Release the Power in the Word

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

You can hold a gun and never know the power in your hand if you cannot use the gun; that is how to pull the trigger and even when you know, and you do not pull the trigger, you are only holding a loaded weapon that is not useful to you.

The Word of God is God and has always existed with God from the beginning. Secondly, God does not lie and because God does not lie, His Word always performs whatever the word is sent to accomplish by God. Please read John Chapter 1 verse 1, Isaiah Chapter 55 verses 7 to 13 and Psalm 107 verse 20.

However, the power in the Word of God is released when the Word is spoken, prayed, prophesied and declared prophetically. Hearing the Word, understanding the Word will lead to genuine repentance and genuine repentance will lead to healing and restoration. Hosea Chapter 6 verses 1 to 3, Isaiah Chapter 6 verses 1 to 13, note verses 9 to 10.

Daniel was greatly used of God in the empires of Babylon and Persia because he believed God and His Word. Daniel’s boldness and confidence including his intense and fervent prayer life was based on his understanding of God – God is always true, He does not lie – Numbers Chapter 23 verse 19, 1^st Samuel Chapter 15 verse 29, Isaiah Chapter 55 verses 8 to 13, Psalm 130 verse 2 and that the Word of God always comes to pass. That explains Daniel’s fervent intercession for Israel after he understood from Jeremiah’s prophecy (according to the Word of God to Jeremiah that Israel would spend seventy years in Babylonian captivity. Please read Daniel Chapter 9 verses 1 to the end of the chapter and do take note of verse 2).

Wanted - Digital Missionaries

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The internet is a major mission field and dominant ministry platform. I believe it is a place where a great majority of believers in Christ Jesus should expend energies especially those looking for platforms and opportunities for ministry. This is because there is a huge population online who do not know Christ and can be led to the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ through digital missions.

Online communities are people from diverse ethnic groups and nationalities and as you share the word of God, the mind of God with them through your writings, blogsposts, social media posts, podcasts and videos, you are serving as God’s prophet unto the nations, reaching the nations of the world which God wants you to minister to. Please read Jeremiah Chapter 1 verses 1 to 10. This is very important and strategic. Your ministry, God’s purpose for your life, could be to own the Internet and use it for the glory of God; to turn people to God and to bring about transformation in the lives of people.

Beloved, ministry has moved beyond brick and mortar to the world wide web. Believers can therefore dominate the internet by populating it with the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Please see 2^nd Corinthians Chapter 4 verses 3 to 6. Are you shopping for a Church auditorium and you do not have the resources to acquire or rent one? Stop looking for brick and mortar ministry. There is a growing need for digital missionaries – believers in Christ Jesus who will gladly use the space they occupy online to preach the gospel.

Minister to Heal the Nations 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Significantly and this is quite instructive; ministry is not struggling for positions but rendering of divine services to humanity. Please read Luke Chapter 24. This means that ministry is about impact. Ministry is about doing good to the people. What this implies is that there is much more ministry outside the walls of the Church. Please read John Chapter 5 verses 17 to 19, 30, 2^nd Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 9. You can confidently say that you are in ministry when lives are positively impacted for Christ, when lost souls and nations receive healing and deliverance from the divine services you render to them in your ministerial capacity through the preaching of the word and other services you provide. True gospel and ministry is backed with signs and wonders and these are needed today on account of the challenges being faced in the world today. Therefore, seek after lost souls, preach the truth and people will turn to God.

As ministers, God is in everyone. Your gift is your ministry. You have to discover the gift of God in you, develop it and use it for the glory of God. Please read Ephesians Chapter 4. Everyone has ministry and there are levels of ministry.  Some people may have more gifts than other people but the focus should be on deploying the ministry gifts to bring healing to the nations and the peoples of the nations.  

All ministry gifts should work together.

Minister to Heal the Nations

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Anyone blessed with and called into the fivefold ministry is a Minister of God and has divine capacity to bring God’s healing to the nations and peoples of the world by the help of the Holy Spirit. The fivefold ministry which constitute the leadership gifts of the Church are divinely designed by God to provide leadership and direction by His Spirit. The fivefold ministry includes Apostle, Prophet, Teacher, Pastor and Evangelist.

An Apostle is a person with special ability to provide authoritative leadership to several Churches; they are also pioneers who plant Churches everywhere there is a need for a Church. An Apostle is always moving forward, gives direction, is highly mobile, and plants churches to  hand over to pastors. They go planting Churches and providing leadership; they are not satisfied with one Church, they provide leadership and direction to a cluster of Churches. The Apostle Paul is a good example. He not only planted several Churches, he also trained competent people to lead the Churches and in the process peoples and nations were saved and healed from the oppression of the enemy. You can deploy your apostolic gift for the healing of the nations who are in dire need of the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ but are living in denial because the enemy has so blinded them.

