You're A Winner

 You can emerge a winner in this life and in the world to come.

There is an anointing to win, and God would have you win.

A winner is someone who wins, to win is to emerge ahead, over, or above others.

It is to beat other contestants to the reward or prize that they contested with you for.

To win is to achieve the goal, hit the mark, or get to a certain destination before others.

Sports is an area of life where winners are often seen- the trophy, the cup or medal which is often golden is the reward winners get.

Life rewards winners.

The good Book encourages us to "run that we may win".

"Run in such a way that you obtain the prize"

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it"

God's will is that you obtain success, victory, and sit on the winners seat.

Ours is a destiny of winning.

We win over enemies, over sin, over Satan, over our personal failings and flaws.

We win spiritually and we win in the physical affairs of life.

The Apostle Paul likens the spiritual life of a believer to a race, a race with a reward attached to it, a spiritual reward.

We have to "run" to receive the reward, we run to win, we run to get the prize, we don't run for nothing.

Are you running to win, are you running to receive the reward, are you running to get the prize?

A winner is someone who must have overcome distractions to win.

A winner is someone who must have set his eyes on the goal without looking back.

Winners can't afford to get distracted.

For us, distractions are temporary, we overcome them and get back in the race.

When we fall, we get back up and keep going. There is a goal and finish line in view.

"And I discipline myself like an athlete..."

We are likened to athletes in the spiritual race of life.

Athletes discipline their bodies to stay in the best physical form.

Discipline is needed to win the race.

"But the one who endures to the end will be saved"

To win you have to make it to the end, if you don't make it to the end you can't claim to have won.

To make it to the end, endurance is needed.

Learn to persevere.

Those who give up don't win, those who win don't give up.

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win"

"Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him"

The crown of life is the winners reward.

It is the reward of those who persevered and didn't give up.

Endurance/perseverance is a requirement to win.

"I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one takes your crown"

Make sure no one takes your crown.

Running to win is a way of ensuring no one beats you to the crown that is yours.

There is a winners crown for you in life and in eternity.

The grace to win is available.

Thank you Jesus!

Supernatural Survival

 People God is with survive things others can't survive.

Those God is with are more than human, they are more than conquerors!

Stick with God and you will survive what you're going through.

God in His faithfulness supernaturally preserves His own, His people.

If you know the Lord and have a relationship with Him, what takes others down will not take you down. Well it shouldn't take you down.

If you keep your eyes on God; even on Master Jesus, what sank others will not sink you.

The winds may blow and the storms may rage, but you will weather the storm and still be standing when others are sinking; for a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you.

It doesn't matter the hell and highwater you are going through, you can supernaturally survive it by the grace of God and get to your mountain top.

The Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego Bible story comes to mind.

They survived the fiery furnace.

Let their story be an encouragement and empowerment to you today!

It is a true life account that we can draw lessons from and it has parallels to our present day situations, even the happenings of our present time.

The three Hebrew boy were blessed by God, they lived and served during the administration of King Nebuchadenezzer of old, they were spiritually and academically profound.

They had served the king faithfully and done nothing wrong, yet they found themselves threatened, confronted with death, and eventually thrown into a fiery furnace.

Perhaps you're being threatened like those Hebrew boys were by king Nebuchadenezzer, perhaps you are being confronted with death like they were, perhaps you have found yourself in a difficult situation like those Hebrew boys were for standing your ground, doing what is right and pleasing God.

Nebuchadenezzer is symbolic of Satan in that story.

Those three Hebrew boys represent the righteous, those who stand for righteousness in a corrupt world.

It's not every challenge of life that comes to you because you made wrong choices, did something wrong or sinned like many sometimes erroneously think.

Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego didn't do anything out of order yet they found themselves in a very tricky situation.

Some challenges may come to you as a result of Satan manipulating the physical realm and an imperfect world against you because of what you stand for.

Your enemy is an ancient spirit, a master of the physical realm.

