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Bible Nuggets 0131/2010

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LIVING IN HIS PRESENCE 24/7

BIBLE NUGGETS 0131/2010 [Gen 5:21-24, Heb 11:5 KJV]

We can walk closer with God no matter our present spiritual level or past experiences. We do this by regular prayer, meditation and study of the word of God. Enoch was an example of a man who was in constant fellowship with God. He enjoyed being in his presence [Gen 5:21-24, Heb 11:5].  He lived for 365 years when life spans were nearly a millennium  [900 years+], but God so much enjoyed fellowship with him that God took him [Enoch did not experience physical death]. His life was comparatively brief on earth but relevant. It is on bible record that his son, Methuselah is the oldest man that ever lived only dying in the decade of Noah’s flood by bible chronology. Enoch’s walk in divine footsteps was a heroic spiritual experience when it was “old-fashioned” and sin pervaded the land in those days. He is mentioned in New Testament scriptures in the “Hall of Faith” of men who lived outstanding lives and pleased God. Let’s walk closer with God as Enoch did and God will reveal more of himself to us.

 

Gen 5: 21-24        21And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:    22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:  23And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

 

Prayer of Faith

Oh Lord I long for more of you. Fill my in the inside with thoughts of godliness every moment and let my life radiate your glory and power. Satisfy the yearning of my soul for your righteousness and make me relevant spiritually to the world around me in Jesus Name. Amen.

Living Bread Nuggets 0103/2010

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CHRIST OUR PASSOVER LAMB [VI]

 

Living Bread Nugget 0103/2010 [2 Kings 22 & 23; 2 Chronicles 35; 2 Kings 23:21-23]

 

A Young Godly King who Revives the Passover

There was a wise godly king, Josiah by name who ascended the throne at 8 years old and reigned for 31 years. Of him the Bible records in 2 Kings 22:1-2

1Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath.  2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

Josiah pleased God because he did not follow the footsteps of his father and forefathers who had introduced strange gods in the land of Judah and Israel. 18 years in his kingship, he had an encounter with God through the Word that had been left to rust on the shelf in the temple. He determined he would implement the Word of God in the land, read the laws of Moses to the people, and embarked on the mission of cleansing the land of all idolatrous practices. For this, he was commended by the Lord through the Prophetess Huldah and the kingdom enjoyed peace, at least during his reign [2 Kings 22:18-20]. When the righteous are in power, indeed the people rejoice.

 

Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

 

The King embarks on a righteous Mission

The king made specific commitment to obey the Lord and also made his subjects to commit themselves to do so. [2 Kings 23:1-3].

 

3And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

 

The righteous mission of this king included the following: he stopped the idolatrous sacrifices by fire of children [2 kings 23:10]; destroyed the high places of all foreign gods in the land, confiscated and commanded their vessels, books and charms to be burnt, destroyed the houses of the sodomites; and put sorcerers, witches and wizards out of business. Read the detailed description of this king’s righteous mission in 2 kings 23.

 

The Passover Celebrated [2 Kings 23:21-23]

Since the king committed himself to obeying the word of God, in obedience to God’s commandment that the Passover after the first Passover (feast of unleavened bread) should be remembered as memorial feast [Ex 12:14, Lev 23:1-8], the feast was celebrated the way it should be, having cleansed the people and land from the evil which dominated before his reign. Just as the first Passover during the time of Moses broke the backbone of the gods of Egypt [Ex 12], King Josiah’s capped his Godly mission by celebrating the Passover [2 Kings 23:21-23].

 

21And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.  22Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;  23But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.

The King celebrated the Passover the way it should be, exceeding the celebration of the feast by other Kings (including King David) and judges who had ruled Israel and Judah before him. What a glorious commendation to him in scriptures, all because he decided to please God which was not popular because of the evil perpetuated in the land by most kings who had reigned before him!

 

Did the king embark on this mission alone or without sound spiritual counsel? No! As a young king, he surrounded himself with the very best of the wise priests, prophets and counselors [2 Kings 22:12]. Prophet Zephaniah was among the people who helped this godly king in re-focusing the people’s attention to God during the prophet and the king’s lifetime [Zephaniah 1:1]. The prophet pronounced judgment on the false gods of Moab, Ammon and on people and cities that refused to heed God’s word [read Zephaniah chapters 1 & 2]. The prophet’s message and the King’s Counsel corroborates the word of God that says in [Proverbs 11:14].

