Spiritual Poverty (Part 6)

*Matthew 5:3, "Blessed  are the poor in  spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."*

So far, we have discussed spiritual food insufficiency, spiritual clothes insufficiency and now we are discussing spiritual abode or home insufficiency.
Yesterday, we discussed Adam as the younger son, who sold his part of inheritance, left his home, left his elder brother Jesus and his loving Father and has now spent everything he had and has no choice but to be employed by an uncaring employer called the devil, to take care of swines we called sin for a wage we called death.
We went on to say that Adam must *come to his senses* and remember that he has a Father, go to him, kneel down and accept to work as a servant or a slave. Because even if it is his Father's house, everything now by right is owned by his Elder brother Jesus. And this is why we are rightly called *"servants of God"*, and as Paul used to say, *"a slave to Christ"*.
We said, that Adam must realize that now he owns NOTHING. If he has to ask of anything from the Father, *he has to ask for it IN THE NAME OF JESUS his elder brother.* We finished at the point where I was explaining that *praying in the name of Jesus*, does not mean mentioning the name of Jesus at the end of your prayers, it means coming into a realisation that everything in this house you have come to after your prodigy episode belongs to Jesus, and you will not get anything unless He has first signed an authorization.
Praying in the name of Jesus is not a "names dropping", where you mention who you know to intimidate juniors. It only works after a sit down with Jesus, and him accepting your request, then you can go to the Father and tell Him, "Jesus has allowed me to use such and such a thing in this house." And such a prayer as Jesus said, will never go unanswered, in other words, God will never refuse to let you use what Jesus has already allowed you to use in His compound.
The problem is that people use the Name of Jesus to try and bully God into doing things and angels into serving them. They act like "spoilt brats", who squandered everything and just because the father forgave him and the brother has allowed them to be co-heir,  he now wants everybody to tremble as they obey their command.
This is one of the reasons why prayers go an answered. Prayer must be in consultation with Jesus Christ before it is presented before God. And the Father's work will only be to allow, but many times people pray, and then the Father has to ask Jesus, "Did you agree to so and so using that Mercedes?" And Jesus will say, "We haven't talked about it", then the Father will deny you the Mercedes, and you will think He still hates you for what you did with your part of inheritance. But nothing is further from the truth!
God forgave you and looks at you like you never sinned. Jesus has already agreed to make you a co-heir. *A co-heir is not a partnership!* It is an arrangement of owning everything together communally.
This is why, even if Jesus owns everything, He could still say, "foxes have holes, birds have nests, but I, the Son of Man has no place to lay my head". He was coming to terms with the state and the situation of His younger brother Adam, who now has nothing.
When we talk about shelter, we need to know that our bodies are temporary shelter to the real son of God within them. I was trying to explain yesterday to a brother that man is made up of three components. A body that is born of a Woman, a spirit that is born of God and a mind that is born of knowledge. And non of these belong to man. This is why Jesus is saying, "Blessed is the man that realises how poor he is spiritually, for it is only he that can access the kingdom of God".
*Bless* means divinely engineer and empower or set up to prosper. You will never achieve the apex of your greatness until you start first by acknowledging the greatness of your nothingness.
You have to humble yourself before the LORD,  for the lifting to be initiated.
Why do we have poor Christians?
Because very few understand how this kingdom works. Most believe that just because the Father welcomed them with a kiss, put a ring on their finger, donned them with a new gown, and slaughtered a fat bull for them, then now they can infringe on the *rights of their Elder brother*.
Many think that the reason God is not answering them is because of their sin. But the way to accessing the kingdom of heaven, is by humbling yourself and talking with Jesus first concerning everything you want and then presenting your unanimous concensus to the Father for approval.
But this *lastborn mentality* of "I am my Father's favorite" and names dropping will not help much.
Ask the sons of Sceva, they tried the "names dropping" business with a certain demon, their experience is lesson up to date.
In our part seven tomorrow, we shall look at how to consult with Jesus, for express approval of our pleas to the Father.
Shalom and keep the faith.



