KINGDOM OF ORDER | THURSDAY 18-05-2023
● Numbers 23:9 (GNT) From the high rocks I can see them; I can watch them from the hills. They are a nation that lives alone; They know they are blessed more than other nations.
● The devil, witches knows that you are blessed.
Question : Do you know that you are blessed at all?
● Numbers 24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.
● From the top Balaam saw,
- Israel abiding in tents,
- Israel abiding according to their tribes.
● Numbers 24:5 How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
● Numbers 24:6 As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
● So said, Balak saw the grace working. Balaam saw the government of grace.
● It is important to have the mindset / mentality of grace.
● Balak saw what the grace was doing in Israel. Balaam saw what was making that grace working.
● Most importantly how the grace functions; what governs grace otherwise grace will be wasted in your life.
CHAPTER 1 : THE GOVERNMENT OF GRACE
● The first law that governs grace is order.
ORDER
● Grace flows where there is order and curse starts with disorder
● Order is when everything is in the correct or expected place / disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.
● 1 Corinthians 14:33 (Remedy) for God is not a God of chaos and disorder but of order and peace. All the congregations of God’s people worship in an orderly fashion,
● God is the God of order. If you have to worship God you must worship God is a orderly way.
● I pray that God will make you a man/woman of order.
● God is not the God of disorder, of chaos, nor confusion.
● If you are a man of disorder you will end up in disgrace. If you want to see grace you must be orderly.
● Receive the grace of order.
- Order in your mind,
- Order in your spirit,
- Order in your way of operating,
- Order at work,
● The people of Israel were walking in grace because they were orderly people.
CHAPTER 2 : BIBLICAL APPLICATION
The people of Israel were very orderly
Number 1 : They were encamping in order.
● “The Israelites were to camp around the tent of meeting some distance from it, each of them under their standard and holding the banners of their family.
● Judah was on the east side.
Numbers 2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
● Reuben was on the south side.
Numbers 2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
● Ephraim was on the west side.
Numbers 2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim, according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
● Dan was on the north side.
Numbers 2:25 The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Receive the grace to be orderly.
Number 2. They were departing in order
● The order was as follows:
▪︎ First - Judah
▪︎ Secondly - Reuben
▪︎ Thirdly - Levites
▪︎ Fourth - Ephraim
▪︎ Fifth - Dan
CHAPTER 3 : PRACTICAL LESSONS ON GRACE
● Judah had a symbol of praise (a lion)🦁
Lesson 1 | Praise opens the door to grace.
- Start your day with Praise and thanksgiving (That is the reason behind midnight praise)
- Start spending your money with praise (tithe, offering,…)
- Start your business with praise.
● That is divine order. If you want divine grace you need to subscribe to divine order.
● Reuben had a symbol of a man👨
Lesson 2 | Grace overlooks your weakness.
- Never forget that you are a human being. Don't rely on you.
● Hebrews 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
● 2 Co 12:9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
● Your weakness is not an excuse for mediocrity, for you to live anyhow.
● Your weakness is a reason for you to depend on the grace of God because grace is made available for us.
● God knows you are weak that's why he makes grace available. Because you are weak, depend on divine grace.
I pray the grace of God will sustain you in your weakness.
● Paul says in I am who I am by the grace of God. ( 1 Cor 15:10 )
● Paul was murderer, a persecutor but the grace of God qualified him where he could not be qualified.
● It's in your area of weakness that grace will be manifested.
● The Levites were in the middle.
Lesson 3 | no matter what you are doing keep God in the middle.
● At the centre of everything that you do, God must be there.
May God be the center of your everything. Receive the grace to have God at the center
● I can't move if God is nor moving me.
● Jesus says 'without me you can do nothing' (John 15:5.)
● Ephraim had a symbol of an ox 🐂
Lesson 4 | Grace is made available for the purpose of service /ministering/sharing/channeling/ (that is the meaning of the ox)
● Luke 22:27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
● 1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
● God gives us grace for us to be a blessing. If you want to see grace, be a blessing to someone.
● You don't receive grace for yourself. Grace is not grace until you share. What you store is not grace. Make your life style everyday to be a blessing.
● Serve God and serve others with the gift that you have.
● There are people who are living a life of dead sea. It receives water but never releases it. The river Jordan on the other hand receives water and distributes to others.
● There are people who will never go far/succeed because they are so selfish. Grace doesn't work with selfishness. It works when you realise it around you.
Receive the grace to release the grace.
● Dan had a symbol of an Eagle 🦅
Lesson 5 | Grace comes from above.
● John 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
● James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
● That is how grace was moving in the desert through the key of order.
CHAPTER 4 : CONCLUSION
● In your life
- Praise must comes first.
- Don't forget you are man, yiu are weak. You can't make it on your own.
- God must be the center of everything.
- You are not living for yourself. Who can you be a blessing to?
- Blessings and grace come from above.
CHAPTER 5 : PRAISE POINTS
1. Father arise, go ahead of me. I lift the banner of praise like Judah this morning.
Isaiah 45:2, 'I will go before you and level the mountains. I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.
2. Father arise, go ahead of our children. Remove any obstacle before them.
Isaiah 57:14 '...remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.'
3. Father arise and let your enemies be scattered.
Psalms 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let those who hate him flee before him...'
4. Lord, I declare no accident, no incident will stop us as we go out. No devil, no sickness will stop us as you go ahead of us.
5. Father, I pray for order in our offices, our homes, businesses, in everything we do and every area of our lives. No more disorder.
6. Father, I pray for structure, for organisation in our lives. No more disorder in any area of our lives.
7. Father, thank you for going ahead of us. For making us structured and orderly people.
In the name of Jesus Christ we have prayed.
✍🏽Pastor TD Kasuku
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