session 1: Text:Rm. 8:14-25 #prayerFocus I’m Moving Forward

I am always filled with awe daily as I receive the #prayerFocus for the day from the Holy Spirit our Intercessor. It points me to the direction God is moving in  our circumstances.  I am thankful to God for those of you who are committed to their cause and are praying along with us.

So many Christians live by happenstance. They become active and seek the face of God when they are in trouble.  However, those who know the God they serve do exploits-See Dan. 11:32. When you are sensitive to the moves of God, you will discern the times and flow with it and live in perpetual victory.

The children of Issachar were men that had understanding of the times: they knew,  what Israel ought to do. That knowledge gave them the advantage over their brethren-  1Chron. 12:32. To know the ways of God distinguishes leaders from the led. God made His ways known to Moses whereas He made His acts known to the Israelites-See Psalms. 103:7.

Victims wait for things to happen whereas victors cause things to happen. Be that change agent today.
• Do not Resist Change:
God’s greatest challenge with humanity is resistance to change. Understand that the unchanging God changes the times and seasons. The Bible says: “He takes away the first in order to establish the second”-Hebrew 10:9.

No bad condition is permanent. For “after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.” 1 Peter 5:10, BSB. Do not be allergic to change.  God is perfecting all that concerns us hence He says to MOVE FORWARD.

To move means among many things, is to change position, make progress, go in a specified direction. Forward means to make progress towards the front. Therefore, to MOVE FORWARD means to make progress forward.

To Move Forward involves changes in position, thoughts, Behavior and lifestyle.

1. Change your Position:

God’s Word says,’ As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God”-See Romans 8:14. To be ‘a son of God, you must be born again.-John 3:4-6. To be to be Born Again is as simple as ABC:

Acknowledge you are a sinner. All have sinned and only Jesus Christ saves and delivers Accept Jesus Christ for yourself. It does not  matter that you have christian names, belong to a powerful church or have christian parents. If you have not personally accepted Jesus Christ, you are just a Church-goer. You are not born again.

Believe in your heart that God raised Him (Jesus Christ) from the dead-you shall be saved-See Romans 10: 9.  For with the heart the individual believes unto righteousness.

Confess with you mouth that Jesus is Lord- for with the mouth confession is made unto salvation-See Romans.10:9.

If you are ready to be born again, say this Prayer of Salvation:

Father God, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ in accordance with your Word that says ” whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved“-Acts 2:21. I ask Jesus Christ to come into my life and be my Lord and Savior. I believe in my heart  that Christ died for my sins and God raised Him  from the dead. I now receive eternal life into my Spirit and declare that I am saved. I am Born Again. I am now a child of God. The Greater one Jesus Christ is now indwelling me-1 John 4:4. From today, I walk in the consciousness of my new life in Christ Jesus. Thank You O God for Saving me, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Congratulations. Welcome into the Royal Family of God for you are now a child of God. Christianity is ‘together-faith’ therefore connect with a Bible-Believing church-family in your community. Do not be ashamed to tell the Pastor that you are a New Believer in Christ.

Now that you have changed position, we can move forward together.  However, you have a responsibility to lead your close relatives to receive the knowledge of Christ that you now have so that you can all be on the same page, so they wont be pulling you in the opposite direction. Read the story of the Keeper of the Prison how he led his whole Household to Christ.

2. Change your Thoughts:

From the scriptures, we understand that  as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he-See Proverbs 23:7. Beloved, you are what you think. Evil thoughts produce evil actions.. According to scriptures, the thoughts of foolishness is sin- See Proverbs 24:9. Again it says, the thoughts of the  wicked is an abomination to God-Proverbs 15:26. If you are filled with  worldly thoughts, then you are killing   yourself slowly: “to be carnally minded is death”-Romans 8:6

How to change your thoughts:

Wash your heart from wickedness-Jeremiah. 4:14. You may not be able to stop evil thoughts from flooding your heart but you can stop yourself from meditating on them.  Evil thoughts defile a person- it allows foul spirits access  into your space. Your progress in life depends on your thinking pattern.

Arrest evil thoughts: Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity  every thought to the obedience of Christ-2Cor.10:5. –You may not be able to stop birds from flying over head but you can stop them from building nests in your hair. Just don’t allow negative thoughts space in your mind.

Think like God: If you are born again, you have the mind of Christ-See 1 Cor. 2:11-16. The spiritually minded individual subjects the imagination to the truth of the Word of God. Read and study your Bible regularly, “Let the Word of  Christ  dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord-See Col. 3:16.

To participate in the Move of God for the incoming season, you need to develop your mind to see things from a Divine perspective and also be able to discern all things. The Bible is God’s mind revealed. The more your read and apply the Truth to your daily reality, the more you will be display the excellent attributes of God. You will always move upward and forward. No stopping  you.

Read the Word, be the Word and live the Word. Everything in creation is subject to the Word that created them. And  by extension everything becomes subject to you.

3. Change you Behavior:

“let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.”-Heb. 12:1 . Every long distance runner knows not to carry baggage. Sin is a dead weight: it hinders progress. In order to make unprecedented advancement, mortify the deeds of the flesh.  Those pet-sins that you enjoy will be your undoing if you do not undo it them from your life. -See Colossians 3:2-5, 8-15 , for guidelines.

Behave what you Believe.

4. Change your lifestyle: 

Live your life for God. You were created for good-works -Eph. 2:10

Summary:

In order to move forward to your   next level, you need to work on your relationship with God, change your mindset and perspective of life and focus on doing the good, well- pleasing and perfect will of God.

Prayer Points:

Thank God for revelation knowledge. 2. Confess your sins  and resolve not    to   go back to them 3. Ask for the anointing of God’s Spirit that brings the grace of unprecedented progress, excellence, peace with prosperity and divine health.  4. speak cleansing over your mind and affirm you have the mind of Christ and negative thoughts have no place in you. 5. Affirm that you are anointed for progress- your course in life is upward and forward therefore the yoke of stagnancy is destroyed. And all the foul spirits assigned to work against you are evicted from your world. 6 Declare that daily the fruit of the spirit is growing in you and you are a blessing to your world. 7. Bless your family and prophesy over your life. 8. Thank God for perfecting all that concerns you, in Christ name.

Affirmation:

ABBA Father, thank you for increasing Knowledge in me. Daily, as your Word run free course in my life,  I am yielded to your superior will. The limitations and walls that attempt to stay in my path are without foundations. By the anointing of God’s Spirit, I’m marching forward: unstoppable and unshakable.  Everything in my life that resists or is allergic to change is destroyed: no weapon formed against me shall prosper. I affirm that my season of suffering has ended, I embrace my restoration to greater glory. I receive more financial security, physical strength, divine healing, divine health and establishment in every aspect of my life for the new season.
I declare all ‘satan’s’ maneuvers to frustrate my progress is hereby outmaneuvered by GOD’s grace, in Christ matchless name.

Shalom! from #thewatchman Hephzibah Christly