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Spiritual Poverty (Part 5)

*Matthew 5:3, "Blessed  are the poor in  spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."* (KJV)

You know, the first statement a person makes when giving a lecture or a speech or a presentation is very important. Mostly, these statements lay the foundation and everything else that would be spoken is built around that first statement. Therefore, when, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", is Jesus' first statement, it should also tell you that most likely, that, whatever else He spoke after that statement might as well have been an explanation of sorts of what being spiritually poor really is.
But as usual, we like taking scripture and isolating every piece to stand on its own and make it mean what we want it to mean. But I would challenge someone to again go to Matthew five and read from verse three to eleven, but this time round, do not read like every verse is its own boss, read it like every verse is trying to explain what verse number five means. And see how much more revelation you will capture from the script.
Ask yourself, Who mourns more than the poor? Who's more meek than the poor? Who hungers and thirsts more than the poor? Who claims to have mercy or need mercy application than the poor? If a poor man and a rich man were set before you and you were asked to vote for who you think has the purest heart, who would you vote for? A poor man knows that if he starts a fight he will lose, so, who would want to make peace with everybody more than a poor man? And lastly, who is more persecuted than the poor man?
That aside, yesterday we finished at a point where we agreed that spiritual poverty has nothing to do with physical poverty or material poverty. Material poverty is a choice and or is caused by poor choices. Some once told me that *POOR: means Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly*.
I gave a story some years back of two ladies I helped, each with a thousand Kenya Shillings. One went home and gave her family a meal of a lifetime from the thousand, the other cooked as usual, then woke up early the following morning with the over eight hundred remaining, she went and bought second hand clothes and started hawking them. Soon, from the one thousand that the other ate in one sitting, she was making income and needed not to beg anymore. She actually even started tithing back to me that had given her the thousand. Do you see the difference?
Solomon says this about poverty, "A little slumber, a little folding of hands and the poverty will fall on you like a thief and your being in want like an armed robber. (Prov 6:10&11, 24:33&34)."
Which means that the opposite is true, poverty is chased out by agreeing to sleep less and putting your hands into something more.
Today I wanted us to speak about shelter. We said that poverty is characterised by lack of or insufficiency of four things:food, clothes, shelter and education. We have talked about food, we have touched on clothing and today we talk of shelter.
The bible tells us that Jesus is the firstborn, we are daily conforming into His image so that He may be a firstborn amongst many brethren. Adam was also born of God, hence Adam is the younger son.
Jesus while on earth gave a story of Him and His brother Adam. He said that a father had two sons, then the younger son came to his father and said, "give me what belongs to me". The father divided his estate into two and gave his younger son his portion. Not many days later the younger son sold everything and left for a far away country where he extravagantly spent his fortune in careless living. Soon, he had nothing and had to seek a job as a swine caretaker. The employer neglected him so much so, that he started eating what the pigs were eating.
Then one day, the LORD said, *"the man came back to his senses"*. And he said, I will go back to my father and into his house and tell him I am ready to work even as a slave for I have sinned.
I wish I have time and space to explain this story piece by piece and how it reflects Jesus and Adam. But the Holy Spirit will guide you into all knowledge if you read it and in every place you see the older son, see Jesus,  where you see the younger son, see Adam and wherever you see the father, see God the Father.
