Tag: exaltation

  • EPISODE 827 – YOUR SEASON OF EXALTATION IS HERE

    EPISODE 827 – YOUR SEASON OF EXALTATION IS HERE

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

    Your due season is already here! That is why you are reading today’s Machaira with Apostle Bennie. REMAIN EXPECTANT FOR YOUR TESTIMONY. I will be so excited to read your testimony in the comments. Shalom Aleichem!
    Apostle Bennie
    Author

    Tuesday, 29th April, 2025

    YOUR SEASON OF EXALTATION IS HERE



    “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

    1 Peter 5:6 – 7 (NKJV)



    The adversary wants you to lose your confidence in God. He wants you to feel distressed or discouraged about how things have not gone in the direction you expected. And to think God is not caring and the promises of the scriptures are not true.

     His goal is to force or push you to a level where you become angry with God.

    He wants you to deny the reality of God’s kindness in your heart. He keeps reminding you of your failures and the negative experiences you’ve had, though you have been serving the Lord.

    He keeps sowing thoughts of doubts or posing doubtful questions in your mind.

    For example:

    “After you gave that amount to the Kingdom gospel, has your life become better?”

    “You had hoped to see your dad or mum healed of that infirmity, what has happened?” “And you think the healing power of God is real?”

    “Do you even think the Gospel message of Jesus is real?”

    “Don’t you think these things are mere lies or fables?”

    “Look at your family, your siblings; do you remember your friend who also lost their parents?”, “How about your uncle who served God but has lost everything?”
     “Don’t you think the stories of the Bible are mere fiction?”

    “You don’t need God to be better, take your own life into your own hands. And forget about this God”

    Listen, when the adversary comes after your faith and exaltation, he tries to hit you hard at your weakest state. He will shamelessly and persistently inject more questions and thoughts to break you down.

    Have you had questions like these also:

    “Where was God when you failed your exams?” “Where was God when you got raped?” “Where was God when you were robbed?” “Where was God when you lost that money?” “Where was God when everyone left you?” “Where was God when you were abused, maltreated, cheated, scammed?” “Where was God when the lady or gentleman you loved left you or abandoned you?” etc

    These questions are targeted by the adversary to establish enmity between you and God.

    All of a sudden, you forget the goodness of God. You forget your testimonies, and you continue to brood over these thoughts of the devil.

    You even begin to forget that the very air you breathe is a gift from God.

    You suddenly become so arrogant and proud before the Lord.

    Get this, such thoughts are attacks of the devil, to build strongholds of pride in your heart. Such thoughts are programmed by the adversary to make you doubt God’s help and to shipwreck your faith.

    Such thoughts become stronger when you are close to your season of exaltation.

    The adversary knows that the more you humble yourself before the Lord, the more you increase in faith to receive from the Lord.

    He knows the more you submit to the power of the word of God, the stronger your expectation for your miracle and exaltation.

    “Surely there is a future [and a reward], And your hope and expectation will not be cut off” Proverbs 23:18 (Amplified Bible).

    He doesn’t want you to have any expectation or hope in the Lord. He makes you think you can’t predict or expect anything glorious.

    That is a lie!

    Beloved, you have to maintain your expectation in God. Your season of exaltation is here. Don’t allow your past to distract you.

    “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward” Hebrews 10:35

    A life lived by the word of God is predictable. When you live by the word, you can have expectations of glory.

    There is nothing like uncertainty in the Word of God. This doesn’t mean you will not face opposition. You may face the worst of challenges. But the counsel of the Lord for your life shall stand.

    Joseph, who was a promised child, was sold into slavery by his brothers, and he was taken to prison by his master Potipher (whose house prospered because of Joseph, Genesis 39:2-5). He chose to honour God, and he was imprisoned

    What?

    Where was God?

    Listen, the Lord was with Joseph all through. Though those seasons were challenging times for Joseph, everything was playing out perfectly for him. The slave who became a prisoner rose to become the Prime Minister.

    Beloved, don’t give up, refuse the doubts and remain humble before the Lord, for the season of your exaltation is here!

    Hallelujah!

    DIG DEEPER
    (Proverbs 24:14; Psalm 37:37; Jeremiah 29:11; James 4:10; Job 36:22)
     
    WE PRAY
    That our confidence expectation in God shall not be cast away, no matter the opposition.

    In the name of Jesus.

    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2025
    1 YEAR PLAN
    1 Chronicles 13-15

    2 YEARS PLAN
    Numbers 1

    DECLARE THESE WORDS:

    – This is my season of exaltation and I don’t permit any distraction from the adversary.
     
    – I refuse to doubt God, I hold on strongly to what God has said.
     
    – No challenge is big enough to move me away from God.
     
    – I don’t permit any voice to distract me from the sure word of God.
     
    – I imbue focus to maintain absolute confidence in God.
     
    – Through prayer and the study of the word I build more absolute confidence in God.
     
