Bible In One Year-Day 218 (Wednesday, August 06, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel25-27. The messages in Ezekiel’s prophecies were to the nations around Judah and Israel. Such nations include Ammon, Moab, Edom, Philistia and Tyre in these chapters. Tyre had a glory which God said He would sink and it shall not be heard of anymore. At one time or the other, God had used them to punish His people for their sinful acts. However, these nations had no liberty to sin either.

1 Chronicles 16:25 “For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.”

If God is using you in a capacity, it is for you to fear Him. Jesus told a set of people to go repent; otherwise, they shall likewise perish, Luke13:3&5. The fall of a man does not mean that you are infallible. It, rather, means that you should also consider your ways. We all have weaknesses, but it is the Spirit that helps us. Seeing a fellow brother’s fall, you ought to render help as much as possible. If your action adds to the sorrow of the fallen person, you could be guilty of God’s vengeance. No Christian should rejoice at the fall of another Christian.

Romans 15:1 “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

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 Ezekiel128-30. 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 217 (Tuesday, August 5, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel22-24. Nothing is hidden before the Spirit of the Lord. He searches all things, even the deep things of God, 1Cor2:10. When the Spirit judges, He judges right. To judge is for lies to be exposed and truth revealed. Ezekiel judged by the Spirit of the Lord, he exposed the abominations of the priests and prophets of the land; the secret shedding of blood and worship of idols.

Ezekiel 22:3 “Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.”

These evil made the land to become worthless in the eyes of the Lord. The land was so polluted that God couldn’t find a single man to stand in the gap for them, i.e. a righteous man who could stand between their sin and the holiness of God.

Ezekiel 22:30 “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.”

The major concern of God was increase of bloodshed in the land. This was led by two identified actors. The capital of Israel, the northern part of the land, was Samaria and the capital of Judah, the southern part, was Jerusalem. God revealed that they were sisters of the same mother; Samaria being the senior whose name was Oholah, and Jerusalem, the younger whose name was Oholibah. They became reproaches to the Lord through their adultery. They were the powers behind adultery and idolatry.

Ezekiel 23:36-37 “The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.”

God raised judgment against them by stoning, Ezekiel23:45-49. These two powers, Oholah and Oholibah, enslaved the two nations. A nation could be under serious demonic oppression and one would be wondering what could be going on. The bondage is strengthened by the multitude of laws promulgated by the rulers. When an evil trend is noticed in a nation, the solution is revival against the evil spirit controlling it. If this is ignored, the same spirit will operate in the life of the leaders to bring up more laws to increase the bondage of the citizenry. Revival would bring a standard against the evil powers and save the nation from ruin.

Isaiah 59:19 “So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.”

Sometimes we wonder what the churches are doing while these evil increase. Most disturbing aspect of it is that, the evil increases with the increase of the number churches. These powers have the ability to set up churches to keep more people in bondage. Many of the priests and prophets are operating under the authority of these powers;

Ezekiel 22:25-26 “There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.”

The solution to things like these is not raising more churches but to identify the controlling spirits, wage war against them and cry to the Lord for revival of souls. The discussion on these powers is beyond the scope of this medium. We need revival in the whole world.

Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

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 Ezekiel25-27. 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 216 (Monday, August 04, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel19-21. God’s concern in these chapters centers mostly on the disobedience of the Israelite. The only way people could know who belongs to God is their obedience to His judgments, Ezek20:20. Obedience to His word will ever give life to whoever does it.

Ezekiel 20:11 “And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.”

Death came into the world because of disobedience and death is retained in the world by disobedience (the power of sin). The sufferings of mankind are due to disobedience. Every rebellion will lead to death unless repentance is quickly effected.

Ezekiel 18:32 “For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.”

In many areas we are so rebellious. It starts from what is good for us. God hears prayers and to them who could not pray due to problems beyond them, He shows compassion. He takes actions in response to what will benefit us most, just as He said about Jerusalem in our last discussion, Ezekiel16:4-6. Unfortunately, we think another place is better. The land to which God led the Israelites was searched out by God.

