KEYS TO POWER: 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

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KEYS TO POWER 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT -PETER ADESHINA BABALOLA(PAB) 2

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INTRODUCTION – HOW TO USE THIS BOOK This is no ordinary e-book! This book is destined, designed and packaged by God to bring a turnaround into your life. This book came as a product of a divine instruction from God. Now I know a lot of people go about saying 'the Lord saith this, the Lord saith that'. As common as these words are, I am careful to use them, so make no light of what I said before that God ordered that this book is packaged for your spiritual turn around.

From Philippians 1:19 God gave a word for a supernatural turn around. The instructions were clear: to engage in prayers that will provoke the supply of the Spirit for the supply of the Spirit is what brings about our turn around! This led me and my friends to 30 days of study on what the Holy Spirit can do in our lives and as we study each day on what the supply of the Spirit can do we back it up with one hour of praying in the Spirit, in tongues! The product of those 30 days is this e-book that you find in your hand: KEYS TO POWER, a 30 day devotional with the Holy Spirit.

The spiritual exercise that gave birth to this book is also the prescription for how it should be used. After you have read all the introduction and a few other chapters, from here onward this book is meant to be a study and prayer book for the next 30 days consecutively where you meditate on these words and pray in the Spirit for at least one hour a day!

That is not too much price to pay if we really desire an encounter with the power and the presence of the Spirit. Quickly let’s read Philippians 1:19, and we will make some submissions and you will be ready to go forward. Amen.

"For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ"(Philippians 1:19). Two things we see from this scripture. First, prayer is what provokes the supply of the Spirit and the supply of the Spirit is what turns around situations! Hallelujah!

God turns situations people and circumstances around and He is about to do yours in the next 30 days. However for things to turn we must first turn to God! Our turn around begins with our turning to God. And one way to do this is to turn in prayers to God. And the content of our prayer is very important: we are to pray for the supply of the Spirit of Christ. Why? If any man has not the Spirit of 3

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Christ he is none of his –worthless! Really there is nothing we need in life that the Holy Spirit does not have. This is what this book explores - all that can be ours when the Holy Spirit, the supply of the Spirit is unlimited in our lives!

So I say that instead of praying for mundane things join me in the next 30 days as we asked God for a fresh and greater supply of the Spirit of Christ. Why? I believe in this time and season that we are in God is out to pour out his Spirit in unusual dimensions. The deeper we move into the latter days the greater will be the unction poured out. In the days we are in, the Spirit of God in our hearts will be our competitive advantage on the earth.

Isaiah 11:1-3 the bible said of Jesus as he is saying to us today, 'And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:’ The Spirit of God will make us quicker in understanding and faster in execution!

We will be ahead of our peers because of the supply of the Spirit. Am sure you desire that supply as I do. Once the Spirit of God floods our lives we are destined for a supernatural turn around.

How to use this book again? From Day 1 section of this book a 30 days prayer challenge of praying in the Holy Spirit begins. At the end of each day a prayer point is provided for you to pray in your understanding and you may add other prayer points based on your understanding, but beyond these prayer points you are to build up yourself in the faith as you pray in the Holy Spirit for one hour with your mind focus on each lesson for each day.

As you pray you will have encounters, revelations, visions, and instructions that will change the course of your life. That was the initial experience of me and my friends who went through this 30 days prayer challenge and every day of the program brought one testimony or the other. Your life will be filled with testimonies from here! Amen!.

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PRAYING UNDER THE RADAR The success of the airstrikes of the allied forces during the gulf war to a large extent contributed to the overall success of the operation desert storm, a campaign led by Norman Schwaezekorp.

The land invasion only brought finality to a war that was largely fought in the air. But really by all standards, we cannot refer to the war battle fought during the gulf war in the same breath as that of the battle of Britain in 1941 between the British RAF and the German forces, nor the campaign of American forces in the Pacific in the latter part of the Second World War. The last two wars mentioned was a war fought between equals, while the former seems like a one-sided war - the allied forces practically did all the bombing with the Iraqi inflicting only a few or no damages at all!

Iraq kept denying there were no damages done by the bombs, but few months after the truth was proved as Iraq were soundly humiliated as thousands of Iraqi soldiers surrendered.

Yet the success of this one-sided war was decided by a crucial factor. Prior to the beginning of hostilities, intelligence reports gathered by reconnaissance mission to Iraq showed that the Iraqi military forces possessed some superior radar that can detect just about any aircraft or warplane. This knowledge influenced the war strategy and deployment of aircrafts for the aerial battles. America was prepared for this kind of super radar - entered the F-17 stealth bombers that can avoid just any kind of radar developed in modern warfare.

It was the F-17 stealth bombers that did all the work in bombing all strategic military strongholds in Iraq and paved way for the B-52 bombers to deal the final blow. In a matter of months, the gulf war was over because America had developed sophistication on the war front that allows it to fight under the radar.

Had Daniel "fought" under the radar or above the radar when he prayed in Daniel10:13 then he would have received answers to his prayers from the first day 5

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he prayed! But as he prayed the monitoring spirits and powers that be could detect the spiritual direction of his prayers. And as soon as the answer was released it was waylaid by the demonic hordes who pinned the angel of God back, held him stationary until reinforcement came because Daniel was persistent in prayers!

'Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days'(Daniel 10:13-15) Today we have what Daniel didn't have access to. 1 Corinthians 14:1-3 tells us, "for he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries" Praying in the Spirit is praying directly to God. It is the language of heaven and no devil understands that language! This is what praying in the Spirit does it helps us to spiritual bypass the enemies radar while at the same time inflicting colossal damages and casualty behind the enemies lines that by the time he realizes what was done the war is already over! Hallelujah!

No wonder the greatest apostle of all declared - "I speak in tongues more than ye all"! Praying in the Spirit elevates your spiritual status and puts you in the position of power and authority! Your status is about to change.

This is why the subject of praying in the Spirit or in tongues was one of the hotly debated theological positions in the Christendom at the turn of the 19th/20th century. The devil knew what great casualty the body of Christ armed with these truths will do to him and his hordes of demonic powers. And years after as the body begin to embrace this seemingly 'gibberish' language, the church begins to make greater strides with the kingdom of the world fast becoming the kingdom of our God! And still the church finest hour is still to come!

We will engage this spiritual weapon to greater dimension and effect. I remember at the beginning of the early part of 2017 I led some group of believers in a 30 days challenge of praying for 1 hour in tongues every day. Unknown to me a popular and well-respected Gospel musician in Nigeria Nathaniel Bassey was leading at about the 6

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same time also, a 30-day challenge of praying in the Holy Spirit for one hour! A spiritual coincidence you might say, but the result of that periodic focus on praying in tongues brought endless miracles, signs, and wonders!

This is just the beginning of what God will yet do in his body because we are just about engaging Paul instruction of 'praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit'(Ephesians 6:17). Just a few weeks back from the date of writing this we just had a 3 hours meeting of praying in tongues and a few days away from this moment that I am writing this we will be having another 7hours meeting. Just when I thought that was it then I saw an e-flier on Facebook advertising three days nonstop prayer summit and during the 72 hours, 24 hours will be spent praying in the Holy Spirit!

God is definitely stirring something up in his body for when we pray in tongues we build up ourselves on our most Holy Faith (Jude 20).

I believe from this New Year 2018 and onward there will be an outpouring of Gods Spirit such has never been seen before! There is coming a supply of the Spirit upon the body of Christ that will empower her for the manifestation of God's glory for the more we move into the latter part of the latter days the greater will be the unction and supply of the Spirit made available. This greater power will however also demand greater sacrifice. We must accept new levels of spiritual responsibilities if we must experience greater spiritual power!

Praying in the Spirit is one of the ways we increase the water level of God's power in our lives. This spiritual analog from Ezekiel 47 comes to mind, the deeper the prophet moves into the water the greater the power and the blessings experienced

'Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

6 And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 9 And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there 7

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shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed, and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.'

Wherever the water of God flow the life and the blessings of God are experienced.

This is why this book, KEYS TO POWER, is about understanding that all we need as the latter day's saint is the supply of the Spirit. That supply of the Spirit will bring a revolution to every area of our lives and position us as leaders in every stratum of human endeavors! The Holy Spirit will give us unassailable leadership in every stratum of the society. However, to enter into this great dimension will require a great spiritual sacrifice of laboring in the Spirit one of which is praying in the Spirit.

This is why the next 30 days we will be praying in the Spirit for the supply of the Spirit. This is an adventure, a spiritual quest for the power of God! It was this same spiritual quest Jacob embark on in Genesis 32 and at the end, it was recorded that Jacob had a change of name and destiny, he entered into the realm of power with God and that ultimately made him to prevail.

'24 And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'

In the coming 30 days, your spiritual status will change, your all round status will change, you will have power with God and you will prevail among men. Amen Below I share some further reasons why you should pray in the Holy Spirit, someone shared them with me sometimes ago, I believe it will encourage your heart to take this 30 days challenge and pray fervently in the Spirit.

100 Benefits of Praying in Tongues NOTE: The use of 'tongues' here is in a singular sense to depict the experience of praying in the Holy Ghost and not to depict the number of tongues.

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1. Tongues is the entrance into the supernatural.

