THE SOURCE OF ENDLESS JOY

        THE SOURCE OF ENDLESS JOY  

Written by Joel Dabbas 

Joy is vibrant happiness that gushes out of the heart of a person. Studies have shown that joyful people have less chance of having a heart attack, maintain a healthier blood pressure, and tend to have lower cholesterol levels. There's research to prove that joy boosts our immune systems, fights stress and pain, and improves our chance of living a longer life. Many people have situation induced joy: One which comes only when one experiences a favourable or good event. The shortfall of having situation based joy is that life itself is full of bends and curves. There are times life will come with challenges, and also the devil (the number one enemy of all mankind) is always forging and orchestrating situations against you. This is because the enemy dislikes seeing people happy.

Now, let me introduce to you the root of ceaseless and unimaginable joy. 

#1 The first key to ceaseless joy is SALVATION: 

Salvation is receiving Jesus into your life and making Him your personal Lord, Saviour; and King. The coming of Jesus into the world of any person provokes and releases joy. 

Luke 2:10-11 – “Don’t be afraid,” he said. “I bring you good news that will bring great JOY to all people. The Savior – yes, the Messiah, the Lord – has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David!" 

Salvation is to become a citizen of heaven. Salvation is the spirit of a man returning back in surrender to its Maker: It is restoring the spirit, soul and body of a person to the one who originally owns it - God. Salvation is to be marked from destruction. Salvation is coming under all that Jesus paid for on the cross of calvary. When a person pledges his or her allegiance unto God and totally renounces the works of darkness submitting to a life of holiness and righteousness, the whole of heaven bursts into joy (Luke 15:7). Salvation brings eternal joy. 

Psalm 95:1 says that "O come, let us sing unto the Lord : let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation."

If you have lost that deep seated joy that salvation brings to the spirit and soul of a man, with all desperacy say  O Lord "Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit" (Psalm 51:12). If you have not given your life to Jesus say dear Lord, i confess and repent from all my sins now. I acknowledge that I am a sinner. Forgive me Lord and give me Your matchless grace to live a life worthy and pleasing unto You in Jesus name. 

#2 The second way to enjoy ceaseless joy is THE PRESENCE OF GOD: 

The presence of God is not just in a place alone. For instance Gods presence is not only in Church meetings. Infact one of the character of God is that He is omnipresent. He is everywhere at the same time. But the manifestation of the presence of God is not palpable everywhere. If you have the presence of God inside of you; also if you furnish your relationship and fellowship with God all the time. The darkness of heaviness, gloomness and depression have no hold on you. 

"Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore" (Psalm 16:11). 

To have full joy and to be full of joy, have Gods presence with you. 

1 Chronicles 16:26-27 – "The gods of other nations are mere idols, but the Lord made the heavens! Honor and majesty surround Him; strength and JOY fill His dwelling." 

#3 The third source of ceaseless joy is THE WORD OF GOD 

Jeremiah 15:16 - Your words are what sustain me; they are food to my hungry soul. They bring joy to my sorrowing heart and delight me. How proud I am to bear your name, O Lord (TLB). 

The word of God is the capsule of joy. The word invades the shadow of grieve and sorrow; and diffuses them away. Remember, when Mary was grieving for the loss of her only brother Lazarus? When she met Jesus, Jesus told her "Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?" (John 11:40). If you can chew the word of God in the time of grieve, sorrow will scatter from your heart. The word of God carries around her the power and the glory of God. When I was in the university there was a moslem lady who had carryover. She was heart broken and crying. I met her on my way to night studies. I spoke with her and comforted her. She suddenly looked at me and said where did I get all these words I just spoke to her from? I told her they where from the Bible, she said she felt relieved and weight lifted off her just listening to the word I spoke to her. She told me that she had earlier spoken with her imam but ended up more depressed. When the word of God hits your world, incomprehensible joy erupts in you.

#4 The fourth way to function in ceaseless joy is INTIMACY WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT:

One of the fruit of the Holy Spirit is joy (Galatians 5:22). The Holy Spirit is joy Giver and joy River.

#5 The fifth way to function in ceaseless joy is EXISTING IN THE ATMOSPHERE IF WORSHIP:

Every genuine worshipper cannot be joyless. The principle of worship is two fold: first is the principle of coming before an altar or a throne. Second is the principle of sacrifice. 

Every worshipper comes before an altar with incense and before Gods throne with adoration coupled with sacrifice. So as you establish yourself in genuine worship to God, you exchange your pain for His joy; you exchange your shame for His glory. The strength of worship is revelation: In Matthew 2:2 the wise men from the east said that "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." The more you know Him the more you will worship. The more you worship Him, the more joy you encounter. 

I decree that your life will be overshadowed with you from above in Jesus name .