Babylon which is the society those boys lived in represents an imperfect world, our world, a system under the enemy's control.

You may be in a situation where everything seems to be going against you.

You can survive it and come out on top of it.

With the grace of God you can, with God's presence you can.

God's grace was with Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego.

Grace is the God factor in a human life.

Grace is something enemies don't factor or put into consideration when they think they have us all figured out, cornered, or destroyed.

When Nebuchadenezzer thought he would see the end of those Hebrew boys grace showed up, preserved them and catapulted them to their next level!

That can be your testimony too, don't give up.

If Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego survived every attempt to destroy them you can too, since they made it in an evil and ungodly environment as righteous young men you can make it too in this dark world, since they survived the fiery flames of Nebuchadenezzer which represents the heat the evil one and life may bring against us, then you can and will survive every onslaught of the wicked ones against you, since they survived and came out of the fiery furnace literally untouched by the flames you can survive everything meant to consume you.

They survived Nebuchadenezzer, you will survive the evil one too.

God is faithful.

You can overcome that setback, you can be preserved.

May grace abound to you and may God show up for you in a marvelous way.

Your Unending Stream Of Supply

Your source determines your supply

God is our source and in Him there is no lack!

He is the eternal source from whom we draw by faith!

"Every good and every perfect gift comes from Him, the Father of lights"

God gives gifts that keeping on giving.

He is a Giver and He wants to give to you supplies more than you want to receive from Him.

He is the well whose waters never dry up, even the water of our breakthrough and miracles.

He is the inexhaustible well that doesn't disappoint, even the well of our salvation we draw from with our buckets of joy.

"Of the increase of His kingdom there is no end"

God is an increase specialist.

Let the God connection be very important to you.

A reason many people struggle with lack is because they have left the One who blesses, the One who is true to chase shadows. They have forsaken the true source.

Just like the flood of Noah's day which took over the known world of that time, God can flood your life with His goodness and make you enjoy His unending streams of supply!

God can bless you through people and He will, but don't look to people as your source.

When you look to man as your source you have limited yourself.

When you look to man as your source, you have a limited source.

When you look to man as your source you will be disappointed in due time.

When you look to man as your source, you have put yourself at the mercy of man.

When you put a man in the position of God as your source, you might have to give away that which is precious to you to keep the favor going.

You are not created to look to man as your source, you are not created to depend on human beings as your source in life.

Your destiny and purpose cannot be financed by the budget men will allocate to you.

Human beings did not plan your life or create you, so you should never look to human beings as your source.

When your faith is in man for provision, a faith you should put in God; you will be stuck if the person you see as your source refuses to favor you.

What would you do if the individual you see as your source becomes incapable of helping you?

If you depend on a person as your source and that person dies, what becomes of your hopes and dreams?

What will happen to you if the job you see as your source suddenly develops issues or you lose it?

You are not created to be at the mercy of human beings in that kind of way.

God would have us get trained so as not to see this world system as our source.

It may be a tough training but you will get there.

The things and people we look to, disappoint us because God is trying to realign us with our true source.

It is His way of getting you to slow down and check yourself, check who or what you see as your source.

When human plans fail and a source we depend on dries up, it may be God's way and opportunity to get our attention.

God is your unending eternal source.

He is the one who meets your needs, supplies you with resources and opens doors of breakthrough and blessing for you.

It is God who gives you what is real, true and tangible.

Man may have a budget for you on the earth, but what about in eternity?

No human being can support or finance you through eternity.

God is the one who blesses you in the here and now, in this life and through eternity.

Those who look to man made carved wooden idols are not smart.

Those who bow to images carved by sculptors are misguided.

Those who turns to fallen angels and demonic spirits as their source will be miserable if they don't retrace their steps to the true God.

Everything evil spirits give you is not truly yours, they belongs to the evil spirits, and the evil spirits will cheat you at some point when it will hurt most after making you sacrifice so much and putting you through horrors.

God, your God is your unending stream of supply who meets all your needs according to His riches in glory!