    – I don’t give my mind to the negative situations around me, I make the word of God my focus.
     
    Oh Hallelujah, Gloreeeey!!!

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  • EPISODE 483 – THERE’S AN EXPECTED END THE LORD HAS FOR YOU

    EPISODE 483 – THERE’S AN EXPECTED END THE LORD HAS FOR YOU

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

    DIG DEEPER
    (Proverbs 24:14; Psalm 37:37; Jeremiah 29:11; James 4:10; Job 36:22)
     
    WE PRAY
    Thanking the Lord for the wisdom to stay humble under the mighty hand of the Lord and for this glorious new season of exaltation.
     
    In the name of Jesus.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
    Job 32 – 34
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – This is my time of exaltation and I don’t permit any distraction from the adversary.
     
    – I refuse to doubt God, I hold on strongly to what God has said.
     
    – No challenge is big enough to move me away from God.
     
    – I don’t permit any voice to distract me from the sure word of God.
     
    – I imbue focus to maintain absolute confidence in God.
     
    – Through prayer and the study of the word I build more absolute confidence in God.
     
    – I don’t give my mind to the negative situations around me, I make the word of God my focus.
     
    Oh Hallelujah, Gloreeeey!!!

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  • EPISODE 327 – EXPECT DIVINE EXALTATION 2

    EPISODE 327 – EXPECT DIVINE EXALTATION 2

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

    Saturday 16th December, 2023
     

    EXPECT DIVINE EXALTATION 2

     

    Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

     1 Peter 5:6 – 7 (NKJV)


     
    The Lord does not forsake His own. The scriptures are divine scripts which outline your beautiful future. There is nothing about your destiny which is not prophetically illustrated in the scriptures.
    Your life may seem to be a mystery in the natural, but scripturally it is decoded.
    Don’t allow the limitations of your senses and experiences define your life. Sink your thoughts in the word of God.
     
    The more you pay attention to your challenges, the more you distract yourself from what God is doing with you. 
     
    “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV).
     
    There is an expected end the Lord has for you. And you must make that your focus. 
    One of the expectations you must have as you humble yourself to make the Lord your focus, is EXALTATION.
    Don’t spend time feeding your mind with doubts. When the doubts come, cast it off. Learn to doubt your doubts.
     
    If you have questions similar to the ones I listed in the previous post, know that the adversary is sowing in your heart seeds of enmity and pride towards God. Which is a big trap of the devil.
     
    Your humility before the Lord is the secret to enjoy divine exaltation. It is not that God demands your humility before He exalts you. It is because, humility is a principle of faith which produces exaltation.
     
    To humble yourself before the Lord is explained in the opening verse.
     
    “…casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” I Peter 5: 7 (NKJV)
    To humble yourself under the mighty hand of God is basically to cast all your cares upon Him; with the conviction of heart that He cares for you.
    When you don’t humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, you have exalted yourself above the mighty hand of God.
     
    What you are saying is, you don’t need the mighty hand of God to lift you and sustain you. You rather want to trust in your own strength.
     
    You don’t need God’s supernatural help. You trust in your own ability than the ability of God.
     
    It is as simple as that!
     
    But come to think of it, what more can your strength achieve?
     
    Begin to train your heart to exercise absolute confidence in God by acknowledging the glorious things He has done.
     
    “Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us–none can compare to You–if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.” (Psalm 40:5)
     
    Instead of counting your failures which will make you turn away from God, consider His goodness according to His power. It will cause you to humble yourself patiently under His mighty hand for your exaltation.
     
    Beloved, what are the things troubling your heart?
    Cast all your cares unto the Lord and patiently stay under His mighty hand with humility. For the Lord shall exalt you in due season.
    Do you know the goodnews?
     
    The due season is already here! That is why you are reading today’s Machaira with Apostle Bennie. 
     
    REMAIN EXPECTANT FOR YOUR TESTIMONY
     
    Shalom Aleichem.
     
    Hallelujah!
    DIG DEEPER
    (Proverbs 24:14; Psalm 37:37; Jeremiah 29:11; James 4:10; Job 36:22)
     
    WE PRAY
    Thanking the Lord for the wisdom to stay humble under the mighty hand of the Lord and for this glorious new season of exaltation.
     
    In the name of Jesus.
     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Malachi 2
    Revelation 15
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – This is my time of exaltation and I don’t permit any distraction from the adversary.
     
    – I refuse to doubt God, I hold on strongly to what God has said.
     
    – No challenge is big enough to move me away from God.
     
    – I don’t permit any voice to distract me from the sure word of God.
     
    – I imbue focus to maintain absolute confidence in God.
     
    – Through prayer and the study of the word I build more absolute confidence in God.
     
    – I don’t give my mind to the negative situations around me, I make the word of God my focus.
     
    Oh Hallelujah, Gloreeeey!!!

