JUICY JULY 2024
THEME: MADE BATTLE-FIT
DATE: 28/07/2024
TOPIC: OH LORD, FOR SUPERNATURAL ENLARGEMENT!
TEXT: PSALM 80:8-11; PSALM 44:1-3
BIBLE STUDY: JAMES 2
I don’t know about you, but when the Lord let me know this is our year of Supernatural Enlargement, I was expecting some lights and explosives. I was expecting decorations and ‘red carpets’😂😂😂 but I have had to go back to God over and over again.
‘Dad, You said Supernatural Enlargement?’ I have asked.
‘…but what You are doing to and in me does not look like Supernatural Enlargement, Sir’ I have had to say to Him. On one occasion, He simply reminded me of a saying I had always held on to from a young age as a child of God:
‘Never doubt in the dark what I told you in the light!’
And then, I just nodded and said ‘Ok, Father! Let’s go with the plan!’
You said ‘Supernatural Enlargement’ it is! And that is what it is!
Because You cannot lie, Father!
So, I continued with His instruction.
“Organize a discipleship programme for the family.” Even though it was not easy for me, I followed!
‘Organize the Esther’s Courts training for Biblical Womanhood Teaching’
‘Oh, alright Father!’
‘Good! Now, extend it to the whole family!’
‘You mean, extend discipleship training to the whole family?’
‘Yes!’
‘Oh, it seems You are looking for a way to trim the family, Sir!’ 😂😂😂😂
I obeyed!
We had not recovered from that, Juicy July came knocking.
‘Father, let’s skip this programme this year, Sir. I also need to rest’
Well, you can guess His response!
And has it been worth it? Yes!
Have people’s souls been supernaturally enlarged? Oh, yes!
I get so many emails from participants of all the programmes He’s organized this year and they all are proof that He is doing something!!! Ahhhh!
I look into my own personal life/family and I just tear up.
Over and over and over again, He has been ordering us into SUPERNATURAL ENLARGEMENT!
I look back over the months and I realize that the ways of God are entirely so different from the ways of man.
Is He done with the enlargement? Not at all! My Father is still clearing the ground! We are still in the preparation stage!
Will He do what He said He will do? Oh sure! Even if you can’t see it, sis, I see it on your behalf. My Father is doing something and with my experience with Him, it is the promisee that can fail, the Promiser never fails!! He will do as He has said.
Amen?
TESTIMONY HIGHLIGHT
Let us read through these testimonies before we pray. May your own testimony also arrive speedily and gloriously to the Glory of the Lord alone in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
I want to thank God for how He has been dealing with me this past 23 days of Juicy July. It’s been an amazing experience and growth season which will continue. I will not go weary. I am specially grateful for the BUD Family, for Mrs Yaks, and I pray God bless and move the family forward more and more. I am grateful for this family of love and what God is doing through her.
Praise the Lord Sisters.. God has been faithful and He’s still faithful.. I have lots of testimonies that I write some down and sometimes don’t get to send. This one happened yesterday..I was so weak, I was having lots of thoughts that weighed me down and when it was time to pray,I was very tired and while lying down weak and heavy burdened, I prayed for strength to intercede. I used Isaiah 40:31 and sisters, like a dream I stood up in the strength of the Lord and prayed and really prayed through.After praying,, I didn’t feel the weakness again.I want to give God the glory and the praise for renewing my strength… Praiseeeee the Lord..
I want to thank God during the second week of the prayer and fasting, I sent a business money to someone I trusted because of my schedules for the person to help me run the expenses at when due, I want to thank God because it seemed the person wasn’t going to show up the money, but God did! God provided and the intended shame I was to encounter was turned into a testimony and relief. I know God has just started with me. Amen
Before the Juicy July program, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to fast for long due to the health challenge, today I was able to fast and break around 4 pm, I am so excited because, since the beginning of the fast, I do break early. But today God sustained me, even though at some point I felt sick and dizzy that didn’t deter me from fasting and praying. I believe the next few days; God will give me the strength to wait on Him longer than that—glory to God.
