Some people’s fall doesn’t come from far. It comes as a result of how they have chosen to treat the Lord and His work in comparison to perspective 

Many time’s we do thing’s without knowing of the repercussions that may come to us in view to that. 

Zedekiah and His people did bad to the LORD.  They did bad thing’s to the LORD and they also did bad thing’s to the temple which The LORD had consecrated in Judah

What did They do. They defiled The LORD’S temple which He Himself had consecrated 2 Chronicles 36:14[14]Also all the chiefs of the priests and the people trespassed greatly in accord with all the abominations of the heathen, and they polluted the house of the Lord which He had hallowed in Jerusalem as to thus the wrath of the Lord came upon them 

a) What is that which Zedekiah did and the people in view to the temple which The LORD Himself had consecrated?

b) What is that which we shouldn’t do which Zedekiah did? 

c) Give some of the lessons you learn from this perspective 

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that I will not defile your temple in Jesus name amen 

Do you realise that The Lord can put something in your mind and you may think that it just came to your mind as a result of human reosoning  yet He is the Lord who wants you to do something at a particular time for His purpose 

When The LORD put something into the mind of Cyrus king of Persia. He may not have known that He is the Lord who has put it in His mind. He may have thought that it may have been a consequence of His thoughts . 

He did not know that the Lord had put something in His mind 

The Lord put something in the mind of Cyrus king of persia to issue a proclamation through the entire region. He told Him to issue a proclamation and put this proclamation in writing Ezra 1:1-2

[1]NOW IN the first year of Cyrus king of Persia [almost seventy years after the first Jewish captives were taken to Babylon], that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might begin to be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing: [Jer. 29:10-14.][2]Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has charged me to build Him a house at Jerusalem in Judah.as to thus we should always mind about that which The Lord puts to our minds

a) What did The LORD put into the mind of Cyrus as realised upon in our subject study?

b) What did The Lord tell Cyrus king of Persia to do about that proclamation?

c) Has The Lord ever put something in your mind to do? What is that which The Lord put in your mind to do?

d) Give an understanding as due to our subject study

e) Rationalize a divine perspective as due to our teaching in view

Dear Lord Jesus am grateful for what you have put in my mind. I believe that whatever you have put in my mind is for the sure glory of your name Amen. 

Many people do thing’s and they are never compensated. They serve in offices after which they are sent away without acknowledgement of giving them what they demand from their bosses 

Compensation is something that the Lord doesn’t take for granted. When you don’t compensate others in turn to what they have done for you, you will have a case that you will be required to answer before the Lord as The LORD is He who knows all thing’s.

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylons army did so much. He made His army labour strenuously against Tyre but His army recieved no compensation from Egypt. His army was left in air without any appreciation for what they had done towards the nation of trye – when The Lord saw that the army of king Nebuchadnezzar had recieved no compensation even as a result of what they did  He The LORD compensated them in view to what their Army had done Ezekiel 29:18

[18]Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to render heavy service [ at My bidding] against Tyre; every [soldier’s] head became bald and every shoulder was worn and peeled [with carrying loads of earth and stones for siege works]. Yet he had no remuneration from Tyre [in proportion to the time and labor expended in the thirteen years’ siege], either for himself or his army, for the work that he had done against it [for Me].

a) What happens when we do not compensate people for the great things that they do for us 

b) What is that which king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon do as realised upon in view?

c) Give some of the lessons that you learn from our teaching 

d) How does this teaching relate to our everyday life

 Confession prayer

Dear Lord Jesus I ask for the grace to compensate all am supposed to compensate in Jesus name

If you read the bible you realise that covenants are  stipulative in view to that which is agreed amongst various individuals 

A covenant is not just a superficial statement that someone verbals out of excitement rather It is a public declaration that is consented amongst different people.  It can be consented amongst each other as human beings and also it can be consented with the LORD 

King  Josiah makes a covenant in The LORD’S presence in the temple of The Lord  that is not just _substantial but also purposeful_ . The covenant that king Josiah made in the Lord’s presence was to follow the LORD with all his heart, with all His soul and with all His mind 2 Chronicles 34:31 [31]Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord–to walk after the Lord and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book.

