Machaira With Apostle Bennie

Category: Faith

  • EPISODE 961 – DON’T BE QUIET, SPEAK FORTH THE WORD

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Don’t be afraid or careful to talk to the Lord about all that concerns you. He is the good Shepherd-King! Hallelujah!
    Apostle Bennie
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    Wednesday, 10th September, 2025

    DON’T BE QUIET, SPEAK FORTH THE WORD

    “And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God…Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” 

    Mark 11:22, 24 (ESV)

    Have you ever been in a moment when you felt so much faith but didn’t see the results of your prayer?

    Well, sometimes, during such moments, you may not be acting in faith. You may be acting confidently in your own efforts.

    There are times people believe in their efforts made in prayer rather than in the ability of God. You will always be disappointed if you look at yourself.

    To have faith is to have confidence in God and His saving ability. Faith is not vim!

    Faith is not how you feel. Faith is not waiting for a change. Faith is believing without a doubt in your heart that the change has happened and you have received it.

    The faith of God in your heart cannot fail.

    Jesus didn’t have any doubt in His heart when He spoke to the fig tree. The fig tree didn’t shrivel up simply because Jesus is the Saviour of the world or because He is God. If that was the case then there was no need for Jesus to tell His disciples, “let the faith of God be in you.”

    With such a response, Jesus was explaining to the disciples the secret to causing changes.

    Jesus went on to make the disciples understand that they can speak to anything at all by the faith of God.
    As He spoke to the fig tree, they can also speak to the mountains.

    How is it possible to speak to the mountain to move?

    It is by believing in your heart that whatever you say will happen because you have the faith of God.

    “Jesus replied, “Let the faith of God be in you! Listen to the truth I speak to you: If someone says to this mountain with great faith and having no doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done. Mark 11:22-23 (TPT)

    For Jesus to use this example that the disciples can say to a mountain be lifted and thrown into the sea, it means they can speak to change every situation.

    If you can have the faith of God in your heart, you can speak to that infirmity in your body to be moved and be lifted into the sea.

    If a mountain will disappear at the word spoken in faith, then that kidney condition will disappear from your body; the cancer in the breast will leave; the growth in your brain will disappear, the health condition in your lungs will disappear as you will not doubt in your heart.

    To doubt is to be uncertain or to be afraid that what you have said will not happen. And mostly people doubt because they esteem the situation rather than the power of God. Others also doubt because they look at themselves and their incapabilities rather than the ability of God.

    All things were made by the word of God. Therefore, when you speak forth God’s word and you believe in your heart, the change will happen!

    Don’t keep quiet to watch the mountains before you. You can speak to it now according to the word of the Lord.

    That heart disease or cancer, or tumour of any kind can desiccate completely or wither from the root.

    Speak forth the word of God in faith without any doubt in your heart!

    Hallelujah.

    DIG DEEPER
    (Mark 16:20; Matthew 21:21; Mark 9:23; Psalm 62:8; Psalm 50:15)
     
    WE PRAY
    We speak to any mountain in our lives to be removed and lifted into the sea. We speak to any unwanted condition in our lives to be uprooted in the name of Jesus.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Jeremiah 7-9

    2 YEARS PLAN
    1 Samuel 14

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I have absolute confidence in God.

    – I live by the word of God amidst all confutative opinions.
     
    – I have the faith of God.
     
    – I don’t doubt the word of God.
     
    – The faith of God in my heart cannot fail.
     
    Oh thank you Lord Jesus!

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  • EPISODE 954 – WE HEARD THE SPIRIT INTO US

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    If you are reading this, know that the Lord has released you into a season of daring faith. Don’t take no for an answer, nor settle for less. Hold on to the Word of God, knowing that you walk in answers. Shalom!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    Wednesday, 3rd September, 2025
     

    WE HEARD THE SPIRIT INTO US

    “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” 

    Galatians 3:2 (KJV)

    There are people who have lived their entire lives feeling worthless, irrespective of the success they’ve achieved, because they grew up hearing words of defeat and doubt.