Ezekiel 20:6 “In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied (searched) for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:”

This land was described as “the glory of all lands”. Every one of us has this type of land for the fulfillment of our destiny. Joseph’s “glory of all lands” was Pharaoh’s palace, Daniel had his in Babylon. Where is yours? This is what we need to seek the face of God for. A lot are not in their own “glory of all lands”, a spiritual land where milk and honey are flowing but are struggling in the land God has not sent them, yet they are expecting result, i.e. they want God to confirm what He has not commanded, Ezekiel13:6. God is not in the place He has not sent His word. His grace is only where He has ordered His word or where His will is; career, ministry, marriage, country etc. many marriages are not joined together by God, therefore His grace and peace are not there; no amount of counseling can sustain such marriages. His word only works where He sends it;

Psalms 107:20 “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”

There is succor, healing and deliverance where He has sent His word. We can only be connected to that place called “the glory of all lands” through OBEDIENCE to His word.

Isaiah 1:19 “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

Are you sick and praying for healing, jobless and praying for a job, or single and praying for a partner? Seek first His WILL to do, and then your lines shall fall in pleasant places. It may be that if you got the job, you might despise the connection to the “glory of all lands” if it comes. God will only maintain your lot where He has provided for you. That is your heritage here on earth.

Psalms 16:5-6 “The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.”

One of the passages that awesomely describe the benefits of obeying Him is Isaiah58:8-9.

Isaiah 58:8-9 “Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;”

Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Ezekiel122-24. 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 215 (Sunday, August 3, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel16-18. Jerusalem, as we read, was a clear picture of the state of man before Jesus walked on earth. Chapter16 is a chapter that indirectly tells the story of our salvation in Christ. The origin of Jerusalem was a mess, spiritually and physically. She was born to callous parents who had no heart or feeling for life; she was left to die, probably, because she was a girl.

Ezekiel 16:4 “And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.”

At this state, she had nobody to pity her. This was the evil spirit that welcomed Jerusalem; the “spirit of no pity”. Her cry for help moved nobody who saw her and death was breast-feeding her; sorrow and affliction embraced her. But when God saw her condition, He was moved with compassion (this is God’s nature) and He spoke what was needed at that hour into her; LIFE.

Ezekiel 16:6 “And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.”

May the Lord voice out the needed word to you in your situation in the name of Jesus Christ (Amen). God took over the care of Jerusalem. Whatever God lays hand on will definitely come out beautiful (your life shall experience that handwork of God, in Jesus name). Jerusalem became unusually beautiful as she matured to womanhood. Her nakedness was covered with the wings of the Almighty. She was thoroughly washed in the water, anointed with oil and adorned in beautiful raiment and attires. The beauty of Jerusalem was unmatched, unrivaled and described as PERFECT because it was the Lord’s doing; this was her pride and fame. To describe Jerusalem in summary, she was the Lord’s decoration; there was not a part of her that any man could give negative comment as far as beauty was concerned. As a matter of fact, men could not ask for her love because of the beauty; she was too beautiful for any man to court (verse25, 33-34).

Ezekiel 16:13-14 “Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.”

Unfortunately, the pride of her beauty took over her. She set what God had given her as an idol and started giving attention to it and not to God. What God gave to her was for the Lord’s glory to manifest but she turned them against God. She idolized materials in place of God.

Ezekiel 16:32 “But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!”

In God’s judgment she became a proverb in the land, “like mother, like daughter”

Ezekiel 16:44 “Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.”

Obviously, her mother must be a harlot considering the manner of her birth; the spirit of her mother had taken over. This is an example of evil pattern sponsored by familiar spirit and generational curse. It was something in Jerusalem’s family line (verse 45-49), but she excelled them all in corruption. Her sin and abominable acts uncovered her nakedness and broke the covenant God entered into with her before now.

Ezekiel 16:59 “For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.”

God, being so faithful will always consider His own part of the covenant; he considered a new and everlasting covenant with Jerusalem through atonement for her sin.

Ezekiel 16:60 “Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.”

Ezekiel 16:62-63 “And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.”

God covered Adam and Eve with His glory and they were not ashamed, but as soon as they sinned, the jealousy of God (God’s glory) departed; they saw their nakedness and were ashamed. The plan of God for the salvation of man started through Abraham and is accomplished in Christ Jesus. His blood became atonement for us and new and everlasting covenant was established in place of the old, Hebrews8.

