Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing the Vision (February Edition)
Date: Saturday, 16th February 2022
Speaker 4: Rev. (Mrs.) Helen Oyegoke
The God we are serving is the God of order and honour. However, we cannot be like Him if we do not honour the authority that He sets above us. The realm of God is the realm of authority; no one would be admitted into it without aligning under authority. Scriptures say that women must cover their hair because of angels (1 Cor. 11:10). This is because angels behold order and submit to authority. Lack of submission will send angels far away from us.
Instructions are coming to wives at these times because they have power to keep peace or make trouble in the home. It is possible to be at peace and maintain the conversation that will make the atmosphere in the home conducive for the coming of angels. There is a conversation that can bring and keep angels.
There is a presence that is coming upon us, which must be treated as sacred. It is by knowledge, obedience and mercy that we journey to a higher realm. There are things we must do to keep the place we have come into, so that we can break into the season that is coming upon us. There is a keen instruction for us to keep a godly conversation in the home. We must be conscious of God because He would be visiting us in every area of our lives.
Heavenly beings are very sensitive; they cannot tolerate or survive in the conversation of flesh. Flesh does not have fear or reverence. This is why the Lord cannot come to a man who is flesh. The place where the Lord can dwell is a house (soul) which has contriteness (Isa. 57:15).
The reason God is raising us is so that He can come to inhabit us. God raises men by His thoughts. When these thoughts come to us, they break our former evil conversations so that we can wear the new conversation. God’s thoughts or standards may seem unfair to men, but what makes us think this way is ignorance and lack of understanding. God is excellent, beautiful and blessed forever. Every instruction He gives us is a blessing,
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. [9] For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa. 55:8-9). The earth does not have the capacity to bear God's thoughts. This is why He is raising us to be able to bear them. The commandment that the Lord is bringing to us is that of love; and this is why we must learn the conversation of love. Even when we complain about our brethren, God will not take sides with us against them. He would rather instruct us to clean our slates by forgiving them and forgetting whatever wrong they have done to us.
“For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.” (Isa. 66:2). Conversations like reverence and fear can keep the atmosphere of the Spirit, therefore we must keep these conversations. He who trembles at God's word is a man of reverence; this is a conversation that God wants us to have in this season.
When His thoughts come, whether as impressions or other forms, we should not just ignore them but tremble at His word. If we let go of any of such thoughts, we let go of an essential building block because every thought is necessary for building us up in the spirit.
A house will not stand if some blocks are missing because those missing ones will give room for evil spirits and demons. We must therefore not let any thought (building block) from God slide; we must tremble to receive them. If God’s thoughts come to us, we must take them as an integral part of our building.
A poor man is not the one who is deficient in natural goods, he is a man who is empty of himself and has room to take things of God. Our abilities can make us rich. We can be rich in many other things apart from what would make us rich in God. We must however be vulnerable to the Lord and show him how we are so empty without Him, so that He can fill us.
“Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?” (Isa. 66:1). God is looking for a habitation. The place of His rest is in men. God will look towards the man who trembles at the word because it is by the word that He would build His resting place. If a man does not hold in esteem or obey the commandments of the word, the Lord will not take delight in him.
We must regard the word that is spoken to us, for there is no building without the word. This word is not the one we quote but the one we understand and receive as judgement. We must treat this word as God's demand and standard for us in the season it comes to us.
There is a conversation that the Lord expects of husbands and wives. A wife should show forth a conversation that is according to the word of the Lord. We must yield to how the Lord instructs. When the Lord instructs us by giving us impressions (in our spirits) towards a brother or sister, we must align with it. We should not forget but hold the word that the Lord gives us through instructions, otherwise, we would be throwing our building materials away. Our building will not rise when we always discard the words of God by disobeying them. Therefore, we must hold the word with trembling all the time and not despise it.
Husbands should not respond to their wives based on their actions towards them, but rather according to what the word of God says concerning that person. This is the season for a different kind of conversation. It is not necessary that you have to win an argument over your spouse. For the sake of the presence of angels, we should choose peace. These are the days when we should be very gentle and quiet because of presence. There are conversations that will not allow such heavenly beings to come down.
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” (Matt. 5:8). We attain purity of heart by obeying the truth. Truth purifies us from the world. The world will not allow us to have unfeigned love for the brethren. Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life will not allow us to have fervent charity. However, the word is set to purify us of these things. The lust of the flesh will not allow us to prefer our brother above ourselves. What brings about competition is the pride of life. It is also what makes us talk down on one another. However, the word x-rays these things and shows us their futility.
Times would come when we would loathe the things of the world and they would not add any "pride of life" to us. We will use the world and not abuse it (1 Cor. 7:31). When the heart is purified, it will see that which matters. We should not place perishable things above our brothers or the laws of God. We should not despise the laws of God because of things that will perish.
When we do not despise the world, we would not be able to obey the law of charity. Purification takes us to the place of unfeigned love of the brethren. We would struggle with fervent charity when things of the world still mean a lot to us. We will not appreciate in love if we are not purified from the world.
We must train our hearts in obedience. If we do not, we will arrive at a formation of disobedience. Perpetual disobedience will lead to a heart that does not tremble at God’s word. When we are used to discarding the word of God over little things, we will do the same thing over big things also.
Knowledge is used to lay the foundation in our souls. We are going to be built individually and collectively (Eph 2:20-21). If your individual building is incomplete, you will not fit into the collective building and will be a weak link through which the building may collapse. Every part of a building supplies a strength for the building, therefore, we need both individual and collective growth. What your brother is going through is for the sake of his own fitting into the building. Therefore, you should focus on your own growth as well.
There is a growth that God is expecting from every individual and we can not hide under another man’s growth or building. Everyone must run their own race to be raised. The way to achieve this is to tremble at the word because that is the instrument of building. The growth is primarily individual before it is collective.
Speakings and thoughts are meant to mould a building and raise us as a place for God to dwell. The presence that God is currently granting us is pregnant with things and we must fear to disobey the thoughts of God that visit us. Let us tremble at His word. Every thought and word from Him is significant to your development. Choosing to obey some instructions while disobeying others will make the building incomplete and full of holes.
Conversations at home and amongst friends, brethren, roommates and flatmates are points where we often miss it. However, the Spirit of God will give us instructions on how to handle our relationships with these categories of people.
"And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:16). God will dwell in us by our obedience to the commandment of love. The Lord will bring understandings on how to dwell in love (1 Thess. 4:9). The Lord will bring judgements, understandings, and instructions that we must obey.
Some instructions will make us look like we are weaker but we must obey them. Whatever your level is in the spirit, gather strength and do the love that is required of you because we all must be part of that holy city. The city is one that is full of men who have done divine love.