    These people lived trying to impress others without the consciousness of their worth.

    Words carry the ability to control and influence your entire existence.

    Remember, God created the earth by words. He spoke the universe into being. There is nothing God created without first making a creative utterance. Though He formed man, before He made man, He spoke words.

    ” And God said, Let us make man in our image…” Genesis 1:26 (KJV)

    Thoughts and spoken words shape or ruin destinies.

    Many have not been able to fulfill their purpose because of the words they heard.

    Many others have also found their purpose and walked into glorious manifestation because of the right words they heard.

    Words are spiritual.

    Jesus said, “…And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” (John 6:63)

    Which means the more you interact with the words of Jesus, the more you are saturated with the Spirit and life of His words.

    There are people who want to grow deeper in communion with the Holy Spirit and yet don’t have much engagement with the glorious gospel of Jesus.

    The words of Jesus are the articulation of faith.

    The more you hear words of faith, the more your heart is enriched with the impartations of the Holy Spirit.

    Paul speaking to the brethren in Galatia established that they did not receive the Spirit as a reward for keeping all the Jewish laws. Instead, they received the Spirit as a gift through the HEARING OF FAITH. As they heard and believed the message of faith, they were able to receive the Spirit.

    The message of faith imparts to you with the ability of the Spirit. This is because they are the words of the Spirit of the Lord.

    This is why you have to give attention to the scriptures and materials such as Photizo (Compendium of Eternal Verities) and the rich writings on this platform.

    They are able to shape your thoughts and cause your heart to be influenced by the power of the Holy Spirit.

    People have read these materials and have practically been liberated from several bondages. Some have been made free from negative addiction, suicide, depression, condemnation or sin consciousness, envy, hatred, bitterness, etc.

    At the hearing of the revelation of Jesus, you hear into you, the Spirit of Wisdom, the Spirit of Excellence, the Spirit of Counsel, the Spirit of Boldness, the Spirit of Faith, and the Power of the Spirit.

    Don’t give your heart to the hearing of negative words. These words are possessed by the Spirit of fear, condemnation, lust, greediness and envy.

    Be soaked with the presence of the Holy Spirit as you set your heart on the hearing of faith!

    Selah.

    DIG DEEPER
    (Ephesians 1:13; Acts 10:44-47; John 7:38-39; Romans 4:13-14; Philippians 3:3; Ezekiel 36:26-27)
     
    WE PRAY
    We pray that we shall submit our hearts to the revelation of Jesus, so that our lives shall be soaked and saturated with His Spirit.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Isaiah 52-54

    2 YEARS PLAN
    1 Samuel 7

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I submit my heart to the revelation of Jesus.
     
    – My life is soaked and saturated with the Holy Spirit.
     
    – I keep hearing the words of faith.
     
    – My heart is enriched with the impartations of the Spirit as I keep hearing the words of faith.
     
    – I set my heart on the hearing of faith.
     
    Oh, thank you Lord Jesus!

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  • EPISODE 953 – WHAT ARE YOU HEARING?

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Beloved, understanding is everything! Your life will always be governed by your level of light. Selah!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    Tuesday, 2nd September, 2025

    WHAT ARE YOU HEARING?

    “This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

    Galatians 3:2 (KJV)

    Your perspective on life is a result of the knowledge you carry. Your knowledge is a result of what you hear.

    You cannot be better than the things you hear. 

    Your thought patterns and life are a reflection of the information you keep absorbing.

    Paul the apostle, writing to the brethren in Galatia, asked rhetorically, If they received the Spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?

    He asked a similar question in his epistle to the Romans,

     “But how can people call on him for help if they’ve not yet believed? And how can they believe in one they’ve not yet heard of? And how can they hear the message of life if there is no one there to proclaim it?” Romans 10:14 (TPT)

    You cannot believe it until you hear. What you hear influences how you live.

    If you hear words of faith, you live consistently by faith.

    When you hear words of doubt and fear, you will constantly live in doubt and fear. You will not be able to take steps or make bold decisions. You will always be afraid.

