THE BLESSING OF APOSTOLIC COVERING (YOU NEED AN INTERPRETER OF LIFE

(YOU NEED AN INTERPRETER OF LIFE)

JOB 33:13 – 20, 23 – 26

Ø  Life is a code and mystery

Ø  Until your life is decoded and interpreted there are certain things you cannot handle for God

Ø  Background to Job 33:23 (the story of Elihu, Job and his friends)

Ø  If there is a messenger, or an interpreter of life, then every situation of life that made us pray some wrong dangerous and soulish prayers will be decoded.

Ø  The butler and the baker (Gen 40:1 – 23{8})

Ø  With an interpreter, your life will be meaningful.

Ø  The courage to comfort people with their sin is missing in the church today because “interpreters of life are scares”

WHO IS AN INTERPRETER?

Ø  The Hebrew word (Pathar)  “to open up” is used for  “interpret”

Ø  And the oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary of Current English defines interpret as “make clear or bring out the meaning”.

Ø  An interpreter of life is someone who open up your life, makes clear your visions and brings out the meaning of your life.

Ø  Ministry and life become very easy and gain speed if we have people over our lives who can interpret.

Ø  There is a restoration going on in the kingdom at this end time.

Ø  It is the restoration of the divine order of discipleship and mentoring according to Gods order in Malachi 4:5,6

Ø  Every one of us needs an interpreter over our lives.

Ø  In Act 8:30 – 31, an error was about to enter into Africa, but because there was an interpreter of life, it was avoided and averted.

Ø  The Ethiopian Eunuch was from Jerusalem coming to Africa…………

Ø  An interpreter of life is raised by God over men to unlock their destiny Ezekiel. 37:1

Ø  God’s design for you in life and ministry is to keep growing under his mandate in your life, but you need an interpreter of life who will see you through in the process.

Ø  When people have interpretation to what is going on in their lives, they stand firm.

Ø  That is why God jacked Jeremiah up one day and told him to go to His house to hear His word. Jer. 18:1

Ø  Life, family, business and careers are healthier when under check and balance.

Ø  If you fail in life and home, ministry will be hard.

Ø  Remember Uzziah in 2^nd Chro.26:3 – 5

Ø  You have no right in the ministry if you do not enter right.

Ø  Someone must point you out; someone must father or mother your anointing.

Ø  Even Jesus needed someone (John the Baptizer) to point Him out.

Ø  Who is pointing you out?

Ø  Someone’s hand must be on your shoulder.

Ø  Nobody gets to the next level except he is faithful, not except he is busy.

Ø  Obedience will do for you what sacrifice will not do.

Ø  We pray too much, we obey too little.

Ø  If you want to be great, then walk in obedience.

Ø  God will teach your obedience by setting people over your life who instruct you.

Ø  That is why you have pastors.

Ø  Greatness is the product of grace and grace comes through submission.

Ø  The greatest way to train for leadership is through submission and service.

Ø  If you cannot submit to the leadership over your life, you cannot submit to God

Ø  Success is measured by obedience and not by possession.

Ø  An interpreter of life is an interpreter of dreams that moves a man to his future and destiny.

Ø  This was the secret of Joseph. Gen.37:4 – 11 (vs. 10, 11 emphasis)

Ø  His father observed the dreams

Ø  God sets a pastor over you as a teacher, coach, trainer, mentor, father and motivator.

Ø  He is not comfortable with where you are but where you are going.

Ø  Nobody can receive fire for the next level except there is an interpreter over his life.

-         Act. 9:6 - Saul to go to Ananias… (he will tell you what to do)

-         Act. 10:5 – 6 Cornelius to send for Peter to tell him what to do.

Ø  The limitation you suffer is not because of the absence of anointing but because of the absence of an interpreter over your life.

Ø  The prodigal son learnt this lesson when he left the house. Luke 15:11 – 22.

Ø  So he come back to his father and said “make me”, “open me up”

Ø  The proof of fatherhood is SCARS, but the proof of son ship is STARS (Prov.1:8,9; 10:1 “A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heariness of his mother”)

Ø  As arrows are in the hands of the mighty so are sons. Psalm 127:4.

Ø  No man goes further without a father.

Ø  As the mighty man shoots the arrow to something so the father aims and shoots the sons further.

Ø  A prodigal is a parasite - a person that is there just only to take from a relationship not to give.

Ø  A protégé is there to see the father’s dreams and work fulfilled. He is there to interpret dreams.

Ø  A protégé want to become what a father/mentor is.

Ø  A prodigal wants what a father/mentor has.

Ø  In interpreting the father’s dreams his own dreams are fulfilled like Joseph to pharaoh.

Ø  An interpreter of life gives you exposure and a platform.

Ø  As a father your here to be my improvement.

HOW TO GET THE BEST FROM THE INTERPRETER OF YOUR LIFE?

1.      Pursuit –

-         A relationship is determined by the pursuit of the protégé.

-         Example of Elisha with Elijah.

-         “You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue” this is a principle.

2.      Respect –

-         Respect is magnetic,

-         Whatever you respect will come to you,

-         No man that abuse grace can enjoy grace.

-         A prodigal respect with his word, a protégé respect with his act.

-         2^nd Chron. 20:20 Believe his prophet…..

-         Respect opens door to access, appreciation and celebration.

-         Part of respect is to pray for your prophet and be loyal to him;

-         Real sons cover their father with their blanket of prayer like Shem and Japhet (Gen. 9:23)

-         Also like Naaman’s servants.

3.      Sow –

-         The grace you sow into multiply on you,

-         The grace that blesses you, you should water.

-         This is the secret of abundant increase. Mark 1:29-31; Luke 8:1 – 3 Gen. 14:18 - 20