him, we are seeking His relentless resolve to find us, know us, and be revealed to us.
RELENTLESS is a season at the Blueprint Church where we spend time to gaze on God's commitment to speaking to us as we begin a new year. We use this time to celebrate the revelation of our Father as the RELENTLESS One, who always loves to and is eager to speak, give guidance, as well as build our hopes/expectations for the future that He has for us.
This year’s theme is Premium Waves and this is what it represents. We know that Jesus came to give us access to the premium life and it is through the manifestations of the Spirit that our eyes are flooded with light to see all that Jesus has done. For us, we are dwelling on the ministry of the Spirit flooding us with waves upon waves of truth- the truth about all that Jesus has accomplished.
Here's what we know, that ABBA is RELENTLESS in His desire to be known. When we seek Him, we are seeking His relentless resolve to find us, know us, and be revealed to us.
RELENTLESS is a season at the Blueprint Church where we spend time to gaze on God's commitment to speaking to us as we begin a new year. We use this time to celebrate the revelation of our Father as the RELENTLESS One, who always loves to and is eager to speak, give guidance, as well as build our hopes/expectations for the future that He has for us.
This year’s theme is Premium Waves and this is what it represents. We know that Jesus came to give us access to the premium life and it is through the manifestations of the Spirit that our eyes are flooded with light to see all that Jesus has done. For us, we are dwelling on the ministry of the Spirit flooding us with waves upon waves of truth- the truth about all that Jesus has accomplished.
Here's what we know, that ABBA is RELENTLESS in His desire to be known. When we seek Him, we are seeking His relentless resolve to find us, know us, and be revealed to us.
RELENTLESS is a season at the Blueprint Church where we spend time to gaze on God's commitment to speaking to us as we begin a new year. We use this time to celebrate the revelation of our Father as the RELENTLESS One, who always loves to and is eager to speak, give guidance, as well as build our hopes/expectations for the future that He has for us.
This year’s theme is Premium Waves and this is what it represents. We know that Jesus came to give us access to the premium life and it is through the manifestations of the Spirit that our eyes are flooded with light to see all that Jesus has done. For us, we are dwelling on the ministry of the Spirit flooding us with waves upon waves of truth- the truth about all that Jesus has accomplished.
Here's what we know, that ABBA is RELENTLESS in His desire to be known. When we seek Him, we are seeking His relentless resolve to find us, know us, and be revealed to us.
RELENTLESS is a season at the Blueprint Church where we spend time to gaze on God's commitment to speaking to us as we begin a new year. We use this time to celebrate the revelation of our Father as the RELENTLESS One, who always loves to and is eager to speak, give guidance, as well as build our hopes/expectations for the future that He has for us.
This year’s theme is Premium Waves and this is what it represents. We know that Jesus came to give us access to the premium life and it is through the manifestations of the Spirit that our eyes are flooded with light to see all that Jesus has done. For us, we are dwelling on the ministry of the Spirit flooding us with waves upon waves of truth- the truth about all that Jesus has accomplished.
Who needs extra unnecessary baggage when going for an important trip? Who makes a deliberate effort to carry things they do not need into their journey? We may find people who are willing to do so, but we know that that behavior is not in sync with best human practices right?
Isn’t it amazing that the relationship many people have with the Holy Spirit is similar to that of one carrying excess unnecessary baggage? “Why do you think so” you may ask. Well, it is evident in what people think about the Holy Spirit; they think of Him as just another theological experience because He truly does not influence anything in their lives. They carry Him around to make up their theological balance but do not expect much from His manifestation.
Yet scripture is replete with stories after stories of what the Holy Ghost did in the lives of men, that brought them into an experience, beyond their human abilities. What if your future is laced with manifestations of the Spirit as a real, tangible reality?
Join us as we explore GHOST STORIES
Jesus is the Propitiation that has triggered God's Unending Mercy toward us. Find out more as you listen. Be blessed!
If given the opportunity to choose, what kind of future would you love to experience this year? What does the future hold for you, your family, and your loved ones? We cannot ask you if you have thought about it, because we know that you have.
Yet the future that is contained in the finished work of Jesus for you is one that we believe would give you great joy. There is no doubt at all that you would love to live in a future that is filled with the best possible outcomes for you, your family, and everyone around you. The interesting thing however is that nothing in the world can boast with the assurance of the best possible outcomes.
However, we sure do have certainty in the finished work of Jesus that is bankable and reliable and it is based on the assurance of redemption that we are inviting you into 2022- the year where you will live in the preferred future that is available to you in Christ Jesus.
For the avoidance of doubt, we would like to narrow the conversation down to three major areas where we will see this preferred future play out and take shape.
The preferred future is one that is laced with God’s mercy. Our preferred future is one that takes the shape of God’s mercy. We know that God’s mercy is not pity. Rather, it is that nature and character of God that makes Him use all that He has and all that He is to aid us. God delights in showing us mercy! See Micah 7:18. We believe that with our future in 2022 laced with God's unfailing mercies, we will have such a glorious year.
The preferred future is one that is laced with waves upon waves of the manifestations of the Spirit. Have you not heard that it is “not by power nor by might, but by the Spirit?” If you know the power of God’s Spirit, you will know that the only truth that He magnifies is what Jesus has accomplished for us. Waves- a mighty rushing wind of all that Jesus paid for, coming into the experience of the believer. Everything! If Jesus paid for it, we experience it 3D, IMAX, full-blown! This is that year!
The preferred future is light bearing- We are traveling with supersonic speed and acceleration in the light of what Jesus has accomplished. No holds! Nothing, absolutely nothing holds us back. In this year, more will be accomplished in record time. Things will spring forth quickly and easily and people will have their hands and hearts strengthened by the Spirit. This is that year. This is the preferred Future. Welcome to 2022.
If given the opportunity to choose, what kind of future would you love to experience this year? What does the future hold for you, your family, and your loved ones? We cannot ask you if you have thought about it, because we know that you have.
Yet the future that is contained in the finished work of Jesus for you is one that we believe would give you great joy. There is no doubt at all that you would love to live in a future that is filled with the best possible outcomes for you, your family, and everyone around you. The interesting thing however is that nothing in the world can boast with the assurance of the best possible outcomes.
However, we sure do have certainty in the finished work of Jesus that is bankable and reliable and it is based on the assurance of redemption that we are inviting you into 2022- the year where you will live in the preferred future that is available to you in Christ Jesus.
For the avoidance of doubt, we would like to narrow the conversation down to three major areas where we will see this preferred future play out and take shape.