    But the knowledge you receive will influence your confidence.

    When Daniel received understanding through the reading of the scriptures, it influenced his prayers. (Read on the Liberating Power of Reading).

    We hear by what we read or watch and what we listen to. And what you hear determines your level of knowledge.

    God doesn’t just want you to be saved; he wants you to grow in knowledge (1 Timothy 2:4).

    You can only have the right knowledge when you give your mind to the right truth. 

    Be intentional about what you hear.

    In my book Photizo (A Compendium of Eternal Verities) Alpha Edition, I explained the need to go for accurate knowledge.

    You must become a student of the word, be like the Bereans, who didn’t just give their minds to anything at all they heard. They committed themselves to studying. They decided to be sure that whatever they heard was consistent with the scriptures.

    As a new creation in Christ, give your mind to the revelation of Jesus. Anything you hear must be consistent with the testimony of Jesus.

    The revelation of Jesus will shift and shape your mindsets.

    You will live victoriously when you keep hearing the glorious things Christ has victoriously accomplished for you through His death and resurrection.

    Paul was able to see faith in a man in Lystra who had never walked from birth.
    Where did the faith come from? By hearing the preaching of Paul.

    The man’s heart was so much flooded with the word of faith that when Paul asked him to stand on his feet, in the name of Jesus, he instantly jumped to his feet for the first time and walked (Acts 14:8-10).

    What a transformation!

    You are reading this now, and may be thinking your life has come to an end, and nothing good will come out of your situation. 

    Precious one, your thoughts are a result of what you are hearing. Stop hearing your pain, stop hearing your challenges, stop hearing the doubts, stop hearing the projections of fear and guilt from the adversary.

    Turn away from the negative words and projections of the devil. Set your eyes on the might and awesomeness of the Lord.

    Give your ears and heart to the transformational word of faith. Hear what the Lord is saying through His word. The word of the Lord is the glorious gospel. The gospel means goodnews.

    This goodnews of Jesus will set the direction of your life towards the experience and enjoyment of grace, glory and manifold blessings.

    Beloved, choose to hear right!!!

    Selah.

    DIG DEEPER
    (Mark 4:24; Romans 10:17; Luke 11:28; John 8:47; John 10:27; Proverbs 28:9)
     
    WE PRAY
    We pray that we shall access and hear the truth of the word, which shall properly shape our minds and lives.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Isaiah 49-51

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Ruth 10

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I give my ears and heart to the transformational word of faith.
     
    – I am intentional about what I hear.
     
    – I hear only that which is consistent with the testimony of Jesus.
     
    – I live victorously everyday because I keep hearing all that Christ accomplished for me.
     
    – I refuse to give my hearing to pain, challenges, doubts, fear and guilt.
     
    – I set my eyes continually on the might and awesomeness of the Lord.
     
    – I hear right.
     
    Oh, thank you Lord Jesus!

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  • EPISODE 950 – YOU ARE A CHILD OF OBEDIENCE

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    To have the Holy Spirit in you means you have the source of God’s loving ability. You have what it takes to demonstrate the love of God and the inward evidence to trust the Lord daily. Practice His presence today.
    Apostle Bennie
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    Saturday, 30th August, 2025
     

    YOU ARE A CHILD OF OBEDIENCE

    “so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.” 

    2 Corinthians 2:11 (ESV)

    Disobedience to God is not automatic. One demonstrates disobedience when doubt, disbelief, and deception have fully germinated.

    The adversary contributes to your disobedience through deception. He knows your disobedience will distract you from manifesting God’s glory.

    To disobey is to act outside the faith. Obedience is to hear under faith. When one obeys God’s word, it is an act of faith. Obedience to God is proof of honour.

    The adversary knows when you walk in disobedience you will walk outside the will of God for your life.

    Men don’t always attribute their disobedience to God as anything wrong or evil. And even some acts of disobedience to God in some contexts may seem to be a good thing in others. 

    It may be something all men celebrate or will applaud you for, but it will be disobedience to God.

