Meeting: Bible Study
Date: 24th April, 2026
Message: Developing the Culture of Meditation on the Word (Part 3)
Minister: Pastor Laide Olaniyan
Tongues and Interpretation
There is one from presence in your midst,
One with mastery of worship,
One with mastery of giving glory that is due to His name,
One with mastery for worshipping the Holy One,
To teach you again how to worship, how to ascribe the glory due to the Holy One,
So I counsel that you gather your hearts,
Discern again the ground you stand,
For those who are attentive to learn will be caught up in worship,
They will soar like eagles and press into the heights in worship,
One from presence is here tonight,
Best believe and gather your hearts,
I will teach again the attitude and disposition for worship,
For I have mastery, I have a crown and I want to show you how to come into that allocation,
When you worship, you worship indeed,
Best believe, best gather your hearts,
For I am here to teach many, and for those who will be attentive, I’ll cause them to soar and press,
There are heights and levels to worship,
There are allocations to worship,
To worship the separated one, you also must be separated,
I want to show you the wisdom to be separated to worship the Holy One,
There is glory due to His name,
There is worship due to His name,
And I have mastery in my order and I want to teach you,
I am here to show you, I am here to teach you.
Message begins..
If we turn the art of reading scriptures to an academic exercise, wherein we look into the bible everyday without experiencing the person of Jesus, we will lose the essence of the person we are meant to find. Anytime looking into the scriptures loses the sight of Him, it turns into a ritual. The essence of looking into scriptures is to get more of Him.
The Pharisees also read the Torah but came up with vain traditions. (Mark 7:13) — “making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” The traditions of their fathers are interpretations or summations drawn from the law that were not according to the truth of God, which were carried on as judgements. If we do not find the essence of Jesus’s person, all our labour in scriptures can end up in futility; vain conversations that are devoid of life.
(John 5:37-40) — “And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not. Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”
(Heb 10:1) — “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.” — Comers are those who are coming to God by Jesus (Heb. 7:19-24). The law is spiritual but the weakness of the law is that it could not perfect anybody. The law could only prepare us for a better hope. It could not bring anyone to the end of their faith (Rom. 7:14).
The qualification for priesthood is more about life in the soul, much more than tribal affiliation. From the tribe of Ephraim, Samuel became a priest and God was not angry with it (1 Sam. 1). We also see David take up linen ephod (2 Sam. 6:14); In fact, David took up three offices; he was a king, priest and prophet.
(1 Chro. 15:1-13) — There is a due order of coming to God that is revealed in the scriptures. Scriptures testify of the person of the Lord Jesus and we should come to the Lord as our way of getting to God. If we don’t know the way that God has laid down, we won’t find Him. Many times, we have the zeal but we don’t have knowledge (Rom. 10:2-4). David had a honest and good desire but he still ended up in the death of Uzzah. That we desire God doesn’t mean everything we do while desiring is right. We must understand how God ought to be sought. Sometimes, God needs to provoke us to jealousy for us to seek the Lord rightly. Even though God is calling us to come unto Him, we must not break the order of coming to Him. This is why searching the scriptures is necessary for every soul; nobody will do it on your behalf.
(Heb. 7:22-23) — “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:” The inability for the levitical order of priesthood to continue by the reason of death is not just about physical death alone, but that death always caught up with them. Jesus is still living; He is still responding to God till now. Sometimes, when we have obeyed God for a while, we get tired and want to rest and indulge a little; this shows we are still weak in our continual response to God. The life in the spirit seems cagey so we cannot continue staying there perpetually. Life has not become natural to us. The strength to ever continue is not there. Sometimes, we still feel lost and lonely following God, but Jesus continued to follow God till He came to a state where He can continue following God perpetually.
(Heb. 7:24-25) — “but this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” If we have to come to God, we have to come through Jesus. And if we have to come through Jesus, there are standards that He has laid down. One of them is to search the scriptures, not just read it (John 5:39). We have to search because what we are looking for can never be found on the surface; we have to search because it is hidden; it is a mystery, and a secret. Unless we search, we will not find God. Rarely do we treat Jesus like something that is lost. If it is hidden and lost, we need light to comb every corner to ensure that what is lost is found. We cannot come to God by our desires alone but by the ways that have been laid in scriptures. That is why searching and studying scriptures is necessary for every believer who will find God.
