Trust in God's Perfect Timing

By: Bro. Sola Afolabi

Imaginative thinking of God's Time.

Human Timing— 60min = 1hour; 24hours = 1 Day; 7days = 1 week; 4 weeks = 1 Month; and 12month = 1 year
God’s Timing - 2 Peter 3:8-9 (MSG) - “Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day.

God isn’t late with His promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want any-one lost.

He’s giving everyone space and time to change.” God’s Time of 1 Day = Human Time of 1000

Years Cross Analysis:
* For us to live a day in God Time, we need to live a thousand years.
* In human calendar, we are in 2017 (two thousand and seventeen years). God has only lived 2 days of our entire human calendar.
*Just like two parallel lines, if we compare our time to God’S Time, we can never receive the answers to our prayers 

Conclusion: 
God created humans; humans created the clock. But humans want to time God with the clock.  Our God is not a human mathematician, His grace is sufficient for us and we just need to trust in his Time. We trust in God promises, now we need to trust in God’s Timing. Believing in God’s promises and not trusting God’s Timing leads to frustration.

You will have good success this 2017. 
Remain blessed.
Shalom.

The Law of Timing

From Our Pastor's Desk

Ecclesiastes 3:1 – “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose un-der the heaven…” John Maxwell said in his book, “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” that the Law of Timing is that “when to lead is as important as what to do and where to go.” 

Also, Winston Churchill once remarked “there comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when they seize it, will fulfill their mission – a mission for which they are uniquely qualified.

In that moment they find greatness. It is their finest hour.” Put in another phrase, we can say the law of timing, in conjunction with Churchill, preaches “there are certain windows of opportunity when – if you don’t take a risk and move forward – your effectiveness could come to a standstill”

So, it’s not just enough to have a special moment, one must seize that moment by understanding/operating within the law or timing. One must recognize that window of opportunity, seize it and make use of it, to the fullest.

An opportunity is a favorable time or occasion when we make a decision that will impact our lives in a positive way; it can be described as a gift from the Lord.  In Mark 10:46-52, Jesus decided to walk through Jericho. It became a God-ordained opportunity for those in Jericho. It was not just any opportunity for Bartimaeus, it was his only chance as it was the very last time the Lord would walk that way to Jerusalem before His crucifixion.

For Bartimaeus, it was his set time, he entered into it and his story changed for good. Blind beggar Bartimaeus understood the law of timing, recognized the opportunity, and made up his mind to seize his season. May we never miss our set time & appointed time, in Jesus Name You will have good success this 2017. 

Remain blessed.
Shalom.

From Our Pastor's Desk - November is Our Month of God's Perfect Timing

Welcome to this Our New Month of God’s Perfect Timing, in Jesus name. God has a fixed time for everything. Eccl.3:1—"For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven" God plans His time and keeps to it. God is a Master Planner.

John Maxwell concurs with Solomon in his “Law of Timing” that there is a time/season for everything.

We are beings of times and seasons. Whoever controls our times & seasons controls our destiny.

Time is essential to our lives. We plan our lives based on time. But with all this planning, & “time management” we are left, most times, “waiting”.
We wait on life; we wait on God for answers to prayers, for healing, promotion, relationships, etc. And nothing is more irritating to us than waiting. Why should we be waiting? The answer lies in God’s perfect timing. He is never early or late.

God will bring the right persons & right things into our lives at His right time. We should always believe that. If they are not there, God isn't finished yet! 

We should not doubt, resist, or resent God’s timing when it doesn’t correlate with our plans, or desires.  This month of God’s Perfect Timing, and beyond, God will order our times and seasons in Jesus name.

He will make ALL things beautiful for us, in His time, in Jesus Name.
Amen.

Blessings of God's Double Portion

By Deacon Wilson Shofolahan

In 2nd Kings 2:9-10, Elijah told his servant Elisha, "he has asked a hard thing" from him. You can only give what you have, goes the popular saying.

You cannot go to a petty trader to ask for a $10 million loan, he would look at you thinking you must've missed your way.  Firstly, being human, he cannot give more than his limited portion.

 Secondly, an average human being wants to be the greatest and would shy away from making you their equal, talk less of making you greater.

But James 1:17 says "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above ......." Psalm 75:6-7 says "For promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another”

 A double portion of whatever your heart's desire can only be gotten from the Almighty God, who is the Creator of heaven and earth, the owner of silver and gold, Jehovah Jireh, the giver of what money can buy, and what money cannot buy.

However, God's gift or His blessings which does not add sorrow is conditional, Deut 28:1 and Exodus 15:26 emphasized that only if you will hearken diligently to His voice, all the double portion of your heart's desire and good health to go with it can be yours.

