“Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. (Psalm 118:25)

Importunity and persistence in prayer involves being shameless in asking God for your needs. As believers , we know that Christ took our poverty that we might be rich in Him.

However, many children of God are homeless, jobless, poor, and sick. A vast majority are in a state of ‘borderline-poverty’.

It is God’s will for us to prosper in all things and be in health, even as our souls prosper. Why then are so many wallowing in poverty?

Some of the reasons people remain poor are as follows:
Ignorance, Stinginess, Ancestral yokes/curses of poverty, Laziness, and Planlessness.

Ignorance and Lack of vision:

Ignorance causes suffering, while people perish without vision. However, through knowledge the just shall be delivered-See Hos. 4:6; Pr. 11:9; 29:18.
I heard a preacher say that Pentecostals use one percent of their brain, while Orthodox Christians use just 5 percent of theirs.

This is not meant to insult or judge but to help you understand the need to ‘watch and pray’ so you wont enter into temptations.

The Human Being is unique among all created things. God gave us faculties in our spirit, soul and body with which to function adequately in this world.

Added to which, Christ has been made wisdom unto us.

However, it is so alarming that most ‘Christians’ do not use their reasoning faculties!

Instead, they wait on God to come clean their butts. God wont do for you what you can do for yourself.

How would you feel if your 8 year old child still wait on you to spoon-feed him or her?

We really do need to grow up, search the scriptures and apply the principles therein to confront our daily reality.

There is a God part and your part.

God’s part is Done-Finished on the Cross by Christ.

Your part is to appropriate what is done for you.

And the Holy Spirit will help your infirmities as you strive towards perfection.

God did not leave Believers helpless. We have the Holy Spirit as helper, comforter, advocate, standby, teacher etc. And He lives within us.

Our prayer theme is a cry out to God for help. We are asking God to show us areas in our lives that we still need to work on.
And to God’s glory, everyday, He points us in the right direction. As we pray, we watch-we make amends and improve on our characters, relationships and evict the evil spirits influencing or enforcing evil in our circumstances and condition. By this, we walk in perpetual victory. Hallelujah.

What is your vision for the nest season? If you have no vision or clarity of purpose, ask God to show you what He wants you to do. When we acknowledge God in all our ways, He directs our path-See Pr. 3:6. And whatever He tells you to do, be ready to do.

Testimony:

I remember we once had a prayer meeting with this same theme, for aspiring entrepreneurs who needed upstart capital and direction.

At the end of the 7 day-prayer meeting, only 2 women were still clueless.

During private counseling, it came out that they actually received revelation pointing them to the type of business to do. But they felt it was beneath them as both were widows of ex-military officers.

One saw herself selling cornstarch extracts (pap), and the other saw herself selling bagged water (ice water in the local language). In all sincerity, these two businesses are what poor illiterate women do. So we understood their dilemma.

However, we told them to go pray for three more days and let us know what the Holy Spirit says to them. They both still had the same dream.

In trying to understand what the Holy Spirit was saying, we asked questions and it came out that the lady with the dream of making ‘cornstarch’ loves making it as a hobby with different flavors.

While the other lady had a nylon sealing machine she intended to use commercially, but she had no capital for the local materials.
Dear friends, do not despise the days of little beginnings.

As a faith and love based missionary who does not solicit or give handouts: our economic empowerment programs are usually spirit-led and with low capital base.

We depend on God to touch hearts of those he wants to bless through their partnership involvement with us. And little becomes a great company with His blessings. We teach people to work the word because the word works.

We prayerfully plan, and execute our plans according to Divine directives. What we have we need, what we do not have, we can do without. We impart these principles and encourage people to live within their present provisions.

We discourage indebtedness. one of our slogan is ‘don’t, beg, borrow or steal. Acknowledge the Lord in all your ways and He will direct your path.

In addition, both ladies were advised to ask for clarity and to do as they were shown. The first lady started making flavored-cornstarch, which is far better than custard. Her clientele grew, people started placing special orders.