My emphasis is on going back to the father and to his house. Because we are talking about shelter or lack of it for Adam.
Adam sold everything that was given to him as an inheritance, and left. After all that extravagance, he now has nothing. And his employer ... the devil, who has employed him to take care of his swines ... swines here represent sin ... for a wage .... the wage is death, has neglected him until he now eats what the swines eat. As Paul says, "The wages (salary after taking care) of sin (the pigs or swine) is death..."
Therefore, man has to come back to his senses and remember that he has a Father. And the Father did not give him everything. He only gave him half of the estate, there is still another estate that the Father is managing together with the Firstborn Son.
He must be ready to go and work as a servant or a slave in his Father's house. *This is why we are called servants of God* or as Paul says, *"Slaves to Christ"*.
Jesus said, "There is no other way (for Adam) to the Father except through me". This is so because, whatever the Father owns now is rightfully Jesus' possession. Adam already squandered his portion of inheritance. What remains belongs to Jesus to inherit.
Jesus also said, "Whatever you ask from the Father, you must ask *IN MY NAME* if you want to receive."
Praying in the Name of Jesus is not just about mentioning His Name at the end of your prayer. It is acknowledging that unless Jesus allows God to give you anything, you will get nothing.
Look at how the Firstborn son tells the father when he comes home only to find part of his inheritance was slaughtered without his knowledge. Even the father had to talk to him to calm him down, the father had to explain to the son why it was necessary to slaughter that bull. And the Firstborn Son has to agree to understand that it was necessary.
Remember the second born son has nothing, therefore, even this house he is living in is not his. And it is not his Father's. Everything now is owned by Jesus Christ.
This is why Jesus said, "Everything that the Father has, has been given to me".
Hence, when Jesus is telling Adam, "Blessed are the poor in the spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", He is actually telling Adam, "The only way you will access what Father has now given to me is by accepting that YOU HAVE NOTHING".
Jesus is the King of kings, and after he takes the world from the current reigning king called Lucifer, everything that belonged both to Adam and to Him wi be His by right.
But He is good, in that He has agreed to make Adam a co-heir with Him.
Co-heir means everybody owns everything. It is not a 50/50 arrangement, it means that what Jesus owns you also own. But that is then, after Jesus has come back. So, relax and come back to now.
Now means, that if you need anything from the Father, you have to ask for it through the name of Jesus.
It is equivalent to two children. Each is given a glass of milk. They are told to take good care of it and drink at will. The younger son, spills his milk and is left with an empty glass.
Now, praying in the name of Jesus, is equivalent to that, even if the parent would want to give the younger son part of the older son's milk, the older son must agree first. Therefore, if the younger son wants it, he must tell the parent, that the older son has agreed to share his milk with him.
Praying in the name of Jesus is not just saying, "in Jesus' Name". Some people say it like it is some sort of code. There must be an agreement first between you and Jesus. Then you go to the Father and tell Him, Jesus has agreed that you give me that car. I stand before you Father to request you give me that house. The Father wi ask, "How can I give you, it belongs to Jesus?" And you will say, "Jesus has agreed to give it to me". God will have no option but to give it to you. That is the real meaning of *Praying in Jesus' Name.* If you go to my father asking to take my car, my father will ask you how and why he should give you. There, you must ask for it in my name, by showing prove that I allow you to take it... hope you got it.
Let's continue tomorrow.
Shalom and keep the faith.