Some of us have made covenants  to what we should prioritize as sufficient  but the question is have we ever made a covenant to follow the Lord. 

a) What covenant did King Josiah make as reflected upon to note?

b) Have you personally ever made any desire to follow the Lord with your heart? 

c) Why is it that king Josia had to make this covenant to follow the Lord 

d) Give some of the lessons you learn in view to our context study in analysis 

e) Where did King Josiah make this covenant from?

f) What is it which prompted king Josiah towards making this covenant with the Lord 

g) Have you ever made any covenant with the Lord 

Dear Lord Jesus I have made a covenant with you to follow you with all my heart in Jesus name Amen

From a realised perspective, we note that what we do against The Lord is what dramatizes our fall. 

Check what you do against The Lord before  blaming anybody for your fall 

You may be doing something against the Lord we don’t know about which is leading to your fall in ministry, life and family position 

ZEDEKIAH son of josiah came to power when He was 21  The guy reigned for 11 years but guess what He did.

He became Obstinate and hardened his heart against returning to the LORD.2 Chronicles 36:13[13]He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord, the God of Israel.as thus leading to His fall and to the rest of the Israelites

a) According to our teaching, Who became Obstinate?

b) Who hardened His heart against returning to the Lord? 

c) Who is zedekiah according to out teaching 

d) Should we draw any lesson from the life of zedekiah? So if we should draw any lesson from the life of zedekiah.. what would be that lesson. 

e) At the end of the story, what is that which the Lord did to Zedekiah and his friend’s as a result of failing to give heed to the ordinance of His will? 

f) Give some of the lessons you learn and perceive from our context study in analysis 

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that I will not be like zedekiah who became Obstinate and hardened his heart towards returning to you in Jesus name amen 

Being a youth gives you an opportunity to seek The Lord because it is in that stage that you are  strong enough to spend more time in the presence of the Lord without having so much expectation of life responsibility and to concentrate on what you must concentrate upon in as far as your destiny and future is concerned 

You can’t say because you are a youth You can’t seek the Lord.  You can’t stay in his presence.  You can’t study the word of God or even fellowship with your friends for purpose of spiritually  being blessed 

Josiah SON of Amon came into power when He was eight year’s old. I believe He is one of the kings in the bible who came to power at a tender age but guess what happened  _in the eighth year of his reign as king._ 

He began to seek The God of His Ancestors  2 Chronicles 34:3[3]For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young [sixteen], he began to seek after and yearn for the God of David his father [forefather]; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and molten images. and thus in the 12th year of his reign He began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 34:4[4]They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; the sun-images that were high above them he hewed down; the Asherim and the graven images and the molten images he broke in pieces and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those who sacrificed to them.

a) According to our teaching in view, At what age did King Josia come to power?

b) What is it which King Josiah did in His eigth year of reign

c) Give a realised spiritual understanding according to our teaching in view 

d) What would be some of the lessons you can draw from our context study?

Dear Lord Jesus I come before you and I pray that even In my youth stage I will seek you with all my mind.. with all my heart and the very substance of my living in Jesus name amen 

There is this thing which we shouldn’t forget which is 

The way of the LORD.  We can still do ministry and yet abandon the LORD and the way of the LORD.  

