Thursday, 2 December 2021

FAMILY


FOCUS: FAMILY 


SCRIPTURAL FOCUS: Isaiah 8:18


A family is a group of people connected by blood.


Everyone is a part of a biological family tree. It is through a family that we all have the opportunity of existence. In other words, family is God’s ordained land to plant you on earth.


Family is vital for God's mandate on earth. 

For example when Jesus was to be born, God looked for the family of Joseph the descendant of David to bring His Son into the world.

When God wanted to raise a people of covenant, He looked for the family of Abraham and established His covenant with them.

I want you to note this: Every family including yours has a prophetic mandate from God.


The truth is that the devil knows this and that is why He fights families.


But hear me as I hear God, every family challenge and battle is destroyed today in Jesus Name. 


Now, I want us to x-ray certain things about families and by extension your family as we command the year 2022.


1. In every family God plants a gift or even gifts (Ex 31:1-7; 35:30-35; Gen 4:19-21)


There is an impartation of certain unique giftings in families. And God does this to help families become a voice on earth.


There are families with the gift of business 

Some have the gift for discovery 

Some is politics, leadership and administration 

Some is law (they become very good lawyers)

Some is medicine

Some it is crafts

Some families are good with acting and entertainment and so on


Prophetic decree: Whatever God gave to your family that the enemy has suppressed or taken away it is coming back in Jesus Name 


2. In every family there is a blessing 

Every family that God created He blessed. 

In Genesis He blessed Adam and His wife.

Genesis 1:27-28 KJV

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

[28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.


Isaiah 65:8 says destroy it not for there is a blessing in it. I prophesy to you and your family, the blessing in you can never be destroyed in Jesus Name 


3. Your Family is an extension or a vehicle for generations and other families to be blessed 


God told Abraham in Genesis 12:3 KJV

"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."


God repeated to His grandson Jacob in Genesis 28:14 KJV

"And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed."


Listen to me beloved, your family is an extension of the blessing not misery.


None of your family members will be a portal of pain or concern in their generation in Jesus Name.


Say this, I and my family are blessed, we carry the blessing and we dispense the blessing.


With this understanding I want you to be angry at whatever does not look like God's ordained order for your family and contend with it.


Glory!



PRAYER POINTS 


1 O Lord thank You for strength to wait upon You yesterday. I ask for strength as I look up to You and wait in prayer and fasting today in Jesus Name


2. Lord, I receive the grace to fast and pray. 


3. O Lord of the Heavens army, frustrate every agenda of the wicked against my life, family and destiny Lord, in Jesus’ Name


4. Any demonic influence in my life and around my family i destroy now 


5. Generational familiar spirits fighting my family and establishing evil patterns i command your end now


6. I decree and declare that every member of my family are set on fire for Jesus 


7. Every siege and limitation scatters now


8. Lord, make me and my family a sign and wonder all through 2022 and beyond


9. Barreness, poverty, delayed marriage and evil character plaguing my family scatters now



10. Every gift in my family that is suppressed becomes functional now


11. Lord, I speak peace and unity into my family 


12. Lord, in the name of Jesus, just as David was anointed king out of the family of Jesse. Father anoint each one of my family for their thrones in destiny in Jesus Name 


13. Joblessness and barreness ends now


14. I prophesy speed, progress, testimonies, miracles and greatness is what we will enjoy in my family in 2022 and beyond in Jesus Name 


15. I rebuke scarcity, empty-handedness out of my home 


16. I frustrate and destroy every witchcraft activity against my family in Jesus Name 


17. 2022 settle my family O Lord in Jesus Name



Wednesday, 1 December 2021

THANKSGIVING



FOCUS: THANKSGIVING 

 

SCRIPTURAL FOCUS: Psalm 92:1


Thanksgiving is an act of appreciation and gratitude.


Thanksgiving unto God therefore is the act of celebrating, glorifying, being grateful for what He has done for you and who He has been to you.


Every giant in the Bible was known for Thanksgiving. For example Jesus always gives God thanks. At the tomb of Lazarus Jesus said  "thank You Father, because You hear me always." He was thankful for answers to prayers.


Again Jesus was handed five loaves of bread and two fishes, He lifted it to the Father and thanked Him, it all multiplied.


Thanksgiving is a spiritual force that causes the amplification of God's goodness in our lives


Thanksgiving is a product from a grateful heart.


If you can think or be retrospective about what the Lord has done in your life you  will always be thankful.