2. Tongues are the prayer in the New Testament.

3. Tongues is a direct line to talking to God. 4. Tongues is the believer’s direct access to the throne room.

5. Tongues is speaking divine mysteries – divine coded secrets.

6. Tongues is drawing secrets to life’s complicated issues.

7. Tongues is prophesying your God-ordained future.

8. Tongues is praying out God’s plan for your life.

9. Tongues is knowledge, counsel, and secrets withheld from the wicked.

10. Tongues is the entrance into the realm of the spirit – the miraculous zone.

11. Tongues is strengthening your inner man with might.

12. Tongues keeps you spiritually fit.

13. Tongues is praying things that have been concealed to be revealed.

14. Tongues is decreeing the rhemas of God. 15. Tongues pull you from the past into the future.

16. Tongues is a source of spiritual edification.

17. Tongues is building a strong premise to carry the anointing.

18. Tongues build and stimulates your faith.

19. Tongues give you unstoppable progress that your enemies cannot deny.

20. Tongues is giving praise and thanksgiving well unto God. 21. Tongues lines you up with the divine will of God. 22. Tongues is speaking the language and will of God. 23. Tongues is help with your ultimate weakness.

24. Tongues is the ultimate assistance to prayer.

25. Tongues qualify all things to work for your good.

26. Tongues renders you to be God-inside minded.

27. Tongues makes you miracle-minded.

28. Tongues magnifies God. 29. Tongues enlarges your perspective of God’s potency in your life.

30. Tongues gives spiritual refreshing and rest.

31. Tongues hones your sharpness and accuracy in the anointing.

32. Tongues facilitates the entrance into the gifts of the Spirit.

33. Tongues equips you for the wonders of God. 34. Tongues is fine-tuning and sensitizing your spirit man to the voice of God. 35. Tongues is assistance to bring your natural tongue under subjection.

36. Tongues develops intimacy with the Holy Ghost.

37. Tongues is your private conversation with God. 38. Tongues is deep calling unto deep.

39. Tongues accesses revelation knowledge.

40. Tongues taps into the mind of God.

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41. Tongues opens the Scriptures to you from a divine perspective rather than an intellectual standpoint.

42. Tongues is part of the armor of God, the lance that will shoot down the enemy.

43. Tongues is the pilum to cause great damage to the kingdom of darkness.

44. Tongues helps you to develop your prayer life.

45. Tongues synchronizes you with the timing of God. 46. Tongues is alignment with the assignment of God. 47. Tongues is a door of utterance and boldness.

48. Tongues is the Holy Spirit searching your heart and praying through you the perfect will of God. 49. Tongues is pulling treasure out of you.

50. Tongues is leaning upon God. 51. Tongues is blowing the ram’s horn for battle.

52. Tongues is the rallying sound of victory.

53. Tongues is releasing angels on heavenly assignments to change earthly situations.

54. Tongues is a brainstorming session with God. 55. Tongues taps into the creativity of Elohim.

56. Tongues overrules and overturns death assignments against your life.

57. Tongues reverses demonic assignments against your well-being.

58. Tongues removes you from the limitations of the flesh to God’s abundant supply of the Spirit.

59. Tongues is making demands upon the power of God. 60. Tongues enables a closer walk with God. 61. Tongues is speaking the hidden wisdom of God. 62. Tongues is the beginning of being led by the Holy Spirit.

63. Tongues is living supernaturally in a natural world.

64. Tongues opens the heavens and charges the atmosphere.

65. Tongues is the release of the shekinah glory.

66. Tongues is getting drunk on the new wine of the Holy Ghost.

67. Tongues is pouring in the oil and wine of the Holy Ghost.

68. Tongues are life-filled words, faith-filled words and anointing-filled words.

69. Tongues lights the fire of God in your life.

70. Tongues delivers you from the scourge of the tongue.

71. Tongues is unlocking every closed prison door in your life.

72. Tongues is the beginning and the maintaining of partnership with the Holy Spirit.

73. Tongues is releasing the winds of God to blow in your life.

74. Tongues is the wind in your sail.

75. Tongues is the wind beneath your wings.

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76. Tongues unleashes the winds of revival and refreshing in your life.

77. Tongues is refilling empty vessels.

78. Tongues is spirit-to-Spirit communication.

79. Tongues helps in living effectively in the last days.

80. Tongues is the ignition key to walking in the power of God. 81. Tongues is being endued with power from on high.

82. Tongues is rivers of living waters flowing out of you.

83. Tongues is drinking from the river and reservoir of God. 84. Tongues is serving God from your spirit.

85. Tongues enables you to perform your priestly duties.

86. Tongues is building your image of God in you and confidence.

87. Tongues is expressing, enforcing, and declaring the will of God in your life and the earth.

88. Tongues is extracting answers from the indwelling Spirit to solve life’s problems.

89. Tongues is praying from your spirit.

90. Tongues is giving your spirit ascendency and power over your flesh.

91. Tongues aids you to mortify the deeds and evil cravings of the flesh.

92. Tongues connects the intercession of the Holy Spirit with your great High Priest Jesus.

93. Tongues is the highest form of the prayer of agreement.

94. Tongues is the divine agreement of the prayers of our earthly and heavenly intercessor with the plans of God. 95. Tongues is the threefold cord that will not be broken.

96. Tongues is ministering to yourself, to the Lord, and unto others.

97. Tongues is worshiping the Father in spirit and in truth.

98. Tongues charges your spiritual battery.

99. Tongues makes you God-friendly rather than seeker friendly, confuses the equips you for the wonders of God. 100. Tongues is a well springing up into the God kind of life...

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ONE WORD ON FASTING This is a 30 days prayer challenge devotional and I believe it is best couple with the spiritual discipline of fasting. This is why I have included one of my write up on FASTING pulled out of a yet to be released book: DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL CAPACITY. Now think of it, Jesus the SON OF GOD, needed to fast for 40 days and 40 nights before he could experience the supply of the Spirit. Now think of it this way, he was the SON OF GOD, but he was here in human flesh and that is where the challenge is!

For even after the fasting the bible said he was hungry and the devil came and tested him along that line! For the spirit to gain ascendancy over the flesh the flesh must be ‘humbled’ in fasting and prayer, when this is done then the way is paved for an unprecedented supply of the Spirit, for after the fasting exercise, the bible says that Jesus ’returned in the power of the Spirit’ (Luke 4:14). Now this will be your experience after these thirty days.

We don’t engage in long fast to show or prove spirituality, no. This long spiritual exercise are necessary for a protracted season for that is how long sometimes it takes to break through. Now read this of Daniel.

ONE DAY MAY NEVER BE ENOUGH ‘In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the FIRST DAY that thou didst set thine heart to understand and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. BUT THE PRINCE OF THE KINGDOM OF PERSIA WITHSTOOD ME ONE AND TWENTY DAYS: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days’ (Daniel 10:2-3, 12-14 KJV) Sometimes it takes persistence to bear spiritual fruits!

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From the first day Daniel chasten himself in fasting before God and prayed, he was heard, the answer was released but was not delivered because of some satanic ambush and delay. From the first day he prayed answers was granted but not delivered, meaning that sometimes it may take more than one day to enforce the release of our desires in prayer and fasting! One day may never be enough! Daniel stayed on fasting and praying until spiritual reinforcement came to help the angelic emissary out to deliver the answer!

Had he given up on the first day he would have truncated God's plan and purpose by reason of his lack of spiritual tenacity!

Jesus teaching on prayers in Luke 18:1 emphasized how men ought to always pray and not to faint. He went further to reiterate this truth by giving the illustration of how a widow was persistent in pestering the wicked judges for justice until she was answered! Then he made a statement afterward.

'And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, THOUGH HE BEAR LONG with them?'(Luke 18:7 KJV) Here we see the same spiritual truth reiterated: some spiritual breakthroughs may require you to stay put! Staying put until there is a breakthrough!

Jesus clearly express here that 'God may bear long with the saint'. Now that may sound scary if you don't understand the process and the purpose for God bearing long in prayers with the saint!

The process for this protracted season of prayers and fasting we see in that book of Daniel, there was need to crush the opposition before Daniels position could be guaranteed! So as he stayed in that season of prayers and fasting for 21days, spiritual reinforcement came that crushed the opposition and Daniels delivery was confirmed. The spiritual process is clear, the opposition to our victory may be stubborn, but as we remain persistent and spiritually dogged and tenacious we wear them out!

James also said this, 'resist the devil UNTIL he flees from you'(James 4:7). The key word here is "UNTIL", the spiritual resistance must be until victory is achieved! Look at it here portrayed in Luke 18.

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'And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.' Luke 18:4-5 KJV. Our spiritual persistence wearies the opposition!

God may bear long why? What's his purpose for doing so? He wants to develop spiritual capacity in us, spiritual strength, for Isaiah 40:29-31 says they that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will stack it up. The longer we stay in his presence praying and waiting upon the Lord the more spiritual capacity that we develop! And this spiritual capacity is the premise for spiritual tenacity! We are able to stand strong in the days of battle because we have strength. Yes Job said if you fail in the days of adversity it is because you are lacking in strength!

Tenacity in the face of adversity has its foundation on the spiritual capacity stored up before the days of battle.

And in spiritual warfare when all has been done there is just but one thing to do to see victory: STAND! Ephesians 6:13 advised us that after we have done everything there is to do, still there is but one thing that we accomplish the victory: stand! In other words, stay put until you breakthrough! ‘Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.’ In spiritual warfare it is our spiritual tenacity that accomplishes our victory!

Many have done all, all that remain is to stand!

Standing in the flesh can be tedious but when we stand strong in prayer and fasting we build capacity and tenacity to defeat the enemy! Weariness has no room when our spirit is focused and attuned to God!

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KEYS TO POWER: 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

DAY 1 TODAY’S TEXT: " "For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:19) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT CAN TURN AROUND ANY SITUATION Today's scripture is the central focus of this study and prayer devotional. As inspired by the Spirit of God from Philippians 1:19, there is no desired turn around we want in life that cannot be affected by the Spirit of God. Things turn around in the physical because they have first been turned around in the spiritual. Ephesians 1:3 says all blessings are first affected in spiritual places! What the Spirit has done in the spiritual is what we see manifest in the physical. This is why for every turn around we desire it is essentially the supply of the Spirit of Christ that we need.

