Meditative Study In The Place of Intimacy.

    Meditative study of God's word is one of the ingredients of intimacy with God. It is in your meditative study of the word that you get fresh revelation of the personality of God, your personality in Christ and instruction you must obey. The word of God is the food of the Spirit; only by it can you grow spiritually. It is the mirror that helps you to discover your true identify.
You are only able to operate with boldness when you are able to discover your true self identify; therefore meditative study of God's word should be a daily issue.
    In the Garden of Eden, the devil brought about the fall of man by attacking God's instruction to Adam and Eve. That is the devil's pattern of operation; he wants you to disobey God's instruction to you. For everyday, there is a fresh instruction, you expose yourself to the destruction of that day if you do not know or keep the instruction of that day. Carryout meditative study with the intention of finding the ingredients listed below.

Get A Revelation of Who God Is:
 As you daily go through the portion of scripture you have chosen to read that day, search out a new revelation of who God is. What words are used to describe Him, what great acts are recorded about Him, what did He say about Himself? These questions will help you get a fresh identity of the personality of the Most High God, His son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost. You worship Him for each new thing you find about Him.

Get A Revelation of Who You Are In Christ:
You must read carefully to get a fresh revelation of your personality in Christ Jesus and the benefits you stand to gain as a born again child of God. Knowledge brings illumination, if you do not know who you are in Christ, you will continue to suffer ignorance, Hosea 4:6.

Get An Instruction:
As a citizen of heaven and a representative of God's kingdom here on Earth, there are expectations of you. As you study that portion of the Bible, you must search out the responsibility God has placed on you as His representative and make up mind to live up to expectation. This knowledge will keep you on the right track as you go through the day.

Get A Rhema:
Every time you spend time God, He speaks. Most times, you are not patient enough to hear what He says. After meditating on God's word, keep quiet before Him and be prepared to write down revelations from His word. The more you meditate on God's word, the more equipped you are to take on life's challenges. Action is only possible when there is enough revelation inside you.

Manifestating Your Sonship

Your destination as a child of God is glory, if you don't know your destination, you never get there. There are five steps you must take for your manifestation to be seen.

These steps are:
knowing that you are a candidate of glory.
Believing in your ability to manifest God's glory.
Appreciating God for the glory.
Declaring your ability and personality in Christ Jesus.
Acting/manifesting your glory.
  
KNOW IT: You must come to the knowledge that as a believer, you have been given all things already. It is only by knowing the promises that you can be a partaker of the divine nature. Manifestation is a process, it begins by knowing. You cannot manifest until you know. Having a perfect knowledge of your sonship of God and the corresponding implications gives you power to act. When you begin to spend time with God by studying His word, the knowledge of your sonship of God will not be confirm mentally but by spiritual and divine revelation.

BELIEVE IT: Belief is a final conclusion over the issue for which relevant information has been supplied to your mind for assessment or consideration. You don't struggle to believe, belief is a product of meditation. After knowing, you must believe, but you cannot believe until you meditate on what you know. Your meditation is totally an issue of believing.

THANK GOD FOR IT: Thanksgiving becomes automatic when belief is perfect. It is an affirmation that you believe God has done it. It activate heavenly reaction or respond. Your praise will attract to your life the manifestation of the gifts and power of God's spirit. Thanks and praise to God is the greatest expression of your believe in the issue under consideration. Your praises will bring such a presence that attracts effectiveness to your prayer.

SAY IT: It takes a revelative rhema understanding for there to be a confession. Gaining the ability to make bold declaration is a process. When your thanksgiving becomes high enough, you will be able to declare what God's word says about you. You cannot say what you don't know: you can only make confident declarations after your knowledge has grown through meditation, only then can your confession be meaningful. Your utterance is necessary because the tongue controls the body. Until your tongue is changed, your life will not change. As you keep saying what God's word says concerning you, an atmosphere for acting is created around you.

ACT IT: It is natural to act what you keep professing with your mouth. Until you are able to act your sonship, it is difficult to manifest glory. When you have an opportunity to manifest what you have been saying, act without hesitation. Power is divine ability to effect changes in compliance to divine standard.

Appreciation For The Price Paid

Glory is a manifestation of God; it is a revelation of the activity of divinity. It is a fulfilment of the scripture; "as it is in heaven so let it be on Earth". Your journey to glory begins with appreciation. Until you learn to praise to God in the domain of the price He paid, you will not smell power.