Her break came when her niece asked her to host some Europeans who wanted to holiday in an African home setting. They loved the flavored ‘pap’ and became business partners. She exports her products. Her market expanded.
She did not need to beg, borrow or steal, to start an income -yielding venture that increased her her grace to give.

We are blessed to be a blessing.

An African proverb says a river that forgets its source runs dry. The Source of all blessings is God. Her support for God’s work increased and she invested more in the lives of others in order to point them to Christ her Source and Resource.

From Hephzibah Christly #theSpiritualWarrior
Part 2 follows immediately –

Extract from ‘Perfect all that concerns me, O God’ day 13. More
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CONFESSION OF SIN FACILITATES HEALING/WHOLENESS
* When I refused to confess my sin, I was weak and miserable, and I groaned all day long….Finally, I confessed all my sins to YOU and stopped trying to hide them….. And YOU forgave me. All my guilt is gone!~ Psalm 32:3-5,nlt.* Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. ~ James 5:16,Nlt.Brethren, forgiveness and cleansing is available because of the CHRIST sacrifice. Utilize it today and have a guilt free conscience and let the peace of GOD garrison you -spirit, soul and body, in CHRIST name.* John 5 has the story of a man who was bound by the spirit of infirmity for 38 years, he got healed when he had an encounter with Jesus Christ. And later Christ found him in the temple and said unto him: Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee-John 5:14,kiv .Sin promotes illness, it makes your soul and body conducive for evil . The Good News is this:If we confess our sins to HIM, HE is FAITHFUL and JUST to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong~ 1 John 1:9,Nlt.
GOD bless you. Shalom! ~Hephzibah Christly

While growing up, I was always told, “see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil and no evil shall befall you”.

It became one of the principles that checked my excesses howbeit to some extent, because the Bible states, “… The whole world lies in the power of the evil one”(1John 5:19).

Which means that evil is present everywhere. If evil is present everywhere, how then can we avoid the seeing, hearing and the speaking of evil?

Let us explore the Bible for insight.
* We thank God who gave us HIS mind – the Bible, and which contains principles that if lived, would preserve our lives from the devil and his forces of evil.

Some of such guiding principles is in our opening scripture which says:

“Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil”. (Proverbs. 3:7).

Before I even attempt to go into a theological diatribe, let us look further into some Bible verses that are similar to our opening verse:

a. “The wise fear the LORD and shun evil, but a fool is hot-headed and yet feels secure.” (Proverbs 14:16);

b. “Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the LORD evil is avoided”.(Proverbs 14:16)

* From these scriptures, you will observe that “the fear of GOD” is always linked to a departure from evil.

Good is a characteristics of GOD just as evil is synonymous with the devil. It follows then that when you identify with GOD, you would be influenced by your love for HIM and your identity in HIM to depart from evil.

* CHRIST told HIS disciples that: “…the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in ME” (John 14:30).

In 1 JOHN 5:9, we read that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one”, and even though evil is everywhere, CHRIST stated very clearly; “he has nothing in me”.

* Wahoo! There was nothing in CHRIST that linked HIM to the evil one! There was and is a clear distinction between “good” and “evil”, between CHRIST and the devil, and between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness.

CHRIST reigns in the Kingdom of Light and made us the light of the world. Anyone who is in the light cannot walk in darkness..

Evil is of the kingdom of darkness and satan d-evil-one rules there!

* When you are in CHRIST, the love of GOD constrains you from acting evilly; and thus, the ruler of the world would have nothing of his, in you! You are way out of his league.

How to understand the fear of God:

The Psalmist stated in Psalm 119:11;”I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you”(Nlt).

When the Word of GOD forms the framework for your thought life, you will not be challenged in keeping away from evil and the evil one cannot get to you.

*A quick study of the character traits of Job would help us to better understand the concept of how the “fear of GOD” motivates one to “depart from evil”.