May the tears in your eyes be wiped away in Jesus name.

PRAYER AND FASTING 2020 DAY 1

 HIGHER GRACE FAST 2020

THEME: DIVERSE MANIFESTATION IN 2021.

DAY 1 PRAYER POINTS

1. Father, we thank You for Your goodness and mercies; thank You for multiplied drastic, dramatic, supernatural manifestation and testimonies in 2021. To You be all the glory, in Jesus Name.

2. Heavenly Father, thank You for the Blood of Jesus Christ that makes atonement for our souls; thank You also Lord, for Your Spirit that helps us to pray aright. To You be all the glory, Lord in Jesus Name.

3. My Father, I ask that your Blessing will produce dramatic and all round increase and multiplication in my life, family, and your Church Grace foundation ministry and our Nation Nigeria, all through the year 2021 in Jesus Name.

3. My Father, we ask that you increase us with men and substance in the year 2021. Let all our waste places and churches be filled up Lord, in the coming year, in the Name of Jesus

4. My Father, My Father, let Your Spirit be poured upon us from on high mightily in 2021, and let our wilderness become a fruitful field and let the fruitful field be counted for a forest, in the Name of Jesus.

5. Heavenly Father, we ask that in 2021 add to Your Church (Grace foundation) daily, such as should be saved, and let your glory be seen in our midst in the Name of Jesus

6. Heavenly Father, in 2021 go before me, go before Your Church grace foundation and make every crooked places straight in the Name of Jesus.

7. My father, my God, we ask that in 2021 go ahead of us and shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, the dry land and the nations, so You can fill your people and your Church grace foundation with your glorious abundance in the Name of Jesus.

8. Oh God of Abraham, issac and Jacob cause your favour to rest upon my life and your Church Grace foundation all through 2021 in the Name of Jesus.

9. Father, in 2021 let the climate of scarcity, shortage and poverty over our Nation be destroyed by Your mercy, favour and power in the Name of Jesus.

10. Open our heavens for diverse supernatural manifestation in 2021, in the Name of Jesus.

11. Father, give us an earth shaking revival in our lives, your Church Grace foundation and our Nation Nigeria and fill our lives, Church and Nation Nigeria with Your glory in 2021 in Jesus Name.

12. My father, My father we ask for the release of uncommon manifestation in our midst all through 2021 resulting in abundance, breakthrough and testimonies in the Name of Jesus.

13. Father, thank You for answered prayers. To You be all the glory, in Jesus Name.

 

 

PRESERVING FAVOUR

TREASURES OF GRACE 

(DAILY DEVOTIONAL)

WEDNESDAY, 16th SEPTEMBER 2020

PRESERVING FAVOUR 

By Joel Dabbas 

SCRIPTURE: “For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield” – Psalm 5:12 

There are many people who pray for favour and afterwards they miscarry and loose it. God wants us to be continuously and permanently blessed. He intends that the life of the righteous should remain the epicentre of His manifold favour. Favour is not just a mysterious showing that changes the life of a person. It is a spiritual system that can be operated by knowledge to the secret codes behind it. Todays anchor Scripture reveals that favour is a shield placed around the righteous. The word shield speaks of a defense system. Now many have allowed this defense system to be broken down and so they don't enjoy that spiritual facility called favour. How then can favour be sustained? 

1.Godly existence (Psalm 5:12): Every righteous person is guaranteed of a favour shield round about. It is a spiritual default system placed around a godly person. So godliness sustains favour. 

2.Character: Many loose favour to their lack of character. Characterlessness brings favourlessness. If you want to obtain, retain, maintain, sustain and to enjoy God’s favour you must develop Godly character. Godly character positions you for favour. As a child of God, if you position yourself rightly, you will enjoy long-lasting favour. So if you want lasting favour, you must work on your character. Character is doing what is right even when it is not convenient. Character deficiency leads to favour deficiency. Finally, when favour is received by a man who lacks character, that favour will be lost and aborted. When favour comes to a person who doesn't know God, it is mercy and a way to bring such to God. 