    King Saul’s decision to disobey the Lord’s instruction on how to handle the battle with the Amalekites cost him his throne. He was a man after His own desires, but not the counsel of the Lord. He decided to keep the animals which were to be destroyed as spoils of war and for sacrificial offerings. 

    He even spared the life of King Agag as a showcase of his victory. But that wasn’t what God wanted. Even though, in the natural and religious sense, it looks like Saul did the right thing. Because offering sacrifices to the Lord was the right thing to do. But God’s response through Prophet Samuel wasn’t what Saul expected:

    “But Samuel replied,
    “What is more pleasing to the LORD: your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshipping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23 (NLT)

    Saul did what he did to satisfy his own interest. But that was a demonstration of ego and arrogance. 

    Always see your obedience to God, as an act of faith.

    Saul (Paul the Apostle), acted differently with the Lord’s instruction. He said, “Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision” Acts 26:19 (KJV).

    This was his response to the instructions he received from the Lord Jesus as he encountered Him on his way to Damascus to persecute the believers.

    When you were born again, you came into the obedience of faith. Christ’s obedience became your obedience. And you were supplied with the ability of God to continue in the reality of His obedience. To obey the Lord is no longer mechanical but organic because God works in you both to will and to do (Philippians 2:13).

    As a born-again, you don’t live under the rule of the devil. You are not his servant. Therefore, you don’t yield and obey his voice. You are no longer part of the children of disobedience.

    It is the unsaved who is referred to as the son of disobedience.

    “in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” Ephesians 2:2 (NKJV)

    You are now an obedient child of God because of Jesus Christ’s obedience.

    Look at what Peter the Apostle  said:

    “As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance” 1 Peter 1:14 (ESV).

    Don’t believe in the deception of the devil that you are not an obedient child of God.

    The spirit of disobedience doesn’t have any authority over you. You are an obedient child of God and have the capacity to respond rightly to the Lord’s instructions.

    Selah.

    DIG DEEPER
    (John 14:17; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21-22; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 1:15-16)
     
    WE PRAY
    We pray thanking the Lord for making us obedient children and giving us the ability to organically walk according to His word.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Isaiah 40-42

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Ruth 7

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I walk in obedience to God.
     
    – I am not disobedient to the word of God.
     
    – I remain humble at all times to be trained and nurtured by the word.
     
    – I live daily above disobedience.
     
    Thank you Lord Jesus!

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  • EPISODE 938 – FAITH IS THE REAL DEAL

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    I don’t know how you see yourself, precious one in Christ. However, from the day you believed in Jesus and received the Holy Spirit into you, you received a gushing fountain, which springs up as life. It is not only designed to nourish you, but to make you a fountain to nourish others. Hallelujah!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    Monday, 18th August, 2025
     

    FAITH IS THE REAL DEAL

    “When Jesus heard it, he marvelled and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 

    Matthew 8:10 (KJV)

     
    There is no God-kind of results without faith.
     
    The faith of God within you is not just for seasonal showmanship. The faith of God is not just for moments when you need urgent results or a testimony. Your entire life is lived by faith. Faith is the law of life at work in you as you have come into the new living way in Christ.
    The faith of God within you can be nurtured. You grow in faith as you continue to practice, function and act according to the revelation of Jesus. 
    Let me explain this to you:
     
    Jesus is the object or the embodiment of our Faith. Faith is authored and completed in Him. (Hebrews 12:2). This is called the “Objective faith”. 
     
    As we have discussed, faith was infused and sown into your heart through the ministry of the Word. (Romans 10:17). The faith sown into you creates an inward response that becomes a personal faith. This is also referred to as “Subjective faith“. This subjective or personal faith is built by the consistent revelation of the word of God in your heart. You don’t grow the objective faith; instead, you grow and increase in the objective faith. Your growth and increase in the objective faith is called growing your faith. As you grow in faith, your personal faith increases.
     
    All through the scriptures, there are only two places (specifically in the New Testament portion of the Bible) where God MARVELLED.
     
    Both were connected to FAITH.
     