Thank you Jesus!

Heavenly Transportation

 There is spiritual locomotion.

There's heavenly transportation.

There is speed in the spirit realm and different types of transportation.

Spirit transportation is way faster than earthly transportation.

Portals are a form of transportation from one realm to the other, from one spirit dimension to the other.

Doors are another and windows too.

Wings are a form of spiritual transportation.

Running is another form of spiritual movement.

We have chariots, we have horses,  and teleporting.

Teleporting is one of the ways spirits operate most, very much like disappearing from one place to the other across space, distance and time.

Angels can also be a form of transportation in the heavenly realm.

Ophanims are a class of angels associated with movement/locomotion in the heavenly realms.

They are creatures of the angelic order who look like wheels.

The are wheel like, rounded, almost like rings.

Ophanims act as the wheels of God's throne, they can attach themselves to the throne of God and move in any direction! They are are responsible for movement, direction and they are all seeing.

These various spirits and creatures are all heavenly and divine ways of moving from one season to another, one realm to another, one phase to another, one level to another, and one chapter to the other both in the spirit realm and the physical realm.

The spirit realm influences the natural realm.

Every means of transportation in the spirit and heavenly realm are living and they are creatures.

Spiritual realities are real, spiritual creatures are real.

You can gain speed through spiritual transportation and begin to gain speed in matters that concern you here on earth.

The inspiration for the transportation we use on earth is inspired from spirit ideas.

Spirit horses are real.

Jesus rides on His Spirit horse when He choses that as a means of transportation.

He rides on the clouds, the wind and the praises of His people, His saints.

When Jesus comes back for the rapture of His church, He will be coming back on His white spirit horse with a multitude of angels as King of kings and Lord of Lord, these angels will most likely be riding on spirit horses too.

Heaven, paradise, the kingdom of God is a very exciting place!

Chariots Of Fire

 In ancient times the wealthy rode on chariots, nobles, kings, dignitaries rode on chariots.

Chariots were used in battle by kings and warriors in ancient times.

So, chariots can be a symbol of warfare.

They were also used for travel and royal processions.

It is a thing of honor if the king sends his royal chariot to pick you up as his guest, its a honor if the king has you ride in his chariot for a parade. It must mean you are being honored for something heroic or something good you have done.

It's evidence you are being rewarded and you've found favor with the king.

Some 2,870 years ago the prophet Elijah ascended to heaven on a chariot.

It was no ordinary chariot, this was a chariot that moved like a whirlwind, it is described as a chariot of fire!

Fire is associated with speed, power and the holiness of God!

What an exhilarating ride to heaven Elijah must have had, the sights, the sound and view along the way must have been quite an experience..

Let's be reminded, it was a situation of a human being riding on a spiritual chariot.

That was a honor no human being had enjoyed from the earth to heaven before.

Elijah didn't experience death!

His body was alive and fully functioning when he was taken up to God's presence in heaven.

The horses pulling the chariot were no ordinary horses, they were spirit horses.

These were horses aflame with the power and energy of God!

They moved like a wind, creating a whirlwind effect! That's why Elijah was caught up in a whirlwind as he departed from the earth.

Riding in a chariot is more safe than riding on the back of a single horse because chariots have an enclosure and is often pulled by two horses offering balance, speed and some form of luxury.

Elijah's chariot ride is evidence that serving God has it's own rewards.

That chariot ride was evidence Elijah found favor with God.

It was a confirmation God rewards after we have stood for Him, obeyed Him, and done His will here on earth.

The chariot ride was the beginning of Elijah's eternal reward before God.

God sent for him.

His chariot ride was God defying death for Elijah's sake, it was God suspending natural laws and processes for Elijah's sake, it was God granting a human being a supernatural experience, it was a situation of a human being getting rewarded with one of the most exciting rides ever, out of a corrupt world into the very presence of God!

The things Elijah's human eyes saw on that ride must have made the journey a journey of a lifetime.

