DIVINE POWER FOR ALL BELIEVERS

 DIVINE POWER FOR ALL BELIEVERS 

*PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers 05/02/2026*

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires 2 Peter 1:3-4NIV

Praise Master Jesus Christ. It is another PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers, we consider ourselves very fortunate to have a living God who we can always approach. I want to let you know that we are here on appointment, God is expecting us as always. He will be embarrassed if we did not come. Prayer is the opportunity given to us to say something about our lives, failure to do so is suicide, and let me tell you, there are plenty of miracles and prayer answers awaiting every member of this family as we pray today.

The bible started by telling us that there is God; this is something you must not negotiate or argue with anyone. Don’t let anyone tell you that God is a force, Mother Nature or whatever else. You must hold this truth firmly no matter where you are or what you face. Your position with regards to the existence of a true and living God will determine whether you will stand to the end or ruined at the end.

The bible went further to tell us that God did not meet this world in a good state but went on to work on it and subsequently brought beauty out of the mess. Don’t listen to anyone who tells you what the bible did not say. Man was the last thing that was created and we are made to understand that God’s original intention is that Man will be like Him.

So, God had no intention to have men and women who are not able to face circumstances but to have men and women who take responsibility for their world and their life. He wants us to step into every ugly circumstance just as He did and through the divine power He provided, turn them around.

_His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires 2 Peter 1:3-4NIV_

This is something the devil does not want you to hear. It is not a new revelation. That was the original intention at the point of creation but satan lied and keeps lying to us that we do not have it yet.

_Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them Gen 1:26-27 NIV_

So, Man was already like God when satan came around to deceive them. He lied that man and his wife needed to do something outside of what God had finished to become what God had made them.

_"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." Gen 3:5 NIV_

That was the devil’s lie and he still deceives people today by telling them to practice occult and witchcraft in order to have the divine power. Some believers buy satanic materials from mystic shops and some visit witchdoctors in thick jungles in order to get power. They fail to see that they are already endowed with this divine power.

That was the mistake Adam and Eve made; when they believed the devil and went ahead to disobey God, instead of becoming like God, they fell from their God given level and fell below the devil. Satan could now push man around, oppress him, harass him and make his life miserable. That is the origin of fear, death, defeat, diseases, poverty and all the issues we struggle with today.

God’s intention was originally that we should have dominion and rule our world, but when we obeyed satan to disobey God, we lost the dominion and hence, the power to rule our world. That is why God had to undertake a rescue mission by sending our Lord Jesus Christ to redeem mankind. The word, Redeem, means to buy back. Through Christ Jesus God bought back what was lost when Man obeyed the devil and lost his God given position.

It is in and through Christ Jesus that we are able to reclaim this divine power. Unfortunately, a lot of people are not interested in giving their life to Christ. They are looking for riches, deliverance, prosperity, healing and peace of mind, but they are not able to see that all these things are available to them if they will surrender their lives to Christ Jesus.

Another sad news is that there are those who are in Christ but still need to be told that His divine power has given to us all things that we need for life and godliness. These are the kind of people that Apostle Peter was addressing and incidentally, that is where we belong today.

Take note also that we need the knowledge of God through the Holy Spirit in order to operate in this divine power. The knowledge of God that generates this divine is available in the revealed word of God in the bible.

_All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work 2 Tim 3:16-17 NIV_

It is important that you observe that it said, “All scripture”; that includes both the New and Old Testament of the bible. Believers will only express their full potentials when they are able to advantage of God’s revealed knowledge.

It went further to tell us that within the scriptures are some very precious promises. Those are God’s promises. They are things that God has promised to do for His children. If there are things that He promised to do for His children, we should also recognize that there are things that are outside of His promises.

That is where prayer comes in and more importantly, praying in the right manner in order to claim those things that God has promised. It is regrettable that some believers are very busy in the prayer business but they are not praying within the lines of God’s promises.

Why do we pray? We pray because it is our way to participate in the divine nature. The Lord Jesus Christ is our role model.

_To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21 NIV_

_I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12 NIV_

He started and ran His ministry by praying; He was praying when He was baptized, He was praying when He was filled with the Holy Spirit, He was praying when He was led into the wilderness, at the tomb of Lazarus He prayed, He prayed over scarce bread for a large crowd and He spent entire night in prayer to choose His Apostles. That was how He prepared and equipped Himself to exercise the divine power.

That was the example He left us and that is what we are supposed to do. When we do any less, we should expect less.

Our main text says that through the divine power we are able to do the things that God does, that is to participate or share in the divine nature. That agrees with the lifestyle of our Lord Jesus Christ.

_Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does John 5:19 NIV_

The next thing mentioned there is that we are able to overcome the power of sin in this corrupt world. You would have heard me say that prayer is a disinfectant to sin. One sure way to live above the power of sin is by giving yourself to more praying. The life of prayer is a sure way to live and overcome the power of the flesh and advance in the realms of the Holy Spirit. No level of morality or self-discipline will give you power over sin, if you are not given to prayer.

_So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law. Gal 5:16-18 NIV_

The only and sure way to live by the Spirit is through a lifestyle of prayer. It is through the instrumentality of prayer you can connect to the realms of the Holy Spirit, draw power and exercise same in the space of men.

We are told that we should not condescend to employing the weapons that mere men employ in warfare.

_For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Cor. 10:3-5 NIV_

We have come in contact again with the phrase, Divine Power; weapons that have divine power that can demolish and overthrow arguments, ungodly thoughts and every power of the enemy.

There is nowhere else that we can find all these, if not in the place of prayer. Prayer generates power that is why I tell you that prayer is more important than power.

Make sure you join the fast.

Make sure that you set aside time for prayers.

Make sure you encourage other people to join us.

