Bible In One Year-Day 228 (Saturday, August 16, 2014)

Commentary: Daniel7-9. Daniel saw a troubling vision in the dream. In the dream, he was troubled and decided to ask questions. He got a good angelic response in the dream; our God is not an author of confusion. The lesson remains that Daniel kept the dream within himself even though he was troubled.

Daniel 7:28 “Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.”

How much of secrets could you keep for the Lord? The spirit of Daniel is that spirit that talks only when God talks and this is why the bible called the spirit “an excellent spirit”. Compared with Joseph, Daniel exhibited great deal of maturity in handling divine information. Many cannot do this and thus are finding it difficult to receive deep revelations in the dream. It is good for us to be prophets, but if the mouth is loose, such becomes a parrot. Prophets talk only when God ask them to talk and not when they want to show that they are prophets of God. All these are based on the fear of the Lord.

Psalms 25:14 “The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.”

Let us seek for the old path where we could find rest. Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Daniel10-12. Keep the fire of burning and alive.

Pastor Supo Abayode

+1-302-230-6792

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware, USA

Bible In One Year-Day 227 (Friday, August 15, 2014)

Commentary: Daniel4-6. Let’s start from the verses as follows;

Daniel 4:25-26 “… till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. … thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.”

These extracts actually points deep things which should be part of our knowledge of God; God rules over the kingdoms of the world and we MUST know that. The king was highly exalted by God but lacked the knowledge of the truth behind his elevation. God had to make him know it. The manner was that he would go through some moments of rejection (i.e. driven away from human society) and to be accepted only by wild animals; eating, sleeping amongst and living with them. This would linger until he learned that his kingdom was because heaven backed him up and not his effort (“after that thou shalt have known …”). If anyone could prayerfully read Nebuchadnezzar’s predicament, such will fear God beyond mere hearing of the messages of preachers. Pride had taken over his heart which became sin to him. Daniel interpreted God’s warning or intentions (dreams) to him and gave the king advice on what to do just to help him;

Daniel 4:27 “Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.”

After this scenario, the king still walked about for a year without changing his ways; what a gracious God we have. Unfortunately, God’s judgment fell upon him and his heart became that of a beast suitable to adapt to a new life with the animals.

Daniel 5:20 “But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:”

Eventually he gave God His due respect.

Daniel 4:37 “Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.”

The first thing that came into him was that pride must be dealt with.

Unfortunately, his son, King Belshazzar, also had a proud heart despite his knowledge of what his father went through in the hand of God.

Daniel 5:22 “And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;”

He took all the vessels in the house of God and used them to praise idols; an insult on God. The judgment of God was written on the wall with the finger of God against him and that very night it was executed.

Daniel 5:30 “In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.”

Pride is a great sin before the Lord. It becomes more dangerous if it is hidden, i.e. not known to you. Such manifests at the peak of breakthroughs or great accomplishments. People with pride seek for recognition among folks; this actually leads to people lying about statuses, positions and accomplishments. Pride brings rivalry and leads into unholy competitions. It is the power behind bitterness, rancor, hatred and unnecessary strife. It sponsors self-promotion and despises others making the person feel more important than others. It could manifest at any level of life. We need to recognize it and quickly deal with it before it destroys us. God cannot stay with anyone with pride as a garment.

Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

Let us seek for the old path where we could find rest. Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Daniel7-9. Keep the fire of burning and alive.

Pastor Supo Abayode

+1-302-230-6792

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware, USA

Bible In One Year-Day 226 (Thursday, August 14, 2014)

Commentary: Daniel1-3. It is good for us to study the lives of the prophets because many things will be revealed to us through their various experiences. As we discussed in our last reading, the book of Ezekiel, there is difference between a priest and a prophet/Apostle. A priest will definitely have a mentor to teach and lead him. The priest teaches the law and feeds the flock, but the prophet has the reality of what is in God’s presence in real-time. The prophet might have a mentor to guide in moral upbringing but not in interaction with God. The Elders uses experience to advice.

Ezekiel 7:26 “Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.”

As for the prophet, it is possible to have a predecessor, but not necessary; he is under direct supervision of God. However, he could be advised by another person on particular issues, the mentorship is of the Lord. A priest could be trained to be a priest but to be a prophet is absolutely of the Lord and God does not need the approval of any person to call or ordain as a prophet. Elijah received instruction from God concerning Elisha, Moses also received concerning Joshua. God takes the prophet through His own school to teach him specific things and this is why their lives are misunderstood by people. They could act as both a priest and, of course, a prophet. The office is the highest responsibility in God’s economy. If you decide to get too close to them, you could be in trouble if you are not ready to totally yield to their training and tolerate their shortcomings. The closer you are to them the more you see of them that they have flesh and if you talk about their shortcomings, you are bargaining for problems; remember Moses and his siblings (Number12).