The chariot of fire is evidence God has His own transportation system in heaven.

It shows us divine transportation is a reality and can be a possibility for us here on earth.

The Bible shows us what is possible, what is true, what is real.

Warriors use transportation means of horses and chariots.

The scriptures present a divine image of God being a warrior who rides gloriously!

"He rides on the wings of wind"

"He moves swiftly on the clouds"

"He rides on the wing of our praises"

The way God rides is evidence of His dominion, majesty, sovereignty over creation and power.

A God who makes the clouds His chariot is to be feared.

A God who makes the clouds His chariot is to be respected.

He rides swiftly.

He can reach you anywhere you are.

Anywhere where there are clouds above you in the sky, God can hear you there.

Anywhere where the wind blows God can hear you there.

There was something about Elijah's ministry for God here on earth that was associated with fire.

He is popularly known as the prophet of fire.

He called fire down twice on the two set of soldiers and their captains, each group made of fifty men,  king Ahab's soldiers who came to arrest him.

He called fire down from heaven to burn the sacrifice on the altar he set up in the presence of the prophets of Baal.

Perhaps that's why the chariot that came for him, came as as a chariot of fire.

I wonder what my own heavenly chariot would be, perhaps a chariot of light!

I look forward to riding in chariots of light when I get to heaven.

What about you?

It might even start for us from here on earth..

The Emerging Leader

There is a leader in you!

You are called to lead!

You may not see yourself that way due to the fact that no one has told you or it has not been revealed to you.

You may not see yourself as a leader because your experience does not reflect you've ever lead anything before, but the truth is that you are not your experience.

You may not see yourself as a leader because your parents never told you you're a leader.

The truth is that you are not the perspective of your parents.

Perhaps you do not see yourself as a leader because your tutors and teachers over the course of your academic life told you, you don't have the qualities of a leader and they assigned leadership positions and responsibilities  to their 'star' pupils and favorite students.

You may think you're not a leader because people in your life who don't see right and have misguided views couldn't see the leader in you.

God has a way of making leaders out of unlikely people.

The kingdom of God is full of unlikely heroes and underdogs.

There was honor in a man called Jabeez, a Biblical character..

His mother didn't see it because she was carried away by what she was going through.

She named him based on her emotions at the time of his birth, she didn't name him by revelation or with wisdom.

A mistake on her part.

There are many people in our lives who are like that, and maybe a lot of the people we will still come across may be like Jabeez mother.

This is why you shouldn't live your life from man's perspective, it is often flawed.

Thank God Jabeez did the right thing, he went to the right person for help.

His true life and destiny appeared when he turned to God.

He became more honorable than all his brethren.

Jabeez had always been a leader, he was a hidden leader.

Like Jabeez turn to God.

Look in the "mirror" of the word to know who you are, what you can have, what you can do and to know the God who put the potential for leadership within you.

Your leadership is tied to your identity.

You can't lead any better than how you see yourself.

The scriptures show us the truth and tells us what me need to know about being connected to the Truth.

In the Truth, we see who we are.

Our identity is discovered in the Truth who helps find ourselves.

The Truth  enhances and sharpens our leadership potential.

Today Jabeez's story, his life, and his prayer though a short account in the scriptures, continues to inspire many people from generation to generation.

You are someone's hero, you are a leader.

If you are strong and courageous and keep going, with God on your side you will turn out an inspiration to others too.

You have within you what you need to make it- talents, potentials, gifts and abilities.

You have a God who loves you, cares about you and wants to have a relationship with you.

He is the one who truly knows you, who can really bless you and manifest the true you- the leader within, the leader in you!

The scriptures is full of inspiring true stories of unlikely heroes, unlikely vessels.

May the hero, the leader in you emerge!

You've been hidden, you've been prepared, you were being trained and your roots of wisdom has been growing deep with understanding into the soil of manifestation!

It is time for the emergence of the hidden leader.

