Take My Hand Inspirations: March 2021

Wednesday 31 March 2021

94: What Do You Want?

It’s A New Season

For the first three months of this year, we have journeyed through the series “It’s a New Season”. This series was meant to uproot, weed out, cut down, and annihilate anything that blocked your fruitful blessings. Now it’s time for you to believe in yourself—to believe that God did not make any mistake about you; and that what you’ve got is good—no, great—enough to do amazing things in your lifetime, and unto new generations. You’ve got Jesus’ blood running through your veins, and His Holy Spirit pumping your soul.

What more can you want? So Jesus answered and said unto him, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Mark 10:51a). Blind Bartimaeus got what he wanted by equipping himself in three ways. Equip, in this context, simply means to make ready or to be prepared to move at the moment it’s time for your miracle to come, and to receive it. First, he prayed, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Mark 10:47, 48). Secondly, he demonstrated determination. When those around him told him to be quiet, he cried out all the more for help from the Saviour. Thirdly, blind Bartimaeus was equipped with ‘un-fractured’ faith, a gift of the spirit that many lack, but what is most needed for you to receive your miracle.

There are so many sermons, speeches, and series written about faith. But I want to describe to you, as the conclusion to this series, is the 1 Corinthians 12:9 kind of faith—that is the Holy Spirit’s gift to us who want it. Every believer has expressed faith in Jesus Christ as He who died, resurrected and who is now seated at the right hand of God in the heavenly kingdom. Faith, here, means to believe and to accept this truth as the backbone of who you are as a Christian.

The 1 Corinthians 12:9 gift of faith is the “walking on water” keeping your eyes on Jesus not to fall faith. It’s what makes some of us appear “crazy” in how we approach the impossible and trust God to make it so! To make “impossibilities” real in our lives–to change the course of humanity, to open doors of endless possibilities giving our hope a place to flourish and thrive where there seems to be none. It’s “the best is yet to come” vision in the eyes of the visionary who reaches out to catch their dream and make it come true. It’s the power of God running through the soul of a believer who dreams big.

What’s the size of a mustard seed? Teeny tiny it is, but when it grows, it spreads out providing shade for days! That tinsy, winsy little seed enlarges to a gargantuan mustard tree. And that’s all the amount of this kind of faith you’ve got to have to receive your miracle. Blind Bartimaeus wanted to see.

“What do you want Jesus to do for you?” Ask (Pray), and it will be given to you. Seek (with Determination), and you will find. Knock (by Faith), and it will be opened to you (Matthew 7:7). Give your whole life (your whole dream/purpose) to Christ and what you want will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you (Luke 6:38).

A person who is equipped with prayer and determination, and who exercises the spiritual gift of faith, receives all their heart’s desires. You’ve only just begun to tap into the awesome power of God by walking toward what you want Jesus to do for you in prayer, with determination, and by faith. Never give up!

New Season¹

It’s a new season, it’s a new day

A fresh anointing is flowing my way

It’s a season of power and prosperity

It’s a new season coming to me.

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1. “New Season” lyrics by Israel Houghton, 2001.

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Tuesday 16 March 2021

93: My Cry was Heard

It’s A New Season

[My] soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and [I] have escaped (Psalm 124:7).

There is a cry from the darkness of a swollen soul that emits no audible note, just groans too deep for utterance. Eyes close from seeing light as you’re trapped in secret pain, trapped inside the thunder of another unaware of your soul’s imprisonment. That is how unforgiveness operates: it locks the offender in a cold cistern and throws away the key, the trap ensnaring its prey for as long as it wants.

Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord.;

Lord, hear my voice!

Let Your ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplications.

(Psalm 130:1-2)

Forgive.

Folks who can’t forgive an offense usually lock their offender deep inside their grudge in the center of their heart; and throw away the key to their love, their mercy, their affection. You may be unaware that your soul can be entrapped, ensnared this way because it wasn’t you who put yourself there. This time, forces of perdition, outside of you, are at work feeding off your enslavement, mocking at your struggling to break free, and satisfied that you have no clue of the way out.

There is no way to imagine how a person could bear a grudge or harbor jealousies and animosities (evil imaginations) against one who cannot. A born-again Christian is filled with God’s Holy Spirit which carries an enormous amount of trust in the goodness of a neighbor or relative or friend. He chooses to believe in everything ‘good’ about a person and can hardly reflect on another’s weakness, or ugly spot; and is stunned by the ability of others to do so to them.

Forgive.

When your soul is entrapped in someone else’s stronghold, and Jesus comes in with the key to unlock it and set you free, it is because of the sound of your cry. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Then many warned him to be quiet; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” (Read Mark 10:46-52).

Why did they warn blind Bartimaeus to keep quiet? Wallowing in misery and self-pity is where Satan wants to keep you. But like Bartimaeus, when you fully comprehend who Jesus is, CRY OUT FOR JESUS! Unseen principalities of darkness hover the souls of men unceasingly in the power struggle to capture your soul’s eternal destination. CRY OUT FOR JESUS! Bartimaeus prayer was simple and sincere: have mercy on me!

