Living Beyond Your Abilities- High Praise

Learn to take the me/my out of high praises. Let not your praises be limited to your experience with God but let it be based on what He has said about Himself.

Psalms 149:6-9;Psalms 8:2 ;Psalms 150;2 Chronicles 20:14-30

Dear Friend,
Living beyond our abilities takes faith to accomplish. Faith is expressing confidence in God through your confessions and actions based on what God has said in his word, irrespective of how you feel, see, hear, smell and touch. Therefore the more understanding you have in the word of God the better your chance to live a life beyond limits. As we have already established that , giving God praise is one way to engage the supernatural in your life, because God inhabits the praises of His people. And we know that once God intervenes wonders never end.
Thanksgiving is not praise. Thanksgiving is thanking God for specific things He has done for you or the things that you believe you are expecting by faith from Him. It is entirely based on your expectation. Thanksgiving has its role.

We are required to enter His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.
High Praise is exalting God with what He has said about Himself. Therefore you cannot praise God without knowing Him. Thus we need to dig into the word so we can know what He says about Himself. Your heavenly loves you so much He wants to get involved with issues you deal with. He wants to help just as He helped king Jehoshaphat by taking over to fight for you. There are some things about God you may not have experienced yet. When you offer Him high praises you set Him to do what you have never seen Him do for you before. Engage in diligent search of several exaltations of God pronounced by God Himself in scriptures.

The following are exaltations of God you can begin to use in your praise sessions:
You are the Shield and Exceeding Great Reward-Genesis 17:1
You are Almighty God –Genesis 15:1
You are the I AM-Exodus 3:14
You are the Healer-Exodus 15:26
You are Holy-Leviticus 11:44
You are the first and with the last –Isaiah 41:4
You are the man of war –Isaiah 42:8-11
There is no One like you-Isaiah 46:9
You are the maker –Isaiah 51:12
You never Change- Malachi 3:6

Living Beyond Your Abilities - The Power of Praise

We Use the two- fold combination with which to defeat our enemies: the praise of God in our mouth and the word of God in our hands.

Psalms 149:6-9;Psalms 8:2 ;Genesis 49:8-9;Numbers 10:9 ;Numbers 23;19;Deut 4:24 & 31;Joshua 23:10; Acts 16:25;Joshua 6:20; Judges 7:20

Dear Friend,

Praise is part of our everyday lives. We praise our children when they please us, we praise employees for a job well done. Praise is something we direct towards God or something we express to others about God. Meditation is not praising God. Praise begins with a mind set on God, but those thoughts must be put into action in order to qualify as praise. Those who cross their arms and purse their lips and say ‘that is their way of praising God ‘need to understand that there is no thing such as my way of praising God. God has His way for praising Him inscribed in His word, and we need to pursue that in order for our praise to be acceptable. God has not asked us to praise Him. As a king, He has commanded us to, whether we feel like it or not. It is good to praise God and it is also for our good. We also praise Him because He loves it. We are also created to praise God. And above all, there is power in praise.

Spiritual victories are won through intercessory prayer ,the confession of God’s word, and the weapon of praise.

In Praise, we no longer attack the problem or the oppressor, we simply confess and rejoice in the lordship of Christ. When we rejoice in what he has said about himself and say it back to Him in praise, He goes to battle. When we stop trying to fight our battles and begin to praise God ,He is free to release His power and provision on our behalf.

Your praises choke life out of your enemies. If you will stand your ground based on what the word of God says about your situation, and use your mouth as a trumpet irrespective of how you feel, God responds to bring victory. You do not need to be an expert in warfare. Even children without any battle experience can win victory over the oppressor if they lift their voices in praise to God! A two fold combination of the praise of God in our mouth and the word of God in our hands is the most effective arsenal against the enemy.

My friend, God is faithful, He is not a man that He should lie. He will not change His word concerning you. You can count on Him. He is also a consuming fire so that He is quick to consume every chain and negative thing the devil brings your way, if you will let Him by offering Him high praise. He is also merciful, in that, He does not reward us according to our works but according His loving kindness. He is willing to help you chase out the seeming unbeatable circumstances and beat it. A person that praises God has ceased from their labor and have entered into rest. They live beyond their abilities because God inhabits the praises of His people.

Living Beyond Your Abilities-The Power of The Holy Spirit (Part 2)

You are too close to being empowered to allow your passion to get ahead of you. Forget the issues and get in line with the principles of God.