The preferred future is one that is laced with God’s mercy. Our preferred future is one that takes the shape of God’s mercy. We know that God’s mercy is not pity. Rather, it is that nature and character of God that makes Him use all that He has and all that He is to aid us. God delights in showing us mercy! See Micah 7:18. We believe that with our future in 2022 laced with God's unfailing mercies, we will have such a glorious year.
The preferred future is one that is laced with waves upon waves of the manifestations of the Spirit. Have you not heard that it is “not by power nor by might, but by the Spirit?” If you know the power of God’s Spirit, you will know that the only truth that He magnifies is what Jesus has accomplished for us. Waves- a mighty rushing wind of all that Jesus paid for, coming into the experience of the believer. Everything! If Jesus paid for it, we experience it 3D, IMAX, full-blown! This is that year!
The preferred future is light bearing- We are traveling with supersonic speed and acceleration in the light of what Jesus has accomplished. No holds! Nothing, absolutely nothing holds us back. In this year, more will be accomplished in record time. Things will spring forth quickly and easily and people will have their hands and hearts strengthened by the Spirit. This is that year. This is the preferred Future. Welcome to 2022.
Wave after wave, we have seen the Father unveil His mighty works and glorious acts on the people on earth. Each wave unveiled through the ages was designed to lead us to this moment where we are sitting right in the wave of God’s amazing grace. Jesus has come and now the wave of the Spirit, the Supernatural is upon us. Miracles are easy now, Grace has come, and the wave of God’s consistent, ever-abiding presence is here.
The Wave is here! Grace is here and the dispensation of God's Spirit is here too. Jesus is real. He is living and alive and miracles abound as proof. When we sit in the atmosphere of God’s goodness, we drink out of the beauty of His presence till we get caught up in the wave. Eyes see and ears hear the sound of a mighty, rushing wind. Waves; diverse kinds of tongues and interpretation of tongues. This is the future and it belongs to those who are of the lineage of Grace.
As we close out one year, the year of Lights, we usher in the new year as waves upon waves cascade down our healthy souls. Can’t you see the clouds have gathered, the rain has come and now there are unending waves of God's amazing grace and glory? This is The Wave!
Take the limits off your mind and begin to live according to design. Abba designed us to be generous to the point where people begin to ask questions. We love to hear God’s mind and we also love to do what we hear. People will not be generous if the limits remain there. We live in an economic world and too many times, the economy governs the thinking to the point where we stifle the flow of God’s gracious goodness to us.
Learn to sow your seeds because while God did not need your seed to determine how much He would bless you, your generosity is needed to create capacity in your heart to be able to receive what God has graciously made available to you. Generosity does not move God. Your generosity expands your own capacity to receive all that has already been provided.
We don’t give from a transactional perspective, we give generously so that our heart’s capacity is enlarged. God loves the cheerful giver whose heart is in His giving. The good cheer of the gospel is arrived at when you know that God has already given you all things.
This earth is an "accomplishment" planet. Earth was designed to give people the opportunity to get things done. God designed the earth to create an opportunity for people to find fulfillment and support their creative edge. This earth was given for the purpose of accomplishment and praise to God. This accomplishment began with the gift of redemption. Redemption is God's accomplishment.
Ever since redemption was accomplished, a way was paved for people to now begin to attempt to do big things with redemption in mind. One of the ways God demonstrates His generosity is to assist us with accomplishing great feats for His kingdom. We see God's generosity in giving us supersonic speed, the kind of speed that humans are not yet accustomed to, neither can they create it for themselves.
God gives acceleration. God gives speed. It's His thing. He does it without a sweat. When you think about God's generous nature, think about Him with class and compassion- He gives things that we need but cannot afford.
In this episode, we consider God's generosity in blessing man with supersonic speed for accomplishing the things He has designed for us. If God did not step in to increase our pace, we may need a zillion lifetimes to get a single thing done.
The idea of sending Jesus into the world was a very scandalous one. In retrospect, we can say thank God! However, at that moment, the situation was ugly. What was man anyway, that Abba would demonstrate such reckless generosity by sending His most prized possession- Jesus? This is something our Abba did without a second thought. How can God, the God of the whole earth, choose to give up His Son, Jesus, to be like man? Not even as royalty but be humbled as to be birthed in a manger. It was scandalous but He did it anyway. Abba had no reputation to consider when it came to reconciling us to Himself. He had no reservations when it came to releasing Jesus to the earth. He couldn't have been bothered with the seeming foolishness attached to His generosity, if it ever came to it, He would do it all again. Such Scandalous love! It's our Carols and Songs service experience. Join us as we celebrate the birth of Jesus and explore this scandalous gift with all the benefits that this sole generosity of Abba- Jesus means to us.
How is the love of God free? How come something so precious can be given at no price? We have been cultured differently by the world’s system to not give things away because of what it cost us to own them, however, God’s generous heart will give His prized possession away, even though it cost Him everything.
We have the mind of Christ, that’s a fact. Likewise, we have the generosity of Christ. The gospel as a cause will only be as impactful and influential as the generosity of the people who champion it. Don’t come home and not embrace the spirit of the house. Don’t come home without embracing lavish thinking.
Our city is known as a place where God places value on people who have not earned it. Our city is known as a place where God values people and gives generously to back that value, even to the degree where it can be said to be scandalous. God loves us scandalously. God’s generosity is value-driven and if the gospel is a valued idea to you, you will give generously towards it.
We understand that God is generous, but God's generosity takes on a different identity when He isn't afraid to identify with the scandalous narratives of the human race.
All through scripture, we see God's generosity take a new turn each time the stories of ordinary people are told. Even people with scandalous narratives. Yet the King identified with it.
We have been told about God's gracious kindness. However, does graciousness not look different when it is not reserved for the high profile attainers?
You can understand generosity most times when the recipient is high class, highly placed, rich, and good-looking. You can understand generosity when there is something to be gained in return. But how do you explain a generous ABBA who aligns with scandals that would smear His name? This is a generous ABBA who isn't looking for anything in return.
Think about when you made a lot of effort to look for something that wasn't missing. Think about how you felt when you were making frantic efforts to find something, only to realize that you had been holding that thing in your hands all the while. How did you feel? Embarrassed? Think about the effort. Think about the diligence that you put in not knowing it had been in your hands.
When we speak about righteousness, there are two kinds. There's the one you try with your effort to produce and there's one that you receive as a gift; God's righteousness.
Picture trying to attain by effort, something that you can receive freely as a gift of grace. Sadly when it comes to righteousness, the trophy does not go to those who put in the work, it goes to those who believe and receive.
