Heat Up

HEAT UP!

The world is more than space, time and matter; 
it is more than people, geography and drama! 
It is a thoroughly organised system specially 
tempered, formulated and forged to squelch 
and extinguish God on earth. It is the most 
comprehensive organised rebellion against the 
kingdom of God and His righteousness. 
Being in the world is being in a war zone.

The Bible says,
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself 
with the affairs of this life. (2 Timothy 2:4, NKJV)
What are some of the affairs of this life? 
They are the multidimensional, in-your-face, 
sanity-bending, prayer life-decimating; 
and word-choking cares of this world and 
deceitfulness of riches (Matthew 13:22).
The ruthless enemy of our souls has his minions 
constantly working overtime to ensure every 
single believer is 
bombarded with these. 
The machines and mortars of hell are stationed 
in every inch of the world system to ensure the 
believer is constantly 
distracted from consistently engaging the two 
most important pillars of 
the Christian faith system namely:
1. The ministry of the word
2. Prayer (Acts 6:4)
The supernatural victory that is supposed to be 
the daily experience of the believer is hinged upon 
these two pillars.
Sadly, many a Christian today does not give
 themselves continually to them.
 Little wonder it is therefore that the power surge
 that is supposed to rise from believers’ lives on 
account of the latent power of the Holy Ghost in them 
to bring down satanic installations in their spheres of 
influence is reduced to a deplorable power outage!
I stated in one of my posts hereon that one of the 
weapons a country must have to qualify as a military 
superpower in the 
twenty-first century is the aircraft carrier which is 
capable of unleashing 
Armageddon anywhere it is pitched against. 
The United States has 20 
commissioned aircraft carriers, China has only one! 
This is why it is a fact that 
no nation comes close to the superior military might 
of the United States of 
America as of now.
But one million aircraft carriers cannot deal with 
the least demon from hell. This is because they 
are man-made, carnal weapons.
This is why the Holy Ghost in the believer is mightier 
than any man-made weaponry-He can empower 
the believer to destroy 
every work of darkness, trample underfoot any 
devil that dares try them. 
Yet many believers do not take advantage of His 
residence in them.
There is too much distraction for believers these days. 
Bills, bills and more bills are the excuse for the 
power outage in the lives of many believers.
Every believer has indeed received tremendous 
power on account of receiving the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:8). 
This power is latent, unexploited like crude oil. 
There are well over one thousand products than 
can be extracted from crude oil. 
To get these products the crude has to be subjected 
to different temperatures through heating. 
In other words, no heat no product!
How much of the ‘crude’ deposit of the Holy Ghost 
we exploit and maximise is not up to God. 
No! It is entirely up to us.
Power has been made available to all believers 
but not all believers are powerful. Why? Heat!
I lived and worked in Lagos (which is unarguably 
the busiest city in Nigeria) for almost six years 
during which the devil tried 
every possible trick in his bag to shut down 
my prayer life and truncate 
my engagement with the ministry of the word. 
It was crazy I tell you. 
I had to learn to study the Bible amid 
migraine-dishing generator noise.
 I converted the long hours I spent in Lagos 
traffic during my commute to and 
from work to heat up the ‘crude reserves' in 
the chambers of my spirit-praying 
in the spirit always. Oh my, the delivery of the 
Holy Ghost power products 
did not stop as I basked in the endless 
refreshing of God’s presence. 
I enjoyed power surge nonstop. 
The devil failed!
If you heat up the crude reserves continually 
by prayer and study, the power surge would 
cause you to explode endlessly 
with Holy Ghost power products. 
You can’t engage the Holy Ghost 
on this level and be depressed, and/or need 
UEFA Champions League, 
or the next box office hit to drive away 
boredom or escape sorrow.
You would not need any external stimulant 
to spice up your life. 
You would experience 
firsthand the kingdom of 
God which is what the Bible says is not meat 
and drink (external merriment, 
euphoria and conviviality) but 
righteousness, peace and joy in 
the Holy Ghost! (Romans 14:17)
There is no excuse to be powerless, cold and 
depressed my friend. 
Engage the Holy Ghost in 
you and keep the products coming. 
A cold stove is no threat to cockroaches. 
So heat up!
 - Apostle Arome Osayi