Shine the Star -a.k.a Salvation Ministry MS

09/01/2019

*GRACE TONIC*

*WEEK 1: JANUARY 8, 2019*

*TOPIC: EXPERIENCING OPEN HEAVEN*

*TEXT: LUKE 3:21-24*

_"When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too, and as he was praying, heaven was opened. And the Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph,” (LUKE 3:21- 23NIV)._

One of the bones of contention for unbelievers is: "What difference does faith in Christ makes especially when you consider it in terms of material gains?"

This is why if you base your faith in Christ on what can be acquired materially then your faith is built on sand. It cannot stand the test of time because unbelievers also have the things you have and even more.
They go to school, get married and give birth to children. They also get good jobs, buy cars, and built houses. So, what's special about your faith if your proofs are in these things?

Unfortunately, most of our evidences are these things. No wonder, we are not attracting unbelievers to the faith.

Meanwhile, there is a way the common things that happen to people can take an uncommon dimension in your life. God expects that what He does for you will be in the order of the extraordinary. It is the touch of heaven on the natural things that happens to you that brings the supernatural power into action.

Without this touch, whatever happens in your life will be ordinary. It will be described the way the baptism of Jesus was described, "Jesus was baptized too.”

The word ‘too’ suggests that the baptism of Jesus was not different from the rest of the people.

"When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too."
How I pray that the next phase of your life will not be ordinary! May people not describe your achievement this way, “She graduated too. He got married too. He bought a car too. He got ordained too. He travelled abroad too.” Only ‘too’ is added, nothing significant is attached. It is not different from the way it happens to others. I pray that “ordinary” is canceled over what God is about to do in your life in Jesus Name.

Jesus was very sensitive to what was happening. He knew He shouldn’t go out of that water the way others went out. He shouldn’t just be baptized too just for the sake of it. There ought to be a difference in His own baptism because He has a purpose to fulfill. Hence, He began to pray. “And as he was praying, heaven was opened.” Jesus understood that when heaven doesn’t open, the summary of a man’s activities is just ‘too’. There will be nothing that distinguishes a man from the rest of the people. It is the opening of heaven that confers the extraordinary dimension to the things that happens to you.

The night before our ordination, I told my wife that we could persuade the man of God in charge to postpone the ordination for us if I was just going to get ordained too. I didn’t just want to have collar and get anointed with oil without any difference in my life and ministry. I was desperately seeking God because I knew the ordination must not be ordinary.

As everyone in that scripture got baptized, they were dipped inside water, they came out and went home. But Jesus refused to just get baptized and go home just like the rest.

*And as He was praying…*

Do you know it wasn’t just that baptism that opened heaven to Jesus? If it was just the baptism, the heaven should have been opened for others too. The scripture says, _“And as he was praying, heaven was opened.”_ He didn’t depart from John after the baptism. Right inside the water, He prayed for an open heaven. If Jesus had to pray, at the critical point of baptism, before securing an open heaven, we can’t afford not to pray at the critical junctions of our lives.

Prayer was the password to Jesus’ open heaven. Prayer was what Elijah also used to open the heavens after three years of famine. It is the password if you will experience an open heaven.

Every stage, new season or achievement in your life should be used as an opportunity to secure an open heaven through prayer. You shouldn’t be casual about it. Jesus wasn’t. He maximized the season of His baptism. Why did you graduate and did not pray on your convocation day? As a new bride, as you walk out of the church covered with sprays on your wedding day, you ought to be praying. The celebration must not become ordinarily in your life. As you step into your first car and you ignite it, you should declare, ‘This is my first time, it is not going to be the last time!’. As you dedicate your new house, you ought to be praying. That is how to get heaven opened.

Your first flight experience shouldn't be a time to look out for what the waitresses would offer you, it is time to secure an open heaven. I met a sister who told me how she prayed as she flew in the air for the first time. She said “I am flying today; flying just started in my life and destiny. This will not be my last. I am flying, Lord don’t let me ever come down in life again”. As she was praying in the plane, they were looking at her. She began to prophesy upon her children, work and all things that concerns her.

Every opportunity to do a good thing for the first time should be maximized to secure a open heaven through prayer.

As a student, the day you write your last paper or your day of graduation shouldn't be taken casually. It shouldn't be a day of frivolities. It is a day to make sure the heavens are opened for the next phase of your life. It is a day to come against what makes an educated man to live no differently from an illiterate. It is a day to command the heavens to open. Without a need to tell people you are a graduate, the result should show.

When the doctor confirms your pregnancy, you command the heavens to open, “I’m stepping into motherhood, heaven open”. When you get promotion at work you command open heaven.

When you operate under an opened heaven, it affects every aspect of your life including the ability to stay away from sexual impurities. You don't fall in the face of sexual temptations. Your courtship will free from sexual immorality.

Heaven opened on Jesus with a physical proof. The Holy Spirit was embodied in a dove for one Person that day. When your heaven opens, there will be physical proofs of it. It will not just be a spiritual thing; it will be backed up with things that can be seen, touched and felt. I pray such unique blessing and glory will come for you. There shall be physical evidences that the Lord has rent the heavens over you. People will ask why your life is so good recently and you will answer them, ‘heaven has just been opened over me’. I ask for physical confirmations of your opened heaven.

