Make Your Words A Gift of Grace - Pastor Ekpenyong

Ephesians 4:29 MSG 

"Watch the way you talk. Let nothing foul or dirty come out of your mouth. Say only what helps, each word a gift."

Ephesians 4:29 TPT 

"And never let ugly or hateful words come from your mouth, but instead let your words become beautiful gifts that encourage others; do this by speaking words of grace to help them."

The most despised tool we have is our words. It is necessary to redefine the nature of the world around us.

The gift of encouragement is divine because it releases an energy and a force field in the hearer that creates access and influence within society in ways that would be impossible without favour.

Our opening text unveils the reality that our words can be the help a person needs to become a force to reckon with in the society and in destiny.

The kingdom of God is activated upon a person when grace filled words are spoken. It is more than a natural use of words to make someone feel good about themselves or their circumstances.

Become a faithful steward of the grace and favour of God by choosing to make your words a gift of grace to those in your sphere of influence.

Encouragement is a distinguishing mark of the believer, because our words are God's channel to gain inroads into the lives and hearts of men and women, boys and girls; so they could experience His love.

Impossibilities yield in the supernatural atmosphere of encouragement.

Glory!

Check:

Isaiah 35:4-6, 

Romans 8:28, 

1 Corinthians 2:4

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Redesigning Your World - Pastor Ekpenyong

Proverbs 18:21BBE 

"Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food."

Few realize that our words dominate us. Your mouth was not primarily given to you to eat; it was first given to you to speak.

Jesus said what defiles a man is what comes out of him – words.

Your words can become what you wish them to be. You need to realise that it is worse to say a thing than to think it.

Thoughts may come and persist, but if you refuse to put them into words they will die unborn.

The use of your tongue is the distinguishing factor between two people of equal potential and exposure. Use your tongue to alter the outcomes in your favor every time and in every situation.

Realities are created that didn't exist a moment earlier through simple proclamations.

Words spoken have the capacity to resource earth with heaven's resources.

Nothing happens in the kingdom until something is said.

Glory!

Check:

Romans 4:17

Matthew 21:21-22

2 Corinthians 4:13

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Tapping Into His Faithfulness - Pastor Ekpenyong

 Hebrews 11:11 TPT

"Sarah’s faith embraced the miracle power to conceive even though she was barren and was past the age of childbearing, for the authority of her faith rested in the One who made the promise, and she tapped into his faithfulness."

We only know who we are and why we are because God tells us in His word.

Renewing our minds require us to learn how to let God's words over our lives completely change our old beliefs about who we are—even before we see His word manifesting fully in us.

This is how we demonstrate confidence in Him.

However, every word is as viable as the confidence reposed on the character of the person who made the promise.

Our text shows what enabled Mother Sarah’s wonder conception despite her age, which was her consideration and estimation of God who promised as reliable, trustworthy and faithful. Halleluyah!

This estimation of God as the Faithful One who promised is a common denominator in all those who received the promised share.

Your faith should not be on positive or negative circumstances, but on who you know God to be from your history and that of others with Him.

Glory!

Check: 

Hebrews 10:23

Luke 1:37

Hebrews 6:16-18

 

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The Sphere Of Your Spiritual Authority - Pastor Ekpenyong

2 Corinthians 10:13Weymouth 

“We, however, will not exceed due limits in our boasting, but will keep within the limits of the sphere which God has assigned to us as a limit, which reaches even to you.”

Marketplace people played a vital role in the emergence, establishment and expansion of the Early Church.

A city cannot exist without a marketplace, in the same fashion that a body cannot live without a heart.

Early Christians made the marketplace the focal point of their ministry because their occupations regularly took them there. As they conducted their business, it was natural for them to present the gospel to the people they encountered.

Most people are not quite sure what the limit of their area of God-given influence is, so they attempt to operate outside their gifting or feel condemned because they’re making a lot of money or success of their endeavours.

When you understand that the LORD may be calling you to make that position the platform for ministry, there is a release of freedom and power for you to fulfill the call. 

The newfound freedom enables a free flow of God’s anointing to flow, and therefore enables you to be successful in your enterprise.

At least, 85 per cent of Christians are working in the marketplace, therefore, the marketplace should be the context in which our spiritual gifts should be used.

Each person actually can function in his spiritual gifts, leveraging on it for maximum impact. 