You must begin to thank God everyday for Jesus who qualifies you for all of God's blessings. As you begin to do this daily your life will begin to experience unquantifiable success.
Let everything that Jesus did for your redemption so overwhelm and saturate your life that you no longer believe in contradiction. The only visa into glory is thanksgiving. The grace you enjoy is activated and sustained through thanksgiving, the more your thanksgiving, the more the grace increases upon your life.
 For you to experience glory in an increasing dimension, saturate your life everyday with thanksgiving for the price that was paid. The more spend time in thanking God for what you are expecting, the faster you will get it. The price was paid for the following significant aspects of your life: these are the things you should thank God for an a daily basis.
Thank Him that you are justified. You cannot incriminated by anything, no one can hold you ransom for what you did wrong in your past. Justified means just as if you have never committed any sin.
Thank Him for redemption. You are no longer in the hand of your enemy; you have been brought from darkness and no longer under satanic control.
Thank Him that your sins have been forgiven. Your past sins are not remembered.
Thank Him that you have been healed (1Peter 2:24). By His stripes you are healed.
Thank Him for prosperity. He became poor that you through His poverty may become rich.

Thank Him for fruitfulness, Deuteronomy 7:14.

Thank Him that you cannot be cursed. Christ took a curse on Himself when He hung on a tree, so that no curse can operate in your life.

Thank Him for wisdom; 1corithians 1:30. You cannot fail or perform poor in life.

Thank Him for who He made you in Christ Jesus; 1Peter 2:9. You are no longer who you use to be: you are now of royalty with peculiarity.

 Thanksgiving is the key to manifestation. When you catch this revelation, you will always spontaneously say ' thank you Jesus' no matter where you are.

Restoration of Glory in Personality (Character).

Holiness is one way of revealing the glory of God. You cannot achieve holiness all by yourself; for your righteousness is like a filthy rag before God. But  you have been made holy, blameless and unreproveable before God. For you to manifest the glory of God in character, you must know His personality.
Isaiah 6:3; Holy, holy, holy is the lord of host. You can clearly see that God is holy in is nature; therefore to manifest glory in personality, you have to have to live a perpetual holy life.
    You must live in the consciousness; that when you live a holy life, you are showing forth God's glory. Even as you have been justified, also make conscious effort to avoid sin. How shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Romans 6:1. Your future is too glorious for you to be playing with sin. If  you want to experience glory, then you must avoid sin, especially the sin immorality. You must crucify the flesh with all its affections, Galatians 5:24.
    By the new covenant which Jesus established by his blood, you have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all, Hebrews 10:10. Your past sins are forgiven and are no longer remembered. As soon as you invite Jesus into your heart, you become a new creation, and a new life was established in you. You must no longer see yourself as a miserable wretched sinner. You are sanctified and justified by the blood of Jesus.
    You are now a candidate of heaven and of eternal life, not by strength or personal effort, but by the free grace of God. You have been made holy by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. The day you receive him into your life as lord and saviour, all your sins were forgiven and washed away. All the wrongs you ever committed are now hidden by the blood. You are made holy, unblameable and unreproveable in the sight of God. You can now boldly come into the throne room of the Most High God anytime with feeling of guilt, because you are holy in His sight.
    Your practice of holy living is made possible when your love is the consciousness of God's presence. The moment your mind lose consciousness of God, then you are capable of doing any evil thing. God is light; and in light nothing is hidden. Let your mind always recall that the Lord is watching you and as such, place a check on your attitude.

Restoration of Glory In Power.

One of the ways to manifest glory is in performing miracles; John 2:11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth His glory; and His disciples believed on Him. It is God's desire that you also manifest His glory by taking dominon in all aspect of your life and operating in power, it means the glory you carry is not shinning yet. In John 17:22, we see that His glory has been bestowed upon us. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them when God called you, he packaged power inside you. What you need to function is inside you, you are not an empty vessel. The more thanks you give to God for what Jesus did, the more the glory is revealed in your life.
 The purpose of manifesting God's glory is to win souls,Act 1:8. When you begin to shine brightly by manifesting God's glory in power characterized by signs and wonders, all men will be attracted to the brightness of your light. From the very beginning, man was made for dominion. God gave the first Adam dominion over all of His creation, but he lost it, when he sinned.

