Thursday, October 10, 2019

HOW TO RELEASE YOUR FAITH!


Many Christians are not able to receive the benefits of their faith because they are ignorant of how to release their FAITH. So, today we want to look at the “HOW TO RELEASE YOUR FAITH!” In all of our dealings with God, faith is of primary importance. Why is faith of primary importance? It is because without faith you cannot please God.

Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.”

What does it mean to release your faith? To release your faith is to put it into action. To release the energy (ATP) in the tuber of yam or the grains of rice, you need to masticate it, turn it into a paste by mixing it with your saliva so that the enzyme called ptyalin can act on it. The smaller (finer) the ground piece of yam or grain of rice, the greater the surface area of the food that the ptyalin can act on. The enzyme acts on it to reduce it to glucose. This glucose is carried in the blood stream to the cells where they will now be broken down in the presence of oxygen to release the required energy (ATP). Though the food material contains this energy, the energy will never be useful to you until it is released from the food material. Though you have faith, the faith may not be useful to you until you release it into action.

How then can one release his/her faith? You can release your faith through:

  • Prayer,
  • Confession, and
  • Sowing a quality seed.

1. Prayer. Every success in this life is due to prayer. When you pray, you licence God to get involved in your affairs on this earth.

In John 14:13-14 Jesus said, “And whatsoever ye shall ASK in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If ye shall ASK anything in My name, I will do it.”
                                               
The emphasis in this Scripture is “ask.” Why then do you find it difficult to ask God to prosper you, to promote you, to heal you, to protect you? If you don’t ask you won’t receive.

In Matthew 7:7-8 Jesus said, “ASK, and it shall be given you; SEEK, and ye shall find; KNOCK, and it shall be opened unto you: 8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”

In Matthew 21:22 Jesus said, “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ASK in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.”

1 John 5:14-15 says, “And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us: 15 And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.

The Bible says, “MANY are THE AFFLICTIONS of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all. He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken” (Ps. 34:19-20).

How does the Lord deliver His people from affliction? He does that through prayers only.

In Jeremiah 33:3 God said, “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

1 Samuel 2:9 says, “...for by strength shall no man prevail.”

Ecclesiastes 9:11 says, “...the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”

What is the first thing the Lord requires you to do when trouble strikes? Simply Pray!

James 5:13 says, “Is any among you AFFLICTED? Let him PRAY...”

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person makes tremendous power available (Jam. 5:14-16).

Examples abound in the Scriptures of people who, when they were in trouble, released their faith through prayer:
a)       In Acts 14, the apostles released their faith through fervent prayer (Acts 4:21-31).

b)       In Acts 16, when Paul and Silas were in trouble, they released their faith through prayer (Acts 16:25-26).

c)       Prophet Elijah released his faith through earnest/fervent prayer (Jam. 5:17-18).

2. The words of your mouth – your confession. What things do you say with your mouth? What do you confess?

It is with your mouth that you call those things that be not as though they were (Rom. 4:17). It is with your mouth that you say the things that God has said about you in the Bible.

Romans 10:9-10 says, “...10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

If you really believe something with your heart, you’ll speak it forth through your mouth, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

2 Corinthians 4:13 says, “...I believed, and therefore have I spoken; WE ALSO BELIEVE, AND THEREFORE SPEAK.”

Proverbs 18:20-21 says, “A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”

Examples of people that released their faith through their words abound in the Scriptures:

a) God the Father Himself released His faith for light through words (Gen. 1:1-3).

b) David released his faith to conquer Goliath through words (1 Sam. 17:43-47)

3. Sowing a quality seed. Your faith about a particular need in your life can be released by your sowing a quality seed. This is about the most effective way of releasing your faith for the breakthrough you need in your life.

How and why? Seed sowing places a demand on the power of God to flow in your direction into your situation.

Your faith is measured by your seed. Your seed is the evidence of your faith. You can believe God for big things in life, but if you have no seed, you have no evidence for your faith. Your seed perfects your faith.

What is a miracle seed or a seed faith? It is a seed that releases your faith. It is a seed that stands before God to plead your case concerning a particular issue. A miracle seed stands as a barrier between you and the devil. The miracle seed is a weapon that confronts the forces of darkness that want to mess up your life – finances, health, business, marriage, family, children, spouse, and career.

God is a God of seed (Jn. 3:16). Everything you need in life is hidden in that seed in your hand. You don’t have to pray for a harvest [miracle] if you understand that God is a God of seed. The harvest [miracle you need] is in the seed. All you need to do is to sow that quality seed in your hand.

That new car, limitless increase in every area of your life, divine healing, new job, new house, admission into the University, scholarship, or the life partner you need is hidden in your seed. The harvest is already in that seed in your hand. But it will never produce the desired harvest unless you sow it. The seed may leave your hand but it will never leave your future.

God gives you seed to help you create your financial future.  God provides seed not to every Christian but to those ones that are willing (Isa. 1:19) to sow, that is, the one that has the heart to sow (2 Cor. 9:10).