Two levels of Thanksgiving 


1. Thanking God for what He has done (Luke 17:15-19)


2. Thanking God for what He will yet do:

John 6:11 KJV

"And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would."


John 11:41 KJV

"Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me."


This is faith in action. Imagine thanking God for healing when you are still physically sick. 


Imagine thanking God for that job, that property, that business, that car and so on even when there is no hope insight of having them.


Imagine thanking God for that child who is not yet in alignment with the will of God.


Imagine thanking God for the great things He will do for you in 2022.


Imagine thanking God for breaking yokes and lifting you in 20222


Imagine thanking God for open doors in 2022


Imagine thanking God for making you enter into your prophetic session in 2022


Imagine God fulfilling His covenant and prophecies to you in 2022


Imagine and imagine and think and thank God


It is going to be an amazing year!!!


Glory!!!





PRAYER POINTS 


1. Father, we appreciate Your goodness and mercies in my life and family the year 2021. Thank You Lord for all the testimonies and manifestations in the year 2021. To You be all the glory Lord in Jesus’ Name (Ps. 103:1-5; Psalm 105:1-2)

2. Father, thank You for the good plans and purpose You have for us in 2022. Thank You for the great things You will do for us.To You alone be all the glory, Lord in Jesus’ Name (Jer. 29:11)


3. Father, thank You for the Blood of Jesus that gives us access to the holiest of all. Thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit who helps us to pray as we ought to pray. To You be all the glory, Lord in Jesus’ Name (Heb. 10:19, 20; Rom. 8:26-27)


4. Lord, just as Jesus lifted up five loaves of bread and two fishes, I lift up 2022 before you, multiply in my life special testimonies without number in Jesus Name 


5. O Lord, thank You for making 2022 my year of absolute rest from troubles in Jesus Name (Joshua 21:44)


6. Lord thank You for healing and impact in 2022


7. Thank You for ministry growth, and business growth in Jesus Name 


8. Thank You Lord because my heart will be on fire for You. My spiritual life will not go down in Jesus Name 


9. Thank You Lord for supernatural marriages,  supernatural help, supernatural speed, and favour in every area of my life in Jesus Name



Tuesday, 30 November 2021

JOURNEYING INTO YOUR DIVINE SESSION


 

JOURNEYING INTO YOUR DIVINE SESSION

There is a God orchestrated, divinely arranged and determined session for your life and destiny.

God is timeless but the effects of His moves is felt in our lives and recorded in our earth realm in times and sessions.

One thing you must understand is that God is orderly and does His will only. Many times we are burdened with the anxiety of 'when will it be; how is it going to happen' that our faith in God is threatened or affected.

The truth is that if you must get anything tangible from God, it will require patience, hope and total trust in His ways or process.

The manifestation of God is born in our time when we stay and stand strong in Him and on His premises.

God never reneges on His promises. I particularly like what the Bible said in Joshua 21:43-45 KJV


"And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. 

[44] And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. 

[45] There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass."

I write this to encourage someone who is thinking of giving up, for someone who have waited so long for a miracle and for that person who is waiting for light to come out of a present darkness. Hear me my beloved friend, a new session is just in front of you. Your best days is yet ahead.

As you journey into your new session I want you to note the following:

1. Never loose touch with the presence of God
Exodus 33:14-15 KJV
"And he said, My presence shall go with thee , and I will give thee rest.
[15] And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me , carry us not up hence."


The loneliest road to travel is the road traveled without the presence of God.




2. Teach your heart to spy into the future you are journeying into

God deliberately told the children of Israel to go spy the land He had promised them. And when they did it, two types or groups of people emerged:
The first group was the faithless and realist group: This are the group of people who know there is a good place for them but lack the faith to drive it into reality. This set always end up as cowards and always chicken out of there God ordained session.

The second was the fath-filled and optimistic group: Only two persons existed in this group. These are bold and courages souls. Who can dare anything to get into what God has ordained for you.

A times God allows our mind and even our dreams to spy into what He has ahead of us and wait for our response.

Listen our response will determine how we truly feel the pulse of His heart and how we understand and trust His ways.




Beloved, you are journeying into a great future, into a blissful marriage, into great blessings and so on.

Finally, nothing kills dreams like fear, nothing buries dreams like faithlessness

It is a beginning of great and good things for you.