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Spiritual Poverty (Part 4)

*Matthew 5:3, "Blessed  are the poor in  spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."* (KJV)

We have been talking about spiritual poverty and trying to grasp a glimpse of what it really means to be spiritually poor. Some people think that lacking material things is equal to spiritual poverty, but nothing is further from the truth. You can have nothing to your name materially and still be what we call *spiritually rich*; you can also have all that a man desires and still be spiritually poor.
One rich young man came to Jesus and bragged of how he was good at obeying the laws, and wanted to know what else he needed to do to enter the kingdom of heaven. Then, Jesus gave him just one test, which he failed miserably,  Jesus told him to go and sell all he had, give everything to the poor then come and be his disciple. And the bible says that this young rich man went away a very troubled man, not because of anything else, *but because he was very rich*.
We are talking about clothing and we equated righteousness to a gown we are wearing after being washed by Jesus in His blood before He gives us a new cloth (of glory) in heaven. I told you that everything that happens physically has a spiritual bearing or connotation. We go to the bathroom, take a bath, wrap ourselves cum wipe ourselves with a towel as you apply your oils and body lotions and then go to wear our fresh clothes. It happens the same way spiritually, you are washed by the blood of Jesus, you are wrapped with righteousness and you dry up and are oiled (annointed) as you await glorification which is your fresh garment in heaven.
Them that He foreknew, He called, them that He called justified for them to be glorified (Romans 8:29).
*Hence, righteousness is a gown that you will one day exchange for glory.* In the beatitude, the same place where our lead scripture for this topic is, mentions righteousness twice. Verse six says that *Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.* Verse ten says that, *Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.*
The rich young man that came to Jesus was not ready to be persecuted for righteousness' sake, which means he was not hungry and thirsty for righteousness with extends to tell us that he was not poor in the spirit and conclusively points out why he was to miss the kingdom of heaven.
There are two phrases that should not confuse people, *the kingdom of God* and *the kingdom of heaven*. The kingdom of God appears 70 times in 68 verses of the new testament. While the kingdom of the heaven appears 33 times in 32 verses and ONLY in the book of Matthew. The Jews revered God so much that they termed it not right to keep mentioning His Name every where. And therefore, most of the times "heaven" would be used in the place of "God" to avoid familiarising the ear to the word. As familiarity breeds contempt.
I however do not entirely discard the revelation of some who have taught that these two phrases may mean two different things. That the kingdom of heaven represents the millenial kingdom, the 1000 years that Jesus will rule on earth with the devil locked up somewhere in hell. While the kingdom of God represents the universal kingdom, where God reigns supreme on angels, humans and spirits.
Any ways, that's besides my point. My point was on emphasising on righteousness. Yesterday we said that *righteousness is a white gown* that has to be washed in the mercies of God possibly every morning.
And as we are continuing in our pursuit of spiritual poverty, we said that one characteristic of Poverty is lack of many clothes.
And with righteousness as our cloth, we need to know that it is our one and only cloth.
I have never had just one cloth, but I have heard stories of people who came to the city or started life with just one set of clothes. And they would wash them at night and leave them to dry overnight, sleep naked, wake up and Wear the same clothes they had yesterday as if they were new. This is a true example of what a spiritually poor dude does with his or her righteousness.
They know it is the only clothe they have, to make the matters sweeter, it is white in color. Yet everyday they must look sharp and ready though they live in a dusty environment. They therefore must agree to be persecuted by cold overnight for righteousness' sake; as they wash their righteousness in the blood of Jesus.... naked ... can you picture that? Because they hunger and thirst for righteousness.... and they are poor, albeit spiritually, hence qualify to be heirs of the kingdom.
Let me end by saying this, one of my son's asked me, "Why does God let Christians to be poor?"
I told Him that God does not let any Christian to be poor. Any Christian that is poor is poor either by choice or is impoverished by poor choices. Paul says that Jesus became poor so that we may be rich! Any Christian that is poor needs to recheck which Jesus they are following, because the one I am following, became poor so that I may become rich.
But we are made rich physically only if we can prove that by so doing, we will become poor spiritually. And this is the test that the young rich man failed.
One of the reason that we have poor Christians is because they are yet to prove that their hunger for righteousness surpasses their hunger for wealth. Almost everybody is betting nowadays, right? Just ask one, "What would you do if you win the jackpot?" The closest to God will tell you they will give God a tithe and use the rest on themselves. And they will feel very proud to have said so, in other words, if God Blessed you immensely, *you are telling him ALL He can get from you is a mere TEN PERCENT?????*
I can assure you without thinking twice, things might remain the same for a very long time. The people that God pulls from poverty are people like the widow, who said that all that remained was just enough for her and her son, yet she cooked for Elijah first bread. I can bet that she didn't sacrifice her son's bread, she sacrificed her own, and by so doing she knew of hunger no more.
People like Colgate, who started tithing ten per cent but ended up giving more than fifty per cent. Today you use their toothpaste don't you?
If any Christian is poor physically, it is either by choice, or they are impoverished by poor choices.
Let's pick up from here tomorrow.
Shalom and keep the faith.



