Now the Lord spoke to Paul.

Acts 18:9-10 NKJV

Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision,  “Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent;   for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city.”

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Shalom! Thank God it's Friday! Good Friday morning! This morning, as i was reading this passage, the Holy Spirit showed me somethings from this passage. So are you ready to receive the Word with all readiness? Father, bless Your word. And as we partake of it, we pray that You will give us a heart of obedience and a heart of determination to do Your works. In Jesus name, amen!

Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision. Paul, from the beginning of his encounter with Jesus until the very end of his life, every steps he taken in the ministry was directed by God. Even the smallest thing also, God directed each steps. Everything that he did, was by God and without God he wasn't able to function.

Getting into the NEXT LEVEL is about allowing ourselves to be led by God in every steps of our lives. We may have faith, we may be filled with the Holy Spirit - this is good, but without God guiding our lives, we will not be able to go anywhere.

When God directs, He knows the best for us.

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That they received the word with all readiness.

Acts 17:11 NKJV

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily  to find out  whether these things were so.

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Shalom. Greetings and blessings in the name of Jesus. It's Thursday! How are you this morning? Is your heart on a standby mode? To move whenever God speaks? Lets pray. Father bless Your word. Speak to our hearts this morning. Let it be on a standby mode so that it will be sensitive to Your words and move as You speak. In Jesus name, amen.

Are you ready? A heart that's ready, will take in the Word and live on the Word. Sometimes we wonder why we haven't received any miracles, blessings from God. The answer is, are we ready to experience it? The word says " that they received the word with all readiness,". For us to receive a miracle, we have to be ready and be prepared.

Be ready when God speaks. Be ready to move when He moves. Be ready to receive when He gives. Be ready to tap into His presence when He pours out His presence. Just be ready for you do not know the hour of the coming of God!

Be ready to witness Jesus to anyone that God brings along the path that you walk. You may not know when God will use you, or how he will use you, just be ready.

Is your heart ready to receive a miracle, blessing or even a surprise from God today? Be ready to expect the unexpected things from God.

The foundations of the prison were shaken.

Acts 16:26 NKJV

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.

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Good Wednesday afternoon. How are you all? Come, let us partake of His delicious word. Father bless Your word. Let shake our hearts that it may be opened to You totally. In Jesus name amen!

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. It took a great earthquake to shake the foundations of the prison. Is your heart is being  imprisoned? Are you feeling that you are not able to move due to the things that the devil has bound you with? Now is the time to be released from the prison. The presence of God can shake any strong prisons and foundations of the prisons. There is no any stone which hard for God to break. His presence penetrates deep into every hearts, joints and marrows.

Immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. As God pours out His extraordinary presence, all the prisons doors will be opened and every bond is released! Nothing can withhold the power of God! Hallelujah! His gentle presence can touch you today and shake every prisons foundation that had imprisoned your heart and set you free. Do you want to be free? Pray and Praise! That is the secret. Thats all.

Prayerless life is a praiseless life is a powerless preaching.

Acts 16:23, 25 NKJV

And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw  them  into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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Shalom. Greetings and good Wednesday morning! Did you slept well last night? Now arise and shine. It's time to bring prayer and praise before God. Father bless Your word. Let Your word gives an insight meaning of prayer and praise and the power that beholds it. In Jesus name, amen.

Prayerless life is a praiseless life is a powerless preaching. Again, here Paul shows a good example of a disciple of Jesus. After being captured, beaten and thrown into the prison, He still choose to lift up his voice in prayer and praise. At this point of time, after all he had gone through, well he can choose to relax in the prison, rest, get medication and so on. But he chooses to pray and praise. And that's the reason his preaching releases the extraordinary power of God.

The secret of Breaking through the chains n suffocation is praise and prayer. The prisoners were listening to Paul and silas as they continued praising and praying. Not only their chains were broken, but the other prisoners as well. Praise and prayer not only frees you and gives you the power to breakthrough, but also people around you... Will feel it.

Prayer and praise has the power to bring breakthrough into whatever situations that we are going through and it brings forth Faith into us to see far more than our eyes can see and believe what our mind can't take in.

Prayer and Praise unleashes the extraordinary power of God. Are you going through somekind of situation in your life today? Well now is the time to start to pray and praise.

God, who knows the heart..

Acts 15:8-9 NKJV

So God, who knows the heart, acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as  He did  to us, and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

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Good Tuesday afternoon. Let us partake of the Word of God. Father bless Your word, as we partake of it  i pray Father, that the Holy Spirit will search throughout our hearts and purify our hearts. In Jesus name, amen.

God knows what is going through, in and out of our hearts. What is in our hearts today? Nothing is hidden from God. All the hurts, pain, secret sin, struggles, joy, feelings, emotions - He knows everything! Because He created us and knew us even before we were formed in our mother's womb.

King David prayed this prayer is Psalm 139:23-24 NKJV Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if  there is any  wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. Our heart must be transparent before God.

Holy Spirit purifies our heart by faith. No matter how red is our sin, once the Holy Spirit take hold of our hearts totally, He cleanses all sin from our hearts, every wickedness, anxiety, hurts, and lead us in the way everlasting.

For a fallen to be risen again, his/her heart must be right before God. Therefore get our hearts right before again, and rise up and soar like tge eagle!

The rise of the fallen.

Acts 14:19-20, 22 NKJV

Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul  and  dragged  him  out of the city, supposing him to be dead. However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting  them  to continue in the faith, and  saying,  “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”

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Greetings and blessings from God above. Today, our breakfast is served from this Word. Fallen and Risen. Father bless Your word. As we partake of it, Lord let i be to us according to promises and purposes to revive and establish us once again. In Jesus name, Amen!

A person who falls and not able to rise up is a person who chooses to be in that situation, is a person who doesn't have the will-power to rise up and fight again, is a person who allows the devil to manipulate, lie, deceived, crippled him/her.

They stoned Paul  and  dragged  him  out of the city, supposing him to be dead. However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. Recently, i had a talk with a youth and he was telling me his dissatisfaction in the ministry and he wanted to take a break. I told him, a ministry that has no trials, hindrances and disappointment is not a fruitful ministry and every believer will go through this pruning process. Look at this great example that Paul showed. Though people came against him, stoned him and dragged him out of the city, however, he rose up and went again into the city. The people of the city are the problem that he has to face, they were against him yet he rose up and went into the city again to face the hindrances, the problems, the dissatisfaction and the hurts.

And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them  to continue in the faith, and  saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” Paul wasn't shaken by the situation that he experienced yet the next morning, after entering the city he stayed there one night. He boldly face whatever problems, hindrances and penetrates through all odds and obstacles and the next day he went to another city strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting  them  to continue in the faith, and  saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” Wow!!! It's like nothing has happened to him!!! Instead of recovering of from the injuries, he went and strengthens the rest of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in faith!!! Hallelujah! Arise and shine friends!

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10:13 NKJV - No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God  is  faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear  it.

And Jesus said, "be of good courage for i have overcome the world."

Have different spirit in you. Only people with this different spirit will do crazy and extraordinary things for God no matter how and what the situation is. Jesus Never give up on you, so you to do not give up!

We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.