Importance of Revelation in our walk

 _The importance of revelation in our walk_ 

It is my pleasure to welcome you to this New Year. The word of the Lord for us is quite encouraging; Rest on every side. My prayer is that you have the rest experientially in Jesus name.

We need to walk under divine revelation this year. Yes, we need to be in a position when things don’t take us by surprise. It is the manner of the enemy to steal in to cause us great harm and damage when we are not in the realms of revelation. When I say this, I am not implying those believers who are never serious with their spiritual life. Very spiritually disciplined children of God have suffered shock attacks too. Imagine the embarrassment Prophet Elisha faced when one of the most faithfully financial members of his ministry stormed in on him.

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why." 2 Kings 4:27NIV 

This was the woman that gave him a comfortable lodging place; she was the woman who hosted him with fine meals; she was the woman that God gave a miracle child through the ministry of Elisha. Her family recognized him as their household prophet. How could it be that sickness and eventual death struck the family but Elisha did not receive any signal. She galloped wildly on her donkey to get to him and even while she took hold of his garment, a prophet of high standing like Elisha still did not receive any signals from the spirit.

Two incidences happened in Door of Hope Christian between 31st of December 2023 and 1st of January 2024; the first was the case of a man who came to Sunday service as a first timer. It was through a revelation that I learned that he was a spy who had intention to come to rob us after. The second was a spiritual report on one of my faithful workers and the Lord asked that I should stand over him as a prophetic cover to neutralize the planned attack on him.

Pastors, parents and heads of organizations should be bothered about this. As the spiritual authority over a group of people, you owe them to cover them through your prayers and receive signals through the Holy Spirit to cover them through your prophetic intercession. 

Back to our text; thank God that the woman’s son was recovered, it is important we recognize that it is not in all cases that people survive such attacks.

In another occasion still under Elisha, some of the young prophets had exposed themselves to possible death.

One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine. He gathered some of its gourds and filled the fold of his cloak. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it 2 Kings 4:39-40NIV

How often are members of our churches and families exposed to great danger but those who hold spiritual authority are too blind to notice. Take note that they were already eating the food before some of them cried out their concern about the presence of poison in their food. At times it is a destructive teaching that has entered the church or some kind of lifestyle among the youths but the spiritual leaders are not sensitive enough to know it. It could even be a material danger. One time, while in the mission field of Dad Palm, with Joy and my children, a very dangerous snake had entered right into our sleeping place while we were all in bed. Someone had warned me that the false prophet in that area was angry about my activities of delivering people from the power of satan. That night he sent that snake to kill. Sudden I received a word from the Lord and I announced a bible passage loudly.

And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven Rev 12:7-8NIV

I declared this passage and announced, “Satan, you are not strong enough”.

I don’t remember how many times I repeated this scripture before Kasarachi screamed out, “Daddy, there is a dangerous snake in this room”.

I want you to understand that spiritual alertness and that loud proclamation of that word of God was what paralysed that agenda of the devil.

In some congregations, they are currently operating with familiar spirits in the name of “prophetic ministry” but no one recognized it.  

Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her Acts 16:16-18NIV

I personally had some agents of darkness come in to work with me in the name of church workers trying to exercise fake spiritual gifts, not in all cases was I able to decode them until certain circumstances started manifesting. One time a lady went outside rubbing her face in a nearby bush because the Lord struck her; she was an agent of darkness. In another instance, the power of God struck the head of a woman on a wall and she came out bleeding. Another messenger of the kingdom of darkness.

That was what happened with the Apostle Paul. He had a misunderstanding with the head of his team and still travelled under circumstances of strife. Even though some group of believers endorsed his arrogance and prayed for him, but God was not satisfied with this.

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing." Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches Acts 15:36-41NIV

These are among the many things that open doors to satan in the ministries of servants of God and our churches. The brothers commended Paul to the grace of God but it was not these brethren that sent them out in the first place. Paul was okay with human approval but God wanted him to go back and reconcile with his spiritual leader. Yes, Barnabas was his spiritual leader; it was Barnabas who picked him up when everyone else avoided him. How prone we are to forget our beginning. If you look carefully at the account of his ministry from that time, you will notice the obvious struggle. In fact, he later begged that Mark should be sent to him to assist his ministry. Thank God that Barnabas did not bow to popular opinions.

We are warned to be careful about ourselves when we think we are now very established and mature.  

So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 1 Cor 10:12NIV

Imagine that the great Apostle Paul was pushed about by a demon for many days and did not know it. It took the strife in his soul by the Holy Spirit before he could notice that there was something wrong. The reason being that the demon was saying things in his favour. 

Hmmm!

It is possible that someone who is reading this now could be in the same condition; you are currently sitting under a ministry that has roots in the devil. Maybe your ministry is “progressing” even when your ways are not right before God. You think everything is okay because people around you are giving you positive accolade. Someone may be somewhere that he is receiving a good salary but at the expense of the true purpose why God raised you. So you silence the authority that the Lord Jesus Christ has placed upon you. 

It was when the Apostle Paul took back the authority he had as a servant of God that the false peace evaporated and the war started. It was only then he returned to true soul winning again. Many believers think that it is okay to stay anywhere they are accepted. It is okay to stay, but it must not be at the expense the divine agenda for your life.

We need to operate in the realms of divine revelation, so we will not be operating as “blind bats”. 

I want you to pray now and ask the Lord to activate your sense of divine spiritual revelation as you match into this new year. Also ask the Holy Spirit to deposit in you the gifts of the Spirit you will need in your journey this year.

I will love to get your reactions.

Emma your brother, pnurnigeria@gmail.com