DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH WORLDWIDE.
FIFTH COVENANT SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE.
DATE: 31/01/2021.
MESSAGE ANCHORED BY THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
TOPIC: DIVINE PROVISION AND CARE FOR GOD'S FAITHFUL FLOCK
TEXTS: 1 PETER 5:1,10;
NOTE✍️: The Lord will make you perfect, steady and strengthen you. Sometime you read the Bible and you don't understand the meaning, and then you go back to the dictionary to look for the meaning, and then everything you read you rarely don't understand and then you miss the blessings of God. There is one word suffering in verse 1 and verse 10, it's as if the whole of life is over, the Lord equate suffering with attack, afflictions and Satan. Christ didn't suffered sickness, cancer, tuberculosis, paralysis, He's talking about Calvary and what Jesus went to for us. He had nothing to suffered for Himself, it's all for us. His suffering was not demonic attack, Peter was arrested, he was incarcerated, and he was put in the prison but no suffering and attack, he went through the suffering of Christ, no sickness and then he became a partaker of Glory. When he was in the prison he was glory in the night, an Angel tap him and all the chains fell off, the iron door opened by itself, he didn't have to hammer it or shout, all the expectations of your enemies concerning you vanish. From salvation to glorification, and from the beginning of our Christian journey unto the consummation, God has made adequate provisions for all the rest of our lives.
POINT ONE: THE PURPOSEFUL FEEDING OF GOD'S PRECIOUS FLOCK.
1 PETER 5:2; JOHN 21:15-17; 6:34,63; ACTS 20:28. JEREMIAH 3:15; 15:16; 23:4; PSALMS 107:20
Our feeding on the word has a purpose, we come to the church to ear the word of God has a purpose, we read the Bible, there's a purpose for that. The preachers and the pew feeds on the word of God. Feeding on the word of God has a purpose. We must not feed and remain faint, feeble, faithless and weak.
Jesus Christ fed the people with the word of God and that's what we should do today, feeding the membership of the church.
When that word enter, it'll acts like a reviving Spirit, it'll acts like a renewing Spirit, and you're resurrected. If you have anything dying in your life, when the word comes to you, you will come alive.
The purposeful feeding of God's word meant to revive, meant to resurrect you and show you the light and enlighten you.
As we eat the word of God, you will become strong and the word normally without anything will strengthen you.
When you take the word and the water of the word refreshes your life, you will not be the servant of Satan, because the Lord JESUS Christ purchased you with His precious blood from the hands of Satan, and you will not be a property of Satan. Even the hair on your head, and every part of your body are numbered, you will not go back to Satan. If God give us pastor at all, he give us according to His own heart and when that pastor feed us with the word, the word will strengthen us. But if it's by the choice of people and he campaign, that one is not according to the heart of God. But if it's according to God's heart, and that pastor feeds us with the word of knowledge, you will stand with stability and strength.
As you take in the word of God, your failure will turn to success, your sickness will go, whatever the word says, that's what it'll be, and whatever the word declares and proclaims will be accomplished.
When you eat the word, the Almighty God determines every details of your life and if enemies try, they are wasting their time. You will not be dismay and confused.
POINT TWO: THE PROMISED EXALTATION OF CHRIST'S HUMBLE FOLLOWERS.
1 PETER 5:5-6; 1 KINGS 21:21-29; 2 CHRONICLES 7:14; GENESIS 41:16,38-41. James 4:6,10
God resist the proud and keep them at a distance, but He gives more Grace to the humble.
Even if you're suffering, humility alone can reverse your suffering. Just be humble, many problems will be solved. And when you eat the word of God, the word will heal your sickness, and because of humility, your humility is already confirmed, maybe you cannot quotes the Bible of the scriptures and you don't understand the mysterious secret of what is happening, but you humble yourself and you pray, the voice of the humble will be heard in Heaven, the Lord will hear you and heal everything that is aching in your life.
Joseph suffered but it was not attack, it was the suffering of persecution. His brothers sold him and Portiphar's wife told a lie against him, but she couldn't brought sickness upon Joseph.
Joseph suffered, but he was not sick, you're well, you must change your language and your understanding about suffering.
Joseph had a dream, and the persecutors want to kill the dream and the dreamer, but they failed. All the negative things the enemies say about you will go to the dust and dustbin, you will come up, enemies will not end your life.
Humility brings exaltation, but humility doesn't mean you surrender yourself to the enemies, that one is cowardice and fear of men, that is not humility. You stand your ground in the presence of Haman the enemy of righteousness and progress. If you bow and bend because the enemy says he will finish you, that is not humility, it's fear. Anything that cannot finish me will not finish you, you will be as old as I am. The enemies will not finish your life, and your destiny. But in the presence of God, you humble yourself and exaltation will come, you're exalted and promoted already.
The law of gravity works because God sets it up, and anyone who exalt himself will come down. There's also law of sowing and reaping, you sow a seed and that seed will bear fruit and grow up. It's a law that you humble yourself. Don't be proud about anything, as you humble yourself, you will come up and bear fruit.
POINT THREE: THE PRINCELY CARE OF CHRIST'S PRAYERFUL FRIENDS.
1 PETER 5:7; JOHN 15:13-14; LUKE 11:5-9; ROMANS 8:32; PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7,13,19; PSALMS 5:22; 61:2.
You have God, you have Christ, you have the Holy Spirit, don't talk about your problem and don't think about your background. Christ brought you out of eternal suffering and He bought you with a great price and because you pray, He will give you all you need, He's the Power of heaven and earth, He's the One that conquered Satan on the Cross of Calvary and He calls you His friend. All the evil power that is roughhanding you, Jesus will not turn the other way and allow Satan to oppress you. All things are yours. Ask, Jesus is your friend, He will heal you, knock, He is your friend, He will open the door unto you. Don't bear your burden alone, cast your burden upon Christ He will sustain you , you will not be moved and you will not be denied, when it appears sorrow is getting into your inner mind, He will lead you to the rock that is higher than you. You will come up and you will come out of that sea, higher higher, the trouble and suffering is over, the overwhelming delude of the devil is over you're going higher.