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  • EPISODE 326 – EXPECT DIVINE EXALTATION 1

    EPISODE 326 – EXPECT DIVINE EXALTATION 1

    CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY

    The Love-Life Agency

    Friday 15th December, 2023

    EXPECT DIVINE EXALTATION 1


    “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

    1 Peter 5:6 – 7 (NKJV)


    With just some few days for the year to end, you may probably be taking records of your life already. You may be feeling distressed or discouraged about how things have not gone in the direction you expected.

    You may even be quick to think this year has so far been your most disappointing year. You really don’t think there is something great you can achieve, and you are losing your confidence in God.

    In fact, you are even beginning to feel or think God is not caring and the promises of the scriptures are not true.

    VOILA!

    This is where the adversary wants you to be. His goal is to force or push you to a level where you become angry with God.

    He wants you to deny the reality of God’s kindness in your heart. He keeps reminding you of your failures and the negative experiences you’ve had, though you have been serving the Lord.

    He keeps sowing thoughts of doubts or posing doubtful questions in your mind.

    For example:

    “After you gave that amount to the Kingdom gospel, has your life become better?”

    “You had hoped to see your dad or mum healed of that infirmity, what has happened?” “And you think the healing power of God is real?”

    “Do you even think the Gospel message of Jesus is real?”

    “Don’t you think these things are mere lies or fables?”

    “Look at your family, your siblings; do you remember your friend who also lost the parents?”, “How about your uncle who served God but has lost everything?”
     “Don’t you think the stories of the Bible are mere friction?”

    “You don’t need God to be better, take your own life into your own hands. And forget about this God”

    Listen, when the adversary comes after your faith and exaltation, he tries to hit you hard at your weakest state. He will shamelessly and persistently inject more questions and thoughts to break you down.

    Have you had questions like these also:

    “Where was God when you failed your exams?” “Where was God when you got raped?” “Where was God when you were robbed?” “Where was God when you lost that money?” “Where was God when everyone left you?” “Where was God when you were abused, maltreated, cheated, scammed?” “Where was God when the lady or gentleman you loved left you or abandoned you?” etc

    These questions are targeted by the adversary at you to establish enmity between you and God.

    All of a sudden you forget the goodness of God. You forget your testimonies and you continue to brood over these thoughts of the devil.

    You even begin to forget that, the very air you breathe is a gift from God.

    You suddenly become so arrogant and proud before the Lord.

    Get this, such thoughts are attacks of the devil, to build strongholds of pride in your heart. Such thoughts are programmed by the adversary to make you doubt God’s help and to shipwreck your faith.

    Such thoughts become stronger when you are really close to your season of exaltation.

    The adversary knows the more you humble yourself before the Lord, the more you increase in faith to receive of the Lord.

    He knows the more you submit to the power of the word of God, the stronger your expectation for your miracle and exaltation.

    “Surely there is a future [and a reward], And your hope and expectation will not be cut off” Proverbs 23:18 (Amplified Bible).

    He doesn’t want you to have any expectation or hope in the Lord. He makes you think you can’t predict or expect anything glorious.

    That is a lie!

    Beloved, you have to maintain your expectation in God. Your season of exaltation is here. Don’t allow your past to distract you.

    “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward” Hebrews 10:35

    A life lived by the word of God is predictable. When you live by the word you can have expectations of glory.

    There is nothing like uncertainty in the word of God. This doesn’t mean you will not face opposition. You may face the worst of challenges. But the counsel of the Lord for your life shall stand.

    Joseph, who was a promised child, was sold into slavery by his own brothers and he was taken to prison by his master Potipher (whose house prospered because of Joseph, Genesis 39:2-5). He chose to honor God, and he was imprisoned

    What?

    Where was God?

    Listen, the Lord was with Joseph all through. Though those seasons were challenging times for Joseph, everything was playing out perfectly for him. The slave who became a prisoner rose to become the Prime Minister.

    Beloved, don’t give up, refuse the doubts and remain humble before the Lord, for the season of your exaltation is here!

    Hallelujah!

    DIG DEEPER
    (Proverbs 24:14; Psalm 37:37; Jeremiah 29:11; James 4:10; Job 36:22)
     
    WE PRAY

    That our confidence expectation in God shall not be cast away, no matter the opposition.

    In the name of Jesus.

     
    BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2023
    Malachi 1
    Revelation 14
     
    DECLARE THESE WORDS:
    – This is my time of exaltation and I don’t permit any distraction from the adversary.
     
    – I refuse to doubt God, I hold on strongly to what God has said.
     
    – No challenge is big enough to move me away from God.
     
    – I don’t permit any voice to distract me from the sure word of God.
     
    – I imbue focus to maintain absolute confidence in God.
     
    – Through prayer and the study of the word I build more absolute confidence in God.
     
    – I don’t give my mind to the negative situations around me, I make the word of God my focus.
     
    Oh Hallelujah, Gloreeeey!!!

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