Paul wrote this letter from the dark corner of a prison. He was faced with death from the ones who have imprisoned him and rejection from even among the saints!

It was here and then he longed for the prayer of the saints which he believed will supply the Spirit of Christ and we know wherever the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty!

At the instance of that supply of the Spirit, Paul was set free. He went on to write other Epistles after he was set free from here.

The supply of the anointing can turn any situation around! And we engage the anointing through, heartfelt prayers for when Jesus prayed the heavens opened (Luke 3:21-22).

"Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened," (Luke 3:21).

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This is why this devotional goes with a 30day 1hour in tongues encounter as we pray in the Spirit to provoke the supply of the anointing. As you follow this course there will be an open heaven experience for you.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord these 30 days I crave for a daily supply of your Spirit and for the grace to undertake this spiritual journey with faithfulness and consistency.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Things turn around in the physical because they have first been turned around in the spiritual. Ephesians 1:3 says all blessings are first affected in spiritual places!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Zechariah 4:6-7. 2 Corinthians 3:17

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KEYS TO POWER: 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

DAY 2 TODAY’S TEXT: "And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"(Genesis 1:2) TODAY’S WORD: UNTIL THE SPIRIT WAS SUPPLIED THE WORK OF CREATION DID NOT BEGIN

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth that we saw recorded in Genesis 1:1. However what followed in verse 2 shows the work of creation was not as smooth as intended: the earth was without form and void. Without form and void meant the earth was shapeless and without nothing. This was not what God intended to see. And there and then the Spirit of God went into operation and the work of creation was renewed. Whatever God said at this point began to work.

This passage of scripture must have inspired what David wrote in Psalm 104:30 where he said God sends forth his Spirit and creation was renewed and recreated!

Until there was a supply of the Spirit even God struggle with the work of creation, but as soon as the Spirit hovered over the earth, the work of creation was over in no time!

The Spirit first need to move for the word of God to have an effect! Unction was the force behind creation! When the Spirit of God is supplied the word of God begins to have effects! From here on the word will begin to have effect in your life!

Even Jesus had no ministry for 30 years until the Spirit was supplied. His initial inertia was due to lack of the Spirit. But once the Spirit was supplied the bible said "he began to be" in other words, things begin to happen! Onward from Luke 3:2117

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23, things were never the same in the ministry of Jesus, the supply of the Spirit activated new levels of results. From Luke 3 he got filled, in Luke 4 he moved into a higher level of anointing, was tempted by the devil, gave his historic message that got the Sadducees infuriated and they wanted to kill him. But 'he walking through their midst went his way'. In Luke 5 he preached and the 'power of the lord was present to heal them'(Luke 5:17). In Luke 6 the whole multitude "sought to touch him for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all"(Luke 6:19).

Once the Spirit was supplied the spiritual progression and impact in the ministry of the master multiplied.

What have you struggled with? Battled with? Stayed on the same spot with? The supply of the Spirit will change your spiritual inertia, momentum and push you into your destiny. All you need is the supply of the Spirit for a supernatural turn around.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord I receive a fresh supply of your Spirit to break every spiritual limitation in my life.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Until there was a supply of the Spirit even God struggle with the work of creation, but as soon as the Spirit hovered over the earth, the work of creation was over in no time!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Psalm 104:30, Ezekiel 37

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KEYS TO POWER: 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

DAY 3 TODAY’S TEXT: "But when you send out your life-giving breath, things come alive, and the world is new again'(Psalm 104:30) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT BRINGS RENEWAL AND RESTORATION The word but changes the direction of every statement. There was some line of thought before verse 30, and that we found in verse 29, it says, “when you turn away from them they become frightened. When you take away your breath they die, and their bodies return to the dust'. And then we now have verse 30, "but with the supply of your spirit, life is restored, creation is renewed'(paraphrase mine) Whatever seems dead in your life today is experiencing the restoration of heaven now!

The supply of the spirit brings renewal and restoration.

In Ezekiel 37, the prophet found himself in the valley of dry bones, and their situation was so dire the bible described the bones as ‘very dry’, now only the prophet can really tell us how dry these bones were but for lack of proper adjectives he said they were ‘very dry’. But it seems to me the prophet has concluded in his mind, ‘this is all hopeless, there can be no life here again’. But God knows better and asked the prophet, ‘can these bones live?’ The prophet not wanting to sound negative told God, only you can answer that. And here was God’s response, and it’s the same response to you today: ‘4 again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live’ 19

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At the instance of God’s breath, the life of God was restored. At the instance of His Spirit, there was renewal and recreation! Remember in the verse we read earlier in Psalm 104:29 we were told the reason for their death was because the breath of God had been withdrawn. Didn’t David pray that prayer, ‘take not thy Holy Spirit from me’? Without the Spirit of Christ we are nothing in life! We are dead, hopeless, lifeless, powerless and without a future. But if the Spirit of Christ is in us, daily supplied to us, then that same Spirit ‘will quicken our mortal bodies’ to serve the living God!(Romans 8:11).

The supply of the Spirit will bring renewal into your life in the next few days of this study and prayer program.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord quicken and renew my life by the breath of your Spirit TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Without the Spirit of Christ we are nothing in life! We are dead, hopeless, lifeless, powerless and without a future. But, if the Spirit of Christ be in us, daily supplied to us, then that same Spirit ‘will quicken our mortal bodies’ to serve the living God! OTHER SCRIPTURES: Ezekiel 37:1-14, Romans 8:11, Genesis 2:7

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DAY 4 TODAY’S TEXT: ‘Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth’(PSALM 104:30 KJV) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT IS THE POWER BEHIND CREATION

The supply of the Spirit is the force behind creation. From day two we saw that until the Spirit was supplied even God struggled with the work of creation. That might have given the impression that the Spirit only aids creation. And yesterday again we also saw that which is dead can be recreated and brought back to life by the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is much more than all the aforementioned; He is the very person behind creation. He is the Spirit of creativity. Psalm 104:30, that same scripture in KJV says you ‘sent forth your Spirit and they are created!’

To create means to, bring into existence that which was not there before. It means to create something out of nothing. Out of nothingness, the Holy Spirit can work wonders. Mary had nothing in her womb but the power of the highest worked wonders (Luke 1:35) and produce one of the greatest miracles in the history of humanity.

The Holy Spirit did something similar in 2 Kings 4. The wife of the Prophet has been left with debt by her anointed but yet indebted prophet-husband. The prophet had a supernatural solution as he has asked the woman, ‘what do you have left in the house?’ The woman had some oil. How prophetic it was that what she had left was symbolic of the person of the Holy Spirit. The solution was simple but supernatural, the prophet told her:

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‘And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.’ And as the woman obeyed the little oil began to fill empty vessels. The oil stayed only when there were no more empty vessels to fill. Are you empty? Are you without anything? Bring your empty heart and life and the Holy Spirit shall fill you up! For when the Spirit is supplied, the emptiness in our lives is filled!

The supply of the Spirit turned nothing into something. That which is nothing in your life, body, business, career, family, ministry, but which is needed, shall be supplied today by the Spirit. Out of your 'nothingness' shall emerge greatness! Amen

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord fill me afresh with your Spirit, I empty myself of every form of pride and self-dependence, fill my life afresh TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: To create means to bring into existence that which was not there before. It means to create something out of nothing. Out of nothingness the Holy Spirit can work wonders. Mary had nothing in her womb but the power of the highest worked wonders (Luke 1:35) and produce one of the greatest miracles in history of humanity. Out of your 'nothingness' shall emerge greatness!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: 2 Kings 4:1-7, Luke 1:35

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DAY 5 TODAY’S TEXT: " And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God”(Luke 1:35)

TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT IS THE SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH TO BIRTH NEW THINGS New things are birth through the empowerment of the Spirit! When Mary was to conceive the Angel told her, this new thing to be birth by you will be accomplished through the power of the Spirit! In other words, the Supply of the Spirit will provoke conception and delivery (Luke 1:35) ‘35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God’ When Gods power overshadows you the ability to birth new things is imparted into you! There are things on your inside yet to come forth. But this season, it shall be birthed! Maybe your story is similar to what we have in Isaiah 37:3.

'And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.'

Nothing is more troublesome or burdensome than to have potential but no result!

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exploits! Strength is released to birth new things! Strength is released to destroy the opposition and step into your God-ordained position. When the Spirit is supplied supernatural strength is released.

‘Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. 6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done(Judges 14:5-6).

A greater order of strength is coming upon you by the supply of the Spirit. Just like the Spirit of the Lord came ‘mightily’ upon Samson that same Spirit is coming upon you today.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord strengthen me with might by your Spirit in the inner man. Let this be the focus of your heart as you pray in the Spirit now.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: When Gods power overshadows you the ability to birth new things is imparted unto you!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Ephesians 3:16, Judges 14:1-20

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DAY 6 TODAY’S TEXT: " "For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day"(2 Corinthians 4:16) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT STRENGHTENS OUR NATURAL BODY The Spirit of God is the supernatural strength to birth new things. From here onward new things will be birthed in our lives. This we learned yesterday. But much more this strength affects our body as well.

Now the strength of the Spirit is not just limited to conception and delivery, that strength also imparts on our physical bodies.

Romans 8:11 said, "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you" The word quicken from the original translation mean to - give life by spiritual power, to arouse and to invigorate, to give strength to. And this is in relation to our mortal bodies.