Mercy is forgiveness granted unto to you when you come to a point in your awareness that you’re human, a vessel of dust who is nothing without the Spirit of God. Prophet Jonah realized this while his soul was trapped inside the belly of the whale. Joseph realized this as his soul was lowered into an abandoned pit; as did Jeremiah inside that cold cistern.

Have mercy on me!

For with the Lord there is mercy (Psalm 130:7). He requires no payment, no libations, no works, no bribery or manipulations to set your soul free from the snare of the fowler. All that is required is your humble submission to His awesome power and the boldness to run into His merciful arms with a cry: “Abba, Father, have mercy on me!” By his great cry, Bartimaeus connected with the power of Jesus, Son of David: So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be called (Mark 10:49).

You, son or daughter of God, have been given the channel, the way out of every adversity, every wicked plan or devilish snare to your soul. Do you not see it? Bartimaeus, blind as he was, could see his way out of the snare: “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus on the road (Mark 10:52).

We must walk in power by faith and not by sight. The “sight” of man imagines the worse, but faith in Christ raises us above carnal impossibilities; and frees us through broken snares to soar higher and higher in the Spirit, like an eagle in the altitudes where his enemies cannot reach him. That’s how it is in the spiritual realm where your soul thrives. Once set free by Christ, you are free indeed to follow Him along the road called life. You must carry the power of the resurrected Christ in you to be able to see the traps set before you and to overcome ensnarement of your soul.

Discern.

There is nothing more precious than the condition of your soul. Jesus died for your soul, not your body. While on earth, the body is your soul’s temple—fill your temple with the Holy Spirit of God our Father, and Christ His Son (1 Corinthians 3:16). Once filled, you’ve got Jesus’ power to trample on every power of evil; and nothing shall by any means hurt you . . . ever again (Luke 10:19).

Follow Jesus.

New Season¹

It’s a new season, it’s a new day

A fresh anointing is flowing my way

It’s a season of power and prosperity

It’s a new season coming to me.

1. “New Season” lyrics by Israel Houghton, 2001.

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Monday 8 March 2021

92: Walking In Power!

It’s A New Season

Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you (Psalm 116:7).

A soul once bitten is twice shy. When a soul is trampled on my disappointment, fear, rejection, false accusation, and evil imaginations, it begins to become weary at the delay of its vindication. In the waiting period, it cries out like the soul of Hannah: And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish. Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard (1 Samuel 1:10, 13).

A troubled soul sometimes cries out to God with no sound, the pain so deep, no utterance can come out. This is praying with supplication. The Lord hears such prayers and knows exactly how to give rest to such a soul—to stop the trembling, to release the pain, and allow it to experience God’s comfort, replacing vexation with making melody.

You may be going through some hard times right now; and you don’t know how to pray, or what to say if you do open your mouth. Go to that quiet place, or enter the church temple, get on your knees and cry out to the Lord for relief, for a way out, for the way to take that will keep you from falling off His narrow path.

Then Hannah made a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, and will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, . . . (1 Samuel 1:11).

Our God is a covenant-keeping God: By faith, you enter into a covenant with God—He’s your Father; you’re His child—and you receive all the benefits that come with this covenant every time you cry out “Abba, Father!” What is your covenant to the Lord? What have you promised to give to the Lord? In Psalm 116:12, David asked: What shall I render to the Lord for all His benefits toward me? And Hannah answered, “I will give him to You, Lord, all the days of his life.”

Your vow can be like Hannah’s and so many others who understand that there is nothing you can pay our God for all His goodness toward us. So, the only thing we can give is our life to Him—a life for a life: “Jesus’ life for my life.” Give your life to Christ Jesus, and your soul will be delivered from strife, your eyes from tears, and your feet from falling, so that YOU CAN WALK IN POWER!

After Hannah explained that she was a woman of sorrowful spirit and was pouring her soul out to the Lord, the Pastor answered, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him. So she went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad (1 Samuel 1:17-18).

Hannah was filled with God’s comforting presence when Pastor Eli spoke these assuring words to her. You will know that He’s answered your prayer by the peace that comes into your soul. Then the miracle unfolds right before your eyes! Hannah conceived and bore a male child. God dealt so bountifully with her that she conceived another 3 sons and 2 daughters (1 Samuel 2:21); and we know that Samuel became God’s chosen Pastor and Prophet over Israel.

You can have this same testimony as I share mine with you. God has done wonders all throughout my life and ministry; and on 7^th March, He answered my prayer to begin a Children’s and Teens church to His glory! My team and I worshipped the Lord with 73 young souls as we shared God’s Word in conversation with “Real Talk” Teaching Tracts for children and teens in church. Twenty-five gave their lives to Christ; and souls of children and teens who don’t regularly attend church walked through our doors in the morning service and came back during our evening service.

