Manifestations

Date: 01 November 2008
Speaker: Pastor Kong Hee
Venue: City Harvest Church

As a man thinks, so is he. What you have heard forms the foundation for faith.

Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

Biblical manifestation in its simplest form: Logos (the written Word) becoming Rhemas (the living Word for you).

John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Manifestation in its highest form: The Word becomes flesh.

It is immoral to put a creature in an environment contrary to its basic nature.

If God is not successful in the first place, He cannot give you success.

Isaiah 6:1
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.

It is an atrocity for Christians to live in lack and insufficiency.

Luke 1:26-38
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”
Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible.”
Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

The unusual response brought about the manifestation. For every biblical manifestation, there will always first be an unusual response.

Breakthrough = A sudden burst of power that takes you past the previous point of resistance.