God is cleansing that secret tears


Your joyful day is breaking now

Be encouraged

This is your friend

Joel Dabbas 

Wednesday, 24 November 2021

YOUR PROCESS AND YOUR PROGRESS

 


YOUR PROCESS AND YOUR PROGRESS
Excerpt from the teaching ministry of Dr. Joel Dabbas

SCRIPTURE TEXT: Hebrews 12:2-8 KJV

I want you to note three (3) powerful truths:
1. Everyone has a path divinely ordained for he or she

2. God takes you through certain process so that He can protect His will and produce a product of glory

3. No one who will be valuable in God's agenda, valuable in time and in eternity that won't pass through certain process

Let me define a process for you:

My basic simple definition is this: Process is God placing you in His training field to bring you into His agenda.

God does not run an agenda-less scheme. The truth is that time and earth will eject anyone who has lived life to its fullest purpose.

Nothing defines progress like process. Proverbs 4:18 says that "the path of the righteous is like a shining light, it shines more and more into a perfect day." The meaning of this is simple:

I. Your dimension is in process: The statement "it keeps shining more and more unto a perfect day" describes the process. It starts gradually but never stops.

II. Also, you don't arrive at the place God intends for you over night. It takes process.
God can jump start your life today and bring you into glory in a very short time but the truth Is that, it is easier that way if you have passed through certain plains called process.

I want you to know that the promise is mined into reality by process. If God says A will happen in you life, in your time, or generation. It will take men of understanding to align to the process that will deliver it's utmost manifestation. 




Jesus told the disciples, if I go the promise of the Father (the Holy Ghost) will come but do something for this to materialize and manifest go to Jerusalem and wait/tarry (Luke 24:49). They left the mountain to the upper room and there they fasted, prayed, studied the word and had fellowship for 3 months. Then the promise came with great power. They immediately impacted their world and won 3000 souls for Jesus in one day.

There is no impact without process.
Power without process is fake.
God has no business with fake men. He does business with genuine people. These are those who can ascend into the throne of grace, those who can come into the hills of Elohim, the Monarch of Zion and do real kingdom business in His name.

All I am saying is that every child of God must have a concrete track record with God. This defines your process.

Process is deliberate God orchestrated systems to help His men value the place of glory and honour He is bringing them to.

There are classes of people and there are reasons why many have not attained the progress God desires of them:

The first class of people are those who missed their process: There are people who missed a phase in their process and it makes them not to be solid. This makes them unbalanced and can not become who they ought to be by God's standards.
There are many who are not solid in faith today because they missed this powerful growth face.

The second class are unfinished process: Some people abandoned the process.
A medical student that jumps out of school at year 5 (second clinical year) because he feels he has seen certain things been done in the hospital will always remain a quack.
Many are quacks in the scheme of God’s mandate for their lives, ministry and assignment because they couldn't stay to learn, grow and develop. I want you to know that it is only a wood that endures the fire that can be turned into coals of fire.
If you don't sit with God, you cannot become His fire coal to the nations of the earth.

Process is that phase whereby you not only see things but you touch things and handle things. It is the bone chewing phase that helps you develop essential muscles and strength.

People who genuinely pass through process become streams from which others draw from. They become pillars on whom others can lean on and learn from

Why many people don't finish their process:
1. Lack of persistent hunger

2. Lack of humility

3. Lack of patience
The rush for attainment is the reason many are flushed out of relevance and miss their divine mandate and crash out their manifestation

4. Comparing themselves to others






Finally, process is capacity building phase.

I like us to read this Scripture together as i close here for now.
1 Timothy 4:14-16 KJV
"Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. [15] Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. [16] Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee."

People who do profitable things for God, do profitable things with their time and so on are people who have passed through certain process.
Process takes discipline to accomplish. I decree and declare that you will receive grace to walk through the process that will amplify your progress in Jesus' Name.
Ask God to give you capacity to stay with Him and grow daily in Jesus Name. 


This Excerpt was from The Days Of His Power Conference 2021

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

OPERATING IN GENUINE DOMINION

 


OPERATING IN GENUINE DOMINION 

An excerpt from the teaching ministry of Dr. Joel Dabbas 

Text: Genesis 1:28


In Genesis 1:28 God blessed man with the blessing of dominion.


To have dominion means to become a force on earth


To have dominion is the power over obscurity


To have dominion is to be a voice on earth 


To have dominion infers that God wants his man to have supremacy 


To have dominion is to have influence and control


Any believer that have capacity to control is a threat to the enemy. You cannot be in control and be tortured by the devil.