Therefore by the supply of the Spirit, we are invigorated by the power of God to live healthy and strong life. One man that enjoyed the supply of the Spirit was Paul the Apostle. He had this testimony in 2 Corinthians 11:23-25. He wrote: 'Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;' If you read further down to verse 26 and beyond you will see the many physical perils that 25

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he had to endure and yet Paul asked in verse 29, 'Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?'

Was Paul weak? Certainly no! Here was a man who preached the gospel from nations to nations and continents to continents, a weakling cannot do that. The supply of the Spirit made his body immune to physical torture and death. In Acts 14:19-20 it was recorded of Paul, "And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe" Here was a man stoned to the point of death but yet as soon as his assailants left he got up and travelled the next day. A man left for the dead should be in a sick bed and not traveling the next day! But hallelujah the supply of the Spirit was at work and so what crushes and kill natural men could not put down Paul! What defiles the body of natural men will not defile your body again! Amen.

What was the secret to Paul strength? The supply of the Spirit is the answer. He said in 2 Corinthians 4:7-12, "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you."

Because of the ‘excellency of Gods power’ that is at work in us though we are troubled on every side, yet we are not shaken. Because of His power and the supply of the Spirit what suppresses natural men have no power over us! Praise God! For the life of God, the life of Jesus and the Spirit of Christ is made manifest in our body so much that our outer man may look like perishing but somehow we are renewed by the supply of the Spirit in the inward man, in this is our strength.

Look at the last few words in this verse, 'that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh'. The life of Jesus is what we read about in Romans 26

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8:11 that life was given by the supply of the Spirit of God. That same life will begin to manifest in your body from here onward.

Today as you pray in the Spirit whatever weakens your mortal bodies will be quicken by the Spirit of God now. Whatever is consuming your body will be made alive by the Spirit of God. By the supply of the Spirit, the strength of heaven takes over your weakness in the name of Jesus!

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord quicken my mortal body by the supply of your Spirit.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: By the supply of the Spirit, we are invigorated by the power of God to live healthy and strong life!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, 2 Corinthians 11:26-29.

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DAY 7 TODAY’S TEXT: " If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified’ (1 Peter 4:14) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT IS THE KEY TO THE EMERGENCE OF OUR GLORY Today as we pray the Spirit of Glory will rest upon you. The Supply of the Spirit leads to the emergence of our glory! After Moses spent 40 days in his presence we were told after He came back that the glory of God rests upon Him insomuch that the children of Israel couldn't look into his face!

‘And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come nigh him.

The Supply of the Spirit brings the glory of God which leads to the emergence of our glory. Glory means the manifestation of the full essence of a thing. When the Spirit is supplied the full essence and true essence of who we are begin to emerge.

‘But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord’(2 Corinthians 3:18)

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Our change from glory to glory is affected by the supply of the Spirit. First God’s power is manifested and then His glory is revealed. When Jesus was teaching on the Lord’s Prayer he gave a sequence of prayer to follow: ‘9 after this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

His power comes before His glory.

Even when the master was talking about His second coming, He maintained the same spiritual sequence: ‘And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory’. It His power before His glory; you first catch His power and you will experience His glory. That was what David cried out for in Psalm 63:1-2, ‘to see thy power and thy glory’ Today the Spirit of God is filling your life with His power and then His glory!

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord let my status changed by the working of your Spirit. Let me experience thy power and thy glory.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Glory means the manifestation of the full essence of a thing. When the Spirit is supply the full essence and true essence of who you are begins to emerge.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Luke 4:6, 1 Chronicles 29:11, 2 Thessalonians 1:9

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DAY 8 TODAY’S TEXT: “And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT BROUGHT ENDLESS SUPPLY OF MIRACLES Today there is a release of special miracles and unusual miracles in every area of your life!

Acts 5:14-16 tells us what happened after there was an eruption of Gods power in the early church! The supply of the Spirit was in abundance and there was an eruption of signs wonders and miracles.

‘And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one’ An overflow of the anointing led to unusual miracles! The supply of the Spirit brought endless supplies of miracles!

It was the same experience when Phillip went down to Samaria, God’s power was at work and the devil was disgraced as there was an endless manifestation of God’s power resulting in miracles.

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hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city.(Acts 8:5-8) The overflow of the anointing brought an overflow of miracles; for when we daily walk in the power of God we daily experience the flow of the miraculous! And really anyone who enjoys a supply of the Spirit can walk in the miraculous. Stephen was an ordinary deacon, but the Bible records that he was ‘full of faith and power’ and thereby did great signs and wonders among the people.

‘8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.’(Acts 6:8) Miracles, signs, and wonders are spiritual by-products of the anointing. This is why when the Apostles prayed for signs and wonders to be done by the Holy name of His son Jesus, God responded by pouring out more of the anointing. Now look at it very well, they prayed for miracles: ‘29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, 30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus’(Acts 4:29-30) This was their prayer contents: boldness to preach the word and signs and wonders by the name of Jesus. But how did God answer these prayer requests?

‘31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.’(Acts 4:31) God answers to his people’s request for signs and wonders and miracles were to release a supply of the Spirit in a greater dimension. It was this supply of the Spirit in Acts 4 that gave birth to the exploits that we will later read of in Acts 5, 6, 7, 8 and beyond! The supply of miracles is dependent on the supply of the Spirit.

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supply of the Spirit; Jesus had the Spirit without measure. When the Spirit is supplied miracles cannot be quantified!

As you pray in the Spirit today a flow of special miracles and unusual miracles is activated in your life! In your home miracles will overflow, it will become a daily experience, for you everywhere you find yourself. You speak one minute and you experience results the next minute. Your words are backed by power and authority and manifested in miracles, and so shall it be in Jesus name. Amen

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord Release over my life a greater supply of your Spirit for signs, wonders and miracles.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Miracles, signs, and wonders are spiritual by-products of the anointing. This is why when the Apostles prayed for signs and wonders to be done by the Holy name of His son Jesus, God responded by pouring out more of the anointing.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Acts 19:10-11, Acts 10:38, Acts 4:24-31

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DAY 9 TODAY’S TEXT: “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God said, Let there be light and there was light’ (Genesis 1:2-3) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT PROVIDES AN ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN ON EARTH The supply of the Spirit provides an atmosphere of heaven where the will of God is expressly fulfilled on the earth.

In Genesis 1:1-3 we read again, ‘In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.’

The Holy Spirit hovered on the face of the earth and then whatever God said had an effect. The Spirit of God creates an atmosphere of heaven on earth! This atmosphere becomes the platform on which the Holy Spirit does God’s will on the earth. This atmosphere provides a spiritual ambiance for the word of God to have an effect.

In Acts 2 we were told when he came that tongues like cloven fire appeared and sat on each one. Before then the word says the Spirit came like a rushing mighty wind!

The supply of the Spirit creates an undeniable physical presence, ambiance, and manifestation!

Luke 5:17 the bible says, ‘And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them’ 33

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As Jesus was teaching the word, the Spirit of the Lord was present to confirm whatever the content of the word proclaimed. The word of healing was proclaimed and the Spirit of the Lord was present to heal. The Spirit and the word combining to bring heaven’s will on the earth.

In Acts 4:31 when the Apostles prayed we were told what happened, ‘And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness’ Their house was shaken; now that was physical. Today our homes, churches, workplace needs to be shaken by this heavenly presence of God. As you pray today heavens atmosphere becomes permanent for you, in your home, family, and your workplace. Heaven's atmosphere becomes your natural habitat of operation! And the effect of having such presence in your life and in your home is that every word of God in your mouth finds fulfilment as they are spoken in an environment filled with the supply of the Spirit. God’s word will never fail in your life again!

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord fill my life with a greater presence of your Spirit.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The Spirit of God creates an atmosphere of heaven on earth! This atmosphere becomes the platform on which the Holy Spirit does God will on the earth. This atmosphere provides a spiritual ambiance for the word of God to have an effect.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Isaiah 11:1-3

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DAY 10 TODAY’S TEXT: “But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold’ (Job 23:10) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT REFINES THE DESTINIES OF THE SAINTS In Malachi 3:2-3 we read, "But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness."

This description of the Holy Spirit in Malachi was consistent with what we later read in Matthew 3:11 from John the Baptist.

‘I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire’ And in verse 12 we were told the fire will burn off the chaffs in our lives, a cleansing and purifying experience.

‘12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

It was not surprising therefore that in line with the prophecies that had gone ahead when he appeared on Pentecost day he sat on everyone like a "cloven tongue of fire".

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‘And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance’ (Acts 2:1-4) The refiner's fire has one mission to remove the spiritual dross in our lives so that our finer details can emerge! For when he has “tried me" I shall come forth as gold!

The fire of God burns that which is undesirable in us, purifying us of all dirt and presenting us Holy before God ready, purified and refined to fulfil God’s purpose for our lives!

The supply of the Spirit refines the destinies of the saints! The Spirit helps us to ‘mortify the deeds of the flesh’ so that we can live in consonance with the dictates of the Spirit for nothing mortgages our spiritual destiny like sin and walking in the demands of the flesh. The daily supply of the Spirit constantly refine us so that we are not ‘debtors in the flesh’ to live according to its dictates.

As you pray today you will be refined and your true colour shall emerge. The power of sin and its grip on you will be destroyed. The wantonness and pleasure of the flesh will lose its power over you. Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord let the refiners’ fire purify me of every dead works so that I can serve you acceptably.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The refiner's fire has one mission to remove the spiritual dross in our lives so that our finer details can emerge!

For when he has “tried me" I shall come forth as gold! The fire of God burns that which is undesirable in us, purifying us of all dirt and presenting us Holy before God ready, purified and refined to fulfil God’s purpose for our lives!