In Job 1:1, Job is said to be: ‘perfect’, ‘upright’, ‘feared GOD’ and ‘eschewed evil’.
1. Job was “perfect” in the sense that he had high moral values, a well-balanced personality, transparent, open and he lived and walked as a light to his world. He was a man of integrity.

2. As an “upright” person, he was straightforward and not cunning/bent or deceptive; He was a man who maintained high moral character in his interpersonal relationships; he was loyal and faithful.

3. Because he had a high and holy concept of GOD, he “feared GOD – he revered and held GOD in awesome respect and fear.

4. And because “he feared GOD” Job “avoided evil!” He deliberately turned his back on evil; he rejected opportunities to do evil.

Expounding this concept further, the KJV Parallel Bible Commentary says of Job:
“Job had a high and holy concept of GOD, and as a result, he hated evil…. As a result of Job’s fear, reverence, respect for GOD, he turned away from evil. He rejected the evil thing and as a deliberate act of the will turned aside from temptation and opportunities to do wrong. His outward walk conformed to his inner convictions. Being for something (GOD) also implies being against something (evil)”(See page 928, 1994, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc.).

Dear friend, the fear of GOD is the motivation to avoid evil.

Thanks be to GOD who in CHRIST JESUS has imputed HIS righteousness to us and imparted us with the enabling grace to walk in righteousness.

* Which means that if you have accepted CHRIST as the LORD of your life, sin no longer has dominion over you, you are able by GOD’s grace to overcome the promptings to do, see or speak evil, and the evil one will have nothing of his in you! Shalom!

PRAYER:

Dear Merciful GOD, we thank YOU that you have made YOUR mind available to us in written form, and for the grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST that has made us right with YOU.

We are grateful also that we have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness and have been transported by YOUR SPIRIT into the Kingdom of light and have become lights to our world.

We declare that our light shines and darkness cannot comprehend it. We yield our mind to YOU and ask that our thought-life/ thinking pattern be cleansed so that we would think more on YOUR WORD and thereby become YOUR living WORD in this world.

We ask forgiveness for all the times that we seized opportunities to do, see and speak evil, and for all the ways we have disrespected YOU by our thoughts, words and actions.

Help us to grow in the fear of YOU. Help us to know YOU more than we do now so that we can become more like CHRIST in worship, character and service to YOUR glory and praise.

We rest our souls in the assurance that CHRIST has overcome the world and by our faith in CHRIST JESUS, we have overcome the world as well. Thank you for answers to prayers, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amein

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You are feeling all alone and wondering when the pain would stop. As you remember the doctor’s prognosis, fear grips your heart. Be of good cheer. There was a woman in Bible days, who went around with a health issue for 18 years. She lost all she had just seeking for a cure until she heard about JESUS CHRIST. Faith welled up in her even though she had reached rock bottom. She garnered her remaining strength, and took the faith-walk to CHRIST and touched the hem of HIS garment and she was not only healed, but made whole. Today is your day to walk into your healing and wholeness in CHRIST name. That same grace that was available to her is also available to you now because yesterday, today and forever, JESUS never changes. Receive your healing by faith. Some people posit that not everyone would be healed- but nowhere is it written that you are the one who wont be healed. And for the record, CHRIST healed all who came to HIM. Your case will not be different. Work out your salvation, healing and deliverance with fear and trembling. Its a personal decision to walk by faith or by the words of nay sayers. You are in our prayers. GOD bless you. Shalom!

#affirmation
My faith in CHRIST engrafted me into the commonwealth of Israel.
I am a partaker of the inheritance of the saints, therefore, the devil cannot rob me of my health, longevity, marriage, children or finances.
I #declare that these blessings are blood-bought and paid for by Jesus Christ.
By the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, I am strengthened and have become the receptor of multiplied increases of favorable circumstances to GOD’s glory.
Hephzibah Christly

Pray 🙏 for Pastors:

The most tears I shed in life was when I was pastoring. I was so heartbroken 💔 for the pain and poverty of the people, their hardness of heart, ingratitude and most of all their insensitivity to my personal needs.