Deut 8:3;Galatians 5:22-25;Romans 12:1;Acts 1:8;John 14:12-14;2Timothy 3 15-17;1 Cor 12:7-11;Acts 4:33-37;5:1-11

Dear Friend,
Living beyond our abilities is the profession of every believer. This means that we live above the limitations this natural world presents. We are told several times in scriptures that we are to walk by faith and not by sight. Our five human senses are not supposed to govern us primarily .We know that faith comes by hearing and hearing , by the word of God, therefore to walk by faith means to walk in line with God’s word. In our previous discussion we talked about how important it is ,to allow your passions and life to line up with the principles of God. Now let's take a closer look at divine order, divine living, divine enablement and divine giving.

Divine Order is present in a believer whose life is strictly controlled by the word of God. In other words when the principle of God precedes everything including the believer’s passion. You have to fashion your marriage, children relationships, your attitude at home, work ,money matters according to what God’s word says only. When you put reading the horoscope ,consulting palm readers, and other occultism practices before the word of God ,you are out of order and the power of the Holy Spirit can not flow on your behalf.
Divine Living is when the Holy Spirit through our cooperation with the word of God ,births in us love,joy,peace,long suffering,kindness,goodness,faithfulness,gentleness,self control.Love will always find a way to do good to whoever may be in need, irrespective of what they had done. In short Divine Living is allowing the Holy spirit to live through you.

Divine Enablement is one of the key signals that points to the fact that the Holy Spirit is residing in you. For instance through the gift of the word of wisdom ,a believer is able to know what to do to bring about their desired future. The gifts of healing will enable you to effectively bring healing to you or the people around you. You are able to go about doing good and healing all who are oppressed by the devil because of the Holy Spirit in you. You become like Jesus on earth. No circumstances can ever limit you because greater is He that is in you than He that is in the natural realm. Your faith must be developed in all these areas so you can walk in the divine realms in life.

Divine Giving is when you are willing to sacrifice by giving according to what the Holy spirit is instructing you to give. Through the help of the Holy Spirit and His willingness to yield, Jesus was able to die for our sins.

A word of caution: None of these divine expressions will become evident in your life automatically ,except you diligently give yourself wholly to the principles of God .

Living Beyond Your Abilities - The Power of the Holy Spirit (Part 1)

You are too close to being empowered to allow your passion to get ahead of you. Forget the issues and get in line with the principles of God.

Deut 8:3;Galatians 5:22-25;Romans 12:1;Acts 1:8;John 14:12-14;2Timothy 3 15-17;1 Cor 12:7-11;Acts 4:33-37;5:1-11

Dear Friend,
Living beyond your abilities is God’s will for every believer. The moment you become born again you ceased from being limited to what pertains in this world. The bible says ,whoever is born of God overcomes the world and every thing it represents. It takes supernatural life to overcome this natural world. The very presence of the Holy Spirit inside your spirit at the time of your new birth ,make s it possible for you to live supernaturally. However there are still some few thing we need to put in place ,so far as our will and our choices are concerned ,in order for that power to flow through us. Passions, Principles and Powers are what we need to look at closely.
We all have passions. Passions are compelling emotions, strong desires, lusts; strong fondness enthusiasm for something. In short ,passion is your motivation to do something. As believers our passion is fashioned by how we yield to the fruit or passion of the Spirit ,which is love ,joy,peace,long suffering,kindness,goodness,faithfulness,gentleness and self control. These are the passions that motivate us to do what we do. Being conscious of these and renewing our minds by what word says about the affairs of this life , that is, yielding to the Holy Spirit , on a moment by moment basis will allow these forces to flow through you easily.
Principles are accepted or preferred rules of action or conduct; fundamental laws. It is only a principle when your life is governed by it.. When you have an uncompromising stance so far as that rules of conduct are concerned. You do it ,whether you feel like it or not. It is a decision of your will to do. Thank God for believers ,the Holy Spirit makes us willing to do of His good pleasure. He is very pleased when we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Guess who the author of the word of God is-The Holy Spirit ;and thank God ,He is in you, if you are born again.
Powers are the abilities to do or act ;capabilities of doing or accomplishing something. The bible says that He gives us the power to become the sons of God and effective witnesses for him ,on this earth when we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit..The only way you can be an effective witness for God ,with no more hell in your life ,is to lay of the supernatural from the Holy Spirit’s power. Satan and his followers know for sure and it does hurt them real good knowing that they have been defeated, however he does not want to quit. That is why we need the power of the Holy Spirit to enforce the victory Jesus won over him. This is why you and I need to position our lives in divine order so we qualify for the flow of the power we need to live beyond our abilities. We will continue next week! While you wait, buy the Cd's.