PASTOR AYO JEJE
One reason why we have heretics in the Church is because everybody is mindful of his own thing, nobody wants to interfere in another man’s matter. The community that God wants to build is the one in which the members can protect themselves. God is against competitive jealousy and trying to outshine ourselves with spiritual gifts.
ISAIAH 41:1: “Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.”;
MATTHEW 4:2-3: “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”;
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Islands are isolated ministries. God may have to shut down some ministries to promote His will. God is not interested in generals, He is only interested in a generation of people that are doing the right things. As long as there are islands the people will not come to God. An integral part of the harvest is judgement, which is why the people will have to come to judgment. The key to the harvest is the apostolic which is a sending dimension that brings us to God’s harvest. There is a harvest of God over our individual lives.
Authority will only come when we discern the body. When people project themselves, the best they can do is operate in power without God’s authority. In order to operate in power, men have to create enabling atmospheres for themselves. God does not project any personality. The number ‘seventy’ is very important. Seventy=Seven times ten. Seven represents perfection, ten represents completion. Jesus sent out seventy disciples to symbolize a perfectly complete order just like Moses’ spirit rested on seventy elders. The seventy commissioning is a body decision. This gospel is not your effort. The harvest is God’s prerogative. It is His harvest. The communication of the gospel is not a language, it is in the Spirit.
The harvest is more about God providing an alternative lifestyle. Each time you are representing God, you are either giving a witness or you are bringing about a conviction. The harvest is not just about filling your church to capacity. It is God sending us forth as lambs among wolves and as stewards of His mystery. The principle of the Kingdom will make us look weak and stupid but it is a formidable alternative to Babylon. The weak things of God are stronger than man. Apostolic sending makes you look very vulnerable. Imagine a so called leader Jesus washing His disciples’ feet. It tells us that the call to ministry is a call to slavery.
The harvest is not about religion, it is more than a religion. It is about the life of Christ. We run from house to house because we are doing our own harvest rather than God’s harvest. Your provision is right within your God-given assignment. If God is sending you there, He will cover you. When you progress to do God’s will and not serve your own purposes, power and authority will attend to you. Many of us have prophesied and done other things at the instance of Satan. We must be witnesses to provide an alternative lifestyle.
One of the major issues of harvest is judgment. The cities that God judged like Capernaum, Chorazin and Bethsaida do not exist today. There are no people related to those cities anymore because the word of God bore witness against them when Jesus pronounced judgement.
HEBREWS 6:1:“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God”;
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Repentance from dead works is a foundational repentance. There are higher levels of repentance. Repentance is a response which brings about internal structural adjustment. If our experience, work and calling are not birthing more adjustments, we are tending towards apostasy. We have to be mobile. The fruit of harvest is repentance. Our sending must always bring us to points of repentance. Repentance is measured in how much removed we are from our will. Our will is our earthly inheritance. Our will speaks even when we are dead. The death of Uzziah has a link with the appearing of God. Uzziah means strength. When God appears, human strength has got to give way. There are times you have to keep quiet even when you know what to say. The real issue is to see the Lord. The issue about harvest is not size, it is sight. When you see the Lord you will be high and lifted up like Him. The order of the apostolic sending will bring us to a place where our feet are covered. The Seraphs’ wings to fly talk about grace, they are about following the direction of Divinity. They had a common declaration as they cried one to another. There was a unity of purpose. God expects our responses when He appears to us. When Isaiah saw God’s glory, He discovered that he was undone; he was defective. A man with defective declarations cannot help a defective people. When respond rightly and come to the place of poverty in the Spirit, we attract resources from heaven. God will have to dethrone Babylon which teaches us to be self-reliant.