Get ready for divine appointments!

As I was seeking the Lord for His words for this coming month, even in the coming months, the Lord said this, "Tell My people to get ready for many divine appointments! There'll be many divine appointments for My people! This is the season for many divine appointments!" 

Hallelujah!

So, people of God, receive these words by faith! And you are going to see your divine appointments as well! Be it in your career, business, ministry, or any area of your life! Even in new friendships that are going to be forged, that will bring great blessings to your life! But of course, be discerning! I pray for you to discern in your spirit, that you will know what is of God, and what is not!

Now, you don't have to look too far back to the Old Testament to see examples of divine appointments. After the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2, there're so many examples of divine appointments happening even in the first few chapters of the Book of Acts! Whether someone was being led by the Holy Spirit to be at the right place and the right time for such divine appointments, or through angelic guidance, or visions and dreams, divine appointments that are set up by the Lord will always lead to breakthroughs and greater things in one's life!

Examples of divine appointments:

1. Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10:1-48)

Here, a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion (an officer of the Roman army), had an angelic visitation. The angel then instructed him to summon Simon Peter to his house and to hear what Simon Peter had to say. The next day, the day after Cornelius received the angelic guidance, Simon Peter saw a vision while he was praying at a housetop in Joppa! Now, while he was wondering what this vision meant, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, three of them, stood before the gate where Simon Peter was lodging! See? A divine appointment was set up by the Lord! So Simon Peter and Cornelius would meet up! You know what? That meeting eventually became the first occasion in the early church when a Gentile (non-Jew) household have also received the gift of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ and baptism of the Holy Spirit!

2. Peter and Aeneas (Acts 9:32-35)

Let's rewind back to Acts chapter 9 now, just before the divine appointment that God had set up for Simon Peter and Cornelius. Here, there was no angelic guidance or vision from the Lord, but it was just Simon Peter positioning himself at a certain place and a certain time! See, divine appointments can also happen when you position yourself at a certain place and a certain time, as led by the Holy Spirit! And that was how Aeneas, who had been bed-ridden eight years and was paralyzed, got his miracle and he was able to stand up again! Because of this healing and miracle that took place, many in Lydda turned to the Lord!

3. Peter and Dorcas (Acts 9:36-43)

After that, some disciples in Joppa heard that Peter was in a nearby town, Lydda. And they implored Simon Peter to come over to Joppa, because there was a certain woman, a disciple named Tabitha (Dorcas), a woman full of good works and charitable deeds, had died due to sickness. Simon Peter then arose and went over to Joppa to pray for Dorcas. Dorcas then came back to life, and this news became known throughout all Joppa! As a result, many in Joppa believed on the Lord Jesus Christ! See? All these wouldn't have happened if Simon Peter did not position himself in the first place!

These are just three examples of divine appointments that you can see throughout the Book of Acts! Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever! He is the same today, just as He was those days in the early church! And the Lord knows how to set up divine appointments for you too! Amen!

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Don't compare yourself with others!

Galatians 6:4-5 (Easy-To-Read Version) says, 'Don’t compare yourself with others. Just look at your own work to see if you have done anything to be proud of. You must each accept the responsibilities that are yours'. 

Galatians 6:4-5 (NLT) says, 'Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. For we are each responsible for our own conduct'.

One fastest way of discouraging yourself and getting trapped in jealousy is when you start comparing yourself with others. Whether it's comparing one person with another person, one family with another family, one career with another career, or even one ministry with another ministry, no two persons, families, careers (either path or timing), or ministries (either path or timing) are exactly the same!

You see, God has a specific plan for each of us, and God has a specific timing for each of us! You won’t fulfill that specific plan or timing of God by looking at others! 

Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV) says, 'You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You'.

The word 'stayed' here is 'samak' in Hebrew, meaning 'to rest oneself, to set oneself, to stand fast, to be sustained on'. That is to say your mind is rested on Him, your mind is set on Him, your mind stands fast on His plans/purposes for you, and your mind is sustained on all that He has spoken for you to be (and to do)!

