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ROADBLOCKS TO PRAYERS – III

“…and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.” – 1 Peter 3:7b   REFERENCE: 1 PETER 3:7-12    Peter here admonishes husbands to be careful and thoughtful of the needs of their wives while honoring them as the weaker sex and partners in receiving God’s blessings. When husbands withhold this honor from their wives, their prayers are sabotaged. This is a roadblock to answers in prayers. Hence, not handling relationships well can become a roadblock to prayers. Let us see more roadblocks that truncate our supplications: o Domestic Discord: If your marriage is not...
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JOSEPH’S JOURNEY: THE POSTERITY

So, he blessed them that day saying, “By you Israel will bless, saying, ‘May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’” – Genesis 48:20a   REFERENCE: GENESIS 48:12-22   By divine orchestration, Jacob his father, and all of Joseph's brothers and their families relocated to Egypt. When Jacob was about to die, he sent for Joseph's sons. First Manasseh (God has made me forget all my toil) and younger Ephraim (God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction). He adopted them as his sons, disconnecting them from Joseph's pedigree as princes of Egypt and...
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JOSEPH’S JOURNEY: THE PRINCE

“Pharaoh also said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent, no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.” Genesis 41:44   REFERENCE: GENESIS 41:44-49   Joseph was thirty years old when he became a Prince in Egypt, after being given the stamp of approval by Pharoah. Pharoah chose Joseph over his counselors because authority gravitates toward those who solve problems and have the ‘Spirit of God’ in them. If they could not interpret the dream, they could not have resolved the famine. Although a young man, Joseph's age did not matter as...
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JOSEPH’S JOURNEY: THE PALACE

“You shall be over my house, and all my people shall be ruled according to your word; only in regard to the throne will I be greater than you.” – Genesis 41:40   REFERENCE: GENESIS 41:37-45   It was 2 years after the Butler's reinstatement that Joseph was released from the PIT and brought before Pharoah to interpret his dream. In the fulness of time, after 13 years of slavery in Egypt, God created a problem that needed a solution that only Joseph could provide. Though he was quickly taken out of the pit, Joseph took time to shave and...
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JOSEPH’S JOURNEY: THE PIT

And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison; whatever they did there, it was his doing.” – Genesis 39:22   REFERENCE: GENESIS 39:20 - 40:14   Joseph's journey seemed to take a nosedive; one day he was a Principal, and the next, a Prisoner in a Pit. However, in the Pit, Joseph was consistently doing right, and God was with him. As it was in Potiphar's house, he got promoted and put in charge of the prisoners. Sometime later, Pharaoh had his Butler and Baker put in the same Pit...
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JOSEPH’S JOURNEY: THE PRINCIPAL

‘So it was, from the time that he had made him overseer {principal} of his house and all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake...’ – Genesis 39:5a   REFERENCE: GENESIS 39:1-6   Potiphar, Chief Executioner and Captain of Pharoah’s bodyguards purchased Joseph from the Ishmaelites and God greatly blessed Joseph, so that he succeeded in everything he did. As a result, Potiphar made Joseph Principal, giving him complete administrative responsibility for everything he owned. The Lord also began blessing Potiphar because of Joseph; his household affairs began to run smoothly, his crops flourished, and his...
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KNOW YOUR ENEMY: ANGEL OF LIGHT

“And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.” ~ II Corinthians 11:14   REFERENCE: II Corinthians 11:12-15   We conclude our study on the three ways satan tempts Christians today. We have seen him as both a subtle serpent and a devouring lion, now, we will be looking at him as an angel of light. From our text, this strategy of the devil is close to his being a serpent, in the sense that it is built around subtlety and deception. The marked difference between them is that this strategy puts on a spiritual garb; it...
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KNOW YOUR ENEMY: SUBTLE SERPENT

“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made…” – Genesis 3:1   REFERENCE: GENESIS 3:1-13   Yesterday, we studied the need to know our adversary by being sober and vigilant, so as to walk in victory. From today, we will begin to look at three main strategies the devil deploys against mankind. The bible first introduced and revealed the devil‘s strategies and his first assault on man in today’s text. He came to Eve in the form of a serpent (a very crafty and subtle animal). One strategy the devil uses is...
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KNOW YOUR ENEMY: BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” – I Peter 5:8 REFERENCE: I PETER 5:6-11 As believers in Christ, we are constantly at war with ungodly spirits that attempt to pull us away from our relationship with God and bring us under God’s judgment. Our main adversary is the devil, whom scripture reveals is God’s arch-enemy and despises everything that God loves. Since you and I are the object of God’s love, the devil hates us and works hard at trying to destroy us. In order to...
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BE THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SHIP

“A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. – James 3:4 (TLB)   REFERENCE: JAMES 3:1-4   James reveals that the tongue is a tool that can be used to achieve a purpose - any purpose for that matter. He likens the power of the tongue to a bit in the mouth of a horse, used to control the whole horse. He says the tongue is like a small rudder on a huge ship, which in the hands of a skilled captain, can set...
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