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Good Friday and a Happy Easter to all and to your families. May our lives rise to the very standard Christ died and rose for and according to what God has ordained for us in Jesus name, Amen. Victory is ours Amen.

For Elijah, he was fed with Divine supplies 3 times by ravens, by a widow, and by an angel. Furthermore, he was able to ask/pray for Drought in 1 Kings 17:1-: James 5:17, Meal and oil multiplied 1 Kings 17:14, a Child to be restored to life 1 Kings 17:22, a Sacrifice to be consumed by fire 1 Kings 18:38, Captains and men to be slain by fire 2 Kings 1:10, Rain brought 1 Kings 18:41, Water of Jordan divided 2 Kings 2:8

In the midst of all of these, Elijah prayed regularly and fervently to God which means to me he spoke and received words from God helping him to direct his life and actions. So, in essence, he had a great communicative relationship with our Father and God.

Do you communicate to God? Could you honestly say that you listen for HIS words and promptings to direct your life and actions? It requires great discipline an commitment to walk in Elijah’s shoes. But, it is very possible to accomplish what he did and more even in this now and here where we are.

Try living like Elijah and see.

Consider Moses and the many miracles that God performed through him. See below a list of some of what he did with the assistance of his brother Aaron. How was he able to speak and declare these things before Pharaoh or perform these things and then watch these things come to pass?

1. Aaron’s rod changed into a serpent (Ex. 7:10-12)
The ten plagues of Egypt (Ex. 7:20-12:30)
1. Waters become blood
2. Frogs
3. Lice
4. Flies
5. Murrain or Pestilence
6. Boils
7. Thunder and hail
8. Locusts
9. Darkness
10. Death of the first-born

Other Miracles Done by Moses and/or Aaron
1. Red Sea divided; Israel passes through (See: Passage of Red Sea) (Ex. 14:21-31)
2. Waters of Marah sweetened (Ex. 15:23-25)
3. Manna sent daily, except on Sabbath (Ex. 16:14-35)
4. Water from the rock at Rephidim (Ex. 17:5-7)
5. Nadab and Abihu consumed for offering “strange fire” (Lev. 10:1, 2)
6. Some of the people consumed by fire at Taberah (Num. 11:1-3)
7. The earth opens and swallows up Korah and his company. (Num. 16:32-34)
8. Fire at Kadesh (Num. 16:35-45)
9. Plague at Kadesh (Num. 16:46-50)
10. Aaron’s rod budding at Kadesh (Num. 17:8)
11. Water from the rock, smitten twice by Moses, desert of Zin (Num. 20:7-11)
12. The brazen serpent in the desert of Zin (Num. 21:8-9)

How was Moses able to confidently speak to Pharaoh and declare the coming of plagues he himself had never witnessed or observed in his own life? Remember at this time Moses was 80 or more years and had never seen the magnitude of plague events that he had described would happen to Pharoah and the Egyptians.

I can assume that he was able to “speak these things…(Romans 4:17) because of the trust and faith he had in GOD developed through the relationship he had nurtured with GOD in the desert where he first saw the burning bush unconsumed (Exodus 3:3).

Where is your trust and confidence? Do you have a relationship with God? Is your relationship with God priority #1 in your life? How confidently would we speak if we knew that our God Almighty and the host of heaven were backing us up and would execute “The Words We Speak”?

1 Samuel 3:19 “And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.”

Imagine this being said about you. Would you like for this to be some of the legacy you leave behind? What would we need to do or how must we live so that our GOD Almighty (The Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent One) would make it HIS business to allow everything we say come to pass “EVERY TIME”? How did Samuel live his life and how did he speak?

1 Samuel 7:3 Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

As we see in the verse above, Samuel not only lived right in dedication to God he also encouraged others to do the same faithfully. He never wavered from living righteously glorifying God with his life. So, I’m thinking, because he honored God and spoke on HIS behalf, God also honored him and upheld all of his (Samuel’s) own spoken words.

May God help us live right, encourage others to do the same and honor HIM with our lives in jesus name, Amen. We can only begin to imagine what HE would do in turn to honor us.

Genesis 11:1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.

So imagine the Almighty God say, “And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” What?!!! Rewind “And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” in this case what they proposed was against God’s will and did not bring HIM glory. What if what you proposed was and/or is God’s will and will bring HIM glory? Would what you propose, plan, speak, pray not be allowed by GOD to come to pass?…

Think on this!

Adam had dominion over everything GOD placed in the earth before him. In my opinion, Adam named all animals and probably plants that existed at the time following his being created by GOD. So how did he name the animals and plants? He spoke out of his mouth words that he felt identified with the specific animal or plant he beheld. I want to think there was no rush to this at all, afterall Adam (at the time) had eternity to do this (there were no time constraints whatsoever). So he called/spoke/named the things that were never named into existence. GOD made Adam in HIS image and likeness and gave Adam the command to rule and reign the earth and to take dominion over it. So since Adam was in union with God (being like God and untainted in mind and thoughts as well as having similar desires), he was able to speak, decree, call things forth and they were established. Please read the following verses:

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth…(KJV)

Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field…(KJV)

Are we in union with God? Are our desires and motives in line with HIS? Could we call forth, bring to pass, implement, establish new things by defining/naming the things we see or don’t see around us?

So imagine the possibilities…

Mark 9:23 And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” so what is possible? What are the things. We can believe for and in love speak, pray or request from God? Before we answer these, please read these words of God and HIS promise to us:

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Only Believe, in Christ Jesus, in God, and in HIS promises. Then ask, speak, pray and wait in expectation for results.

May God fill our hearts with love and joy, our mouths with sweet words, our feet with purpose and direction, and our hands with lots of things to do to bring God glory and praise in Jesus name, Amen.

If we will be careful with our words, and if our intentions and motives align with our Father God’s, and if our hearts desire our founded on love and for caring for others, would the Almighty GOD say no to what we ask for? Would HE resist HIS own will from being done; the very one that desires for HIS kingdom to come to earth and for HIS will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven? Think on this for a little bit!

So if ye say yea to what’s above, why don’t you choose to speak “those things that be not as though they are?” I will encourage you to do so. Why?!! Please read the following verses:

Matthew 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
1John 5:14-15 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

More to come…