Sweep through the space in your mind and discover the prevailing thoughts that you have allowed over the years. These thoughts are either ignited by fear or are ignited by love- the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Abba delights in flooding your heart, like a hurricane, with the realities of your right standing with Him. Not only are you in right standing with God, but you are also God's right acts! When hurricanes show up, we know that some things are about to be messed up, and this time, God is messing up the structures of condemnation, self-pity, fear, and anxieties.
This is the time to allow thoughts about your righteousness to flood your consciousness. When our thoughts are filled with righteousness consciousness, we cast down all thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. God's righteousness should flood your thoughts till nothing of unworthiness is left in your consciousness.
Make an attempt to reach something impossible. Try harder. Do your best. Try some more. You mean you cannot do your best to get the job done? “God’s standards are just too high,” you say. “I tried. But no, it was not to be!” God says, “Meet Me where my standards are,” but hey, “These standards are too high and the slope is too steep,” you say.
All of the times in history that man was able to attain God’s standards, they had to be helped. Actually, they had to be made into the righteousness of God. This making is a revelation of God’s heart. God is gracious and kind and this nature of His has been weaved into the designed product called God’s righteousness. People can not attain it, they will have to be given this status for free. Free, but not cheap, because it came at the price of the ONE- Jesus.
Try harder? No! We have been made the very thing that we could not be on our own. Made? Yes. We were born so, at the new birth. We came out of the womb of God’s holy redemption, smelling of righteousness, like the field the Lord has blessed.
Join us as we further the 'Hello, my name is' series conversation with this all-new episode.
Everything in this world today seems to be screaming for loyalty. Everything! Yet not everything that screams for loyalty is actually worth being loyal to and that surely includes you, where you have been and what has happened in your life till this moment. Loyalty to things should be to the degree that they reflect God’s design. Whilst everything screams for undivided attention, there is the ONE true Jesus who truly should have your attention but many times, He does not, because we are carried away by the things around us screaming for our attention, even when those things do not satisfy. You should not be loyal to yourself or your past experiences if they do not reflect Jesus, His heart, His righteousness, and His peace. Everything in our world is a reflection of something. You should sit around the ONE who truly holds the power to describe you. In this Episode, we will take a look at the chronicles of the ONE man who Himself designed the life of righteousness as the basis for pleasing God. Say Hello to the ONE, make the introduction and let your new life overflow from you to the world around you.
Jesus has called you to the VIP lounge to sit and participate in the life of God. VIP you say? Yes, VIP! Everyone for whom Jesus died is rated VIP and there is no gainsaying that. If you give your only and your best to someone in order to rescue them for all eternity, then they must really be special to you. Right? Yes, right!
Jesus has thrown a high-rated party and has invited you to be a special guest at the event. Sit and be served, rest and receive. Has it ever dawned on you that all of the promises of God to us in Christ Jesus ought to be received from a place of rest? Jesus has called you in and your name is on the guest list. Why then are you still living like nothing was done to advance and aid the quality of your life here on earth?
Every promise that God has made available in Christ Jesus will be enjoyed from a blessed place of rest. Delight yourself in this reality and let this overwhelm you. You are the guest of the King and what you must do is sit and be served. Do not attempt to serve God without first receiving His loving and tender service to you.
Cast your mind back to the invitation of Jesus that ended with these words “and I will give you rest.” Think closely and critically about those words and the importance of those words to those for whom it was meant. It was an invitation to participate in the life that God had designed- the life that was created to suspend the effects of the fall. Jesus Himself was living in this rest. He had from the place of this rest, accomplished great feats that made many marvel at what kind of person He really was.
Jesus was a wonder to those around Him. They really could not understand the source of His brilliance, His power, His presence, and His ability. Every time Jesus came on the scene, He always left them marveling and wondering. It was therefore a watershed moment when He invited us to participate in the same rest that He was made up of.
Jesus raised His disciples to always expect miracles. Hence when they came back rejoicing that the demons were subject to them, He had to refocus their minds. Why? Because the supernatural was for the bystanders to see and believe and not for the validation of those who are already home. Our faith in the finished work is enough for our validation and nothing more.
Life was designed to be lived in the supernatural. You won't doubt that life in the supernatural was God's answer to the hustle culture. If you need a breather from life's struggles, then you have to go the way of the supernatural.
It should not be difficult to realize that the very foundation upon which our life in Christ is built, is supernatural. There was nothing natural about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. God simply pulled off a show-off as He deliberately schooled the world's culture on how to think. If Jesus was not raised supernaturally by the power of God, it would have taken a lot of sweat, and still, it wouldn't have been done.
Our supernatural God created us to live supernaturally and when you come into God's breathing room, you take your breather by manifesting the supernatural.
Our life on earth will be sweat-filled if the supernatural isn't the way we respond to things. Rest for the believer is not irresponsibility. Rather, it is a detachment from trying to fix things through the labor that wearies.
Join us as we further the Breathing Room Series with an all-new episode- THE BREATHER.
Unbelief is a prison. Unbelief keeps us confined to a life beneath the finished work of Jesus. God outlined the reason why people did not enter into His rest, and unbelief was the culprit. You wonder what it takes for people to just believe. God does not want us to make a habit of living in unbelief. Abba is not pleased when unbelief leads our lives.
Too many people have stayed locked in the prison of limitation as a result of not being able to come into God’s rest by believing. Some people would love to wait till everything is perfect before they believe. The whole idea of coming into God’s rest leans on you daring to believe, even when things seem to be out of place. Whilst we do not deny the function of logic, we must not be limited by it as we desire to see the mighty move of God’s Spirit.
All of scripture is replete with the dynamic working of the Spirit in raising men and women who had no ability, intelligence, wits, and smarts of their own. Open your eyes and see. Come out of the cage of unbelief and get resting in God’s amazing promises. Join the JAILBIRD conversation as we explore how unbelief hinders us from entering God’s rest.
We know what we do when someone offers us something pleasant, remarkable, and breathtaking. We know how we feel when we experience moments that we only dreamed about. You see that delight in your heart, that joy, that excitement that cannot be contained. It feels something like someone has just given you a new lease on life.
All of the feelings we tried to capture here pales greatly when compared to the joy that should follow your experience of the gospel. Think about the fact that all your toilsome labor to reach, please, and be accepted by God, have all come to an end! Anyone who sits under the influence of the gospel will be radically transformed by the realities contained therein.
Take a close look at life in the gospel and you’d find God’s rest revealed. Jesus assures us of His rest. It is safe to say that no one goes on a journey where they are not assured of their safety. Jesus provided for us for our entire life and this is what the gospel experience reveals.