It was all about them! I was so depressed and asked God to please call me home.

However God raised a praying team who believed in me. They identified with me and started praying for me and I fulfilled my ministry to the people.

Dear Prayer Partners, join me to pray for these men and women in the Frontline of Spiritual Warfare – ‘the Pastors’. They are at the receiving end of attacks from family, friends, parishioners and the forces of evil 😈.

Those who are glossy and are like movie stars – the bishops, televangelists etc. are not true representations of the shepherds after GOD’s heart. They are a negligible percentage of real Christian leaders. I’m not judging or condemning them. In their own way, they are fulfilling their own calling.

However, there are thousands out there in the field who have not bowed to the gods of commerce, fame and occultism.

Pray with me for those who are working with the Spirit of calling and have cast out the spirits of commerce etc.

Several of these servants of God are living in abject poverty. Many are homeless and can’t send their kids to school.
Many more are in communities where they face death threats daily for the Gospel sake.

These are the shepherds the Bible talks about. They will never abandon the sheep. They are building lives for the Kingdom.

Please pray for them.
1. That they be strengthened, protected, favored and have ministry partners to run with the vision God gave them.
2. Pray for their families, finances and relationship with God.
3. Pray for their spouses and kids for God’s cover of invincibility to be over them, and speak blessings over their marriages.
4. Pray restoration for those who quit already. Let the fire 🔥 reignite in them.
Thank you people of God. You will be appreciated and affirmed wherever you go, in Christ precious name.
From #theWatchman Hephzibah Christly
#theSpiritualWarrior

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.“(2 Peter 3:9)

Spiritual Warfare is the ongoing battle between members of God’s Kingdom of light and satan’s kingdom of darkness.

Our objective as praying warriors is to win Souls to Christ, so that they can live victoriously in this life and have a place among the saints in the hereafter.

However, satan’s objective is to kill, steal and destroy lives. (John. 10:10)

Since there is no demilitarized zone, you are either in the Kingdom of light- winning Souls and preserving spirit, soul and body blameless (1Thess. 5:23): Or you are in the kingdom of darkness, destroying Human lives.

All murderers shall have their part in the lake of fire and they cannot inherit the kingdom of God. (Rev. 21:8)

God does not desire death of sinners, rather He wants us to take them the Good news.

There are so many doctrines of devils that satan is spreading through his human agents.

Some people are so indoctrinated by their denominations that they are unaware that they are working with satan against God and humanity.

If you are praying “my enemy fall down and die” know today that you are working against the will of God and are working with the 👿 devil.

fallen angels, demons and satan are spirit beings. They may fall down but don’t die.

Christ gave Believers the right to cast them out and stop the activities of evil spirits (See Luke 9:1, 10:19)

When the time to judge them comes we shall judge angels. Do not be deceived, now is not the time to judge satan and his forces of evil or to kill them off. Which means your ” fall down and die’ or ‘roast by fire’s prayers are killing Human beings, howbeit in the spirit.

You will be accountable to for all your murders.

Dear Spiritual Warriors, our warfare is not against flesh and blood but against satan and his forces of evil. (See Ephesians 6:12-18)

Combat the forces of evil 😈 influencing fellow humans to be against you.

I do understand there are some humans who are sold out to the devil, and are as virulent as he is. There are also some others as well, who are unwilling slaves of satan. They are just caught in his web of lies.

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God in His infinite wisdom has given Spiritual Warriors a panoply of weapons. Which we can use to disable, hedge in or restrain toxic humans/human agents of the devil. Leaving us free to war on their behalf to negate the influences that has made them evil.

There are many who wanted Moses dead, instead they died, and God used Moses to deliver his people.

Likewise yours truly. I was not a good person before Christ arrested me. However, those who sought my death, died wretched without accomplishing their goals.