Hallelujah! Glory to God! The Lord has given me my Juicy July testimony. The Lord blessed my elder brother with a bouncing baby girl yesterday July 23rd,2024. Secondly, this time last year Juicy July, God helped me to participate fully. There was a heavy thick cloud around my life that the devil wanted to use to launch my life into shame and disgrace. I prayed and trusted God for His mighty deliverance and today, the Lord has done it. What the enemy meant for evil, the Lord turned it for my good. He gave me a breakthrough such that those waiting to mock me had no option but to join me glorify God. What the Lord did for me is beyond human reasoning. Glory to His name.
Mighty and All-sufficient God, I praise you, Lord. I want to appreciate God for His divine provision. Last year my phone was stolen, somehow I visited a friend of mine who gave me one of her phones praise God but the phone has a lot of space issues and I wasn’t enjoying it at all so I told God about it 2023 Juicy july and even kept praying and to the Glory of God this year God just laid it on a family’s heart to bless me, infact, God did it in a wonderful way that this family just told me a code will be sent to me from jumia that i should pick up my new phone. This God is great and sure works in mysterious ways.
PRAYER
Praise the Lord for the testimonies. Ask the Lord to take all the glory for them. Ask that the Lord will glorify Himself the more in the lives of the testifiers. And that the Lord will give everyone heartily participating in the Juicy July Prayer programme great testimonies to the glory of His Name. Ask for your own testimonies also.
MAN’S WAY VERSUS GOD’S WAY
So, just as I told you from the beginning, when I thought of the supernatural enlargement, I was expecting the bling-blings. So, when over some months back what I saw were like blah-blahs, I wondered if I heard God correctly.
He took me to an entirely different route that seemed to be as if I should scream:
‘Papa, we seem to be lost! This is not the road to bling-bling!’
Hahahaha. Then, He probably would have responded:
‘I never promised you blings, dearest. Those fade over time. I promised you glory! Glory that doesn’t fade!’
Oh, how marvelous!
Dear sisters, this has been a moment of fire for me, personally, as a family (my own home) and as a family (New Gen BUD).
He said I want to supernaturally enlarge you, but you first must die! You must pass the route that I passed through to glory!!!
Luke 24:46 says: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
So, He took us through the route of discipleship. Not just you all. For me, He even started before this year and only intensified it this year.
And He made us start dying to ourselves; to start preferring Him! To start choosing Him- all in preparation for the glory He’s prepared.
All for the supernatural enlargement He’s prepared! Oh glory!
What I have realized is that the Lord will not supernaturally enlarge ‘Nonsense’
He will not enlarge what is ‘useless’ to Him.
He will not enlarge what has ‘no value’ to Him.
He must first test that you are ready to become useful before He pours His Heavenly investment on you!
Jesus, our Lord was tested this way!
All the apostles were tested this way!
Who are we not to be tested this way?
Sisters, we cannot prioritize God’s Will and not be supernaturally enlarged!
But if my Father knows that you are only after supernatural enlargement just to be comfortable and at ease; just to ‘flex’ and ‘flenjour’ (this is a borrowed language from Yoruba😂😂), He’d NEVER take you seriously! Yes, sis, you can quote me anywhere!
So, Daddy is interested in making our lives beautiful so that we can beautify the lives of others and so that we can glorify HIS NAME- not ours!
Has He been able to catch you yet?
Or are you still ‘yo mo Ọlọrun lọwọ?’ (Are you still falling out of His grip?)
Don’t expect a lasting Heavenly investment in You if you have not first invested yourself in Heaven!
You can feed from the crumbs that fall from the table but how long will that last? That won’t even satisfy! Let us follow the ROAD! He doesn’t just know the road, He is the ROAD! Amen?
So, even if a man wants to invest in any man, he must be sure that that man would bring him returns, isn’t it? Exactly! How much more God!
If a man wants to build a very elegant house, he doesn’t just start to build. He must cut down the trees, clear the bush, burn the waste, start to dig and dig before building. The building isn’t even started until the foundation has been consolidated.
That is man for you! How much more God!
So, as you ask the Lord to enlarge you supernaturally, check to see inside. Have all these works started in you?
Has He started to clear the bush, fell the trees, burn the wastes, dig the foundations and all that?
Only when you have given Him this ‘go-ahead’, can He start the works He’s promised, to be frank with you!
