This Month of March is our Month of Divine Visitation.
May the Lord visit you this month.
The story of visitation is all over the Bible. Look at Abraham, an angel appeared, they were passing by and stopped to greet him. He had understanding to discern that these are angels.
Genesis 18:1-3
1. Now the Lord appeared to him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
2. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.
3. And said, my Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away I pray thee, from thy servant.
He said, ‘My master where are you going, can you turn in here and let me wash your feet?’
He picked it immediately that these are not ordinary people. The Lord does not walk alone. He walks in the company of people. Genesis 18:1-3;
Verse 1
There were three of them
One was the Lord, the other two angels.
Abraham was able to pick it immediately, this was God visiting him.
God visits people, they are not even aware they are being visited. The same angels went to Sodom and Gomorrah. They were not seen as the Lord coming to them but men they should sleep with. Two different cities, two different responses.
Abraham saw God was visiting him, ‘Can I get water to wash your feet?’
1. Genesis 18:2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground.
When he lifted up his eyes he saw three men
Verses 4-5
1. Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
2. And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts, after that ye shall pass on; for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
Abraham was able to pick immediately, this is God visiting me. The same people went to Sodom and Gomorrah; they almost tore down Lot’s house, to bring the men out to sleep with them. ‘Same sex’ problem, homosexuality, started before Moses was even born, before the Law.
God will visit some people in an unannounced way. God does not announce visitation, therefore you must live ready. You don’t get ready; he will visit you in a time you don’t think about.
This month of March, you will receive a divine visitation. When God visits, may you be sensitised to know He is the One.
Ruth 1:6
Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
She heard the Lord had visited His people by giving them bread. When God visits, there are proofs of his visitation. When they heard………..Naomi and Ruth returned.
Divine visitation always results in divine attraction. They were attracted back to Bethlehem, the place that was rejected; they were attracted back to it.
Divine visitation can turn a man rejected into an attraction.
Naomi represents the ‘prodigal people’ who have stepped out of the Kingdom and Ruth represents the ‘unchurched people’. When God visits you begin to see the prodigal people return with the unchurched people.
Let us expect restoration this month. God will be bringing about restoration for His people.
Please note, the Lord visited in giving them bread; that bread had to do with the bread of His presence.
Bread is an indication of God’s presence.
In the Old Testament we find it’s called the shewbread in the Holy Place.
Numbers 4:7
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon.
The New International Version (NIV), the bread of presence. The bread turned the table to a table of presence.
English Standard Version, ‘on the table was the bread of His presence’.
When God visits He visits with his presence. I pray that individuals whose lives have been void of God’s presence will start talking of God’s presence visiting them; they start seeing a weight of God’s Being around them that changes their atmosphere.
This instance of people looking for God is what has driven them into the hands of herbalists, palm readers, stargazers in the name of looking for God. On TV today is a whole channel devoted to people calling in to find out about their future. A legalised channel in which you find out about your star, give your name, people pay all manner of money for an invisible power telling them about their lives.
Something inside of Man is always seeking for God. We may not blame them because they have not been able to find God sufficiently in Church, that’s why they are driven to clubs, drugs, beer, etc. They are driven to different things, to look for God in the wrong places.
I believe it’s time the Church cries out to God for greater visitation, I am not satisfied with crumbs of visitation. We want a higher measure. We want the Lord to turn this House to a House of Bread. The House of Bread is a place where the Bread of God’s presence is.
I believe when that begins to happen we will command the attention of the heathen. The purpose of the Church is a place where we host God’s presence. The place where people can say if I go to that building I will find God. Not only in the building but in our individual lives.
We host God’s presence the way we host websites. Our individual lives should host God’s presence. When we leave God’s presence, in the sanctuary or building, people should be able to touch God in our lives
We are saying there are so many ‘arkless’ churches where God’s presence cannot be found. We have good teachings, wonderful things going on but God is not there. Buildings, massive and beautiful, crowds everywhere but God is not there. We can’t sense that God is there.
We have two kinds of presence:
i. Omnipresence- everywhere, by Him all things were made John 1:3’ God is in everything everywhere.
ii. There’s another presence, more concentrated, where you can say, God is more here than there. For instance, God is more in the Sanctuary (place of worship) than in the streets.
The weight of His Being is more sensed in some places than others. This is the realm of Glory, Glory means ‘Chabod’
Chabod – weighty presence
Ichabod – the Glory of the Lord has departed. The weighty effect of His presence has departed.
