Leviticus 24:2 NKJV
““Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.”
The Journey so far: AFTER THIS…… THE POWER OF CONTINUITY
Philippians 3:12 NKJV
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.”
When God told me some certain things and especially when they were materialising, I became so much focused on what HE said and don’t get me wrong you still should but then I lost focus on listening to what HE is still saying and showing me.
I had to repent on being proud of the journey so far and still have an humble heart that I have still not even started to attain.
There’s always more; Apostle Joshua Selman said and it’s true you can never Plateau with and in God; so continually stay, continually thirst and drink from the well of living water.
It’s easy to have the passion to diligently seek when things are not, what about when things are?
To hunger and thirst: why hunger and thirst; like you’ve never had food, like you are never full.
Still pray like never before and even more because there is way more, way much more than even before.
You know success can destroy as much as failure?
The staying Power to Continue.
God has said to us out of our bellies shall flow rivers of living water; and that’s not a one time thing; it’s a continuous overflow, and even tho you are full to overflow today doesn’t mean you will be tomorrow.
HOLY SPIRIT, SPIRIT OF THE LIVING ALMIGHTY GOD gave me this analogy:
Imagine a bucket 🪣 kept under a tap 🚰 with continuous supply of 🚿 water; that bucket only overflows when that bucket/vessel is filled up. (This is something else I’ll address in another blog post by GOD’S Grace; to be filled to overflow).
Now when the tap is turned off, the bucket might overflow for couple of seconds more but it’ll stop overflowing very soon; why? Because it has been disconnected/cut off/shut from the source.
If you fill up a cup or vessel to overflow but eventually turn of the tap or source, it will stop overflowing; you need to be continuously linked to the source to overflow; so continue to stay, continue to hunger and thirst.
If you also are planted and spring forth; even if God told you it’s your season to blossom and flourish; you need to be continually watered and stay in HIM cos you can wither and dry away.
So we continually look, behold, pray and stay and study because there is always more.
Stay build up your strength, waiting on the lord is not a one time thing; it’s a continuous thing🙏
Leviticus 24:2 NKJV; GOD told Moses to:
““Command the children of Israel that they bring to you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to make the lamps burn continually.”
For me, it was the continuous burning of the lamp for me and it’s just a reminder that our relationship with God should be continuous and our light/lamp should be ever burning.
Isaiah also tells us to continually Behold and look at what God wants to see, show and tell us; HE always wants to do a new thing in and through us.
Isaiah 43:18-19 KJV
18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
We see examples of people in the Bible that started well but didn’t finish well; from King Saul, Solomon, King Rehoboam e.t.c
It’s not how well you started but how well you finish and if you finished, so run; why?; run continuously to Obtain.
Paul said it you know, Run your own race with endurance, let go of every weight that slows you down to win….
Hebrews 12:1 NLT
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”
1 Corinthians 9:24 NLT
“Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win!”
How do I continue well then? Continually STAY to BE and DO.
The staying power to continually BE
How many of you have listened to a message or been in church and got so moved on the spot and you even make some decisions right then; then you left church and suddenly the fire, the zeal, the hunger dies down…. I know I have.
David said that I may dwell in the presence of God all the days of my life.
Psalm 27:4 NKJV
One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.
Continue to have a thirsty and hunger heart
Matthew 5:6 KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
So continue to:
Devotion, pray Spend time with GOD
Obey Obey Obey
Continue to seek the face of the LORD,
Continue to seek for more, more in GOD, more in CHRIST in humility.
I leave you all with this, the Holy Spirit kept ministering this sentence to me, over and over again from Revelation 1:10 NKJV: I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,......
Now this was from when John was in the SPIRIT and had diverse revelation and encounter from GOD. Now he was in the SPIRIT on the Lords day, and we might want that deep intimacy and insights also from GOD also but do we have to wait only on Sundays to be? You know what THE SPIRIT OF GOD said to me; The Lord’s day is everyday; God wants this type of communion with us every moment of our lives not just on Sundays or occasionally; remember we have the THE SPIRIT OF GOD dwelling in us; so continuously be in the SPIRIT.
Don’t allow your flesh downplay what the HOLY SPIRIT IS telling you especially when it comes to your personal concentration and walk with God.
I take this expert from Minister Dunsin’s song; Stay:
WAIT ON THE LORD, STAY AT THE ALTAR, CONTINUOUSLY DRINK OF THE LIVING WATER, EVEN AFTER YOU BEGIN TO OVERFLOW, FOR THIS IS WHAT THE NATION NEEDS.
Let us Pray.
Prayer
Thank YOU GOD for how far YOU have brought me; thank YOU for YOU created me for a purpose just as Jeremiah 29:11 says; help me to continuously dwell and abide in YOU forever, continuously LORD; to continuously behold YOU forever; help me to finish well LORD. Thank you GOD; I obtain grace and help from YOU LORD to run the race that is set before me; to be who YOU have called me to be and do all that YOU have called me to do LORD; may my light never run dim or die down.
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