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Spiritual Poverty (Part 3)

*Matthew 5:3, "Blessed  are the poor in  spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."* (KJV)

In the first two parts we looked at the food aspect in our journey to demystify spiritual poverty. And we have seen that as much poverty insinuates deficiency of sufficient food, it also serves to raise your sensitivity of determining what is food and what is not.
Let us pause on food there and jump in *CLOTHING* with emphasis on *SPIRITUAL CLOTHING*.
Prophet Isaiah at the beginning of his ministry made a very profound prophesy, he said that a time will come when seven women will grab hold on one man, these seven women will tell the man, "We will feed ourselves", remember we have already discussed about food. They will also tell the man, "We will cloth ourselves", which is what we are discussing now. All these women will want is to be called by the name of the man or in other words to claim him as their husband (Isaiah 4:1).
The bible refers to us as the church, and calls the church the bride of Christ.
What is the church? Is it the architecture or the people in it?
Many people will jump and tell me that it is the people in it. But then why do we call some building churches? Why do you say, "I am going to church" and head to a certain building?
Well, the truth is that the church is both *an organisation and an organism*. An organisation is a system governed by structures, constitutions, rules and regulations. This is why you can say, "our church doesn't do that". When you are saying, "our church doesn't do that", you are not talking about an organism, you are talking about an organisation. It is the organisation that builds structures and architectures for worship and this is why we call such structures churches, because they are part of the organisation called church.
The church is also an organism. Those who did biology know what an organism is. In biology, an organism is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life. It is a synonym for "life form".
And when we are talking about the church being the bride of Christ, we are not talking about an organisation governed by a constitution and that has to register with the government registrar to function, we are talking about an organism which is given life by the blood of Jesus Christ.
While there are many ways to interpret the prophesy of my friend and brother, prophet Isaiah, one way, which fits our discussion today is having people that cling to Jesus and want to claim Him as their groom. *But they are rich*, hence they don't want Jesus to feed them and they don't want Jesus to cloth them, they can do that with their own money. All they want is Jesus to allow them to be called His bride.
Before the fall of Man,  man (which in this case represents male and female) was clothed in glory. This is why it was impossible for man to discover the other was naked.
But as Paul tells us, *man fell short of glory*, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Remember we said poverty depicts *falling short* of the basic needs in life, and clothing is a basic need in life. Therefore, when man fell short of glory, he fell short of a covering.
Then Jesus came to restore man to his former glory actually to an even greater glory than he had when in Eden.
But before man is clothed with a greater glory, he has to first manage with a makeshift clothing called *RIGHTEOUSNESS*. Righteousness is like wrapping yourself in a towel from shower, just before you put on some dry clean, ironed clothes.
I have heard this questions severally, "If really we go to the bathroom to clean up, why do we still have to wash the towel?"
It is one of the funny questions asked to make fun of the towel. But you have to keep your towel clean if you want it to wipe you clean. What would be the use of taking a bath, only to dry yourself with a dirty towel.
This is the same thing with righteousness. The bible says that, *"we are the righteousness of God "*. I have therefore heard some preachers saying that because of that and a few other statements in the bible, we do not need to repent.  This is like saying, "I only use the towel when I am cleaned up, why should I wash the towel?"
Repentance is not necessary because you are not clean, it is necessary to ensure that what is covering you after you are clean is itself clean!
John the revelator, tells us in the book of revelation, that Jesus will only welcome home, those who washed clean their garments with the blood of the Lamb and those who kept their garment clean.
There are two things involved here, the washing clean and the KEEPING clean. The keeping clean is a continual process.
I once told you that, the bible calls our garments *"a white garment"*. And I said that one of the disadvantages of a white garment is how much cleaning they need and how often they take you back to the laundry process.
The darker a cloth is, the more you can were it without people noticing you have "recycled" it. But those who have white garments can only wear them at most once, before it shows it has been previously worn.
This tells you how often you should be repenting. Or why do you think the bible says that *God's mercies are new every morning?* It is because, every morning you need to wear righteousness that has been washed in His mercies all over again.
Capture this as I pen off and we continue tomorrow, *poor people don't have many clothes*.
And we are talking about spiritual poverty. Spiritually poor people only have one clothe, which they wash and dry overnight and re-wear it the following day. Selah.
Righteousness is white in color, and it is the only clothe you have, but if you wear it more than once without cleaning it in mercy, it will start to show of what a dirty girl you are... yes remember we are the bride?
This is why David says, "Night after night, I call your on name". Overnight vigils are awesome, they are great times to clean your garment. Some churches  (Organisation) tell the church (organism) that praying at midnight is good because you fight demons, but I say praying at night is BETTER if you spend your time washing your white garment. When your garment is clean, you don't need to fight the devil, the word of the LORD, "Touch not my anointed, do my servant no harm", is already speaking against him. Because your one and only white garment of righteousness is sparkling white clean.
Let's pick up from here tomorrow.
Shalom and keep the faith.



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Spiritual Poverty (Part 2)

 *Matthew 5: 3, "Blessed  are the poor in  spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."*

