‘These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world’. John 16:33 ASV (See this also in MSG and KJV)

These were the words of Jesus to His disciples in very difficult times when He was about to leave them. He is saying the same to you today – Whatever happens, stay united to me, Do Not Panic. If there was any time in history that we need these words from our Lord Jesus Christ, it is now!

In this chapter, Jesus was sort-of giving His disciples a farewell speech! You can remember that the disciples faced a lot of challenges after Jesus left them. Times are changing today too, situations are getting more difficult, economic downturns are all over the world. We are seeing more wars and hearing rumours of more wars! Earthquakes are happening more frequently and getting more devastating! Situations are becoming more unpredictable. But the Bible says here that you should be at peace in the midst of these negative circumstances.

Earlier in verses 7 and 8, Jesus told his disciples of the promised Comforter that He will send after He has gone! Today, we have the Comforter as our helper – He is in you to strengthen you as you go through every life’s situation. Then in concluding this chapter, Jesus said ‘be of good cheer, I have overcome the world’! Be rest assured in these two facts and do not entertain any panic in your heart, whatever you might be facing. Whatever the case may seem, never allow your heart to fear, do not panic! You are more than a conqueror. Do have a victorious day!

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2

Today God is saying to us ‘consider him’.  Consider the person of Christ. When he went to the cross, think about what he did. That’s what the word consider means. Consider what transpired when Jesus went to the cross.

Look at verse 3. “For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.” Now, each time you are thinking about how long you have waited for your breakthrough, the Bible says in Hebrews 12:3; ‘consider him’. Consider him; give thought to what the Lord has done. Give deep consideration to what Jesus has settled on the cross of Calvary.

The solution to all the circumstances that you face in your life has been settled on the cross of Calvary. That is what you should consider. Consider the fact that your sickness has been paid for, consider the fact that your sins have been paid for, consider the fact that the sacrifice on the cross is adequate to bring deliverance to your child, if only you can hold unto the blood that was shed on Calvary. Consider the fact that your sins are forgiven, consider the fact that circumstances may look negative but when Jesus went to the cross, he said “It is finished”. Consider that. Give thought to it. So the devil must not distract you as you face your day, consider the Lordship of Jesus. Consider the finished work on Calvary, and great shall be your peace as you walk in faith today. You will return with rejoicing in the name of Jesus, amen.

“And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb”. Romans 4: 19.

In Romans 4:19 the Lord is showing us the experience and the example of the faith that Abraham had. It says, ‘being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead’.

My focus today is on what you should not consider. Abram considered not his own body now dead, that’s number 1. He did not consider also, that he was a hundred years of age, that’s number 2. Number 3, Abraham did not consider the fact that Sarah’s womb was dead. Consider not.

The fact that he did not consider does not mean he did not know. He was aware of this fact of medical report! He was aware of his situation. But he did not give it a consideration. His consideration was the word of God. His mind was filled with God’s promise. That should be your attitude today. Do not consider any negative circumstance; give it no thought. You might have heard negative news; do not give it consideration over and above the good news that you know in the word. 

Whatever you believe or trust God for. Let your thought be focused only on what the promise of the father is. Do not give consideration to all the bad information you have received about your wife, about your child, about your finances, about your health, or whatever else it is. Think on God’s word. Consider the promise of your father. Do not consider the facts that look negative. God will give you peace today as you go in faith in Jesus name, amen.

“He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God”. Romans 4:20

What has the Lord told you? Don’t stagger at the promise. Do not stagger. Do not be distracted. Do not be discouraged. Do not give room for any thought of impossibility. Because Abram received God’s promise, the thoughts of how dead his and his wife’s bodies were and how old they were, did not make him stagger at the promise. What you’re seeing today should not make you stagger at the promise of God concerning your life.

Look at verse 21, “And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” Abram was persuaded! So, you too should rather be persuaded. Be convinced that God who promised will bring it to pass. Be persuaded. I don’t have a doubt that you will experience your lifting. I don’t have a doubt that the papers you are expecting are on the way.

 Why don’t you just believe God? Don’t stagger at the promise. Don’t stagger at His promise to you of a spouse. Remember, ‘God sets the solitary in families’ (Ps 68:6). Don’t stagger at the promise of promotion because the bible says ‘they go from strength to strength’ (Ps. 84:7) and ‘the path of the just is as a shining light’ (Pr. 4:18). Don’t stagger because of the persistent pain, sound health is your portion (1Pet 2:24). Don’t stagger at the delay of child birth, ‘happy are they that have their quivers full of many children’ (Ps. 127:3-5). Don’t stagger; great shall be your peace.

I give you a word of promise today according to the word of God. He that promised shall bring it to pass. Therefore be persuaded. May God bless your day in the name of Jesus, amen.

“(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” Romans 4:17

This is the description of the almighty God. He quickens the dead, and calls those things which are not as though they were.

God’s principle of quickening the dead and calling those things that are not to be as though they were should become your principle too. This principle must determine what you think about. When situations are looking negative; remember this, God quickens the dead. That should be in your thoughts. All through the day, if anything is looking negative, always remember that the Bible says ‘God calls those things that be not as though they were’. What should be in your thoughts is the fact that God will turn around the situation.