Herod wanted the infant Jesus dead, but he died first.

Your life too is a testimony of God’s grace. Why do you despise the grace of God by praying death upon another Human Being?

If all those you offended had prayed your death before the mercy of God changed your life, would they have been justified?

The husbandman is the first partaker.

Which means the farmer always eats his crops first. If you plant death, you will eat its fruits first.

Whatsoever a man sows that he shall surely reap.

We are called unto life not unto death.

Speak life, be positive then your life will attract good things.

Vindictive, manipulative, impreccatory prayers comes from an unforgiving, implacable, and vindictive heart. It attracts 😈 evil, such as sicknesses (psychosomatic disorders), unprogressiveness and demon activities.

People perish for lack of knowledge, but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

I pray the grace of God that brings forgiveness, peace, healings and wisdom be upon you,in the name of Jesus Christ.

Shalom from Hephzibah Christly #theSpiritualWarrior

Have faith in God, forgive others.
There was a time in my life that i let the injuries in my Soul dictate my relationship with others.

I became cynical, vindictive, aggressive and my words were hateful and vengeful.

You know something, i was one sick person. The anger, resentment, inability to forgive and bitterness was poisoning my body.

These things are toxic. Apart from health issues, my relationship and economy were also affected.

Negativity hinders blessings but attract evil.

Internally and externally things were declining daily. Prayers and deliverance ministrations were futile.

The demons had every right to inhabit my realm and spheres because i gave them the right atmosphere with my negative thoughts and actions.

One day, as i was searching the scriptures for weapons of war, because i felt i was not praying right, hence my situation did not change. That day, Mark 11: 22-26 stood out before my eyes. Please read it for yourself. Forgiveness and faith are siamese twins conjoined in the heart. Both are relevant if you want to be free of demonic influences in your life.

From that day, i saw clearly how i tied up myself by my negative thoughts and actions. Truly people hurt me but i tied up myself by how i coped with the hurts.

I asked forgiveness from God and released everyone i was angry with. I even wrote letters of release to some that really hurt me.

That was when my change started. When you apply Biblical principles to your life, it detoxifies your system. Then psychosomatic disorders will no longer plague you.

Bless those who hurt you and you will receive twice as much as you lost when you held on to your hurts.

I am a living Testimony that the Word of God works. Cheer up my friends. From now live as the righteousness of God that you already are in Christ Jesus.

Righteousness is your default as a born again child of God.

Prayer:
I pray peace and love to override the hurts in soul. I ask God to grant you the enabling grace to forgive all who hurt you and to bless them like the child of God that you are. I curse every root of bitterness to wither. All demonic influences are to leave your realm and spheres of life now. I declare the works of the devil 👿 are destroyed. Blossom 🌸 in health. Be rich in economic blessings. You are loosed to prosper in your spirit, soul, body in Jesus Christ matchless name. Shalom. Hephzibah Christly

I #DECLARE TODAY THAT:
* There shall be divine shift in your situation.

* Whatever is standing as the barrier against your peace, prosperity and progress, is hereby destroyed.

* Because the counsel of the ungodly shall not prosper, the secret decision to demote or embarrass you shall not stand.

* You are victorious over all bloodline and ancestral yokes, whether it is spiritual, financial, physical, material, marital, psychosomatic or other related evils.

* Your silent tears, secret sorrows and feelings of desperation are over.

* Locked opportunities and embargoes are removed.

* Your by-passed promotion is unlocked and released to you.

* Breakthroughs like never before shall locate you without struggles in Jesus name.

* The grace of God has lifted and placed you on an extraordinary pedestal.

* From today your life shall be a manifestation of the glory of God so much so that the blessed shall call you blessed, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. 🙏 Amein.

From Hephzibah Christly #theCommandantSwats

Hooking up hooks you up to a life of misery, pain, disappointment, and condemnation.

