A Pastor asked a school boy;
Pastor: What do you want to be?
Boy: I want to become an Engineer.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will become General Manager of a big Company?
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will purchase a Big House?
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will have a beautiful wife.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: We will have kids.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will give them good education.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: They will get good employment.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: They will have families.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will retire from employment.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will play with my grand children.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will become still older.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I will say goodbye to my family and die.
Pastor: After that?
Boy: I DON’T KNOW.
Pastor: So your planning is for just 60 or 70 years, that is app 25000 days?
Boy: I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT.
Pastor: But God has a purpose for your life and He likes to give you an eternity that is living with God in his house, heaven. This small life of 25000 days is given to you for training and during this training He conducts daily examinations. Your ultimate aim should not be to become a General Manager but TO BE WITH GOD FOR EVER IN HEAVEN! And JESUS Christ is the Way to Heaven!
HAVE YOU ever thought of your future, or going to Heaven?
HEAVEN A PLACE OF JOY WITH GOD!
Jesus said, in Jn 14:2,3-IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS: IF IT WERE NOT
SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. AND IF I GO AND
PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF;
THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO.
Jesus has gone to prepare a place for His people. That place is called New Jerusalem.
Isa 65:18-BUT BE YE GLAD AND REJOICE FOR EVER IN THAT WHICH I CREATE: FOR,
BEHOLD, I CREATE JERUSALEM A REJOICING, AND HER PEOPLE A JOY.
Heb 13:14-FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING (or enduring) CITY, BUT WE SEEK ONE
TO COME. The city we seek is New Jerusalem.
Abraham looked for New Jerusalem in faith. It is written, Heb 11:10-Abraham LOOKED FOR
(or was looking forward to-NIV) A CITY WHICH HATH FOUNDATIONS, WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER (or Architect) IS GOD.
The city of New Jerusalem is built by God. Indeed, the saints desire this better country, which is a
heavenly one. It is written, Heb 11:16-BUT NOW THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY, THAT
IS, AN HEAVENLY: WHEREFORE GOD IS NOT ASHAMED TO BE CALLED THEIR GOD:
FOR HE HATH PREPARED FOR THEM A CITY.
New Jerusalem is the city of God. Those that overcome the world and the things therein, Jesus will
write upon them the name of New Jerusalem. It comes down out of heaven from God. It is written, Rev 3:12-HIM THAT OVERCOMETH…I WILL WRITE UPON HIM THE NAME OF MY GOD, AND
THE NAME OF THE CITY OF MY GOD, WHICH IS NEW JERUSALEM, WHICH COMETH
DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN FROM MY GOD: AND I WILL WRITE UPON HIM MY NEW NAME.
Heb 12:22-24-BUT YE ARE COME UNTO MOUNT ZION, AND UNTO THE CITY OF THE
LIVING GOD, THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM, AND TO AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY OF
ANGELS, TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHICH ARE
WRITTEN IN HEAVEN, AND TO GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL, AND TO THE SPIRITS OF JUST
MEN MADE PERFECT, AND TO JESUS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT, AND
TO THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING, THAT SPEAKETH BETTER THINGS THAN THAT OF
ABEL.
Gal 4:22-26-FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THAT ABRAHAM HAD TWO SONS, THE ONE BY A
BONDMAID (or slave woman), (and) THE OTHER BY A FREEWOMAN. BUT HE WHO WAS OF
THE BONDWOMAN (or slave woman) WAS BORN AFTER THE FLESH; BUT HE OF THE
FREEWOMAN WAS BY PROMISE. WHICH THINGS ARE AN ALLEGORY: FOR THESE ARE
THE TWO COVENANTS; THE ONE FROM THE MOUNT SINAI, WHICH GENDERETH TO
BONDAGE, WHICH IS HAGAR. FOR THIS HAGAR IS MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA, AND ANSWERETH TO JERUSALEM WHICH NOW IS, AND IS IN BONDAGE WITH HER
CHILDREN. BUT JERUSALEM WHICH IS ABOVE IS FREE, WHICH IS THE MOTHER OF
US ALL. New Jerusalem represents the new covenant—freedom.
Rev 21:2-AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN
FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED (or beautifully dressed)
FOR HER HUSBAND.
GOD SHALL DWELL WITH MEN
Rev 21:3-AND I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OUT OF HEAVEN (or from the throne) SAYING,
BEHOLD (now), THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL (or live)
WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH
THEM, AND (will) BE THEIR GOD.
God the Father and God the Son shall live with men in New Jerusalem. The redeemed shall be His
people. The fellowship that man had in the beginning with God was broken, because of sin. However,
that fellowship has now been restored through Jesus Christ. Those that did not merely say, "Lord,
Lord," but rather denied themselves and followed Jesus, shall dwell with God eternally with
unspeakable joy.
If you have not accepted Jesus as your personal saviour, YOU ARE UNLUCKY!
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Every child of God has a spiritual ‘force-field’ around him, which repels the enemy! Did you ever read
about Job in the Bible? Satan had tried unsuccessfully to attack the man, and that’s why he asked God, “Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?” (Job 1:10). That ‘forcefield’ repelled the attacks of the devil, until Job unfortunately breached it through his wrong confessions. So, there’s a ‘force-field’ around you and you can increase its perimeter through praying in tongues!
The Bible says, “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him {and} put him to flight [for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives]” (Isaiah 59:19 AMP). Unlike what many people have thought, the flood refers to the repelling action of the Spirit and not the attacking action of the enemy. Thus, no matter how the enemy tries to come at you, the Spirit of God will come against him like a flood, and erect that repellent barrier around you! But guess what? He doesn’t do it all by Himself; He does it through you, for He functions and carries out His ministry in the earth through the Church— His body.
Thus as you pray in tongues, the force-field of the Spirit that repels the enemy is built and sustained around you. That spiritual force-field is raised and expanded, and shields you from the attack of the enemy. When you feel the pressure coming at you on your job, business, academics or in any area of your life, that’s not the time to cry or cower; that’s the time to pray in other tongues fervently!
At such moments, don’t just speak in tongues for five minutes and quit; increase your ‘fire power!’ Talk in tongues hard, fast and loud enough until the power of God inundates your whole being and saturates the entire environment.
Prayer
Dear Father, thank you for your hedge of protection around me. Thank you for the divine fire that is ignited and causes the cohorts of darkness to flee in terror as I pray in tongues right now, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
Further Study:
1 Peter 5:8-9
1Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pe 5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
Psalm 125:2
Psalm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.