This weekend, we begin a New Series- Breathing Room as we explore God’s truths about God’s rest. We will receive the ministry of Apostle Dapo Benzoe bringing us God’s word. You’d be glad to be part of it.
At some point, we will have to wake up to the reality that God did not give us a slack, loose redemption plan. The idea of God’s redemption had no slacks. Rather, we can boldly point to the error-free nature of the work that Jesus accomplished for us.
Somewhere along the way, people (in an attempt to be modest) presented an unintelligent gospel, a gospel that did no justice to the brilliance of God's mind. Much of what was presented created an idea of a redemption plan that was not carefully thought out. Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. God created a plan, designed and orchestrated it, from start to finish with intelligence that goes beyond human logic.
This episode is a watershed moment designed to help your understanding of the work that Jesus did and how error-free it is. Since we are making a case for a healthy soul, it is important to realize that your soul cannot be healthy if it is never assured about how error-free the gospel is.
Ultra:
Excessive. This is the word that some believers do not like to hear at all. Many believers do not like to be identified as people who have an excessive appetite for God’s word because sometimes, all that people want to do is blend in with the mold in the culture so much that they believe that they have to give up the internal practice of feeding intensely on God's word.
Yet, no one can truly say that because they have excessive money, they will turn down another opportunity to make some more money, as long as no law is being broken. How then did people arrive at the “you are taking this gospel thing too far” idea?
Whilst it may be okay to put aside the public display of “spirituality” in order to blend into a system for the sake of eventually infiltrating that system for our king, it is not okay to give up the private devotion to the voracious intake of God’s word for the health of your soul.
All through this series, we are going ULTRA on our desire to feed our souls with the right diet.
Supernova Ultra:
Have you noticed that people who have an accent are often oblivious to their own accents? In the same way, many times, we hardly are aware of our own prejudices and assumptions when it comes to the kind of life that God has intended for us to live. Our prejudices and assumptions shape the way we see the life that God has given us and shape the outcomes of our lives also.
We often continue living with our own assumptions; assumptions which we often obtain from the environment. These assumptions and prejudices, if allowed, end up becoming a strong determinant of the outcomes of our lives. Think about it as molds infesting a beautiful work of art until it is destroyed. Meanwhile, God has designed a beautiful experience for us in redemption, an experience that we will enjoy as we fill our souls with the truth of the gospel.
Life on earth is meant to be lived out of who we are at our core and that core was designed to be powered by words. The interesting thing is that words, like seeds, when planted are not seen until they begin to produce manifestations. Also, we know that people hardly enjoy doing things diligently without the stage and glam.
The act of planting God’s word into our soul may not present itself as glamorous to many because it is done behind the scenes, while no one is looking. In a culture that magnifies fame, fortune, limelight, and spotlight, these behind the scene practices may not get the required recognition that they deserve. Yet like the supernova concept, it is when we become diligent about filling up our core with the words of His grace that we are guaranteed an explosion of the manifestations of God’s gracious word.
When something is heavy-duty, it means that it has an unusual ability to withstand the stresses that come from demanding use. We can safely say that it is tough and uneasy to wear out. Interestingly, these are all descriptions of the way the human soul was designed by God. Why then are we experiencing prevailing situations where people tend to break down easily under pressure in today’s world?
Maybe it is because God actually created us to be tough, not easily broken, and then made provisions for us to stay healthy in our souls. If God promised us victory in His word, then it means that He also provided everything we would need to stand strong and undefeated.
This weekend, we delve deeper into the 21 Grams series as we get to see how God has designed us to experience victory in our lives, but it all begins with a soul that is healthy and well-fed.
No one enjoys a breakdown. No one enjoys it when there is an abnormal function of an equipment because of the hindrances that happen as a result. This is the very reason why everyone of Abba’s precious kids should be focused on ensuring that their souls are well fed with the truths from God’s word.
Usually, a glitch occurs when there is the presence of foreign agents that do not belong to a system. If you have a car that should run on gas and you introduce water to that system, you’d experience a malfunction. Our souls were designed to feed on the provisions of the gospel and if something is introduced that is not part of the design that the soul should function with, there will be a glitch.
God wants our souls healthy and this weekend, we are taking time to focus intensely on the accurate design that God initiated for the effective drive of our soul.
What is the weight of your human soul? How healthy is your soul? If we can sometimes equate the weight of the human body to its health, then maybe it is possible to tell the health of the soul by how well-fed it is. There is a connection between what we are fed with and the health that we display and this may be true about the condition of our soul.
We owe ourselves a duty to feed our souls fat with the truth of redemption that is found when Jesus is revealed. We can make the assumption that the soul is the place where our minds, will, and emotions dwell and it is through the mind that we think. Sometimes people live as though God hates it when we think using our minds. He does not!
The real question would be how trained our minds are to only resonate with truth only from the perspective of what Christ has accomplished? Join us as we explore the 21 Grams series.
Do not conclude that something is impossible if you live in the tribe where redemption reigns and rules, especially if God has given His word, has made a promise, or has involved Himself. You see, we now know that God created us to put on the garment of His own creativity and to produce results on His level and there is no way in the world that He will give us such huge tasks without giving us His support.
If God has assigned a task to you, you can be sure that He intends to use all that He is to aid you. If God has commissioned you with a promise, be sure that He has the desire to back you up all the way. Do not allow anyone to talk you out of the promise that God has given to you and do not allow anyone to tell you that it will never happen. In our tribe, we are conversant with our Abba who can make impossible things happen. We have a tribe where all things are possible. Join us as we conclude the TRIBAL series with the episode; WHEN PIGS FLY.
The tribal mark of excellence has been largely misunderstood in the culture around us. Excellence in our culture has often been seen as opulence instead of what scripture truly points to. When Daniel was said to have an excellent Spirit, it was not because of his high taste in fashion or his ability to combine colors and do aesthetics. Rather, it was because of his ability to see templates and solutions from another realm, copy them, and paste them into earth’s space.
We are Super Species and that means that we are the only aspect of God’s creativity that has been saddled with the mandate to create. It is true that if a person sees something as optional, then they can decide whether to engage or not. But once a person is able to understand that something has been mandated, then they have no choice but to produce at the level of their ability.
Excellence is our mandate and excellence has a new meaning. Join us as we unravel the Super Species episode
Our memory plays a vital role in our participation and enjoyment of redemption in our tribe. Sadly, for many, the older they are as believers, the more “senior moments” they begin to experience with regards to the truths of our tribal redemption.
How should you ever get bored of hearing that your sins are forgiven? Why should you grow older as a believer and your desire is to move on to “deeper” things with regards to your salvation truths? Nothing could be deeper than the truth that our sins are forgiven.
