PHANEROO~DEVOTION 5th May 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God [Romans 10:17].

HEARING BY THE WORD.

The word of God works, it is effectual in its working. Some people take the word of God so lightly as though it’s a passive thing which is just there waiting for them to catch and run with it, but the word of God works. What the word needs is access to your heart. The moment it gets to your heart, you will be astounded at what it can do. Never worry about the results of the word for the word is God, never worry about what God can do. Just worry that he has access to the place where he can function.

When a man learns to hear by the word, it means he can hear God expressly explaining to him what he is reading. Some men read the word but do not understand what they are reading like the Ethiopian eunuch. The word was in a language the eunuch would read but would not be understood by him because the things of God can only be discerned by spiritual people.

Learn to hear by the word. Some people hear as learned, others hear as unlearned. Some hear as initiated, others hear as uninitiated. The ones that hear unlearned can quote the scriptures and even sing them but do not have the blessed experiences of these things. When you hear as a learned man, you will read it and run with it, and it will work in you.

FURTHER STUDY: Isaiah 50:4, Acts 8:26-40

GOLDEN NUGGET: What the word needs is access to your heart. The moment it gets to your heart, you will be astounded at what it can do.

PRAYER: Lord we thank you for the word that works effectually in us. We are not they that work the word so it works, Lord we believe in its inherent efficacy. We know it’s working in our lives, in our bodies, in our blood, in our bones, in our families, in our children, in our work places, in everything that concerns us. It is working. It is working. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Excerpt: World of spirits

PHANEROO~DEVOTION 4th May 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. [1 John 2:27]

THE PLACE OF REVELATION.

In speaking of the fivefold ministry, the Bible says that He gave some teachers. This does not mean that you do not need teachers but rather, if a man should teach you, let him teach you from the very unction of the spirit. The use of a teacher then is, that by him you hear by the word.

 His primary ministry then as a teacher to you is the first stage of hearing; at least hear what the minister preached. However, some Christians cannot even remember what was preached to them and worse still some do not even make notes yet they wrote eagerly during their biology and physics classes.

God wants to raise you to a point where by the word you hear. That is the place of revelation. But, most people harden their hearts towards God and the things of the spirit and are thus unable to perceive by the spirit. Since they cannot perceive by the spirit, they cannot relate with revelation and can’t have a part of these things.

The grace of God for the spirit of revelation is for the sole purpose that you may see by the spirit of God. The deeper a man can see in the spirit, the softer his heart is to the working of the spirit.

FURTHER STUDY: Romans 10:17, Deuteronomy 29:29

GOLDEN NUGGET: The grace of God for the spirit of revelation is for the sole purpose that you may see by the spirit of God. The deeper a man can see in the spirit, the softer his heart is to the working of the spirit.

PRAYER: Father we thank you for the spirit of revelation, by it we have access, for the revealed things belong to us. This spirit is working in us and by it we respond to these things that are freely ours. Thank you for the grace to hear, thank you because it is at work in us today; by it we have perception; by it we see. Lord we thank you. Amen.

Excerpt: The World of Spirits

PHANEROO~DEVOTION 3rd May 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, [1 Peter 1:3]

OUR LIVING HOPE

Our hope is full of life, Lively. We don’t have a hope that is without life. The power of hope is that, even a person without a relationship with God can wake up one day and make a positive statement, and on that confession get results. But this is not the hope God is talking about. Before you understand this lively hope, first understand the power of simple hope.

The bible says there's hope for even a tree. Trees don’t speak, they don’t fast, they do not pray, they don’t speak in other tongues, but at a mere smell of the waters, only smell, not even its actual existence but just the smell of water, the tree sprouts again.
How much more you?
Understand that lively hope is the hope that comes after you believe on the Lord Jesus, it follows after the life of God. This is the hope that you carry child of God, Halleluyah!

FURTHER STUDY: Job 14:7, Hebrews 6:19

GOLDEN NUGGET: Lively hope is the hope that comes after you believe on the Lord Jesus, it follows after the life of God. This is the hope that you carry child of God.

