21^st Jubilee Anniversary;  ‘it’s your Season of Release’

For it is ‘’jubilee’’, it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this ‘’JUBILEE’’ ye shall return every Man to its possession (Leviticus 25:12-13). ‘‘At the end of every seven years, thou shalt make a release’’

(Deut 15:1).

   Every Sunday in word of life Bible church is great but this Sunday is unique. This is because it’s the first day of the 21^st Jubilee celebration in word of life Bible Church. Above all, it marks an auspicious moment to reflect on how. GOD has graciously end us through 21 gracious years!  This calls for celebrations and special thanksgiving for WLBC family and all Gods family as well.

Biblically speaking, Jubilee is a time of release into new beginnings. According to Lev.25:8-55, Jubilee has three (3) aspects.

(1) Cancellation of all outstanding debts.

(2) release of all slaves and

(3) Restoration of lands to the families who originally owned them

   It’s for this release, liberty and restoration to become a reality in your life that Papa has concentrated on the series of teachings he titled ‘‘THE POWER OF A NEW BEGINNING’’ (PARTS 1-20). Just as a reminder, let’s go through some of the highlights of the series and at the end, see what the LORD has done through HIS WORD to prepare us for this great jubilee. Basically, through these teachings by the GRACE of GOD, everyone who hard the messages, read the newsletters or watches the CDs or DVDs has been prepared to understand ‘‘2008 is a season of release and breakthrough’’            

                                                                                                                                              HIGHLIGHTS –THE POWER OF A NEW BEGINNING

(1)    Every new beginning is a new season.

(2)     The blessing for righteousness is for all seasons.

(3)     The season of reward is endless for those who work tirelessly (in and out of       the season).

(4)     A gift is receive by favour but a fruit is produced by labour.

(5)    Natural seasons can be influenced, prolonged or provoked positive or negatively.

(6)     A dream is a picture of your destination but a vision is a roadmap of how to get there.

(7)      Every temptation has a season.

(8)     Praise and wisdom are aids to your visions.

(9)      It may be hard   but impossible e. t. c

In other words for this jubilee to be a reality in your life, your ability to fully understand times and seasons must be very keen. You must also appreciate that righteousness, wisdom, praise, industry and an unshakable faith in GOD are the spiritual fertilizers for experiencing continuous fruitful seasons-Jubilee seasons. To be precise, Jubilee is also the season of fruit bearing.     

JUBILEE-SEASON OF BEARING FRUITS

            In the book of Mark, JESUS speaking a parable says, ‘‘a certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it…and let it out to husband, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to the husbandman a servant that he might receive fro the husbandman of the fruits of the vineyard, and they caught him and beat him. And send him away empty’’ (Mark 12:1-3).

In the above scripture, the vineyard is word, the husbandman or farmer are the human beings GOD put in this world and the fruits is as recorded in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians.

‘‘But the fruits of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, temperance: against such there is no law’’ ( Gal 5:22-23).In your time and season, your life can’t be fruitful until it first produces the fruits of the spirit. I want you to know that a gift is received by favour but a fruit is produced by a labour. I have heard people use the phrase. ‘‘BLINDLY IN LOVE’’. i tell you the truth: love does not come by favour. You must labour if you want love and want it to remain. Real love operates with the eyes open. Patience or longsuffering is not something that comes from favour. It dose not also comes from prayers. You can only learn to be patient when GOD puts you in a situation that you can only master through patience.  It can only come by labour, in like manner; all the fruits of the spirits can only be gotten by deliberate targeted efforts of labour.

 GOD has put us in this world to labour and the season will always come when the owner of  the vineyard will demand fruits from us. When he comes and find no fruits from you, you will be in trouble for failing to give him the fruits on demand. Are you producing fruits at all? If you are, what kind of fruits are you producing? Can GOD eat from the fruits you are producing? When I talk of fruits, I mean your inner character. In the book of Luke, the Bible says, ‘‘And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, LORD, even the devils are subjects to us through thy name… Not withstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjects unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names rare written in Heaven’’ (LK 10:17-20). Jesus was saying, that it was a good thing that demons were subjects to them. However, it had nothing to do with them because GOD wanted to glorify His name. It was a gift to them, moreover, Jesus was saying to them that better than casting out demons is fruits they bear as Christians because that is the only thing that will take them to Heaven. God is more interested in your   character than any thing else. As I said before, fruit’ bearing   is labour.

YOU MUST WORK

The book of Philippians says, ‘‘Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling’’ ( Phili.2:12). You must work out your salvation with fear and trembling if you must go to heaven. If you are not ready to work for it, you will not get   there; a mere declaration of your intension to go to heaven will not take you there. Do you call your self a Christian and can’t control your temper? Do you physically assault people at the slightest provocation? Fighters will not go to heaven. Are you a habitual liar? The Bible says, ‘‘…all liars shall have their path in the lake of fire….’’ You must work out your salvation with trembling and desist from doing evil. The Bible says, ‘‘what shall therefore the LORD of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the husband man’’ (mark12:9). It is very risky not to bear fruits. No withstanding, if your life is straight, then will shall hold hands together and go to heaven. That is that GOD and I want for you.

YOU MUST BE STRONG AND ARISE

I know sometimes you may ant to find excess for some of your weakness. However, the Bible says, “but the people who thy GOD shall be strong, and do exploits’’ (Dan11:32). You must know your GOD and totally depend on him even when every thing seems to be ups and down. It is one of the gauges that measures your knowledge in times and seasons. In the book of Jeremiah, it is written ‘He made many to fall, yea, one fall upon one another; and they said, arise, and lets go again to our people…’ (Jer.46:16).They were saying to pharaoh, ‘Once, it was your season and you knocked us down. Now it is our season and we are going to knock you out.’’ Pharaoh represents that ugly situation that refuses to go and could mean different things to different people. I have come to announce to you that Pharaoh’s time is up and it is a new season. The time when they accuse you wrongly is up. Also expired is the time they made you walk in an unending troubles. That witchcraft manipulation is over. Your wicked boss ill be transferred from the office. What ever they do now will amount to nothing but an empty noise. ‘‘You do not serve a dead god, but you serve a living GOD. He is same yesterday, today, and forever!’’ Why would the enemy even make a noise in the first place? It is because he knows unusual noise will provoke fear in you. Naturally, you are likely to fear when you see a dog barking, but what can a toothless dog do? The Bible says, the LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters’’.  (Ps.93:4). What have they say to you, what are they saying to make you fear? The Lord is mightier than them all and all they have to say is but a mere noise. We are no fools; we are sensitive to the seasons we are in.  We know their season is over. Everything in life works with time, did you know that GOD gave a time HE would chain up Satan in the Bible? I may not know your name or what you have gone through. I also may not know what dreams that you have had that are dead, but I know this one thing, the season your enemies oppressed you is over, that is why I say to you; Arise! Your Jubilee has come!!

YOU ARE A SURPRISE

‘‘And have ye not read the scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner stone’’ (Mk 12:10). The above scripture means the season when no one recognized or thought anything good will come out of you is over. If they think sickness will finish you, they are in for a rude shock. If they think you will never recover from that loss you incurred in that business, surprise awaits them. When GOD has turned things around positively for you, you will be surprise. It will be the Lord’s doings and it will be marvellous in our eyes of everybody.(mark 12:11). He has corrected your passed mistakes. Now enter into your release!!

                          PRAYERS