Glory!

Check: 

2Thesselonians 1:11MSG

Acts 2:44-47

Matthew 5:13-14

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Mid Course Correction - Pastor Ekpenyong

John 21:3-4TPT "Peter told them, “I’m going fishing.” And they all replied, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and fished through the night, but caught nothing.

Then at dawn, Jesus was standing there on the shore, but the disciples didn’t realize that it was him!"

I reckon that at some point you may fall into any of these categories of persons and therefore need a mid course correction:

1. Those who have no vision and wonder how to obtain one.

2. Those who have a vision but are stuck in the mud of confusion not knowing what to do next.

3. Those who had a vision but have abandoned it because of discouragement, disillusionment, some measure of failure, or frustration.

An honest assessment of your current state is always important so that you can make the necessary adjustments in tandem with your expected outcome.

The disciples of Jesus, feeling a sense of great loss and confusion were at the place a lot of us are and how we feel even right now.

However, the beautiful thing about mid course correction is that the LORD always is willing and desirous to bring us into alignment with His plans and purposes.

Heed interruptions because great things happen when we do. 

Life is full of interruptions. Its hard to have faith in the process and embrace these corrections, but it is important.

JESUS WORKED THROUGH THE INTERRUPTIONS.

I pray that you'll start seeing interruptions as God-filled invitations to do more, be more, pray more, and connect more.

Be open to His mid course correction in every area of your life. 

Glory!

Check: 

Exodus 3:4, 
Romans 2:4, 
Joshua 1:5

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The Effect of The New Creation - Pastor Ekpenyong

Galatians 6:15-16TPT

“Circumcision doesn’t mean a thing to me. The only thing that really matters is living by the transforming power of this wonderful new creation life.

And all those who live in agreement with this standard will have true peace and God’s delight, for they are the Israel of God.”

It is a fact that though we see with our eyes, we see through our minds; which means that our minds colour our perspective over every matter we ever consider.

It is to this end that we must evaluate what shapes our minds since it determines the scope of our judgment and consequent interpretation.

As a new creation, you must judge your life from the standpoint of the finished work of Christ.

It is so critical that though you have been brought into the newness of life; it is your consciousness that determines your reality.

This new mindset confers on you the experience of mercy and peace every day of your life. So that inspite of the troubles of life, you can be unfazed and free.

Persuade yourself with the word of His grace and order your life by this principle so that you can be taken up in these divine realities and manifest the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.

Glory!

Check:

Galatians 3:1-14

Galatians 1:8-12

Acts 20:32

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Doubly Cursed and Doubly Blessed - Pastor Ekpenyong

Galatians 3:13-14TPT

"Yet, Christ paid the full price to set us free from the curse of the law. He absorbed it completely as he became a curse in our place. For it is written: “Everyone who is hung upon a tree is doubly cursed.”

Jesus, our Messiah, was cursed in our place and in so doing, dissolved the curse from our lives, so that all the blessings of Abraham can be poured out upon even non-Jewish believers. And now God gives us the promise of the wonderful Holy Spirit who lives within us when we believe in him."

Most people don’t realize their beliefs determine the rest of their life. Therefore, it is important to intentionally determine what you believe.

Sadly, many Christians never let the Bible get in the way of what they believe. Most people depend upon their logic, tradition or experience to formulate beliefs. Few actually take the word of God as the basis of their beliefs.

The Old Testament was legalistic, performance-based while the New Testament is based on what Jesus did; therefore, it has everything to do with you accepting and receiving what He has done on your behalf.

What we believe is as a result of our thinking. If we think wrong, we will believe wrong. If our believing is wrong, our confession will be wrong.
However, the Word of God has been given to us to straighten out our thinking!

Christ was doubly cursed so we could be doubly blessed. Hallelujah!

Through Jesus' death on our behalf, we have been reconciled to God through forgiveness of sin and receipt of Christ’s righteousness.

Even more now, through the resurrected Christ who's alive in us, we have the power to overcome sin and live victoriously forever.

As you train your mind to believe, defeat tendencies and effects of the curse are reversed and terminated; everything moves out of the arena of the impossible into that of the possible.

We're partakers of the blessing; irreversibly blessed and forever blessed.

Glory!

Check: 
Galatians 3:10-15
Romans 10:8-10
Mark 9:23

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