THE LORD OF HOSTS

THE LORD OF HOSTS

Psalm 24: 7-10

 3 levels of Christians

1.       Baby Christians 1 Pet 2:2. They can’t take hard stuffs.

2.       Adult Christians, mature ones, can eat strong meat.  Heb 5: 12-14

3.       They crack bones to get to the marrows. Mark 4: 11 To them are given to know the mysteries of God. Deep things of God. Their approach to the word of God differs.

Baby Christians loves to ear God loves you, we are more than conquerors.

When an adult Christian hears that he will say, Hmmm, when you tell them God loves them. They know who the Father loves He chastises. I can’t mess up, He will discipline me o.

God loves you, bone crackers say Amen, may God have mercy because whoever the Father loves specially, He sacrifices them. He said about Jesus, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, yet sent Him to the cross to die.

To prove He has control over fires, He sent Shedrach to the fire. To prove He is Lion of the tribe of Judah, He sent Daniel to the Den of Lions. That is a favorite, God’s favorite in Lion’s den!

I am talking to bone crackers tonight.

The Lord of Hosts never loses a war. He never loses a battle is what I said before till 2 months ago. The Lord said “I can lose a battle to win a war, but I never lose a war”. He can lose a battle in order to win a war. If it looks as if He is losing a battle, it’s because He has a surprise He wants to spring.

Dan 3: 1-30. Shedrach, Meshach, Our God will deliver us. The furnace was made 7 times hotter than normal. The 3 boys were carried into the fiery furnace. Some of us would have complained that by now God should have done something. But the fire roasted those who threw them in.

They landed in the furnace and the ropes that bound them got burnt.

The King stood up trembling.

The King saw Jesus and said “No other God can deliver like this”.

Tell yourself, I will laugh last.

What about Daniel in the Lion’s den?  He was brought out alive and the enemies became food for the lions.  And Daniel prospered. I will begin my journey into prosperity tonight.

There are three types of battle.

1. There are battles He will fight for you. Exo 14: 13-21. Be still the Lord will fight for you. When you are being pursued by generational enemies, God will fight for you.

2. There are battles He will fight with you Josh 10: 9-14. God rained down heavy stones on the enemies of Joshua.

3. Battles He will fight through you Mark 11:23. You will say to the mountain. Isa 54:17. God said no weapon formed against you will prosper, you will condemn every tongue (you fight yourself).

Look at Psalm 68: 1-3 .Let God arise and let His enemies be scattered.

The matured bone crackers will consider the statement, and probably ask someone “Are you sure you are not the enemy?” 2 Sam 12: 1-7. A prophet met  King David, and David said ‘In my Kingdom?  I am going to fight him’. Kings kill prophets easily in those days. So this Prophet was very wise. 

I say I am not a prophet because Prophets die young but pastors are more secure in the Bible. 

 

The prophet told a story, the poor and the rich man. The rich used the only goat the poor man has. David said the man is dead and the prophet said you are the man.

So, are you sure you are not the enemy? Is it not God that is fighting you? Num 22: 22-34

Balaam was called to come and curse Isreal.  An angel blocked his way, the prophet was blinded.

What if God is the one blocking your way? God can be for you. Rom 8:31.

Haggai 1:5-11. God can be against you.

God can be neutral. Just leave you alone. But not fighting you or against you.

My Father in the Lord said, ‘When a Lion wakes up in the morning and pray to God, show me the animal I will eat today and just leave the two of us alone, don’t help me, don’t help the animal’. That is what the devil says also.

How can I be an enemy of God?

7 ways:

1.       By lieing to Him, you insult the intelligence of the all-knowing God by telling Him a lie. Acts 5: 1-11. Husband and wife died the same day because they lied. They brought part of the money, Peter said is this all the money, he said yes sir. And he died instantly. The wife said yes too, and died instantly. Do you lie to God? What about your tithe, is it fully 10%, you insult the greatest mathematician on earth by bringing less than 10%

2.       By failure to pay your vows. Eccl 5:4 Don’t delay to pay, not that you don’t pay at all. Psalm 14:1 The fool said there is no God. When you delay to pay, you tell God HE doesn’t exist, pretty scary isn’t it? So, God will like to show you He does exist. Nebuchadnezzar said Who is that God?

3.       Incomplete obedience. 1 Sam 15: 1-23 I promised the Amalekites I will wipe them out, so Saul , go and destroy them. But Saul kept fat animals, he lost his crown. Don’t obey at all than partial obedience.

4.       Lukewarmness. Rev 3: 15-16. Be cold or be hot, but neither hot nor cold, I will spew you out of my mouth. That’s a powerful word to describe rejection. Almost all of us are guilty of that, people beg us to praise Him, clap, we will almost be begging us to clap forgetting He gave us the hands.

A traditional ruler told me Jesus is my Lord but they have been worshipping this idol since the inception of the town. With the God of vengeance, a jealous God, He feels insulted. Ancient of days with an idol of a few years ago. Be a Christian if you want to be, if not, go.

I love Fela, pity I didn’t meet him before he died. Fela showed he doesn’t love God and married 27 wives in one day. He did what he wanted to do passionately.

Stop pretending if you want to serve God serve Him, stop insulting God.

5.       Heb 11: 6 He gets upset when you doubt Him. What is not of faith is sin. The maker of heaven and earth spoke and you don’t believe Him? He feels insulted. I have given you the land go and possess it but they said we can’t. So be it says the Lord. Many of God’s children doubt Him. By His stripes you are healed, don’t doubt Him. None shall be barren, that settles it.

6.       When you sin, you make yourself an enemy of God. Psalm 7: 11. God is angry with the wicked everyday. You can’t live anyhow when you are born again. Don’t continue in sin and expect grace to abound. Can you cope with the anger of God on a daily basis.

7.       When He warns you again and again and you ignore His warnings. Pro 29:1 You will suddenly perish and that without remedy.

A friend brought his wife from the hospital in a coma. I looked at the lady, she is far gone, I cried to God, as I was about to lay hands on her, The Lord said I am not going to heal her. I have warned her again and again, she refused to repent. She is going to die. I laid the hand upon her again, the anointing flowed to her body and returned to my hand. I feel the oil flowing but getting to her head it reversed.

You have been told to stop cheating, fornicating, lieing you refused. You cannot say let God arise. Some people say we are in the dispensation of grace but He killed Ananiah and Sapphira. The same yesterday today and forever.

You have never surrendered your life to Jesus, repent tonight. 

PRAYER: 

1.       Father, I didn’t even know that I have been my own enemy, please forgive me Lord. Have mercy upon me Lord today. Thank you, you didn’t kill me before tonight, I will change with your help, restitute my ways. I will serve you whole heartedly, never lukewarm again.

2.       Father, all the battles that I cannot win on my own, please fight them for me. All generational curses, Lord deal with them for me. Fight for me.

3.       Father, I won’t doubt you anymore and you said if I believe and I say to this mountain to be cast to the sea, it shall be so. Mountains in my life, move now in the name of Jesus. Barrenness, sorrow, sickness, hopelessness, retardation, fruitlessness, aches and pains, all manners of suffering move in Jesus name. Every obstruction to my success, move in Jesus name.