 

14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

 

PRAYER OF FAITH & FOR MERCY 

 

1.  Pray for Kings and those in authority that the fear of God will be planted in their hearts and they rule the land in righteousness and that righteous laws be enacted by our lawmakers in government.

2.  Ask God to shed His glorious light on the land in our lifetime in Jesus Name.

 

 

 

Bible Nuggets & Prayer of Faith

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Bible Nuggets 0101/10 [Prophecies for 2010 by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor]

 

I welcome everyone to the year 2010 in the mighty Name of Jesus. As you count your blessings of the year 2009 and perhaps for the last decade which is the first decade of this century, I will encourage you to key into the prophetic utterances of the year 2010 from  Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, my special father in the Lord, for I have many fathers [1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 Corinthians 4:14-16; Philipians:3:17; 1 Thessalonians 1:6], who baptized me in Ogba River in Benin City Nigeria in 1981, during which I experienced the implosive power of the Holy Ghost for the first time as he raised me out of the water, the anointing which has carried me on since then. My wife Esther also was baptized by Bishop Ayo Oritsejafor in the same program].

 

2010 – New Season, Double Grace!  Ten Prophetic Declarations for the Year 2010  [visit www.ayo-oritsejafor.org]

 

I see a clear picture of your life in 2010, everything you hear from me tonight, God will back with Double Grace!!!

1.            Judges 6:27 – Throughout the year 2010, God will position 10 helpers at different points of the year waiting for you!

2.            Ruth 1:4-6 – In 2010, you will experience Jehovah Jireh. The God of Provision will be your God!

3.             I Sam. 17 :17-18 – The 10th month of 2010 (October) is a prophetic month, ‘pregnant’ and carrying a ‘seed’ that it will deliver for you!

4.             Eccle. 7:19 –  In 2010, God will give you Wisdom, that will make you stronger than 10 men put together!

5.            Lk. 19:16 –  In 2010, your Harvests will be beyond your abilities!

6.            Josh. 4:19 – In 2010, God will take you from Zero to a Hero!

7.            I Sam. 24:38 – In 2010, people that have been acting like God, even around your life, will be cut short!

8.            Jer. 42:7-10 –  In 2010, God will establish you and all that pertains to you, on a sure foundation.

9.            Neh. 4:11-15 – In 2010, you will fight and win every battle, because you will know at every moment the secret of your enemies!

10.       Dan. 1:20 –  In 2010, you shall be Ten times better than your equals!

 

PRAYER OF FAITH

 

Meditate on the above scriptures and claim all the 10 prophecies by faith in prayer in Jesus Name.

Living Bread Nugget 1208

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CHRIST OUR PASSOVER LAMB [V]

 Living Bread Nuggets 1208

Scripture Reading: [Colossians 2:14-15; Ephesians 6:10-18]

The Passover – a Spiritual Warfare

The Lords Supper commemorates our triumph in Christ over the works of darkness by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. God placed judgment on all the gods of Egypt by the Passover of Moses. Their gods were totally helpless in delivering the Egyptians in their greatest hour of need. Just as their gods could not deliver them from the wrath and judgment of God, the blood of Jesus and the name of Jesus are very powerful in expelling devils from the lives of the oppressed. At the name of Jesus every knee bows and every tongue (including those of principalities and powers) confesses that He is Lord of heaven and earth. [Luke 10:19; Luke 9:1, Mark 16:16-18; Matthew 28:18-20]. So both the blood of Jesus and the name of Jesus are our instruments of wonder in spiritual warfare, doing maximum damage to the kingdom of darkness, and giving us the authority to celebrate the spoiling of principalities and powers by Jesus on the cross.  

Col 2: 14-15  14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Passover in Reverence and Readiness for Heaven

The Apostle Paul gave a whole treatise on the importance of reverence in serving and taking part in the Lord’s Supper, the Christian Passover Meal in 1 Corinthians 11: 20-34. The Old Testament Passover was equally commemorated with utmost reverence [Exodus 12:11]. The Passover was to the children of Israel, the preparation of the journey to the land of Canaan. Similarly, we Christians are on a spiritual journey to heaven. From Eph 6:10-18 we see there are giant evil forces to conquer as the children of Israel conquered before they got to the Promised Land. Let’s review the correlation.

 

Old Testament –  Exodus 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.  