1 Chronicles 16:22 “Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.”

On the other hand, staying too far from them could lead into serious errors.

Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”

To discipline a prophet is not in the hand of any man but God’s.

Romans 8:33 “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.”

God, Himself, works to pattern His prophets along with what He desires.

1 Samuel 2:35 “And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.”

A prophet does according to God’s heart and mind and not by information from people. The life of Ezekiel was a reflection of subservient prophet who acted as a fool in all the visions. Daniel is another life we have to learn from; a praying prophet. His life fulfilled the word of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Matthew 6:6 “But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly.”

Daniel was carried into exile as a young man of 16 years and came of age in Babylon. The king who held them in exile wanted to acculturate them through delicacies and change of name. He wanted to breed them to suit his own purpose. This was good but, in reality, it was defilement; good foods, sometimes, might not be godly. He and his friends started their walk with God by refusing to defile their bodies, the temple of the Holy Spirit. He took his eyes away from the things of the world but delighted in his God to please him. God, being a faithful God, identified with their determination and upgraded their brains beyond human imagination.

Daniel 1:17 “As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.”

This is a lesson for us all; if you don’t know who you are, somebody will make you what he wanted you to be. You need to discover your destiny; otherwise, someone else will create another destiny for you. Though Daniel was in exile, he never allowed his destiny to be exiled. Whatever hardship you are going through, don’t lose focus of destiny; it is to sandpaper you to smoothness and to adorable status.

Daniel 1:19 “And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.”

Many people’s true nature, life and character had been altered through unholy acculturation and, therefore, not fit for God’s use. Some, through peer pressures or environmental influences, had provided the door for the enemy to so tare while spiritually sleeping. The fasting they initially rejected is now a must before anything positive can happen in their lives.

When it was time for these children to be promoted, those who matter before the king began to fail.

Daniel 2:2 “Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.”

God created a problem that rendered these sets of people irrelevant to the king. To them, no man on earth could solve the problem; they had been defiled, changed from their spiritually useful state and could not interpret spiritual things anymore. They were under the supervision of the ruling demon of that nation. Hear what they concluded;

Daniel 2:10-11 “The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

Surely there is a God whose dwelling is not with the flesh; that is the God of Daniel. The king’s wise men were put to death and they were looking for Daniel and his friends to kill.

Daniel 2:13 “And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.”

This was not a problem to them because they were serving the God whose dwelling was not with the flesh. They had a serious night vigil to that God and He answered them.

Daniel 2:19 “Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.”

You could only remain in your problems if you refuse to pray yourself out of it. Problems cannot stop your testimony if you know how to prayerfully deal with it with a pure heart. Daniel, with this confidence, preached God to the pagan king after receiving the disturbing revelation.

Daniel 2:28 “But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;”

When the king heard this and the message, he accepted that God whose dwelling is not with the flesh and promoted Daniel and companions with gifts. The gift you receive must be given to you in heaven; otherwise, it becomes a snare. In Daniel’s case, he had first received a spiritual gift from heaven which called for gifts from the king.

Daniel 2:48 “Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.”

When God promotes you, kings had no option but to effect it. The revelation given by God can only be interpreted by the Spirit of God; interpretation is not within human logic or wisdom. The God of Daniel is the God of the Prophets.

Let us seek for the old path where we could find rest. Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Daniel4-6. Keep the fire of burning and alive.

Pastor Supo Abayode

+1-302-230-6792

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware, USA

Bible In One Year-Day 225 (Wednesday, August 13, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel46-48. Seeing the glory of God is the greatest blessing a genuine man of God could ever claim to have.

Psalms 24:5 “He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”

This glory brings two basic things to the fortunate man; blessing and God’s righteousness. However, to be the fortunate man to experience this grace, you must first take your eyes away from the things of this world. They are vanities. Anything that rubs us of our focus is vanity. The enemy is very clever. He could allow a person to rise according to his heart desire but could make the person focus on the blessing instead of the God who blessed him. This could lead to destruction. King Saul was guilty of this; he lost his place before the Lord. What I am saying in essence is that people, after being blessed, often wants to be the master of the blessing thereby putting God as secondary. They start receiving the praise of man and seeking for recognitions.

John 13:16 “Verily, verily, I say to you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.”

Many want to be the best preacher in the world. Some prefer to have the largest congregation in the world, while some wants to build the biggest cathedral in the world. They could have these things, but it is a wrong notion before the Lord. A genuine prophet will never seek for such ambition; rather, he wants to serve the Lord as it is pleasing to Him and not as it is pleasing to the man of God. Therefore, a prophet is a servant not desiring his own praise but God glorified.

Jeremiah 9:24 “But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.”

Ezekiel was such a prophet who was enrolled in the school of the Holy Spirit. His knowledge was not relevant when God spoke. He submitted himself to the all knowing God.

