Every week of the year is a gate of time for some purpose – divine or diabolical. Certain divine purposes are ordained for this week but there are also evil purposes waiting to crash into the gate of this week. That is the reason spiritual gatekeepers must be informed and alert. Let us pray that God’s will prevail in the nations this week.What does the Bible reveal about the 41st season?
1. IT IS A GATE OF REVELATION FOR UNCOVERING AND PARALYZING DEMONIC PLOTS
This is a week of exposing and neutralizing demonic plots and traps. In Genesis 41, God exposed the evil plot to deceive the world with abundance and later destroy her with scarcity. This is a week of triumphing over demons and agents of demons. The first miracle Jesus performed in the 41st book of the Bible was casting out a demon; and in the closing chapter, He said those who believe in Him will cast out demons. The 41st book says more about casting out demons than any other book of the New Testament. Demons should tremble and have no room around sensitive children of God. This is a bad week for those, like the enchanters of Egypt, who get their power through demons.
2. IT IS A TIME TO UNLOCK THE GATE TO USHER IN HIDDEN AND FORGOTTEN SAVIORS AND PROBLEM-SOLVERS IN THE LAND.
This is a week to manifest hidden and obscure people with answers. This is the week of those who CAN. The 41st season is a season of tough challenges that promote those who deliver answers. It is a season of “Can you do it?” In Genesis 41, Joseph was taken in to interpret Pharaoh’s dream which the astrologers could not. Joseph solved the problem of Pharaoh by the wisdom of God; and was promoted. Failure in the world causes the manifestation of God’s hidden people. Job 41 reveals that leviathan-size challenges, that require the wisdom and power of God to tackle, show up in 41st seasons. In Job 41, God asked Job if he can handle the leviathan.In the 41st book of the Bible, Jesus took on the challenge of the hour; operated as one having authority; doing what the Pharisees and scribes could not do – teaching, casting out demons and healing the sick. Mark’s gospel is a book of ‘can’ and ‘cannot’. In the first chapter, a leper said to Jesus, “You can make me clean”. In the fifth chapter, the woman with the issue of blood said, “If I can touch…I shall be made whole”. In the same chapter, Jesus delivered a demon-possessed man that could not be bound or tamed with fetters. In the ninth chapter, a man whose son was demon-possessed said to Jesus, “If you can do something, please, help me”. In the same chapter, Jesus said, “If you can believe, all things are possible….” The 41st season is a time to stand up to great challenges.
3. IT IS THE GATE OF GOOD NEWS AND THE END OF WAITING
To be in the 41st week of the year means you have crossed the wilderness of the year. It is time to enter and possess the Promised Land of the year. The major things that needs to happen for other things to happen has happened! The seeds had been planted and nurtured. It’s harvest time. God used the previous weeks of the year to prepare you for this week and the others ahead. The trials of Joseph ended in Genesis 40. In Genesis 41, Joseph left the prison, appeared before Pharaoh, interpreted his dream, was promoted, given a wife, had two sons, and had all Egypt come to him for food. That’s so much happening ‘in one place’. This week may begin with a challenge but it’s loaded with good news. The 41st book of the Bible opens with “the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God”. This 41st week is a week of good news. The results will come in rapid succession. The 41st book of the Bible is a book of rapid results and ‘immediate effect’. In the entire New Testament, the word ‘immediately’ is used in 101 verses; but in Mark alone, it is used in 36 verses. That is about than 36%. The 41st season is a time to exalt faith in God above reasoning. It is a season of operating with divine wisdom. It is a week to wage war with divine counsel.
D. IT IS A SEASON OF VICTORY THROUGH COMPASSION
Psalm 41:1-3 says, “Blessed is he who considers the poor; The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. [2] The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive, And he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. [3] The LORD will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed”.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE 41ST WEEK
1. Pray that as the 41st book of the Bible opened with “the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ”, this 41st week will be the beginning of a good news in this year.
2. Pray this week that governments in the nations be set free from evil spirits and their human hosts causing problems.
3. Pray that as the magicians, astrologers, and wisemen of Egypt could not interpret the dream of Pharaoh in Genesis 41, let the mouths of the ‘political magicians’ in the nations be shamed and sealed. Pray that the weakness of fake political machinery in the nations be exposed this week.