The Lord also needs you enlarged. But He first must be sure He has your soul! If He enlarges a soul that is not already His, the person will use the enlargement for the opposition parties- Self and Satan!😔
God does not want to invest in the camp of His enemies and it is understandable. Who would?
HOW TO INVEST IN HEAVEN?
Oh yes, dear sis. You have asked a very important question. I will try to make it brief because this is a subject that can go on for weeks! Yes!
- Give your soul to Him! One thing the church has failed over time to teach with emphasis to people who have just come to meet the Lord is that when someone has given her life to Christ, there’s an exchange! You give the former curriculum you’ve been working with to Him and He gives you the new curriculum! You give your former plans and purposes and desires and ambitions and aspirations to Him and ask for what He now has for you. As long as this teaching is missing, people will come to the Lord indeed while still working with the former curriculum! This is not supposed to be! This method will never produce people who love the Lord. So, the first thing is hand over that soul that houses your self, self self- ambitions, tomorrow, desires etc. to him and ask that He gives you the new.
- Daily Seek Him and His Will: Another area the church has failed is teaching that the ‘Will of God’ only comes in in marriage. Oh, the Devil has done this! Has a little girl that has come to know that Lord, you can seek His Will. What would You have me be? How would You have me live? Who are the friends You have chosen for me? What unit in church would you have me function? What course would you have me study? As a married woman? Oh Lord, how would You have me relate with my husband? What school would You have our children go? What hospital would You have us register this pregnancy at? Would you want us to talk to that person about our infertility issues? Talk to the Lord about everything!!! Your daily devotion should never be a matter of reading some ‘Our Daily Meat’; ‘Meat from Above’; ‘Tough Meat’ etc. Sisters, have a good time with the Lord every day!!!
- Stop/Reduce your investment on Earth. Oh yes! All the movies, all the unnecessary books, all the involvements here and there that have no place for God here on earth, ditch them completely! They do your spirit no good, so let them fly away, sis!
- Start Loving the Lord: This is a full course on its own but the summary is that we do not love the Lord enough!!! No matter the love you and I have for the Lord right now, it is not enough! Every day, let us fuel up on love. How would you want to be loved by your man? Do much more to the Lord!
- Increase your spirit’s feeding! What you do not feed will die. Your spirit is dying because you are not feeding it. What represents you in the bank of Heaven where the investments occur is your spirit. For your spirit to sit and transact business with Heaven, it must have strength!!!! Sisters, feed this spirit! Sit with your Bible daily and have a very good time. Sit alone with the Lord and just love up on Him! Go on a walk with Jesus. Deny yourself of the pleasures and the ‘revenges’ you’ve planned. Forget and learn to ‘take some nonsense’. These are the fertilizers your spirit needs to grow, sis. The money you’ve budgeted to go get some Shawarma, divert them to get some very good ‘BIBLICAL’ books by sound teachers. Let your spirit flourish sis! Let it fly!
I can go on and on but let me pause here.
Dear sister, if you have made this decision to start a deep relationship with God. No no, it is not hard. Just wake up every morning before everyone else and spend time with your Bible and talking to ‘the air’. Then, at night when everyone has slept, repeat it.
Do it consistently for four weeks, sis and you will see how your spiritual skin will be flourishing! It is not difficult, for real.
So, if you have made this decision, we can now talk about supernatural enlargement briefly before praying!
MY YEAR OF SUPERNATURAL ENLARGEMENT
Psalm 80:8-11 is our text for this year. And it says:
You brought us from Egypt like a grapevine; you drove away the pagan nations and transplanted us into your land.
You cleared the ground for us, and we took root and filled the land.
Our shade covered the mountains; our branches covered the mighty cedars.
We spread our branches west to the Mediterranean Sea; our shoots spread east to the Euphrates River.
Ayaaaa!!! Amen! Hallelujah!
Did you see that, sisters?
It was simply a little vine that was in Egypt. It was small, yielding its fruits and looking beautiful. But God decided that Egypt was not its final place! As far as God was concerned, the vine had not yet arrived at its destination. And if it had not arrived, it cannot greatly increase. It cannot greatly flourish. The Lord wouldn’t waste His resources on such a vine. If you are living in a rented apartment, there is little you can do to really really be comfortable in that place, right? Exactly! The money you would have spent to fix a whole lot of things in that house, you’d rather save it up and buy an apartment for yourself, right? That’s it!
