NO LIMITATIONS

Blessed be the name of the Lord our God, who daily loads us with His good benefits. Our God is good. He is a stronghold in time of trouble and He knows those who trust in Him (Nahum 1:7). God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1).

I would love to thank the Lord through this medium who granted us great audience in 2013 and I believe that in this year we will flow in His mighty grace in every area of our lives, in the name of Jesus.

God has already declared to us, that this year is OUR YEAR OF NO LIMITS. I believe in the report of the Lord. I trust His majesty, the all sufficient God (Jehovah El-Shaddai) who fulfils His promises to us, in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah! 16 “Search from the book of the Lord, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.” 17 He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line, they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.” (Isaiah 34:16-17 NKJV)

For this year to be a year of NO LIMIT in our lives; we must follow the Lords instructions.

The instructions are as follows: Psalm 114:1-8. 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language. Judah became His sanctuary And Israel His dominion. The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams the little hills like lambs. What ails you, O sea that you fled? O, mountains that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs? Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob. Who turned the rock into the pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.

FOR YOU TO LIVE A LIFE OF NO LIMITS:

1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language. Judah became His sanctuary and Israel His dominion.

  1. Give God first place in your life.

Remember He told us in commandment number one saying “I am the Lord your God and you shall not have another God besides me” (Exo.20:1). Before getting afraid what will people say or feel, think about what will God says and how He will feel about you.

  1. Seek the favour of God and not the favour of men.

There are many blessings in the house (storerooms of God which no one can finish (John 14:1) Jesus said there are more rooms in my father’s house. No matter how you like to dress you can’t finish the dresses in the wardrobe of God.

-       No matter how you eat; you can’t finish the food in the storehouse of God.

-       No matter how you like to drive cars; you can’t finish the cars from the showrooms of God.

-       No matter how you like big rooms; you can’t finish occupying the rooms in the house of God.

-       No matter how you like money; you can’t finish all the money from the bank of God.

  1. Have enough memory verses; let your life become a dwelling place for God (Psalm 114:2)

Many people are in the church but they don’t believe the Word of God. They are only hearers of the word. You must not only be the hearer of the word but to hold onto the word. “21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.” 22 “But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves”.(James 1:21-22 NKJV).  Let the Word of God becomes the standard of your life.

If you must shine: hold unto the Word of God.  The bible says that the word of God it’s a medicine to your body, strength to your bones and through the word of God you will become wiser than your teachers and enemies. 20“My son give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them. And health to all their flesh” (Prov. 4:20-22). “98 ...You through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever before me (Psalm119:97-104).  You will never come out of poverty; if you are not wiser than poverty, etc).

Last Sunday, a brother gave a testimony that before he joined this ministry; he was wallowing in poverty, until one day he heard our pastor teaching on the radio about “How To Prosper In The Lord” Though, he is working he does not know what was happening to his money; he listened to the instructions of the Lord and now he bought a car, his business and his job. He said ‘when he went to register his company he was not having even a N$100-00, but he went and God took over the situation’.

I would love to bring this to your attention: what parted the red sea was not the rod in the hand of Moses, but it was his obedience to the Lord. “If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land” (Isaiah 1:19). There is no amount of fasting and prayer that will destroy poverty out of your life.

You may ask ‘pastor what are you saying’?

Our God is a covenant keeping God; He has a part to play and you have your part to play. Until you have done your own. He is not ready to do anything.

If you can’t sing unto the Lord; you will remain barren even though it’s not the will of God for you to remain in barrenness. “My dear friend, I pray that everything go well with you and that you may be in good health-as I know you are well in spirit”. (3 John 1:2 Good News). If you cannot enlarge your tent especially your visions, you will remain at one spot. Also, if you can’t believe in the Lord, regardless of how you try to enlarge you tent you can’t enlarge.

Remember every house that is built has to be tested.

“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth”. (Psalm 34:1 NKJV)

  1. Give Thanks to the Lord Always.

Do not allow the demon of murmuring to possess your tongue.