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DAY 11 TODAY’S TEXT: “And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?(Acts 19:15) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT INCREASES OUR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY Our spiritual exploits are limited by our spiritual authority. This was why the disciples of Jesus could not cast out a certain demon and Jesus told them it was because they had limited spiritual capacity.

‘19 then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, why could not we cast him out? 20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you. 21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.(Matthew 17:19-21).

We all know what happened when Jesus went fasting and praying for 40 days, the bible said he ‘returned in the power of the Spirit’(Luke 4:14) and thereafter he proclaim to the whole assembly in Luke 4:18, that he had the anointing, the supply of the Spirit.

When there is a supply of the Spirit spiritual authority increases. Our words in the spiritual realm are only as powerful as the Spirit that backs them. Jesus was saying to the disciples here that you cannot exercise some level of spiritual authority without an increase in the anointing.

In Acts 13:1-3 certain prophets and teachers were gather fasting praying and ministering to the lord including Paul and Barnabas.

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‘Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3 And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

And thereafter they were sent forth by the Spirit. Having been sharpened by the supply of the Spirit, Paul with greater spiritual authority healed this man that has never walked in his life!

Acts 14:8-11, ‘And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked’ Whatever has not walked or work in your life or has refused to work or has been stalled, today through the increase spiritual authority that will be generated by the Spirit, there is a release! In Jesus name!

When our spiritual authority increases our result improves. When our spiritual authority increases our dominion over Satan and his work is established! However, an increase in the supply of the Spirit is what elevates and increase our authority in the Spirit.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord let your anointing billow over my life in greater dimension, let spiritual authority increase unto me TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: When there is a supply of the Spirit spiritual authority increases. Our words in the spiritual realm are only as powerful as the Spirit that backs them.

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DAY 12 TODAY’S TEXT: “And the spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man. 7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee’(1 Samuel 10:6-7) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT CHANGES OUR POSITION Stephen and Phillip were originally ordained as deacons in the church to serve tables. Acts 6:1-6 tells the story of how the apostle dealt with a potentially divisive issue in the church! Stephen and Phillip were among the deacons appointed! That was their original position.

‘And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: 6 Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

But as the church focused on the word and prayer, the word of God exploded, the church grew and much more there was a supply of the Spirit, Stephen became full of that as recorded in verse 8!

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"And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people." When the Spirit was supplied in an overflowing dimension he wasn’t just serving the tables again, he began serving the people – he did great wonders and miracles among the people!

The next chapter he gave an explosive message. Stephen's position changed from a table server to a miracle worker and a notable preacher!

It was the same of Phillip in Acts 8. ‘Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city’ The supply of the spirit turned a table server to a nation taker.

As we pray in the Spirit today your position will change, spiritually and every wise!

Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord let your anointing change me to another man TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The supply of the spirit turned a table server to a nation taker OTHER SCRIPTURES: 1 Samuel 10:1-9, 1 Samuel 16-18.

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DAY 13 TODAY’S TEXT: “"But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God’(Acts 7:55) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT CHANGES YOUR VISION Where you stand determines what you see and as far as your eyes can see, ‘so will I give unto you’ as God told Abraham in Genesis 13:15-16 ‘And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever’ In other words, the vision we have sets the pace for our possession. Whatever we are given is controlled by what we see per time and what you see that others don’t see gives you an edge!

A vantage position gives you access to see what others cannot see. This was what happened to Paul, he was the only one who saw the light the others only heard the voice.

‘And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4 and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why 41

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persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. 7 And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.’

It was the vision Paul saw that separated him from the rest. This is the key to leadership: seeing what others cannot see, seeing more than others can see and seeing before others can see.

Therefore the Holy Spirit first changes our position in order to change our vision.

When this happens to you, you begin to see differently. Where others see death you see life! Even when sickness is all over you, all you see is life! This was what happened to Stephen, "But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God’ As soon as the Spirit was supplied Stephens’s vision changed and he saw what others could not see. The Holy Spirit influences our vision of the world. This is one of the core ministries he has to the saints: showing things to come.

John 16:13-15, ‘13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you.

Today the Spirit will show you great and mighty things that you don't know of. He will show great visions that will reveal and settle your future! Concerning your business, industry, He will show you things to come. A Spanish proverb said, ‘those who can see ahead never remains behind’. The Holy Spirit helps us to see ahead so we can always be ahead. You will never lag behind again, in Jesus precious name.

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TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord Let the supply of your Spirit change and increase my vision. Holy Spirit show me more than the eyes can see and show me what the eyes cannot see.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The Holy Spirit influences our vision of the world. This is one of the core ministries he has to the saints: showing things to come.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: John 16, 1 Corinthians 2:9-10, Joel 2:28-32.

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KEYS TO POWER: 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

DAY 14 TODAY’S TEXT: “Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength’ (Acts 3:6-7) TODAY’S WORD: DECLARATIONS

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What you see determines what you speak. Our declarations are influenced by our visions. In 1 John 1:1-3 the apostle reiterate this important truth about how what we see affects what we speak.

‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.’

The things we have seen influences the things that we speak. Our declaration can never be better or greater than our vision. It, therefore, goes without saying that when the Holy Spirit changes our vision he automatically changes our declaration too! When we receive the supply of the Spirit our declarations changes!

Peter was a man who could not stand for Jesus but once the Holy Spirit came in Acts 2, he not only preached in that name but in Acts 3:1-6 he healed in that name!

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king ascend into heaven, saw the supply of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, all these spiritual encounters changed his declarations forever!

Isaiah 43:26 says, ’declare thou that you may be justified’. As it has been shown to you by the Spirit declare the counsel of God over your life. And as you do you will see miracles, signs, and wonders! Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord fill my mouth by your Spirit to declare your counsel TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: When we receive the supply of the Spirit our declarations changes!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Luke 21:15, Psalm 81:10, Romans 4:17

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DAY 15 TODAY’S TEXT: “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight’ (Hosea 6:2) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT REVIVES OUR DESTINY

"Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth."

(Hosea 6:1-3 KJV) Every move of God has been birth by the revival of Gods spirit in the midst of his people! This new day, the Holy Spirit is moving anew in your life in a unique way!

The supply of the Spirit revives our destiny and so that whatever is dead in our lives can come back to life again.

The supply of the Spirit which is characterized by the water of life brings life wherever it flows to. This we see in Ezekiel 47:6-9 ‘And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river. 7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 9 And it shall come to pass, that everything that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very 46

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great multitude of fish because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and everything shall live whither the river cometh’ Wherever there is a supply of the Spirit there is life! Whatever is dead is brought back to life. Ailing business is brought back to life, sickness, diseases that have been termed terminal receives the life of God. This is the life-giving power of the Spirit of God.

Now wherever this water of life flows there is 1. Refreshing - Acts 14:17 2. Renewal - Psalm 104:30 3. Restoration - Joel 2:23-26 4. Raising - Isaiah 61:1-4 5. Rejoicing - Psalm 85:6 All of these 5RS culminates in our revival. The supply of the Spirit will break loose upon you today and you will be revived and rise to greatness! Like in the valley of dry bones, out of nothingness greatness is emerging for you! Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of your Spirit let your work be revived in my life, revive every dead gifts and dreams. Pray in the Spirit.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Wherever there is a supply of the Spirit there is life! Whatever is dead is brought back to life. Ailing business is brought back to life, sickness, diseases that have been termed terminal receives the life of God. This is the life-giving power of the Spirit of God. OTHER SCRIPTURES: Ezekiel 47

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DAY 16 TODAY’S TEXT: “"But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you." (Matthew 12:29) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT ENTHRONES THE KINGDOM OF GOD Jesus replied to the accusation of using the devil to cast out devils by these insightful words, "But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you." (Matthew 12:29) And when his Kingdom comes according to Matthew 6, his will is done on the earth.

Jesus made this statement when He was teaching on how to pray. He said to pray in this manner "let your kingdom and let your will be done on earth"(Matthew 6:9-10) The manifestation of His kingdom and the heralding of same sets the pace for Gods will be done on the earth. But first, the Spirit must be supplied, and then whatever God wants to do on the earth begin to find easy and swift fulfilment. The supply of the Spirit enthrones the kingdom of our God. When His kingdom is enthroned His will is done on the earth!

When the disciples asked Jesus about the restoration of Israel back to his original status where she is free of the Roman Empire influence, Jesus told them to be less concerned about that as it’s in the father's hand.

‘When they, therefore, were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.’(Acts 1:6-7)

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However, He wants them to be much more concerned about the restoration of another kingdom; His own kingdom. And so he shifted their focus from the earthly kingdom to the heavenly kingdom. ‘But you will receive power through the supply of the Spirit and by reason of this you will establish this kingdom in Jerusalem and you will extend it to Samaria and ultimately the ends of the earth’ (Acts 1:8, paraphrase mine). The coming of the Spirit announces the establishment of God’s kingdom on the earth! And with His kingdom established his will is been done on the earth today. From the 120 believers that were in the upper room, God’s kingdom and influence have grown over the years and into almost every nook and cranny of the world. His will is being done on the earth. Through the conviction of the Spirit, many are being brought to the Lord, multitudes are getting healed of sickness and diseases, others are been delivered from failure and poverty, the kingdom of the earth is fast becoming the kingdom of our God! Still there is a lot God will still have us do, this gospel of the kingdom must be preached unto the ends of the earth and then the end will come(Matthew 24:12).

Until this is done we must keep pushing the agenda of his kingdom with power and authority. You and I must be an ambassador, a worthy one, for this kingdom!

