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Charge Ahead As Head ( by Fenny West)

As a son of God, co-worker with God, an ambassador of God, you need to be assured of what He has called you to do and to be.

Without a shadow of a doubt, you and I have been called to be the head and not the tail. We are God’s own chosen people, his treasured possession, peculiar people, called to show forth His glory and praises in this world.

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;1Pet2:9

We are His icons and beacons. And to fulfil what He has called us to, we must be led of the Holy Spirit who has been called to guide us into all truth. The Holy Spirit gives us the advantage and the cutting edge in whatever we do.  He shows us things to come and reminds us of what He has told us in times past.

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come John16:7,13

Dominion is our mandate. This was God’s original dream for you and I before Adam fell and gave dominion to satan. Through Christ that status was restored to all who believe and have surrendered their lives to Him. To maintain your dominion, you must know that it is your inheritance.

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over [a]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Gen1:26.

Never consider yourself as one who has arrived but challenge yourself, stretch yourself, set ambitious goals. Know that you have a big God, so your vision must be big too. And know that if you can think it, God can and will surpass it.  So, daily to go the extra-mile for His name’s sake.  Tell yourself that there is more land that needs to be taken.
Now Joshua was old, advanced in years. And the Lord said to him: “You are old, advanced in years, and there remains very much land yet to be possessed. Joshua13:1

 Distinguish yourself like Daniel and His friends. They honoured God and God made them ten times better than their peers. Be like Joseph of old who was very diligent, excellent and highly reliable. Know that God is with you just as He was with Joseph and this is what made the difference.

3 Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. Dan6:3

“Enlarge the place of your tent,
    stretch your tent curtains wide,
    do not hold back;
lengthen your cords,
    strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the left;
    your descendants will dispossess nations
    and settle in their desolate cities. Isa54:2-3

3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Josh1:3

Press on for the mark of the prize of the high-calling in Christ in spite of obstacles or opposition or difficult terrains. Use the obstacles to leap into a higher and greater dimension. Press on until you finish and finish well to the glory of your Maker and your God.

Adopt the attitude and mentality of Paul who gave his all after his encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ and his conversion.

10 I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Phil3:10-14

Would it not be wonderful if you too at the end of your life can say like Paul:

Paul’s Valedictory

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

So, my friend, charge ahead as the head, You were born to be the head and not the tail.  You were born to win. Be a master over circumstances. Use the authority and dominion that God has bestowed on you and win every battle, leap over every wall and run through any troop. Do not allow the enemy to short-change you. Outwit him whenever and wherever he shows up by submitting to God. Be led of the Holy Spirit. Be so intimate with Him as to receive insights and advance revelation inside knowledge of what your adversary may be planning or doing. Receive divine winning strategies and implement them and surge ahead as head always.

Open Your Eyes ( by Fenny West)

Open your eyes and see that Jericho has fallen, the impenetrable is penetrable after all. Waste no time advance, me in and possess your possession. God is with you and who can be against you?

You have all that it takes. Rule in the midst of your enemies. Victory is yours. Be bold and strong and be of a good courage. The Lord your God is with you, in you and for you. He will give you every place that your feet shall tread. You are more than a conqueror. Press in, move forward like David and use the gift in you and with you; that which you have proved. Cut off the head of Goliath. His place is under your feet. Press on for the mark of the prize of your high calling in Christ. Enlarge the place of your dwelling, stretch out, spare not. This is your day. This is your time. See beyond the natural and take what is rightfully yours. The kings are subject to you. Occupy until I come.

Living A Life of Insight ( by Fenny West)

Living the Life of Insight

It matters how you see as well as what you see and the place you look from and with which eyes you look. This is because what you see will shape your response, action or reaction.  Two people may be facing the same circumstance but one may see it as an opportunity, a harbinger of testimony, whereas another may see it as a demise, disadvantage, disaster or end of the road.

To live a life of insight, you must live from the inside; live the life of God; see from His eyes, believe what He says about you and walk in it, defying any natural circumstance that seem to negate it.

“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.” 19 And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, 21 and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. 22 And therefore “it was accounted to him for righteousness.”Rom4:17-22

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Gal.5:16

5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be  carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom8:5-6

This is what gives glory to God- to see His offspring walking in the light of His word, not in the light of what they see or hear in the natural.

Seeing the Invisible

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2Cor4:16-18

Why? We hail from above. We were born of the word of God and we hail from above, because our old life has been supplanted by the New Life in Christ.

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.1John4:4

Old things have passed away and all things have become new.

We walk by faith and not by sight.

7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2Cor5:7

17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” Rom1:17

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2Cor5:17

We are strangers, travellers on this plane, we belong to Zion. We are not ordinary but God has added His “Extra” to us and made us extraordinary. We are supernatural because God has added His “Super” to our natural.

They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

6 I said, “You are gods,
And all of you are children of the Most High. Ps82:5-6

What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,

Ps8:4-6

The world around us may not understand it, but we do and we are not prepared to make any apology for it.

We belong to the Kingdom of God and we are here to extend that Kingdom and reign through Christ as kings-priests.  

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John17:16

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 1Pet2:9

Do Not Love the World

15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

1John2:15-17

God’s Word is our food and His Spirit is our Guide, Intercessor, Helper, Comforter, Advocate, Teacher and  Reveals things to come to us as well as reminding us of the scriptures.

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”Matt.4:4

13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. John 16:13

He also gives us an advantage and cutting edge in life as long as He is acknowledged.

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. John16:7

To live a life of insight, you must know who you are in Christ, Whose you are and what you have in Him and live in a way to make these truths a reality in your life.

26 the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Col.1:26-27

3 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Col3:1-4

28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ Acts17:28

We were crucified with Him, buried with Him and raised with Him and now seated with Him, far above principalities and powers and thrones and names not only oin this world but also in the one to come.

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Gal2:20

We are blessed with every spiritual blessing, Chosen of Him, Predestined for His plans and purposes and we are not only accepted but celebrated. This is the mentality that He wants us to walk in.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He [a]made us accepted in the Beloved.

We have Redemption and wisdom In Him

7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, Eph1:7-9

We are Abraham’s seed

29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Gal3:29

We Are New Creation, Reconciled- no longer enemies. We have a ministry of Reconciliation and we are His ambassadors and are the righteousness of God.

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not [a]imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.2 Cor5:18-21