That will not be our story here. I want us to believe God that He’ll turn this House to a House of Bread.
When God visits a people there’ll be economic and financial buoyancy as evidence. When God visits you, you go from dryness to surplus, from dry pastures to green pastures.
In this Month of March I see your level change. I’m not talking about change in the Sanctuary (place of worship) alone, your businesses as you carry God’s presence out of here into your home. I see your businesses start changing; I see your contacts increasing. I see financial increase in your work. Anywhere God visits there must be economic change.
Look at South Korea; a war-ridden nation till the Lord began to visit them with His power and Holy Spirit. Looking at the first six biggest churches globally, one of them is in that country. Look at the economic manifestation in that country. They have a lot of exports to other nations. Look at North Korea, comparing them to South Korea is like Light and Darkness. A difference between green pasture and dry pasture.
Why the economic transformation in South Korea? Because God’s presence is more in the atmosphere there.
It is the economic state of the Church that determines the buoyancy of the nation. I believe that it starts from God visiting His people. The Almighty is out to restore the sense of His awesome presence in our lives. That should be our cry, ‘Restore the sense of your presence in our lives’.
Isaiah 11:9
God’s intention is that the Glory of the Lord will flow on the streets of London. How will this scripture be a reality when it does not even flow in the Church? How can the Glory of the Lord cover the earth?
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof. His plan is that the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord will cover the entire earth. It has to start somewhere. It’s meant to start in the House of God.
It is meant to flow from the auditorium to the streets, and if that’s going to be the agenda, it must start somewhere with us in the temple.
Ezekiel 47:1
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house, and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.
The move is meant to start from the altar, from the temple to the city. If God’s glory can’t flow through the church God will have to turn somewhere else where that move will start. It’s like what happened in the time of Jesus, He rode past the house of bread, which is the temple.
Luke 19:41
And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it.
Jesus was on the donkey and the people were singing, ‘Hosanna in the Highest……..‘.
Jesus sat on the donkey coming towards Jerusalem.
Luke 19:28
And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
The triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
God will have the same triumphant entry into our individual lives, because we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. From verse 45 people were having service the Messiah they were crying for was in town, the Pastors and high Priest were praying in the temple asking for the Messiah to come. The Master was in town but was not in the Church.
That’s the tragedy we have today. The presence of the Lord is hanging somewhere, not in the temple. Satan takes over the people’s lives when God’s presence is not in the temple.
INDICATORS TO LET US KNOW WHEN GOD’S PRESENCE COMES INTO OUR LIVES
Luke 19 The High Priest was a bit perturbed at certain events at the time.
Luke 19:39
The Pharisees rebuked the crowd. The person they were crying for was outside. They did not know the Person they were crying for had already arrived.
Luke 19: 41
Jesus wept over the city; they did not know the time of their visitation is now.
When you miss the time of visitation it always leads to destruction. It was after this time that Israel was taken over physically, levelling down the temple, breaking it into pieces.
When people miss their season of visitation it always leads to disaster. That is why God is bringing us into this season right now and we will not miss our season. We will be like the sons of Issachar that understood what Israel had to do, they understood times and seasons. This is a season that God is visiting His people.
Luke 19:44, 45
He went into the temple; we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit. We are the housing unit of the Holy Spirit. Any time God visits His aim is to end up in the temple.
Indicators of His Visitation
1. You become the House of Prayer
He went into the temple and drove out those that bought and sold and said, ‘it is written, my house shall be called a house of prayer but you have turned it into a den of thieves’.
When God visits you, your prayer life will change. There’s an activation, a revival in your private personal life.
The absence of visitation is why Devil takes over peoples’ lives.
John 12: 13-17 Jesus took a whip. He removed a lot of satanic activities. When we stop praying, Satan will start stealing. Note the phrase, ‘my house’.
We are the housing units of God’s Spirit. He said, My house has become a den of thieves, Satan is operating unhindered. When you sleep your physical body is messed up with all sorts of things that have nothing to do with you, indicators that devil is stealing from you. People see themselves doing things in the dream and question within themselves. God is saying, my visitation is lacking in your heart, there’s no revival in your personal altar. When God visits there’s a revival in your personal prayer life. Prayerlessness gives way to prayerfulness, it challenges your altar.
