The Land of Affluence

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The land of affluence is the land that God gives to each child of His. It is the land where God reigns, He is honored, respected and served by the people of the land. It is the land where the Holy Spirit is given preeminence and He is in charge of every activity, utterances, etc. This is to say that if you want your God given land to be affluent, then you must allow the Holy Spirit direct and supervise whatever you do on the land.

The land flows with milk and honey, always and does not stop flowing. What does it mean to flow? It is coming from a source that never runs dry and God is the source of the flow and God sustains the flow. Please see Deuteronomy Chapter 6 verses 1 to 3.

The land of affluence is the land that God waters. How? It is strategically positioned by God to receive the rain of heaven in the right quantity or proportion and at the right season. God cares for the land of affluence and watches over it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Because the land is watered by God, and receives the right amount of water when required, the land produces abundant agricultural harvests of grain, wine, trees that produce oil; other cash crops, honey, etc so that there is food security at all times. There is a relationship between water and abundant harvests. Water is one of the ingredients for nourishment and growth. Please see Ezekiel Chapter 17 verses 5 to 8, 19 verse 10, Jeremiah Chapter 17 verse 8, Psalm 1 verse 3, Deuteronomy Chapter 8 verse 7, 11 verses 10 to 15, Leviticus Chapter 26 verses 4 to 5, 9 to 10, Job Chapter 14 verses 7 to 9, Psalm 68 verses 8 to 9, 104 verses 13 to 17, Numbers Chapter 24 verses 6 to 7. No one goes hungry in this land of great affluence and possibilities. This is because the land is also rich in mineral resources that can be mined to generate wealth for the owners. Please see Deuteronomy Chapters 11 verses 9 to 15; 8 verses 7 to 10.

Speak to Your Future

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

It is the will of God for every child of His to have and experience glorious futures that manifest His promises that are yea and amen in Christ. Such futures however do not fall on anyone like bags of cherries. They have to be diligently sought out from the Word of God, prophesied and acted upon. This is to say that you have the capacity to determine your future if you sit with God on a daily basis to work out that glorious future which He prepared for you from the foundation of the world. That explains why God in His infinite wisdom always speaks to the future of His children and you can do same by speaking to your future ably assisted by the Holy Spirit as you feed on the Word of God. The Word of God always has the capacity to germinate in the heart of the righteous, flourish and produce harvests of an abundant glorious future.

Therefore, call those things which do not exist as though they did (Romans Chapter 4 verse 17b) in the place of prayer with God. That is prophetic praying.

God has given you everything you need to fulfill purpose. Your task is to call forth the resources from the realm of the spirit to manifest in the physical so you can use them. God had given the land of Canaan to the Israelites but they had to journey from Egypt to the land as well as dispossess the people living there. That was why they engaged in physical travel, and physical battles. In your case, your battle is to call forth the resources you need which God has graciously provided. Your weapon of war is the sword of the spirit which you are to declare daily at all times, to ensure a release of the resources from wherever  they are and from whoever may want to hold on to them. Please see Daniel Chapter 10. Daniel fasted and prayed for 21 days. Hold on to God in prayers, fasting, prophetic declarations of the truth of God’s word as well as prophetic actions. And always remember that the word of God does not return to Him void. Please see Hebrews Chapters 11 verse 3; 1 verses 1 to 3, Romans Chapter 4 verse 17 and 2^nd Kings Chapter 4.

Lessons from the Healing of the Waters of Jericho

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The city of Jericho was a pleasant place, geographically well situated. People including prophets loved the place and lived there. Yet the water was bad and made the land unproductive. How can a place so pleasant and geographically well situated be barren? The bad water was responsible. Fortunately, the men of Jericho were wise people. They presented the case to Elisha, newly commissioned for great exploits after having been mentored by Elijah for years. Elijah had departed to heaven in a whirlwind leaving Elisha with a double portion of his spirit.