Hebrews 7:22 “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.”

Hebrews 8:13 “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.”

God’s desire is for the sinner to turn from the wicked ways and come back to Him. Sin will always uncover a man’s nakedness and break covenants. Christians are supposed to be the happiest people on earth. This could be true only if one is genuinely in Christ. To be genuine in Christ is to abstain from any sinful acts that would bring corruption of the soul. A corrupt soul cannot be a residence for the righteousness of God, the Holy Spirit; He will not identify with filthiness. You need to be washed with water (baptism by immersion) and anointed with oil (baptism of the Holy Spirit).

Ezekiel 16:9 “Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.”

John 3:5 “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”

Anything contrary to the fullness of the Holy Spirit is ashes, but Jesus Christ is GOD’S BEAUTY in our lives. Without Him we obtain nothing different from everlasting shame. Inherited spiritual problems, material acquisitions, academic and political pride etc are all ashes without Christ. When you receive Him, just as God worked on Jerusalem unto beauty, He beautifies you with Himself.

Isaiah 61:3 “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.”

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 Ezekiel19-21. 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 214 (Saturday, August 02, 2014)

Commentary: Ezekiel13-15. Chapter13 is quite interesting. It starts by identifying false prophets and define them as those who speak their own mind and follow the falsehood of their spirit. They are likened to foxes in the desert. Foxes are known to prey on tender things such as grapes (Song of Solomon2:15) thereby spoiling the vine. When in the desert, they sniff and dig holes for smaller animals. False prophets prey on uninformed and ignorant people by lying to them. They exploit those who are over desperately in need of help by telling them lies of false visions and still expect God to confirm what He has not commanded.

Ezekiel 13:6 “They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.”

The prophet remarked two ways of futility; the prophecy from the heart of man and the vision from the spirit of man. These are ways the ignorant are being deceived into error. If anyone receives such prophecies, it corrupts the soul and nothing works again. It is likened to what happened in the Garden of Eden. The words of Satan brought corruption into the soul of man. These are what Jesus refers to as the revelation of the flesh and of the blood..

Matthew 16:17 “And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon-Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.”

The other prophecy and vision are those from God. God only confirms those that come from Him but ignores that which comes from any other source. However, if those which come from other sources are spoken in His name, He becomes concerned and gets provoked because it means He is identified with lies (Satan’s glory).

Ezekiel 13:8 “Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity (nonsense), and seen lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD.”

False prophets always say what you want to hear. They existed in the past and still exist now.

1 Kings 22:11-12 “And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them. And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the king’s hand.”

We need to be careful in seeking for prophecies. The victims of false prophecies are those who seek for what pleases them and not the will of God. False prophecies will be given according to the idol in the heart, i.e. a set mind or unrepentant heart seeking for God’s mind. Chapter14 makes us to understand that making heaven isn’t a joint venture. Noah, Daniel and Job were men identified with righteousness. But God said if He was going to carry out His four judgment on the land and these men were in it, they could only save themselves and not any of their household members;

Ezekiel 14:20 “Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.”

Path of righteousness is absolutely important in Christian race. Everything must be done in righteousness. Even in our seeking God’s kingdom, we must seek His righteousness (only His WILL is righteous) also.

Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

Our Christian race could only be profitable if it is done in His righteousness and not our righteousness. Our righteousness can get us nowhere.

Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”

John the Baptist tried to convince Jesus out of it but He refused and said it is our duty and part of the faith to fulfill all righteousness.

Matthew 3:15 “And Jesus answering said to him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffered him.”

Let us not joke with sin, beloved. A sinful soul is not a righteous soul but instrument in the hand of the devil.

Romans 2:26 “Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?”

Romans 4:5 “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Romans 4:13 “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”

Romans 6:18 “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.”

God has righteousness which we must crave for, without which we cannot meet with Him. This righteousness is the righteousness of Christ which is only obtainable by His Spirit. When the Holy Spirit comes into us, He brings the righteousness of God’s kingdom into us and that is what God recognizes.

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

Let us listen to the trumpet’s sound, wherewith we could escape the calamity to come. Our reading for today is Ezekiel116-18. Keep the fire of burning and alive.

Pastor Supo Abayode

+1-302-230-6792

Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

Delaware, USA