WHAT TO DO: Ask the Holy Spirit to groom you and be deliberate to see the word work on your character 

PROPHETIC PRAYER: O Lord, help me not to loose opportunities of favour by negative character in Jesus name 

FURTHER STUDY: Genesis 37:2-3, 39:4-6, 21-23

How to do the works of God

TREASURE OF GRACE DAILY DEVOTIONAL (MONDAY 20TH JULY, 2020) 

Written by JOEL DABBAS 

WHAT MUST WE DO TO DO THE WORKS OF GOD 

SCRIPTURE: Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent | John 6:28-29 (KJV)

During the earthly ministry of Jesus everyone could evidently see that He was not doing His own work but that of God. Everything in and around the ministry of Jesus reveals the Father. Every action was sanctioned by the Father. This hundred percent God move generated mind blowing results. Men saw the outrageous power of God, they saw the love of God, heard God spoke to their ears everyday for thirty three and half years. 
Then in todays' anchor text, these people came to Jesus with a question. This question looked genuine, it looked like the question from the lips of one hungered for God, it resembled questions from the heart of one yearning desperately for God but alas it was a question just to know God and do miracles for their personal and economic gain. They had just been fed supernaturally and i feel they thought within themselves if they can operate in this dimension there will always be food in their homes and so forth. I truly wish it was a genuine cry from their heart. I wish it was a genuine desperation from a people looking to know God. 
Jesus brought them in through the door of the spirit to show them how to begin the works of God which is to believe in the One He has sent. Believeing in Jesus is the primary demand for anyone who will manifest the works of God. Anyone that is truly born again can do the works of God. 
Listen beloved, there are many believers today with false hunger. They fast, pray and study Scriptures but the bedrock of all of this is just so they could manifest the power of God. This is good but it is not complete and heaven will veto this thoroughly to see on what basis is this heartcry coming from. If it is from a heart which truly desperate for God then there is an introduction into more of God and effortlessly God manifests Himself in you. If you must truly experience God moving in you and through you then, you must be ready to believe Him deeply, intimately, honestly and totally. God cannot pour Himself in a selfish person. He cannot work through a selfish person who wants God for a personal goal or agenda. 

PRAYER: O Lord, I seek You in all genuineness and sincerity. I ask that the content of selfishness that has neen the bedrock of my pursuit of You is eliminated now in Jesus name. 

REMEMBER THIS: "Believe is a spiritual conception tool. It helps you to conceive what is in God and so receive from and of Him. That s why there is no receiving without believing" - Dr. Joel Dabbas   

PRAISE IN THE PAIN

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                         PRAISE IN PAIN

                                            Written By Joel Dabbas 

Life in itself is challenging: a curve of many sorts with dimensions of transitions; but even if it is top of the mountain or deep valley experience you are going through right now, I want to assure you that God is with you and it will end in praise.

A times precious people pass through very tough situations. The things they are encountering sometimes seem so overwhelming that it seem as if there is no answer. There are times that as we pray unto God answers were released instantly, and there are instances where it took time. But in all of it God always prevails.
Also there are even times when it looks as if God is not answering at all and it seems there is no help insight but I have discovered that in this kind of faith trying situations just like Abraham we must increase our faith dimensions, float in another frequency and realm of faith (Romans 4:18). So such situations triggers more faith and believing because in all assurance there is no failure in God.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 says that "Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (NIV). If you didn't read that carefully you would reason that the Scripture is saying that it's God's will or that it was God who fashioned that pain, or distressing circumstances you are passing through. But that Scripture means that thanks or praise is God's will for you. So as you pass through different challenges, what God desires from you is praise. Not complain nor fear. If you can turn that pain into an avenue of praise God will breakthrough for you.

3 things that happen as you praise through pain:

1. It is a statement of your faith in God and your love for God
Romans 8:35-39 KJV "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

2. It builds in you expectation for the miraculous
2 Timothy 1:12 KJV "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."

3. It activates systems of supernatural help
In Isiah 41:14 this is what the Lord said "Fear not, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will help you, says the LORD, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel" (King James 2000 Bible). The "worm Jacob" speaks of weakness, frailty and absence of strength. So even if you are weak and have no strength God will help you: help you overcome the challenges and pain.

Finally, in Isaiah 30:19 Scripture says that "For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee" (NIV). Beloved, weep no more. Turn your tears into praise. Turn your pain into praise. It might not be easy but it is worth it.

Shalom!!

PURE ESSENCE

PURE ESSENCE
With Joel  Dabbas

SCRIPTURE: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God | Romans 12:1-2 KJV

When you became born again you became a legal citizen of a supernatural system whose modus of operandi is different from where you use to be. And because of the preciousness of this system, it is of prime necessity to be guarded with all alertness and watchfulness.
Jesus said something intriguing in the parable of the sower in Luke 8:11-12 KJV
"Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved." One of the offices of the devil is that of stealing. So it is imperative that you are wise, alert, and don't loose guard. Your defense system must be active to wade the devil away.

I took serious thoughts about conversion and salvation; and i came to the conclusion that:
Firstly, salvation is Gods free gift perfected by His grace. So we can become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In this we have nothing absolutely to do about it. It was only made available for our taken.