Whatever you ask God to do for you, a finished marriage, a finished house, a new car etc., He answers in seed.

The miracle seed touches the heart of God concerning your case. It speaks for you before God. It spoke for Cornelius (Acts 10:1-48). What your connections, your mini-skirt or your show-back cannot do for you, angels are released to do it for you once you sow the required seed. Once the Lord inhales the sweet aroma of that miracle seed, angels are released to work on your behalf. God takes from you the seed of faith to make for you that your very pressing need.

Come to think of it: how come you don’t believe in harvest when you are a harvest yourself? Your father sowed a seed. By so doing, he released his faith for a child. Your mother carried the seed for nine months. And you came out as the harvest of the seed sown by your father. You are a figure and a link to the countless generations to come. You are an overflowing harvest.

If you are a return of the seed sown by your father, then you must know that whatever you sow you’ll have returns.

Your miracle seed will say what you cannot say and go for you where you cannot go. Your miracle seed confirms what you believe God for. In other words, your miracle seed is the evidence of your faith because faith without works is dead (Jam. 2:14-17; 26).

Faith cannot manifest without works. James 2:17 says, “Faith without works (the right seed) is dead.” The word “works” in Hebrew means “corresponding action.”

Examples abound in the Scriptures of people who released their faith by sowing a miracle seed:

a) God the Father Himself released His faith for a church family by sowing the unspeakable Seed (Jn. 3:16; 2 Cor. 9:15).

b) Abraham released his faith for the miracle he needed from God by sowing a miracle seed (Gen. 18, 22).
Isaac was the quality seed that Abraham sowed in order to reap the harvest of becoming the father of nations.  Your seed contains your harvest (miracle) – your new car, your new house, your divine healing, that new job etc.

Abraham was childless. But he tapped the wonder-working power of God into his situation by placing a demand on the power of God through his seed, and the yoke of childlessness was destroyed. Abraham linked up with the invisible hand of the Omnipotent God through faith and virtue was instantly released into his situation. And Isaac came forth.

c) Adam sowed a miracle seed of a rib to receive Eve (Gen. 2:21-22). And you ask, couldn’t God have created Eve afresh?” He took this rib from Adam in order to make for Adam what he needed and give her back to him. Listen friend, God takes from you that seed faith or miracle seed to make for you that very thing you need. Shout yes! Whatever God takes from you is to serve as a seed to make for you what you need. Why didn’t God give Eve to another man? Because it was Adam that sowed a seed concerning her.

What you eat is mandated to remain like that because you have spent it, but what you give out (invest) is energized and quickened to reproduce. Except you give out, you cannot smell abundance not to talk of overflow. Hallo!

That sister you have been running around to please, you may not get her because someone else is somewhere fasting and praying concerning her like you are doing. But there is something else this other brother is doing in addition which you are not doing.

What is it that this other brother is doing? He is sowing his rib in the form of a miracle seed concerning her. And for sure God will take that rib, make that sister, and hand her back to the other brother who sowed the rib and not you who just want to reap where you did not sow.

Brother, no lady will say no to you if you sow a miracle seed before you approach her to deliver your powerful manifesto. Why? Because the seed you have sown will be pleading your case before the Lord. And this will cause your mouth to move with precision and absolute accuracy like the pen of a ready writer as you deliver your manifesto. And God is the One that has the heart of the king even that of that sister in His hands. One touch from the Lord will change her mind in favour of you.

For you to receive the miracle you need, you MUST sow what you cannot afford, what is painful to you. It must be painful to be gainful. The gain is in the pain. “Gather unto Me all those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice” (Ps. 50:5). “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy” (Ps. 126:5).

When the Lord was taking the rib from Adam, it was awfully painful. Every seed you sow that will speak for you in the presence of God must be painful. God gave us an example to follow. He sowed Jesus, His only begotten Son to reap the Church (Jn. 3:16; Phil. 2:5). Adam sowed a seed in tears and reaped Eve in joy (Gen. 2:15-23). If you sow a seed faith in tears today, I assure you that you will reap your miracle in joy.

Let me ask you, “Why do you think that more than 95% of Christians today are struggling?” They are struggling because of disobedience to God’s Word.

In Job 36:11-12 God said, “If you obey and serve Him, you shall spend your days in prosperity (total well-being), and their years in pleasures. 12 But if you obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.”

In Isaiah 1:19-20 God said, “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

The Bible said that Isaac planted a seed and reaped a harvest in the same year (Gen. 26:12). Isaac only knew God as Elohim, the One that makes the law, the Creator. But God was about to reveal Himself to him as El-Shaddai, the One that overrides the law. That was why Isaac reaped in the same year (Gen. 26:12). And because God is El-Shaddai, He can also give you your desired miracle (harvest) in one second.

Beloved, that which you are holding in your hand right now is your miracle seed meant to release your faith. You have your destiny in your hands. Hold back the seed and remain the way you are. Release it and receive the harvest you have been expecting. The choice is yours!

Your friend, I. I. Madubunyi (Head Pastor)                                   October 13, 2019

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