Yesterday we looked at spiritual food as well continue to demystify spiritual poverty. And we stopped at a point where we said that you must be sensitive enough to know  the kind of food you should eat and shouldn't eat. You should be able to smell your kind of food from very far. Else, you will fall into the trouble of getting food poisoned.
I am not bragging, but I must say that there are a lot of chain messages that fly all over social media, but as for me, I only need to read the first three paragraphs at most to know if a message contains information I should consume or not.
Paul said that everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial. Information is available and good, but not every information is for you to consume.
I have had friends who were very good at first, but then they consumed wrong information and I am sorry to say that spiritually they died from spiritual food poisoning.
One was a very good preacher, we went from one high school to another with him preaching and shaping destinies of young high schoolers. But then he found himself studying another doctrine, a doctrine that emphasised on less reading of the bible but more of meditation. It taught him that there is no place called heaven, telling him that he was already in heaven. He started teaching that Jesus is never coming back, and saying that Jesus came back a long time ago. Nowadays, non of us want to be associated with him, schools barred him from speaking to the children in the long run, he opened a congregation somewhere where he teaches this "new" knowledge that he calls revelation after deep meditation.
Another one was a good brother. And he started to study occultism with emphasis on illuminati. At first he told us that he was studying this so that he may know how best to fight the devil. After a while he started telling us that after you have left occultism, you should not join Christianity. He said Christianity cannot protect you from what the devil does to those who leave his breed. And he started telling us that the best religion to join after leaving the devil's camp is Islam. Remember he was a Christian, but he got poisoned by what he consumed, to the point of believing that Jesus is powerless to protect those who come running to Him. He forgot even his favorite memory verse, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower, unto which the righteous run and they are safe".
These and many others were once great preachers, but they did not have self control at the table. Like Shadrach, Meshack,  Abednego and Daniel we need to master the art of saying "no!" to what we are not supposed to consume.
I tell people who send me illuminati information, that, I am not ignorant but *I believe the devil needs to know about me more than I need to know about him*. Therefore, whether every famous person is illuminati or not, that is their business, my business is to make the devil know about me, not me to know about him.
The sons of Sceva in bible learnt this the hard way. They went to cast out a demon in the name of Jesus that Paul preached. The demons told them, "We know Jesus and Paul too, but who are you?" These guys knew about the devil, but the devil had no idea they existed.
One of the best way to avoid food poisoning is by knowing your shepherd. You need to identify your shepherd. And you identify your shepherd by learning the voice of God.
Jesus said, "My sheep know my voice".
When you know the voice of Jesus, you will be able to mark out the right food from afar. Like David said, "The LORD is my shepherd...He makes me lay in green pastures... and leads me beside still waters."
It doesn't mean that because a certain man doesn't minister to you, that they are not preaching God. No! It just means that they are not your shepherd.
Sometimes I surf through my tv, and I pass over channels that have preachers on them, and you will see their congregation jumping up and down in excitement. But I will just go to the next channel. I am not doing so because they are preaching the devil, I am doing so because I know the kind of food I eat. When I go to a restaurant, I ask for the menu, not so that I may see what they have cooked, but so that I may see if they have the kind of food I eat.
I have a friend that takes me to all kinds of restaurants. And sometimes he will take me to a Chinese restaurant, and you will see Chinese enjoying all these kinds of weird  (albeit to me) delicacies. But as for me, I will take the menu, jump over the snakes, the snails and the rest and rest my finger on what I can eat. Have you ever eaten a crocodile? I am told it has one of the sweetest meats. I have had numerous opportunities to eat its meat but haven't, because it is not my kind of food!
You need to know the voice of God. When you know the voice of God, you will hear Him everywhere and anywhere where He is. You will enter a church and even before everything, all you see will tell you whether God is there or not. There are churches I enter and all I can do is check my WhatsApp conversations, what's trending online, etc. There are other houses (not churches) that I  enter and know, God is here.
The first time I audibly heard the voice of God,  I thought I was speaking to myself. He sounded exactly like me. But now I have learnt to hear Him even from stones and donkeys when they speak.
But I emphasise,  just because you don't hear God,  through me doesn't mean that I don't preach God. It only means that God does not speak to you through me.
We are like letters, preachers are like letters, letters addressed to a specific person. Sometimes you may have a letter addressed to the president, but you want the deputy president to react on it. The deputy president will tell you, "but this letter is not addressed to me". Same with preachers, a preacher may be having a great message, but it is not addressed to you, he or she is not addressed to you.
God told Elijah, "I have COMMANDED a widow to feed you", the widow did not hear any command from God, but her heart was moved to obey Elijah. You do not need to hear the audible voice of God, all you need is to move as your heart is being moved.
And if you do so, while others suffer and long for the rains, you will be wondering what the fuss is all about.
Some people hear God from me, they feel their hearts moved to cook for me the first bread, but then something tells them, "No, your shepherd is so and so", yet if you ask them what that person taught them today in church they will not remember, but they can remember a message I posted three years ago almost word for word. Some have even preached messages I sent to them, but they still deny I am their shepherd, Why? Because we don't meet physically. The same way people treat God because they don't meet Him physically. With such a behavior, food poisoning is inevitable.
We continue tomorrow...
Shalom and keep the faith.



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Spiritual Poverty

*Matthew 5:3, "Blessed  are the poor in  spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."*

