Meeting: Season of the Spirit (Day 4)
Date: 23 Feb, 2025
Message: Fervent Desire for Everlasting Meat
Minister(s): Pastor Laide Olaniyan
Today is a feast of the spirit, an outpouring of heaven. The Lord wants to fill every vessel and space available with this ministration.
(John 6:26-29) From this scripture, it is assumed that since the people ate the bread, they saw the miracles. But, Jesus said they did not see the miracles, hence, they sought after him because of the bread they ate and got filled from. This implies two things: the way we see the miraculous can either make us pant after God for God, or for the benefits that He gives.
There is a way to see the miraculous that will make a person pant after God, and there is a way to see miracles that will make a person pant after flesh. To see miracles and pant after the flesh is to see only the carnal benefits of the miracle. Miracles in themselves are not bad, they are tokens that God gives for the heart to seek after Him and not the things He did.
There’s a kind of infirmity Satan has worked in the souls of men, such that we mostly have sight for our carnal benefits. It is hard for us to have sight for the higher purpose of God – desiring and seeking Him. If we observe, Jesus didn’t repeat these miracles because the purpose of the miracle was to achieve the purpose of awakening a soul out of slumber.
God did not design the life of the believer to be miraculous but to be supernatural.
The believer should not live in the miraculous, he should live supernaturally, then spiritually. We should believe in miracles, but miracles are supposed to point us towards God. When we don’t have sight for this thing, we’re kept in the web of darkness. Then corruption begins to creep in till a heart begins to use God for his own gain.
(John 6:26-27) The exercise of the soul of a man can be towards that which perisheth and does not endure. The miraculous is one of such, because that which it does is not an abiding work. The greatest miracle that man has ever experienced – raining of manna for forty years consistently (as it was an interruption in the law of nature), is not an abiding work. When a dead person is raised, the dead will still die again. When a sick person is healed, he could still fall sick again. Provision of money also doesn’t mean that he wouldn’t lack again. Corruption can still catch up with the miraculous.
(John 6:26b) The miraculous is some kind of bread, it brings some kind of satisfaction. We all have hunger in different parts, every single need of a soul is a hunger, craving. This is why we feel deficient or inferior to the degree to which we feel that there is a need or lack. A lack could be academics, finance, status, children or exposure. A person can now be filled in the sense that he is now a graduate, but he’s still hungry because there’s no money yet. Another soul can be filled in the area of money, but hungry in the area of marriage. Another soul can be filled in the area of marriage, but be hungry in the area of children. There are many hungers in a soul, and every one of them is tended towards corruption.
A man exerts his soul to fill hunger in places of deficiencies. This is why Jesus is telling us to not labour for the meat that perisheth because everything that satisfies a hunger is a meat. Going to school satisfies hunger.
(Isaiah 55:1-2) There are things we’ve been fed with that aren’t proper bread or food. There is a bread that leads to corruption, this bread is fed by Satan. He gives men a solution to hunger inside, but the end of it is corruption. Jesus wants us to labour for the things that endure. It will be shocking to us to find out that labouring to go to heaven is not enduring – heaven itself is not enduring – (Hebrews 1:10-11). The heavens shall perish, but God will remain. This means that our labour should not be about going to heaven but going to God.
1st Tongues & Interpretation
I’m here to change that desire that is channeled to the wrong hope
I’m here to change that desire for the wrong satisfaction
For indeed i am that satisfaction for the soul
I am satisfaction
So, I’m distilling my dew, it’s coming down.
It’s coming down this morning to heal your appetite and desire.
It’s coming down to touch your tongue and redirect your hunger.
For indeed it is an infirmity and soul disease for a man to desire anything short of me.
My dew is coming down upon every heart and soul
So you will begin to pant only for the true satisfaction.
For you see when everything else fades, it is one that remains.
And I want you to desire that one.
I want to make you endure
If you keep desiring the things that pass, you also will pass.
But it is not my desire for any to perish
I want to bring you to the place of enduring.
So, I’m distilling my dew upon hearts.
I’m distilling my dew to touch that which the soul desires.
The goal of God is to save a man from perishing, and He saves a man from perishing by removing his desire from things that perish. Of all the things that are in creation, there is nothing that does not perish. It is only the creator that does not perish – (Hebrews 1:10-11). There is a certainty that the things God made and gives us can perish. They can be perishable blessings because the end of it does not secure life.
The judgment of what is perishable is not our judgement of what is good and bad – God does not judge by morality. Rather it is by the judgement of the corruptible and incorruptible, God judges by an enduring substance, because the only enduring thing is Him. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil gave us another parameter of what is right and wrong outside God. Whereas the ordination of man is to look for that which does not perish. The ordination upon man is the labour of finding God, because satan has given us several meats to labour for. You can be a religious christian, a pious person, but in your soul, you don’t have that which endureth – (Act 17:24-27).
The beginning of enduring affairs is when a man begins to see the things in Christ Jesus—Faith, Hope and Charity. Faith in Christ Jesus is the very foundation of things that abide. (1 Cor 13:13) – The goal of Heaven is not for us to only learn the things that endure but to also endure unto Life or Everlasting life. We can begin the learning of the curriculum of things that endure but not get to it’s uttermost. As the soul is trained, he begins to live.
2nd Tongues & Interpretation
There’s a change even in the heavens of the land
There’s a change in the Spirit
There’s a new reign even ye in the land.
There’s a change over your heavens
Even a change in the atmosphere
Even a change in the Spirit
Even ye in the spirit
When in the heavens of men
Even in the atmosphere of men
For my coming to you today bringeth a change
For you war a warfare today and the victory had brought about the change
There’s a change in your heaven
There’s a dethroning of spirit and the enthroning of Spirit.
We begin to show even in your street
Even over individual
For you’ll begin to see men with different thinking pattern
Different thoughts.
For I came to you, saith the lord
I was here even with you
To bring about the sealing, the affirmation..
Even spirits have been driven far away.
And there’s a reign of new spirits.
For you will begin to see men even walking in the newness of this new reign.
It is a change.