The word 'trusts' here is 'bawtakh' in Hebrew, meaning 'to put confidence, to be secure, to be sure, to be care-less'. That is to say when your confidence, security, and surety (i.e. the state of being sure) is in the LORD, it doesn't matter what other people say or think about you, as long as you know you are doing what the LORD says! In fact, you couldn't care less (i.e. not 'concerned' or 'affected' at all) whatever other people may want to say or think about you! Why? Because your security is not in man, but your security is in the LORD!

And that is how you are kept in perfect peace of the LORD! Shalom Shalom! Perfect Shalom!

Comparing yourself with others is also a joy-stealer, joy-killer, and joy-destroyer! Steal, kill, destroy! It robs you from living your own life, and living it more abundantly!

John 10:10 (NKJV) says, 'The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly'.

The words 'more abundantly' here is 'perissos' in Greek, and it means 'exceedingly abundantly above all that you ask or think of'. In other words, beyond measure!

Nehemiah 8:10 says, 'for the joy of the Lord is your strength'! Therefore, don't let anyone (or the devil) steal, kill or destroy your joy! Because if you lose your joy, you lose your strength to carry on in life! 

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A time of 'birthing forth' is coming!

I had a dream the other day, and in the dream, I saw a woman in labor pain, about to give birth. This woman later gave birth successfully to a beautiful baby. The Lord is saying to you here, "Tears of agony and tears of pain are going to be turned into tears of joy!" 

Indeed, a birth of something new and something greater is coming to many of God's people, in spite of the troubles, hopelessness, disappointments, delays, even frustrations that they face at the moment.

Maybe some of you have been going through a time of delays, and things seem to be dragging on, with no light at the end of the tunnel. It may be a prayer (you prayed) that is yet to be answered, a job search filled with rejections, things that kept getting postponed, a health battle with no cure yet, or even a heartbreaking sequence of false starts! In other words, some of you may be asking, "When is my breakthrough going to come?" or "How long more?"

There's no denying that a time of waiting can be agonizing, but do not lose heart.

So, what to do in a time like this?

1. PRAISE!

- Psalm 9:1-2 (NKJV): I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

- Psalm 86:12-13 (NKJV): I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore. For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol (i.e. the abode of the dead).

2. REMEMBER HIS PROMISES TO YOU! 

- Joshua 21:45 (NASB): Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.

- Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV): So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

3. STAY IN THE LOVE OF GOD! 

- 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NKJV): Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

- Stay in God's love that never fails. Do not look away from His love for you.

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How to make the right decisions in life?

The Lord spoke, "This month is a crucial month of making decisions for many of My people." So, let me give you some tips that had proven effective in my own life. I learned this by the revelation of the Holy Spirit and by my own personal experience in decision-making. 

Put it simply, these are the 5 keys that the Lord has taught me:

1. Purify your heart

- 2 Chronicles 29:5 (NLT): He (Hezekiah) said to them, "Listen to me, you Levites! Purify yourselves, and purify the Temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove all the defiled things from the sanctuary."

- Matthew 5:8 (NKJV): Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

2. Shut off from the 'noises' of this world

- Matthew 9:23-26 (NLT): When Jesus arrived at the official’s home, he saw the noisy crowd and heard the funeral music. "Get out!" he told them. "The girl isn’t dead; she's only asleep." But the crowd laughed at him. After the crowd was put outside, however, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she stood up! The report of this miracle swept through the entire countryside. 

- Isaiah 30:15 (NLT): This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: "Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength."

3. Spend time in the Word

- Psalm 119:130 (NKJV): The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.

- Psalm 119:105 (NKJV): Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

- Acts 4:13 (NKJV): Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

4. Worship/Pray in the spirit

- Isaiah 25:1 (NLT): O Lord, I will honor and praise your name, for you are my God. You do such wonderful things! You planned them long ago, and now you have accomplished them.

- Romans 8:26-27 (NKJV): Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

5. Let go your worries to Him

- Psalm 55:22 (NLT): Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.

- Philippians 4:6-7 (NLT): Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

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