What should be in your thoughts is the fact that God quickens the dead, He brings life into deadness. That is what should be in your thoughts – the fact that God can turn around that dead circumstance and bring life into it. That is the nature of God. He quickens the dead, he brings hope to hopelessness, and He brings life to deadness.

Why don’t you think about that? So don’t ever think of any impossibility. Think of the power of possibilities that is held by the God that you serve. Today, you will experience breakthroughs in every area of your life in Jesus name. Think that way – and you will find it easy to ‘talk that way’; and you will find lines falling unto you in pleasant places. Have a testimony-filled day.

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” Romans 10:8-10. 

With the heart you believe, while with the mouth confession is made that you may be saved.

The word saved doesn’t just talk about salvation as when you believed in Jesus as your Lord and saviour, but it talks about deliverance from sin, sickness, and spiritual death. So if you want healing from sicknesses and mighty deliverances in any other area of your life; what this scripture is saying is that though you believe in your heart that God has done it or he is able to do it, it only comes to manifestation as you confess this with your mouth.

This principle is needed to be put in practice. And as you face your day today, make sure you put it into practice. What should come out of your mouth should be the source of deliverance for your life. You need to make utterances that will bring the manifestation of what you believe God for.

God is very clear in His word; you will only have results in your life as you declare with your mouth what you have believed from the word of God. May God bless your day in Jesus name, amen.

“Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.” Hebrews 4:14.

This is the most difficult part for a Christian walk, particularly when you are in the middle of a challenge. To maintain a positive confession or to keep confessing what you believe might be difficult because your feelings could override your heart at that point in time; but your work is to make sure that your heart and your confessions override your feelings.

The scripture says in verse 14, seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our profession. The word profession there also means confession. Let us keep maintaining the faith that we have stood upon. Let’s keep declaring what we have stood upon. This principle is what you need as a person to get to the next level. You have to speak what the God of heaven has said about you, your home, your business, etc.

You might even get negative feedback but you have to keep saying what you believe. So let us maintain our profession because it says we have a great high priest that is gone to heaven. What that means is that when he went up to heaven he actually finished what is required for you to get into your breakthrough. So settle that in your mind and keep saying the same thing that you have always believed. You will find that you will have whatever you say – it’s only a matter of time! God bless your day, in Jesus name, amen.

 “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak” 2 Corinthians 4:13

The emphasis from this scripture is ‘making declarations only of what you believe.’ Only what you believe is to come out of your mouth. The Bible says here that we believe and so we speak. Your belief is important but your speaking is also very essential. If you betray yourself by talking about what you really don’t believe or expect to happen, you nullify what you thought you believed. The bible for example, says that by the stripes of Christ you were healed and you wake up in the morning with a headache or you wake up in the morning with thoughts that caused fear to come to your mind. That is what you feel, but what you should speak is what you believe.

2 Corinthians 4:13 says ‘we also believe and therefore have we speak’. So if you do not yet have a depth of believe concretised in your mind, based on provisions in the word of God, about any issue you are facing, you have no business speaking. Invest some time to do some homework; get into the word about that situation in your life. Then you will have foundation to base your faith upon.

We’ve been talking about prayer and thinking right but now we have to talk about declaring right and make sure that what you say is what you have always believed. May God bless your day in the name of Jesus.

“There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.” Proverbs 12:18.

Your tongue should bring health if you are wise. This talks about your utterances. You can destroy or make alive your faith with what you say. Be determined to speak with your mouth only the words of faith and only the words that you believe in. And as you declare what you believe, health will come forth.

Proverbs 18:21 says that death and life are in the power of the tongue. It means you have to give a vote to which one wins. If you feel deadness in your body or in your mind in anyway, what you will declare in your mouth is not what you feel, it’s what you believe. So your mouth can bring death to your circumstances, or your mouth can bring life. I have found out, both from the word of God and personal experience, that there is a need for us to declare with our mouth by faith. And the scripture says here in proverbs 12:18 that the wise man will declare in such a way that health will spring forth out of your physical body.

If you will stand and determine to speak health and wellness only, everything you prayed about will be fuelled. The wise man only speaks positively and would keep quiet when there is no good news to report. Death and life are in your tongue and the tongue of the wise gives health. May the lord bless your day today in Jesus name, amen.

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:22-23

The word of God expressly states the desire and the promises of God for us to be well; to be prosperous, and to be in health even as our soul prospers. Isaiah 53:4-5; 1Peter 2:24; 3 John: 2. In spite of all these, Mark 11:23 says, however, that it will take us declaring with our mouth for these results to manifest.

After you have taken the time to pray about any issue in your life; be it health, wealth, marriage, business, or be it about your children; not only do you need to guard your thoughts and focus on what the word of God says about these issues, but it’s also required of us to keep declaring what we believe. We must give verbal expressions to our faith and actively confess what we believe while we are waiting to see the physical manifestation. The Bible says you will have whatsoever you say.

Therefore it is not only the fact that God has promised that you will have it, or that the word has declared that you already have it, but until you speak it out of your mouth, having believed it in your heart, you might not see the manifestation. Therefore, believe and confess positively in line with God’s word all the time and it shall come to pass, in the name of Jesus. God bless your day, amen.