The Holy Spirit will start working things through you so much that there will be tangible physical testimonies.

Missing critical appointments could be an indication of a closed heaven. Why is it that the person you came to meet always arrive after you have left? Go and pray! When your heaven opens, your steps are ordered by God to meet the person you need to meet at the time you are supposed to meet the person.

You can experience an opened heaven in the place of prayer. As you start singing, you are already launched into the presence of God while someone else fasts for fourteen days yet he hasn’t even opened the gate of heaven. You can experience an opened heaven in your study life such that as you open the Bible, you get revelations from God. This can become your daily experience. There is a Word for Monday, for Tuesday and every day of the week.

When heaven opens unto you, everyone will trace your location. When it’s not opened, you will be in a public place and no one will even notice you! When heaven opens over you, you perform your duties without stress and get results.

And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” Every voice that will be speaking on your behalf now will be speaking at your favor because your heavens are opened. God will silent every negative voice in the name of Jesus.

As soon as the heaven was opened over Jesus, the next we saw was that He began something.

_Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry._

When heavens open over you, then it is time to begin something. It is hard to begin a thing under a closed heaven and this is the year to begin something because God has opened the heavens over you. What will you kick start this year under this open heaven? What Jesus began after that open heaven has survived generations. We are still witnessing it till today. It’s not ordinary because He started under an opened heaven. It was a breakthrough that can neither be blocked nor obstructed. I pray what you are starting at this age under open heaven is blessed with trans-generational success and prosperity.

Isaiah 64:1 says the heavens can be rent. A rent heaven is a wider and explosive dimension of an opened heaven. What is opened can be closed but what is torn or rent becomes perpetually opened. And this is what God wants you to experience this year. He wants you to live perpetually under an opened heaven. When heaven is rent, it won't just be about you, it will concern your parents, siblings and friends. They will wonder what your secret is and you will answer them, "The heaven has just been rent over me”.

Even if you are not stepping into any new phase of your life presently, a new year is a new phase and you must not begin the year with a closed heaven.

I pray there shall be an open heaven for correct marital lives, for wonderful jobs, even your siblings will testify to open heavens this year in Jesus name. I pray heaven opens over the works of your life.

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This week's devotional is authored by Revd. Oyelakin Olabiyi, the President of Transfiguration Ark Revival Mission, Nigeria.

23/12/2018

19/10/2017

THE ARROW IN THE HAND OF MIGHTY
“As arrow is in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth” psalm 127 vs 4
An arrow is weapon of war that is use to strike the enemy down but cannot function except there is a user. Arrow is a powerful weapon that can kill or injure the enemy even for a far distance. Yes, it is powerful but if there is not an arrow man the arrow will become unless. Even when someone that did not kwon how to use arrow in war use it, he will just waste the arrows because it take an expect to launch arrow. You need to be train before you can launch arrow.
The above scripture explain to us that children that a man gives birth too in his youthful age are arrows. Permit to say children are arrows in their father’s hand. The first thing I want us to know is that you launch arrow to where you can get too. You don’t use arrows to fight a close contact battle but in a distance battle. Your intention is to kill or injure the person you are fighting with down but both of you are not close to yourself and that make you not to fulfill to aim but you can launch an arrow, if you have one because arrow can fly to where man or warrior can get to at that minute. Now if children are arrows. The father and mother should be called arrow men or arrow women (warrior or mighty). This earth is divided into worlds (there is banking world, medical world, sport world e.t.c. ), and these worlds as become a battle ground and Satan as delegate people to rule the worlds. Anybody that does not serve Satan cannot be known in the he or she enters. For us to be known, we need to declare war in that world. Some fathers and mother are always wishing their children to become this and that, they always wishing there to doctor, lawyer, civil engineering e.c.t. seriously God can grant you your hearth desire but what gives you assurance that your child will be known in that world you send him or her to or what assurance do have that he or she will not also serve Satan to become well known.
Most of the father knows that their children arrows, and they are willing to launch them to the place they know they cannot get too again, due to their age or disability but they never see themselves as the arrow operator. Some see themselves as the arrow operator but they never take time to train themselves in how to launch arrows. They start waiting arrows on the battle field because they are untrained arrow operator. They don’t understand the principle that say’s how far the arrow will go will be determine by the arrow launcher and most of the parent don’t even try to launch there children (arrows) and their arrows (children) become dormant and useless. This is the high time for you parent and anybody that which to become parent to start training himself or herself to become good arrow launcher.
How can I train myself? This is a nice question that need and answer, follow me as will find solution to this and unlock some way by which you can train yourself to become a good arrow launcher. First that will always be the first is PRAYER; you need to train yourself in prayer because when the battle start, you need to secure the victory first in prayer before you start manifesting physically. I hope you still remember that we are not fighting against flesh and blood but against principality and power. so before you start any battle you need to have become a prayer machine. Secondly, you need to become a BIBLE STUDENT, am not telling you to go to bible school but to be a bible reader because in it you will find skills and ways by which you can launch your arrow (children). Thirdly, YOU MUST MASTER HOW TO HEAR GOD because is not all battle you should fight, not all battle ground you should go and is not all battle you must use arrow for. When you can hear God during the time he his speaking to you, he will give you direction on how to fight safely. Fourthly, SEEK GODLY WISDOM AND ADVICE from godly people that have overcome before you, in this will start launching your arrows well and without missing the target.
‘’As arrow are in the hand of mighty men; so are children of the youth” psalm 127 vs 4.
The second thing I want you see in this above scripture is that; God is our father and we are all his children, so we are all arrow in his hand without us been launch, we will remain dormant and useless but can an arrow launch itself? Certain no. But I wonder how people are launching themselves, when God as not launch them. Bother, you have are call of God but as God ask you to start a ministry? Why are you launching yourself when God as not launch you, then you will start begging people to come programs. Sister, you have a singing ministry, but as God as you to release your first album? Why are you try to launch yourself when God as not launch you. You want to make self known, when God as not announce you, you will parade yourself, you will shout, still no body will see you. The how far an arrow will go, his determine by the launcher. Why don’t you wait till the launcher launch you?. Am glad to tell you that his not wasting your time but shaping the narrow part (important part) of the arrow (you) ,so that you can go far and be effective. Wait until he launch you, don’t launch yourself it is dangerous, you can on that waste your life. Wait until he launches you.
If you lift yourself up when God as not lifted you up, you will dramatically come down yourself. Don’t forget what verse one of psalm 127 say’s;
“Except the lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain.” psalm 127 vs 1.
If God did not launch you, don’t launch yourself, if God did not promote you, the promoter will be promoting in vain. Don’t let anybody fool you or push you forward than your father, your creator, your launcher, your God. It is a dangerous thin to be forward than God that have a master plan of your life. God is a merciful father, he can still restore you back, if you have launched yourself when as not launch you, you can go back to him prayers and he will return you back to his quiver. Go to the throne of grace with boldness to receive mercy from God your creator, your father, your launcher. If God has not launched you, the launchers are launching in vain.
Written by; JAYEOBA OLAYINKA S.
GOD THAT STARTED IS GOOD WORK WELL SURLY FINISH IT.
BEGINNING AND ENDING.
HE KNOWS THE ENDING FROM THE BEGINNING.