Jesus through His sacrifice on the cross has restored man to the original glory. God wants you to celebratively come to Him with the whole of your heart; only then will His glory be manifested fully in your life.
 Thanksgiving has never failed to bring down God's glory. As you begin to appreciate and worship God, His glory will fill your life completely. Thanksgiving is a product of belief: by thanking God, you prove to Him that you believe that He has put his glory upon you. It is your continuous thanksgiving to God for what He has done that makes glory manifest, not fasting and praying for it. When you begin to celebrate the goodness of God, you are preparing and packaing the heavens for another delivery. Do you wish to operate in power; I have good news for you: God has placed His power in you already. As you begin to apprieciate Him for His power that is at work in you. I assure you that you will begin to exhibit His glory in power. The creatures are awaiting your manifestation of power, authority and domonion, and God has loaded you with so much inside that you cannot fail.

Restoration of Glory In Prosperity.

2Corithians 8:9: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake's he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. God is not a pauper, He is the owner of the heavens and earths and all the wealth therein, Haggai 2:8. He wants to use prosperity to

prove His Lord.
  Your Prosperity began when the owner of silver and gold died in poverty and penury as a sacrifice for your prosperity. Your bursting forth in prosperity is thus, dependent on how well you understand this truth and appreciate God for it. God responds to prayers if it tallies with his season. When you ask for rain in the time rain, you will certainly receive abundance of rain, Zechariah 10:1.
You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss (James 4:3) know what is in the calendar and agenda of God now. Put God in remembrance of all His promise and as you begin to appreciate Him for your wealth and prosperity which has been settled by Christ when He took your poverty and shame upon

 Himself, your life will begin to blossom on all sides.
  Our prosperity is not for competition, or to outshine others, the purpose is for the increase of the kingdom. Only those that the purpose of prosperity will be blessed. If you want wealth, let God know why you want it. Make sure it is not for selfish reasons .Your crying to God for blessing everyday will not bring wealth. God is not moved by your tears, He is only moved tears that are connected with His purpose.
  If you are yet to see the manifestation of prosperity in your life, do not accept the situation; believe God for your expectation. When God restores you, struggle, stagnancy and retrogression are banished from your life. You will do in one year what you have been struggling to do for ten year. Restoration, however, can only be accessed by appreciation. Appreciation begins with acknowledging what he has done. When you appreciate for him for Him for the past level, He will cause the new level to appear; what you don't appreciate will not be appreciated in your life.
 Murmuring will delay your miracle, while grumbling holds back God's hand. If you appreciate God for what is left, He will restore what was lost. Switch over from prayer to praise today and see your prosperity burst forth on all sides.

Restoration of Glory By Appreciation.

Glory is from the Greek word 'DOXA' which means all that God is and all that God has Glory is the presence of God making provision for power, prosperity and personality (character). It is the missing link: the problem of mankind is the absence of glory. Until the sons of God manifest glory, Christ will

be retained in heaven. God is a candidate of Glory and expects all His children to manifest His glory in Prosperity, Power and Personality (Character). We are in a season of restoration; this restoration will only come to fulfilment through appreciation. The glory has been given; it is done already, but it will fully manifest if you appreciate God for what has been done. You are predestined, born and ordained unto glory.

  Romans 8:28-29:  For whom he did foreknow, he also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinates, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified them He also glorified.

                  Glory was what was lost when man (Adam) fell out in the beginning; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". The reason you where created was to manifest glory, Romans 9:23-24. You were called unto glory, 1peter 5:10, but his glory will only be fully manifested in your life, If you begin to appreciate God for it. God is interested in restoring the glory that was lost when man sinned, but He seeks men who know the value of His glory and are willing to receive it with a thankful heart.

             Anything you have lost can be restored to you by God, for He is a God of restoration. Abraham's lost ability to have a child was restored to him when he gave glory to God, Romans 4:17-21; He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.

In Daniel4:34-36, we see that when Nebuchandnezzar thanked God, he was restored to his kingdom. As you begin to appreciate God for His glory in your life, the full manifestation of His glory will be visible in your life.

 The lost glory is restored! And guess what, it is restored in double fold. God does not restore what was lost exactly how it was, He improves on it. It is His nature to restore in double portion, Isaiah 61:7, Haggai 2:9.

