The Yoke and it's Burden by Dr. Emma C. Innocent

The Yoke and it's Burden.

A yoke is what is used to join two animals in order to make them walk together for a definite job. It is the yoke that brings the burden. Isaiah 10:27 specifically spelt this out.

Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

The shoulder represent a place of responsibility.
Isa. 9:6a For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: 

Instead of using your shoulder to carry responsibility, you can use it to carry burden if you are under a yoke. A lot of people are trying to be free from issues without discovering and dealing with the source - his yoke. No matter how well you shake up the burden, you can't be truly free until and unless you break the yoke.
If you read the scripture above, you will see ....his burden....his yoke....then finally, THE YOKE. SO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BTW HIS YOKE AND THE YOKE? The yoke is ignorance. Once light comes in, the realization of WHO YOU ARE STEPS IN. The devil's strength is hidden in ignorance. When you truly discover, you are sure to recover. The yoke is ignorance, his yoke is the source of his burden.
Let read that passage in another translation:

NET- At that time the LORD will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

The yoke will be taken off once your neck (knowledge) has been enlarged. Therefore, revelation knowledge of what to do is the key for freedom. It is revelation that breaks the yoke, not just prayers nor anointing oil. ONCE YOU GROW FAT (in the innerman), YOU GO FAST!
It's time to deal with the source by deliberately seeking for revelation in the matter you need solution instead of quick-fix prayers.

Pray this prayer with me:
1. O Lord My Father, enlighten every darkness around me in the name of Jesus Christ.
2. Father, let the mysteries of darkness around my situation be unveil forever in Jesus name.

God bless you.
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JESUS IS FOREVER LORD!!!

DR. EMMA INNOCENT

THE TRIPOD OF CHRIST'S WILL: THE SPIRIT, HIS POWER AND OUR WITNESSES.

THE TRIPOD OF CHRIST'S WILL: THE SPIRIT, HIS POWER AND OUR WITNESSES.

Jesus' last statement at the cross was "it is finished". Jesus Christ's last statement after the cross was Acts 1:8.
THE LIFE AFTER THE CROSS IS WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO LIVE. THEREFORE, LET SEE HIS LAST STATEMENT AFTER THE CROSS.

Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive POWER, after that the HOLY GHOST is come upon you: and ye shall be WITNESSES unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

ONLY A FOOL DISREGARD THE LAST STATEMENT OF A DYING OR DEPARTING MAN. Your last message convenes your inner most desires and here Christ unveils it to us.

There are three key words in Acts 1:8 which are POWER, HOLY GHOST AND WITNESSES.
The first of His desire is for us to function by the HolySpirit.
The HolySpirit is the centre of God's will. If you are not living by the Spirit, you are not in the will of the Father.
Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

THE WILL OF GOD IS TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLYSPIRIT.
You receive and function by the HolySpirit through faith and obedience.

THE NEXT IS POWER.! After receiving the HolySpirit, the next of Christ's Will is Power. Functioning in Power is the will of God. The HolySpirit without Power will lead to a non-impactful lifestyle. The HolySpirit gives you CHARACTER, while the POWER gives you COMPETENCE.
There are some Christians who have fine character which is the 1st important key but they lack competence while some have power but lack character- this is worse. The 1st is Character (which is birthed by the HolySpirit) while the 2nd is Competence (which is birthed by the Power of God).
You receive and function with power through constant Prayer, studying of God's Word and worship.

THE LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT KEY OF CHRIST'S WILL IS TO BE WITNESSES.
The reason for the HolySpirit and Power is to be Witnesses of Christ, and not for ourselves. THE UTTERMOST DESIRE OF CHRIST IS FOR BELIEVERS TO BE CARRIER AND COURIER OF HIM TO THE WORLD. Making lives better is the reason for the anointing. If you have the HolySpirit, and you have power, but you are not witnessing Christ, you have failed God's investment in your life.
CHARACTER + COMPETENCE = INFLUENCE.
BECOME INFLUENTIAL FOR CHRIST THROUGH THE HOLYSPIRIT AND HIS POWER. Draw multitudes to Christ through the deposits of God in you. This is Christ's last desire for the Church. BE HIS WITNESS. REPRESENT HIM IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT. INFLUENCE DESTINIES FOR CHRIST.
Lastly, please note that you can be an effective witness to the degree that the HolySpirit and his Power is at work in you.

God bless you today!

THE GOD OF ABRAHAM BY DR. EMMA C. INNOCENT

WHO IS ABRAHAM?