Senior moments are moments of forgetfulness; forgetfulness that leads to dullness in magnifying the one truth that should matter most; that our sins are forgiven.
Everything in our world today is labeled for proper identification and designation of value. Yes! Many people are still trying to grapple with the marks that others left them with for generations now. Remember when someone marked a geographical location as “underdeveloped?” Is it not amazing that most of these nations are today living up to the mark placed on them? How dare you, therefore, engage with the systems of this world without consciousness of your mark in redemption? How? Nobody enjoys being forgotten, yet that is exactly what will happen to the people who forget that they have been marked; they may go on without being able to make any distinct contributions because they forgot their designation. If you believe in Christ Jesus today, you have been designated as a priest and you ought to live out of this mark.
How much of the cause of Christ have we chosen to live for? How much of the cause of Jesus have we made our lives about? It was no cliché when Paul said, “I determined to know nothing among you other than Christ and Him crucified.” The guy who had many things to boast and glory about made the cause of Christ his life’s goal.
Jesus lived, died, and rose again for this cause. The cause He is alive for is what produced His generous living and truly, you may never see the need for generosity until you are cause-driven. It is the cause that makes us generous. Nothing else in this world pulls us towards generosity like the cause to ensure the nations are saturated with the gospel.
Join as we further this conversation on this episode.
It really is all about the attitude that we have towards money. It is expected that love should be the right attitude if He is allowed to have His way. You see, we have seen in human behavior that people are easily moved to be generous when “love is in the air.” Think about how people tend to be with their significant other; many times at the first sight, they give.
God’s love was demonstrated when He did not spare His Son. No. He did not spare His Son because of a rainy day. We see the attitude of Abba towards the people He loves and when we come into convergence with Abba, the same should be our attitude towards God- to not spare.
Who wants to miss a moment of something impactful such as a movie, time spent with friends, time spent on a trip, vacation, etc. Who would want to be left out in that very interesting moment? No one. Every person would want to catch all the feels and thrills of being in the moment, all of it, not letting one moment slide.
Putting the gifts of the Spirit to work has all the feels too, feels that you do well not to be left out on. Life in the Spirit gives you access to the emotions of joy, confidence, merry-making, laughter, and lightheartedness. Who will want to miss these? Joy, because you are inspired. Confidence, because you can see clearly things concerning life, and merry-making, because you are surrounded by victory in all circumstances.
Capture the moment of living life in the Spirit. Get all the feels and thrills of this life and enjoy every moment that this life promises as you stay in sync with the abilities of the Spirit at work in you.
One of the ways we know a good daddy is coming home is that he gets gifts for his kids. That is how we know good dads and hey we not only have a good dad, we have a great dad who ensured that we all received gifts when He gave us the person of the Holy Spirit.
Life can be lived on the one side with the gifts of the Spirit with which we make a huge success out of life or it can be lived on the other side without the gifts of the Spirit and we make a huge blunder of our living experiences. No one should talk down on you as though there are things that God has given that you have to struggle to get. No. You have these gifts already. Daddy left them with you, in you.
However, it is safe to ask if you use them. These gifts of the Spirit are in you, but do you use them? You see, life can be lived from the place of an understanding of these abilities that the Spirit gives, and from that point on, things are no longer the same. So GOT GIFTS? Since you do, let's walk you through using the gifts that you have.
The meal is served. It’s an amalgamation of all of the things needed to excite your palate. Great times are in the offing. You are extremely excited. You cry even. Only a few people can boast of not liking food this much. You reach out, get the salad to top up what you have already taken, then you begin to reach for the dressing, but that, you cannot find. How does salad taste without the dressing? Bland? Maybe? Now that your attention is hopefully captivated, let’s ask this: how is life going to feel without an understanding of the Holy Spirit and His gifts? Bland? Empty? Normal? Emphatically yes.
You see, ABBA in His goodness gave you the Holy Spirit who points you to Jesus and then fills your life with His gifts, just so that your life can be as tasteful as a well-made salad covered in dressing. Tasteful? Yes. Colorful? Yes! How possible is it for your life to be filled with color, bliss, dressings, and beauty? Well, Jesus came for it and the Spirit was given for it.
In the Salad Dressings episode, we are sharing truths concerning the reality of the gifts of the Spirit and how these gifts were designed to add beauty to your life so that it is tastefully rich and full. Abba is interested in you living a life filled with color.
That a thing will remain unchanged, in a state of rest until an external force is applied to it, is one of the laws in physics and how true that law is. Our lives would remain as though redemption has not taken place until we realize what influence the Spirit is meant to have in us and upon all that concerns us.
When Jesus was trying to describe what our lives would look like after the Holy Spirit comes, he mentioned "bellies" and He mentioned "rivers." In other words, God has designed that out of us would flow an abundance of provision, both of ideas and of enormous influence over negative forces. When it comes to good thoughts flowing out of us, we experience a flood and when it comes to putting an end to negative circumstances, we ought to simply drown them.
Life was designed to be easy, and it is, so long as this river is given free flow into the area of need.
We are highlighting the Spirit's work in abundantly satisfying us with sound thoughts, whilst influencing us to drown anything that does not line up with our redemptive truths.
Think about Superman and how he gets to halt the activities of the “bad guys,” ensuring that their plans are not fully carried out with success. Every time a bad thing is about to break, these superhero figures that Marvel has brought to our screens, come to the rescue. One thing that we have to be reminded about, however, is that we are supermen; yes, that is who we are.
You see, all of the power that raised Christ from the dead was handed over to us so that through the ability of the Spirit, we can arrest every progression that does not reflect the intention of the Father for us.
Your mind should be a “No Trespass” zone for the activities of the enemy. Standing in our place of revelation and truth, we are equipped to bring the beauty of our redemption into the space where we operate and the things that concern us.
Major cities around the world are known for something famous: the Berlin Wall, The Eiffel Towers of Paris, the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, and the Madison Square Garden in New York. If we asked you what your favorite destination was, what would it be?
Let’s assume you picked New York, if you ever visited the city of New York, at least before the lockdown of 2020, you’d agree that it is probably the hustle and bustle capital of the world! People are always on the move in that city! Now imagine you made a trip there and had no human or electronic guide? How easy would it be to move around?
You see, when it comes to the subject of righteousness, you have to realize that we were given this gift so that we can navigate through the busy streets of life. With it, believers should always get their prayers answered and be able to do life in victory practically all the time. In this city, God’s city, we are famous for dishing out righteousness! This is how we are identified and this is how we reign!
