ASSESSING HEAVEN'S COURTS
The Kingdom of God is legalistic. Judgment and mercy. Judgment for sin but mercy in Jesus. Laws given the kingdom of God.
Laws like;
• What you sow you reap.
• Give to have more.
• He that sins is punished by death
• work for God and be rewarded.
METHODS
1. START WITH PRAISES
Praise is very imperative to approach the court room of heaven. Like the natural judicial court room, praise is your pass toward the court.
Psalms 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Psalms 116:19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
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2. HOLINESS
You need to Plead for mercy and ask for God to cleanse you of your sins before you can gain an audience in this court room. Praise gets you into the courtroom, but holiness gives you a legal seat.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
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FOUR 4⃣ LEGAL ⚖ ELEMENTS
1. YOUR STRONG REASONS
These are the Prophetic words in the scripture that supports your prayer request. That compels God to grant you your desire., it's also Rhema word that God has quickened to you personally, or prophetic words others in the body of christ have prophesied to you from the unction of God and which you've confirmed. Prophetic declaration from man of God.
Isaiah 41:21 Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Anchoring on God's promises solidifies your claim.
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2. GOD'S CHARACTER (INTEGRITY)
Plead on the unchanging quality of God being that he ain't a man that lies. His word is his bound, and his thoughts for us are thoughts of peace. He wants to bless you.
Can you leave your child in the house of a boko haram or a kidnapper to babysit for you? But can you give the woman of God your child to babysit for you.? That's character. Boko haram ain't the right man for the job cos he doesn't have the character to discharge that duty.
Can you ask Tinubu or INEC to count a vote for you.? 🤔 😂 They don't have the character for it.
Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it
Psalms 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Psalm 33:9 KJV
For he spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
NLT: For when he spoke, the world began! It appeared at his command.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Isaiah 49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
• He's a just judge: Luke 18:6 And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.
18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? 18:8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
• God is more than Faithful
• God's word is his bound
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3. GOD'S ABILITY
We do not serve a God that's weak.
Can you ask Dangote to give you ₦200 million?
Can you Armstrong to give you ₦200m?
One has the full-chested ability to, but the other doesn't.
The other may have the integrity to give you if he had, but not the ability. God has both the integrity and the ability. That's double edged sword right there.
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🍷 Draw related Scriptures of his potency and ability to his record.
2 Chronicles 20:6 And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
Genesis 18:14 Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Deuteronomy 26:8 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:
Exodus 8:19 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
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🍷 Talk about his previous Historical Acts
• Parted the red sea 🌊
• dried up river Jordan
• Supernaturally brought out water from the rock
• make an axe to float
• rain down fire from heaven
• rain down hailstones from heaven
• fed the 5,000 men with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes.
• turned water into wine 🍷
• made money to come out of the mouth of a fish.
• made a staff to bud and fruit almond overnight, what hitherto takes 12 years to achieve.
• walked on water
• stilled the storm
• fed the Israelites with manna and quail for 40 years.
• healed all forms of sicknesses or deformities
• raised the dead
• shut the mouth of lions
• preserved the 3 Hebrew Boys (musketeers 😎) from being burnt.
For more effect, choose historical miracles that's similar to what you're petitioning God for.
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🍷 Talk about his current acts / testimonies of others.
You can replicate ones testimony, a testimony is like the pool of Bethesda that when the angel stirs, anyone can get healed after the first person did.
A testimony is a weapon. See it as such.
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
When God is blessing someone around you, it means Jesus is in your neighbourhood and you may be next in line. So that should jostle your faith and you can challenge God with it.
Matthew 14:36 KJV
and besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.
These people replicated the testimony of the woman with the issue of blood being that that event occurred first.
You can tell God things like;
• you gave brother Kelvin a Car
• you blessed Mrs Chinyere with a baby after 4 years
• you healed Dayo from stroke
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4. YOUR SACRIFICES
There has to be sacrifices on your altar. God responds to sacrifices.
Matthew 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
8:4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
🥂 Sacrifices could be right living, fasting, giving, serving / volunteering, midnight activities, sowing seed Sacrificially, helping the less privileged, etc.
2 Samuel 24:24 And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
• Moses and Aaron could have cried out for God to save the people, but God continued on his judgment, God only got appeased with the sacrifice which is seen here as the incense being burned by Aaron. This shows that prayers alone may not get the job done, where's your incense?, where's the sacrifice on your altar.?
Numbers 16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
16:47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
Exodus 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Sacrifice of lifting of hands.
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BRING IN YOUR PETITION
After all these are established, then humbly and boldly bring your prayer request before God anticipating a result. God is moved with our faith.
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FOR A RECAP
1. Your Strong Reasons
2. God's Unfailing Character & Integrity
3. God's Ability
4. Sacrifice
5. Lay your petition
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HOW JEHOSHAPHAT WIELDED ALL THIS IN GOD'S COURT.
2 Chronicles 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the <<NEW COURT>>,
1. 🥂-> REMINDING GOD OF HIS WORD (STRONG REASONS)
2 Chronicles 20:9 KJV
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
• As confirmed by God to king 👑 Solomon;
2 Chronicles 7:12 And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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2. 🥂-> PATRONIZING GOD'S CHARACTER AS A JUST JUDGE
2 Chronicles 20:12 KJV
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
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3. 🥂-> PATRONIZING GOD'S ABILITY
2 Chronicles 20:6 KJV
"and said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not POWER and MIGHT, so that none is able to withstand thee?"
2 Chronicles 20:7 KJV
Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
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4. 🥂-> OFFERING OF SACRIFICE
2 Chronicles 20:3 KJV
And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a <<FAST>> throughout all Judah.
2 Chronicles 20:21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should <<PRAISE>> the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.
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• 🥂 - > PETITION
2 Chronicles 20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
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• 🥂-> GOD'S ANSWERS
PROMISE OF ANSWER:
2 Chronicles 20:17 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
PROMISE MANIFESTED:
2 Chronicles 20:22-23 NLT
At the very moment they began to sing and give praise, the Lord caused the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir to start fighting among themselves.
23; The armies of Moab and Ammon turned against their allies from Mount Seir and killed every one of them. After they had destroyed the army of Seir, they began attacking each other.
24; So when the army of Judah arrived at the lookout point in the wilderness, all they saw were dead bodies lying on the ground as far as they could see. Not a single one of the enemy had escaped.