Father of a multitude, son of Terah, named (Gen. 11:27) before his older brothers Nahor and Haran, because he was the heir of the promises. Till the age of seventy, Abram sojourned among his kindred in his native country of Chaldea. He then, with his father and his family and household, quitted the city of Ur, in which he had hitherto dwelt, and went some 300 miles north to Haran, where he abode fifteen years. The cause of his migration was a call from God (Acts 7:2-4). There is no mention of this first call in the Old Testament; it is implied, however, in Gen. 12. While they tarried at Haran, Terah died at the age of 205 years. Abram now received a second and more definite call, accompanied by a promise from God (Gen. 12:1,2); whereupon he took his departure, taking his nephew Lot with him, "not knowing whither he went" (Heb. 11:8). He trusted implicitly to the guidance of Him who had called him.¹

WHY MUST WE STUDY OR KNOW THE GOD OF ABRAHAM?

The God of Abraham is mentioned 17 times in the Bible.  It is worthy top note that when something is mentioned seventeen times, it is of high important. Repetition is the major way to prove to imprint a message. Abraham is the patriarch of Faith in Christ. In the dispensation where sin and unrighteousness were rampart and prevailing, more so, no role model anywhere, Abraham obeyed God by faith. He didn’t see God physically nor follow idolatry practiced in the land of Chaddees but trusted in a God he never knew. Abraham’s righteousness was by faith in God. This gave birth to a new race traceable to Christ, the author and finisher of our faith. This is to show us that in Christ, it is by faith and not by your works.

Another reason why we should know the God of Abraham is that God operates with mankind through His names. Your name identifies you. So when God want to show you an aspect of His way to you, He reveals his name to you in that area. The God of Abraham was first introduced by God himself and God himself demanded that people should call Him by that name, continually.

Gen. 26:24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

Ex. 3:15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: THIS IS MY NAME FOR EVER, and THIS IS MY MEMORIAL UNTO ALL GENERATIONS.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the name that will forever be used. This will be the first time God will declare himself as the God of a person. This is to show you the relationship that God had with Abraham. Abraham wasn’t the first righteous man to walk with God neither was he the last yet out of all the names God chose to call himself, he chose to call himself the God of Abraham.

WHO THEN IS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM?

1.      The God of Abraham is the God that saves from sin

Gen.12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Gen.12:7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

The first thing that God did to Abraham is to deliver him out from his people, his old ways. The God that cannot save you from sin, cannot save you from poverty. The first step is to come out of the bondage of sin. God had to call him out first before he can use it. If you want God to use you, you must be called out and sanctified.

Isa 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I CALLED HIM ALONE, and blessed him, and increased him.

Salvation is personal even though prosperity can be collective. The God of Abraham can save you from sin and that is possible through the blood of Jesus. The God of Abraham is interested in relationship first. He is a miracle worker but not a magician. You can’t use the God of Abraham. He demands for relationship. Repent now and receive a new nature of righteousness to live above sin.

2.      The God of Abraham is the God that defends and protect

Gen. 12:14 So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.  15 The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house.  16 He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.  17 But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

Gen. 15:1a  After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield…”

Gen. 20:18 for the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. (NKJV)

Abraham’s wife was very beautiful even at the age of 80 plus that a king could desire her. She was beautiful indeed. This is the reason why we say that pastors should marry beautiful women. If you see my wife, you will say Jesus is Lord. Abraham had already told her to say that he is her brother. So imagine when the king of Pharaoh took his wife, Abraham would have been praying in his privacy for God to step in. God quickly responded even when Abraham lied. This is to show you that the God of Abraham is ready to defend you. Anyone that is fighting to take your position and your possession, the God of Abraham will fight against them in Jesus name.

2Th 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you

Ps 94:1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

3.      The God of Abraham is the God of Enlargement

Gen. 12:14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: "Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are-northward, southward, eastward, and westward;  15 "for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

I Sam. 2:7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. 8 He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory. "For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, And He has set the world upon them.

The God of Abraham is the God of Enlargement. He is the God that moves people from the dust and from the dunghill top set them upon thrones. The dust is the lowest anyone can be on earth. Anything lower than the dust is the grave. Or are you in the dunghill, a place where refuse are kept, even from there the God of Abraham will locate you. There is no one that God cannot lift up. Once His mercy locates you, your story changes for good.

Pray this prayer: O God of Abraham, take me from where I am to where I suppose to be.

4.      The God of Abraham is the God that rewards

Gen. 15:1  After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.

Heb. 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. 

The God of Abraham is the God that rewards labours. Have you been labouring in the kingdom and you have not seen commensurate reward, I activate your reward from today in Jesus name. 