God’s kingdom comes with power and authority. May His kingdom be established in your life! Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of your Spirit make me a worthy ambassador of your kingdom on the earth. Fill me with your power and Spirit so I can bodily represent you on the earth TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The manifestation of His kingdom and the heralding of same sets the pace for Gods will be done on the earth. But first, the Spirit must be supplied, and then whatever God wants to do on the earth begin to find easy and swift fulfilment. The supply of the Spirit enthrones the kingdom of our God. When His kingdom is enthroned His will is done on the earth!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Acts 8, Matthew 24:12, Romans 8:19

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DAY 17 TODAY’S TEXT: ‘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’ TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT DESTROYS THE YOKE OF LIFE Whatever is yet to submit in our life is yet to experience the power of God! Psalm 66:3. “Say unto God, How terrible thou art in thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee."

Meaning that the exercise or the supply of the Spirit is what enforces the dominion of the saints. When the Spirit is supplied the devil naturally submits! This was the same prophetic vision that David saw of the destiny of the church in Psalm 110:1-3.

‘The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

The rod of God’s power is what enforces the submission of his enemies and that rod of strength will be operated by his church in the days of his power. The day of his power is what Joel foretold in Joel 2:28-32 and now we are right in the centre of the day of His power. The Spirit of God is already here; the more we enjoyed its supply the more we dominate our world!

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Today whatever has limited you, restrict you, inhibit you will be broken now! Every yoke on you, spiritual, emotional, physical, that has held you and slow you down will be destroyed now!

"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 supply of the Spirit destroys the yoke of life! Yokes are destroyed today. Pray in the Spirit

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of your Spirit I enforce my dominion over every wicked and elemental forces in the world. By the anointing I command yokes destroyed in my life, family, business, career, ministry and all that concerns me .I walk in dominion from henceforth TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The day of his power is what Joel foretold in Joel 2:28-32 and now we are right in the centre of the day of His power. The Spirit of God is already here; the more we enjoyed its supply the more we dominate our world!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Isaiah 61:1-6, Luke 4:18-21

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KEYS TO POWER: 30 DAYS DEVOTIONAL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT

DAY 18 TODAY’S TEXT: “And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears’(Isaiah 11:23) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT IMPARTS SUPERNATURAL WISDOM Jesus speaking in Luke 21:15 said, ‘I will give you a mouth and wisdom which none of our adversaries will be able to gainsay or resist.’ And the first fulfilment of that we found in Acts 6:8-10.

"And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen. And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake’ The supernatural wisdom of God is the 'unresistable' wisdom of God! The world cannot resist its power and the solutions its proffers. They said to Jesus what wisdom is this (Mark 6:2).

‘And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?’

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It was different from anyone before it!

When Joseph solved the quagmire in the land of Egypt, it was this wisdom that was at work. And this wisdom is only accessible by the Spirit of God! ‘And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou’.

God’s revelation makes you wiser than your peers! What the Spirit reveals to your heart sets you apart from your others! It is wisdom that has its roots in the unsearchable wisdom of God. It was the same order of wisdom that was found in Daniel that makes him and his friends ten times better than their contemporaries.

‘As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. 18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. 19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king. 20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. 21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of King Cyrus’ (Daniel 1:17-21) There you have it again, the wisdom that the Spirit of God supplies makes you better than your peers. This is not wisdom which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual. And even though this wisdom is spiritual in origin yet it has practical application in human realms of existence. This is why one wise man said the Holy Spirit showed him the map of the second missionary journey of Paul and from that revelation he drew up innovative strategies to solve the problem a company was going through and at the end of the strategy meeting one of the boards of directors called him aside and asked, ‘What wisdom is this?’.

This is the realm of wisdom the Holy Spirit is bringing you to! Hallelujah!

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We are in the days where the Spirit of God in our heart will be our competitive advantage on the earth! We will be ahead because we have been made the head and we have been made the head because the Holy Spirit is seated on our head!

From Isaiah 11:1-3 we see that the supply of the Spirit essentially imparts unto the saints wisdom, just like it did to Jesus. What was resting on the master separated him from the rest! He did not judge like others: after what only the eyes could see!

No, he was above that: the new anointing gave him a new perspective on the issues of life! We are in the season of newness, Gods spirit will anoint you for new ideas and new approaches to old issues! For what rested upon Jesus will begin to rest upon us in a greater dimension from here!

As you pray today, the Spirit of God will bring you into uncommon wisdom and solution to that issue facing you and much more solutions to the problems of the world around you!

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of your Spirit fill my heart with your supernatural wisdom. By the counsel of your Spirit make me wise in the heart.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: God’s revelation makes you wiser than your peers! What the Spirit reveals to your heart sets you apart from your others! It is wisdom that has its roots in the unsearchable wisdom of God. It was the same order of wisdom that was found in Daniel that makes him and his friends ten times better than their contemporaries.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: 1 Corinthians 2:1-13, Daniel 2

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DAY 19 TODAY’S TEXT: “I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee’(Daniel 5:14) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT IS THE KEY TO OUR DISTINCTION IN LIFE When the Holy Spirit sits on you He gives you a seat among men. The Spirit of God is the Spirit of distinction. From among the crowd, the Spirit separates you apart and makes you stand out from the rest!

How do you stand out when you are in competition with other men of equal competence excellence expertise and knowledge? How does your proposal become the winning proposal when the board has before them three other ones that are as good as yours and they are at a crossroad of deciding who to choose among you? In such circumstances, the supply of the Spirit is your competitive advantage!

Look at Daniel and his compatriots amidst the other slaves brought from various countries into the king's palace!

‘As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm’(Daniel 1:17,20) Whatever God gives you stands you out from the rest, for whatsoever is from above is above all(John 3:34). And reading further to Daniel 4 we saw it was the Holy Spirit that was at the root of their distinction! The excellent spirit found in him was down 55

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to the "spirit of the gods" according to the understanding of these men, but we know it is the Spirit of God! ‘But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream,’(Daniel 4:8) The Supply of the Spirit is the key to our distinction in life! Enjoy distinction from this day as you pray

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of your Spirit distinguish me in every of my endeavours. Let your mark of excellence be upon me.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Whatever God gives you stands you out from the rest, for whatsoever is from above is above all OTHER SCRIPTURES: Daniel 1-5.

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DAY 20 TODAY’S TEXT: “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty’ (2 Corinthians 3:17) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT ENFORCES OUR LIBERTY

A free man is not restricted A free man is not limited Freedom means there is no restriction Freedom means there is no boundary Liberty or freedom is not just for the bound but for the restricted! A man that is not going forward needs freedom from stagnation.

Freedom means I am free to dominate my world because that was the original intent of God for man - to impose his influence on the earth, to not be limited and restricted.

‘And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth’

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The dominion mandate is the original mandate of God for mankind and when Jesus came that was what he came to do, to restore us back to God’s original purpose for us: a place of free dominion, no restriction! ‘For whosoever, the Son shall set free is free indeed’ (John 8:36) Romans 5:17 further established this, ‘For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)’

New birth restore back to us our dominion mandate, but the Spirit of Christ in our heart enforces and make that dominion and freedom a reality.

Today whatever has limited, restrict and bound you lose its hold on you. The supply of the Spirit enforces our liberty.

‘Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty’ (2 Corinthians 3:17) From here you are ‘un-limited’! Sin cannot limit you, sickness cannot limit you, failure cannot limit you, and poverty cannot limit you. Un-limit your life now as you pray in the Holy Ghost!

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the anointing I begin to freely dominate my world. By the supply of the Spirit I remove every limitation over my life.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The dominion mandate is the original mandate of God for mankind and when Jesus came that was what he came to do, to restore us back to God’s original purpose for us: a place of free dominion, no restriction! ‘For whosoever, the Son shall set free is free indeed’ (John 8:36) OTHER SCRIPTURES: Genesis 1:26, Romans 5:17

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DAY 21 TODAY’S TEXT: “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT UNRAVELS MYSTERIES To unravel simply mean to gain insight into, to know why it is, to understand the matter of the matter. Ephesians 1:17-19 tells us the Holy Spirit reveals things, things that the ordinary mind cannot know.

‘Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, In Proverbs 1:23 the bible says, ‘turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you’ First, the Spirit is supplied and then revelation is accessed. When the Spirit is supplied, mysteries are unravelled. When the Spirit is poured out unto us things are made known unto us. That's the Spirit major work; he is a ‘revelator’ of the truth!

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Two mysteries he will make us understand first: the mysteries of our world.

Whatever you don't understand in life, about life or about your life is a mystery and whatever is a mystery has mastery over you. A man is ruled by what is beyond him and doesn't understand. Secondly, he unravels to us the mysteries of the word. He will grant us access to the mysteries of the word and with that understanding; we can gain mastery over our world.

‘20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things…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 2:20,27) The anointing of the Holy Spirit teaches and when it teaches, it sticks and it makes you thick!

By the supply of the Spirit may you gain unusual insights, understanding, and revelations into the word of God and that understanding gives you mastery over your world.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of the Spirit grants me revelations and insights into the mysteries in your word. Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy word.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: First, the Spirit is supplied and then revelation is accessed.

When the Spirit is supplied, mysteries are unravelled. When the Spirit is poured out unto us things are made known unto us. That's the Spirit major work; he is a ‘revelator’ of the truth!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Mark 4:11, John 16:13-15

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DAY 22 TODAY’S TEXT: “And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour’ (Psalm 45:12) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT ACTIVATES THE FLOW OF FAVOUR ‘Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows all thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad. Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir. Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him. And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour’ Follow the order of events in this scripture - his righteousness (right standing) with God provoked the supply of the Spirit, which changes His spiritual smell to that which is desirable and this led to the rich among the people to in treat his favour.

