EQUIPPED FOR EMERGENCE Day 1- Pastor Itunu Awowale
Equipped for Emergence through Prayer and Fellowship with God.
Good evening people of God.
A big thank you to Min Seun, my very dear brother
I want to say a big thank you to all for joining this teaching this evening. We trust God for a performance of all that he's set to do
We'd be doing a lot of praying in between this session, please and please, participate fully, let activities be paused for few minutes so that we can receive all that God is set to dish out
During the course of preparing for this meeting, the Lord said it's a meeting of DRAWING. Just as Moses was drawn to a closer walk and fellowship with God with the burning bush, the lord is giving some of us during the course of this meeting and program, experiences that will draw you to a closer walk, closer relationship, closer fellowship with Elohim. Get prepared, pray in the spirit as messages drop here to water your heart to receive.
The topic we are examining this evening is EQUIPPED FOR EMERGENCE.......... The sub-topic is EQUIPPED THROUGH PRAYER AND FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
It'd be of great help to break down these topics by finding out what they mean
EQUIPPED FOR EMERGENCE
EQUIPPED THROUGH PRAYER AND FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.
First we'd examine the words; Equip and Emergence
To Equip:
* Means to furnish for service or to prepare something or someone to meet a need or an urgent situation that requires/ demands attention
* it can also mean to supply with whatever is necessary to be efficient in any way.
* Equipping could mean providing with arms or ammunitions
* Equipping could also be termed as preparing someone or something with a skill for later use.
EMERGENCE
* The word emergence is the act of of coming forth from envelopment or concealment.
* It could mean uprising or appearance.
The questions before us this evening are ;
1. Who are those getting equipped?
2. Who is doing the equipping?
3. What is the need for the equipping?/ results of equipping.
I'd give a summarised answer to these questions before we further
Eph 4:12 establishes the people being equipped....... Eph 4:12b "equipping of the saints" (Christians).
It's important to know that there's no equipping that is done outside Christ whose purposes we're representing on earth.
Equipping does not take place with no reason. Eph.4.13 "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ (KJV).
In order words, we'd be looking at how we can be prepared/furnished/supplied/ provided with everything we need to be a true replica of Christ in our various ministries, our worship, our deeds, actions and speech through prayer and fellowship with God.
Believe me, we cannot be effective in ministry, worshipping, preaching, evangelizing if we dnt embody the life of Christ. That when the manifestation/Emergence that the sons of men are waiting for takes place all they'd be able to see through us and in us is CHRIST.
EQUIPPING THROUGH PRAYER
Let us take the Caterpillar as a case study, before it can emerge as a Butterfly that we all admire, a first and major process it has to go through is the process of shedding/altering it's skin.
Prayer which is a way of communicating/communing with God can also be a medium of equipping by shedding.
Luke.9.29a And as He was praying, the appearance of His countenance became altered (different)
Jesus who's our model had an altering whilst he prayed. It's recorded in the scripture that he had an habit of praying and we cannot do less in our journey to becoming like Christ. During the course of our living, we might have loaded ourselves with attitudes, habits, way of behavior that has a tendency to hinder our emergence the way God intends but there's a way out...... PRAYER!!
David was given garments and gadgets used for battles, he was supposedly given everything needed but he knew he couldn't have emerged with all he had on him, he was wise enough to drop all before going to the war front. Can we ask God tonight to help us, there's need for an altering to take place in our lives.
Can we ask him to help us drop that "anger, lust, immorality, pride, envy, masturbation, fornication". All these weights will hinder us from manifesting as a true replica of Christ. Can we ask God for help this evening
Please take out few minutes to pray
EQUIPPING THROUGH FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
Fellowship entails intimacy, partnership communion, relationship, walk, intercourse, companionship with God. The men of old had a robust intimacy, relationship and walk with God that such that it was recorded of Enoch that "he walked with God and he is was not because God took him". It's God's desire that man fellowships with him, little wonder he found all means to bridge the gap between himself and man after the fall of man.
The disciples in the days of Jesus understood the importance of fellowshipping with God, having a relationship that is beyond what we can receive, the anointing he can pour on us, the gifts he can release to us.......
It entails having to have a peep into the mind of the Father, having to know his thoughts and make His thoughts out thoughts, making his burden our burden, beyond the anointing, beyond our worship ministry beyond the fame, beyond the recognition we receive for our work in the kingdom, beyond the ovations......
That our desire is to have communion/ intercourse with him to the point that nothing in our life resembles us again, that everything we represent is a semblance of Christ.
Can desire for intimacy with God be birthed this evening? God is telling someone tonight that "manifestations of the raw power of God that you so desire cannot happen without intimacy". He's saying can you get to the point where you come to me just to sit with me and hear from me?
Fellowshipping takes place when there's constant contact/ communication/talking to/ staying with/dwelling with our Father. The disciples stayed so much with Jesus, talked so much with him, constantly sat at his feet to hear him before they got to the point where in their contact with people after Jesus' ascension, people gave them the name christ-like (CHRISTIANS) because they exuded the exact nature Christ. They were not after being recognised, being known, being seen, they just exemplified Christ through their actions, deeds and words.
Brethren our major focus tonight is that we get to the point where ALL our desire is that Christ is seen through our lives.
One of the disciples that had been with Christ had this to say, take note of the emboldened words👇🏻
1John.1.3 What we have seen and [ourselves] heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And [this] fellowship that we have [which is a distinguishing mark of Christians] is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah). (AMP)
Can we go back to the ancient landmark, where we can boldly tell people through our WORSHIP, our PREACHING, our LIVES, our LIFESTYLES, that they should come to fellowship with the father and it would not be that we're living a lie by saying something else and doing something else.
Phil.3.10 [For my determined purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly], and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death, [in the hope] (AMP)
People please, I beseech you. Take out few minutes to pray this sincerely from your heart, take away any distraction at this crucial point
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