How To Frame Your Reality As A Believer

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions (Joel 2:28)

These are the last days, and the Church of Jesus Christ is experiencing an unprecedented move of the Spirit. We’re seeing, and will yet see more phenomenal miracles of salvation, growth, healings, etc. The reason is simple: “The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts” (Haggai 2:9)

This is extraordinary, because even though the things we read in the Book of Acts are beyond human comprehension and imagination, to think that there’s still a greater glory ahead, and in our day, is absolutely mind-blowing.

Take Acts chapter 2 for example. The Bible says Peter preached and three thousand people gave their hearts to Christ at once. Luke records another phenomenal addition to the church in the fourth chapter: Peter and John preached, and about five thousand people who heard the message believed (Acts 4:4). How wonderful!

No wonder Peter, who was conscious of this glorious move of the Spirit and the very dispensation Joel prophesied about in Joel 2:28, reiterated those very words in Acts 2:16-17. He said, “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh….” The “last days,” began with Peter’s preaching. In Acts 5:14-16, his very shadow touching the sick got them healed; even demons went out of those that they had bound.

We also read that “…God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them” (Acts 19:11-12).

Now, we’re at the ending part of the “last days.” If the beginning witnessed such glorious demonstrations of the power of God’s Spirit, then you can imagine what a time we’re in today in the calendar of God.

The Church today is far more enlightened, positioned, and equipped for greater impact. Believe and expect a greater move of the Spirit in these last days as the scriptures declare: “The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former….”

What DO You Need To Do To Fulfil This Prophesy

You must see yourself as a vessel that God prepared deliberately to do His will and carry His anointing and not as a powerless victim whom the devil can afflict, attack, molest, and mislead at will

You must embrace the power of God by reading the Bible consistently and praying in the Spirit constantly

Rid yourself of negative powers and religious books reinforcing negative powers and their works over your life and destiny or bringing such things to your consciousness. You must be Christ-conscious ONLY.

Apart from dreams that emanate from you as you look towards your future and imagine everything God has promised you coming together, you must avoid DREAMS that are rooted in your past experiences and consciousness. Anything that you see or experience that is contrary to the truth of the WORD of God and Your Status in Christ must be trashed immediately and without a second thought

Bring Good Things To Pass

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment (Matthew 12:35-36). I

n Proverbs 16:29-30, the Bible says, “A violent man…shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.”

Think about that! It says the evil man shuts his eyes and devises evil; moving his lips, he brings them to pass. In other words, he uses his imagination to devise wickedness and establishes it with his mouth. It’s talking about the principle of meditation; it works both in the positive and in the negative.

God is showing us how the evil mind works, and therefore, how good works. Just as an evil man can work this principle and produce results, a good man can also put the principle to work and produce good results. That means you can use your imagination; shut your eyes and devise wonderful and glorious things.

Practise this. Your imaginative power is your creative ability.

Every so often, shut your eyes, and meditate; contrive pictures of great things; possibilities from the Word of God, and begin to speak them forth. Use this principle to create a beautiful life for yourself and those around you.

It’s one of the many reasons and benefits of prayer because when you pray, you see visions of the Spirit. When you see those visions, write them down, and bring them to pass with your faith-filled proclamations.

A good man, out of the abundance of his heart, brings forth good things. All the good things you desire in life are already inside you. See, and bring them forth with your words. They already exist in the realm of the spirit, but your words give them tangibility.

The Bible says in Ephesians 5:18, ‘Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.’ Glory to God! And then He tells us how… How do you stay filled with the Spirit? How do you remain ever aglow and burning with the fire of the Holy Ghost?

1 – Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs! Oh, come on! This is powerful. It means you’ve got to have the Word of God richly dwelling in you. You speak it! You declare it! You prophesy with it! You don’t wait for someone to sing—you sing! You don’t wait for the atmosphere to change—you carry the atmosphere! Hallelujah!

2– Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord! This is not about talent; it’s not about having the best voice—no! It’s the song of the Spirit from within you! It’s that melody bubbling from your spirit to the Lord. It’s a fellowship. It’s intimacy. Oh, glory to God!

3 – Giving thanks always for all things… not sometimes, not when you feel like it, but always, giving thanks! A thankful man is full of the Holy Ghost! When you’re full of gratitude, you’re full of the Spirit!

4 – Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. This is the attitude of humility, of honor, of reverence… You walk in love. You walk in submission. You walk in the Spirit!

Beloved, when you practice these things, you’ll live in a constant overflow of the anointing! You’ll never be dry! The Spirit will gush out of you like rivers of living water! Glory! Hallelujah!”

-GSW-