PRAYER: Father God we thank you for the hope that we have as your children. It is not a dead hope, but a lively hope. Lord if a tree be cut and the smell of water causes it to sprout again, how much more us when we have you? Because of this hope we cannot give up. Because of this hope we cannot draw back. Because of this hope, we know that nothing can overcome us. We live with this testimony of victory in our spirits this day, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Excerpt: Living Hope

PHANEROO~DEVOTION 20th April 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth [Romans 9:11].

DIVINE ELECTION

In the ministry of the election of God, God does not elect after the order of men, because when men elect, they look at merit; they look at height; they look at weight; they look at fashion; they look at beauty; they look at style. But that is not how God elects because, that very God tells you that ‘I chose the foolish things of this world that I may confound the wisdom of the wise’. The reason why God is going to use you is because when you look at yourself, you lack the ability to do those things.

Now, where there is a divine election, I have noticed all my life, that there is always a divine change of things. Some people posses what belongs to you. I am talking about a God who will give you houses you never built. There is a man who is sleeping in a house with your name on it, a vine yard planted by another for you.

Child of God, to receive from God is an easy thing. Religion has complicated the simplicities of divine providence from the hand of a loving father. Not everything you must receive has to be worked for.  You are going to see that God, that anointing work in your life. When people ask you how? Your answer will be simple, ‘divine election.’ May you receive this as your portion this day in the name of Jesus, Amen.

FURTHER STUDY: 1 Corinthians 1:27, Joshua 24:13

GOLDEN NUGGET: The reason why God is going to use you is because when you look at yourself, you lack the ability to do those things.

PRAYER: Lord we thank you for we are called of you, thank you for the things that belong to us simply by your promise and not our works. We thank you for those houses we did not build, vineyards we did not plant and for wells we did not dig. Thank you for those things that come easily to us because our story and testimony was never one of struggle. Lord we receive. We receive. We simply receive Lord. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Excerpt: DIVINE ELECTION

PHANEROO~DEVOTION 19th April 2016

Apostle Grace Lubega

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High [Psalms 82:6].

IN THE KING’S CHAMBER OF COUNSEL II

Human reasoning is subject to the nature of Adam. Yet as believers, Because we transitioned from the first adamic nature to the new man in Christ, the Bible says that now we have the mind of Christ.  We can reason with God in the same way you can sit with another man and reason with him.

When God speaks of our kingdom, it is not an earthly one. When he says he is the king of kings, he is not the king of earthly kings only. He is also speaking of kings in the heavenly realm. Kingly authority on the earthly realm was not God’s idea. The children of Israel demanded for a king but that was not God’s original plan.

The kings we see on the earth were a result of the choice of men overly insisting and demanding for a king. God has never planned to make kings out of unregenerated men. He has always planned to make kings out of born again believers, Why? Because we receive of his life. He doesn’t want to have a kingly substance in a man that does not reason like him. When the scriptures speak of safety in the multitude of counsellors, it is more than the place of caution because a man consulted many people over a decision he had to make. It is the wisdom by which the maturity of the church grants access for us to sit in counsel with God and thus consequently execute God’s purpose on the earth. May the Lord cause you to walk in this wisdom today!

FURTHER STUDY: Isaiah 1:18, Revelation 17:14

GOLDEN NUGGET:
God has never planned to make kings out of unregenerated men. He has always planned to make kings out of born again believers, Why? Because we receive of his life.

PRAYER: Father God, we thank you for the authority that we carry as children of the Most High, thank you for the kingly anointing at work in our lives, thank you for the wisdom that we carry as kings, the privilege to sit in counsel with you Lord. Thank you because the substance of our counsel forms the basis for any judgments in the earth and as such, we wield judgment against disease, evil in the earth, against bondage, against oppression for such is our authority, our power, our victory. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Excerpt: KINGDOM BUSINESS by Apostle Grace Lubega

PHANEROO~DEVOTION 18th April 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you [1 Thessalonians 4:11].