So, the Lord had to uproot the vine from Egypt. But let’s look at the text again to see step by step what the Lord did for the vine. Let’s go!
The Lord:
- Brought us, the vine from Egypt
- Came to His set destination for us and met some Pagans there, occupying the land meant for us!
- Drove away the pagan nations from our land
- Transplanted us into our own land
- Cleared the ground for us
That was the part the Lord played. He brought us out, fought the enemies occupying our land, transplanted us and cleared everywhere for us!
Then, what happened to the vine?
- It took root
- It filled the land
- It grew so great that the shadow covered the mountains!
- It grew so deep that the branches reached to the deepest parts of the water.
Hallelujah!!!!
So, the vine actually became so great, tall, deep, wide, powerful!
The same small vine that was looked down upon in Egypt! The vine that amounted to nothing in Egypt after so many years! God came into the situation and everything turned around!!!! Our Father looked favorably at the vine and there was a supernatural enlargement!
Oh, may the Lord look upon you and me favorably this day in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
Let’s look at Psalms 44:1-3 (NLT)
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us [what] work You did in their days, in the days of old.
You drove out the nations with Your hand and it was Your power that gave [Israel] a home by rooting out the [heathen] peoples, but [Israel] You spread out.
For they got not the land [of Canaan] in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance [did it], because You were favorable toward and did delight in them.
So, this passage was only trying to retell the tale that we read of in Psalms 80:8-11. It tells of how the Lord drove out those people possessing the land meant for the people of God. It tells of how the Lord gave a home, a land, an estate to the children of Israel and how they spread out and became so huge and great.
Then, it gave us the secret to this same story that we read off in our text for the year. It says in verse 3 that Israel didn’t get the precious lands by their own sword, or by their own arms. It says God’s right hand, right arm and the light of His countenance did it for them!
Honestly speaking, this is the position where I want to be. This is the condition under which I would love to be operating all the days of my life. A position where the Lord delights in me. A position where I wouldn’t have to do a thing because since the Lord delights in me and I have found favor in His sight, He does all the uprooting, clearing, weeding, planting, watering and transplanting for me.
All I simply need to ensure is that He is delighted in me and that I am constantly being looked upon by Him favorably. If I can ensure that, I can be rest assured that I will be supernaturally enlarged.
OVER TO YOU:
What is your decision, dear sis?
Are you still comfortable in Egypt or are you looking forward to a transition to Canaanland?
Are you okay with your size or do you look forward to a supernatural enlargement?
Okay, can the Lord find you trustworthy?
Would your spiritual life not die as soon as you get supernaturally enlarged?
When the great testimony arrives, would you still love the Lord, trust Him and fear Him?
Comb through your heart and find out if you truly love the Lord or if you are only on this path for the things you will get from Him.
ROUNDING OFF
As we have seen, the Lord is ready to bless us mightily but I must tell you that it doesn’t just come automatically. God is set to make this year a memorable one for everyone of us in The BUD Family but it will majorly rub more immensely on those who have decided to go the way of ‘His trust’.
The Lord is ready to have you take root and fill the whole land. He is ready to make you become huge and great, very influential, with so much glory but He seeks something from you first- Your enduring love and fear for Him!
The Lord is ready to fight for you so you will live in peace. He is ready to uproot those who are taking your legitimate land. He is ready to defend you by His right hand and arm but He’s desperately seeking for your heart to be aligned with His!
If this year must be as He has said concerning us in the family, we must individually, do what it takes to be able to make the withdrawal. I must do my part and you must do your part.
Are you ready?
PRAYER TIME
WORSHIP
Let us take some quality time to worship the Lord for His Word that we have just gone through. Worship the Lord for who He is. Give Him all the glory for How great He is. Only He could have turned a small grapevine into something so high, great and so deep.
Give Him glory because all things in Heaven and on earth are His and to Him be power to make anyone prosper. Adore Him for His goodness and mercies over your life.
