BEWARE OF UNAUTHORISED PROPHETS.

Text: Jeremiah 14:14

Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

We live in an era where everyone wants prophecy. It is good to know the mind of God on issues about your life and to hear from Him before taking major decisions. God also desires to communicate His mind, intentions and plans with His children. But there is need for you to be careful about where you receive the prophecy, the message of the prophecy and the vessel through which the prophecy comes.

In 1kings :13:1-32, we see how God spoke to one of His servants and gave him an assignment in a place with specific instructions. God told him to declare His word of judgement against an evil altar,  and that he should neither visit anybody nor eat anything while on that mission. He carried out the assignment as commissioned and was careful not to break the rules of engagement of that mission. But a 'Senior Prophet', who had no direct authority over him, came and told him that an 'angel' appeared to him to instruct this servant of God to come and eat bread in his house.
This young man of God abandoned the word of God to listen to an unknown and an unauthorised prophet who claimed to have heard from one angel. He died on that mission, and to make the matter worst, he was not only mocked by the prophet who deceived him, he was also buried by him.

Friend, you are not under obligation to obey every instruction given by a prophet or even by an 'angel'.  Prophecy is not my final authority, God's word is. No angel has authority over any Christian. The bible call them your servants. They are the ones to obey your instructions.

How could a prophet ask you to divorce your spouse and you swallow it up? How could a prophet ask you to pay money in order to receive prophecy and you don't query the source of that instruction? How could a prophet ask you to do something that directly contradicts the bible and you are running to carry it out?
A lot of people have been misled and destroyed by these satanic angels in white robes and false prophets.
They lie in wait to deceive. They are out to feed on the ignorant people who are all out seeking for prophecy. Why are people so undecerning? All I hear the prey cry are 'Prophesy papa', 'prophesy man of God'!
There are large number of unauthorised prophets out there. Be careful! Be watchful! Be warned! Be vigilant! Don't be deceived! The bible is a believer's final authority. You also have the Spirit of God residing in you.
I am not against prophetic ministry. I walk and work by it. I am a product of prophetic gift and declaration. I operate by it and God is using it to bless people around me. But I am against telling lies and deceiving people in the name of prophecy. I am against using people to satisfy your unholy desire. I am against bringing God into what your covetous mind is leading you to do.
Disobedience to an untested prophet and an unknown angel is not a disobedience to God. The bible declares fake angels cursed. By their fruits you shall know them.
May God deliver and bless you.

My prayer for you today:
May God open your eyes of understanding to know what is right and to do it at all times. May you not be deceived. May God deliver you from the clutches of fake prophets in Jesus name Amen.

Scripture meditation for today - Jeremiah 23:23-32
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

God bless you.

-Pastor Olusola Dare
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Your Dream and Its Reality

Text: Genesis 37:5-10
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

Joseph had two dreams in quick succession. The first dream shows that his brothers were going to bow to him while the second one brought his parents into the picture. They too were going to bow down to him.
By interpretation, the dreams revealed that Joseph was going to become the leader of the family of Jacob. His parents and his siblings were going to be under him.
That was all the dreams revealed. That was all it meant to them. His brother reacted and queried him: 'Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?'. His father also rebuked him and said: 'Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?'
All they saw was that Joseph was going to reign over the family and that led them to hate him and have deadly jealous of him.

The dream never revealed that Joseph was going to reign,  not only over villages, towns and cities, but also over nations and over powerful men. It was a small dream with a very big reality.

When God gives you a vision and dream, don't ever limit where it can take you to to what you saw. God will never reveal all His great plans for you at once.
However big your dream is, it is still far below what God has in stock for you.

Your ability to hold on to God and pursue His vision for your life, in the face of persecution, opposition and challenges, will guarantee the fulfilment of its great reality.  Don't cut corners, don't look for a short cut so that you won't be cut short along the way. Joseph could have slept with Portipher's wife and would have ended up becoming an enviable adulterer. May be he could have conspired with her to kill her husband and relocated to another community to start a new life with her and become the richest man in that small community. But he could also have lost the GREAT REALITY of his small dream.

Don't despise that small dream, vision or revelation God is showing to you. A big reality resides in it. Every big, blossoming and fruitful tree you see today was once residing in a tiny seed. That dream is a tiny seed. God has the capacity to make a forest from it. Every time you behold a seed, know that you are looking at a potential forest. Every time you behold your dream, know that you are looking at a great reality waiting to unfold. It is just a matter of time. Your small dream will become a great fulfilment.

My prayer for you today:
May you not disdain your dreams, may you not be myopic in understanding God's vision for your life, may you not throw away the great forest in your seed.
May you fulfill destiny in Jesus name Amen.

Scripture meditation for the day:
Job 8:7
 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

Have a wonderful day.

-Pastor Olusola Dare
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WHEN WILL YOU DISCOVER THEM?

Text: Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

Many people suffer want of what belong to them. It is not because what is theirs are not available and accessible, but because they are ignorant of what is theirs.
Imagine someone holding a million dollars cheque drawn in his name and matured for cash and yet still suffer financial lack just because he doesn't know it belongs to him.

This is the condition of many Christians today. We go around looking and begging for what God had already given to us.
Is it because we don't read the bible with understanding or we fail to accept what the word of God says?

