Knowing What to Do! (Part 2)

The realm of the spirit were having discussions, there was another man in the Bible whose name was Lot, they were discussing him and came to the earth to discuss him with Abraham yet the man didn’t hear at all, he didn’t perceive nothing until a physical angel went to that place, may you be sensitive; you cannot afford not to create room for the spirit, life essentially flows from the spirit realm. Make God recognize that you can trust him and you can obey. If you are not ready to obey, tell him not to say some things because he can tell you some things that may be tough, if you know you will not obey it don’t pray that prayer, or don’t make yourself ready, but once you begin to give attention, God will speak, once you are confused about anything say “God, I need you to clarify this issue” and he will speak. Do you now discover how much you are in control? Before things happen, months before they occur - you have seen them, people will just look at you and see that you are living differently; may that be your experience. 

God allowed a lying spirit in scripture to deceive a man, God allowed it, the prophets were not sensitive to know that they were lying and the man they were lying to was not sensitive to know that they were lying to him. Job was a man who decided, he said “This experience that is happening to me - I will not take it, if it is coming from God, he should change his mind!” that is the difference. Job said “What is due to me is not what I am experiencing” he insisted that what was happening to me was not his due, did God allowed it? Yes, Did Job take it? No, he refused it; he insisted that he will not take it. There is a need for discernment, you must distinguish things; when human beings wants to enter a realm they are not in control of, they manipulate and change things but it’s not true, and you don’t have to manipulate anything just work with God because God is dynamic. He says “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob… I am the Lord I change not”, he has been God, he is God and he will continue to be God, so for every situation he is relevant. Don’t hold him down to one thing when he has moved, continue to move with him. 

So we said there is a need we must discern, our senses must work, our spiritual senses must detect things; that is what is critical. God won’t do anything without letting you know, just know that one, whatever God is working, he is revealing, whatever he is revealing is for you and has been freely given, whatever is revealed belongs to you, God does not want you working down the street of life in ignorance, God doesn’t want you to be married and you are in ignorance, he wants you to be able to discern what is good and what is bad, that is his plan. We said life is meaningless without discernment, don’t be intimidated by what you are feeling, whatever your situation is - there is a solution, there are people God has put in their heart to come and minister to that situation so allow it. When David had nobody to feed him God sent one man to provide sustenance for him and his entire family, David didn’t have one person or five people in his entourage, he had wives and children and servants yet one man fed him throughout, may God bring you into abundance. This is the kind of things we are seeing in scripture; whatever situation just understand what God is doing in the situation and don’t be bitter with people. 

Discernment is very critical even in the Lord’s body, in communion we said it’s better to abstain than to be cursed, that is why I am very careful about giving, particularly to God, I don’t want to give a gift to God that would make him angry, anything you know that if you give God He will be angry don’t give it, just keep the money in your pocket, say “God, I want to postpone my giving” give something that in your heart you yourself are fulfilled, you are happy, you are excited; don’t repay me I am looking for harvest. You don’t go up and down looking for harvest here and there, if you are sowing seeds the harvest will come; - that is the benefit of discernment. We moved to the story of Jacob, we said Jacob didn’t know, this is the woman you have spent most of your life with, she stole an idol and you don’t know, you didn’t contact her and he spoke words that killed the woman “whosoever has your idol should not live” he killed his wife, she died when she was giving birth. Why will the woman take an idol for the husband? She thought she was helping the husband; this is the husband you have known for more than twenty years now.

Jacob didn’t connect the idolatry that had been in operation all over families and he didn’t correct it, he didn’t process, he didn’t look at it, and he suffered it, he suffered whatever his uncle did to him, he suffered it alone, and his uncle justified it and said this is our culture, how won’t you know the culture in the family to which you are married? and Rueben, that culture jumped on Rueben, he was having sex with his father’s concubine, and Jacob cursed Rueben, Moses was trying to repair Rueben’s destiny and prayed “May Rueben live and not die, may his men not be few” because of the curse that his father put on him, so a prophet was trying to reverse that curse, up till today you can’t make any sense of Rueben, so what his father spoke was more powerful than what a whole prophet that was recognized with Jesus - Moses, Elijah and Jesus. Moses prayed that prayer, what Jacob said concerning Rueben was more powerful than the repair that the prophet was trying to effect, so these things are critical things we need to take caution about and not just play with. You cannot discern yet you are not connected to a network, we are emphasizing networking over and over, you can’t discern then you can call your network. There are things you don’t learn to call network members about, when it affects you and your family you will still be independent, you will still take a unilateral decision, you will not seek opinions, but two are better than one you cannot cancel that scripture so deliberately find people, if you have people who will always support you, you are in danger, find different opinions because there is a variety about God, it is in that variety you will see the clarity if God. 

People want to bring you into their network, once you belong to that network, you must participate with it, they are the people who are necessary to help you, when you start thinking you don’t need them God will decide to put the answer of the critical issues of your life in their hands, so heaven will just be watching you suffer - going round in circles, may it not happen to you. Don’t speak for people for example, I know you love me, no I shouldn’t say that on behalf of my wife, I know my wife loves me, no she has a mouth, does she have a mouth? If she loves me, can’t she say it? Let her say it now, why should I say it for her? 

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God, it helps you to develop faith, if your nerves are working in contradiction to your words, it will show, it helps to direct your actions, the Bible says that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and you will love your neighbor as yourself and he says husbands love your wives. 

Judah and his daughter in-law: she set the father in-law up. People set you up on things if you cannot discern you are in danger, God is not setting you up, he wants to test your heart, he wants to test whether you are correct, he gives you money and sees how you spend it, he puts opportunity before you, he sees who you will ignore, who you insult. So he is doing things like that, there was a man, God blessed him so much and he said “Now I will break my barns and build bigger ones” God said you are a stupid man; it is interesting to me that this man Judah can be having sex with the age mate of his children, he has no taste, he has no age classification; so Jesus said you can discern, you have the capacity, the devil cannot deceive you anymore, you can discern, I want you to pray for the remaining days of this week, Lord, I am in charge, I know the directions to follow, I am not to be confused, my steps are ordered by the Lord, in the name of Jesus. I am not overtaken by the enemy, the remaining days of this month will be exclusive days, glorious days, wonderful days, victory days, days of super blessings, there is an entrance into supernatural miracles, supernatural blessings, receive glorious days, supernatural influences, heaven is moving on your behalf supernaturally in the name of Jesus, Amen.       

A Sermon Excerpt from Dr Martins Atanda