RUN YOUR RACE

Child of God, never seek to fight and prove a minister and other fellow Christians as either right or wrong. Seek to do this one thing- what the Lord called you to do. Other men’s weakness and strengths are not your business. Other men’s ministries are not your business. Other men’s lives are not your business. You have too much to do in running your own race as a minister. Your concern should be, how many people have I raised? How many people have I brought to Jesus? How many people are saved because of my life?

If there be someone whose doctrine or teaching you do not necessarily agree with or a brother whose attitude you do not like, purpose to pray for them. No man in the deepest spirit of intersession can judge one he prays for. Take the example of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Every time He went in prayer He came out in compassion, and passionate to help men.

To him it was a matter of the cup that he had to bear. Read through the gospels, when we see him speak with the Pharisees and Sadducees, he addresses them directly. He did not go behind their backs, He did not backbite them. We never heard of Jesus seated over supper with his disciples to discuss Ceaser! His business was not about the dealings of men. His business was and is souls- to get  men reconciled back to God. That is our ministry. Hallelujah!

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 5:18, Proverbs 11:30

GOLDEN NUGGET: Jesus’ business was not other men’s dealings, his business was and is souls- to get men reconciled back to God. That is our ministry.

PRAYER: Father God, we are grateful for our lives, for the mandate and assignment that you have given to each and every one of us. We thank you that every day we increasingly respond to the urgency of the demands of heaven for the souls of men. We thank you that this truth defines our focus, our desires, our aspirations. We know souls are your heartbeat and as such, they are our heartbeat too. Every day Lord, we choose to lay aside the things that profit not, conversations that profit not, and attitudes that profit not, for the sake of drawing men into the kingdom. Help us Lord. Help us today. Help us each moment of our lives. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Excerpt: SPY KIDS

PHANEROO~DEVOTION 17th April 2016 Apostle Grace Lubega

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever[ Hebrews 13:8].

WE DON’T BUILD MONUMENTS

I have known of some Christians and some ministers who, when they tell you about healing, they tell you of the old story of how they used to heal in the past. Their story is, ‘you see for us in 1995 this happened, in 1982 this happened, in 1972 this happened.’

Much as these testimonies are worth recording, if we only dwell on the former things, then it implies the gospel is not progressive. It is about these monuments they build around past experiences.

However, the beginning of monuments is the true definition of a man starting to walk in religion. God is the same today, yesterday and forever. If He healed then, He heals now and he will heal tomorrow. If He delivered then, He will deliver now and He will deliver tomorrow. If He changed men yesterday, He will change them today and He will change them tomorrow.

You must move in the consistent light and power of the Holy Spirit. Seek consistency and not just a onetime experience. Always pursue consistency because behind every consistent thing, there is diligence and behind every diligence there is a raising of kings and behind the raising of every king there is a manifestation of the kingly anointing and behind every manifestation of the kingly anointing there is an exaltation and honor and behind every honor there is a glorification and behind every glorification there is a vindication and behind every vindication there is God- always God. No man can raise up by themselves.  No man can build ministry by themselves. No man can preach by themselves. No man can raise a number by themselves. May this truth work in your life today.

FURTHER STUDY: 2 Corinthians 3:18, Haggai 2:9

GOLDEN NUGGET: Behind every consistent thing, there is diligence and behind every diligence there is a raising of kings and behind the raising of every king there is a manifestation of the kingly anointing and behind every manifestation of the kingly anointing there is an exaltation and honor and behind every honor there is a glorification and behind every glorification there is a vindication and behind every vindication there is God.

PRAYER: Lord we thank you for our lives, we thank you that the testimony of our walk with you is one of glory to glory. We thank you that we are better today than we were yesterday. We thank you that we are deeper today than we were yesterday. We thank you that knowledge is increased in our lives, wisdom is multiplied, our territories enlarged, the circumference of our influence expanded, for that is our testimony, such is our story, not the building of monuments around past experiences but the consistency and the increase that comes with the increase of God. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Excerpt from: SPY KIDS