Thank God for His Word that He has expounded to us. Give God the glory for the opportunity to wait on Him in prayers. Adore Him because He is set to do in your life things that are beyond the ordinary.
SPIRITUAL SANITATION
Begin to sanitize your life right now. Rid your life of every sins and iniquities with the Blood of Jesus. The Lord does not hear the prayers coming from the mouth of a sinner, but if such confesses and forsakes the sins, the Lord will have mercy, hear and forgive.
ATMOSPHERIC SANITATION
Now, take charge of your environment. Begin to cover where you are now with the Blood of Jesus. Cover yourself with the fire of the Holy Ghost.
LET US PRAY
Oh Lord my God, deliver my heart from wickedness, selfishness, dirtiness and all filthiness in Jesus Name.
Father, I want to love you. I want to fear you. I want to trust you. Not for what I will get from You but for who You really are. Daddy, please teach me to really love you.
Oh Lord, save me from myself! Oh Lord, save me from myself in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
Father deliver me from spiritual unseriousness. Father, deliver me from prayerlessness. Father, deliver me from things that have kept me in Egypt for this long. Father, deliver me from self and fleshly desires. Father, deliver me from the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. They have defeated me for so long and kept me small and poor. Lord forgive and deliver me, I plead.
In Jesus Name we have prayed. Amen.
NOW PRAY WITH MORE FERVENCY:
Oh my Father, henceforth, let my life be a testimony of Your endless possibilities and greatness in the Name of Jesus.
I reject every spirit of smallness (7x); my horizon is expanded from today in Jesus’ name.(7x)
Lord, as I grow, keep me humble and always aligned to Your will.
I decree supernatural enlargement in my ………. from this day forward in the Name of Jesus Christ.
Every enemy of progress assigned against my supernatural enlargement, be judged by the Host of Heaven and by the mercies of the Lord now in Jesus’ name.
I come out of Egypt now and step into my Canaanland in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!
I come out of debts now and step into abundance in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!
I come out of droughts and famine now and step in surplus in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
I come out of bondages now and step into freedom in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
I come out of loneliness now and step into my marital bliss in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
I come out of barrenness now and step into abundant fruitfulness in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
Touch your body from your head to your toes, commanding ‘Fire!’. After that, now, cry: Everything in me that is rejecting supernatural abundance, catch fire and die in the Mighty Name of Jesus!
This year, it shall be to me as the Lord has said! I shall be enlarged on all sides by the favor and the mercies of the Lord in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.
Starting from today, favors start to knock on my door. From this day forward, great doors begin to open unto me by the Power in the Blood of Jesus.
In Jesus name, I cannot be limited! No curse can place a lid over my lifting! Today, I resist & remove every evil lid in Jesus name!
Father, today, I receive all that you have shown me! I receive what I have believed for! I received what has been prophesied into my life! As I see it, O Lord, let me have it in Jesus name!”
Today, I take authority over any power or person occupying my place of inheritance! By the violence of faith, I take my place & portion in destiny in the Mighty Name of Jesus.
O Lord give me speed! Let your hand accelerate my journey! I won’t be late! I won’t miss my destiny appointments! I will achieve with speed in Jesus name!
Today, I rebuke every cycle of rising & falling, gaining & losing, breakthrough & breakdown in Jesus name!
My Father, whoever I need to connect to in order to enlarge my coast, please connect me! I refuse to be without help! I call forth my helpers & destiny opportunities in Jesus name!
Lord, I receive the capacity to handle more! I receive the grace to do more! Let every ability in me wake up! My next level begins today in Jesus name!
I prophesy over my life that I am gaining new grounds, achieving new milestones, I receiving new territories, & going beyond my equals! Today I enter a new phase of life in Jesus name!
Lord, I vow to you, that I will always put you first! I will put your kingdom first! I will put your church first! As you enlarge me, I will use every gift & grace I have to build your kingdom as You would have me in Jesus name!
I decree and declare that henceforth, every ground I step on shall experience divine enlargement.
Every chain of generational limitations, I break you by the power in the name of Jesus.
Father, position me in the right place at the right time for my enlargement.
Continue to pray as the Lord leads you.
