Tag: Fearless Empowerment

Unmuzzled- Raise Your Sound

Thursday night provided a solemn yet clear instruction to become unmuzzled and raise our sound. The word muzzle means to prevent a person or group from expressing their opinions freely. For many of you reading this blog, the Lord is removing circumstances and situations that have been sent to silence your sound and voice in this season. Your sound has purpose, and it has an assignment to set the captives free according to Isaiah 61:1.

In Acts 18:9, the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent”. In verse 10, the Lord continues, “For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city”.

God was reassuring Paul in his assignment. In Acts 9, we see Paul’s dramatic conversion, and nine chapters later, we see Paul in Corinth preaching the gospel and even winning over the synagogue leader and his entire household in verse 8. The Lord was preparing Paul in verses 9-10 of Acts for the attack that was coming from the Jews of Corinth.

For many of you, God is saying the same thing: He is telling you not to be afraid because He is with you. During the live broadcast, I spoke briefly on my personal battle with the spirit of Jezebel, Python, Leviathan, and the religious spirit. These are the four forces that rise against a believer with a sound. They manifest as you embrace your anointing and start to pursue purpose. These are the four spirits that fight to keep a believer muzzled, especially the python spirit, whose sole purpose is to restrict your sound and choke the life and purpose out of you. Leviathan twists your words and causes unnecessary arguments, bringing about misunderstanding and misrepresentation. Jezebel likes to control and manipulate and tries to pervert you and your assignment.

The religious spirit misunderstands, misrepresents, and devalues the valuable message of the kingdom that you carry. Jesus refers to this spirit as swine in Matthew 7:6: “Do not cast your pearls before swine”. In other words, Jesus was warning his followers and disciples not to give what is sacred to those who will not appreciate or value it, as they trample it and turn against the giver of the pearls. The key to overcoming these forces is first to acknowledge that Jesus is more powerful and that God is the greatest power. Plead the blood of Jesus and pray the scriptures combined with fasting. Lastly, don’t give up, whatever you are gifted to do, that is your sound, and as long as you remain unmoved, that is where your victory is.

Prayer: Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank You that You are unmuzzling my mouth and that You are raising my sound. Father, I thank You that You have given me the victory over these forces that have tried to fight against my sound. Father, I thank You that according to Luke 10:19, You have given me authority over all the power of the enemy and You have given me the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions. I thank You that nothing can hurt me, and because of this knowledge, I go forth, and as I go forth, Lord, amplify and raise my sound in You in the name of Jesus Christ. I thank You that according to Isaiah 59:19, when the enemy comes in like a flood that the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.  I accept the mantle and the mandate to do as You have authorised me to do, and I will do what You have authorised me to do concerning my purpose in Jesus’ name, I pray, amen.  

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Transition

Ever feel like you finally get a hang of life and its course, only to be hit with a surprise crossroad that shifts you into a world of decisions and the very thing you thought you finally had control of you no longer could handle? Sounds familiar?

This is Transition. When you think you have mastered Transition on one level, there is always another level that awaits your discovery. God is amazing and He is full of surprises. There is absolutely nothing that takes Him by surprise concerning you but there are times when He allows unexpected shifts which are a surprise to you. I have learnt to welcome every shift as an indication that my journey is speeding up and it means that I am getting closer to my destination called There. Everytime a car has to change gears it allows the car to move at a faster speed. Your ability to shift accelerates your journey.

Transition is your vehicle that ushers you to your place called There. Everytime there is a shift, and a sudden change it means that you are arriving closer to your destination. Everytime life throws a curveball it just means you need to shift. If you experience sudden betrayal or sudden separation of a longstanding relationship that is just destiny disguised as a heartbreak. Trust what the Holy Spirit is doing in this season.

Romans 8v28 states that all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His design and purpose (Amplified Version). The good the bad and the ugly are all working out for your purpose. I was listening to an interview with Pastor Keion Henderson and Dr Matthew Stevenson and Dr Stevenson stated that “Change either happens to you or through you”.

