How To Shine By Pastor Chris Oyakhilome
Train yourself to speak the language of love. It’s the right thing to do.
There are not too many people in the world who understand that language of love.
They cant even say it, they know it but they cant speak it out.
There are parents who don’t know how to say to their children, I love you. They cant say it its hard to come out of their mouths.
They say, but they know I love them. How do they know? I feed them, I house them.
Those in prison are being fed and there being housed. And its not out of love. I gave my kids clothes, in prison they give them clothes too.
Learn to speak the language of love, its not African, and its not American either.
When Christ fills your life, it will become easy for you to talk love. Because that all you can think of the love of God.
You see that you are a product of love, your life is the result of love because God loved you.
That’s why he sent Jesus to let you know that you are valuable to him.
That thought fills your heart all the time. Because you know its not about how qualified you were, its not because you were so nice and so good or so holy or so pure.
But because God loved you.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16 NKJV
Takes on a new meaning in your life, because that verse becomes real in your life. Because God so loved me that he gave his only begotten son.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3:17 NKJV
He did not send his son to condemn us he sent his son to save us. To wash us, to bring us out of our darkness, into his marvelous light.
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;" 1 Pet 2:9 NKJV
I celebrate Christ in my life, everyday. I cant thank of him enough, for what he did for me.
Don’t feel bad when things get expensive. When prices are going up be happy. Have faith in the young people because they can do something.
When prices are going don’t cry, don’t feel bad its for your good.
What you have to do is build your faith. Don’t worry about the prices going up, God is doing it for your benefit.
The say its survival of the fittest, but who are the fittest? Build your faith strong. Because when you build your faith strong your not going to be crying about the prices, It will only create opportunity for you.
Your faith will make you have the money, and when it comes to faith, we can all be successful, everyone of us has the opportunity. It will not be based on what people gave you, or what opportunity is available in your nation its got nothing to do with that. You take the whole world.
I used to think about the whole world even though I was a teenager, I talked about reaching the world, preaching the gospel to the nations of the world. I did not think of Nigeria, I thought where I was was were God was.
I still think that way today, where I am is where God is.
I want you to have that mentality, because it is a super winning mentality.
Do you know why people a have a nice idea at the beginning of the year and its doesn’t happen at the end of the year? Because they don’t stay with it.
They don’t stay with the dream. 12 months is short a time in a sense to make some dreams come true, but it is a long time also in an other sense, depending on what the dream is. If it’s a long term project at least stick with it until the foundation of it becomes real.
Dream of the progress, dream of becoming a distributor.
If you become help conscious, supply to you will never be a problem. But most people are more conscious of what they want to get.
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
Why were those words so powerful? And why are they still so powerful today? Because they are based on a principle. Its not about the country, its not about the words of a president.
It just tells you the idea of the man, and what made him successful.
It is a principle, most people in many nations think of what there country can do for them. And they are known as the masses. The moment you start thinking like that you will be classed with the masses. By yourself, by your mind and by society.
There are two groups of people in a nation. When you talk about the masses, its not just about the poor, its professors too, there are business man among the masses.
Its referring to the mass of people lead by ideas. You must distinguish yourself by your way of thinking.
The day you start complaining you have joined yourself to the masses. Look into history, the masses have never effected changes that they sustained.
The masses might go on a rampage they may drag down a government, and then they wont know what to do. Until someone who is distinguished from the masses,
Takes leadership again to lead the masses.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
John 15:19 NKJV
World = Masses
the masses, the ordinary or common people as a whole; the working classes or the lower social classes.
You are not of the Masses, You are to save the masses.
When Jesus brings his word to you he brings it to you as among the masses and then he saves your soul, then he gives you the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is the almighty super power, he is the almighty power of God.
Every Christian needs to have the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost separates you from the masses, and makes you a savior of the masses.
Everyone that has received the spirit of God has been anointed to save the masses.
If you are on the ground, you cannot lift somebody that is on the ground.
As long as your poor, you cannot help the poor. As long as your ignorant, you cannot help the ignorant. As long as your frustrated, you cannot help the frustrated.
Become challenged by the pain of other people, and when you feel the pain of other people. Don’t say why cant they help themselves. Say what can I do? I believe I can do something. You may not have anything at that moment, you may look like the rest of them also.
When the thought comes to you of what can I do? It is God telling you that you are different. God says I will show you what to do to help. Then God guides you to receive words that will build your mind. That will build your confidence.
That's how it starts God positions you in a place where the words are different.
Words that help you build a new self image, words that tell you are somebody special. Words that empower you and give you a new consciousness.
You will give account for the words that you heard.
36 But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment." Mat 12:36 NKJV
3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,"
Heb 2:3 NKJV
Salvation is a big word = salvation from darkness, sin and poverty, self destruction.
How can you escape if you escape such great salvation. Salvation you could have taken to tens and thousands of people.
Tithing is a payment. You don’t pay a gift.
8 “ Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me!
But you say, ‘ In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings." Mal 3:8 NKJV
Offering refers to sacrifice. Free will offering is up to you.
From what you give he develops your faith and gives you ideas and helps you out in life. Your giving is your assurance. Your not making God Richer/Better, you are making yourself Richer/Better.
Through partnership you are reaching the world with the gospel. As a child of God you need to locate such opportunities.