You may be crying that your clothes are old, but you must say ‘Father I thank you because you have already provided for me before my clothes get old. In sickness, ‘Father, I thank you because you already healed me before I got sick’. ‘Father I thank you for the food you gave to me last night. Father I thank you for the house I am living in right now’. ‘Father I thank you for your divine provision, in the name of Jesus’.

Do not live in fear. Live in faith because God has already told us even if we drink poison, it will not harm us. Don’t live in fear but in faith.

THEREFORE YOUR MOUTH MUST CONTINUE TO PRAISE AND MAGNIFY GOD.

2 “My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear of it and be glad”. 3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together”( Psalm 34:2-3).

  1. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.

Don’t boast in any uncle or aunty. Don’t boast in your business or your job. Don’t boast in your spouse or children. Don’t boast in your fasting and prayer. Don’t boast in how many scripture you know. Don’t boast in how many pastors and bishops you know. Boast in God you know. Let your soul always make it’s boast in the Lord.

Have confidence in God, e.g. I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me (Phil. 4:13). My God will supply my needs according to His riches in glory (Phil 4:19). In the name of the Lord, where ever I step the sole of my foot I will possess it (Joshua 1:3). In the name of Jesus, as far as I can see I will possess it.  Whatever I lay my hands to do shall prosper, in the name of Jesus.

YOU MUST BOAST IN THE LORD, NOT IN WHAT YOU KNOW, BUT IN YOUR GOD, IF YOU MUST LIVE A LIFE OF NO LIMIT.

Song: MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME, EXALT THE NAME OF JESUS (DC)

“I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears”( Psalm 34:4).

  1. Seek God.

Do not seek the promises of the Lord in your bible but seek the owner of the promises. Seek God in your tithing, offering, prayers, praises, worship unto God. Don’t be a seeker of bread and fish. Seek the Lord. That is what Daniel did, he sought God and nothing limited him. He went there as a captive and become a captain because he sought the Lord continually (all the days of his life). “10 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord! 11 Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face evermore! (1 Chron. 16:10-11 NKJV).

Samson was not seeking the lord. He moved from a captain to a captive.

There is a life that can move you from a captain to a captive. Many of you don’t know what sin will do to your life. You must live a righteous life. This life of captive is a life of sin. A life that will move you from maximum to minimum.  A life that will move you from glory to shame. It is a life of disgrace, destruction, troubles and agony.  “The more they increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame”. (Hosea 4:7 NKJV). 15 “But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you”. 63 “And it shall be, that just as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and bring you to nothing; and you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess”. (Deut. 28:15,63). Thus, you must not play with your life when you see the blessings and mercies of God, surrounding you. Don’t take the Word of God for granted. Make sure that you are still obedient to the God so that He will bless you more and safeguard everything that concerns you. Continue to obey God so that you will make heaven for your eternal rest. 46 “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life”. (Matthew 25:41-46, Rev. 14:9-13, Rom 6:23-24).

When you seek God, you will find Him and He will lift you higher beyond your imaginations “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart”. (Jer. 29:13 NKJV). Instead of you sitting down getting worried if you will ever get married, lift up your heart, and seek God with thanksgiving in your heart. Seek Him with all your heart. God already told us to – 6“Be anxious for nothing,  but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”. (Phil 4: 6-7 NKJV).

Be careful for nothing for what you eat or drink, God regards the things that worry we worry about as nothing (Mathew 6:25-33).

If I was not healed from worry; I could be dead already, maybe by now I could have one blood pressure that cannot come down. I learned to give God HIs own issues. I learned not to worry. It’s not where you are crying ‘God, I don’t have a father/mother’. Be careful for nothing; but tell God what your problem is.

Seek God at all times, not when you walk around and there is no one to help; you come back crying and singing its only Jesus. It’s not where you are crying God I don’t have a father, I don’t have a  mother, you think that by sitting down crying God will pity you or you will bring back your mama or papa. That is the truth, so be careful for nothing but by prayer and supplications with thanksgiving in your heart tell God what your need is.

