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The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. ( Proverbs 18:10 )

The righteous is one who is saved through the finished works of Jesus and has come into the environment of the Godlife where spiritual death is eradicated. As a result, the righteous is now able to relate with the things of God without being held back by the legal setups of Heaven. With all the opportunities that avail themselves to the righteous in Christ, there are certain realities that will not be experienced by the righteous until they come into the name of the Lord. Like a faculty in a university or a higher learning institution that though exists on the campus, a student who does not belong to that faculty will not participate and may not know the things that go on in that faculty, so is the righteous who has not yet come into the strong tower. The amazing thing is that the righteous is not born-again into this tower but has to run into it. This calls for a conscious effort and determination on the part of the believer if that believer will taste and walk in the reality. At the mention of the name of Jesus, every knee bows and tongues confess that He is Lord, of things in heaven and on earth. But the name does not work for everyone even though it carries power because only a few people have truly come into the name of Jesus. The sons of Sceva were one of those who did not come into the name of Jesus (though they were sons of a Jewish chief priest and exorcists) but wanted to participate in its packages as the apostle Paul did, we all know what happened to them as a result of that error (see Acts 19:11-16). Principalities in heaven obey and work with principles. The name works, but for those who are in it. Let us run into the name of Jesus through the sincere dealings of the Holy Spirit with us.

Prayer_Bead: Father in heaven, thank you for the power in the name of Jesus. Usher me into the tower of recognized sons through your dealings. And give voice to your power in my life. In Jesus name.

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See that you make them according to the pattern shown you on the mountain ( Exodus 25:40 )

The man of God, Moses had been taken up to the arena of the supernatural, in the mountain of God to see the pattern of things (the tabernacle) that should be reproduced on earth. The Lord’s prayer captures a very important line, “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. God desires that the earth will be colonized by heaven so that earth will look like heaven in its culture, language and appearance. As a result, God seeks to institute the government structure of heaven on earth. So that earth will look exactly like heaven. It would not have been necessary for God to take Moses up into mount Sinai if what God wanted to see replicated on earth was not so important. God did not only tell Moses but showed him what He expected. In the beginning of our journey with God, He does the same thing to us. He shows us the pattern He desires to model us after, which is Christ. So that when Nathaniel came into the faith, the first thing that God did was to show him Jesus (John 1:46-49), the standard and pattern to which he will be made. If by any means along the way we lose sight of the pattern, God will reveal Him again to us, but we would have to ascend the mountain of God. And particularly in this times when the world desires to blindfold us from seeing and looking unto Jesus as the author and Finisher, we need to consistently visit the mountain of God in prayer and the study of His word.

Prayer_Bead: Mountain mover, life changer, thank you for the pattern you have shown me in you, as Christ Jesus. Reconstruct me according to your own pattern in every area of life and godliness.

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So she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”
Abram agreed to what Sarai said. ( Genesis 16:2 )

God had promised Abraham that he will have a child, who will be his own flesh and blood. Though one would argue that this statement made to Abram (Abraham) was open and almost “vague” as the woman who would bear that child wasn’t mentioned, we will be silenced by the fact that God who put Abram and Sarai together knew that was the only wife he had and so it was Sarai who was captured in the plan of God to have a son with Abraham. And if God could promise Abraham, who had gone past the child bearing age that he would bear a child, then God could quicken the womb of Sarai too. And so now, in the light of this background understanding, we would agree that Sarai didn’t wait long enough for the promise, Isaac before she decided to help her situation. Sarai quickly, thinking God kept her from having children decided to improvise to help the promise of God. But we know what, nothing can help the revealed word of God except God himself. So that in an attempt to help that word, Sarai almost broke her home. If we don’t wait patiently for the word that had gone out of God’s mouth, we may wake up only to realize that we have destroyed the original plan of God by having a support plan. Beloved, instead of helping God, let us allow His word, time enough to come to fruition and then we would see and experience true success and peace. Wait for Isaac—the prophesy you received will be fulfilled—rather than graft in Ishmael.

Prayer_Bead: All Luminous Most High, the God whose words will not return void unless there was a performance of those things He had spoken, guard my heart in waiting patiently and faithfully for your promises fulfilled.

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Holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. ( 1Timothy 1:19 )

Faith is the bedrock of our relationship with God in Christ Jesus. Without which it is impossible to please God (see Hebrews 11:6). But in the ocean of life, our human nature and frailties will need an anchor to attach the ship of our faith to. The apostle Paul teaches that there’s no better anchor than a good conscience. The thing about conscience is that all humans have it; regardless of race or gender, faith or tribe, we all have a conscience. But conscience alone is not enough. What will stand the storms and test of life’s ocean is a good conscience. That not withstanding, a good conscience is not automatic. A conscience becomes good only after it has fraternized with the word of God by the Spirit of regeneration. Without a good conscience our faith, though faith, will suffer shipwreck when the tides become strong and deadly. A good conscience has a voice foreign to the status quo and the current trends of the world. It’s voice is synchronous with the word of God and what the Spirit of God will permit. But the scary thing is that, a good conscience can be rejected just as the Spirit of God can be resisted (rejected). A good conscience can be resisted and rejected through the hardening of hearts and ceasing to hear the good word of God consistently. May we not be counted among them that reject a good conscience and whose faith is heading for an irretrievable loss.

Prayer_Bead: Author and Finisher of our faith, thank you for the wonderful opportunity of your word. May my faith stand the storms of life as you refine my conscience by your word.

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