Amon abandoned the Lord and the way of the LORD even as king over the people and guess what happened..His servants conspired Him and killed Him in His own house. 2 Kings 21:22-23[22]He forsook the Lord, the God of his [forefathers], and did not walk in the way of the Lord.[23]The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.as thus the consequence of not walking in the way of the Lord may some day bring us to a place of embarrassment 

a) According to perspective, Who abandoned the Lord?

b) Who did not walk in the way of the LORD? 

c) Who is Amon as realised upon to context?

d) What would be some of the lessons in word we draw from the bible personality of Amon. Can we really draw any lessons from the bible personality of Amon

e) What is the applicability of this teaching as realised upon in our day to day life 

f) What happened after Amon was killed by his servants?

g) Which people in category killed those who killed Amon

h) Which people according to perspective made Josia king?

i) Underlay purpose of note as realised upon to our subject study 

Dear Lord Jesus I come before you today. I declare and confess that I will not walk in the way of Amon. I will not abandon the Lord and I will not abandon the way of the LORD in Jesus name Amen

When you meet  people on the street’s, in church or anywhere.  The first thing they will look at will be your appearance 

They begin to see the shoes you are putting on and how your dressed.  The moment your dressing seizes to be appealing in their heart’s.  They will despise you in their heart’s 

Have attended various spiritual congregations and I realise that even in some of our spiritual congregations people continue to look down on other’s.  People continue despising others 

Even if someone is not on your level of status don’t despise him or her because that person you despise may be elevated to a level that you never expected that person to be on. 

We often despise people in our heart’s  as a result of 

What they don’t have 

Where they come from or in view

To their spiritual views of ethnicity in background 

The Sin of despising people is more serious than what we can ever imagine or conceive..many of us despise people in our heart’s.  We have not stopped despising people in our heart’s.  

When Sauls daughter Saw David as He dancing and rejoicing before the Lord as they brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant into the city of David. She despised David in her heart 1 Chronicles 15:29[29]As the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the City of David, Michal [David’s wife] daughter of Saul, looking from a window, saw King David leaping as in sport, and she despised him in her heart.

Reflective questions about the teaching 

a) Have you been despising people in your heart?

b) What did Saul’s daughter Michal do when She saw David singing and dancing before the Lord 

c) How come many of us despise people 

d) Give an understanding of view as related upon in perspective 

e) What would be some of the lessons you learn in view to our teaching 

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that you forgive me from the sin of despising people in Jesus name Amen 

As long as you have chosen to do something which is against the purpose of God. Which The Lord has not told you to do. Don’t ever expect that it will be well with you 

When The LORD speaks to you and you don’t listen expect that it will all be disaster and disaster piling more disaster on you as a result of failing to heed to the instruction of the Lord. 

When The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to His people they didn’t  listen any how to The LORD

They refused to listen to The LORD and so God dealt with Manasser in a way that brought Him to His knees in humility 

The Lord brought against Him  Military commanders of the kings of Assyria Who captured Manasseh 2 Chronicles 33:10-11[10]The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.[11]So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and in fetters and brought him to Babylon.

Reflective questions about the teaching 

a) According to purpose of note in view to our realised teaching , which people did God speak to and they didn’t not listen?

b) What did The LORD do to Manasseh and His people as due to their disobedience?

c) What would be some of the lessons of view you learn from this teaching 

d) What is the applicability of this teaching in relation to our day to day life

Dear Lord Jesus I pray that I will be much more attentive to the instructive purpose of your will in Jesus name amen . I will not be like manasseh who first disobeyed you at hand

Have been on the road of spirituality and I realise that the spiritual dominates the physical 100 percent in influence and control 

Whatever God has called us to do can only be accomplished with intervention from a higher realm of supernatural dominion 

We can’t accomplish the vision God has given us in human strength.  We can’t accomplish whatever God has destined to our purpose in the strength of our strategies but only The LORD who is mighty in battle can bring it to pass in purpose to what God fulfilled by His power 1 Kings 8:14-15[14]And the king turned his face about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel stood.[15]He said, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, Who spoke with His mouth to David my father and has with His hand fulfilled it, saying,

a) According to our teaching in view, can we accomplish the purpose of God is our strength?

b) What is that which we  can accomplish with intervention from a higher realm of supernatural dominion?

c) Give an understanding of view as realised upon in context

d) What is the applicability of teaching to our day to day life

Dear Lord Jesus I come before you today and I pray that whatever you have called me to do I will recieve intervention for it from a higher realm of supernatural dominion in Jesus name Amen