The problem we have is; we used to waste our time running to people for help and by the time we will come to God for help we are so tired, angry and talking, ‘my aunty disappointed me’, ‘my uncle said he can’t help me’, ‘my brother said no to me’ and he said that he also have his own problems. ‘People don’t want to help me’. From there you begin to behave foolishly, they don’t want to help me because is their money.’ ‘When I get my money, I will not help anyone’. God will look at you and say ‘look at you now, it means when I give you money, you will not give to anyone, then I will not give you’. The Lord will say, ‘I told you that I will bless people through you, but ever since you don’t know who you are in Me, I will not give you’. That is what is happening in many people’s lives.

Begin to see yourself the way God sees you, don’t forget about that rich foolish man whom God blessed and he never knew why. God blessed him and he said “Yaah! I will eat and drink and I will not lack anything again, my soul you don’t need anything again. God said thou foolish man, today your soul will be taken away from you and that was how he died, and went to hell. Therefore seek only God and be useful to God and His work (Luke 16:19-31).

Take this prayer: (1) O Lord help me to understand why you are blessing me, in the name of Jesus. (2) O Lord, give me the heart and strength to give to your works and others, in the name of Jesus.

When you seek the Lord; He will hear you. When you seek Him; you will find him 7“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you” 8 “for everyone who asks, receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Mathew 7:7-8). Seek God in prayer. Seek God in scriptures. Seek God in fasting. Seek God in praises. Seek God all the time. In every situation seek God, Ask Him ‘God what are you saying and you will find Him’.

When you seek God, he will deliver you from everything that makes you afraid. Fear of limitations, shame and lack, etc. He will deliver you by providing for you, healing you and by fighting for you.

“They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed”( Psalm 34:5).

  1. 7.    Look unto God in Everything

1“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. 2 LOOKING UNTO JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Heb 12:1-2 NKJV). In any challenge look unto the Lord for help. Trust God for people to help you. Don’t trust people. When you look unto God you will shine and you will never be ashamed. Is it possible to make one of your eye to look down and the other looking up? It’s not possible; therefore anytime you are looking unto people for help, never claim that you are looking unto God.

Our elders, our forefathers in the Lord who are now a great cloud of witnesses passed through the same things that are facing us today. Daniel sought God and He found God. I want the lives of Esther, Joseph, Daniel and friends, and Isaac in the land of philistine strengthened you. These people and others sought God and went beyond limitations. 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 for by it the elders obtained good testimony”(Heb. 11:1-2). There is no one that looked unto God and was ashamed. God delivered Paul and Silas in the prison yard of the enemy (Acts 17, Act 12, Acts 5:17-26).

There is a shame free life, we can live is a life of constant looking unto the Lord. When you are budgeting, don’t budget according to what you have. He said expand your tent, enlarge your coast strengthen your stakes. Your stake is what will keep your building standing. When the wind is blowing, the stake will keep the building standing. Those stakes are the word of God. Increase in the word of God. Grow in knowing the Lord. Be fervent in the spirit and you will live a life of no limit.

WORDS OF ASSURANCE

Before we proceed, I would love to encourage us to believe in what the Lord has said. We have nothing to lose in believing the Lord.  Brethren let us listen attentively and intently. These are words of assurance from God.  If you will believe; you will see the wonders of God.

1 “Sing, O barren. You who have not borne! Break forth into singing and cry aloud. You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman” says the Lord. (Isa 54:1)

The Lord is telling you to sing. You must be joyful always. Sing for what the Lord has said that He will do. Sing for His mighty power. Sing for He is able to do all things. (Luke 1:37) what is a barren life.  A barren life is a life that has nothing. It does not have a song to sing.  It does not have a testimony to testify. It does not have anything to offer but there come the Lord telling you to sing because you are going to have more than those who were having. We are not serving a fake God but a faithful God.

