WORD FROM REDEEM ZION

Thursday, January 20, 2005

DIVINE INSTRUCTION-KEY TO OUTSTANDING SUCCESS

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you
should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.”
(Ps.32:8)
One of the things the Lord made known to His people
this year is to grant them good success and if God has
spoken, there is no doubt about it that the year is
loaded with divine opportunities to bring you and I
outstanding and great success in your area of
endeavour. The God who has promised us great success
has to play a major role in helping you to locate the
doors of opportunities for your success to spring
forth. That the has promised you success also means
that there will be challenges or obstacles or barriers
or hindrances to walk through by faith for your story
to become glory.
In Genesis 26:1-6, the Bible tells us that in the
days of Isaac in the land of Gerar (Philistine
nation), there was famine in the land. In other words,
there was a prolonged dry season and Isaac was already
to go to Egypt as his father Abraham did as in the
previous famine. You know what was the outcome for
Abraham lost contact with God, part of his
inheritance, his precious wife and came out of Egypt
with Hagar who became a serious problem to Abraham and
his descendants till date.
The Bible tells us that God appeared to Isaac and
instructed him not to go to Egypt but rather to stay
in the land and our God renewed His covenant of
blessings and outstanding success with him as he did
to his father Abraham.
This year God will appear to you, will reveal his
mind or ways to the promised land, to your blessing,
abundance and success to you. God told Isaac stay in
the land. The land for you is discovering the purpose,
the plan and the perfect will of God for you in every
area of life. God has destined you for outstanding
success but the success will not come outside the
land-His perfect will for you. So you must discover
what God wants you to do, where he wants you to do it,
when he wants you to do it, how he wants you to do
it.
God has promised to be with you. His divine presence
and prompt obedience to his divine instruction is what
will bring you to great success this year.
Jesus Christ instructed Peter having suffered lack
through out the night to launch into the deep. It
looked absurd, because it was professionally unethical
to fish in broad daylight. But because the Master of
the universe, the Lord , the impossibility specialist
spoke “Launch into the deep” and Peter in response or
in obedience to Christ instruction “Nevertheless at
your Word” had a multitude of catch of fish. Failure
was turned into great success. Peter suddenly became
an employer of labour and a celebrity. This year, I
see God instructing you in the way you shall go and
your failures will be turned to success, stories to
glories.
The widow of the prophet in 2 Kgs 4:1-7 was another
person whose hopeless situation was turned around as
she received and obeyed instruction from the man of
God “Elisha.” She got her success story. Her inherited
debt was paid, children were redeemed and she and her
sons had more than enough to spend for the rest of
their lives.
Paul made great success of his ministry and calling
because he constantly heard from God and did in
accordance to God’s instruction.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was a perfect example of a man
with outstanding success. “For the Father loves the
son and shows him all he does, yes to your amazement,
He will show him even greater things than these.” (Jn
5:20)
The Bible admonishes us that you should not allow the
book of the law depart out of thy mouth but thou shalt
meditate on it day and night, that thou mayest observe
to do according to all that is written there in, for
then shalt thou make thy way prosperous and then shalt
thou have good success.
Every humble child or son of God who shall submit
himself or herself to the Lord will be instructed in
what is right and thought the ways of God.
To hear the Lord is the pathway of success. He has
fashioned or paved for you this year. Simply ask or
call on Him. He said call on me and I will answer you
and show you great and mighty things you know not
about. Ask Him for the doors of success he has opened
for you in 2005 and He will surely show you.
God instructed Isaac on what to do in a famine
season. The result was an outstanding success. “Isaac
planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a
hundred fold, because the Lord blessed him. The man
grew until be became very rich and his wealth
continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
Every divine instruction must be followed with
prompt obedience because it is not the hearers but the
doers of the Word that shall be blessed. Your
willingness to obey God’s instruction in every area of
your life will bring great success.
Your friend-Bamikole Isaac.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

THE GOD OF NEW BEGINNING

Dear brother and sister, we have the pleasure to say
a happy new year 2005 to you and all that is yours. It
s is our prayer that the Almighty God who is called
the Alpha and Omega, who opened the chapter of this
year for you, will take you gloriously through it in
Jesus name.
We are fully persuaded in our spirit mind that there
are heights that God is taking you to this year. There
are things and areas in life that God will want to
begin with you afresh as He rightly told us that for
those who trust, hope and serve Him, He will put an
end to the old order of things in their lives and open
up a new beginning for us. So we want to share this
message with you and as you believe God for His Word,
the year 2005 will be the best year you ever lived.
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor
crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the
former things are passed away. And HE that sat upon
the throne said “ Behold, I make all things new. And
He said unto me, write : for these words are true and
faithful. And He said unto me, “ it is done.” I am the
Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will
give unto Him that is athirst of the fountain of water
of life free. Revelations 21: 4-6.
The Lord God Almighty said, “I am the Alpha and the
Omega”, the beginning and the end. The issue of life
concerning you this year is already settled., Your
maker, Creator, the one that is not bound by season
and time and whose word is True and Faithful has said,
He is wiping away your tears, that you shall not die
but live to declare the works of the Lord. Death in
your body, soul, business, carrier, ministry is
terminated in Jesus name. The era of sorrow, crying
and pain in your life is over. God told Moses : the
Egyptians you are seeing now, you shall see no more.
This same God says your life has been saddled with
negative things that does not glorify Him. Is 43:18-19
says, “Remember ye not the former things, neither
consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new
thing now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers
in the desert.”
It has been rightly prophesied by our daddy in the
Lord, Pastor E.A. Adeboye, this is a year of open
doors. New doors of opportunities will be opened to
you in every area of life. It is settled a matter
because He that is the Alpha and Omega said it, He is
True and faithful. Challenges and opportunities come
hand-in-hand, they are twin sisters. For new things to
begin, be expecting new challenges, to do new things
and attempt new things equally for God.
The God of a new beginning demands from you a new
and fresh commitment, consecration, absolute devotion
and loyalty to Him. You must be resolute in your
decision to live holy, to be sensitive to His
instruction and to obey Him promptly.
The new beginning will not take the former path or
follow the old order. You remember that in the
beginning, God gave form and shape to the entire
creation, commanded light to shine in the midst of
darkness. I see God giving form, shape, focus into
every area of your life this year. I see the glory of
God shining out in your life this year with great
intensity and illumination. God is filling every
department of your life with all his good treasures.
Please, can you turn your Bibles with me to Isaiah
65:17-24. Read it, meditate on it, pray it, believe it
and you shall see that God is True , Faithful and that
forever His Word is settled in Heaven.
May you daily enjoy His divine presence this year in
Jesus Name.
SHALOM!
Pst Isaac B. Bamikole