 

Divine Camouflage

The God who created the chameleon should know something about camouflaging.

Camouflaging is the act of disguising the presence of a thing or person by means of camouflage.

Chameleons have this unique ability, it is one of their survival strategies, its perhaps their chief survival prowess.

This ability helps chameleons blend with their surrounding, making them almost invisible to predators and prey alike.

Through camouflage chameleons catch their prey, the potential meal does not see or know the chameleon who has blended with its environment is around- the fly, the wasp, the beetle is caught by the sticky and long tongue of the chameleon before they know it.

In the same manner, the chameleon avoids ending up a meal to predators like snakes, birds of prey, monkeys and rats by camouflaging.

As it is with nature so it is with the cycle of the human life.

As it is in the natural, so it is in the spirit realm.

There is divine camouflage.

Divine camouflage is a period of time when God makes a person seem hidden though he or she is around.

There are times when God chooses to keep the destiny of an individual hidden.

God is a God of times and season and He has a time when that individual or that individual's assignment comes into visibility and recognition.

The time before an individuals manifestation, visibility, recognition or unveiling is usually a time of divine camouflaging.

Divine camouflage is a time period of waiting for the manifestation of the aim or agenda of a life and destiny  which is totally dependent on God no matter the effort, the struggle or the desire the individual puts in for a manifestation before its time.

Like a chameleon, an individual and his work or what he represents may be around but people do not see it for what it it.

During this time, the divine is preparing us.

It is the season where you, your work, your assignment or vision may seem invisible.

It is not wasted time.

It is a period of preparation which will lead to God glorifying manifestations.

This period of time is when God uses everything you've been through to train you, prepare you, and develop you for the bigger and greater ahead of you.

During times of divine camouflage, even everything the enemy of your soul is doing to you through people, negative energies, negative vibes, and disappointments are all working for your greater good.

It can be a period when you are despised, misunderstood, facing fiery trials, and mysterious battles.

The witchcraft, the sorceries, the spells, the hex, and jinxes are all qualifying you for greater mercy and glory from God.

Those things may have covered you for a season no matter how long that season is, but the enemy wasn't winning, he may think he is but the Divine, even God Himself is always ahead of the enemy.

The works of the enemy may have made you face resistance and covered you from being seen.

Even at that, God's counsel will stand in your life.

God includes what the enemies do to us as part of His grand design and plan.

We have to trust God and His wisdom.

The strategy of divine camouflaging is part of the wisdom of God.

Part of our great responsibility is to trust God in every season.

Divine camouflage is part of heavens way to align your timeline.

It is a season of time when you undergo maturity, develop your resilience, and your roots grow downwards that you may sprout upwards when your season of manifestation comes.

It is a period in time when the real you, even the leader in you is developed.

It is a qualifying time period before your delays are turned into divine deliveries.

It is a time you must prove yourself steadfast, faithful and true that you may eventually be restored with interest.

It is a season when you qualify to have your triumphs multiplied.

It is a moment of preparation for your appointed season.

It is a time to trust the process God is taking you through.

It's a time period that precedes the emergence of the hidden leader within you.

As photos are developed in the dark, in the quiet, in the hidden so it is with what God is doing with us in seasons we seem hidden and in the dark.

During this period, our character, lifestyle, wisdom, gifts and potential is being sharpened and our lives streamlined and aligned  for the better.

A season when God chooses to let you be 'hidden' is a season that precedes your accelerated achievement, it is a season that precedes the return of your missed opportunities being bigger, better, and blessed!

As the kingdom of God is hardly seen by the human eye, as angels are not always visible to us, just as the happenings in the spirit realm is often shielded from the human eyes, that we may live sane and proper lives on earth, your growth, maturation, and what is being produced through you is not always known, seen, and discerned by people around you.

Our God loves the element of surprise and I long to see what He has made of you when you are 'unveiled'.

God's divine camouflage over you has been part of God's protective plan and strategy to preserve your life and destiny and usher you into your appointed season!