Foundation Four: Joy

Joy is a feeling of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind. It is the ability to live and act positively even in the face of contradiction. It is the effrontery to say there is a lifting up when others say there is a casting down. Joy is part of the fruit of the spirit. Proverbs 17:22 "sorrow dries the bone, but joy does good like medicine".
          It therefore implies that for you to live in health you must always be joyful. Your joy should not be a factor of your present circumstances but should be hinged on the knowledge that God loves you and his thoughts for you continually are thoughts of peace, Jeremiah 29:11. Inspite of ugly situations that would

ordinary steal joy from your heart, you should remain joyful knowing that all things work together for good to them that love God, Rom8:28.
      Rejoicing in the lord has health benefits. It has been medically proven that joy improve the immune system where as sorrow destroys it. You must make up your mind to live perpetually in joy, whether things are pleasant or not. To overcome the sorrow and discomfort of the present times, take a trip into the

joy of your future.
      That you are alive is enough indication that God has better plans for you submitting to sorrow may hinder those beautiful plans from coming to fulfilment whereas living perpetually in joy even in the midst of an ugly beginning will speed up God's intervention. Living in joy is a kingdom foundation. Isaiah 12:3 the provision of salvation can only be accessed by joy.
       Joy is proof to God that you trust how to help you. It is the outward garment of the faith you profess without joy, the blessings you seek will be left hanging. God will always come to the rescue of those who celebrate in joy even when they are yet to see the manifestation of their heart desires. If you allow your celebration wither away then you expectation will also wither away.
       The devil can operate in your life if you allow sorrow dwell in your heart. Only those who have made up their mind to be joyful at every point in time will continually have a reason to celebrate, Proverbs 15:15. When you keep a joyful disposition in the midst of an ugly situation, God will show up for you to change whatever it is that is trying to take away your joy.

Foundation Three: Meditation

The word of God is incubated for effectiveness through meditation. Meditation involves pondering on what you have discovered from scriptures, Joshua 1:8. Believing is the end product of consistent meditation, and the more you meditate on God's words, the more you are turned into His likeness and aligned with His desires and purposes for your life, Psalm 119:57, 1:1.
Meditation is what makes the word active in your life. It puts ability for expression and performance in you and soon you become what you constantly meditate upon "For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" Proverbs 23:7. You spiritual growth is only guaranteed by constant meditation on the word of God. No spiritual exercise can give you adequate nutrient to grow to spiritual maturity, 1Peter 2:2. If you refuse to study and meditate on the word of God, you will not grow and as such will remain stunted and within the reach of the enemy. Your belief system determines what takes place in your life. God works with your belief system and the system is built by the meditation of your heart. If the devil takes control of your thought, then he can destroy your life.
 Just like the cow eats grass and then regurgitates and chew on what it had already swallowed until the body automatically assimilates it, so also you must read the promises of God, memorize them, and then continue to ponder on what you have memorized until it is absorbed into your system. This is the secret to manifestation; for without meditation, there is no manifestation.
Meditation invites understanding. You cannot understand until you ponder on what God has said in His word concerning Himself, concerning you, and the instruction He has given to His children. To gain understanding, you must first separate yourself from every distraction and ponder on God's word.
 In Psalm 119:97-101, you see for outstanding benefits of meditation on God's word.
  "O how i love thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Thou though thy commandment hast made me wiser than mine enemies:   for they are with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because i keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that i might thy word".

  - It makes you wiser than your enemies.
  - You have more understanding than your teachers.
  - You understand more than the ancients (old men and women).
  - You have liberty from sin.
As you constantly meditate on the promises in God's word, soon it forms a stronghold in your mind and automatically your life begins to form the picture of the meditation of your heart.

 

Foundation Two: Giving.

Whatever you have received today is a product of what you gave yesterday. Even if you keep the law and live a holy live, but do not give, you will be a holy poor man. Prayer those does not make you prosperous only giving does. The power of giving was demonstrated in God's redemptive work to restore man back to Himself.

God lost man and had to give His son in order to gain him back. If your prosperity is not based on the foundation of giving, you will soon lose it, Jeremiah 17:11. In the kingdom, true prosperity comes only by living a life of giving. The divine principle for having more is to give what you have. Until you give, the right climate that attracts prosperity will not be seen around you.