PRAYER REQUEST SPOTLIGHTS
Could we please join hands together to raise our voices to the Lord on behalf of these sisters. Please pray as you would pray for yourself:
- I will be starting my final exams on Monday, and this session is just like a set up for us. I want the BUD family to join me in prayers, that despite it all, it will be the best of my exams on the Campus. The Lord should direct my reading to the right places I need to study, I will not study amiss, but that which will actually be set God should direct me to. I want a perfect GP of 5.0 through it all.
- I ask for grace to continue to walk in spiritual fervency. I also plead that God settles me maritally, I don’t want it to be part of my requests again by next Juicy July. No single man has asked me out in years. Except the one they tried to matchmake me with. I have taken a promotion exam twice at my workplace and didn’t qualify, I pray that the next time I take the exam I will be promoted in Jesus name. God please provide my own accommodation for me. I am tired of squatting with people at this age. I need the Lord to provide for me supernaturally.
- The prayer requests I wrote down this year were for spiritual growth and renewal but I’m finding it very difficult to even participate in the prayer program this year. Lord Jesus, please help me as I am unable to help myself, have mercy upon me and restore me to yourself, please set my heart on fire for you, help me to wake up spiritually, please deliver me from this ease that has deceived me in Jesus name Amen.
- One of my elder sister is in serious need of an apartment I want God to provide a good house for her that he’ll set his name upon that she’ll find marital favor in that house and move from that house to her husband house, Secondly i advised a friend of mine last year to buy a land with a particular money he got from a work he did for someone, that land he bought at ogun state was now resold by the greedy owners to a Chinese company which they’re currently building, they have been fighting hard to get the land back but it seem hard as the owners have two different documents and are also very diabolical,I want God to help him and everyone involved in this case to find favor in it, and their life, money and efforts will not be lost in this case, thirdly av been coughing since November last year av used different drugs and injections, done x-ray and ECG everything came out fine, and av even been admitted in the hospital bcos of this same cough, yet up till now am still coughing hard and have resulted to severe chest pain, I want God to heal me completely and permanently.
- I want the daughters of God to join me in prayer. I want the Lord to settle me maritally. I want my proposal to come and marriage process to begin this year. My husband shall come through the door and not through the window, and the Lord shall order and direct my steps, confirm His will and let every confusion in my heart dissipate. Secondly, I started volunteering with an international scholarship organization early this year. I want the Lord to create an opportunity for me and establish me, and make me a permanent staff in this organization, to the glory of the Lord.
- I want to gain admission this year with no further delay.
- I’m praying to God for a prayer or bible journal, where I can jot down my daily encounters with God, as I go on this christian journey.
- I have being trusting God for the provision of laptop. I want the children of God to help me intensify in prayer for the provision of best laptop because I don’t have the funds to acquire the desired laptop. That God should send help to me.
NOW TO OUR PRAYER JOURNALS
Let us raise our prayer list to the Lord and declare them all answered by fire!!! ‘I declare that these requests become favorable, glorious answers from the Lord, according to His Will, more than I can ask or think in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
WORSHIP
Let’s take this song with so much faith that we have stepped into our Supernatural Enlargement. Sing it the way you would sing on the day when you stand before God’s people to cry as you share the testimony of His faithfulness. Amen.
I Remember – by Elijah Oyelade
As I look around
I realize it’s a new world
I’m not the man I use to be
I am not where I use to be
It’s amazing how you’ve
Changed my life completely
And now Lord I testify
You’ve done so much for me
[Chorus]
I Remember the place
Where you brought me from
Lord I thank you
For where I am today
I see you doing
A new work in my life
And I thank you
For the future I see
And I thank you
For the future I see
Verse 2]
I remember Lord
I cannot forget
The place where you
Brought me from
And all the things
You brought me through
It’s amazing
How you’ve changed
My life completely
And now Lord I testify
You’ve done so much for me
[Verse 3]
As I Look ahead
I can see a brighter day
The testimony of yesterday
Gives me faith for a brighter day
It’s a wonder
How you turned my life around
Now I testify,
You have done so much for me
[Repeat Chorus]
I Remember the place
Where you brought me from
Lord I thank you
For where I am today
I see you doing
A new work in my life
And I thank you
For the future I see
And I thank you
For the future I see
