Faith Bible Church Singapore

Sunday Service 10th May 2009

There will be an increased fruitfulness, locally. There will be an increased fruitfulness in the community, a realm in the church, a realm in Singapore. There will be an increased fruitfulness with new births, increased fruitfulness with healing, locally.

But there will also be an increase in fruitfulness internationally, for there will be an increase internationally as people come to be trained. They will come here, and the communication of your faith with even these people, how accurately they are taught and how the gospel is shared will help them understand and have revelational knowledge to go back to their country, to be able to then communicate the gospel to their people. So, yes, there will be an increase in this place. There will be an increase first of all individually, secondly locally amongst the community and thirdly internationally.

So continue on the path that you have been going, says the Spirit of the Lord. Continue walking in the same way that you have been walking for you are walking with Me and the things that you are doing are of Me. So, rejoice and be glad and follow My plan, because this plan I have had from the foundation of the world.

And yes, you will help people, you will help people, individually. You will help people on a local level, in the community, and you will help people internationally, and prepare those people. So continue to walk that way, and rejoice. Rejoice and be glad, because the work that I’ve called you to, you are walking in that work.

Hallelujah. Praise You Father. Thank You Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise You Father. Hallelujah. Praise be to God. Hallelujah….

In 2008 someone named S, prayed about changing her job and joining another corporation. It seemed like it was the Lord’s will for this person to do so and she did. The financial crisis hit the whole world soon after. Many got retrenched. Some colleagues of S began to discuss with her about who was going next. But S told her colleague that she did not want to talk about it and boldly declared that she would not be the one.

One Sunday while we were collecting the tithes and offerings, I was led by the Spirit of the Lord to say this to the congregation: “God needs me to do what He has planned for me to do through this church, and I need you to help me to do what God wants us to do through this church. I need your tithes and offerings. And you need your jobs. So you will not lose your job because I need you.” And I had the members make this confession together with me.

Obey the Prompting of the Holy Spirit

One day in the first quarter of 2009 S had a prompting to pray. S yielded to that prompting and prayed. Then S realised that the Lord was leading her to pray concerning her promotion.

Two weeks later S’ boss asked her to take over her superior’s position as he was moving over to another area within the organisation.

S had all along been praying in the prayer group and in the focus groups for a few years now. Yet when the time came the Holy Spirit still needed S to pray.

The lessons learnt from S’ experience are:

1. Though S had been praying in the different groups consistently yet when the time came there was still a need to pray very specifically as the Holy Spirit directed.
2. Was there a need for her to pray? Obviously yes, or else why would the Holy Spirit have prompted S?
3. Would S have got the promotion if S had not yielded to the prompting to pray and no one else prayed for her concerning this matter? Probably not. If S could then there was no necessity to pray.
4. Why did the Lord prompt S to pray by the Holy Spirit? The reason could be that the devil may have been influencing to block the promotion.
5. Does the Lord care about her promotion? Yes, He cares for every aspect of your life. So the promotion is part of God plan for S’ life.
6. It is important to realise that S stayed in the prayer group and prayer focus groups so it helped her to recognise the promptings of the Holy Spirit and it helped S to be more yielded to the Holy Spirit. When she was faced with such a situation she yielded and did not miss it.
7. Despite the financial crisis bringing about retrenchments everywhere, S kept confessing that she would not be the one retrenched as she believed that she would have what she said. Also S has been faithful in paying her tithes and in her offerings.

When the Holy Spirit leads us to pray we cannot override Him by our confession of faith (or what we believe). Many Christians miss it here. They may have heard from God that promotion will come or blessing will come. But when the time comes and the Holy Spirit is leading them to do something or to pray or to go somewhere, instead of obeying His leading they disobey Him. They continue to confess that “promotion is mine” and miss it altogether. You may be standing on the promises given by the Word of God but do not ignore the leading, the prompting, the inner voice, the witness of the Holy Spirit, or your conscience.

You cannot override the leading of the Holy Spirit with your confession, your believing and your status quo.

When the Holy Spirit prompts,

YOU PRAY IT

and

YOU SAY IT!

Say what God is saying to you.

Psalms 34:10

10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger;
But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing. NKJV

You always Receive

Just to share a testimony – someone who has been coming regularly to our Church@Prayer was thinking of not coming one night since most of the time we were praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the full manifestations of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit told her that it was good to go. So she yielded and came that night and lo and behold, the Holy Spirit directed the prayer towards her. After the prayer I was able to instruct her from the Word of God and laid hands on her to pray for the healing of her physical condition. I believe the reason why God didn’t have me minister healing to her on a Sunday service was because He was getting her ready to receive that night instead.

When you are seeking God for an answer or for a direction, go all the way. The answer may be coming just round the corner, so to speak.

Many times you may have been at the services or have been faithfully coming to the prayer meetings, and seemingly the prayers were for everything else except for you. It may also seem like you did not receive anything at all. But oftentimes than not you have actually received more than what you have come for and you’re just about to see its manifestation.

Be Discerning of What the Lord is Doing in Your Life

There were times that the Lord directed certain people to come for the noon prayer and they didn’t even realise it. So they came once, twice and a few other times but eventually stopped coming altogether. One to two years down the road, problems start to surface. God was trying to help them by putting in their spirits to come to noon prayer to pray out the things that were about to happen in one or two year’s time. They came but did not seem to get into the prayer flow, so they quit coming. I realised that they couldn’t get into the flow because there were areas in their lives that needed adjustment.

When we come to pray and if we find ourselves going nowhere then it is time to make an assessment of ourselves asking, “Is there anything in our lives that is not pleasing in His sight?” Perhaps we may have spoken against someone thus rendering our lips “unclean”.

When we repent of our ways we are humbling ourselves before God. We humble by yielding to His Word and His Spirit especially when our ways are not in conformity to His Word. Then we continue to seek Him for it is written, “But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing” (Psalm 34:10 NKJV).

The Lord knows there are needs coming up in your lives and He, your Heavenly Father, will always try to meet your needs. He may lead you to the prayer group, Church@Prayer or even the prayer focus groups to pray so that He may send someone along the way to intercept you in your life’s journey just to meet your need. He may lead you to seek Him for He has things to tell you and to show you. He may lead you to give (to sow) because down the road you may be the one having a financial need and He wants you to activate the law of sowing and reaping now so that every need may be supplied.

Seek and Obey and you shall lack no good thing!!!