In this year, you are going to have more than those who were having. If you are looking for a baby from this year, you will carry more children. If you are looking for your God’s divine partner, in this year, you will have yours, in the name of Jesus.

I don’t know which area of your life that has made you to always cry and pity yourself, from this year; you will forget your shame as the word of God has said.

2”Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes” (Isaiah 54:2).

Enlarge your business, enlarge your visions, enlarge your wisdom in God, enlarge the peace in your house, enlarge the understanding in your house, and enlarge the happiness in your house. Enlarge your study. If you are having only bachelor degree for many years, go for honours/masters. If you are having only diploma, go for degrees. If you are having only grade 10, proceed to grade 12 and university. If your business is in one location, take it to another location. Enlarge what you are already having or where you are already dwelling. Don’t stop at one spot, move forward.

God is the one telling you to enlarge your tent, spread it width and heights. (Isa 54:1).

Just live by the Word the Lord is telling you to enlarge your spiritual knowledge, enlarge your business, and enlarge everything you lay your hands to do. He has promised you that in blessing, He will bless you and in multiplication He will multiply you.

And strengthen your stakes....

Your stake is the word of God that can help your build to stand. Without the word of God, you will be a house without a foundation. Without the word of God, you will not be able to enlarge your tent. You need the word of God which will help you to see possibility in the midst of impossibility.

The bible says that the 5 ‘Word becomes the life, and the life was the life of men 5 and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend’. (resist, stop, and refuse) (John 1:4-5). Without the word brother, you cannot be who God has called you to be. Without the word of God, you cannot be able to access the promises of God. Grow in knowing your God. Grow in standing strong. Grow in wisdom of God. Grow in the mighty power of God. You will never know too much of the Word of God because every day is a new day and the word of God is new every morning.

3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendant will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.

God’s desire is for us to be fruitful and multiply 22“And God blessed them, saying, “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth, 28 “Then God blessed them, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Gen 1:22, 28 NKJV). He wants us to expand to the right and to the left. He wants us to be blessings to the world. He wants our businesses to prosper for good. He wants our marriage to be the best on earth. He wants our children to become leaders of tomorrow.  13“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavour, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. 14”You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:13-16 NKJV)

Our God is not a talkative God but is a God who does whatever He has said (Isaiah 55:11). It is time for you to grow like a tree out of a dry ground. It is time for you to believe in the report of the Lord (Isaiah 53:1).

”Thus says the Lord to His anointed, To Cyrus (Emmanuel), whose right hand I have held- to subdue nations before him (put your name) and loose the armor of kings. To open before him (put your name) the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut: 2 I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. 3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, “Am the God of Israel...” (Isa 45:1-7 NJKV). God says He will open our double doors so that they cannot be shut.

Declaration

  1. I decree by the mighty power of God, all the gates of bronze standing against you to break in the mighty name of Jesus.
  2. All the bars of iron of affliction, shame, etc made against you are cut to pieces, in the name of Jesus.
  3. I command your eyes to open and see opportunities where there are none, in the name of Jesus.
  4. I command you to be honoured where others are being dishonoured, in the name of Jesus.
  5. You will no longer cast your net in fishless water, in the name of Jesus.
  6. Wherever you step the sole of your foot success will come, in the name of Jesus.
  7. You will not be ashamed, in the name of Jesus.
  8. May God bring to a halt any storm that is facing you, in the name of Jesus.
  9. May God silence any calamity that has been set against you, in the name of Jesus.
  10. May He divide your seas for you because He is the one that put it there, in the name of Jesus.
  11. May the Almighty God level the mountains, exalt the valleys because He is the one that created all things and they are all answerable to Him, in the name of Jesus.
  12. Thank you Jesus for this day, in the name of Jesus.

Song: What a mighty God we serve (2 times) Heaven and earth adores Him, angels bow before Him, what a mighty God we serve!

FOOD FOR THOUGHTS

“The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned. That I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear”(Isa 50:4 NKJV).