(Prov. 2:1-5) — “My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, And liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, And searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.” If it is hid, then we must excavate. We can’t excavate the knowledge and person of God with shallow instruments.
Firstly, we can never begin a search on our own, we must listen to somebody else. We begin from someone else’s labour. This is why listening to messages, reading books from people who are spiritual are our best bet to start studying or searching by ourselves. We don’t know where, what and how to look for it by ourselves. We can’t begin to study without being pastored; you have to be a son under someone else (Prov. 2:1-2). How you hear will determine whether you will be provoked to search. Searching doesn’t mean you don’t believe what was spoken, it means you are applying your heart and want to understand. We must apply our heart. How well we hear will determine whether we will be stirred enough to go and search to fully understand what we have heard. Searching is a labour to come into understanding.
Our next point of call is prayer. What we are looking for is spiritual, and it is hid spiritually. (1Cor 2:6-7) — “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:” In the Bible, you want to find what God hid. If we are not shown mercy, we won’t find it. So our next most valuable resource is a heart that is crying after God.
(Prov. 2:3-5) — “Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, And liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, And searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.”
So the first thing is to incline one’s ears to listen well. Messages are supposed to be an inspiration for you to study and study well, not a replacement or substitute. The next thing is to cry after knowledge and lift up your eyes for understanding; then when significant inroad has been made in the place of prayer, God will begin to guide how you seek and search. You ought to also get materials to aid your study.
Listening to messages alone can’t find God, because when storms and winds come, it becomes evident that you only heard someone and you were never planted in everything that was said. It is thankworthy that we listen to messages again and again, and labour to apply our hearts to knowledge and understanding but where we miss it is that we have not cried out for knowledge. The knowledge given by our parents and pastors is not ours yet, so we must sit down and cry for knowledge. There has to be a sitting down, as it coordinates your thoughts and mind at being able to search and know what you are looking for.
What we are looking for and where we are looking for matters a whole lot. Many people search scriptures to find God’s promises concerning their natural life, and what will work for them but do not look for God Himself. The essence of scriptures is to find a person. Many times, there are things that work but that doesn’t mean they are God. That a thing worked the last time does not mean that it is the will of God for every time. We have to know God to know what His will is for everyday. If you take a formula from God, you will get stuck, because you will be in God’s yesterday. At one time, God told Moses to smite the rock, at another time, God told him to speak to the rock (Numbers 20). What God wants to give us is a person; where we can stay in His will perpetually, not a formula.
The place of prayer cannot be overemphasized; labour in seeking and trusting God for mercy to show Himself to you. (Prov. 2: 7-22) Spending time to seek and search out and lay hold on the path of life is deliverance. God wants to deliver us from many things but there is no way we will be delivered if we don’t spend time.
Before we need other theological materials, we need to listen to others and have a heart to seek the Lord. We should do this labour to reach the person of the Lord. It is also our revelation of the person of the Lord that will aid us in reaching out to others. We should labour to listen with a difference. We must listen, and then pray to understand. Listening should leave us with a burden of prayer. We cannot study well without praying well. Praying leaves us with soberness to listen to the word.
TONGUES AND INTERPRETATION
Many nobles ones,
I have shown you the key to nobility,
You ought to go back,
You ought to be noble,
For you to have appetite for scripture,
Even in how you devour scriptures,
The true indicator for desire for eternal things begins with searching out,
You should go back and study,
You should go back and search again if these things be so,
Not for to dispute but to come into greater persuasion,
I want you to go down to the depth,
Be on the pages, search,
I have yet many to show you,
It begins with the things that you have heard,
You will not jump from hearing to handling,
You need to see,
You will not hear your way into it, you will see,
Give attendance,
Go down to the depths,
I want to wean you from superficial feeding,
Press on to the depth.
MESSAGE ENDS