 "There is that scathereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but tendeth to poverty.  The liberal soul shall be fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. He that withholdeth corn, the people  shall curse him: But blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it: Proverbs 11:24-26.

You can clearly see that those who keep holding back will not have substance, but those that give out freely will have more than enough. It takes giving to prosper, thus if you want to prosper, you must become a giver. The devil can only attack your prosperity if you do not build a solid foundation in this aspect of your life. Like the saying goes "Givers never lack". If you are currently experiencing lack in your like, rather than blame the devil for it, inspect your life to see if you have been faithful in giving to God and to men.

 There are four kinds of giving that determines the four levels of your life.

- Giving to the poor and those  below your status. This does not make you rich, but ensures that you do not fall to the level of the person you are giving to.

- Giving to those in the same level with you, to sustain your level.

- Giving to your Melchizedek; giving to those higher than you in order to be where they are.

- Giving to God. This is further classified into four

   Tithes and offerings.

   Sowing seeds to establish what you are believing God for.

   Vows to provoke God into action.

   Thanksgiving offerings.

Ideas For Honouring Parents

There are hundreds ways to show respect and honour your parent. However, you should remember that honour is not without love. Honour includes love and care and you can show your love by caring for your parents a lot and showing them that they are special to you and that you grateful to them bringing you up. Given below are some ways to show your parent that you respect them and are grateful to them.

 - Pray for them, ask the Lord to bless them with a happy and healthy life. At old age parents need solace, more than anything else.
 - Show your unhappiness about your disobedience in past towards your parent. They will be happy to see you doings this, and it makes them feel you are a true person.
 - Do not hold grudge against them despite their unpleasing behaviour towards you.
 - Always remember their birthdays and other special occasions. Send gift to them on those occasions.
 - Be caring and loving and show them that they are in safe hands, by supporting them where there is need.
 - If your parents are not living with you, call them on a regular basis and shower your love and care on phone.
 - If you are unemployed and do not have financial support and are living in your parents home, show your gratitude to them. Do not take advantage of them.
Honouring parents is the only command in the scripture that promises long live as a reward, Eph 6:1-3. Those who honour their parents are blessed. In contrast, those with a depraved mind and those who exhibit ungodliness in the last days are characterized by disobedience to parents ( Romans 1:30; 2timothy 3:2).
 The value of honouring parents is so important in the sight of God that He included it in the Ten commandments, Exo 20:12. You can not out grow God's command to honour parents even if you may no longer be directly under their authority. Treat them the way you would reverentially approach your heaven father. Prayer and fasting will not save you, for the divine principle spelt it out clearly that only those that honour their parents will enjoy their life on earth.
The word honour demands a right action. Jesus, reminded the Pharisees of the commandment to honour their father and mother. They obeyed the letters of the law, but added their traditions that essentially overruled it. While they honoured in words, their actions proved their real motives, Matt 15:3-9. Honour is more than lip service.

Foundation One: Honouring Parents.

For all who wants to live long on Earth and enjoy a good life must build on this foundation. There is no shortcut to living a full and fulfilling live without honouring parents as a principle, Exo 20:12, Eph 6:1-3. The Greek word for honour means "to revere, prize and value". Honour is giving respect not only for merit but also for rank. Children of all ages should honour their parents, regardless of whether or not they deserve the honour.
You should seek to honour your parents in much the same way that you strive to bring glory to God in your thought, words, and action. For a young child, obeying parent goes hand in hand with honouring them. That include listening, heeding, and submitting to their authority.
 If you refuse to honour your parent, you give free invitation to the devil to operate in your life. Obscure darkness is the portion of those who curse their parents, Prov 20:20. You do not have to do spiritual warfare to stay alive. Just honour your father and mother and darkness will not be found in your life. The secret of long life and success is keeping this foundations.
Honour on the order hand beget honour. God will not honour you, if you do not keep His commandment to honour your parents. If you desire to please God and be blessed, you should honour your parents. Honouring is not easy, is not always fun and certainly is not possible in your own strength. But honour is a certain path to your purpose in life glorifying God, Col 3:20.
 The major reason behind why you should respect them comes from the point that first they took you to this world, toiled for your living and comfort. No relationship could be so pious and loving than that of parent and child. When you honour them, they feel special and rewarded for all the good deeds they did towards your nourishment and care.
We are obviously commanded to honour our parent but how? Honour them with both actions and attitudes. Honour their unspoken as well as spoken wishes. Even Jesus, God's son, submitted Himself to both his earthly parents, Luke 2:51. However there is a difference between obeying and honouring. You can disobey honourably. You can say no with respect when the situation calls for it, especially when the instruction goes against God's expectation of you.
While you are required to honour parents, that does not include imitating ungodly ones, Ezekiel 20:18-19. In contradicting events you must obey God rather than man.