Ezekiel 37:3 “And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.”

He did not prove to know, rather, he submitted all himself to the teaching of God. A servant does not take decision without asking for the opinion of the master. All that is in the heart of the true servant is to please the master even if he is going to be hurt by people.

Ezekiel 3:25-26 “But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them: And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.”

A servant has not the mind of his, but the desire of his master is core in his heart. He went through a lot in the hand of the Lord. God made him to lie on his sides for a total of 430 days which he did without complaints. Ezekiel4 is a chapter that tells of what entails in the school of prophets. The life of a pastor or priest is different from the life of a prophet. Pastors feed the flocks with the knowledge acquired and carry out the ceremonial functions in the sanctuary. But the prophet receives raw message from God’s presence and delivers ‘as is’, revealed or heard. Ezekiel’s life was a clear picture of what a prophet is. To be a prophet is not a matter of position among men but of servitude to the Most High God. To function as prophet, you need a new heart, soul and spirit; the heart to be a faithful servant and the spirit to serve Him faithfully. The secret of the success of the ministry of Ezekiel was that he never spoke out of the imagination of his own heart, but as the Lord says “thus saith the Lord …”

There is a blessing greater than seeing demons in human being; it is having access to His glory and to His secret. Only those who have taken their eyes away from the things of this world (fame, position, money and worldly splendor) could have this grace.

Psalms 24:3-5 “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”

God called Moses His servant and was proud of him just because of Moses’ servitude to Him. God went as far as defending Moses when his siblings attacked his personality.

Do you desire to be a servant of God? Then, you must be ready to be changed from within; changed soul, heart and spirit. The life of a prophet is full of troubles, but God’s grace grows them through it. The law around them is holiness and the conclusion of their life is as the book of Ezekiel ends “THE LORD IS THERE”

Remember, beloved, God has not provided a platform for any contest in His vineyard; no rivalry, no best or No 1. God has not given the best ministry or church. These are from men. He is only prepared to welcome the FAITHFUL SERVANT; this is the only one that will enter His joy.

Matthew 25:21 “His lord said to him, Well done thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”

Let us seek for the old path where we could find rest. Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Daniel1-3. Keep the fire of burning and alive.

Pastor Supo Abayode

+1-302-230-6792

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware, USA

Bible In One Year-Day 224 (Tuesday, August 12, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel43-45. The glory of the Lord will only manifest in that which He instructed and carried out according to His rules.

Ezekiel 43:1-2 “Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory.”

The glory of the Lord is His brightness, righteousness, beauty and the extension of His kingdom.

Romans 14:17 “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”

Nothing on earth could be used to describe it even if any man had been privileged to witness a blink of it, he still cannot fully describe it. It is best experienced than described because that glory will change the person just as it did to Moses.

2 Samuel 22:13 “Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.”

The person who has been to the high mountain of the Lord will definitely carry this grace of His glory.

Psalms 24:3-6 “Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.”

This glory is not for those who seek for the praise of men, self recognition or position; in general, vanity. It is for the humble in heart like Ezekiel. It is a great blessing to receive the privilege to access His presence.

The Holy Spirit, which we desire to come into us, brings in this glory because we are His temple. Before a man becomes born again, the state was like the ruined temple before Zerubabbel led the repair. Man was wholly corrupted and filthy in his own sinful ways. After giving the life to Jesus, the Holy Spirit starts the renewing work just as the revelation given to Ezekiel was a kind of work that needed to be done; things must be put in proper places. The messages and teachings in theological schools are the instruments for this renewal. Growing in this grace makes a man to be available for the glory to fully come in, and without the fullness of His glory, we can’t hear the true voice of God.

Ezekiel 43:4-6 “And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east. So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me.”

This happened in the upper chamber as well.

Acts 2:2-4 “And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

If you have received Jesus as your savior, don’t stay there but move to the next stage seeking for the renewal of the mind and spirit. The process is by gradual patterning of your life with the word of God; no hatred, prejudice, malice, pride, anger, rage, jealousy, rivalry, bitterness, unforgiving, rancor and strife. Evidence of this work in your life is that His glory fills you and consequently, the voice of God will not be scarce in your life. The number of years as a Christian does not matter, neither the title you are decorated with; what matters is how much you have grown in grace. God will only establish His throne in the heart that has grown in grace (i.e. renewed mind) and not in position.

Ezekiel 43:7 “And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.”

Compare with these scriptures;

Psalms 34:18 “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”

Isaiah 57:15 “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”

Isaiah 66:2 “For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.”

Is your life following the law of the temple? Holiness within and around.

Ezekiel 43:12 “This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.”

Let us seek for the old path where we could find rest. Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Ezekiel46-48. Keep the fire of burning and alive.

Pastor Supo Abayode

+1-302-230-6792

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware, USA