It doesn’t matter how little you have, step out and help the poor.
The moment you think like that the ability of God will begin to work in you.
One minute with destiny shapes your future. But it is through your giving to help others become better that your life is changed.
Do something now to change the world for your children.
Save the children you save your future. You might be the one who saves the young guy who was going to kill your son. Your giving can change someone's destiny.
Some of us arose a long time ago, for those who haven't risen hear the message.
1 Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you." Isa 60:1 NKJV
Arise: to get up from sitting, to awaken, to move upward, to come into being.
In your business Arise! In your family Arise! Poverty will not continue in my family Arise! Failure will not continue in my business, Arise! This sickness cannot continue in my body, Arise!
When God says Get up he's talking to your spirit.
9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid themrespect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?" Heb 12:9 NKJV
No more grumbling, no more complaining, if you are complaining you are sitting down, when you arise the complain stop, the murmuring stops.
Complain: to express dissatisfaction or grief; find fault. Murmuring: a mumbled or private expression of discontent.
When you get up in the morning say the lion is up. What happens to other animals when the lion is up?
Lion: a man of great strength, courage, etc.
When the lion rises to roar all others disappear.
5 But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals." Rev 5:5 NKJV
There are different tribes in Zion, all of Zion is not Judah. You are born after the lion of the tribe of Judah.
When you Arise poverty flees, when you Arise failure flees!
1 Arise, shine;
For your light has come!
And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you." Isa 60:1 NKJV
Shine: to excel or be conspicuous.
Conspicuous: easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable: a conspicuous error. Attracting special attention, as by outstanding qualities.
The word of God is for Doing, the law was for obeying. When you are born again you can do the word. Why because you are born after him.
23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever," 1 Peter 1:23 NKJV
Arise, Shine its a command. How can I shine? What am I suppose to do?
The word of God is so simple, the deeper things of God are so simple they are easily ignored.
God has packaged the greatest things in the kingdom in simple, ugly, unattractive packages. That you would read the scripture and ignore it, you would quote a scripture then forget it, you may recite it but never keep it.
When I'm full of the Holy Ghost I have an extraordinary current going through me.
At that moment the world seems small, its like I can do anything, Its like im the boldest thing in the world.
When the anointing is there its different, all that time your another man. The word of God is for doing. The greater things of God get simpler and simpler.
How can you Arise and shine from the place where you are.
Wise people take it seriously, unwise people will wait for something else.
When Jesus came they did not recognize him as the son of God, he looked like everybody else. So they could not believe him. He was an ordinary person.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him." John 1:10 NKJV
But he was God in human flesh, eating, sleeping and tired like us. He laughed, he cried, he was angry, he was happy, he expressed all human emotions, no wondder they could not believe him.
Here is how to Arise: In what area of your life do you need to Arise? Because he is speaking spiritually. Ask yourself that Question. Write it Down.
In my Cell.
Find out what God has said about you in that situation. You will have to loacte in from the word of God.
You find them in God's word. Take the scriptures and begin to speak them.
When you proclaim the word of God something happens in your spirit. You cant see but only with the eyes of the spirit.
37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." Mat 12:37 NKJV
Never again speak negatively. That is the same thing that makes men poor, that is the same thing that kills men prematurely, that is the same thing that destroys families. Man was not made to talk negatively, Man was not made to speak fear or to talk the things we see or feel.
We were made to say what we want to see and to say what we want to feel. Don’t talk your feelings, talk what you want to see, talk your future.
Whether or not you like it you are talking your future, when you talk about your feelings and your frustration you are talking them into your future.
When you talk God's Word, the Glory of God is revealed in your spirit. The more of God's word in you, the more the Glory. The glory is in his word.
2 I will worship toward Your holy temple, And praise Your name
For Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word above all Your name." Psalm 138:2 NKJV
The glory is in his word.
16 For the LORD shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory." Psalm 102:16 NKJV
Builds Zion inside.
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Mat 16:18 NKJV
Gates of Hell = Poverty, Darkness, Sickness, Failure, Discouragement.
Inside you, build you spirit man with the word of God, build your spirit man strong.
Build your spirit, listen to the tapes until they correct your vocabulary, until you no longer talk fear and negatively. You no longer speak according to your sight.
24 And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
The people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity." Isa 33:24 NKJV
It wont be part of your vocabulary.
1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. 4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish." Psalm 1:1-6 NKJV
Judgment is winds of opposition. When the winds come the ungodly shall not stand, when the shake up comes the ungodly shall not stand.
But you are mount Zion, founded on the rock Christ Jesus, you are unshakeable.
When you speak God's word. Confession with God's word. You reecho what he has said about you. He has said I will never leave you. Etc.. Then the Glory of God will rise in your spirit.
6 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?" Psalm 118:6 NKJV
The Glory rise in your spirit as you talk God's Word. Arise, Shine.
Now these words that you have been meditating upon. Son it has become real. You said you were big, keep talking big. You said you were strong, keep talking strong.
Say it until you believe it. I'm a success, I cannot be confused.
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore
I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak," 2 Cor 4:13 NKJV
6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a good inheritance." Psalm 16:6 NKJV
Arise, shine for your light is come.
The glory of the lord is risen, the glory of the lord is come. The glory of the lord is risen upon me.