I have been asked a few times what it means to be spiritually poor and I think I answered it sometime back, but I don't see any problem in answering it yet again.
What is poverty? Or what does it mean to be poor?
Pastor Nesh's definition of Poverty, is an inability to access basic needs with ease or in the right proportion. It is a realisation that you are always falling short of the basic needs.
According to how we were taught in school, the basic needs are *food, shelter, clothing and education*. Education was added later, at first it was all about food, shelter and clothing.
I have told you many times that whatever happens in the physical realm, happens because it has already happened in the spiritual realm.
Therefore, you are spiritually poor, if you discover that you always are falling short of *spiritual food, spiritual shelter, spiritual clothing and spiritual education.*
*SPIRITUAL FOOD* is the word of God. One of the indications of spiritual poverty or being poor in the spirit is having an inner discovery that *no matter how much effort you put*, you can never get enough of the word of God on your table. The opposite is true, people who dismiss the word of God are the spiritually rich. I am not intimidating anybody into reading my long texts, but, a spiritually poor person doesn't mind the length as long as it is the word of God, because if it is the word of God, then it is their food.
It is like asking a person in the slums, "should I bring you a sack of rice, or just a packet of rice?" That person will take it as an insult.
The moment you start feeling that what I heard from the pulpit is enough to take me until the next service, just remember that you have started losing your spiritual poverty.
Men of God ought to know that they do not hold a monopoly of the word of God. Every man of God ought to live like they are living on below a spiritual dollar every day. Being poor in the world definition is stated as "people who live below a dollar", meaning if you can spend more than a dollar a day, you are above the poverty line.
Men of God, may fall into the temptation of being spiritually rich, more so when it comes to the word of God. I remember one that wrote to me, a few years ago, he told me that my bible knowledge is very shallow, and my revelation is still in the elementary level. He then told me not to send him my texts because they help him with nothing, instead, he told me that he could be sending me write ups EVERY WEEK to boost my knowledge. No, no, no, this guy has no problem, he is just but spiritually rich. I don't need to judge him because Jesus already told us that such are disqualified from getting into the kingdom.
I can tell you the spiritually poor, some will read this and call it intimidation, but I must say the truth, while some say I write very long texts, while some tell me I am filling up their phone memories, while some say I should make them shorter .... there are the spiritually poor who tell me, "you didn't finish that story", or "we need more of this", or "can you write a book on this?", etc., etc.
Spiritually poor people are always amazed in a banquet, the Spiritually rich, to them it is a normal thing. I was invited by one of my spiritual fathers to his house for lunch, after the house help had arranged the table, I asked my spiritual father, "Are we expecting more guests?" He told me, "No, it's just me and you." I was disturbed, I asked him again, "Did you go through all this trouble just for me?" He told me, "Relax, this is how our table is always arranged at every meal".
Spiritually rich people will never see a big revelation when you speak, they may not even see any revelation. But a Spiritually poor guy, sees something that God wants to teach them even from the speech of babes.
I am not saying you go reading and listening from and to every Tom, Dick and Harry. One thing that poverty has taught me is that I can sense food from miles away.
Poor people have a great sense of smell, you can be trying to hide food under the bed until they go, but they can smell it and won't leave until it is out. Reminds me of me and my sister, we were young, I was about 12 years and my sister about 10 years. We were living on our own and so, poverty taught us to smell good food from very far. Chapati was rare in those days and it was considered as food for the rich. The good thing with Chapati is that it shouts of its presence whenever bring cooked.
So, me and my sister would smell it from far and go and knock at the house. Some times the owners of the house would chase us away, others would welcome us, but delay their eating session until we were gone. But there is one that blew my mind. She welcomed us, finished cooking but packed everything neatly. Then we sat in the kitchen like nothing had happened. It was in the evening and me and my sister still had a distance to cover in that night on our way home, so, I was wondering when "we will start eating". Her own children started dozing off, almost falling into the fire place. And that is when the drama of life started. Any of her children; she had four of them, that dozed off, was first hit hard with a wood and asked to bring a plate so that they may be served, eat and go to bed.
By the time the third child was being served, I had gotten the cue, and though I wasn't sleepy, I feigned a doze. My sister was already sound asleep by me.
When I started "dozing off", I heard the woman tell her eldest son, "bring me my plate, and yours too so that we may eat, I see like these (she said referring to us), are going to sleep in my kitchen today."
That is when I discovered that we had placed a bet on the wrong team... it's pitiful, we even cried on our way home, it was around midnight when we left that kitchen when the woman asked us if we preferred to sleep in there or if we still wanted to go away. By the way, while she was talking about us earlier, I had already pretended to be asleep, so, she did not know or think that I heard what she told her son. I slept, albeit pretending, through their eating session, they only "woke me up" to give me the option of either sleeping in or leaving at midnight. My sister on the other hand was sleeping, yes, real sleep. She woke up thinking it was finally meal time, only to find it was just but departure time. She couldn't stop asking me what had happened and this is what brought tears to my eyes. May be I wouldn't have cried if she didn't keep asking me and telling me she was still hungry. But I told her it was almost morning and in the morning we would look for something to eat and eat. Luckily, she fell asleep immediately we got to our house, but mine didn't come until the first cock crowed.
Let's continue tomorrow.
Shalom and keep the faith.