It tells you your private personal time is going down. Five minutes prayer is almost reduced to nothing. When God visits, it wakes your inner man to say, it’s time to pray. When you find people complaining about prayer being too much, God has not visited. Show me a man that God visits, and I will show you a man whose personal prayer life will catch fire. The absence of prayers is the reason why we become ‘den of thieves’, the devil is having a field day over our health, marriage.
Lack of prayers is what makes the enemy have a field day to operate.
One of the indicators of divine visitation is that your prayer life will come to life; your prayer life will change.
When God visits you, you fall in love with prayers, you become a God chaser, there’s intimacy when you pray. There’s a presence when you pray, not like times you pray and you feel your prayers are going nowhere. When there’s visitation, there’s intimacy in your talk. As you talk with God an aura comes around you. When God visits a people, their prayer life will come alive.
This month God will visit our private personal altars, we will not be doing five minute prayers any longer.
When you spend time with God it shows. There’s translation, there’s an inward move in your heart. The time for us to awake to our personal prayer life is come. If you are not feeling a hunger to pray like never before, it is an indication that God has not visited.
If you are seeing demonic activities in succession, it means your prayer life is burning low. God’s presence needs to be activated. Prayer reduces satanic activities.
Believe God; if you want God to visit begin to cry out to God for visitation.
2. Cleansing of Your temple
When God visits you, you cannot live a double life again. Some people have a ‘church life’ and a ‘home life’. Who they are in Church is not who they are outside church. There’s a different attitude in Church. This is not correct for a child of God.
The head of Esau outside, the leg of Jacob in the Church. When God visits, you can’t live the way you have always lived. It’s like saying you are having a visit from a higher boss in the office for instance, David Cameron the Prime Minister is visiting, extra cleaning will be done, everywhere will be glittering, the air will be freshened like that is the norm. That’s what people do when they expect a visitation, how much more when the Almighty visits.
John 2:13 is a good illustration.
The moment Jesus entered the temple at the Passover; He found those that sold oxen, sheep, and money changers doing business.
Every devil doing business over your career, children at this time of visitation I decree power must change hands in Jesus name. Amen.
Every illegal business deal going on over your life will end on this Mountain in Jesus Name, Amen.
God’s presence will chase out all demonic activities. Jesus took a whip and drove them all out of the Temple with the sheep, oxen and overturned the money-changers tables.
I see God overturning tables.
He overturned the tables of the money-changers. When God visits there will be commotion. Satan is in trouble when God visits. Satanic hosts back off. If God is not yet doing this in your life you have not yet received a divine visitation. Things will never remain as they used to be when God visits.
When God visited in Acts of Apostles, Ananias and Saphira thought it was business as usual. That day was not the first day they told lies; they had been doing it all along and getting away with it. What God overlooks, in the time of visitation He does not. It can even cost people their lives.
I had a personal experience in 1996. A particular lady in the church where I wedded in Nigeria who always causesing confusion among people, trouble for the Leadership of the church. The Holy Spirit visited, while worship was on. The altar fell and broke in pieces. The pastor was still worshipping when the altar fell. The Glory of God hit the place. The presence of the Lord went into the midst of the people. People fell under the power of God. This woman also fell. Ushers tried to lift people who had fallen, before they knew it this woman was urinating on herself. They tried to pick her up. They thought it was healing, she had gone cold.
People had been warned to stop the things they were doing. It was not a good sight. They prayed. The pastor said it was the judgement of God. In less than an hour everyone was confessing their sins for fear of whether they would make it to the next day. The next service, those that came were in awe of the Lord. Sanity was restored to that church but at the cost of someone’s life. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
The Lord visited Israel, David began to count them God said don’t count. David counted. It was not a problem to organise a census, the problem was that David was no longer counting on God but the people. God saw David’s focus was on man. When you shift your focus and trust from God to people God will deliberately make trouble for you. If those people don’t go down, they will reject you. God will destroy everything until the only alternative you have is Him. You begin to fast and wait on God voluntarily. You will never count it as taking much time because all alternatives are gone.
This is not to scare you. In the time of visitation, God does fearful things.
Jeremiah 7:10-11
God has not changed. Jesus‘s coming has reduced the fierceness. God visits people when they do a lot of wickedness. God visits the iniquities of the fathers. God can visit to bless and to discipline.
Jeremiah 7: 10, 11
Come and stand before me in this
See verses 8 and 10
Verse 12
You do all things outside adultery, drink, and all manner of rubbish.
When you are alone, you play music that you don’t want others in church hear you play. Two different attitudes. You have turned my house to a ‘den of thieves’. A life of double standards.
