Programme: Believers Convention Prayer Meeting 2021 (Week One Day Three)
Date: 16th June, 2021
Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Minister: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
As the soul is being transformed -- through spiritual growth – one will begin to see or understand scripture differently. One of the ways by which we can measure how much a person has grown spiritually is to check his understanding of scriptures.
Some people can have various knowledge, they know all manner of mysteries but do not know the true mysteries of the gospel (Col. 2:2). The purpose of knowledge is to deliver the testament to us. However, we cannot have the testament without being deliberate about it. Testimony refers to knowledge. Therefore, the testament cannot come into us if we do not have knowledge.
Having knowledge is a form of spiritual initiation for a soul. This is why people begin to feel guilty when they turn away from certain knowledges that they have come into. For such ones, there is a way God will account retribution for them. This is different from when one does things without knowledge (Acts 17:30).
It is evident in the realm of the spirit when a man comes into a spiritual knowledge; spirits, sngels, the Son and the Father know. The realm of the spirit is extremely vast but unified. God will take you seriously when He begins to help you to know. As you keep knowing, He brings more knowledge to you (Rev. 3:8-9).
A contrite spirit is a heart that is ahead of a poor heart (Isa. 66:1-3). It is a heart of Peace, that can get to the Holy Place. However, a trembling heart is a heart of the Holy of Holies. The Gospel is first of all preached to the poor heart (Luke 4:18) and then graduates into the contrite and broken heart and eventually, the trembling heart. All of these things are the sacrifices of God.
The acceptable year of the Lord is preached to those who are contrite at heart. A trembling heart cannot be found except in Zion; they are those who mourn in Zion. They can also make sacrifices, which are acceptable to God in Zion (Isa. 61:1-3). One who comes to God must be a broken man and he must have been broken twice (Psa. 51:17). A man who has not been broken twice cannot tremble. Such spirits are broken completely.
A spirit is he who has broken in many pieces and is not together. This is typified by how animals that go before God in the Old Testament were usually chopped into pieces before being burnt. The whole purpose of that animal is for its heart.
“Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.’’ (Heb. 10:5-6). Burnt offering is different from sin offering. It is an offering of service to God; it signifies the submission of oneself to God. Before a man can be clean, he must first make sacrifices. Although Jesus has offered his life to us, we will still need to offer our lives as sacrifices just as He also sacrificed Himself (Romans 12:1). Our sacrifice opens us up to the grace that Jesus has prepared for us; it positions us to receive it.
We do not receive grace by being static, we need motion to receive grace by the Spirit. Grace empowers us to sacrifice to God (Jam. 2:18).
Angels have been broken and arranged in God's order but Satan got out. He set himself free because he wanted freedom from God. You can never be under God when you're not obeying the laws of sacrifice.
A ram is an animal of the Holy of Holies; it is tender but a thunder. A ram is like the lion in the cat family, although they belong to different animal classes. God calls Himself a Ram and also a Lion. His Son is a Lamb.
He that ministers by the altar should live by the altar (1 Cor. 9:13). As such, God comes to the altar and eats sacrifices that have been made for Him; this is how we give God what to eat (Psa. 50:13). God gave the promise of Eternal Life (1 John 2:25) but there are also promises that leads to it and they are not without sacrifices (Heb. 8:6, Psa. 51:17). The key to every nature or life in God is a sacrifice. What makes the nature of a priest is that he has made a covenant with God by sacrifice (Psa. 50:5).
The commandments that are given to husbands and wives are examples of such sacrifices. The reason for such commandments is not just to make their marriages work, but to give them the opportunity to become sons of God.
Marriage is a sacrifice. However, what we have now in the world is contrary. Men can no longer sacrifice and are demanding rights, but this is a satanic work. A man should love his wife. The day he stops doing that is the day his entrance into the Kingdom and change stop. If a man does not serve his wife, his offering will not go up.
We are to sacrifice and stay sacrificing. Stay on the altar; do not change the arrangement of sacrifice. For life to follow, sacrifice is inevitable. The order of the will of God is the reign and means by which we sacrifice. When we do His will, we are sacrificing. Any doer of God's will is making a covenant because covenants are made when the will of God is being done.
In the perfect will, we are to please God well (Heb. 13:21). Jesus perfected the state He got to because He was obeying God's will. God needs to break us so that we will not be useful to the adversary. There is a place we will get to in our sacrifice to God that Satan can no longer tempt us. When God leads us and causes us to make covenant with Him, He makes covenant with us such that Satan cannot tempt us to turn away. So, God destroys spirits on the altar.
God is the possessor of heaven and earth. He made Jesus by sacrifice because everything Jesus did was sacrificial and He is still sacrificing. This shows that everything about God’s realm is sacrifice. God also make sacrifices. He is not sitting on His throne for Himself. He derives pleasure from sacrificing.
There is an order of life called quickening spirit, just like how Jesus was made after resurrection (1 Cor. 15:45). It is an eternal sacrificial arrangement. There is also an order of life called everlasting life and it is also a sacrifice. We should not stop sacrificing but keep doing it until the evil one can no longer touch us (1 John 5:18). Our lifestyle is a sacrificial one. There is no life outside sacrifice. We cannot last outside sacrifice. By grace, we will burn and show our burnt offering. We will sacrifice according to the Book according to the will of God (Heb. 10:7).