COME UP HIGHER.

The Lord our God said to us in Horeb...You have dwelt long enough on this mountain. Turn and take up your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbours in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South and on the coast, the land of the Canaanites and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob to give them and to their descendants after them.........................Life in God is deep and inexhaustible. In God, the journey of life has no end neither does it has boundaries. The dynamic life that God has for you is high in height, deep in depth, broad in breadth and long in length. No one can fully exhaust the totality of the life that God has in store for him/her. As you are celebrating the testimony of a good life, God is saying that there is still a better life in store for you.As you are celebrating a better life, God is saying you have not seen the BEST that He has in store for you. Unfortunately, many people today are stucked at a particular level of life that is far below the level God intends for them to have. In the first instance, many people never anticipated that they will get to the kind of levels they are in life so instead of believing God for the next level that He has in store for them per time which is far better than the old level, they become stucked in the old level and never aspire to move higher. God had a plan of moving the children of Israel from the Egypt of bondage and slavery to the Canaan of freedom, abundance and all-round rest. On their way to Canaan, they encountered some challenges because to get to the next level of fullness in God, you will encounter challenges on the way. Instead of believing God for the fortitude to overcome those challenges, the Israelites wanted to go back to their old life. They wanted to cancel God`s next level of freedom and abundance for them while going back to the old level of servitude and slavery because of the free fruits they enjoyed in Egypt. While in the wilderness also on their way to Canaan, they did not co-operate with God to overcome their challenges to get to the next level of the fullness God had in store for them but they resulted into murmuring and complaining and they were on the same spot for uncountable number of years while Canaan was staring at them on the face. God told them that they had dwelt in the wilderness for so long and that if they could take the courage to overcome all the challenges on their way from the wilderness to Canaan with His available help, they will surely possess Canaan thereby moving on to the next level of their life. The summary of my message to you today is that in God, there are limitless levels of abundant and overflowing fullness of life and it is His pleasure/desire/will for you to move from one level to another. Each level of fullness is laden with challenges/giants which you must fight and overcome to get to the next level. Once you fight those giants and challenges with the backing of the Almighty God, you will move to the next level of your life. Complacency is the enemy of divine progress. Never give in to complacency. Never be satisfied with where you are in God as there are greater heights awaiting you if only you will not give in to complacency. A wise man said and I quote...``show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure``. God is saying to you today that...You have stayed on that old spot for a long time...come up higher as I have a better life for you than the old spot that you have stayed for years. God wants you to come up higher in your Spiritual walk and experiences with Him. He wants you to come up higher in your ministry, career, relationships, family/home and in all your endeavours/work of your hands. I see you changing levels in God from one level of glory to another as you embrace responsibility to fight complacency and the giants that decorates each next level in Jesus precious name. Remember that the path of the just is like a shinning light that shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day. There is no end to the brightness and luminance of the just. Also, a perfect door of opportunities and breakthroughs are open unto us but there are many adversaries to contend and fight with but in God, we are more than Conquerors. Shalom! Coming straight from my heart of hearts...Dayo Oladapo...www.Facebook.com/pages/Dayo-Oladapo-Official-Page/465259763522821

COMFORT.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...the Father of sympathy and the God of every comfort who comforts us in every trouble so that we may also mmmmcomfort those who are in any kind of trouble or distress with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.........................Life is full of events. We have the good side of life and we also have the other side of life just as a coin has two sides. The other side of life can be viewed in form of the problems and troubles of life. People don`t like to talk about this important side of life but the truth is that no one is immuned from the problems and troubles of life as they come and appear to everyone. The rich are not exempted from the troubles and problems of life likewise the poor. The tall, short, educated, illiterate etc are not exempted from the troubles and problems of life. Life in Christ is an interesting life because Christ Himself occupies the central portion of such a life. It is important to state clearly that every life in Christ is not exempted from the troubles and problems of life. The only assurance we have in Christ is that these troubles and problems are seen as challenges in God`s sight and we have an established victory over those challenges as long as we hold on to Him who gave us the established victory in the first place. We are not promised victory in Christ but the truth of the matter is that we are victors in Christ. We are not promised overcoming those challenges but we are overcomers in reality in Christ Jesus. Consider these scriptures... 1. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and when you pass through the fire, I will not forsake you for you will not get drown in the waters neither will you be burnt by the fires. This means that it is of a necessity that we pass through the waters and fires of life but we will come out of them victorious. 2. In the world, you will have tribulations but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world......Tribulations will come but we are overcomers in Christ. 3. But we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us......To be a conqueror, you will have to fight the challenges of life and our victories are guaranteed. We have to understand that between the time when the challenges of life comes knocking at our doors and before we lay hold on our sure/established/concrete victories in reality, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is put into display. He is our comforter sent to comfort us during challenges. He will comfort youn with encouraging words from the Bible which you have stored in your heart via meditation which will equip you to overcome. When abraham went through the challenge of barrenness,he took comfort in God`s word that God is not a liar and He is able to do what He has promised.When Job went through the challenge of total loss, he took comfort in God`s word that states clearly that God is a restorer and that was the reason he continually said and I qoute.....I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES. When David lost everthing on coming home from a particular battle,he inquired from the Lord whether to pursue and recover all or not and God told him to do so. David after crying for hours until he had no strength to weep took the courage to pursue his enemies because he took comfort in God`s word which states that God is able to do exactly what He says. When Daniel was face to face with hungry lions, he took comfort in God`s infallible word that God is able to save and deliver him. When shedrac, Menshac and Abednego were face to face with a terrible fiery furnance that burnt the people that threw them inside it, they took comfortin God`s word thatv states that God is able to save and deliver His own from all the afflictions and perils of life. They said and I quote......O Nebuchadnezzar, we don`t have to obey you concerning this matter because we know and are sure that our God is able to save and deliver us and even if He refuse to deliver us, we will not bow to your graven image. When Christ was faced with the challenge of feeding multitudes, He took comfort in God`s word that with prayer and thanksgiving, God is able to send Him His request of divine supplies according to His inexhaustible riches in glory. When Peter was faced with the challenge of career failure due to his inability to catch fishes despite his skills and expertise in fishing and Christ told him to launch into the same water that produced nothing for him but failure, He took comfort in God`s word knowing that God is not a liar neither is He man that He should repent. In our present day, the Holy Spirit is our comforter in the time of challenges and His job is to bring to our remembrance all the words of comfort that we have stored in our hearts/spirits in order to give us the requisite strength to overcome our challenges. He is sent our diection to help our infirmities. After we have received comfort from the Holy Spirit and we have overcome our challenges, God expects us to comfort other people going throught the same we went through for there is nothing new under the sun. There is no challenge anybody is going through that somebody somewhere has not gone through but as we comfort others by sharing with them how God comforted us to overcome ours, they will be able to overcome theirs and also comfort others. May the Holy Spirit.....our comforter in troubl and the helper of all infirmities comfort you in all your darkest nights in Jesus precious name. May your story of triumph over the ever-coming troubles of life serve as a souce of comfort to others so that they will be able to overcome theirs and comfort others also. It is your season of all round comforts! Coming straight from my heart of hearts.....Dayo Oladapo... www.Facebook.com/pages/Dayo-Oladapo-Official-Page/465259763522821