The bible reveals to us in Ephesians 3:1 that God had already blessed us with  all spiritual blessings that are available in Christ Jesus. It doesn't say God is going to bless us with them. It says He has already blessed us.
 All the blessings you need had already been released. Jesus came to enforce the promises of God. When Jesus shed his blood, died and rose from the dead, he completed the promise era. He brought in an era of fulfilment.

What exactly are you looking for? Is it healing, deliverance, progress, peace, joy? Whatever it is, God had already done and released them.

Look at what the word of God says:
1 Peter 2:24
 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

The bible says you WERE HEALED by Christ's stripes. Notice it is in the past tense. He didn't say He is going to heal you. He said he had healed you.
Many don't consumate this because they don't see it or they don't accept it to be the truth.
You can't break the scripture. The just shall live by faith. Don't just store the bible in your brain, let it be in your heart.

I am not denying the fact that forces of darkness are not resting but are at work to hinder you from enjoying what God has for you. Jesus had also taken care of them. Jesus defeated satan and his host for you. They overcame them by the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 12:11). Jesus blood was shed at Calvary to defeat satan for you. If they overcame him by Christ's blood in heaven, I also overcame him by that same blood here on earth. The blood of Jesus is available for us.

Believe God's word and live by it. Don't develop a wrong scripture and false theology for yourself. When it says you are blessed, it means you are blessed. When it says you have been healed, it means you have been healed. When it says you are an overcomer, it means you are an overcomer. What God's word says is what it means. Despise the symptoms and hold on to the word. It doesn't mean something different apart from what it says. It will happen as you believe. Nothing is impossible to him that believe.

When you do this, you will see miracles in and all around your life.

My prayer for you today:
As you lay hold on bible promises and claim your kingdom inheritance in prayer, may those bible promises become tangible miracles in your life in Jesus name Amen.

Scripture meditation for the day: Luke 15:31
And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

Do have a great day.

-Pastor Olusola Dare
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Peace in a turbulent world

You are far higher than satan

Authentic freedom

Making provisions for divine intervention

Living by divine instructions

I am far beyond satan reach

Text: Ephesians 2:6
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

 The original position of every genuine believer is too high to be reached by the devil. This Satan doesn't want you to know so that he can use your ignorance against you.
The bible says God has made you sit together with Him in Heavenly places in Christ.

How did you get to the position of sitting right beside God? Let's see how the scriptures put it.
Note the words 'in Christ Jesus' in the above passage.
As a Christian, you are in Christ Jesus. You went with Him everywhere He went.

Ephesians 1:20-22  say 'Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,'

You were in Jesus in his suffering. You were in him in the grave. So when God came to raise Jesus from the dead, He raised you with him. When He took Jesus to heaven, He took you there with him. When He set him at His right hand, He set you there with Jesus.
How high is the heavenly places where Jesus is? Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
How high is your location? It is as high as where Jesus is because you are in him where he is.
The bible also says that God put all things under Jesus feet. If I am seated with Jesus at God's right hand in heavenly places, it therefore implies that my feet are where Jesus feet are. Everything under Jesus feet is also under my feet without any exception.
That is your spiritual status.

To consummate this spiritual reality in the physical world, God makes a provision in the latter part of Ephesians 1:22.
'.....and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,'.

We are the church, the body of Christ. Jesus is the Head and believers are his body. The head of a living man can't be in a separate place from where the body is.
Jesus is sitting at the right side of God in heaven; we are there together because we are his body.
We are living here on earth;  Jesus is here with us because he is our head. We are inseparable.

Let the devil craw around seeking whom to devour. That prey can never be me. Why? Because the eyes to see is at my head. Jesus sees him and knows how to handle him.

This is the reality I live in. This is a reality every believer should live in.

My prayer for you today:
I pray that every earthly weight weighing you down and hindering you from going up and growing up spiritually be removed in Jesus name Amen.

Scripture meditation for the day:
Colossians 3:1-4
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

God bless you.

God is committed to your course

Topic: GOD IS COMMITTED TO YOUR COURSE

Text: Psalms 32:8
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

God promised to do three major things here. This promise is to genuine believers.

1. I will INSTRUCT thee....
God promises to instruct His people. To instruct is to give order, command  and information on what to do. The major problem of the world today is the lack of knowledge of what to do. They lack information.
When God instructs an individual, that person will never live a life of frustration.

2. I will TEACH you in the way you should go....
Having instruction for directions is not enough in itself; there is need for a man under instructions to be taught.
God says He will teach you in the way you shall go. This is awesome. God will teach me as I step out in pursuit of the instructions He gave me. As you obey Him, God will teach. You will become knowledgeable. A divine understanding is imparted into you. You will start to operate in the wisdom of God and whatever you do will record success.

3. I will GUIDE you with my eyes.
GOD says He will watch over you. He will guide you. God will focus you. He will guide you so that you won't miss your way. He won't allow evil to befall you.

With God's instructions, teaching and guidance in your life, you will never miss your mark of destiny.

My prayer for you today:
I pray that God will accompany you in your life journey and you will fulfill destiny in Jesus name.

Scripture meditation for the day:
Proverbs 12:28
 In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death