Isaiah 60: 1 - I Stand Up

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Exposition

Jesus said to the dead girl in Mark 5: 41 arise and the girl arose. Jesus spoke to the sleeping disciples in Mark 14: 42 rise up and let us go. The angels said to Lot in Genesis 19: 15 take your wife and daughters and leave this city. In Genesis 13: 17, God said to Abram, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee. 

From the above, it should be clear that “arise” can mean different things to different people depending on their spiritual and physical state at the time the command is issued. In the past few days, we have learnt that some people are spiritually dead, some are sleeping and some are sitting with the wrong people.

You could also be hiding your faith. You are not proud to be identified as a Christian. Jesus said in Mark 8: 38 if anyone is ashamed of me and my message, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when He returns to the glory of the Father. What would happen if Jesus is ashamed of you? It is time to stand up and be counted.

Today, it is also a call to action to those who sitting down and doing nothing about their spiritual lives or about the millions who need to hear the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Without you standing up, they will still be under lock down by the devil. Many who are bound by sickness and disease, poverty, darkness and sin have to be released into the marvellous light of God. It is time for the manifestation of the sons of God. Peter standing up with the eleven in Acts 2: 14 spoke and over three thousand were added to the Church.

Arise, my brother and sister. Stand up and move from where you were. Without standing there can be no shining. Let there be a determination to stand up for the light has come. Christ is the light and there has to be a change because your heart has received a new colour. Let the love of Christ envelope your heart and move you forward.

Prayer

Thank you, Lord, for your light that has risen upon me. I arise from slumber and every form of weakness. I refuse every lie that I have previously believed that is contrary to the word of God. I rise to take my place and to impact my generation in Jesus name. Amen

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Psalm 63:2 - I want to see your Glory

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Exposition

King David wrote this Psalm while he was in the wilderness running away from his son. He must have longed to experience again the power and the glory of God. It could have been that he wanted to be able to come back to where the ark was based at the time or he wanted God’s glory to descend upon him in the wilderness.

To see thy power and thy glory – Encountering the power and the glory of God is a life changing experience. It is an experience that cannot be adequately described. Be assured your life can’t be the same if you see the glory of God. Moses asked God in Exodus 33:18 to show him the glory. God showed him the glory and spoke again to him given him instructions afterwards. He went back to the people and they couldn’t come near him because of the radiance that was around him.

Thousands of people saw God’s power on the day of Pentecost and in response asked, what can we do to be saved?  The glory and the power brings conviction.

so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary – You do not have to wait until you get to Church before asking for the glory of God. In the quiet of your room, you can ask for the glory of God to fill you anew and afresh. Spirit filled worship brings down the glory of God.

Hunger for the glory of God and your life will be transformed. Do not give up, until the glory rests upon you.

Prayer

Let me behold your glory. I need a divine encounter today. I ask that your glory rest upon me bringing light into my life. At the entrance of your light, let darkness disappear forever in Jesus mighty name.

I want to see you. I want you to talk to me. Help me father to increase the knowledge that I have of you.

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Luke 9:29 - Beholding His Glory

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Prayer

As Jesus prayed to the father, I want to pray. Help me my father and my God.

I desire a time of prayer which becomes an encounter with the God of heaven and earth.

No man encounters you and remains the same. Let your glory rest upon me in a very visible way in Jesus name. Amen

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Romans 3: 23 - Giving glory to God

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PRAYER

Thank you father, for giving me Jesus Christ who died for the sins of the world.

Thank you father for by your grace I am no longer a sinner and I am now capable of giving glory to you.

Help me father to give you praise at all times in Jesus name.

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Isaiah 60:2 - Glory be seen on me

For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.

Prayer

As we see evidence of thick darkness covering people all over the world, I ask that you arise over me by Lord.

Lord arise over my family and all that concerns me.

Let your glory be seen all over me.

Let signs and wonders follow me in Jesus name.

Let your glory attract unbelievers into your kingdom. Amen

Ephesians 2:6 - Seated in heavenly places

and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Prayer

Thank you for raising me up from where I was, mired in defeat and sin.

I am now seated in the heavenly places where defeat by the devil is no longer an option.

Thank you for I now share in the glory that is on our Lord Jesus Christ.

Thank you my father in Jesus name I have prayed. Amen

Isaiah 4:5 - The glory working for me

And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Prayer

Let your glory surround me I ask in Jesus name.

Let your glory defend me from every adversary, seen and unseen from this day in Jesus name. Amen