I want you to understand the meaning of what God said to man at creation. He said "let them have dominion." The meaning of "let them have..." means that you should own or possess dominion. When you truly possess dominion, you are upgraded into a realm higher than the common or ordinary. In this realm everything that is not in that realm is under your control. This is actually the realm of God: Dominion is the realm of God. Anything that is not in the realm of God, is under anyone that is able to possess dominion. So poverty, sickness, disfavour, curses, limitation, demons, the devil and so on are not in the realm of God so you have control over them.


Now, how is it that Elohim gave us access into His realm of dominion but not many believers are operating in this dimension genuinely. Why is it that there are still believers tormented, and controlled by the devil. Why is it that some believers are molested by sicknesses, diseases, poverty, scarcity and so on?


I will let you see some of the reasons for this:


The first reason is that many believers harbors what things that belongs to the devil: In John 14:30 KJV says that "Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me."

The Passion Translation of the Bible renders this Scripture this way " I won’t speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this dark world[a] is coming. But he has no power over me, for he has nothing to use against me." If the devil has any of his stuff in a man he will rule and control  that person. Nothing seeds your dominion to the devil like the presence of his stuff in the soul of a man.

Jesus had complete dominion while on earth because he does not have anything that is of the devil in him. If you have anything in common with the devil you downgrade yourself to his realm, hence he will control and reign over you.

Sicknesses, diseases, demons, death and so on trembled at the presence of Jesus because He does not have a common ground with the devil.

Secondly, totally receive the gift of righteousness: Romans 5:17 KJV "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" 

Righteousness upgrades you into the realm of dominion. Righteousness: To many people the thought of righteousness is like the thought of moral perfection something that is unattainable, something that because it is unattainable is also threatening, because it is perceived to be something that is expected of us, yet something we can never accomplish.

It is also seen by some to have a repulsive overtone, because 'righteousness' is associated with hypocrites and with people who are 'self-righteous'.

Because of these negative connotations many people, including many Christians, pass over the Bible's references to 'righteousness', and in that fearful passing over have disregarded one of the most powerful antidotes to the fear of judgment and failure that the Bible offers us.

The Bible teaches that 'righteousness' is a 'gift', and that this gift is 'God's abundant provision.' It is something that he gives to us, not something that he requires of us. It is required, yes. It is essential, yes. But it is not provided by us, it is given to us by God himself.

If you receive this gift of righteousness, you will automatically operate in dominion and you will rule on earth. Nothing rules or controls the one who have received the gift of righteousness. Ancestral powers,  familiar spirits, sicknesses and so on cannot control your life and destiny. 

Beloved it is time to operate in genuine dominion.

I prophesy, you will rule even the midst of your enemies in Jesus name 


PRAYER: Lord by mercy anything that belongs to the devil that is removed in Jesus name



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God bless you 


 


Saturday, 31 July 2021

THE TEACHING PRIEST



THE TEACHING PRIEST 

From The Teaching Ministry of Dr. Joel Dabbas 


2 Chronicles 15:3 KJV

Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.


The structures of the Kingdom is sustained by the teaching priest. God ordained it this way because it is through genuine kingdom knowledge that men are built. 


They reason why many are drifting away from Kingdom purpose and agenda is because of the presence of few genuine kingdom teaching priest's.


They reason why there are many weaklings in the body is because of the absence of genuine kingdom teaching priests.


We are in the last of the last days and one of the things that will characterize these times is that men will desire teachings that soothes them. Teachings that will pamper them and make them feel alright in their sin.


But in the midst of these I hear God saying I will yet raise my men. They will be my voice to the nations of the world. They will truly divide the Word of truth to countless many. Glory to God!


How Teachers teach and dimensions of teaching priests.


Teaching priests operates in two powerful dimensions.


Teaching can be Expository or Revelatory (1 Corinthians 14:6).


If you are teacher you must know which dimension you flow in. It will help you understand how God wants to manifest by His Spirit through you.


When an expository teaching priests ministers you the heart of the Father is truly revealed. 


When a revelatory teaching priest ministers, your eyes is opened to kingdom secrets


Also, as believers we must flow in certain gifts of the Spirit. So for instance a teaching priest that has a prophetic gifting, will not only teach but prophesy.

A teaching priest with the gift of healing and working of miracles will not only teach but operate supernaturally in miracles.

A teaching priest with the gift of interpretation of tongues will not only teach but interpret tongues and so on.



Matthew 21:23 KJV says that "And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?"


Teaching Priests after the order of our Lord Jesus Christ teach with the authority of the king and do great things for God.