That same spiritual sequence is activated in your life today!

Genesis 27:27 says, “27 and he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed’ From now on every appearance of you shall smell favour and blessings.

The first church received favour from the first day the Holy Spirit came upon them in Acts 2.

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‘And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, 47 Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved’ This was the first major impact of the supply of the Spirit.

Earlier in the Old Testament, we see this same spiritual scenario played out in 1 Samuel 10 after Saul was anointed to be king of Israel. The prophet told him as you leave from here you will be favoured.

‘Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? 2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: 4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.

Simply put the supply of the Spirit activates the flow of favour! As you go out today enjoy the flow of that favour by the Spirit of God.

TODAY’S PRAYER: The anointing brings me into unusual dimensions of favour from this moment on, the supply of the Spirit sends out spiritual signals on my behalf to the ends of the earth attracting favour. Amen TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The supply of the Spirit activates the flow of favour.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Psalm 102:13, Luke 2:40,52

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DAY 23 TODAY’S TEXT: “And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also"(Acts 17:6) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT CHANGES OUR WORLD When the Holy Spirit came in Acts 2 that was to mark a radical change in the landscape of humanity! After the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, this was the most significant event in human history, because thousands of years after men and women filled with the Spirit of God continues to change their world But first it was the Apostles world that was changed: their timidity was turned to temerity. Peter who denied the lord before preached boldly in the same name and 3000 souls were saved. However, from here they too begin to change their world Acts 17:6 records, "And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, these that have turned the world upside down are come hither also".

In that field of endeavour, you will receive the supply of the Spirit to turn your world upside down. There is an anointing that changes the world and it's coming on you today.

What is inside us can turn the world upside down! It’s the Holy Spirit!

We change the world by impact and you can’t make an impact without power. Jesus said it in 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’. After this power came

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the impact could not be denied again, they were called and threatened not to fill the world with their doctrines! But at this point, nothing could stop them again.

‘27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? And, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us…And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.’ World impact that comes by the move of the Spirit cannot be overthrown by the devices of men and the devil. This is the realm the Spirit is bringing you into.

Also, we change the world or turned it upside down by introducing a new order that is superior to the previous order. In Acts, before Phillip came to town it was Simon who was holding sway.

‘Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ unto them. 6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city. 9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one: 10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. 11 And to him, they had regard because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. 12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done Before time Simon was in charge but when a superior order came to the fore the old order was side-tracked, for the crowd will always move in the direction of the latest attraction. The power of the new order was so undeniable that even the proponent and face of the old order gave it up to embrace the new order.

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There is coming a new world order these last days that we are in, a new order that will be led by Spirit-filled believers in every stratum of human endeavours. These men and women will bring Holy Ghost inspired wisdom to bear on every aspect of human life and this move is starting with you. By the supply of the Spirit, you are changing the order where you are!

In the marketplace, in your field of endeavour, God will establish something better through you.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord I receive the anointing to change my world!

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: There is coming a new world order these last days that we are in, a new order that will be led by Spirit-filled believers in every stratum of human endeavours. These men and women will bring Holy Ghost inspired wisdom to bear on every aspect of human life and this move is starting with you.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Acts 8:1-15, Matthew 28:18-20

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DAY 24 TODAY’S TEXT: “Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil’(Joel 2:23-24) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT BRINGS AN OVERFLOW OF GOD’S BLESSINGS

23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. 26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed’ (Joel 2:23-27) The blessings always come after the showers. First come the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain, and then the fullness of God begins to take effect: ‘and the floors shall be full of wheat’. This is followed by restoration, and satisfaction all by reason of God’s blessings. The supply of the Spirit always precedes the season of refreshing from heaven.

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This shall be your experience today as you pray in the Spirit. The supply of the Spirit brings an overflow of God's blessings into our lives for the rain Of God always precedes His blessings. We see a New Testament parallel of this scripture in Acts 14:17.

‘Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness’.

The spiritual sequence here is the same, first, we have the supply of the Spirit and then there is an overflow of God’s blessings afterward. All that God has for us is already loaded in his Spirit that is sent to our heart if only we will receive and explore all the treasures of heaven that the Spirit carries!

Today your life shall be filled with the blessings and goodness of the Lord. Amen.

We are first drenched in the Spirit before we are filled with His blessings! Today, this week, you shall both be drenched and filled. Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Rain down on me Spirit of God and drench my life with the showers of heaven TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The blessings always come after the showers. First comes the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain, and then the fullness of God begins to take effect: ‘and the floors shall be full of wheat’. This is followed by restoration, and satisfaction all by reason of God’s blessings. The supply of the Spirit always precedes the season of refreshing from heaven.

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DAY 25 TODAY’S TEXT: “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord’(2 Corinthians 3:18) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT CHANGES OUR STATUS The supply of the Spirit can bring monumental positive changes to our lives. David was a shepherd boy up until he was anointed in 1 Samuel 16. And really it was this anointing that provided the spiritual basis and power for him to defeat Goliath.

‘Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.’(1 Samuel 16:13) And then in the next chapter in 1 Samuel 17 after a series of events David found himself face to face with Goliath. I remembered I was teaching on this passage of scripture to some teenagers and one of them remarked that it sounds so ridiculous that an ordinary stone would bring down a giant like Goliath, for even in warfare war veterans can survive many sword cuts and arrow injuries without dying. So he concluded that for an ordinary stone to have entered the forehead of a giant like Goliath can only mean one thing: this was an anointed stone powered by the supply of the Spirit! Though coming from a young chap that resonated with me! It was indeed an anointed stone!

‘And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David(1 Samuel 17:49-50) 68

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The anointing took him to the battlefield where he prevailed, and then to the palace. In some days, the shepherd boy’s life experienced a transformation of the sort that only the Spirit of God could have orchestrated. By 1 Samuel 18, David had already become the King’s in law, though Saul planned all this to ensnare David, but because God was with him he made him to triumph and a poor boy overnight became the King’s in law!

Now it is no mean feat to become a royal relative, the king’s in law especially holds its own position of power and authority. Previously a shepherd boy but once anointed David became a great warrior and the king’s in law!

‘And Saul said, thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. 27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.’(1 Samuel 18:2528) Even Saul that plotted to kill David here was also transformed by the supply of the Spirit. And in 1 Samuel 10 we see how Saul status changed after he was anointed.

‘Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance? And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day’ (1 Samuel 10:1, 9) By the supply of the Spirit, his heart was changed and so the earth begins to respond. The supply of the Spirit changes your heart and then changes your status!

This is how the Spirit of God works, he first prepares your heart for the newly elevated status that He is bringing you into before he actually places you there.

As soon as Jesus was anointed in Luke 4, he turned from the lay reader to the main preacher! The supply of the Spirit changed His status!

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Today there is a change in status for you

TODAY’S PRAYER: I am changed from glory to glory by the supply of the Spirit.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: As soon as Jesus was anointed in Luke 4, he turned from the lay reader to the main preacher! The supply of the Spirit changed His status!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Psalm 63:1-2, Psalm 92

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DAY 26 TODAY’S TEXT: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me’ (Psalm 23:4) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT GUARANTEES VICTORY IN THE MIDST OF CONFLICT

‘And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm’ (Acts 28:3-5) Paul had just escaped the perils of the sea in Acts 27 and was on this island before he and the rest set sails again for their final destination and then a viper fastened itself on Paul. But here was a man with an overflow of the supply of the Spirit. He shook off his hands and the beast fell into the fire and Paul was unharmed! Paul shook it off as if it was not there and didn’t bother to make mention of it.

Whatever has fastened itself on you for long today by the supply of the Spirit you are gaining your victory over them! What people expect will kill you and put you down you will gain a triumph over them!

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we have the anointing on us. And then in verse 5-6 of Psalm 23 the word says, ‘Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over’ Meaning that the opposition is there, the challenges are visible, the hostilities are ever present, but yet we walk through them as if they never exist because our heads are running over with the supply of the Spirit!

Enjoy that victory from today and henceforth.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord let my cup runs over with the supply of your Spirit.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: ‘Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over’. Meaning that the opposition is there, the challenges are visible, the hostilities are ever present, but yet we walk through them as if they never exist because our heads are running over with the supply of the Spirit!

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Isaiah 43:1-2, Psalm 105:15, Galatians 6:17

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DAY 27 TODAY’S TEXT: “‘But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.’(Isaiah 42:22) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT BRINGS RESTORATION It’s a long read from Joel 2:21-26 but make sure to read these words over your soul.

Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed(Joel 2:21-26 KJV) The supply of the Spirit brings restoration. And this will be no ordinary restoration; it shall be a sevenfold restoration of all that the enemy has taken from you! All that lost time has taken from you, all that wasted opportunities has taken from you, all that indecisiveness has taken from you, will be restored to you today.

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‘But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.’

Isaiah 42: 22 said the reason why our lives have been hidden is that there was no restoration. So your hidden days are over, you are coming into the limelight of the lights of life. You are robbed and spoiled because no one saith restoration. But those days are over. Restoration becomes your all round experience in every areas of your life!

The supply of the Spirit brings restoration to our lives, families, careers, ministries; whatever has been lost can be restored by the supply of the Spirit of God.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by your Spirit I receive restoration in every areas of my life. Wherever I have missed out on God’s plan and purpose there is restoration for me now.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: The supply of the Spirit brings restoration. And this will be no ordinary restoration; it shall be a sevenfold restoration of all that the enemy has taken from you! All that lost time has taken from you, all that wasted opportunities has taken from you, all that indecisiveness has taken from you, will be restored to you today.