The Bible says:”Flee fornication.” (See 1 Cor. 6 :18)

In our world today, sexual sins are commonplace.
To justify their obvious lack of self-control, some spiritually myopic Christians argue that “hooking up, gayism , mastubation, etc are sins against their own body and so is of no consequence.

Ignorance is truly a disease that destroys from within, and causes much suffering.

“What? Don’t you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you with a high price. so you must honor God with your body.” (1Cor.6:19)

Your body was not created by you. And if you are a Christian, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Don’t be misinformed – know the Bible for yourself. Spare time to search the Scriptures, it is honorable to do so.
Refuse to be misled by “social gospellers” who are wolves in sheep clothing, and are pulling crowds to the Kingdom of darkness through their enticing words of human wisdom. And whose motivation is the “spirit of commerce , not the “Spirit of calling”.

They are more interested in their social- followership than in your salvation.

“Don’t you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers; male prostitutes; homosexuals; thieves; greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers-none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.” (1Cor. 6:9-10)

Know God and His Word -the Bible for yourself. Just don’t be taken-in by ‘Religious liberalists, secular humanists and social-gospellers’. They are so are ignorant of the Truth of God’s Word.

When the blind lead the blind, they end in the pit.

Also refuse to allow modern day culture dictate your lifestyle. Maintain your uniqueness. The born again is a peculiar and extraordinary being. In Christ, You were recreated anew.

Because others are doing it does not make it right. You can do better for yourself.

Hooking up places you at a disadvantage, devalues your humanity-your feminity or masculinity.

Hence God says marriage is honorable and it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Anyone who want you as a live – in lover, hates you passionately- Flee all appearances of evil. (1 Thess. 5:22) Run for your dear life.

And if you are already in relationship whereby he or she is full of excuses why marriage is ‘not feasible right now’, but is enjoying the sexual privileges of marriage, you are in a situation and not in a relationship: you are being victimized.

Turn the tables on the devil and redefine the relationship.

Don’t negotiate your destiny and perpetuate bloodline troubles for your descendants.

Move out and get your life back. That is what repentance is all about. A change of heart evidenced in a change of action

You are God’s special creation. Why settle for second best.

If God could give up Jesus Christ for you what is a husband or wife that He can’t give to you?

“Every good and perfect gift descends from above, from The Father of lights with whom there is no change nor a shadow of variation.“ (James 1:17, Aramaic Bible in Plain English

If it is good and not perfect 👌 it is not from God. satan is a counterfeiter. Don’t be fooled.

I pray your desire to be married be perfected in the name of Jesus Christ. I release to you now, the grace of marriage. Your husband shall find you and you shall find your wife and God’s name shall be glorified, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amein.

From #theCommandantSwats

Hephzibah Christly
love 😍 you all. Shalom!

#stopAndThink: Are you raising Godly seeds or worldly seeds? Children are a sacred trust from God. Have you faithfully nurtured your children in the fear and discipline that comes from God? (See Ephesians 6:4)

If you have failed in parenting them right and they are now the source of many tears, sorrows and sleepless nights.

Don’t despair, you can get it right again. Our God is a God who forgives, heals and restores.

Say this #prayer with me.

ABBA Father, thank you for your love and trust that made you give me parenting responsibilities.
I am sorry for failing you so woefully. I plead the blood of Jesus Christ for forgiveness and receive cleansing for all the sins and bloodline unrighteousness.

I rededicate all my children to you. ABBA, use them for your glory. By this dedication they are holy unto you and therefore uninhabitable by all the depravity in this dark world.

I thank you because your grace that brings healing, deliverance salvation, protection favor and prosperity is upon all my descendants.

From today I declare that as the seed of the righteous they shall function in their God-given destiny and fulfil the purpose for their lives. For they now
function in the arena of indestructibility and nothing can stand against them.
According to the riches of your glory my descendants are strengthened with might by your Spirit and Christ indwells them by faith, in the name of Jesus Christ I 🙏 pray. Amein.
#theCommandantSwats
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