Christ Is My Advantage By Pastor Lanre Oluseye

In the body of Christ, there are false teachers and wrong teachers. A wrong teacher may not be a false teacher but a false teacher is always wrong. A wrong teacher may not be aware that his teaching is wrong but will quickly realign once confronted with the truth. A false teacher however, remains on his wrong teaching even after being corrected, because of his personal gains.

Be careful not to label a wrong teacher a false teacher because of where you met him. Apollos was an eloquent teacher but Aquila and Priscilla had to take him aside to teach him more accurately. Later he became a prominent leader in the Corinthian church (Acts 18:24-26, 1 Corinthians 3:4-6).

Be mindful not to label someone wrongly. Correct one another in love and with empathy. Calm down to see things from their point of view. Nobody is inferior or superior to others, in the body of Christ.

Jesus showed empathy when he saw Mary and Martha grieving. He wept, even though He knew Lazarus would rise again (John 11:35).

Prayer is one of the most distorted areas of faith. On one extreme, are people who believe we do not need to pray because Jesus has ‘done it all’ and God already knows what we need. On the other extreme, are those who insist that prayer alone is what we need, therefore we must pray long hours.

There are examples of people in the Bible who prayed continually till they saw what they hoped for. In Luke 2, we find Simeon and the Prophetess Anna who prayed earnestly till their old age, for the redemption of Israel. Jesus also had an active prayer life; it was his custom to pray early in morning. His disciples saw his example and asked him to teach them how to pray.

Prayer is a necessity but it’s the least thing most believers want to do, and those who do not struggle to pray, assume a sense of religious superiority.

Spiritual discipline is important – every calling demands a level of consecration. Everybody must pray but must not follow one person’s pattern or rigours of prayer.

You cannot unleash the advantage of Christ in you, neither can you unlock all that God has made available to you, without prayer, but the intensity of your personal prayer is a function of your purpose in God. Not everyone is destined to be an Elijah. Some are Esthers whose strength lie in their femininity. Find your purpose in God and pursue the necessary skills in the area God has called you. Put time and work into building what God has put in you.

How we all approach prayer affects what we’re able to unleash.

We pray to release ourselves from the traps of the Babylonian and Egyptian systems of this world. The Babylonian system elevates slaves to Prime Ministers but castrates them so they’re unable to reproduce their kind, while the Egyptian system allows slaves to multiply but they remain slaves.

Prayer also empowers you to walk in the supernatural – beyond the layer of the spectacular. Prayer births spiritual maturity and your behavior begins to mimic that of Christ. (Philippians 3:8-11) You begin to react/respond in a way different from the natural. (Matthew 5:44-47)

It’s time to walk in the supernatural!

Prayer

Father I want to walk in the supernatural on a daily basis, on my job, in the marketplace and with my family and friends.