Building Kingdom Foundations.

Kingdom foundations are established beginnings that the future depends upon. They are basic rules and principles that you must abide by in order to have a guaranteed future and live a victorious life here on earth. Once established, foundations are not easily changeable; it therefore follows the principle of making your bed the way you wish to lie on it.
When building is placed on a faulty foundation, it soon comes crumbling down. The device of the devil, therefore is to attack and destroy your foundation, for if the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous do? Psalm 11:3. Spiritual warfare is not so much of the devil's strength; he has no hold on you until you build on a wrong foundation. The serpent bites, only when an hedge has been broken as seen in Eccl 8:10.
 You are the architect of your own future; the way you build your life today determines how you will live tomorrow, Gal 6:7, Gen 8:22. Life is thus a product of what is sown. Nothing happens by accident; everything that happens is hinged on the principle of seedtime and harvest. A lot of people suffer today, because  they did not take time yesterday to build good foundations for their lives. God is a God of principle, justice and order. If you build according to His pattern, you will live a fulfilled life on earth, but if you build out of pattern, you live in frustration here on earth even if you make heaven.Those who will live a fulfilled live here on earth and still spend eternity with Jesus are those who discovered kingdom foundations and build on these laid out foundations.
 Matt 7:24-27, shows the parable of two men who were building but on different foundations and the result of the test of their building. God does not condone irresponsibility, He will only come to the rescue of those who do things right. If you know what is right, happy you are if you do them, John 13:17. The devil has no power, but he is trickish. He attacks foundations with the intent to bringing men down. No matter how successful a man is, if his foundation is not firm a fall is awaiting.
 Kingdom foundations are therefore the keys to the kingdom. If you have these keys, you will have access to all God has gloriously made available to His sons. There are keys to the kingdom, not just one master key. How much keys you have will determine the numbers of doors you can open. Those who breakthrough are those who do not have the key. If you have the key, you open the door with ease and walk through.
The first step therefore to laying a solid foundation for a secured future is accepting Christ as the Lord and Master of your life. When He takes residence in your life, you can build on Him and be rest assured that no matter the rain that descends, flood that comes and wind that blows and beat your house; it will not fail: for it is founded upon a rock.

Divine Positioning For Divine Placement

   Everything in life has its place. The importance of place can be seen in the creative work of God in the beginning. Places where made before people were created. The Earth was first designed and the Garden of Eden planted ever before man was created. Your placement in life is very important as it determines a lot of things in your life. People relate with one another base on where they are placed.

Your positioning will certainly determine your placement. This is true as you see it applicable in every facet of life.
Where you are positioned in life matters a lot. If you are wrongly positioned, you will be wrongly placed even nature teaches us that. The Sun, Moon and Stars are all unique in the way each performs, because they are rightly positioned and properly placed.
If you place a square peg in a round hole it definitely will not fit in. If in need of water and you open the tap to allow water flow, but position your container wrongly, you will get nothing.

To start with, you first must be positioned in God to be rightly placed in life. Anything that stands outside God is out of place.
Acts17:26 " For in Him we live and move and have our being".
Colossians2:10a "In Him we are complete".
It reveals that divine positioning and placement is in God. Position yourself in God and you will rightly placed in life.
Everyone wants to be highly placed, how many have really consider where they are positioned? There is a place for every man in destiny, because in life; there is no vacuum. Your success, progress and association is dependent on your positioning. Birds of a feather flock together. You must understand that your position in life changed from the moment you gave your life to God. Everything about you totally changed.
The scripture teaches that every man is equal in the sight of God. If that be the case, why are some highly placed than others? I know someone might be saying its hard work of course. This is not true in itself, because we can see people who put in more effort to their and still do not rank up to those who do less. The truth is that your positioning determines your place and you can not be rightly and well positioned in life except in God.