Pray that we continue to WALK IN POWER as the Lord’s favor extends mightily into the salvation of young souls.

Your prayer support and donations to keep this ministry going is needed. By your gift, we can create choir robes, dance costumes, and supply our young souls physical nourishment with breakfast and refreshments after morning service. Instruments and the hiring of music teachers to enhance our worship are also needed.

Financial gifts to sustain the operations of this maiden church and the planting of new Children’s and Teens Churches can be sent to THE LIGHT IN ME ENTERPRISE – UBA Bank Acct. No. 00412927002555 or by Mobile Money to +233 – (0)24-055-7183. God richly bless you, your family and all that is yours by the love and generosity you give to us! Amen.

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Monday 1 March 2021

91: Walk Boldly In Your Divine Anointing

It’s A New Season

There are no two ways on the journey of life. Either you let others direct your steps, or you let God be the light on your path. May this be the day, the season, you stop allowing people to limit who you are, and may you suddenly start walking in your divine anointing. Jesus gave it to you when you accepted Him as Lord and Savior over your life—and no one can destroy it.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (Philemon 3).

It’s time to stop belittling yourself to make others feel comfortable around you. Instead, you must take bold steps to share yourself, your gifts, your talents, to the benefit humanity and to glorify God. The greatest heartache we give to our Creator is untapped potential—wasted talent(s)—the greatest of these being your faith which grows as you love yourself more:

. . . that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgement of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus (Philemon 6).

All what you are today is a culmination (a sum total) of what God has put in you + your failures + your achievements + your ignorance + your knowledge + your pain + your forgiving and being forgiven + your insecurities + your unique abilities + your rejection + your love—love for yourself and love for others as you walk in your testimony celebrating with others how God turned all the “bad stuff”, the “ugly stuff”, into everything good which is in you because you decided that the only way is to walk boldly in your divine anointing.

“Anointing” means the power of God flowing inside your heart, your soul, which is connected to the greatest power in the universe. “Anointing” means wielding that God-power on earth as it was divinely instructed in God’s assignment for your journey on earth. You are that special “package” intricately designed by our Father, to be unwrapped as a gift for humanity and for expanding the Kingdom heavenly.

Not even your ego, your fears, your ‘weakness’ can destroy what God has made in you. It’s only that you make the choice to give thanks to God by leaning on Him as He directs you in the way should go to put that special package in you to good use: How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Acts 10:38).

Jesus told his disciples that, when He goes back to His glory in heaven, the Holy Spirit—the Helper—would come and fill our hearts with His truth and with His peace (John 14:26-27, 20:22), to neither let our hearts be troubled, nor be afraid. The Holy Spirit is our Helper. He is assigned to help you carry out your life-purpose here on earth. You must yield, humbly submit, under His divine power, in order to be lifted up overcoming powers of carnality and principalities (Colossians 2:15).

Are you holding onto the consequences or results or blowback from events of your past? Are you allowing your mistakes of yesterday to hinder your progress—your pressing forward—today? It’s a new season—a season of power, a season of prosperity, a new day, a new time to try a different way. Break out of the old ways you have been doing things and live life as if you don’t have one more day, as if this is the only day to do something good, bringing healing through acts of love, bringing freedom to those who are oppressed by satanic strongholds.

You can do it because you have been freed from those same satanic strongholds we talked about in Blog # 89. And because God is with you, just as He was with Jesus: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father (John 14:12).

We ask ourselves, “How can I do greater works than Jesus? Jesus raised the dead, healed all kinds of diseases, made the blind to see, the lame to walk; and walked on water Himself! What greater works can I do than these?” God is telling someone right now that “You are not a replica, a photocopy, or a replacement of Christ Jesus. You are wonderfully made to do the works that are packaged in you. It is your faith that characterizes your works. The anointing in you is the same anointing in My Son.” If it’s your portion to heal the sick, you can do it; to raise the dead, you can do it; to trample over all the power of the evil one, you did it already.

You’ve got to get in agreement with God in your mind and emotion—at the deep-down soul level, then allow Him to move in you like never before in the Spirit to do greater works. If there is a barrier that blocks your belief in doing greater works, how can you overcome that barrier? Get in agreement with God that your faith can move mountains; that your faith can make you ‘walk on water’; that your faith can do all things through Christ Jesus, because His anointing is working through you.

Walk boldly—fearlessly—in your anointing. It’s a new time in history and you are that new creation in your generation to step up and testify that Jesus is living, moving and doing in you. By the blood of Jesus, take off the shackles and break every chain; then dare to walk in the power poured into you: overflowing, running over (Psalm 23:5).

New Season¹

It’s a new season, it’s a new day

A fresh anointing is flowing my way

It’s a season of power and prosperity

It’s a new season coming to me.

1. “New Season” lyrics by Israel Houghton, 2001.

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