Pr. 13:12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Have your hope been dashed to pieces and you think that there is no more help for you? The God of Abraham is still on the throne.

5.       The God of Abraham is the God that keeps covenant

Gen. 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates

Covenant is an agreement between two or more parties. The God of Abraham is the covenant keeping God. When you are in your deepest pain vow can take you put of it. When you make a vow to God, God goes to you future and bring the blessing in the present. Vow fast forward your blessing to you. Covenant separates you from others. 

The Birthplace of Prophecy by Dr. Emma Innocent

The Birthplace of Prophecy

We defined Prophecy as “a prediction of a future event that is believed to reveal the will of a deity” according to Encarta Dictionaries 2009 Edition. Webster’s Dictionary defines prophecy as “in the New Testament, the gift of speaking under the influence of the HolySpirit, predictions of the future under the influence of divine guidance, the act or practice of prophet. Any prediction, something prophesied or predicted, specifically, the divinely inspired utterance of a prophet, a book of prophesies.” Simply put, Prophecy is the spoken or written words of the Lord to people. According to the blessed Myles Munroe, he defined it as “telling the future which is God’s past”. As long as God is concern, prophecy exists in his past but to us, it is in the future. The word ‘Prophecy’ appears in the King James Version of the Bible twenty-one times.

The word Unstoppable means cannot be stopped or placed on permanent hostage. When someone is described as unstoppable, it indicates that the person’s mission must be executed no matter the internal or external forces against him or her. When a prophecy is described as unstoppable, it indicates that no internal or external force can stop it from coming to pass or to been fulfilled.

Destiny is defined as your future or the pre-ordained path of your life. It is the purpose for your existence.

Types of Prophecy

There are two types of prophecy which are descriptive and predictive prophecy. Descriptive prophecy explains the purposes and plans of God in the one’s life. It can also be called forth-telling. Examples are the letters Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy (1 Tim.1:18; 4:14) and the prophecy of the HolyGhost to separate Paul and Barnabas for the mission work while Predictive prophecy reveals the prediction of present, near future and distant future events where there is nothing known definitely about that event. It can also be called fore-telling. An example is the case of a prophet called Agabus who predicted a coming famine and the imprisonment of Paul in Jerusalem (Acts 11:27-29; 21:10-11).

Kinds of Prophecy

Prophecy exists in four kinds:

1. Mental Prophecy
2. Oral Prophecy
3. Logos Prophecy
4. Rhema Prophecy

·                    Mental Prophecy:

This is an imaginary prophecy – pictures or visions of what God has shown you. This is where creation itself started from. This is where every fulfilled prophecy that is fulfilled started from. No prophecy is fulfilled by chance! Any prophecy fulfilled without going through mental scrutiny does not have a foundation. That means it will soon fade away. It will lose its staying power.

Jesus said in Luke 14:28 “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it”

Every great project or ministry you see today, their birthplace was the mind. One telecommunication company (MTN) says “if you can conceive it, you can achieve it”. Here is how the mental prophecy started:

Genesis 1:1 says “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” After this, something happened. Before going to tell us what happened, we should understand here that nothing was said about how he created the heaven and the earth in verse one. All we were told was that they are created. This dispensation is what is known as the dispensation of Angels or ageless past.

In verse two, we hear that the earth became formless and void. And from verse three to twenty-five, the Lord started re-creating or re-making those things He had created in verse one. During this process God was calling back those things that were lost in verse one that is the reason you see the word – “And God made”

Now in verse twenty-six to thirty, we see God creating man and woman. He also gave them the commission of dominion in the earth realm.

Now let get to Gen. 2:4- 4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were CREATED, in the day that the LORD God MADE the earth and the heavens,

 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

These scriptures are proving one thing – that man was created before he was made. The Hebrew meaning of the word “created” is “to bring into being; to bring something out of nothing”

Heb. 1:3 says “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear”

While the Hebrew word for “made” is “asah” meaning “to make out of already existing material; to bring to form.” Creation is done by having a mental picture of what you want to do, while making is something done by physical actions. We found out that from Gen. 1:26 till Gen. 2:6, man only existed as a created being in the mind of God. Mental prophecy was involved here. The Lord created a mental picture and then created it to be like him - a spirit (John 4:24a). This shows that mental prophecy is not only imagining something but it's about giving life to an imaginary object to live in the realm of the spirit. Anytime you involve in a mental process, you are creating that image into existence. That object starts living. It functions in that realm as long as you keep feeding it with imaginary abilities.

