Welcome to the month of February 2018: Our Month of Refreshing

Welcome to the month of February 2018: Our Month of Refreshing

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; Acts 3:19.

In the presence of God there is fullness of joy and at his right hand are pleasures forevermore. Ps.16:11 - Paraphrased 

As I write, what comes to mind is the experience a people pass through just after going through a battle that looks like it will never end; then all of a sudden, the battle is over in your favour!!! This is exactly what God is calling us into in this month of Refreshing. A closer look at our text scripture above would disclose to us that God’s mind is that when we get saved, after following Him for a while we should come to the realization that He wants us to relax in his presence and enjoy eternal life which is actually the experiential knowledge of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Love of God to us is really on display here by His word to us for this month of Refreshing. Come to look at it; we have spent the last month in a fast most of the time and now the Lord is telling us it is time for refreshing. You and I know that the time of fasting and prayer is a time to do warfare. Also understand that warfare is not really a pleasurable thing. The good thing about our case is that we are destined to be victorious so that we do not go into warfare like the enemy. The enemy goes into it in desperation hoping to distract us into making mistakes that he can take advantage of. But we are not ignorant of his devices because we are acting from a place of authority while the enemy merely depends on the same old tricks that the Holy Spirit exposes to us and delivers us from. See 2Cor.2:14; 1Tim.6:12; 2Cor.10:3-6; 2Cor.2:10-11 and 1Tim.6:12.  

In addition, we serve a loving heavenly father who is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness and tender mercies. A look at verse 19 of Acts 3 discloses to us that the refreshing we are going to enjoy prophetically this month, is coming from the presence of the Lord. We learn from the Psalmist in Ps.16:11 that there is fullness of joy in the presence of the Lord and with this come many other fringe benefits as we shall be seeing this month. As far as location is concerned, God’s place is heaven and He has brought heaven into our hearts through the Holy Spirit now resident in us. This is why when Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He told them to request that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In other words, what God has written in heaven concerning us is what we are requesting that he does for us now on earth. The good news here is that these truths have been written in the Bible and we have unhindered access to them by the gift and ministry of the Holy Spirit.

In light of the foregoing, this month of refreshing, we are going to be unpacking what God has put together for us in heaven and bringing them down to earth for our understanding. For instance, in heaven, there are no sicknesses; when we pray that his will be done on earth in our lives therefore, we are eliminating sickness from our lives thereby. In the same way, we can eliminate lack and want because they are not in heaven for us. We can eliminate fear because God does not have fear in heaven and He has even not given us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. We can go on and on endlessly about all the good things God wants to refresh is with but for want of time and space. This month therefore, we shall be looking at a series I title: “Refreshing from the Effects of Heat”.  The intent of this message is to show us what we mean every time we pray the Lord’s pattern of prayer when we ask him to do His will on earth as it is in heaven.

Meanwhile someone may be reading this message right now who cannot claim this privilege of God’s will being done on earth in their lives as it is in heaven. To such a person, I want to quickly say that His first will in heaven is that all men repent and come to the knowledge of the truth. See 1Tim.2:2-3. The Good news is that you can be saved right away so that you can have access to the refreshing of God as this is his heart for all men. If you want to make that decision today, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and you will be born again:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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