The teaching ministry is a powerful kingdom asset that trims men and prunes men to be who they ought to be in God's Kingdom and the world.


I see a rise of true teaching priests around the nations of the earth in Jesus Name.


God bless you


From Yours 


Joel Dabbas


Tuesday, 8 June 2021

FLAMING FIRE



FLAMING FIRE

SCRIPTURE: Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire - Psalm 104:4

 An Excerpt From The Teaching Ministry of Pastor Dr. Joel Dabbas 

Let me begin by letting you know that God is a Maker. The very first introduction of God to us in Scripture was that He is a Maker of things. In the book of Isaiah and in Jeremiah these prophets constantly declares this creative part of God by likening Him to a Potter. Our God can build, He can carve out great things from nothing. He is God. Hallelujah!

Now to our focal Scripture in Psalm 104:4 the Bible says that God makes His ministers ministers a flaming fire.

According to the Collins dictionary, a flaming fire means burning with or emitting flames; it is to glow brightly; brilliantly and radiantly. It also means to beam or burn with intensity or ardently; vehemently; and with great passion. Looking at these definitions it points us in two directions or are characteristic of:
1. The glory; and
2. Fervency
In other words God makes His ministers to beam His glory and He makes them fervent.
To become a flaming fire, you have to be made. That means there is a process you will need to go through with God and in God. There is a curriculum to be taken, lecture to undertake, a training and a forging that has to be done in your life.
Beloved, it is possible to burn: i mean it is possible that the vestige of your spirit being takes another form. The form of God's fire.
One nature of God is fire and to be one His true sons or daughters take on this nature.

A flaming fire is one God can give territorial assignments. A flaming fire can be a strong voice of God for his or generation. A flaming fire is a weapon for strange warfare. A flaming fire is a disaster to the kingdom of the devil.




HOW TO BE MADE INTO A FLAMING FIRE


1. Become a minister of God
This means to be ready to carry Gods message and speak it. There are alot of believers who are not ready to speak Gods message to their world and the world. They are only satisfied to sit in church every year without becoming a voice for God. There are alot of people who are ministers for themselves and their belly. They are not around to deliver Gods message to people but their own grafted message. A minister of God is a carrier of the message of God

2. Stay and be submitted to God

Every coal is a product of a wood who submitted itself to be burnt. If you don't want to stay with God and be submitted to Him, you are not ready to be made into flames of fire. In Exodus 34:27-30 KJV look at what happened to Moses
"[27] And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
[28] And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
[29] And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.
[30] And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him."

Moses stayed with God for 40 days and returned beaming His glory. If you stay with God and humble yourself under His hand before long you will emerge a burning flame of fire.

3. Have a genuine hunger
This drives you more into God. The more you know Him, the more you want to know Him.

4. Dedicated word and prayer life
This is are the raw materials that churn men into flames. The word of God can set you on fire for life.

Exodus 34:27-29 KJV 

"[27] And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
[28] And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
[29] And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him."
Moses was with God and interacting with the Word for 40 days. Moses was receiving, writing and ingesting the word of God into His spirit for 40 days and returned burning in blazing glory. Something happens to your spirit also when you spend time with the Word like Moses did.




WHY YOU MUST BECOME A FLAMING FIRE

1. Because God will have a need of you all the time

2. Because you will also cause others to burn
When the disciples became flaming fire in Acts Chapter 2 people from different nations came to watch them burn and 3000 souls were saved. A flaming fire is highly contagious. A pastor who is already turned into a flaming fire will turn everyone in his church into burning vessels. This is a spiritual system for endless revival in the church. Any child of God who is a flaming fire will become a mobile revivalist.

3. Because the world is growing in wickedness and it will require fire to swallow all the nonsense of the enemy around

4. Because flaming fires are bold, courageous and effective
That timidity to impact your world is arrested when you are made into a flaming fire

5. Because flaming fire kills lukewarmness and slotfulness thereby increasing your passion in serving God (Romans 12:11)
It takes fire to be fervent in serving the Lord. Nothing cages and hinders one from serving God like the absence of spiritual fire

Finally, becoming a flaming fire is to become a mobile fire of God. By this you become a fire starter everywhere you go. People talk with you and their heart burn for God. I am truly hungry to be a flaming fire minister whereby any encounter with me (by the help of the Holy Spirit) just as you are having now will turn you and people into not just fire carriers but fire themselves.
I pray for you become a flaming fire in this lukewarm world in Jesus name
God bless you!!



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