For instance, you can sit down and imagine a computer that doesn’t use the conventional monitors that we know i.e. Flat panel display and cathode ray tube monitors but it uses the air. The air acts like a projector where a wall or cloth is used as the screen. Another function should be that this new concept can locate anyone in a matter of seconds in any part of the world. So imagine such things like this. When you create this thought, as far as you are concern the said object exist. In fact, you can see yourself using that object. At this point in time, you have created an ‘object-spirit’. This ‘object-spirit’ exists as long as it stays in your mind. This is one of the reasons why people dream of what their mind had conceived and accepted in the day. That is what we call living in the dreamland. It’s important you start from the dreamland if ever you want to get to your Canaan land! A minister once said “a life without defined purpose is not worth living”.

So God created man in Gen. one verse twenty-six to twenty eight by forming a mental picture of him which created the human spirit. Man’s first home was in God’s dreamland. This is one of the reasons why dreams are very powerful. What you dream can affect both your present and your future. Have you heard of someone that dreamt that he was beheaded and in the day, some assassins visited him to kill him? The reason for this is that as far as he was concerned, the assassin has seen him beheaded whether in their sub-conscious or conscious mind. To them, a replica of his spirit has been created and beheaded. This is why you should not joke with your dream life. It is one of the birthplaces of great destinies. Once your dream life is captured, you are finished! In the Old Testament, kings took dreams as sovereign messages which if not executed, can ruin their reign on the throne. This is the reason why they can destroy lives if not duly interpreted. (Dan.2:1-13)

Man is a product of mental birth and if you must go far in life you must be born again mentally. Another significant thing to prove that man was created before he was made is that from Gen. 1:3 – 2:3, the statements you normally see here is "And God …” but from Gen. 2:4, the name of God changed to the LORD God. What is the difference?

God (used from Gen. 1:3 Gen. 2:3) in Hebrew is ‘Elohim” showing the plural use of God i.e. God-the Father, the Word (which later became flesh – the Son) and the HolySpirit (1 Jn.5:7, Jn.1:1, 14). The trinity was involved in creation. No wonder in Genesis chapter one verse twenty-six, God the Father said to the trinity members “Let us make..." but the Lord God (used from Gen. 2:4) in Hebrew is “Jehovah" meaning “The self-existent or eternal God”. So we see how the covenant name ‘Elohim’ that is responsible for the creation changed to the covenant name ‘Jehovah’ who is responsible for the completeness of the total being – the Spirit, Soul and Body.

Man, who existed in the spirit-realm was brought into the physical world to also live by the revelation of the Lord God. It took the ‘Lord God’ to do this. Why? Because man was to become a separated being from God just like the Word became flesh in John 1:14. This will now make man use his thinking faculty or his abilities. As long as man stays only in the spirit-realm, the earth realm is out of reach. So why will God create and make the earth for man while man stays as a spirit only? The reason for creation would have been aborted if God did not perform Gen. 2:7. Man has to be formed for him to exist both in the spirit-realm and in the earth-realm. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground...” can be paraphrased as: “And the self-existing God formed man.” it takes a great man to give birth to a great son. It takes a Lion to give birth to a lion. So also it takes a self-existing God to form a self-existing man. Shout hallelujah!

Immediately God finished creating you, he brought you to this world to fulfill prophecy which is in Gen. 1:27-28. Now you can see that prophecy started from the mind of God. That is your birthplace. That is your Genesis. And if God is your Alpha, He’ll also be your Omega! Shout Hallelujah! He has finished your creation! You are now a finished product. Go and manifest!

Another rhema here is that God operate through his covenant and his covenant is attached to his names. Anytime God want to perform an action, he appears with a covenant name relating to that action. For instance, for God to come down with his healing wings, his covenant name relating to healing will be called forth - Jehovah Rapha. It is wrong and un-biblical to pray a pray like this "Jehovah Rapha, manifest your favour in my life in Jesus name.” This is because the covenant name-Jehovah Rapha has nothing to do with his favour. Such prayers are place on ‘voice-mail’ even if you use it in Jesus name. If at all the Lord answers this prayer, it solely rest on his grace and mercy.

God’s covenant names are divided into two parts which are:

i.                     Creatorship Names: His creative names are the Elohistic names. It shows God’s creative powers in the universe.

ii.                   Redemptive Names: God’s redemptive names are the Jehovahistic names. It shows His power to save and empower mankind.

Understanding His covenant names will guide you in your choice of words when talking to the King. Accurate and specific prayers attract quick attention from the LORD. Now that you know, use his covenant names to get what you want. Below are list of some of God’s covenant names and their meanings.

...to be continue.

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