Benefit of Intimacy 4

Setting your love upon God means spending time consistently in a love relationship with the father, it means intimating constantly with God. A real son in the kingdom is one that has made a habit to be conscious of God's presence at all time; he practices a moment by moment relationship with him.
Once this love is set in your heart; you do not do anything or go anywhere without his presence. You alway have your mind set to know what His will is at every point in time. Until you get to the level where your flesh no longer dictates how you live your life, but it is controlled completely by the Spirit of God; you will not experience a full measure of the benefit of intimacy.
As you spend quality time loving Him in intimacy, His presence will completely wrap you up and make you lose interest in those things that satisfy the flesh and yet have no relevance to the Spirit. It will get to the point where your spirit man begins to recieve information, instruction and inspiration directly from Him.

The book of psalm91:14-16 reveals some of the benefits of setting your love on the Lord.

 I will deliver Him; He will daily give his angels charge over you. You will not have to lift a finger in defense of yourself for deliverance.

 I will answer His call; As soon as you call his name, He will answer and envelop you with His pressence. Your desires will be granted and you will not experience delay in manifestation, as He's determined to satisfy you withall good desires of your heart.

 I will give Him salvation; You will not be kept in darkness over things that have bearing with your. Nothing will take you unaware; God will always show things to you before they come to pass.
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 He can not be stagnated; You will not remain in one spot for too long. You will always be on the move and your increase will know no bounds. Each day, month and year, your life will improve and become better than it was previously.

Intimacy guarantees a lifting, efficacy in prayer, divine presence and certainty of His presence. As you spend time with divinity, you get to a level where speak things and they will come to pass. You have a mandate to take the message of intimacy to the world.

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For you not to practice intimacy is a rejection of provision. It is the real factor of all that was done by Jesus; you must take advantage of the price paid and spend time daily with the father.  After the Garden of Eden episode, Man became far from God and could no longer sit with Him to freely discuss as was normally dome in the cool of the day.
Today you now have access into the Holy of Holies and relate directly with Him without protocol, a relationship that was broken in the beginning was amended by Jesus as revealed in Ephesians 2:1-6. Until you are enveloped in the practice of intimacy, you are not set for greater levels of performance in life. You can operate better than you are doing right now; all you need is become more regular in your intimate experience with God.
Intimacy cannot be enjoyed when there is a status difference between the two people involved. Both of them have to be on same level to allow for a sweet and smooth fellowship. In other to bridge the gap existing between you and Him; He lifted you to be in the same level with Him (Psalm 89:6), so that there will not be friction in the process intimating. The relationship is no longer God relating with from, because the difference will be too unimaginable; instead it is now God intimating with another god of His kind.
Species of the same kind intimate with one another. You are no longer of the man’s specie, but of the God’s specie. In intimacy you learn new things about God; you receive fresh insight into His plans for you as an individual and for the world as a whole. It is no use going about any activity when you have not spent time with Him. Your daily activities should be a product of intimacy (Romans 9:16).
You must understand that your life without Him is nothing different from the grasses in the field or the animals around.
For you to continually enjoy unending supply; you have to be connected to the source of all things. Anything that disconnects or detaches from its source will lose its value, virtue, ability and be out of use with time. Staying in constant contact with God in intimacy adds value and relevance to your life and all your activities. Intimacy is a called for you to be with Him alone.

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God wants dead men; only dead men are consistent, they do not change nor vary their routine and He requires that you are dead to the flesh and pleasures of this world. The success of your day’s activities is determined by what you gained in your intimate fellowship with Him at the break of that day. The strength to overcome, wisdom for good decision and all the benefits that will make your day fulfilling is received in your intimacy with God.
Daniel 11:32b “But they that know their God shall be strong and do exploits” you will agree that you cannot know someone you hardly see or spend time with. As you begin to spend time daily in intimacy with God, you get more and familiar with Him. Any day you intimate with God and get to know something new about Him; you are supernaturally endowed with strength to do exploit that day.
Each day presents different challenges, trials and temptations to weigh you down (Matthew 6:34a), but there is a strength to overcome and remain on top which only comes from your knowledge of who God is to you that particular day. Who God is to you yesterday is not relevant to the circumstance that faces you today. You must have a fresh knowledge of Him every day and this only comes from your intimacy with Him. Those who faint in the days of adversity are those whose strength are small and this is the result of not spending quality time in His presence.
The ability you need to perform, become and overcome is gotten in the place of intimacy. The more time you spend with Him, the more you get to know Him and your strength for exploits will increase from level of performance to another without struggle.
  Job 22:21-29, It opens with an instruction “Acquaint now yourself with Him” to acquaint talks about intimacy; it means to become familiar with something or someone. This familiarity can only be gotten when you begin to spend time on a regular and consistent basis with Him. You cannot run life’s race, overcome its tribulation and win the battles all by yourself; you need to be strengthen by Him. Just as His mercies are new every day so is His strength, therefore package yourself for the place of intimacy and receive endless flow of energy that comes directly from the source.