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That Which Is Born Of God

*1 John 5:4, "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."*

One of the things that I have learnt in matters of faith, is that God does not like dealing with desperate people. God loves working with people that trust His ability to save and to sustain fully without faltering.
Whenever you believe God for something, you need to keep in mind that He is well able to deliver it at the exact time when it is needed. It doesn't matter the deadlines at hand or how bad the situation looks.
One of the things that have delayed the blessings of many is desperation. People that go before God with deadlines that He must meet and fit Himself in, most often end up thinking He disappointed them or He almost disappointed them.
But it is not so.
The confidence we should have is that, if it is  God that promised, then, He is well able to deliver. Because whatever is born of God overcomes the world.
Faith is not just about believing that God is able, faith is also believing that Nothing shall stop what He promised from coming home.
And this kind of faith is the victory that overcomes.
Every time God tells you something, or promises you something, the devil will always come and try to play games with His words to see if you can move.
When John the Baptist finished baptising Jesus,  the bible says, a voice was heard from heaven saying, "This is my son..." Forty days later, the devil was still telling Jesus, "if you are the son of God..."
You need to know that the devil will never ask you to prove that you are what you are already not. And proving to the devil you are is not an act of faith, it is a waste of time and resources. Jesus knew that the power He had was not for turning stones into bread, the power he had was not for proving something to the devil. He had been sent to save the world.
You need to know that it doesn't matter what you prove to the devil, you cannot change him, he will still remain the devil. Therefore, do not go around wasting time and energy trying to prove something to the devil. Instead I say, *"live like the devil doesn't exist"*.
People are always challenging us who preach faith, telling us, "if God really uses you, why don't you go to the hospitals and command everybody to go home?" And many ministers feel discouraged by this question, others spend a lot of time trying to justify why they won't do that. This is the same play scripted by the devil, asking you to prove that you are really the son of God, by turning stones into bread. You need to look at them in the face and tell them, "my job is not to prove anything to anybody, my job is to do what I was sent on earth to do."
We are born of God so that we may be like God. God does not live to prove anything to anybody. God does what He wants, when He wants, and through it all, many eyes are opened to see that He is God.
Jesus had the power to avoid the cross ordeal. Yes, He would have called angels and they would have rescued Him. But He was not on earth to prove anything, He was on earth to save mankind.
When you don't know the purpose of a thing, misuse of it is inevitable. A worker is paid for performing his duty, I once was employed in an office. And for the longest time I was doing the work of my senior. And my senior would take my presentation to the company owner and pass them as their own creation. They would receive praises even in general meetings for a job well done, their salaries would be increased, but mine would remain the same. In my seat, I knew that that was the work of my hand, but I was doing what I was not employed to do. Therefore, I had no right to expect returns from what was not my post.
You need to know that in heaven, you will not be paid for what you did, you will be paid for doing what you were sent to do.
I see everybody picking up titles, "Apostle", "prophet" as their preferred "titles". But as I have often said, these are not titles, these are callings. And God is not a man that He should lie, or a son of Man that He should change His mind. Some "apostles" will reach heaven and receive nothing, because what was born of God in them was suppressed by what they themselves had begotten. What was born of God in them was maybe evangelism, but they loved the prophets "title" so much that they neglected what was born of God in them. They expect to be paid for the services of a prophet, yet they were employed as pastors. Sorry, but this will not work.
The Holy Spirit of God keeps bringing me back to when Jesus said, "some will say, we even cast out demons in your name. But I will tell them I did not know you then and neither do I now."
And the million dollar question is, how can this be? How can you do miracles in the Name of Jesus and still be unknown to Him here on earth and later in heaven.  But if you look at my episode in that office where I was employed, you will understand it is possible. I was doing great things for the company and in the name of the company, But my boss never called me to congratulate me, instead, my seniors who I worked on their behalf received the praises. Our boss never knew me, not because I was not an employee, but because I was working in the wrong office!!
Paul tells Timothy,  "do not lose the gift you FIRST RECEIVED, when elders laid their hands on you". Many have lost what they first received and are pursuing other things that seem more profitable. These things are not what will overcome the world, *it is only that which is born of God in you that will overcome the world.*
the Bible says in Revelation, "To him that overcomes..." seven times, John was told that what we expect in heaven is not for everybody,  but only for he that overcomes.
I came this morning to tell you that overcoming is not as hard work as many of us think. All you need is to identify what is born of God in you, because whatever is born of God, shall overcome the world. Stop chasing after the wind, concentrate and overcome.
Shalom and keep the faith.

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