The Catalyst Community

The Bible is already inspired, don't interpret it with new inspiration. The Bible will never mean today what it never meant when it was written.  The role of the Holy Spirit to the apostles was to help them put together and testify what Jesus had taught them. Our responsibility is to read and understand what the Apostles had taught. 

There's a right way to divide the Word of God, this means there's also a wrong way so we have to be studious when it comes to the study of God's word and this will take time and effort.  There are ways to approach studying the Bible, both the Old and New Testament and this involves reading each book with respect to their genres.

Every believer is highly combustible and capable of catching fire, all you need to do is to set yourself.  There are 3 important things to know about fire: 1. Fire is an emblem 2. This fire doesn't destroy, it sanctifies  3. There's a system to fire.  Fire produces results and ministry should be done with fire.  God will have you always on fire and it is your responsibility to not quench it. 

We continue to unpack all God has told us for the year and look at signs for our spiritual well-being.

.The Going train is the 2nd metaphor God used to explain the year to the community. As the individual gears work collectively towards the total working of a clock, the different aspects of a believer's life have to work collectively towards their effectiveness.

.As a community, we are guided by prophecies and this year, God said, is our year of the 5th gear. The 5th gear is a metaphor to describe the greatest range of speed with the least amount of work. A gear of limitless possibilities and flight.

.In our days, Babylon is any spiritual system that tries to suppress your faith. It's possible to be in Babylon and Babylon not be in you. How do you live as a believer in Babylon? In an environment of contradiction, how do you remember who you are?

.The Christian walk is characterized by: 1. Work of faith 2. Labour of love and 3. Patience of hope. Though in the moment may feel like torture, are actually working in us a good work.

.The Gospel must lead you to a place of Joy! That’s the reason it is called ‘Good News'. If you are not excited, it is either you’ve not heard it or you don’t understand it. There is an excitement that comes from knowing God and it surpasses any other joy that you can ever know.

Union with Christ is a phrase used to summarize several different relationships between believers and Christ, through which Christians receive every benefit of salvation. It’s a positional statement meaning, the moment you believe the gospel you are immersed IN CHRIST so all the things Jesus did were written on our account as though we did it also.

What happens to a man when he dies, where does he go? There have been brilliant minds in different fields and none of them, even with all the knowledge they have, can answer this most basic question. But the answer is simple, If Christ is raised from the dead the question of what happens after death is answered forever. God raising Jesus from the dead, he has given all men assurance that there is life after death.

Let opportune moments meet you prepared. That way we can sustain graces. When grace brings you somewhere, continue to pray and edify yourself so you don’t live a life of contradiction. Prepare so that when the spotlight hits you, it would not be your undoing but rather you would be ready for it. Build competence!! As you go into the new year,  Be better at bible study, and read books. If God is going to trust you with souls, let’s see you successful in other things.  See things through. 

God did not give Moses the Rod. The day God spoke to him, it stopped being ordinary. God wasn’t only giving Moses signs, he was teaching him control. The proof that God sent you to do something is that you can do it over and over again. A donkey spoke in the bible but cannot do it again. But you healing the sick, God wants you to learn how to do it repeatedly.

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Everything that has been, continues to be (that is naturally speaking). The sun will continue to rise east and set in the west, and the cycle of water would continue to start in the clouds, then to rain and ultimately end back in the clouds. The same thing happens with the new year. In the same way the day changed from yesterday into today, it will change from the 31st of December to the 1st of January.  Rain would continue to fall until Elijah halts it, and the water would continue to fill the landscape of the sea until Moses splits it. Water would continue to be liquid until Jesus renders it solid enough to walk on Nature would occur as it always has until believers do something about it. Thus, the new year would only be new when you intervene and do something new. The destiny of the man in Christ is not subject to the natural occurrences of the world. Unlike the rest of the world we are not bound by nature, the very foundation of our faith defies nature itself. Nature can not explain how a virgin would bare a son, nature can not explain how this same son would die, be buried for 3 full days and in a matter of moments would rise from the dead as if never died at all never to die again.

What did Solomon ask for? “understanding heart to judge thy people” Did he ask for wisdom? Is he the wisest man and what wisdom does he have to offer?

Firstly David was a man of noticeable devotion. He spoke and wrote and sang passionately about the things of God. David spoke of satisfaction and total satisfaction in God. Secondly, When you get all the facts, you realize that Goliath was at the Disadvantage. Goliath didn't even come close. David was Competent. Many things to learn from David.

3 objectives for this teaching: To help you see that when God pays some-people extraordinary attention, he does that with others in mind. To help you see every privilege as an opportunity to bless and not to oppress Emphasize contentment

You learn a lot of things from the word of God but a lot of people have not learnt to give knowledge relevance in their daily life. How do you retain the consciousness of all you have learnt in the word of God till it becomes action? There is a huge gap in the growth of many believers where they learn so much and have so much information about the bible and greek words but they live a life that is in total opposition. The word of God can be studied. Even atheists study it.  But there has to be a difference between just hearing the words forknowledge'se sake and actually letting its words touch and change your heart.