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       The benefits that can be derived from spending time with God on a consistent basis are innumerable. Your intimacy with God must be regular and consistent. In intimacy you see more and more of God and less of you; you get so enveloped with His awesome presence. Intimacy is you alone with your maker; no one goes into place of intimacy with you. You must arrange the location to avoid distraction.
We are going to be looking at JOY as one of the benefits of spending quality time alone in God’s presence. Joy is a feeling of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated spirit. It is an internal peace that emanates from a strong assurance of the availability of resource. The man whose heart is filled with joy has great strength even in the midst of weakness, because the joy of the Lord is his strength (Nehemiah8:10). The needed ability for performance is derived from Joy; this can only be obtained in the presence of God
Psalm 16:11 “Thou will shew me the path of life: in thy presence is the fullness of JOY; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore”
When you dwell daily in intimacy with God, you will experience joy that only He can give to you. This positions you for pleasures all the days of your life so that your rejoicing never ceases.
Isaiah 12:3 “Therefore with JOY shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. Joy is the only source that can make provision in the midst of scarcity. If you lose your joy there is nothing anyone can do for you; you would automatically place yourself in a position where divine gifts and benefits will fly over you, but never stays with you.
It is medicine for the broken spirit (Proverb 17:22). It is one commodity you must not allow to get exhausted in your shelf of medication. When you dwell in God’s presence, you get a full dose of it and thus your health is guaranteed.
A heart that is filled with joy not only experience restoration, but will receive interest for all that was lost. When your Joy dries up; everything about you and around you will begin to lose its beauty and value (Joel 1:12). Learn to dwell in His presence every minute of the day. As the consciousness of Him always around you overwhelms you; you will begin to experience this supernatural joy that I speak about, that defies ugly situations and surpasses human understanding.

Intimacy with God: The Secret of Dominion

 When God created man and placed him in the Garden of Eden, God gave him an instruction to have dominion over all his creation. Man there, had all needed to dominate the Earth. He lost it when he disobeyed God and fell from Grace. The purpose of Christ death was to restore God's original plan. Every man that accepts Jesus as Lord and saviour receives what it takes to dominate the earth.
The value of intimacy can be seen in Jeremiah’s encounter in the potter's house. Without clay, the potter cannot achieve his desire of creating a beautifully designed piece of pottery. The clay on the other hand is useless all by itself; it is ordinary dirt and thus unattractive in its raw state until a potter decides to make use of it to achieve a design he has in mind. The more time and effort a potter puts into his creation, the greater the value that will be placed on it. The implication of this therefore is that for there to be a wonderful, beautiful and attractive creation of the potter, there has to be contact between the potter and the clay. This contact between the potter and the clay that brings about a wonderful creation of art can be described as INTIMACY.
       Spending quality time with God on a consistent basis is the only requirement for you to turn up eventually as a complete, well packaged, attractive and useful masterpiece. The more time you spend in divine intimacy the better you become; for it is in intimacy that God moulds you into his purpose for your life.
       God is the potter and we are the clay, you cannot create yourself, neither can you give form to your dreams and desires, you need God to succeed and bring beauty to your life. No matter how badly damaged or marred your life might be if you remain in constant intimacy with God, he will mould your life into his purpose, thus giving it a meaning. Don't break out of the reach of the potter. As long as you submit yourself to the master's will ,knowing that you cannot make anything good out of your life all by yourself, he will certainly bring out the best in you.
      The only way you can rule, dominate and succeed without limit is by maintaining contact with the master and owner of your life.
      By understanding and remembering let us proceed without our life having a meaningful purpose in our heart. Never forget He is the potter, you are the clay, He has a great picture of you already in his mind, He can see your beautiful end right from your rough beginning and he shapes and moulds you day by day into His will.