October 2019  Edition

Dear Beloved,

Welcome to our October Newsletter. We are grateful for all those who have written to us, having loved the pictures and testimonies from the Kingdom Invasion Conferences. Do visit the website to listen to the teachings.

Our Newsletter contains all our usual features. We love to hear from those who have been transformed by the work with Lapis Lazuli Ministries and have gone on to transform others. Do read the interesting piece from Tope.

Also remember to buy the Conference teachings to add to your gift packs for your friends and relatives.

In His Presence has our Heavenly Father, asking us all to address the question of "offences" and not walk down that path. Do try the exercise at the end, and see if you get some breakthrough.

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Don't Walk On That Path Of Offence......!!!
One of the insidious, deceptive ways that the enemy is gaining ground in our hearts is by causing us to become offended by little and big things.
To become offended means to feel hurt, angry, bitter, or upset by something that has been said or done by someone else, or by a group.
It could also mean to feel wronged by someone.



I am not speaking of an "offence" where there is a break of a law or an illegal act. For this, you could be found guilty and fined for the offence.
Rather, I am talking about the hurt, pain, resentment, anger, bitterness
we carry around due to the behaviour and often times brokenness of other people towards us. We often say "hurting people hurt others."

There are those who get offended very easily and those who tolerate a lot before they get offended. Whichever category we fall into, offence is not a path that you want to walk on as a child of the most high God.

We sometimes feel that there are different levels of hurts. There are those who quarrel and keep malice when it's a big issue, and then when it's a much smaller matter, some feel offended, and carry the person and the deed in their hearts. They find they are hurting and usually react to them from the place of pain.



Before I continue, I would like to use the word "hurt" to refer to sin, pain, offence and bitterness.

The Lord really does not classify hurts for us. Our Heavenly Father does not give us any choice, as to whether a hurt is big or small. Our Father does not decide with us if a hurt was unfair, or not deserved at all. The Lord does not make any suggestions as to what to do with the hurts, but, He simply commands us to forgive those who hurt, sin or offend us.

The Lord as He always does, went on to show by example, what He desires we do. In spite of all the flogging and shame, while on the Cross, Jesus prayed asking His Father to forgive them, because they didn't know what they were doing.



In teaching His disciples how to pray, (the Lord's Prayer),  He also taught them that God's forgiveness of them was dependent on how much they forgave others.
It's obvious that our Creator knows that He didn't make our hearts to carry hurts and bitterness so advised us in Proverbs 4 v 23, to keep and guard our hearts with all vigilance. Because out of our hearts flow the springs of life. Our Father knows that we can't afford to allow our hearts become tainted in any way by hurts, offence, bitterness, attitudes and thoughts. We thus need to learn to forgive easily and completely. We have to constantly search our hearts to see if we have buried hurts there. David did this by asking the Lord to search him thoroughly (Psalm 139 v 1-5).

I realise that living a lifestyle of forgiveness is very difficult to do as relationships with people throw all sorts of hurts and pain our way. This is why we have to turn to the Holy Spirit for help as the Lord does not provide any alternatives, or " get out " clauses. Sometimes we say this isn't fair, but life was never meant to be fair. What is fair about Jesus suffering on the Cross for you and me so we get saved...?

We also need to realise that our forgiveness is not saying that the person did not do what is wrong. Our forgiving them is simply releasing them to Father God, and releasing ourselves from holding unto them. Holding on only keeps us in bondage as seen in the story of the unforgiving servant told by Jesus in Matthew 18 v 21-35.



Sometimes, I go to the Lord over and over again, when I am struggling with letting the hurt or offence go. Other times, I stay in His Presence, asking Him to love on me and help me hand over the hurt and pain to Him. When you really have handed something over, it should no longer be in your hands to affect your heart. You need to continue in this light, until you can pray for the person from your heart, bless them and let them go. Thinking about them, no longer causes you pain. You need to be able to relate to them with a clean heart, knowing you have let them go.

Recently someone asked me about "forgetting" and "trust" as regards to this issue. My answer was that you can ask the Holy Spirit to build these up again if you chose to, but you don't have to.

So Dear ones, let us be aware of the deceptive way that the enemy steals our joy by getting us frustrated and hurt by people's actions, thereby causing us to walk down the path of offence. Jesus desires that we live in freedom. Offence only serves to distort this freedom.

Offence not only clogs the heart, but also makes us respond wrongly to people. When King Saul and David returned from battle, and the women sang songs praising David over King Saul, it made Saul so jealous that he allowed the evil spirit in, which tormented Him. The Bible is full of these stories where offence has taken people down its path. Jesus lived a life where He was un-offendable. We need to ask daily for His help in this area of our lives.


Exercise......

  • Ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart and expose any offence in it.
  • Ask the Holy Spirit who you are to forgive and what aspect of what they did really hurt you.
  • Say a prayer to forgive them from the bottom of your heart. 
  • Repent of walking on the path of offence all this time. 
  • Bless them, and let them go. Ask Father God to fill you with His love.
Amen.