    Interestingly, there are only two scenarios where Jesus referred to the faith of certain persons as GREAT.
     
    Exercising yourself in FAITH is so essential to God. If Jesus, by whom this beautiful, jaw-dropping and astonishing universe was made, could still MARVEL at something, then that matter is worth our interest and meditation.
     
    Jesus didn’t marvel at the great miracles He did. Though, all the people marvelled and were astonished by His great miraculous deeds and depths of wisdom in His utterances. Jesus was not marvelled once by this complex universe and constellations. 
     
    Instead, the great faith of the Roman centurion (Matthew 8:10) and the faithlessness of His own people in Nazareth marvelled Him (Mark 6:6).
     
    It was matters concerning FAITH that made Jesus marvel.
    Faith is not an option in God. It is the REAL DEAL. Live by faith!
    No wonder the scripture says without faith, it is impossible to please God. (Hebrews 11:6).
     
    This is how GREAT FAITH works:
     
    “And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
    And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
    The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
    When Jesus heard it, He marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.“ Matthew 8:5-10 (KJV)
    Sincerely, it is amazing to know that Jesus was not marvelled positively by the great Jewish scholars or Rabbi and leaders. He was marvelled by a Gentile, who also is a Roman centurion.
     
    There are a few key items that will help you understand how to exercise GREAT FAITH.
     
    Firstly, The great level of reverence and humility demonstrated by the Centurion.
     
    During classical antiquity, a centurion in the Roman army was a commander of 100 legionary military units. They defended and exercised control in Roman territories. They uphold the authority of Rome and don’t bow to anyone except Rome.
     
    Yet, He called Jesus Lord, which means MASTER. Do you know what it means for a Roman Centurion to call a Jew MASTER?
     
    It means this Centurion had caught a great revelation of who Jesus is.
     
    Great faith is not confidence in the self or what you know. It is not found in who you think you are without God. It is not your confidence in the position or rank in government or a great organization. Neither is it found in the money in your account nor the number of hours you pray in tongues (though it is worth it).
    The greatest limitation of faith is pride. 
    Exercising great faith always begins with having reverence for God and submitting to Him.  
     
    Hallelujah!
    DIG DEEPER
    (Luke 7:9; Matthew 8:26; Mark 11:22; Habakkuk 2:4; Galatians 2:20; Hebrews 11)
     
    WE PRAY
    – That any form of pride and ego will be subdued and crushed by the revelation of Jesus.
     
    – We will exercise the wisdom to submit completely to the Lord in all humility and godly reverence.
     
    In the name of Jesus.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Isaiah 4-6

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Judges 16

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I recognise the Lordship of Jesus in my life and every situation.
     
    – I walk in the revelation of who Jesus is daily.
     
    – I exercise great faith according to the revelation of Jesus and not according to any efforts of mine.
     
    – I refuse to be proud and egoistic. I walk in the humility to the Lord Jesus and His commandments. 
     
    – I take steps according to the ability of God. 
     
    Hallelujah!

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  • EPISODE 926 – DARE TO BE COURAGEOUS

    EPISODE 926 – DARE TO BE COURAGEOUS

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

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    Don’t feel helpless when you are overwhelmed by situations. There is a way forward: PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. Get to it now.
    Apostle Bennie
    Author
    DIG DEEPER
    (Acts 4:29,31; Acts 9:27; Joshua 1:7-9; Deuteronomy 1:21; Genesis 28:15)
     
    WE PRAY
    Lord, I receive more grace that my hands will be strengthened with the Spirit of boldness, that I may do valiantly through you.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    Proverbs 19-21

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Judges 10-12

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – I take daring steps towards God’s Kingdom work.
     
    – I am strong and courageous.
     
    – I remain conscious of the reality that God is with me, therefore I dare to do the extraordinary.
     
    – I live above this world.
     
    – I do the unimaginable.
     
    – I don’t consider the size of the assignment or challenge because God is with me.
     
    – I am audacious.
     
    Oh Hallelujah, GLOREEEEY!

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