How skillful are you when it comes to the usage of the word of righteousness knowing that the usage of the word of righteousness is as important as the knowledge of the word of Righteousness? The word of God was not just intended to increase our vocabulary but for usage. Join us as we gain mastery in the usage of the word of righteousness.
Here, God would have us sit around the vision with minds open to the beauty of what it might mean to see lives beautified. Brian Houston says that “Churches are not built on the gifts of a few, but on the sacrifices of many," and how easy it is for people to follow a cause if they have no idea where the cause is headed.
You see, God has planted us in this city to help others to see their lives beautified and sometimes, it does not always seem like it until someone recasts the vision and makes it clear. Abba is unwilling to do without those whom He has placed on the earth to be an extension of His influence and we are those people.
Life in the kingdom is easy when it is powered and driven by a clear vision. This year, we are in faith to see a nation rise out of us, to see an army raised under our watch, and to see God bring beauty to the lives of many through us. What exactly do you believe that God can do through you as you partner with the vision here at the Blueprint Church? We continue the ABSORBED series with Vision Sunday
Let the power of realization of your right standing with God hit you as we further go into the ABSORBED series learning all about the Righteousness imputed in us by God. Get ready to be WOWed!
Let the power of realization of your right standing with God hit you as we further go into the ABSORBED series learning all about the Righteousness imputed in us by God. Get ready to be WOWed!
Have you ever seen those TV shows that come packed with caution; don’t try this at home or don’t try this alone? When you observe closely, the conversation always arises from someone trying to look out for your safety to ensure that you do not get hurt or injured in the process of attempting to replicate what you have seen on the screen.
When we consider the conversations around righteousness, the same caution should apply- do not try to attain righteousness on your own. You see, you were never designed to be righteous by trusting in yourself, your own goodness or effort. Alone, by yourself, you will never work up yourself into a righteous standing with God. Never! All conversations about righteousness start with God bestowing you with His own nature, the very kind that you cannot earn by yourself. An understanding of this will save you from the dangers of self-exaltation instead of exalting Christ Jesus.
In this episode, we further the Absorbed Series Here at the Blueprint Church, helping you to realize the futility and dangers of attempting to arrive on righteousness ground, driven by the chauffeur of your own good works. E choke will be the result! Stop that thing and rest in the righteous design that God has implemented in Christ Jesus. Let’s do this.
In Christ, we are no longer aliens to the Commonwealth of Zion. Righteousness is a gift that is shared amongst every citizen of this Commonwealth. In Christ, we are partakers of the free distribution of this commonwealth. We are Citizens and Righteousness is our Currency and our Conversation.
Certain things need to be in place during the making of a movie for it to hit commercial success right? The more successful a movie is, the clearer the indication that the makers of that movie did a great job in aligning their movie-making with what they consider to be movie-worthy for the audience. The box office is the place where the success of a movie is measured. Right? It's safe to believe so.
Our relationships will happen in front of the glaring eyes of the world; friends, family members, etc. While we may restrict their involvement in our relationships, we cannot successfully cover the quality of our relationships from the eyes of the world. This is the reason why our values must drive every relationship engagement and the success of our relationships is based largely on the values they were built on.
Stop and think about it, will you be proud of the end product of your relationship? Well, Jesus yet again comes in to show you the reason why you should never be afraid about your relational legacies because if you follow Him, you will find out that He had even your relationships in mind when He went to that cross.
There is a direct link between the quality of life you live and the quality of perspectives you listen to. Your life is going to sound like the perspectives that you are open to. What better way to live life than to plug our ears to the sound of God's mind. Be that friend who listens to and reverberates the mind of the Father. Listen and Live.
There is no question that you are going to become powerful, very powerful. There is no doubt whatsoever about whether you are going to eventually hit the limelight and make that break, the big break. However, the issue with power is usually the fact that it creates distance; distance from accountability, consequences, distance from true friendships and distance from heart transformation.
Fame, most times, does not allow one to share “common” things with everyone else, even things as little as bathrooms. The distance that we so often crave is eventually what destroys all of the grace gifts that God has given us. One of the duties of friendship is to keep us accountable. If our friends do not hold us to truth and if we run away from being held accountable, we will end up jeopardizing all of the things that grace offered us.
We further the I Have a Friend Who series as we explore the essence of staying close, not distant from loving accountability. While power is going to give us access to the rooftop places, the back entrances, the executive bathrooms, the private lounges and jets, we should intentionally seek to be in close proximity with authority figures and connections that help us keep our heads on our shoulders.
Every individual has a unique identification system. Our voice is our unique identification system in Heaven. With your mouth as your ticket to a great life, what are you voicing? You better be caught reverberating all that Abba says to you.
Iridescent, the character we need to embrace to ensure that we bring color to other people's lives. This color is produced in us when we submit our minds and mouths to cultivation by the Holy Spirit.
God wants you to see every aspect of your life through the lens of His Son, Jesus Christ. Through the lens we look from, we construct a story and so the quality of our story is dependent on the lens through which we look. God desires that we build relational harmony from a standpoint of the SON.
Not every trend is true. The truth is only found in God's description of you in every area of your life.
Distractions will abound in the days that we live in. Things are going to happen to try to envelope you with a consciousness of self more than a consciousness of Christ, a consciousness of your need, more than a consciousness of His supply and a consciousness of what is missing, more than a consciousness of who has found you. You see, light is needed for the right ideas to be communicated, especially to ourselves. Nothing is truly as strong as the things we agree with and say to ourselves. Nothing is as powerful as the ideas we have believed and tweet to ourselves and best believe it, if the light of God’s word continues to shine in your heart, pointing you to Christ, you will believe the best things about yourself and come into the most amazing hope ever-the hope that is found in the finished work. So write a note to yourself and tell yourself that you are going to fully trust God in this season. Write a note to yourself and tell yourself that the light of the gospel is enough and dynamic in its workings. Write a note to yourself and let yourself know that the future God has designed is filled with possibilities for you.
In this episode, we see the heart of the Father revealed. "God is not a deity waiting to be appeased. He is a loving Father already well-pleased." Listen in to find out more
What is on your Twitter feed? Have you been told that it is hard to hear from ABBA? Is that what's on your feed? Stillness, this is how we see light. Our eyes are already blessed and they see and our ears are already blessed, but they hear. It is out of the rest of our hearts, and out of the stillness in our souls that we enjoy the blessing of direction. Stillness does not mean that you have no joy or that you make no noise. Stillness means that your heart is latched on the realities of the finished work of Jesus and the flow of the oil that comes from the crushing of Christ. This oil has a scent and it is for light. This anointing is for vision and when you are stilled by seeing Jesus, everything else flows. Hush and let your eyes see. Hush and activate the hearing of the ear. By the anointing, things are different. Light is shining and our eyes are trained to see. As you listen to this podcast, there will be impartations of the God kind, such that people always know what to do.
