THE 44TH WEEK OF THE YEAR
What does the Bible reveal about the 44th?
The 44th gate of time is the gate used by powers – powers that oppress and powers that deliver; powers that hinder and powers that help.; powers that shut doors and powers that open doors; the power of God and the power of man or satan. The hindering powers want only to have their ways to do whatever they want. The helping powers use this gate of time to rescue the just and innocent who are at the mercy of the proud and arrogant powers.
This 44th season is a week of help against closed doors. It is part of the 7th seven weeks of the year. In this season, God sends or gives help to make a way where there is no way. It is a gate of time through which help passes to open doors for the despised and persecuted. The 44th book of the Bible records the coming of the Helper, the Promise of the Father, to make a way for the Church where there is no way and to cause the unprecedented to happen.
It is the Spirit of Help that passes through this gate of time that made way for Barak Obama to become the 44th President of the United States and the first black man to serve as US President. It is the same Spirit of help that gave the Allied Powers wisdom to fight a decisive three-month battle, from D–Day in 1944, against the Axis Powers to liberate all of France . Powers collide in the 44th season.
Psalm 44 is the cry of the oppressed and persecuted to the God of miracles for intervention. Psalm 44:22-26 says, “Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression? [25] For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground. [26] Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake”.
God shows off His power in the 44th season.
Isaiah 44:6 says, “Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: ‘I am the First and I am the Last; Besides Me there is no God”. He mocks idols and idol worshippers in Isaiah 44:9-20.
God shows off His sovereignty in the 44th season.
Isaiah 44: 24-27 says, “Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself; [25] Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness; [26] Who confirms the word of His servant, And performs the counsel of His messengers; Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’ To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’ And I will raise up her waste places; [27] Who says to the deep, ‘Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers’;
God shows He is final authority in the 44th season.
Jeremiah 44:28 says, “Yet a small number who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs”.
Ezekiel 44 indicates that God is the decision maker in the 44th season. In this chapter, He told Ezekiel how things should be done and what should not be done.
The 44th book of the Bible, the book of Acts, illustrates that power belongs to God in the 44th season. Those who trust in God cannot not suffer defeat in this season if they are sensitive to the Spirit and employ the weapons of faith and prayer. As a book of Acts week, this is a week of spiritual positioning that would determine the direction of the rest of the year and even the future.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE 44TH WEEK OF THE YEAR
1. O Lord , this week, deliver your people from the arrogance and wickedness of the powers that be; as you delivered Peter from the hand of Herod.
2. Let your people be unstoppable this week. Let fire keep burning on the prayer altar. Release innocent prisoners.
3. Let the people of God in Nigeria enjoy the backing of the Holy Spirit. Let Nigeria witness the power of the Spirit working through God’s people as the Church did in the 44th book of the Bible.
4. O Lord, stop those who are working against your people and your purposes in Nigeria – religious fundamentalists, corrupt political leaders, greedy people in business.
5. O Lord, release your power to deliver Nigeria from her imprisonment and captivity. Let ancient gates of wickedness stopping Nigeria open in the name of Jesus.
- 6. O Lord, disgrace all who use sorcery to advance wicked causes in Nigeria.
- THE 5TH WEEK OF NIGERIA’S YEAR
The fifth gate of time is for the word of life and the blessings that enhance enjoyment and full expression of life. God’s will concerning the fifth is for people to enjoy life to the full though obedience to His word; but the plan of the evil one is to draw people away from the word of God so that forces that hinder full expression of life can overtake them. – so that the people will have curses instead of blessings. Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Bible, bears witness to this.
God began to make playful and adventurous living creatures on the fifth day. It was a day many new things that make life more meaningful – movement, voice sounds, sensory perception, blessings of fruitfulness and multiplication.
He made flesh and blood – so we shall have life and not death in the fifth season. He blessed so we would not have curses. He made movement possible so we should not have lockdown and stagnation in this season. He gave voice sounds so we would not be silenced but pray and praise Him in this season. He gave sensory perception so we may not lack spiritual sensitivity and discernment in this season. He gave balance ability so we would be stable in this season. He did not make us to become prey in this season.
The fifth season is a time to hold the flesh in check. Although God began to make flesh and blood creatures on the fifth day of creation, the fifth season is a time to restrain the flesh. Joshua circumcised Israel in Joshua 5. The Servant of Elisha fell to greed and materialism in Second Kings 5. Ananias and Sapphira died for greed in Acts 5. In First Corinthians 5, a man was sleeping with his father’s wife. Galatians 5 speaks against walking in the flesh. May the lusts of the flesh not overtake us this week.
The fifth season is for the full expression of life – provisions, healing, deliverance, and victory over death. In Genesis 5, Enoch escaped death for walking with God. Naaman was healed of leprosy in Second Kings 5. Jesus delivered a man possessed by a legion of demons, healed the woman with the issue of blood, and raised a dead girl back to life in Mark 5. Jesus healed the impotent man in John 5. Peter’s shadow healed in Acts 5. Jesus made Peter catch fish in Luke 5. On October 29, 2006, the beginning of the fifth week of Nigeria’s 47th year, ADC plane crashed after take off from Abuja. Six of the 104 people onboard survived. On November 1, 2021, a 21-story building under construction on Gerrard Road, Ikoyi, collapsed. This happened on the fourth day of the fifth week of Nigeria’s year.
The week of October 29 to November 4 is both an end and a new beginning. Two months meet in this week. The 10th month will handover to the 11th month. It is a week of transition from one realm or dimension of experience to another. From the prophetic perspective of the 44th book of the Bible, this is a week of transition from Peter’s team to Paul’s team.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE 5TH WEEK OF NIGERIA’S YEAR
- Grant us safety through discernment and spiritual sensitivity. Let no evil plan escape detection this week.
- Deliver Nigerians from predators of this week.
- Deliver us from things that hinder full expression of life in this season.
SCRIPTURES FOR THE WEEK
Isaiah 44:3 – “For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring”;
Have a blessed 5th week in Nigeria’s year and a triumphant 44th week of the year!
