Psalm 30:5
“ For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning”.
After going through the rigour of a busy day, one retires at night to rest and or sleep. It is at this time that a person sometimes thinks about all that he or she went through during the day. There could be regrets. It is possible for there to be pains. Sometimes, there would be a need for succour, consolation and solution to problems, which are not easily attainable at this time and so, one has to wait. This wait could be very strong. It would incite a desire to see the early hours of a new day, when solution and soothing will come to the pains that went on throughout he night.
From the text above, we can draw out 8 lessons:
1. Night of darkness represents weeping. It says: Weeping may endure for a night” Perhaps, as you are reading this message, the enemy has been making you to cry, l decree and prophecy upon your life, that your period of sorrow is over in the name of Jesus. Amen. The night is a convenient period for the powers of darkness. Darkness is a convenient environment for wickedness and it is a period weeping and grumbling takes place.
2. The morning represents joy. I decree and prophesy into your life, that if you are reading this message and the enemy has stolen your joy, it shall be restored to you today in the name of Jesus.
3. God Himself has not ordained that any night should endure forever. Whatever your situation might be today, there is no signal from heaven, that will go on forever. The text says: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. It will not be long.
4. After every night, comes a glorious morning. I pray that your morning of joy will come in the name of Jesus.
5. The enemy does not have the last say on your life. In fact, nobody has the last say on your life. No condition is permanent. There is a God called the Almighty, the Greatest on. His power is the greatest. God is the only one that has the last say concerning your life. Once God says: “Let there be light”, It is finished; there will surely be light. All that is required is His command; a word from Him will make every stubborn situation to bow.
6. The powers of the night flee before the morning. This means that their activities are limited to the night and once the morning appears, they are exposed. So they prefer to flee.
7. If you have been weeping, stop crying. Stop it because your morning has come. That is what the scripture says, Beloved, get this fact right, crying will not appease the enemy neither will it move the hand of God. In fact, it could worsen the situation because it is a display of unbelief that strengthens the enemy.
8. Discouragement is a destroyer. It sees the obstacle but faith sees the way out. When you are discouraged, you are telling God that He cannot help you. Joshua sent out spies to spy out the promise land they brought back a report that discouraged the Israelites; they saw the people of the land as giants that they could not overcome. They had forgotten that it was God who said they should go and possess the land. They should have known that since He said they should go, He would be with them because the battle is the Lord’s and He will fight it. These people eventually provoked God to anger and they all perished in the wilderness. They did not get to the promise land. Only their children did. God would rather prolong the day, than the night. He will not prolong your darkness
Joshua 10:11-13
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
[12] Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. [13] And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Joshua was fighting a battle and he was winning. When he saw that the day was advancing and it would soon be evening when evening would be dark, he commanded the sun to stand still and it did. That day continued and darkness was restrained. He did that because he wanted to obtain victory and God sanctioned it. As the day was prolonged on his side, the moon stood still on the other side of the continent. So, there was a prolonged night there. God allowed Joshua to prolong the day and this shows us that God is ready to sacrifice anything for the sake of His children. He did it with His only begotten son; and that has redeemed man back to Him. God does not mind destabilizing unbelievers to satisfy His children. While His children had daylight, the unbelievers for His children. While the Egyptians were being troubled by the plagues, the Israelites had no problem in Goshen. If the joy of the children need a longer day, He will grant it, even if it means darkness to unbelievers. God does not mind killing, removing, sacking, sweeping away anything or anyone to satisfy His children.
Isaiah 43:3-4
For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. [4] Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.
There was a woman who had a school and she found out that her pupils were leaving for other schools. The children found her school boring; the other schools were thriving. One day, she attended M.F.M crusade, where she heard a message like this and found out that God could do what he did for the Israelites in Isaiah 43:3-4 for her. She made up her mind to receive it. On that day, she prayed the kind of prayers that l am suggesting below and something happened. It was on a Friday. She prayed violently, by the following week, the two other schools had started having problems with the government and they were closed down. The pupils from these schools rushed to hers and she now had a new but pleasant problem; she could not take all of them and she needed more teachers. The Lord God Almighty, who did hers is ready to do yours. He has not changed. We serve a God who has no respect for human logic. The problem with many people is the fact that they allow their brains to get involved in their faith. They allowed what they have learnt in school to affect their reasoning against faith. When you want to trust God, you have to forget about logic or normalcy. When God begins to work in your life, what He will do, will be strange to you and also, it will look like pure insanity to your neighbours.
