Month: April 2022

Topic: YOU KNOW ME

Text: Luke.1.34 – Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

Have God ever brought you to that place where you receive His word and feel insufficient, self disapproval, inadequate all you see is you and your inadequacy.
Mary probed, you know me, I have never been a mother, don’t have what it takes to be one.
God called Moses up the mountain. even after all the signs, Moses said to God “you know am a man of slow speech?” Gideon’s response to the angel, “My father’s house is the least in Israel”
I can go on and on.
Why men with so much weakness and status? My interest is to make perfect my strength in your weakness says the Lord.
The angel said to Mary, its not about you Mary, it’s not about what you have or don’t have it’s about the power from on high. May I put it to you reading this right now? It’s not about you. It’s about him. His sufficiency, his purpose, his power and abilities. and most of all His name sake working in hands with your availability to bring about HIS glory.
Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of THE LORD is risen upon you in Jesus name Amen.

Further Reading: Luke 1:26-38, Exodus. 4:1-15

Prayer:Father thank you for finding me worth of your service even in my weakness. Father I avail myself to your spirit, purpose and power. Use me for your glory in Jesus name amen.

RHEMA E.C. JONATHAN

Topic: I POURED OUT MY SOUL UNTO THE LORD Cont,

Sub Topic: WHY ME”

Text: Gen.25.22 – [Two] children struggled together within her; and she said, If it is so [that the Lord has heard our prayer], why am I like this? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

Life situations so much push us to the point where we cry out why me. The battles without which is as a result of what we carry within bring us to that cross road where we are at a lose and don’t know what to do. Many go the way of suicide, many lose and give up on there love and relationships with God, many bow their knees to Baal. Thereby allowing there situation and people to mould them. But Hannah said to Eli I have poured out my soul unto the Lord.
Rebecca in our scripture for today asked, if God have answered my prayers why is this happening to me?
How many times have you found yourself asking same? If am a child of God why am I going through this? If God is alive or love me why am I going through such.
There is greatness growing inside you. The Elephant answered the dog, “the reason I don’t give birth the way you do is because when I do the earth quakes.”
Greatness will always provoke that question, we read of David, but he encouraged himself in the Lord, Gideon asked “if God be with us the why are we going through this. The angel answered him, go with this your might
The issue is when faced with that question, do you turn to God or away from God for answers? When you soul is troubled who do you pour it to? Hannah said, “I poured out my soul unto the Lord” David said bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all His benefits.

Further Reading: Ps. 103:1-22, Judges 6:1-27, 1sam 30:1-20

Prayer: Pouring out my soul unto you Papa, let my greatness be revealed. Give me power to deliver what I carry inside me. In Jesus name.

RHEMA E.C. JONATHAN

Topic: I POURED OUT MY SOUL UNTO THE LORD

Text:1Sam.1.15 – And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.

When people don’t know you, they mould you

What do I mean? Sometimes people tend to look at you from the distance and all they can see is just your mouth move, your action, your tears, weaknesses, lack. and from that distance, they are already writing a book of a thousand page about you. but they never see the pain responsible for the tears, the arguments within tearing out your soul and responsible for the move of your mouth. They never see the war that weakening and killing your spirit, all they see is THE WHAT you are doing but they never see THE WHY behind the what. they fail to understand that the why is what makes you who you are not the what. The what may be your weakness the why when revealed is you greatness.
A year after Hannah gave birth her why was revealed, she didn’t just give birth to a son, like Peninnah, she gave birth to one of the greatest judge of Israel and first and greatest king maker of all times.
The what is the greatness inside of you waiting to be revealed don’t let no man mould you, so when men who don’t know you, try to mould you because of the reaction the greatness inside of you is provoking, you silence them.
Hannah answered Eli I have poured out my soul unto the Lord, He alone understands what’s going on inside of me.

Further Reading: 1Sam. 1:1-28

Prayer: Pouring out my soul unto you Papa, let my greatness b revealed. Give me power to deliver what I carry inside me. In Jesus name.

RHEMA E.C. JONATHAN

Topic: MY DIVINE ANCESTRAL LINEAGE! Cont
(A TESTIMONY ESTABLISHED. JACOB)

Text: Ps.78.5 – For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

This revelation fills me with so much excitement. God came into a covenant with Abraham, made him a promise, cause him to see the unseen and humanly impossible future. and in Isaac he confirmed his promise saying to Abraham, I meant what I said. If I can give you a son at the age of hundred I can make a father of many nations and a blessing to many generations. In Jacob, that covenant was established, that covenant found a resting place, that covenant found a ground to multiply and bring forth it fruit. And in Israel it was established a ruling law. In Israel that covenant was officially passed into law and became a ruling law that rules both in the spirit and physical realm and in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham is transfered to me. I can’t be caused, Poor, I can’t die prematurely, can’t be a victim of famine, hunger sickness or starvation. It doesn’t matter the threat that virus carries am guided by a law established through a covenant and promise made to my father Abraham, confirmed in Isaac, and fulfilled in Jacob which today has become a law guiding my life family, business ministry and household. No sickness in form of a virus, or anything, no curse, no death, no poverty, hunger of any kind can come nigh my dwelling because I operate under a higher law. The blessing and covenanted law of my fathers covers me I’m a seed of Abraham in Christ Jesus am above all. In Jesus name. Amen.

Further Reading: 1Cronicles 16:13-22, Act 3:25 Gal, 3:8

Prayer: Father I thank you for the promise and blessings of Abraham for in Christ Jesus I come into that promises and I appropriate them into my life. Every law negating that promise in my life I stand by the finished work of the cross and I speak against such law and tongues in the name of Jesus. I bring my family, ministry, business and entire household under that promise of Abraham long life, prosperity, health, shall be our portion in Jesus name Amen!

RHEMA E.C. JONATHAN

Topic: MY DIVINE ANCESTRAL LINEAGE! Cont
(A COVENANTED BLESSING PART 2 ISAAC)

Text: Gen.26.12 – Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

Having a knowledge and understanding of the history of the family you come from, gives you a knowledge of what you should expect in your life, at same time, what not to expect such knowledge helps you get rid of the mess and lay demand on the promise living your inheritance to the full.
After the death of Abraham the scripture said Isaac continued his life by the well named “Lehaihiroth” meaning the Lord who see me. He could have moved to any other well, city or country but he continued in a city known for its history of famines. But the truth was he didn’t just continue in that land or beside that well, he continued in the covenanted promise of his father, he continued in his inheritance, he continued in the presence of the one who See’s him. It’s not about the family, it’s not about the covenant but it’s about the one who initiated and established the covenant. And as we read from our text Isaac sowed in that same famine stricken land and read an hundred fold of his seed. I love the next verse and God blessed him until he became very wealthy.
It’s not about the fruitfulness or barrenness of where you are, it’s about the God who See’s you. It’s about the covenant, it’s about your inheritance.

Further Reading: Gen. 25, 26.

Prayer I thank you for you are the one who See’s me. You see my pain, my sorrows, weakness, my inability and the dryness of my ground. And in all you bless with fruitfulness, strength to overcome my weakness, fill my heart with gladness causing me to rejoice blessing me with your ability to create the world you have desired for me in Christ Jesus. Hallelujah Amen.*

Rhema E.C Jonathan