Elisha requested for a new bowl and he instructed them to put salt in the new bowl. He took these to the source of the water, poured the salt in it and prophesied the healing unction of God upon the waters and the Bible records that the waters were healed, there was no more death from water poisoning and the land became productive.

Lessons

Elisha went to the source of the water to throw the salt in it. Why? The healing of the water had to commence from the source of the water and progress to every other part of the water. Beloved, problems, challenges, barriers, blockades, satanic oppositions have to be dealt with and removed from the root source because when the root source of a challenge is dealt with, then it is destroyed completely. But if it is handled at the branches, it will resurface again in an even greater dimension. Therefore, deal with whatever issues that are troubling your nation from the root.

Do Not Fear

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Fear incapacitates, immobilizes, stagnates and brings about loss of vision and direction. Fear is a tool that the enemy enjoys using against believers to truncate the plans and purposes of God in their lives. A number of Biblical examples include:

The use of fear against the army of Israel by Goliath is an interesting case study. Through Goliath’s intimidating stature and boastful words, the devil succeeded in instilling fear in the hearts of the soldiers of Israel. A well equipped and well prepared army of hundreds of thousands able men who left their homes to fight the Philistine army cowered in fright because Goliath, a giant boasted of his might. What a shame especially when a mere youth who had never served in the army brought Goliath down. So it was not necessarily Goliath’s stature that incapacitated and immobilized the army of Israel. It was the fear he spewed out through his intimidating words. Please see 1^st Samuel Chapter 17.

Fear was also the reason Lot took a decision to go live in a cave in the mountains instead of Zoar where he escaped to safety from Sodom and Gomorrah. Living in a cave alone with two grown up daughters led to the incestuous union that produced Moab and Ammon. Fear births wrong decisions.

The Israelites at a time in their history threshed wheat in winepresses because they were afraid of the Midianites whose pastime was to destroy the livelihoods of the Israelites in order to impoverish them. God empowered Gideon with great faith to overcome fear and destroy the Midianites. Please see Judges Chapter 6.

The Consequences of Ignorance

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The consequences of ignorance are better not imagined. While education is said to be expensive, ignorance is even more expensive considering the unpleasant consequences of ignorance. Some of them are:

Captivity which occurs because an ignorant person or persons lack direction and lack of direction leads to captivity as in the case of the Israelites described in Isaiah Chapter 5 verse 13. They had no idea where to go and even if they had an idea of where to go, they had absolutely no idea how to get there and they ended up in captivity.

Hunger – even the honorable men amongst them who ideally should have had abundance suffered hunger because there was no food for them. Beloved, can you imagine what the commoners would suffer if their honorable men suffered hunger? Famine! This is to say that famine can be occasioned by ignorance.

God is Faithful

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

God does not fail, has not failed and will not fail. That is the testimony of the saints in the Bible and it is one of the cardinal teachings in the Bible. Please see Numbers Chapter 23 verse 19. David was a man after God’s heart, was anointed as King of Israel when he was still a teenager, experienced challenges that could have made him doubt God, the word of God and promises of God concerning him; yet David held on to God.

As a young man, God used Him to defeat Goliath and because the women of Israel sang praises of David, the then ruling King of Israel, Saul became envious of David and made several attempts on the young life of David. Consequently, David became homeless and had to live among the Philistines, ironically among the kinsmen of Goliath whom he killed. Eventually, Saul was killed in battle and after a battle with the surviving sons and relatives of Saul, the Israelites came together and crowned David king of Israel. Please see 1st Chronicles Chapter 12.

The Power of Words

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Words are powerful. They frame thought patterns. What a person hears and believes is very important as words always have the capacity to impact people and their lives either positively or negatively. That is why you should cross check the source of the words you hear, internalize and believe. Therefore, whoever you pay attention to; internalize the words and speak the words is very important. Who you listen to is very important.