I worked in a laboratory where l was the only black man in the midst of Britons. As a scientist in that university, l could not minister, l could hardly witness, so l started praying that God should make a way for me. The day the opportunity came, the Lord was exalted. God is a god of signs and wonders. There was a lady who used to serve us tea and coffee in the mornings. She would go through the corridor with her tray, announcing her arrival by saying “Anyone for coffee, anyone for tea?” On that day, we heard her voice as usual and suddenly we had a big bang, with the clanging of teacups and saucers on the floor. She had fallen. By the time we got there, she had given up the ghost. The hospital doctor was sent for and he certified her dead. Everybody was puzzled; the lively lady that used to serve us tea was dead. Suddenly, I stepped forward as they bent to pack her up. I said I wanted to pray .It sounded ridiculous. They said l called myself a scientist and l said l wanted to pray for someone who is obviously dead. They asked if l had forgotten simple Biology that once there was supply of oxygen; the person was dead? If l examined why they said, they were right, but l did not mind them. I then prayed a simple prayer point: Let the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ; fall upon this body now, in the name of Jesus.
Suddenly, the lady sneezed and opened her eyes. She sat up and said she heard the voice of Daniel (me) calling her from afar. I had not done that physically, but that was what she heard as the Lord revived her. The other people now flocked around me, asking if that was black magic. I told them that it was the power of the Holy Ghost. For the first time in their lives, some of them heard the Gospel they had never even bothered to listen before. That is why we always encourage people to get grounded in the Lord before traveling abroad. They could end up in the midst of people like that and before they know what is going on they have backlisded. Spiritual death is very easy over there because most of them do not even know who the Lord Jesus Christ is, but they know the names of all the footballers in their national teams.
Beloved, weeping may endure for the night but joy cometh in the morning.
There was a woman who started coming to our services. Suddenly, her husband came home with a lady and asked the wife to prepare a meal for her. The wife wanted to put up a fight but she remembered our messages on brokenness. She kept quiet and saw them go into her matrimonial bedroom. She spent the night on a sofa in the sitting room.(I wonder how many sisters can do that today). The following day, the man came with another lady. Later, she sat him down and told him it was wrong to do what he is doing. He told her that it was his new style that she could either take it or leave it. After sampling a few women, he eventually settled for one, who moved in permanently. This wife continued praying and keeping her calm. That year, after the anointing service, she anointed the house and after they had gone to work, she anointed the bed on which they were committing their atrocity. She continued sleeping in the sitting room. That night she suddenly heard her husband’s voice, calling out to her. She ran into the bedroom and found the strange woman on top of her husband, dealing terrible blows on him. The wife started begging the strange woman to leave him alone. Eventually, the strange woman got up and said her husband was a foolish man and she left. That was the end of the relationship. The man never tried having strange women again. That was how their marriage was restored. The period of the night could be difficult to bear, it could be long but hold on to the Lord, the morning will soon come. Do not get weary, do no be discouraged; there shall be joy in the morning. When you continue to feed your discouragement, it will sap you to death. If you continue looking at the blackness of the night, you may not live to see the morning. Many people die not because of their problems but because of the state of their minds. Some people leave the Christian fold to seek solution from herbalists, such people are just aiding their household wickedness to finish their agenda on them.
Discouragement sees the darkest night but faith sees the appearance of the day. Discouragement is a sin. make up your mind that you will encourage yourself in the Lord.
The story was told of Satan having wares to sell, pride, envy, deceit, talkaltiveness, all sorts of disease and discouragement etc. Of the wares, discouragement was the most expensive and most demanded. When asked why Satan said it was the most useful and with it, he could operate easily in the lives of people especially Christians.
Make up your mind today, that you will not give in to the wooing of the enemy. Can you consider asking a motor mechanic to work on your car and when you get back there to collect your car, you meet him discouraged, lamenting and worried that the car is in such a bad state, that he does not think he can do anything about it. You would not want to leave your car with such a person. So also, God cannot commit anything serious into your hands, if all you can see is the dark side of life and not the light at the end of the tunnel. The same applies to a sick person who goes to the hospital and finds discouraged doctor. If he stays there long, he is likely to die in his illness because that discouraged doctor cannot help him. You must make up your mind that your morning must come. Make up your mind that you will not wage war against yourself.
How can the morning come?
What to do
1. Focus on the lord Jesus Christ: remove your eyes from your situation and circumstances. Know that as you take prayer points bellow, God will arise for your sake. Know that God can go thousands of miles away to trouble the hearts of those that will help you. They will be restless until they have helped you.