Prophet is a ministry gift. A prophet is a person with supernatural ability to interpret the word of God into a current situation in the Church and the nations. A prophet brings solutions, edifies, corrects and strengthens the Church and the nations with the word of God. The New Testament Prophet interprets the Scriptures. The Church cannot survive without the ministry gift of the Prophet. Please see 1^st Samuel Chapter 9 verse 9. The New Testament Prophet is actually a person who understands the Scripture more than anyone; interprets the Scriptures in the light of the present situation to edify, correct, educate and rebuke the Church. God does not always give messages of doom but when He does, it is for you to do something about the situation. Moses prayed about God’s judgment on the Israelites. Please see 1^st Corinthians Chapter 12.

The Old Testament Prophet spoke the mind of God and only spoke when God speaks to them. But the New Testament Prophet is different. God has spoken to His Church through the Scriptures. A Prophet must prophesy but the manifestation gift of prophecy can come upon anyone. Prophets are happy when they hear from God.

God is Restoring the Nations 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Restoration, repentance, holy living, prosperity, Jeremiah, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, nations, peoples, families, individuals, communities can be healed and restored if people return to God, repent of their sins and focus on what God wants them to do in life.

In the absence of knowledge, darkness prevails. Darkness is death; loss, problems, challenges, lacking understanding, falsehood, sorrow and pain. Darkness limits, restricts, imprisons, and is a precursor to bitter labor, unprofitable labor, forced labor, wandering and instability. In situations of darkness, people do things because people are doing things that way irrespective of whether what they are doing is right or not. Darkness wins when the knowledge of God is not there. Unfortunately, a number of nations and a great number of peoples are living in darkness, darkness borne out of ignorance of God and the knowledge of the Word of God. Such ignorance breeds rebellion against the word of God, depisement of the counsel of the most High God as well as outright rejection of God. Psalm 107 verse 11. This is what the Bible refers to as spiritual blindness.

However, when knowledge is present, the true knowledge of God and His word, darkness disappears. This implies that one of the ways God heals nations is to take the veil of spiritual blindness out of the eyes of the spiritually blind so that they can see Jesus and His glorious light for the healing of the nations. It is called the opening of the eyes of the blind. Please see Psalm 146 verse 8, Luke Chapters 4 verse 18, 24 verses 31, 45, Isaiah Chapters 35 verses 4 to 5, 42 verses 1 to 7, 16, 29 verse 18, 9 verse 2, 2 verse 5; John Chapters 1 verses 1 to 9, 12 verses 35 to 36, 46, 8 verse 12, 10 verse 21; Matthew Chapter 4 verses 13 to 16, Micah Chapter 7 verse 8.

The Prayer of Release 2

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

There is the prayer of release, the prayer that unlocks blessings, that releases the blessings of God; that looses satanic bondage to give freedom to the people of God. Please read 1^st Kings Chapter 18 verses 41 to 46, Daniel Chapters 2 verses 17 to 23, 9 verses 1 to 27, Acts Chapter 12 verses 1 to 19, Nehemiah Chapters 1 and 2, 1^st Kings Chapter 17, 2^nd Kings Chapter 4 verses 18 to 37.

Isaac prayed for his wife to have children. He did not blame Rebekah for not having children. He did not even resort to polygamy. Rather, he trusted God and God came through for him. Please read Genesis Chapter 25 verse 21.

Abraham pleaded with God to have children. He did not put the blame on Sarah. Rather, he begged God to Whom all power belongs and Who alone grants conception to give them children. Please read Psalms 127 verse 3 and 128 verses 1 to end.

Elijah prayed down rain in Israel after a drought period of almost three years. Elijah labored in prayer for the release of the rain after he informed King Ahab and his court that there would rain. Alone with God, Elijah prayed until he saw a small cloud which gradually unleashed a heavy downpour.

Godly Leadership and Economic Prosperity

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.

For he had dominion over all [the region] on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.1^st Kings Chapter 4 verses 20 to 25, highlight 20 and 25

The wealth of any nation lies in the minds and hands of the citizens of the nation. A nation of godly refined people who deploy their minds and hands for wealth creation will definitely enjoy abundant and sustainable wealth. The nation of Israel prospered economically and spiritually under the leadership of certain Kings - David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat and Hezekiah.

Significantly, nations can be amply supplied with whatever resources are required for their development and economic prosperity irrespective of the population size.

The Bible records that though Judah and Israel were densely populated during the reign of King Solomon; yet the needs of the people were met. There was abundance of food and drinks as well as other resources. Money denominated in silver and gold was abundant. In point of fact, it was recorded that silver was as common as sand in Israel.

Additionally, there was peace and security in the land; justice and equity. The people were therefore safe and sound, happy and content with what they had. It was also a time of great spiritual awakening and responsibility on the part of the leadership and the people. All of these culminated in great national development and economic prosperity because the leadership of Israel at that time was godly.