Children of God are denied Double Portion of blessings from above because of disobedience says Isaiah 59:1-2. Elisha was obedient to his master Elijah, who was himself a servant of God, and was diligent to the end, and he got the double portion of his master's spirit as desired.  Our God is no respecter of persons Acts 10:34. He can do it for you.

The grace of obedience, God will release into our lives, and the double portion of all our heart's desire shall be given to us today, in Jesus Name

You will have good success this 2017. 
Remain blessed.
Shalom.

The Double Portion for the First Born

In every home with children, there is a firstborn. The firstborn grows up with a special destiny. Firstborns are thrust into the role of trailblazers and natural leaders.

They represent the future hope of the family and its name. They are also regarded as the first heirs of the family. According to ancient tradition found in Scripture, all of the children of a family should receive an equal share of the inheritance, but the firstborn receives a double portion.

The Scripture speaks of this blessing of the firstborn as the birthright blessing. The concept of the double portion is first mentioned in the Law of Moses: “But he shall acknowledge the firstborn . . . by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his” - Deuteronomy 21:17.

A firstborn was entitled to receive twice the inheritance of that of a father’s other sons, in addition to the right of succession.

 Since the Mosaic Law stipulated a double portion for firstborns, the concept has been used throughout history to refer to God’s abundant blessing. Jesus Christ is called the “firstborn over all creation” - Colossians 1:15, a title that indicates His position as the Blessed One and rightful Heir of all things. The position was one of great honor and responsibility.

Many are the blessings of the Firstborn. There is nothing wrong with being the 2nd, 3rd or Nth born. Some Firstborns have lost their privileges and it has gone to others. Examples are Esau, Reuben etc.

May we never lose our privilege and double portions, in Jesus Name You will have good success this 2017. 

Remain blessed. 
Shalom.

The Wisdom to Double Portion

By Sis. Judy Nderitu

"Wisdom," in the Bible, "is knowing the greatest goal in any situation, and the best way to achieve that goal.

Wisdom sees the big picture, in focus, each part in its proper relationship to rest.  Double portion means two fold, twice as much, a supernatural increase.

Double portion cannot happen outside of God. It is being in God that gives us godly desires and ultimately godly results.

The Bible says that it is He that gives us the power both to will and act Phil 2:13. Its therefore very important to understand  Gods wisdom on double portion in our lives.

It is not the will of God for his children to struggle in any aspect of their lives. Our experiences as children of God should be completely different from the rest. There is a preserve for God's children that opens up doors for double portion, for increase. 

It is this preserve that made Elisha stick to Elijah as seen in 2nd Kings 2, it is this preserve that made Ruth cling to Naomi on her return to Bethlehem Ruth 1 and also made Jacob wrestle the angel of God till dawn Genesis 32: 22-32.

This preserve is called the WISDOM of God. James 1:5 tells us to ask for wisdom if we lack it for Gods gives liberally. Gods wisdom is given to provide glory in our lives.

If we are not walking In glory in any aspect of our lives, Gods wisdom is required. If we are not experiencing a double portion in our finances, health, careers, marriages, happiness etc, we need Gods wisdom.

The Lord shower upon us His wisdom, in Jesus Name.

 You will have good success this 2017. 

Remain blessed. 

Shalom.

Receiving Double Portion

From Our Pastor's Desk

Near the end of Elijah’s time on earth, he offered his assistant Elisha a gift: “What can I do for you before I am taken from you?”

Elisha answered, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me” – 2nd Kings 2:9. Elisha received a double portion from Elijah. Elisha received because of his faithfulness, amongst other virtues.

Even though Elijah and the sons of the prophets both seemed to try to dissuade Elisha from following, he was faithful. He was not going to be dissuaded.  A faithful Christian will not be pulled away from serving the Lord by a whim or by some unimportant, irrelevant, trivial reason.

A lot of people are simply sitting, waiting for something to fall out of Heaven. You need to commit to a good local church and do your part to help make it a great church. Join up and then show up! Many of us are just involved in the ministry (nonchalantly, waiting to be told before they do, and unreliable).

Few are just committed (but when push comes to shove, they have alternatives). Only a few are really faithful, tending towards loyalty.  2 Timothy 2:2 – “And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also” 1 Corinthians 4:2 – “Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful” Elisha knew how to serve.

Do you want the double portion anointing? Get involved in church or a ministry and start serving. When you serve you are sowing your life as seed for an anointing that one day will be yours.

Double portion is available, for those who are faithful, committed, humble servant leaders. You will then see yourself scaling new heights supernaturally  and breaking new grounds; accomplishing new things that eyes have not seen nor ears heard.

You will have good success this 2017.

Remain blessed.

Shalom.