I truly believe the difference is in those who allow themselves to go through the many processes and shifts that life has to throw at oneself, to those who allow themselves to go through this process, are the ones that are used as vessels of change but to the one who refuses change ends up being on the dark side of Change.

The darkside of change is where you end up dealing with the harsh consequences of change. In a crisis, you can tell the difference between those who are prepared and those who were ill prepared. Crisis is only seen as crisis by those who fail to discern the times and prepare. Crisis is seen as an opportunity by those who choose to prepare ahead of the crisis. Look around the world and look at the response to our present crisis. I truly believe that our response is determined by our ability to prepare. Preparation precedes response.

In transition, your preparation will precede your response. Your preparation to be flexible with the curveball of change will determine your ability to navigate through the many stages of transition.

Once you learn the simple principle of ebb and flow (that is knowing when to respond and when to be still), then the many shifts that accompanies Transition will be welcomed as an opportunity rather than a crisis.

God bless you and thank you for reading.

Overcoming Barriers To Stepping Out Into The Unknown- Part 2

In my last blog, I said that there are many barriers to stepping out into the unknown. But I decided to deal with three and those are;

Fear of the Unknown
Fear of other people’s opinions
Fear of failure

I dealt with the first barrier to stepping out into the unknown and that was fear of the unknown. So the next barrier I would like to deal with is the fear of other people’s opinions.

Fear Of Other People’s Opinions

This was one of my biggest fears. Stepping out into the unknown was scary but exciting at the same time. When I took my first step to leaving my familiar surroundings, there was one thing that slowed down my progress. I was constantly concerned about what other people were thinking about me. It was so bad that my mentors at the time confronted me about it and I had to admit it that I was actually concerned about what others thought of me and my journey. It was so bad that it almost cost me my destiny. That changed when God asked me the question’ Who Are You?’. When He told me who I was in His eyes, the desire to please others just disappeared. I now developed a Godfidence that is what I call it, it is a God kind of confidence. The root of people pleasing stems from insecurities and rejection, the constant need to be approved by others. I recognised this in myself that throughout my childhood nothing was ever good enough in my home and where I attended church for a period of time. There was a constant pressure to be perfect and it was in November when God started to reveal these flaws to me. That season was a ‘river Jordan experience’, this was where all of the not so nice things started coming to the surface. I overcame this barrier by spending more time with the Lord and reading His word concerning my life. I spent more time in worship, I worked out which had an effect on my mental and emotional health. I posted affirmations around my apartment and on my bathroom mirror. So everyday I was empowering myself in God’s word to be who He had called me to be. The result of this was I stopped worrying about what others thought of me. It is a beautiful feeling when you no longer focus on the negative opinions of others.

Fear of Failure

The third barrier is the fear of failure. I believe everyone at some point in their life will experienced this. Everyone at some point including me have failed in one way or the other. I read this a while ago and it said, “failure is success turned inside out”. Failure is just an opportunity to learn something that you never knew before. I had so many moments in my journey when I said to God, please don’t let me fail but I now look at failure in a different way. Failure is my opportunity to learn something new. Some of my greatest lessons came from my experiences of failures and mistakes. I relied and still rely on 2 Corinthians 12:7-9. God’s grace is sufficient for me. The Lord took me to Matthew chapter 25:14-30, this is about the servants who received the five, two and one talents. When you read from verse 24-30, you see that the servant with the one talent did not multiply his talents because he was afraid. Verse 30 shows us the end result for this servant. God is not asking you to be perfect, He just wants you to say yes. God likes risk takers, just like Peter in Matthew 14:24-31, he stepped out of the boat and even though he started sinking, God was there to catch him. Do not be afraid of failing, even if you feel like you are going to fail, know that God will turn it for your good, Romans 8:28.

God bless you and thank you for reading