2. Cast away every spirit of discouragement. Jesus tells us in John 14, that we should not allow our hearts of those that will help you. We should believe in God and also in Him.
3. Wage war against the powers that does not want you to prosper. The prayers that l am suggesting below will surely bring results. They are not for the feeble-hearted. There was a sister who was about 39years old and was not married. . One day, she took part in a “power must change hands programme where there was word of knowledge concerning a person who had been kept in bondage by the three strongmen of their family. The word was a warning that if they did not let go of her the three of them would die one after the other. As at then, this word of knowledge did not mean anything to her. However, when she got home, she made a cup of tea to break her long fast. As she finished praying, her phone rang and she was told that her mother just died. She hung the phone and wept herself to sore. She could not even break her fast again. As she was there sobbing, the phone rang the second time and she was told that her uncle in the USA just died. It was then that it dawned on her that there was a word of knowledge concerning family strongmen. She now consoled herself and said it was God at work. She got up to drink her tea. Shortly afterwards, her phone rang informing her that another prominent member of her family had just died. By the end of that year, this sister, who had every comfort in life but was unmarried at the age of 39, got a proposal for the first time and within a short time, got married. Close your eyes and pray these prayer points:
· Every power of my father’s house that has refused to let me go, your time is up die in the name of Jesus.
· Every power of my mother’s house that says l will die in this condition what are you waiting for die, in the name of Jesus.
Beloved, these are serious prayers and must of a necessity bring results. How ever if you are yet to be born again, you are still in darkness and you cannot command your morning to come. If you had never at one time or the other asked the Lord to come into your life, you are not yet His. If you are ready, you can surrender your life to Him, right there where you are. All you need to do is acknowledge the fact that you are a sinner and that you cannot approach God in your sinful state. Confess your sins to Him, ask Him to forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. Claim the redemptive power in the blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross at Calvary, for the remission of your sins. Invite the Lord Jesus Christ into your life and ask him to come in and become your personal Lord and Saviour. Renounce the world of sin and Satan and make sure that you not go back to them. If you did that seriously, the Bible says you are now in Christ and as such, you are a new creature, old things have passed away and all things are become new. I congratulate you on this important decision that you have just taken. It is the most important in life and I pray that it shall be permanent in your life in the name of Jesus. I pray that the Lord will uphold you and will not let you fall in the name of Jesus. I pray that your name will be written in the Book of life and it will never be blotted out in the name of Jesus. I would like you to make this confession out loud, before you start praying
Isaiah 8:9
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word and it shall not stand, for God is with us.
Beloved, I want you to examine your life and identify those things that the enemy has stolen from you. Make up your mind that you want them back and make sure you get them. Meditate on those things that should be your lot and be sure that you get them. Be sure that you get in touch from the Lord. Now, take the following prayer points with all the aggression that you can gather;
Prayer points
1. My helpers in captivity come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
2. By fire, by thunder, O God arise and disgrace my confusion in the name of Jesus.
3. Every clock and timetable of poverty working against me, be buried today in the name of Jesus.
4. The enemy will not drag my life to the ground in the name of Jesus.
5. Every ancestral wall, built around my glory crumble in the name of Jesus.
6. My glory under bondage, receive deliverance in the name of Jesus.
7. Every bird of darkness holding vigil against me die in the name of Jesus.
8. O God my father, change my present speed to divine speed in the name of Jesus.
9. Every witchcraft agent of my father’s house die in the name of Jesus.
10. Every witchcraft agent of my mother’s house die in the name of Jesus.
11. Every battle against my destiny from my foundation die, in the name of Jesus.
12. Every architect of affliction from my foundation die in the name of Jesus.
13. Stones of fire, locate the forehead of my foundational Goliath in the name of Jesus.
14. Every foundational strongman causing problem for my life die in the name of Jesus.
15. Every familiar spirit stealing my virtue scatter in the name of Jesus.
16. Every strange power, gathered against my advancement die.
17. Every satanic panel set –up against me scatter unto desolation in the name of Jesus.
18. Every evil decree passed upon my life, release me and die in the name of Jesus.
19. Every embargo of stagnancy upon my progress, disappear in the name of Jesus.
20. My glory, arise and shine in the name of Jesus.
21. O God of Elijah; fight my battles today in the name of Jesus.
22. Earthquake of deliverance shake out the evil covenant and curses in my foundation in the name of Jesus.
23. Foundational strongman release me and die in the name of Jesus.