You can’t say God has visited and you keep records (music) that are not edifying. Some people’s fridges cannot be opened. They have champagne in the fridge and say it is for communion. It is wrong.
When God visits it is for a cleaning inside out, it is for holiness.
You have your wife and keep another seemingly young lady outside, a girl friend, ‘sweet sixteen’, artificially glammed up with make-up to deceive. You give endearments and affection outside and not to your wife. Your wife has not heard those compliments. You play double standards. That will not stand when God visits.
I am challenging and encouraging everyone, you can’t live the life you lived before and keep your walk with God. Don’t be a deceiver of yourself. Don’t complain about oppression at night, all sorts of animals chasing and biting you at night, because there’s selling in your spirit because you gave Satan room.
Music has atmosphere. Certain music when it is played, you know what you are looking for. In just the same way you play worship songs and feed on God’s presence, other contrary music creates other atmosphere. Get rid of those records.
You cannot be leading a double life except you want to be disobedient. People know you outside church in your meeting place or joint.
This is not to offend; it is for you to change.
When God visits, some sour attitude, little issues you react to like a ‘mother hen’ which is an evidence of personal problems, God will clean out. God will visit those tiny things to make us better.
3. Zeal for God comes alive
John 2:17
He said the zeal of the Lord has consumed Him. You no longer desire to be lukewarm. A man whom God has visited is zealous for God and His kingdom. Zeal is a mark of God’s visitation. A man who is zealous for God is not begged to come to church. Visitation has enhanced their relationship with the Master. They become lovers of the Master
There’s a glow in their relationship with the Master.
4. It releases God’s Healing Presence.
Mathew 21: 13-14
Jesus said, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’, the next thing he began to heal them.
He said, ‘it is written, my house……’.
Say to yourself, ‘I am His house’.
Our body does not belong to Satan. Any defilement that comes to our bodies is a mistake. He said ‘my house shall be called a house of prayer but you have made it’ therefore prayer can also unmake anything contrary. Thus body belongs to Jesus the master.
The next verse, The blind and lame came to him in the temple and he healed them. God’s healing presence is released when He visits His people. God’s healing anointing breaks out.
The House of Prayer always leads to the House of Healing. That’s why God starts healing His people and His presence drives out demonic presence.
You see the Canaanite Woman crying for her daughter vexed with a devil.
Mathew 15:22-28
22. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts and cried unto him saying, Have mercy upon me O Lord, thou Son of David: my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil
23. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away for she crieth after us.
24. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
25. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord help me.
26. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
27. And she said, Truth Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.
28.Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Jesus spoke to her……………..to the lost sheep of Israel. Jesus said those not in the kingdom are dogs
Verse 22 the daughter had a demonic possession. She was begging for the bread of his presence. She got the crumbs of the bread of His presence which brought healing and deliverance.
Anytime God visits there’s an outbreak of anointing for deliverance and healing. Healing becomes cheaper, deliverance is without effort when His presence is released.
Verse 26 it’s not lawful …………….
The bread that God visited them with is healing bread. I believe in this House that as we call for God to visit all demonic and satanic operations being hosted you will have months and years when you will have no demonic attacks on your life because you have been visited. When God visits there’s a mark of his presence.
All stubborn devils take their leave when the Lord comes.
Prayer
Let the mark of your presence, your mark of visitation begin to manifest in my life.
All demonic activities in your health, children, home must be destroyed. They must come to an end. All territorial power must back off, when God’s presence comes. All demonic operations must scatter.
The woman received healing and deliverance for her daughter. You too can secure it. Lord I am asking for you to visit me with the Bread of your presence that brought healing and deliverance to that woman.
Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever. Lord I am asking you to visit me today, tonight; I want to partake of the bread of your presence. Lord we cry out for your visit, the way you visited that woman and the testimony of healing and deliverance that broke out. The stubborn devils gave way and the Glory of God was released.
Every demonic activity in my life, home, marriage, career I command them rooted out. I decree them rooted out. I decree they are rooted out on my children, house, work, spouse, work I do. Anywhere the enemy has planted his operations by the power of the Lord I commanded them uprooted.
Let the mark of visitation be upon me O Lord.
God cannot visit you and Satan visits you as well. There must be a change, a radical change. Everyone God visited experienced a change. Lord visit me I pray, let there be a cleansing. I don’t want crumbs of that presence. I want more of that presence. Thank you Lord Jesus, in Jesus Mighty Name we pray. Amen.
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