Ps. Please write to tell us how this exercise went and if you got some breakthrough.

Announcement

KINGDOM INVASION CONFERENCE (ABUJA & LAGOS) CDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE.

We have teachings CDs & DVDs from our Guest Speakers (Dr. Tom Jones, Dr. Leif Hetland, Bob Hazlett, Charity Cook, Tomi & Tobi Arayomi) at the 2019 Kingdom Invasion Conference held in Abuja (Mon 26th & Tue 27th August) and Lagos (Fri 30th & Sat 31st of August). These are available for sale in our office, Lapis Lazuli Ministries Office, 3rd
Floor, Maku House, 109 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos. Bless your loved ones and friends with these teachings.

Each CD cost N200 and DVD N500. To buy a copy, call the office on 07034371401 or come to address in bold above. CDs from past conferences are being sold from N50 to N100.
Testimonies... Lives Transformed...
In this edition, we have a write up from Mrs. Tope Analogbei who leads the prayer team on the Abuja planning team since the inception of the Kingdom Invasion Conference in Abuja in 2017. Here is her testimony of how the Kingdom Conference inspired her to start  a prayer revival project with the youths

Towards the end of 2017, I asked God what He had to say to me concerning the year 2018. This is something I have always done annually. This time around, God told me I was going to meet a woman in 2018, He instructed me to work with her, concerning ministry and the advancement His Kingdom. Around this time as well, I had an Abstract I was working on to get approved for a clinical research I was carrying out.

Early 2018, a friend invited me to the first Abuja planning committee meeting, at LAPIS LAZULI, where I met Mrs. Mina Bajomo for the first time and my spirit " connect" with hers. I had never heard of her or LAPIS LAZULI ministries prior to this meeting. The meeting was great, and by the end of the meeting I was appointed to coordinate the Abuja Prayer team against the 2018 LAPIS LAZULI conference.

The 2018 conference was very impactful, I attended both the Abuja and Lagos conferences and to the glory of God, after the conferences, my Abstract was approved for a poster presentation at INTEREST WORKSHOP held in Kigali Rwanda with full sponsorship of my trip from my office.

My friends and loved ones have always told me that I have the healing gift and they have encouraged me to work on the gift. I never really took this advice seriously because I felt it would be too much of a burden to add on to my prayer ministry. Early this year, Lapis Lazuli did a three-day healing workshop in Abuja, which I attended. It was an eye opener.

To my greatest surprise, I was added on to the healing team to minister to the sick during the 2019 Kingdom Invasion Conference. This was an awesome way God used to get me to discover and accept my calling in the healing ministry. It was wonderful seeing people become healed after been prayed for. This has increased my confidence to pray for the sick.

The biggest thing about the 2019 Kingdom Invasion Conference came when I attended the Kaduna leg of the conference. Dr Leif Hetland had always preached about the Father's love throughout the 2018 and 2019 conferences but I never got the revelation of this truth until the Kaduna leg of the conference. Receiving this revelation has greatly improved my relationship with God and strengthened my faith. In addition to this, there was a section of the programme in Kaduna where Apostle Tomi Arayomi did activation on Hearing God's Voice. He instructed that we pray for someone we don't know and ask God to reveal what He loved most about the person. I was surprised when the person that prayed for me said that God told him that the thing He (God) loved most about me is my Teachable Spirit. This really humbled me. This revelation has also fostered my relationship with God and caused me to approach God with more confidence.

From the teachings, the great impartation and personal revival received from this conference, God has instructed me to start a prayer revival project with the youths. I am teaching them how to pray for themselves, their families and nations as well as teaching them what prayer is all about and how to approach it in a simple and effective way and raise an army of prayer warriors for the work of His kingdom. To the glory of God, this vision has received great favour and support from the Leadership of the Youth Ministry of my church.

I want to bless the name of the Lord for LAPIS LAZULI Ministries, particularly the Kingdom Invasion Conference that the Lord has used to birth this amazing vision in my ministry. Praise God!!


May the Lord continue to uphold and preserve us all.

God's blessings,



Femi and Mina Bajomo



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1. Praying for the body of Christ to be awakened to the extravagant love of Jesus.

2. Praying for our National leaders, that they may lead the Nation with wisdom and justice.

3. Praying for our youths that they arise into all that God has prepared for them to walk in.

4. Praying for succour and God's help for those who have undergone disaster recently due to very heavy rains, collapsed buildings and terrible road accidents.

5. We continue to pray for the release of Leah.


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We would like to ask Intercessors who have attended our Kingdom Conferences and would like to meet in your states to pray for the Nation and for Lapis, to please do so.

Please send contact details of your group to us - info@lapislazuliministries.org OR 07034371401.
 
Bible Passage
Psalm 119: 165 - 168

165. Great peace have those who love Your law,
And nothing causes them to stumble.

166. Lord, I hope for Your salvation,
And I do Your commandments.

167. My soul keeps Your testimonies,
And I love them exceedingly.

168. I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,
For all my ways are before You.

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