You should know that I am praying for you

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

LIVING IN ABUNDANCE IN THE SEASON OF FAMINE

I have received a word from the Lord for us and it is a promise “Living in Abundance in the Season of Famine”. 

God has asked me to announce to my audience that the Lord is sending us an abundance even though it is globally the season of famine. 

Amen! 

Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will ravage the land. The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe. Gen 41:29-31NIV

This is actually a response I got from the Lord in my time of private prayer. I declared seven days of fasting and prayers with some leaders in the PNUR family from 30th of June and we will end on the 7th of July 2025.

I pray that the river flowing from my bowels will flow into yours in Jesus’ name.

Let us start by saying that everyone faces a season of famine. Let us put it in another way; when there is famine in the land, godly and ungodly people experience it. There is no guaranty that while the rest of mankind is facing a famine that some special people of God will be enjoying a good season.

Abraham experienced a famine, even though he was known as a friend of God and he had an eternal covenant with God

Isaac the child of divine promise experienced famine even though he was God’s miracle child to Abraham

Jacob faced famine that forced him to Egypt even though he often talked with angels and enjoyed divine protection.

Our main text is from an account of Joseph telling Pharaoh that they should prepare for a coming famine. That means that Joseph faced the famine too. Go through the Old Testament bible and you will find that even the man after God’s heart, King David faced famine. Good kings and bad kings faced the famine in their own time.

If you think that things should be different for the people of grace who operated under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, read the following scripture;

During this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. One of them, named Agabus, stood up and through the Spirit predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world. (This happened during the reign of Claudius.) The disciples, each according to his ability, decided to provide help for the brothers living in Judea. This they did, sending their gift to the elders by Barnabas and Saul. Acts 11:27-30NIV

The prophet of the Lord announced that a famine was coming but he did not bind the demon of famine nor did he release a prophetic word to ward off the famine so that it would not affect the people of god, rather he told them to prepare to face the famine.

Let me repeat here; famine is part of life and everyone faces the famine.

There is an irony here; our main text said that God had to warn Pharaoh to prepare for the famine that will hit the whole world. God told a Gentile king to prepare for the famine that will come upon the whole world but not Jacob who carried the Abrahamic covenant. Prophet Agabus warned the Gentile church in Antioch and they were the ones that sent support to the people of God in Judea. Till date it still appears that the people of the world are often more prepared than the members of the Body of Christ in dealing with famine. That must be the reason God gives them advance information.

Child of God, I am called by the Lord to warn you to prepare for the coming famine.

There is another strong message there; there will be an abundance before the famine. Like the matter of famine, abundance also gets to everyone but after the abundance, the effect of the famine will totally wipe out all the benefits of the abundance and the painful effect of the famine will make people to forget that they ever had abundance.

So we see here that God’s way of giving us preferential treatment is by warning us to manage our abundance well.

Let us take these 5 points.

1. God will always warn us before he sends an abundance and a famine.

We saw this consistency in the account of God giving Pharaoh a warning and the prophet Agabus warning the Church in Antioch. 

2. It takes a decerning mind and connection with the Spirit of God to hear the warning.

God spoke to Pharaoh and he was wise enough to seek the interpretation. I strongly believe that God would have spoken to Jacob and other people around the world but they did not show the determination that Pharaoh had. There are other natural signs that could precede a famine. These could be weather changes but often our minds are captured by the present abundance that came before the famine.

3. God will likely supply us with the guidance on how to face our famine season.

In the time of Isaac, God told him not to flee the famine but to stay back in the place of famine and continue his business.

Now there was a famine in the land — besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time — and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar. The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live. Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham. Gen 26:1-3NIV

God tried to forestall Isaac repeating the mistake of Abraham who went to Egypt in the time of famine and that was where he got Hagar who became a generational problem in his family. Many of God’s people fail to listen to God and their attitude is to rely on the view point of the world in dealing with their famine.

In the case of Pharaoh, God made an advance arrangement to connect the bottler to Joseph in the prison. Pharaoh was humble enough to consult the services of a condemned prisoner in the dungeon. For some people, pride would have kept them from talking with Joseph.

4. God sends an abundance before the famine. 

That was actually what God wanted to prevent. Many people who are going through their season of famine now, had wastefully used their season of abundance because they did not hear the warning about the coming famine. As deliverance minister I have counselled people who came to me seeking deliverance from evil forces that drained their resources; some had four cars but presently have none; some had plenty of houses in major cities but today they have none; some occupied high political offices but today they are down trodden. All these people strongly believe that some agent of darkness was their problem. After prayers, I could not observe the activities of satan or his agents. Most of these people had enjoyed their abundance but did not make plans for the famine.  

5. You cannot pray the famine away

There are people who erroneously believe that prayer and fasting will take care of the famine. Some believe that being a covenant child of God will protect them from famine.

Here is the recommendation of Joseph to deal with famine;

"And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in charge of the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh, to be kept in the cities for food. This food should be held in reserve for the country, to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the country may not be ruined by the famine." Gen 41:33-36NIV

Here is how Isaac prospered in the time of famine,

Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the Lord blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. Gen 26:12-14NIV

Because Pharaoh heeded the warning from the Lord and obeyed the counsel of Joseph, the land of Egypt had abundance in the season of famine.

There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine. Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh's palace. When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is used up." Gen 47:13-15NIV

Did you read where it said that the famine was also severe in Egypt but read further, they grew wealthier in the season of famine than they were in the time of abundance.

Halleluiah!

That is why God is sending you this special message. An abundance is coming but understand that if you use it well, you will grow richer when other people famine in the future.

Can you begin to pray now; "Holy Spirit, I connect my spirit to you for your guidance as I walk into my abundance". Pray fervently. 

Happy New Year 

God's word for us this year is BLOSSOM!

I will love to hear from you.

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com