24/08/2015

"Jesus is the way, the truth and the life"
Frm dis short word frm d bible it means a lot . Jesus is the way that lead to any way, if you are find way to get to God the father and to be great in feature Jesus is the only way. He his the truth of all matter, their is not problem u carry to Jesus dat he didn't knw abt and he we Surly have solution to it. He have all original copy of everytin. He giv life to everytin even to death he gave them life. He as power to rise anytin DAT as die in you to life, it can be any part of ur body or ur business or anytin it can be Jesus is ready to giv life to it back. Giv ur life to Jesus today and u are going to see Jesus in the manner of the way,the truth and the life.

09/05/2015

wat god need in you is ur heart

14/03/2015

I Must WorkThe Work Of Him That Send Me, While It Is Day; The Time Cometh, When No Man Can Work JOHN. 9 V 4
Let us do anything we want do no time bcos night is coming that u we not able to work again. Do it very fast ! ! ! ! !

04/03/2015

PRAY Before U Choose Ur Wife Or ur Husband Dont Be Like Jacob And Judah They Go Into Marriage Without Asking God And They Have Problems In TheRe Marriage.
WARNING!!!

07/02/2015

Go And Meet God Nakedly
And He Clothed You
Search For Christ
And Salvation We Ur's
Cast All Ur Trouble On Him
And He We Help To Carry Them All
Run After Him Wit Cry
He We Send U Way Wit Joy

25/01/2015

STOP Counting Years As Ur Age Starting Frm Today, Count Days As Ur Age Bcos Without Days, Year Cannot stand And Without Days, Life Cannot lives.
Stop Wasting Ur Days Bcos Of Ur Years

25/01/2015

I Serve D God Of Grace Dat Can Disgrace Just To Being Grace Out Of Disgrace

25/01/2015

Wat Make A Preacher To Be Preaching And People Are feeling tied, His Just Dat D Preacher Lack Anoint And Let Dat Preacher As For D Fresh Anoint and as Jesus To Refresh Him or Her.
Seek yea d kingdom of god all thing we added to it

25/01/2015

JOY: Dis Word Is Pawaful Dan Hw We Cal It. The Word JOY Means; "JESUS ORDERS YOURSELF". I knw U We Be Longing 4 D Meanin, Put Jesus First In Everything We Are Doin, Bible Said If D Lord Does Not Build D House D Builder Are Doin In Vain. ORDERS; After Jesus Orders. Wat Did I Means By Orders It Means Your Relatives And The Stringent, Bcos D Bible Said The Blesser We Be Greater Dat D One The Received The Blessing We Lesser Dan D Blesser(Hebrew 7 Vs 7). YOURSELF; After All You Did Not Need To Struggle With Things Again But Seek Ye The Kingdom Of God And Order Things We Added To It. If U Follow Dis Principle JOY Is Not Far Frm U.