4. Pray that as Joseph came out of the prison in Genesis 41, and as Johanan delivered the captives of Ishmael in Jeremiah 41, as Jesus delivered those possessed by demons in 41st book of the Bible, let this 41st week be a week of opening prison doors and releasing captives in the nations physically and spiritually. Pray for the release of nations from globalist abductors. Pray for the release of God’s people who are held unjustly for their faith in prisons around the world.
5. Pray that the Lord will unveil humble problem-solvers whose voices had been silenced and sidelined by wicked and evil men.as He unveiled Joseph in the Genesis 41.
6. Pray for grace and wisdom to successfully tackle challenges and problems that will come your way this week.
THE SECOND WEEK OF NIGERIA’S YEAR
What does the Bible show about this gate of time?
1. IT IS A SEASON TO THWART EVIL MONOPOLIES AND DISMANTLE SPACE-BLOCKERS.
The second day of creation narrative, the second book of the Bible (Exodus), and the the second chapters of the Bible indicate that the second season is for fighting monopolies and space blockers to make a way where there’s none. On the second day of creation, God created the firmament to divide the waters that filled everywhere and made space impossible. That was the battle to create space. Space represents freedom. When God created the firmament, He called it heaven. God’s Heaven is a monopoly-breaker. The firmament is a space-maker. The space the firmament created is for every other creation – dry ground, vegetation, birds, fish, man, and land animals. Without the firmament, there would be no breathing space for anything. The second season is the Warriors Season. It’s for making room (space) for those who have no room or space. It’s for releasing help to the helpless. In the book of Exodus, God raised Moses as a human-firmament to thwart Egypt’s monopoly of power and delivered Israel from bondage. He fought Pharaoh and Egypt to create space and make room for Israel to become, or develop as, a nation. In the book of Exodus, Moses and His family received help to escape and survive traps of death. Israel also received help as they prayed to God, to come out of bondage. The book of Exodus is also about what God wanted from Israel after they came out of bondage. The second week of the year is a season of help for those in need of freedom or space. It is a week to cry to God for help. It is also a week to pledge loyalty to God.
2. IT IS A SEASON OF LIBERATION FROM OPPRESSION AND BONDAGE.
This is the season of freedom-fighters. It is a Book of Exodus week. In the second book of the Bible, Moses and Aaron rose by the word of God for the liberation of Israel from Egyptian bondage. The #EndSars protest started this week in 2020; October 8 to be precise.
3. IT IS FOR MAKING A WAY WHERE THERE IS NONE.
This week is a ‘second-chapters-of-the-Bible’ week. God gave help in the second chapters of the Bible as a pattern for the help that comes in the second season. In the second chapter of Genesis, God created woman to be a suitable help for man. The woman is a space-maker for the male-man. In the second chapter of the second book of the Bible, God made a way for Moses to survive and be raised by Egypt. God made a way for him to settle at Midian when he fled Egypt. In this second book of the Bible, God made a way for Israel across the Red Sea. In the second chapter of Ruth, Naomi and Ruth found help in the field of Boaz. In the second chapter of First Samuel, Hannah spoke of the help of God. In Daniel 2, Daniel received revelation-help concerning King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. In the second chapter of Matthew, God made a way for Baby Jesus to escape death. In John chapter 2, Jesus turned water into wine for a wedding party in need. In the second chapter of Acts, the Helper came from heaven to help the church and make room for her. On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit broke the jail and delivered the church from the fear of the Jews.This second week of the year, may the Lord give Nigerians help that delivers from trouble and oppression. May the Lord make a way where there is no way.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE SECOND WEEK OF NIGERIA’S YEAR
1. Pray that the Lord will divide and destroy the evil monopolies keeping Nigerians in bondage. Let the Pharaohs resisting God’s purpose in Nigeria be brought low.2. Pray that the Lord will make a way where there’s no way for the agents and seeds of change in Nigeria. Ask the Lord to deliver Nigerians from oppressors within and without.
SCRIPTURES FOR THE WEEK
Isaiah 41:18-20: “I will open rivers in desolate heights, And fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, And the dry land springs of water. [19] I will plant in the wilderness the cedar and the acacia tree, The myrtle and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the cypress tree and the pine And the box tree together, [20] That they may see and know, And consider and understand together, That the hand of the LORD has done this, And the Holy One of Israel has created it”.
God will move ‘impossible mountains’ this week.
Psalm 2:8-9: Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession. [9] You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.'”
Have a happy 2nd week in Nigeria’s year and a tremendously blessed 41st week of the year!