New Testament  Eph 6:14-15  14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Their loins were to be girded. Ours are to be girded with truth (Jesus, everything about Jesus for he is the way, the truth and the life). Their shoes on their feet, a mark of full preparedness to move from place to place for the journey to Canaan (beautiful are the feet of those who spread the gospel scripture says). The staff in the hand signifies the rod of authority everyone had, a replica of what Moses was to do signs and wonders. It was to reduce all obstacles to nothingness. We have the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. Jesus is the Word and in his name every knee obey and bows. The word is our instrument for spiritual battle and our source of victory. The enemy flees when you use the Word of God by Faith knowing you have a superior weapon just as Jesus used it after the 40 days prayer and fasting in the wilderness (Matthew 4).

Eph 6:16-17 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  17And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

While the enemy keeps sending the darts, continue to use the sword of the Spirit which is a mightier weapon, examining and covering yourself, guarding areas where he wants to have a foothold or penetrate into your life. Note that God’s word is not a magical portion but a two-edged sword, it will it will cleanse you bringing you to the point of total obedience and then avenge for you. When you cross this bridge by faith, God’s word will always work for you because you become totally consumed by the will of God [2 Corinthians 10:3-6]. As the word of God says, God does not take pleasure in the burnt sacrifices of bulls and goats but rather in doing the will of God [Heb 10:4-10].

 

The Holy Communion – Christian Passover Meal

Anyone coming to Holy Communion, whether a first timer or a frequent Christian should take it with the attitude of the English idiom that says, “The proof of the pudding is in the eating” which one writer explains that it means ”something new can only be judged
 after it has been tested”.  If you are repenting of your sins and being born anew into the kingdom at the table for the first time, it is better to postpone you taking the meal to another occasion. The Lord supper should be reverentially served and eaten in the following manner by those who are already reconciled to God, that is, those who have confessed Jesus as their Lord and Saviour prior to the meal.

1.     Every person should examine himself or herself that they are in right standing with God (loins girt about with truth). Thoroughly examine yourself; ensure there is no hidden sin that is not confessed. Confess it and receive assurance in your heart that you are forgiven. Otherwise, this could hinder both corporate and personal prayers [2 Corinthians 13:5].

2.     Give God thanks that you have opportunity to take part in it [1 Corinthians 11:24-25], knowing you are doing this in remembrance of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

3.     Exercise your faith to receive whatever you ask God at the meal table because God is a righteous judge. If some eat of the bread and drink the cup bringing damnation on themselves, you can eat and drink reverentially bringing healing and reenacting your physical and spiritual Being here on earth.

4.     It is an opportunity to judge yourself in the spiritual shortfalls you have instead of waiting for God to judge and chastise you which we know is most times not pleasant [1 Corinthians 11:29-32].

5.     The meal should be served and eaten in love, in preference of one another. No form of spiritual or physical gluttony is permitted at the meal table [1 Corinthians 11:33-34].

 

Prayer of Faith

 

1.     Lord thank you for the weapons you have given to me to overcome all obstacles on my journey to heaven.  I equip myself with these weapons and use them to cause maximum damage against the kingdom of darkness in the mighty name of Jesus.

 

2  I celebrate the Lordship of Jesus over all principalities and powers in every department of my life in Jesus Name. Amen and Amen.

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CHRIST OUR PASSOVER LAMB [IV]

 

Living Bread Nugget 1201 [Mark 14:22-25; Exodus 12:1-14]

 

Jesus Established the Eternal New Covenant

Mark 14:22-25 22And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.  23And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.  24And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.  25Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God [also, Matthew 26:26-30].

Jesus did away with the Jewish Passover by giving himself up to God as a perfect lamb, a clean offering to God for meeting the conditions of atonement by our Holy heavenly Father. As Jesus partook of the Passover, he pronounced a new covenant that is a better sacrifice acceptable to God. Jesus explained to them the big event they were witnessing; unfermented wine representing the blood of the New Testament which replaces the Old Testament blood of clean bulls and goats, and the bread representing his body broken for us. Hence the bible says his body and blood is a better testament laid on better promises. Therein lies the way for salvation; the blood of Jesus superseded and replaced the Jewish Passover for the redemption of the soul of man and his body was broken so that we can be made whole and partake with him in heaven with a resurrected body, the marriage supper of the lamb. Jesus had a heavenly body of flesh and bones when he appeared to his disciples before his final ascent to heaven.

