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Settle Down Sunday: “You Are About to Give Birth” by Dr.J.

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This is a week of thanksgiving! Be thankful especially that God is getting ready to birth our assignments of purpose THIS SEASON.

Settle Down Sunday and complete this Spiritual Survey
1.Sometimes before we enter the season of blessedness, we have to experience a season of barrenness. We go through barren seasons for different reasons specific to our personal spiritual journeys. This week, as you make your requests to God with thanksgiving, ask God to reveal to you any sin that you have in your life that could be causing this drought in your life. Remind God of the vision that He gave you. Remind Him of the promises He gave you after your last fast. But be still and listen for His voice.
2. Take your eyes off her seed. God wants to bless us this season. He wants to manifest the fruit of our seed. But He wants us to take our eyes off the seeds of others and keep our eyes on Him and His promises. We don’t know her journey. We haven’t been through what he has gone through. FOCUS ON GOD. Pray, fast, seek God and have faith. How will you strategically focus on God just to develop your relationship with Him? How will you seek God for your seed? When you give birth, will you dedicate your assignment to God or will it be for selfish gain?
3. The devil wants you to terminate the birth of your purpose; deliver the birth of your assignment prematurely; or give birth to a lifeless assignment detached from the spirit of God. How will you strategically fight the devil for what’s rightfully yours?
4. Your womb as to be conducive for holding the seed of God’s promises. Have you consecrated yourself? Have you given up wine or any other fermented drink? Have you given up smoking everything that will contaminate the seed? Are you engaged in sexual immorality (the sexually immoral will not make it to heaven)? There are some things that you will have to give up THIS SEASON in order to carry the birth of your assignment from GOD. What do you know in your heart that you need to give up to prepare for birth?

Your seed is protected. If Holy Spirit has revealed to you a coming birth, if God has sent you a spiritual messenger to pronounce the news of your birth then it shall come to pass. Go ahead and give God thanks in advance this week. I don’t care what it looks like. Stop professing, “I’m too old now. It’s too late for me now. Maybe the vision was really an illusion. It’s never going to happen for me.” The devil is a liar. Declare and decree a thing that will be established in your life. “I am about to give birth.” I love you! Dr.J.

2016 Daniel Fast

It’s Fasting Season (Post 8): From Barren to Fruitful

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#FastingDay5 Someone is barren or in a barren situation that hasn’t been productive or fruitful in a long time. Fasting and praying have the power to release God’s blessings of fruitfulness in your life and in your situations. As much as you want to give up and give in, keep trusting God. Keep sacrificing what you want and desire for your breakthrough and fast beyond your breakthrough for spiritual renewal and a deeper relationship with God. God does see your efforts. God sees your sacrifice. God will honor you because you’re honoring Him. Keep fasting.

1 Samuel 1:4-8; 19-20 AMP “When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he would give to Peninnah his wife and all her sons and daughters portions [of the sacrificial meat]. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had given her no children. [This embarrassed and grieved Hannah] and her rival provoked her greatly to vex her, because the Lord had left her childless. So it was year after year; whenever Hannah went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah provoked her, so she wept and did not eat. Then Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you cry? And why do you not eat? And why are you grieving? Am I not more to you than ten sons? 19 The family got up early the next morning, worshiped before the Lord, and returned to their home in Ramah. Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her [prayer]. 20 It came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; she named him [i]Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the Lord.”

Read 1 Samuel Chapters 1 through 3 for more in depth revelation about Hannah and her blessings. My revelation is that Hannah wept and did not eat. She fasted. She prayed. She worshiped before the Lord. She gave. Then the Lord remembered her prayer for a child. She kept her promise to God and dedicated her first born to Him. After worshiping and giving, God gave her more sons and daughters.

When you combine prayer, fasting, worship and giving (later you see Hannah making a sacrifice of bullocks, flour, wine to the Lord), God truly recognizes your honoring Him and blesses you as a result. Keep fasting and make sure you add prayer, worship, and giving and watch God change your barren circumstances to fruitfulness. Dr.J.