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Brethren, you are welcome to the last month of the year 2024.
Even as the year remains, 30 days to phase out, you can still benefit from the Word of the 11th hour which can also be called the last minute miracle.
It is the Word that moves you from the current position to a higher and better level.
That is the Word you need to have a breakthrough.
The question now is which is the Word, and how do I receive the Word? It is the Word of God. The word of God put in action by the Holy Spirit.
Even as this year is only a few days to go, may the Almighty God release that word that would release you from every challenge holding on to your destiny in Jesus name. Beloved, you need to move from the point of stagnation to progress.
Challenges keep us at a particular spot and keep the spirit low.
However, when the word to move is released, there is progress. It brings an end to stagnation. It ushers in joy.
An example of the movement in the 11th month is seen in the life of the children of Israel who had been in bondage for years.
In bondage, they suffered humiliation, pain, mockery, sorrow etc. all of which dragged them down spiritually.
Imagine people building for others to enjoy. They were beaten by slave masters and at a point; they were made to do away with their male children. Many might have killed their own children.
In the same way, anyone going through a challenge could be a subject of mockery. Such a person is definitely going through one form of pain or the other. Indeed, the person carries a burden emotionally or physically.
This was a period that was associated with pain and sorrow but one day, the Word that liberated them came.
Let’s take a look at what happened as recorded in Deuteronomy 1 vs. 1-3 ( KJV) : “ These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeoroth, and Dizahab.
(There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea)
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them”.
Note the 11th month. You have just stepped out of the 11th month into the 12month but brethren, the miracle of the word of the 11th hour may manifest in the 12th month. .
It doesn’t matter if the month has a few days to go.
Within a second, God can give you a turn around and that would change your story this month in Jesus name.
Verses 6-8 of the same chapter, gives us details of the conversation of Moses and the children of Israel.
“ The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and posses the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them”.
God wants you to move. God wants you to be loosed from bondage that’s why Jesus was sent in human flesh to the world.
Brethren, may the LORD open your physical and spiritual ears to hear the word that would set you free from any challenge in the name of Jesus.
You need to declare to yourself that this 11th month of November is your month of a turn-around. Your month of freedom . It is the month that you can move from ridicule to miracle like the woman with the issue of blood.
Believers, to receive the Word, not only must your spiritual ears be open, you need to have faith. The kind of faith that makes you look like a fool to others.
What do I mean? The kind of faith that makes a barren woman to call herself mother of Mercy though she is not even pregnant.
The kind of faith that makes a single lady calls herself iyawo (wife or Mrs.) though she isn’t married.
Let’s share the testimony of Pastor B. He was employed as a messenger in a bank but he began to write on his paper, B.Sc., M.Sc., and later MD. Here was a person who was employed as a school certificate holder.
He put words into action by struggling to go to school. In those days banks closed early. Of course he was a born again Christian that devoted a lot of time to prayers. At a point the temptation came to travel abroad but God said “ Don’t go , I will bless you here”.
That was the Word. He heard it and obeyed it.
Today he is not only a Managing Director but also the leader of Bankers.
Brethren, when you hear the Word, you must be ready to obey. God may choose to direct you to a particular church , once you are sure it is the voice of God, obey.
Many have missed miracles because “ I cannot leave my church” or God is everywhere.
That is true but God was and is still everywhere when He decided to send angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. The omnipotent God has always been in the temple that Zachariah worshipped until He decided to send a Word to him.
Luke 1 vs. 10-13: “ And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
And when Zachariah saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zachariah: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John”.
Brethren, note that the angel said his prayer has been answered. It means that Zacharias did not consider himself too old to father a child. He and his wife kept praying and they must have been praying for a long time like many of us but one day, the Word came for him.
The angel that God would send to you might be your Pastor. There could just be a word in that sermon for you. Once you catch it and pray with it, the miracle would manifest.
God in his mercy may speak to you through the Holy Spirit in your dream with the still small voice.
May God deliver you from the evil spirit that makes one forget dreams.
By the Grace of God, when the Word comes to you, you will not forget and God would give you the grace to obey.
It may also be a word that directs you to go to a particular hospital. Once you are sure the voice is the Lord’s , please obey.
I share another testimony with you. This was a lady that was barren for over 10 years. The marriage itself was getting rusty. Her husband didn’t give her attention any more. She was married but lonely.
However, in Jesus, she had a companion. I mean she spent a lot of time praying.
Then she began to see a particular Pentecostal Pastor in her dream. One day, a friend who was going through a similar challenge invited her to the church of that Pastor.
She didn’t turn the invitation down. She went and became a member of that church praying according to the word of God and giving thanks.
To the glory of God within a few years, she conceived and gave birth to a baby boy.
She became a mother before her friend that invited her.
What if she had turned down the invitation? What if she had told her friend, “ Go and solve your own problem first”, she would have missed her miracle.
Brethren, be prepared to receive the Word in the remaining days of the year and you’ll testify to the goodness of the LORD.
The remaining days of year 2024, may this period usher in a turn- around in your life.
The 11th hour miracle is usually a miracle that dumb founds even the testifier.
Or how do you think a couple waiting on the Lord for over 10 years would feel when suddenly pregnancy is achieved and a set of twins is born.
A man who had a similar experience said to himself, “ People are now calling me father of twins, I that they used to call Uncle”.
You see what I mean. Even his mockers couldn’t ignore him.
Soon, I’ll be sharing with you, church programmes that you must find time to attend.
May the Spirit of God guide you in Jesus name.
Shalom!
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