Slide into my dm" and be sure to have something important to say. These days, people send all sorts of unsolicited messages that border around disturbance and irritation. Their behavior notwithstanding, the DM is meant to be reserved for some special people with whom we have the potential of building intimacy.
Speak about intimacy and that is exactly what abba intends to have with you as he floods your heart with his light. god has put all structures in place so that he can send messages to you directly in ways you can easily pick out and understand.
It's safe to conclude the ALL FOR LOVE series by taking a look at the extravagance of Jesus in ensuring that we were given a playing field that is not only level, but elevated i.e higher than the system of the world. Scripture is clear. Jesus came to earth not to take but to give. His incarnation, his ministry, and ultimately, his death on a cross were all acts of extravagant generosity. God gave his one and only Son for me and you. It was the supreme act of generosity. In Jesus, we see the perfect reflection of The Extravagance of God.
“Look to the rock from where you were cut,” look and see that the generous life has been implanted in you at your new birth. Look and see that this scarcity mindset will rob you of the beauty of what Heaven’s embassy has provided for pilgrims like you, who are emissaries to the earth’s space. “Not from here?” Absolutely! Both in thought and action, we do not belong here.
As we reflect on the birth of Jesus, we see God’s benevolence in ushering us into The Extravagance of His mind and design. This is a series-ending like none other.
Our generosity is not a gamble; the same way that God in giving His Son, was not playing a game of poker. There is a light that shines in darkness, there is a peace that flows like a river in generosity. This peace is what scripture calls "seeing the travail of His soul and being satisfied."
You see there is the satisfaction that comes from being generous. All of heaven experienced it in giving Jesus to the world and we are sure to experience it when we give of our substance to God.
The fear of losing all you have on the table is the casino effect; it is a gambler's mindset. We do not gamble, we are generous.
All for love, the Savior gave. All for love, our songs can flow freely. All for love, we stand unashamed in the worship of our King. Freedom is here, joy is here and guess what? Generosity too!
For the love that Christ has loved us, we stand without fear, shame or guilt. We stand boldly to see that our sins are forgiven and our future is bright. For love, we flow in generosity without the fear of not having enough, because Christ our Savior came to make us one with abundance. It is out of this abundance that our generosity flows freely.
Our songs and worship are outflows of the inward beauty of God's amazing grace that our hearts have received. Now we can worship freely and sing with ecstasy because our generous king now lives in us forever.
All for love, God raised us to be seated with Him. God is from above and the one who is from above draws outcomes and eventualities from above. Above is where you find superior conversations that are not limited by the earth's smallness and scarcity. Earth's speech displays such depth of ignorance as to how God's system of increase works. The system of increase in the Kingdom is generosity. We live above and as a result, draw our conclusions from above.
A lot of the instruments needed for your greatness are already within reach because they have been deposited in you by the finished work of Jesus. Yet, it is important to be aware that nothing on the external is going to be responsible for your uplifting, except the knowledge of God’s word that comes through teaching.
This means that you are to negotiate with yourself if you are going to experience the abundance that Jesus already brought you into- all for love. If a scarcity mindset has held you hostage, then generosity is how you set yourself free. Your generosity is not a payment for your freedom, Christ already did that. Yet for the experience of this freedom, you will need to steadily align yourself with what our city considers important.
Negotiate with yourself, and let generosity in. This generosity is how your Father-God introduced you to the higher life in the first place, He gave. All prison doors are flung open when we align with the higher life through our generosity.
All for love, God GAVE. God's deep love for us produced deep generosity. Generosity is how God has designed for His people to step into greatness. In this episode, we learn that in order to achieve this greatness, we must plug into the mindset that powers the city where we are from (heaven). We are pilgrims and are not from here.
You were designed to journey in joy. God designed you to journey through life in joy as you arrive at your various destinations. Our harvests should not determine our joy, rather, it is our joy that will produce the harvest. The speed at which we arrive at results in life is determined by the amount of joy expressed at the revelation of God’s grace. Joy is speed.
There is no aspect of our relationship with God, if understood, that should not result in joy. Yet, we sometimes are not as intentional about our joy as we are about other things in our lives. We plan other things, but we almost never envision an outcome and rejoice before it happens.
Joy is the way of faith that makes up the procession that leads to the results. If there is one proven method for gaining jet-like speed in life, your best bet is joy! With joy leading the way, we can experience the manifest presence of Jesus, who is always working out things so that our joy can be complete.
There’s nothing as good as watching a good movie. You are enraptured by the plot, captivated by the outcomes, on the edge of your seat, and lost in the story. Depending on the kind of person you are, there are different stories to suit your personality type or preference. We all love stories, we enjoy adventure, and the escape is good also.
Speaking about stories, our lives are stories being written, and we get to play major roles in determining what kind of story we end up writing. Will your story win an oscar for “the most boring movie” or would you be recognized as one heck of a difference maker in the events of life? Isn’t it interesting that we can choose what kind of story we write as well as the outcomes? Our movie is being written and directed by us.
How will your story end? Have you realized that you have the authority to influence the outcome of this life that you are experiencing? God wants you to know this so that when we take a look at your movie, there will be events of the God-kind worth watching. This weekend, we are at the movies and what a delight to know that a great life/movie is within reach.
To live life in joy is the design of heaven. The idea that the human soul can express joy at the word given is one of the luxuries of living life in the mind of God and yes joy will take your further. Manifestations of the Spirit are easier when the atmosphere is joy created and released. What better way to express authority than to do so rejoicing.
Let’s put it this way, winning people are always rejoicing. If you have a thing for obtaining victories despite the negative circumstances, then your life will always be filled with joy, celebration, merriment and deep fulfilment. Actually, in the design of God, all attention and consideration has been focused on what you need to live life to the fullest, because wherever you find promises, there should be joy.
In habits of joy, we are going to explore the connection that exists between the recreated human spirit and the expression of Joy at the hearing of the word. If joy will take you further, then joy must be a habit that is expressed in relation to the promise of God and not only when things are working well in our lives. Authority is best released when we are living intentionally in joy than when we get momentary big breaks.
Say What? What if you are constantly speaking out of God’s design the things that do not make sense in the natural, but are vitally yours through the finished work of Jesus? What if what you are saying is creating that startled look from your environment and you are considered a weirdo? What if no one else around you has the nerve to declare the kinds of things you are declaring, and you look out of place, will you still continue to speak?