Words that originate from God always have the capacity to enrich and enlarge you and make you a better person. These words are like the rain that comes in due season; that is at the right time to bless the earth. The word of God is powerful. The word of God gives believers advantage over the world by giving believers advance information of what God has done concerning our lives and whatever situation confronts us.

It is a battle of words and words that originate from the kingdom of darkness are like the polluted waters of Jericho that was causing barrenness and death in the land. Please see 2^nd Kings Chapter 2 verses 18 to 22, Exodus Chapter 15 verses 22 to 26. That is why Elisha went to the source of the water where the water was polluted to bring about healing of the water, decontamination from source and healing in the land.

This is why the devil manipulates through negative reports. Refuse to entertain and believe negative reports. The devil consistently uses his agents to create and foster contrary and negative situations through their speeches and actions – daily confessions of negativity, impossibilities and what have you to make you think, focus on and reflect on impossibilities, and how to cope; sometimes resulting in worries, anxieties, and fear and of course, unbelief and consequently recourse to sinful actions, usually suggestions from the pit of hell.

Challenges Are Stepping Stones

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

The life of Joseph best illustrates the adage that challenges are stepping stones. Every obstacle and limitation became the very much needed stepping stones to his greatness. First, the jealousy displayed against him by his brothers did not deter him from dreaming more dreams, from obeying his father-Jacob when asked to take food to his brothers in the wilderness and working towards the actualization of his dreams.  Besides, the eventual sale of Joseph to the Midianite traders and eventually Potiphar did not stop Joseph from becoming who God purposed him to become. Not even prison in a foreign land stopped his global leadership goal. All of the obstacles led him closer to the goal in addition to giving him adequate preparation for global leadership.

For every challenge, God has a solution only if we remember to call on Him to solve the problem. This is because God usually has a prepared or should I say postpaid solutions. Take for instance the case of the four horns that had scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem unchallenged for a long time. I am quite sure that like you and I, the children of God wondered if God had any plans to deliver them from such evil powers with the evil intent of destruction. But God had His plan and timing to deliver His people from such affliction. Beloved, a scattered people cannot plant, harvest and gather or achieve any progress in life. Therefore their heads will always be bowed.  The devil or the enemy's intent was to prevent them from walking in the full plans and purposes of God for their lives so that they would not achieve anything. Unknown to the Israelites and the enemy, God was working out a great and total deliverance package. He had four carpenters prepared that would not only terrify the four horns but would also cast them out and end their evil reign and activities in the land of Israel, Judah and Jerusalem.

Water Your Seeds for Consistent Harvests

Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha

Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him  Psalm 126 verses 5 to 6 NKJV

Consistent seed planting activates and ensures consistent harvests. However, every planted seed on good soils require watering irrespective of how great the soils are and the quality of the seeds are. Planting cannot stand alone. It must be watered. Besides, God expects you to be an active participant in His processes concerning you. Your active participation is the watering process.

To water is to nurture, care for, and protect to develop the seeds while they are growing. When you plant a seed, you do not sit down to wait for it to germinate and bear fruit without doing anything. You have to care for it – Luke Chapter 8 verse 15, Proverbs Chapter 24 verses 24 to 30, and Isaiah Chapter 5 verses 1 to 7.  Some of such watering programs include but are not limited to:

Prayer – accompany your planted seed with fervent prayers for the will of God to be done in your land – Zechariah Chapter 8 verse 12, Isaiah Chapter 30 verse 23. Consistent praying will dislodge every opposition to your harvests.

Understanding of the word of God – inadequate or complete lack of understanding of the word of God can impact your harvests negatively as you may be tempted to believe the lie of the enemy that God will not bless your seed to prosper and produce bumper harvests. However, opportunities increase as your understanding of the Word increases and this brings about productivity and fruitfulness, a function of your understanding of the word of God. Make a conscious effort to understand the word of God. You can ask the Holy Spirit to help you – Psalm 119 verse 144.