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DAY 28 TODAY’S TEXT: “But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me’(Psalm 92:10-11) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT INCREASES OUR SPIRITUAL CAPACITY Capacity is what determines the extent to which we can produce results. When it is limited result too is limited. When it is increased, result improves. Daniel 11:32 says the people that do know their God shall be strong and then shall do exploits.

Exploits is a function of strength, while strength is a function of knowledge. Both knowledge and strength speak to our spiritual capacity. When both factors increase our exploits increases.

When the Spirit is supplied spiritual capacity increases. David said in Psalm 92:10 that I shall be "anointed with fresh oil" and this fresh supply of the Spirit will increase his capacity to see new things happening. Verse 11 says, "then shall my eyes see...”

Psalm 92:10-11, ‘10 but my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil. 11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me. 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 15 to show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.’

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From today your eyes will begin to see new things happen in your life! All you need is the supply of the Spirit of Christ.

For every result, we want to see we must develop the spiritual capacity to produce that result because nothing happens in the kingdom by chance. This was the message Jesus passed to the disciples in Matthew 17:19-21. ‘Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, why could not we cast him out?

20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you. 21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.’ This is one of the most powerful statements made by Jesus in the gospels. It underlines the spiritual requirement necessary to grow from one level of results to another. It highlights the need to develop spiritual capacity. When Jesus went fasting and praying in Luke 4 the bible says he returned with increase spiritual capacity by reason of the anointing(Luke 4:14). That experience brought a tangible increase in His ministerial efficiency from then on. By the supply of the Spirit, you will experience increase result in that your business and career. Amen.

One of the ways we increase our spiritual capacity is what we see above in the life of Jesus. For forty days, he gave himself to fasting and prayer. It was also one of the reasons why he said the disciples could not move into a certain level of faith needed to cast out the devils that tormented the child.

We cannot make spiritual progression without committing to a life of spiritual labour. Paul talked about how he laboured more than his peers (1 Corinthians 15:910). This was also the pattern for the early apostles in Acts, Peter said in Acts 6:4 that they will continually give themselves to the word and prayer. A spiritual regimen of spiritual commitment to a life of the word, prayer and fasting increases the supply of the Spirit over our life. We must make this commitment if we want to experience increase in the anointing.

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TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord I receive the grace to labour spiritually like Paul did, grace to commit to a life of the word, prayer and fasting. I will never be satisfied with yesterday’s oil and anointing. For today I receive a fresh supply of the Spirit.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: We cannot make spiritual progression without committing to a life of spiritual labour. Paul talked about how he laboured more than his peers (1 Corinthians 15:9-10). This was also the pattern for the early apostles in Acts, Peter said in Acts 6:4 that they will continually give themselves to the word and prayer.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Psalm 92:1-11, Acts 13:1-3

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DAY 29 TODAY’S TEXT: “And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.’(1 King 18:46) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT BRINGS SUPERNATURAL SPEED Someone once said. “I have a need for speed". Now will all can do with some speed too. That line is a popular Hollywood flick. But long before this, someone prayed for this same speed.

‘And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham’ (Genesis 24:12) Why the need for speed? When there is speed it means you achieve in record time what will ordinarily take longer time. And God delights in answering such prayers as it goes to reveal that whatever is done and achieved could be only by Him! While Abraham's servant was still at this prayer God answered him and brought Rebekah (Genesis 24:15).

‘And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up… 22 And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; 23 And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? 24 And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of 78

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Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor. 25 She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. 26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD. 27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren. 28 And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things. (Genesis 24:15-16,22-28) When the hand of God is upon you things speedily comes unto you. This is one way God grants us speed, he brings to our doorsteps what others travel miles to get.

Things are coming to your doorsteps from here.

Look at Elijah in 1 Kings 18:46, ‘And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel’. What makes you special is the hand of God that is upon you. The hand of God was upon Elijah and he outran the chariot of Ahab, an amazing physical feat, an example of supernatural speed.

The supply of the Spirit brings supernatural speed. In the days ahead of you will ride on the wings of the Spirit, like Phillip did in Acts 8. This was another way the speed of God manifests physically: while others are still thinking over the problem your mind is able to waltz through it faster than others and also able to analyse the solution. What took others thirty minutes to do you are able to do in ten minutes all by the enablement of God’s Spirit.

This is the supernatural speed at work by the Spirit; I see that manifest in your life today.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of your Spirit I receive supernatural speed from today TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Why the need for speed? When there is speed it means you achieve in record time what will ordinarily take longer time. And God delights in answering such prayers as it goes to reveal that whatever is done and achieved could be only by Him! OTHER SCRIPTURES: Genesis 20:27, Acts 8

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DAY 30 TODAY’S TEXT: “Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them”(Acts 13:1-2) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT UNVEILS THE PLAN OF GOD God’s instruction is the gateway to our distinction. Deuteronomy 28:1 says, ’And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth’ When we obey his VOICE we are set for the TOP. For no one becomes a voice without hearing his voice. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God, and it is this Sons of God that manifest to the world. Romans 8:19 tells us that the whole earth is waiting for the manifestations of the Sons of God. The earth is waiting for us we can’t be wasting away! But in order not to waste we need to wait for His voice of guidance.

The instructions we have received from the Lord is what guarantees our manifestation in the world.

However, to receive this instruction first there must be unction! The supply of the Spirit of God in our lives keeps us spiritually attuned to the voice of God. This is principally what the Holy Spirit does he guides us into all truths as we have read in John 16. Even Jesus needed this guidance.

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In Luke 4:1 the bible says, ‘And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness’ Jesus was led by the Spirit because he was first full of the Spirit, what fills your heart is what guides your life! Be full of the Spirit and you will be guided by the Spirit.

Today is a day of direction for you, a day of guidance and supernatural revelations of the next plan and phase of God for your life! Today you will hear His voice and that will take you to the top in Jesus name. Amen.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord teach me in the path of life for in your presence is fullness of Joy and at your right hand pleasures forever more.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: In Luke 4:1 the bible says, ‘And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wildernesses’. He was led by the Spirit because he was first full of the Spirit, what fills your heart is what guides your life! Be full of the Spirit and you will be guided by Him. OTHER SCRIPTURES: Romans 8:14, 19. Ephesians 5:18

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CONCLUSION: ONE MORE DAY OF POWER TODAY’S TEXT: “And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. 23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli(Luke 3:22-23) TODAY’S WORD: THE SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT SUPERNATURALLY PROJECTS THE FULFILMENT OF OUR DESTINY Ultimately the supply of the Spirit is given for the fulfilment of our destiny. The first time Jesus receives the outpouring of the Spirit in Luke 3:21-23 it was recorded: ‘21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. 23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age’ As Jesus prayed the heaven opened and there was a supply of the Spirit, a voice came from heaven that gave Jesus validation and thereafter the bible said and 'Jesus began to be'. From this moment onward he began to walk in the fullness of God's plan and purpose for His life! The empowerment of heaven is given for their fulfilment of our destiny, and this was what begins to play out in the life of Jesus.

There was another empowerment and supply of the Spirit that came upon Jesus after he fasted and prayed in Luke 4:1, as the Bible records in Luke 4:14 that he 'returned in the power of the Spirit'. And from verse 18 he described the experience with these words: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21 And he began to say unto them, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears’ 82

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Once the anointing was released Jesus boldly declared that the day of fulfilment has begun. Before the anointing came, it was His custom to read scriptures, he was the lay reader. However, the supply of the Spirit changed his status from being the lay reader to becoming the main preacher for the day and from henceforth!

The supply of the Spirit is given for the fulfilment of our destiny. From here onward you will begin to come to your own! Your destiny will begin to come to the fore, in Jesus name, amen.

All that has been explored in the past thirty days are all given to us by the supply of the Spirit for the purpose of advancing our course on the earth and fulfilling our destinies! These are the multi-faceted blessings that overflow when the anointing is at work.

If you have faithfully followed the 30 days prayer plan of praying one hour in tongues every day there is no doubt the water level has increased in your life, the anointing has surged and you are about to emerge to your world in 2018 and beyond! Amen! God bless you.

Am sure this book has been a blessing to you, share and tell your friends about this book, urge them to download free from www.powertalk.com.ng so they too can experience the supply of the Spirit. Use this prayer and study manual over and again in your life, with your family, your church, that small group you lead and enjoy an overflow of the anointing. God bless you.

TODAY’S PRAYER: Lord by the supply of the Spirit I begin to come into the fulfilment of your plans and purpose for my life. I receive power for accomplishments.

TODAY’S THOUGHT TO REMEMBER: Ultimately the supply of the Spirit is given for the fulfilment of our destiny.

OTHER SCRIPTURES: Luke 4:18-21,

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ABOUT PAB PETER ADESHINA BABALOLA(PAB) is a lover of God and a teacher of His word. His 20 years in ministry has seen him served as a pastor in major ministries in Nigeria where he planted and pastored many churches across the nation.

From Port Harcourt to Uyo to Akure to Lagos, PAB has been privileged to affect lives through the preaching and teaching of the word.

An insightful teacher and writer, PAB writes for blogs and magazines across the nation as well teaching the word across the length and breadth of the land and beyond.

You can reach him by mail pab@powertalk.com or powertalkcom@gmail.com to share testimonies of how this book has been a blessing to you or call 08087872077.

ABOUT POWERTALK What the world needs today is not more motivation, but more revelations and truths from God's word! Because true liberty is a product of ‘revelational’ knowledge! "For whosoever the son (the word) sets free is free indeed (true liberty)(John 8:36).

For all else will fail, but the word will stay! For all else is fake, but the word will not fail! The knowledge of its wisdom brings freedom. This is what POWERTALK celebrates, the revelation of God's word to bring illumination and revolution to everyone who read and visits.

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