Authority is expressed by knowledge and declarations. Our authority is enforced by our confessions. “Say what?”, they say, startled at your audacity and the depth of your convictions. “How dare you think that you can be bigger than you are now?” “How dare you expect your life to change?”
At the risk of not looking normal, will you still stick your neck out and declare the truth of the Gospel even when nothing looks like it? Courage is a gift from God and God wants you full of it. Do not lose your voice when life questions your audacity. Your authority is best expressed when you are bold and audacious. “Say what?” And you say, “I am redeemed and I live life above always.”
By the finished work of Jesus on the cross, we have been given access to a seat at God's table. This access is more rewarding than periodic favors.
God wants you to have a GRIP on your life. He has given you the authority and you are in charge!
Something is always trying to keep us broken, small, helpless and without hope. All the while, we live in a world that seems to be well orchestrated to keep people from shooting upward and going forward. This concept is called gravity. It is the idea that is disguised to make you think that a height meant for you cannot be attained because there are limiting forces all around.
“We are in the world, but not of it.” “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Can you remember these truths? Bet you can. These truths should mean that we are not allowing the world around us to trick us into believing that we share the same illnesses, misfortunes, failures and disadvantages. It should mean that we are refusing to buy the narrative that we all will live life from a weak and broken perspective?
If we are in the world but not of it, it means that we do not share in the maladies of this world. So When They See Us, they see us bringing the realities of our promises into the world that we live in. When they see us, they see us Defy Gravity.
Lifesavers, that is who we are. That is the word that best describes what our assignment is. Think about a time when you were in a desperate situation, the days were closing in on you and you had no idea how to get out of the rut. Days before your deadline, someone came to the rescue with just the right solution you had been hoping to find all along. I bet you’d call their feet beautiful. You’d say “your coming is blessed.”
“How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings.” These are the words used in scripture to describe the arrival of anyone that comes carrying good news! So “When They See Us”, they see us with feet that are described as beautiful. “Beauty Feet” is a reflection of the expectation that greets the announcement of our presence. When we arrive, we come with the assurance of the preciousness of what Jesus has done for us. We cannot be too sophisticated to spread beauty around.
We all feel pressured and we all feel tempted to use our words to describe our pressures, worries and anxieties. It is an understandable thing to do. No one will blame you for using your words to describe your situation as sometimes speaking out is necessary for healing. However, there is a bait being served to get you to live in that space continually. Do not take it.
As long as you live, you will feel the pull to speak words in sync with what you feel and sometimes, you do not feel up to the word, especially when it seems to have delayed in coming into fruition. There is a tendency that we all have to throw in the towel and let our dreams fade. That’s a bait, do not take it.
Consider the words that you speak as building blocks. How important is it for you to speak the right words reflecting your promise and not your defeat? You will be tempted to go with the flow of the happenings in your life that do not reflect the promise of God, but know that these words will be established to you. Baits are being served to you, to get you to conform, do not take it.
Okay hold on a second. Have you found that person that totally dislikes some good news? You’d probably never find anyone like that. Everyone loves to hear some good news. There is something lovely about being able to sit in a space and be bathed with dose after dose of good news. After you are done with that kind of environment, you really would not wish to go back to something of less value.
If we live in cities that are lively because of our engagement in spreading God’s love, we are going to have influenced our world away from the negative, which is sadly the norm. The world can do with some liveliness that is not negative, the kind that flows from an undiluted heart of love.
Vivacity explores the beauty of creating enthusiasm in our cities. We can give others a reason to live, a hope to hold onto and a joy to experience when we determine in our heart to lead our lives revealing God’s love, God’s way.
Okay hold on a second. Have you found that person that totally dislikes some good news? You’d probably never find anyone like that. Everyone loves to hear some good news. There is something lovely about being able to sit in a space and be bathed with dose after dose of good news. After you are done with that kind of environment, you really would not wish to go back to something of less value.
If we live in cities that are lively because of our engagement in spreading God’s love, we are going to have influenced our world away from the negative, which is sadly the norm. The world can do with some liveliness that is not negative, the kind that flows from an undiluted heart of love.
Vivacity explores the beauty of creating enthusiasm in our cities. We can give others a reason to live, a hope to hold onto and a joy to experience when we determine in our heart to lead our lives revealing God’s love, God’s way.
Our love is our shine. Our love walk is how we shine the light in our cities. God’s love in us can illuminate our cities so that people never have to stumble in the dark when they are in our area. Imagine if we all became area illuminators, shining God’s love and letting it flow through us. Imagine if we dispelled darkness with our love walk. Imagine if we hindered the activities of darkness because we chose to become beaming spots of God’s goodness.
What if certain things do not change until love leads the way? You would have never found righteousness if God’s love did not pave the way. In the same way, our love would need to be poured out if the beauty of God’s benevolence would be seen in the world around us.
Let’s make a connection between God’s love and light. No true advancement takes place in our cities until God’s love leads the way.
Sharing is one of the most powerful ways of demonstrating God’s love and in today’s world, we know how important it is for people to stay informed and connected. Can you imagine the kind of feeling you’d produce in someone who hasn’t been able to afford to pay for their internet service when you assist them? We know that information is king. But we also know that it can be expensive for many to afford a subscription for the internet.
In Gigabit City, our plot is to build conversations around walking in love amongst our tribes. If God has called us to do life together, then love has to lead the way and love is demonstrated in caring and sharing. When we walk in love, we make it easy for others to have access to the same quality of love service that we have received from our Father. What people do not know is, more than we need access to gigabits, we need access to more demonstrations of God's love.
This love lavishly poured out amongst our tribes will reach places that our internet access will not get to, and make people whole in areas that internet subscriptions cannot equate. Think about a city filled with gigabits, scratch that, love. God has called us to be lavish distributors of His love with the people with whom we do life. If our cities were more connected through God’s love, how bright will our cities be?
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ABBA has a vibe. There are emotions that the Father releases towards His children that gives us a clue of the kind of relationship we can have with Him.
"Link on my BIO" ... in this "new world" governed by social media. everyone seems to be pointing people to their BIO or status messages. It is safe to assume that we only put things on our BIO that are important to us, or that we think should be important or beneficial to others. Whatever the case, our BIO is a place for displaces...of things that are important to us.
PAUL'S BIO would read ... "I determined to know nothing among you except Christ and Him Crucified". That's all? Wow! Okay. BIO- what if our lives were molded to only reflect and present the things that have real and lasting value- Christ, the gospel, our love walk with others etc.
What id our lives became BIOs that only reflected the finished work? This is what this series is about.