Luke 24:39-40 39Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.   40And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.

Notice that the fruit of the vine will be the symbol of remembrance at the marriage supper of the lamb and no bread would be broken as was done before the crucifixion and as is symbolized during Holy Communion. However, the bread is our symbol now because Jesus’ body was broken (he underwent pain and agony) for us to restore our health. Bread is not symbolized then because he is not going to die the second time.  Moreover, there will be no more people to be rescued from the cures of sin imposed by Adam’s transgression. All that are rescued would have been rescued and all that have experienced the second death would have experienced death and eternal damnation to hell fire. Also, there will be no more curse, neither will there anymore be sickness as we would have eaten of the tree of life which gives everlasting life, renewing our health always in the new kingdom. Would you not want to be a part of this great assembly?

 

Rev 22:1-3 1And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.  2In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  3And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

Prayer of Faith

1.  Lord let me be a partaker in the marriage supper of the Lamb. I want to drink the fruit of the vine with you in your eternal kingdom in Jesus Name.

2. Lord I receive wholeness for my body, soul and spirit as I have partaken in previous Holy Communion and I as partake in future with my family and with your saints in the mighty Name of Jesus.

 

 

 

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CHRIST OUR PASSOVER LAMB [III]

Living Bread Nugget 1129 [Exodus 12:1-14; 1 Corinthians 5:7-8]

 

The Lamb of God Sacrificed

Jesus purchased our redemption. Everyone is invited to become a part of this covenant between God and man through the blood of the perfect and sinless Christ. God is rich in grace to forgive no matter the gravity of our sins. So do not think your offence is too big for God to forgive you. The blood of Jesus was shed on the cross of Calvary for that reason.

 

Eph 1: 7

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

 

1 Peter 1 v 18 -21

18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

 

So the fundamental benefit of our redemption in Christ is freedom from sin and death. The great moral weight of trying to please God your own way will be removed because you are not trying to reach God by your own way. He made provision for your redemption already.

 

Rom 8:v1-2

1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

 

Another benefit is redemption from the slave market of Satan [the World]. Egypt was an iron house. Ex 1: 11-14 reads:

 11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.   12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

 13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:  14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

 

For a slave to be free, he had to be bought with a price or redeemed from his master by his kinsman. The procedure was set out in Leviticus 25:38-55 both for the poor who had become a slave due to his poverty and the stranger who dwelt with the children of Israel. No matter how they became slaves or their inability to redeem themselves they were to become free in the year of jubilee. Their freedom was guaranteed in that year. Jesus is our jubilee and freedom from the slave market of Satan. He delivered us from the iron furnace of wickedness.

 

Eph 2: 1-2

1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;  2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

The blood of Christ sets us free from sins bondage. When a man is without Christ he lives under the monarchy of sin. When he becomes a Christian he lives in a new realm, a brand new sphere.

 

The third benefit and no less important is that Jesus redeemed us to God as special people into the family of God and into His kingdom. Indeed he made us joint heirs with him in God’s kingdom. It means what Jesus owns you own. It means what cannot harm Jesus cannot harm you. It means your pains, sorrow and darkness cannot last forever because of his mighty hand of deliverance on your behalf. He made you an overcomer to reign in this life.

 

Eph 2: 12

 12That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

 13But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

 

Rev 5:9-10

 9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;  10And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

 

The fourth benefit we will talk about is redemption from the wrath of God to come. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross must be taken seriously if you want to escape the wages of sin which is eternal separation from God, that is the second death. As said in Romans 6:23 “The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”.

Only Jesus can redeem our souls from the wrath to come. As said by Paul to the Macedonians who had turned from their idols to serve God in

 

1 Thessalonians 1: 8 – 10

8For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.  9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;  10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

 

There are so many other benefits tied to the benefits already mentioned; he gives you joy and peace, he gives us divine health and heals all our sicknesses and diseases; he is the resurrection and the life, death had no dominion over him; He defeated principalities and powers on our behalf; he is right now preparing mansions for us in his kingdom; he is interceding to God on our behalf daily.

 

Prayer of Faith

1.     Lord I thank you for my redemption. Anything that wants to make a mockery of my redemption in Christ, receive the stones of fire and be roasted in Jesus Name.

2.     Satan, I address you. I am not for sale; I have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. You have no power over me or my family. I rule over you in every department of my life. All your operations I render them powerless in Jesus Name. Amen.