Secondly, although salvation is absolutely and completely free there is a daily work and walk that everyone must engage in. I call it the work and walk of preserving our faith. The work and walk of faith is your practical, deliberate and serious response to preserving the seed God has planted in you at new birth. Ensuring that it grows and blossoms until eternity.
I need you to understand that the portal of the spirit by which we accessed salvation was on the platform of faith in Jesus. Ephesians 2:8 says that "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." So faith was the connector to the limitless, manifold gift of Gods salvation. No faith no salvation.
So our duty is to stand in partnership with the Holy Spirit our magnificient Helper to see us through the darkness of life so that we won't be chocked again by the works of evil.
We do this by daily sacrificing. A believer who don't live a life of wilful sacrifice will certainly satisfy the will of the flesh.
Sacrifice is leaving all that matters to us to satisfy God. It is letting go of what was our gain for His gain. Believers must understand that as citizens of the kingdom of God everything we own, we are and will be all belong to God, the MONARCH of ZION. This is sacrifice.
As you walk with God in all obedience, He teaches you the act of sacrifice one step at a time. He begins to do this with very little and minute things. As He does that, He is teaching you the act of living a life of sacrifice. So in the developmental phase there are times God could tell you don't eat, don't sleep now, don't have sex (if you are married), don't go out today and so forth. It could be simple things like put on this cloth or that colour of cloth; don't take this or that route. As this continues God is raising you gradually to the place of solid sacrifice. If you don't live a life of sacrifice, you can't satisfy God. Let me reiterate it this way, if you don't live a life of sacrifice, you can't lead a life of true absolute submission and surrender unto God.
If there is no submission on your part, you can't be a part of God's mission here on earth. If you are not living your life as a living sacrifice that is holy, you can't be a part of His service.
I have also discovered that a life of utmost consecration is a powerful vehicle of becoming a concrete tool in the hands of God. If you lead a consecrated life, you are relevant to God in every session.
Today, i charge you to come into a life of absolute and true sacrifice; and one of utmost consecration unto God. So that you will fulfill the powerful plea of Apostle Paul in our anchor text.
Shallom!

THE JOURNAL OF A PRAYING MAN

THE JOURNAL OF A PRAYING MAN

With Joel Dabbas 

SCRIPTURE: Epaphras, who is one of you, A SERVANT of Christ, salutes you, always LABORING FERVENTLY for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God | Colossians 4:12 

Prayer is a spiritual conduit that helps you to reach into great realities that are farfetched from the ordinary. 

Prayer is a spiritual system for men to do business in the spirit realm (Luke 18:1). 

Prayer is the constituency of the righteous man (James 5:16)

Prayer is the believer's respiratory organ. You can't live without Prayer. If there must be spiritual aliveness, prayer must be active.

Prayer is organic to people who value intimacy and partnership with God. 

Prayer activates and updates the virtues, capacities and abilities if a spiritual man.

Prayer is not the duty of a pastor, nor is it one of the functions in a Church meeting. It is a constant spiritual activity of a believer. The level of consistency in prayer equals your value for God. You can't love God and not pray (talk to Him) daily and always. So true men of prayer are not merely spiritual men but are God lovers.

In our anchor text Apostle Paul reveals a man called Epaphras a true man of prayer. And look at what was said about him: that he "LABORING FERVENTLY...in PRAYER." Laboring suggests the contnuity in his praying. It is not that type of prayer life that is once in a week, once a month or once in a year. Prayer was consistent and continuous. Not an epileptic prayer pattern. 

But why is he praying consistently and continuously like this? It was that the believers in Colossus may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Wait is this not that type of prayer that one will do just sipping coffee and muttering some words at intervals while even looking over the window? But a genuine spiritual man has no light or heavy prayer point. 

Just for believers to stand perfect and complete in the will of God, Epaphras prayed fervently.

Do you know what fervency is? It means ruggedity, hotness, brutality, violence, and seriousness. Praying with all brutality and all the seriousness you can muster. I am not talking about mindless shouting and jumping here and there without real fire in your bones. I am talking about the prayer that comes from inside out. A kind of prayer that touches you first before touching God. A prayer that you have a deep witness that you really prayed. 

Three things worthy of note in the journal of genuine prayer men:

1. They persistently pray for the revelation of a dimension of God in a place or in a people without retreating back.

They a portals of revival. 

2. They are selfless in prayer: Prayer does not have to be about them or their need. 

I mean what will make a man pray with all seriousness and contnuity like Epaphras did if it isn't for a personal need or for prosperity or for health and so on? That is the mistake many believers do today. For them prayer is about needs. Listen beloved until your desperation becomes about God, He won't fix yours. Because when you seek God first, He can't put you last.

3. Prayer men birth spiritual things: Epaphras was labouring to birth a people who will stand perfect and a people who are complete in all the will of God. This is very powerful. A prayer person births out spiritual realities in the lives of people.

Today become a true and genuine praying man.