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Bible Nuggets 0228/2010

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BIBLE NUGGETS 0228/2010 [Jude v3 KJV]

 

CONFLICT [ III ]

 

Jude v 3 KJV  

 

 3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

 

Faith in Jesus is the common salvation available to all men. If you have received him, you are on his side. The side of Jesus is the winning team. However there is a contending team in conflict with the team of Jesus. The head of that team is Satan and his team is the losing side. As a saint of God, defend the goalpost of Jesus. Angels, the blood of Jesus, the name of Jesus, the word of God provide fortification for the goalpost so the enemy remains always defeated. This is not the case of the better team wins. Jesus is the winner because it was settled on the cross of Calvary for you and me. So contend for the faith and God will give you the divine strength to play your path in the team of Jesus. The gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. Praise God.

 

Colossians 2:14-15 KJV

14Blotting 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;

 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

 

WARFARE PRAYER

 

1.       I prevail over every principality and power raging against me in the name of Jesus. I take all the enemy’s territory for Jesus in Jesus Name.

 

 2.      I conquer the enemy.  I command every foothold of the enemy on my life and the life of my loved ones to be amputated in Jesus Name. Amen.

BIBLE NUGGETS 0221/2010

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BIBLE NUGGETS 0221/2010 [Ephesians 6:12 KJV]

 

CONFLICT [ II ]

 

Ephesians 6:12 KJV   12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

 

Ephesians 6:12, Amplified Version 12For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.

 

The forces we contend with are not earthly beings. All plans and wickedness and planned in heavenly places and hatched on earth in the lives of men who permit them. Thank God we have strong spiritual weapons; the word of God, the name of Jesus and the blood of Jesus to dismantle and scatter such plans. Even after giving your life to Christ, you have to expel these powers from your life by seeking total deliverance from every stubborn occupant or illegal squatters in your life. You do not overcome demonic forces by word of mouth or boastings but by wrestling them down to submission in prayer. Engage the blood weapon or other devices to achieve this. The only prayer commands the enemy cannot resist are if you offer the prayer as follows: “….. in the name of Jesus”, and “……by the blood of Jesus”.

 

2 Corinthians 10:4 KJV (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

 

WARFARE PRAYER

 

1.       I dethrone every power sitting on my blessings. Let the angels of God chase them and give them no rest until they surrender in Jesus Name.

 

 2.      Let the blood of Jesus begin to torment my enemies. Fall down and die in the mighty Name of Jesus.

BIBLE NUGGET 0214/2010

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BIBLE NUGGETS 0214/2010 [COLOSSIANS 2:1 KJV]

 

CONFLICT [ I ]

 

Colossians 2:1 KJV

1For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

 

Colossians 2:1 , Amplified Version

1FOR I want you to know how great is my solicitude for you [how severe an inward struggle I am engaged in for you] and for those [believers] at Laodicea, and for all who [like yourselves] have never seen my face and known me personally.

 

The Apostle Paul was in constant struggle in prayer for the Saints at Colossae and Laodicea. He wanted the good of the brethren and he was ready to suffer the consequences for his faith. Conflict in Greek is “agon” and it implies a contest or an effort or anxiety or contention. You have something to struggle for; to wrest from the enemy all your stolen goods and properties whoever the enemy may be, whatever face they carry and no matter their tactics.  You will surely laugh last. So, keep at it and God will give you the victory in Jesus Name.

 

WARFARE PRAYER

 

1.       Oh Lord, grant me the inner strength to keep going even in the midst of great opposition mustered from the pit of hell in the name of Jesus.

 

 2.      Every power opposing my faith and the welfare of the brethren, receive the stones of fire in Jesus Name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bible Nuggets 0702/2010

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BIBLE NUGGETS 0207/2010 [2 Kings 2:9-10, James 5:17-18 KJV]

 

DOUBLE MIRACLES

 

Elijah and Elisha were two outstanding prophets in the area of signs, wonders and miracles. In the public ministry of these two mighty men of God, their ministry was power-packed with one miracle after another. Counting individual miracles, Elijah had 21 miracles on record and Elisha 41 (in his lifetime). This does not add up mathematically [21×2=42] because Elisha was a servant of Elijah and he, Elisha, asked for a double portion of the spirit of Elijah before Elijah’s translation to heaven. Elijah said this is a hard thing for me to give you but if you see me go to heaven in a chariot of fire, then you will get the double portion. Elisha stuck fast to Elijah. He knew what he wanted and was not going to be discouraged by the fellow prophets. They all were witnesses to what God did through the life of Elijah and even knew from Elijah that it was his last day. He repeatedly told them, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. [2 Kings 2:9-10]

 

 9And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.  10And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.

 

The mighty miracles in Elijah’s ministry include: multiplying food like Jesus did with the case of 5 loaves & 2 fishes, feeding 5000 men excluding women and children, with baskets left over. In the case of Elisha, they [the sons of the prophet and Elisha], all heard of the miracles of their master Elijah such as the case of the widow of Zarephat [I King 17: 10-24] who had barrels and barrels of oil to sell and feed from because she believed the man of God who had asked from her a cruise of oil. Elijah also raised her dead son like Jesus did in the case of Lazarus. The 3 years drought resulting from the prayer of Elijah for his pronouncement as a result of the sins of King Ahab was also an outstanding miracle. Elijah and Elisha were men of like passion, having good hearts ready to be used of God. God honoured Elijah’s word because he spoke them by faith – unshakable and solid faith like a rock. After 3 years when He called back rain, it did not appear it would rain. He was not even moved, telling his servant Gehazi to go look 7 times before the servant saw rainy clouds in what appeared to be the hand of a man [1 King 18: 41-46]. Elijah had just completed the disgrace of 400 prophets of Baal, by calling down fire to consume their sacrifice. The triumph of his faith is recorded in the New Testament.

 

James 5:17-18

17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years

and six months. 18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

 

God performed 41 miracles in the lifetime of Elisha. However, recall that he had received a double portion of Elijah’s spirit who performed 21 miracles. This seeming discrepancy was finally solved when Elisha had died, God empowering the dead bones of Elisha after his death to revive a man who died.

 

2 kings:13:20-21.

20And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.   21And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

 

The word of God is yea and amen and since it cannot return to God unfulfilled, he will bring to pass his promises and blessings upon your life in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

PRAYER OF FAITH

1.       Oh Lord, fill me with a double portion of the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name.

2.      Let your Holy Spirit rest upon me after the order of Elijah and Elisha in the mighty Name of Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.