Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministries (EGFM)
Programme: Tuesday Prayer Meeting
Date: 18th January 2022
Minister: Rev. (Mrs) Helen Oyegoke
The season of everlasting life is the season of salvation. God must help us give the more earnest heed to the things we are hearing (Heb. 2:1). These words come very subtly and can be easily despised, but we must be careful not to despise those small impressions intended to communicate everlasting conversations.
As we spend time praying this season, we will connect a strength that will empower us not to fall into the trap of Satan. This strength will enable us to be meek, even when it does not seem wise to do so. The formation of meekness within us will not allow us go against the laws of the spirit. We must choose the life and thoughts of God in order to have the capacity to refuse the evil and choose good (Isa. 7:15).
We must possess enough spiritual sense not to make a fuss about things. To make a fuss out of issues is to misbehave in the spirit. We must not be comfortable with anger and discord; we must outgrow negative garments of confusion and anger. We must free ourselves from evil spirits and not allow Satan to set up confusion in our hearts against our brethren, which will lead us to take a wrong action against them.
Those who do not respond to grace would remain under the buffeting of evil spirits. There is grace this season not to misbehave in the spirit, and it is understanding that brings this grace. As we receive understanding this season, the value that we place on the natural would diminish and we would start judging with the light of everlasting life. The Lord God must be our dread; He must be our fear in this season (Isa. 8:13).
Everlasting substances are substances of salvation and they come by words. When everlasting words are being spoken, salvation is being given and we ought to receive it. We receive salvation by agreeing in our hearts with the standard everlasting life is projecting. We can refuse the grace of everlasting life because of reasonings/thoughts that are below everlasting life.
Our prayers this season would cause us to gird up the loins of our minds and be sober (1 Pet. 1:13). To be sober is not to look sad; rather, it is the ability to stay within the confines of the laws of the spirit. One who will not break the laws of the spirit for any reason is a sober person.
A sober person is one that will wait on what God has to say concerning a matter before he takes an action, no matter how much it may hurt within. This nature will make one slow to speak and slow to wrath (Jam. 1:19). One who is slow will hear what the Lord has to say. Everlasting life is all about the sayings of the Lord, for He will speak us out of death, sin, iniquity and everlasting iniquity. Therefore, we have to give the more earnest heed to the things we are hearing (Heb. 2:1).
We must be deliberate to obey God's dictates because the fact that God gave us an instruction is not a guarantee that we will do it. Many times, we just rejoice in it, share it but disobey it the next minute while others who hear it might do it.
“I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” (1 Cor. 9:27). The ability to keep the body under subjection is a deliberate work of grace. We must be deliberate in keeping every instruction the Lord brings to us this season. We are not blessed because we preach, but because we do. One is disqualified from entrance in the spirit if such a person does not do.
We must trust God to purge us of everything that would stop us on the path of life. As long as the judgement of God is against a nature one possesses, that nature will stop him from inheriting everlasting life. Everlasting life is the life of God that was configured in our Lord Jesus and God has authorized Him to give it to us.
"And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:40) It is the Son we are going to see, not the Father. This is because when we see the Son, we have seen the Father. The substances of the Father configured the Son.
God gave the Son everything (John 16:15). The only way we can receive the substances of the Father is by obeying the commandments given to us. These words are not being spoken to us emptily – they have the capacity to alter us into everlasting men. We are in a season where we must be sober. To be sober is to stay within the confines of the law of the Spirit. We should not break the laws of the spirit, but when we do, we should quickly repent. We need knowledge because when we are ignorant, we do not know when we are breaking laws.
An ignorant person can never be sober. When we are ignorant of the laws of everlasting life, we cannot be sober. We cannot possess everlasting life without the revelation of Jesus Christ. The revelation of the Son is the giving of life. When He is revealed, it is sure that grace will be given.
We must yield to grace for death to be dealt with within us. When the Son of God is preached, grace is ministered (John 1:14). The truth does not work alone, it works with grace. We are set to receive great grace that would enable us to do the unthinkable. We would see how we would walk out of seemingly difficult situations/natures by grace, through the revelation of Jesus (John 1:17).
The laws of everlasting life are laws of conversion into little children (Matt. 18:3). We must not have the strength to defend ourselves, for it is only those who are little that would find entrance into everlasting life. The first thing the law of everlasting life will do is to configure us to be little. When grace and understanding comes, we would see nothing pleasurable in being big, rather, we will be glad in being little. Grace will make us reject being big; it is possible for one who is big to be converted into being little.
It is by understanding that we would see the superfluity, emptiness and futility of being big. By Knowledge, we will choose to go low. A man of knowledge increases strength (Prov. 24:5). Others might choose to go up, but we must choose to come low by the workings of the laws of everlasting life in us.
This is not a tough time but a gracious time. The season of everlasting life is to kill every evil nature, but it comes with great grace to carry us through. However, we must be willing to yield and agree to the nothingness of fame, position, reputation and riches. By grace, we will give up our earthly status for everlasting life. By grace, we will narrowly look at things that have previously made us misbehave in the spirit.
There is going to be a thorough purging in our midst by light and understanding that will cause us to expose our idols to light. We will find grace to discard anything and everything that does not give life to our soul. Everlasting life is what will purge us thoroughly; it would be a time of sprinkling. God wants to give us His life and He will do this by bringing the understanding of everlasting light to us and we will receive it with so much joy.
Our profiting with the demands of this season will enable us see the joy that is ahead. Satan packages things that would hinder us from receiving everlasting life. By understanding the promise, we must choose to drop things of earthly status that we highly esteem. Jesus is beautiful, He is upright by reason of the things that formed Him. Jesus is an everlasting Man and He wants to also commit everlasting things to us. Whoever does not journey in this light would be ashamed in the world to come. As such, we must not struggle with everlasting light so we would not be ashamed.
We must pray more! The more we pray, the more grace is being ministered and the lighter we become on our inside. The more we pray, the saner we become in the spirit, and we are then strengthened from within to take what Jesus is giving. This is not a difficult season, rather, it is a gracious season.
What characterizes everlasting life is the revelation of the Son of God and His revelation is accompanied by grace. Grace will be brought to us in this season. Our prosperity this season will not be by our power or might, but by the ministrations of the Spirit (Zech. 4:6).
We must pray to be sober and not compromise obedience. We must pray concerning any standard we see that we have not attained to, for the Lord has already said He would answer. He would answer by supplying light, understanding and grace. We are purged by light, and we would become so holy by reason of everlasting light.