March 2019  Edition

Dear Beloved,

We are excited to be in touch with you as the month draws to a close. We hope you are doing very well. 

Our hearts go out to all those who have been affected by the collapsed buildings in Lagos. We bless God for all the help so far. We join in praying for healing and accomodation for all who lost their homes.

The Lenten season is here, and many are praying and fasting. It is such a great time to strengthen oneself in the Lord. We believe that prayer is the key to all we do in Lapis Lazuli Ministries. In pressing in, there is the sense that the Holy Spirit wants to take us to the next level in our prayer life by teaching us a thing or two. This is ..."In His Presence"
We also have the couple that were transformed by attending our Kingdom conference, who have gone on to transform other lives. Their testimony is featured.

Arrangements are going on in preparation for the Kingdom Conferences. There are updates in this newsletter. Please invite your friends and well wishes, and pray them in. Registration will begin in the first week of May.

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Do Our Prayers Get Results?


Prayer is our means of interacting with God, our loving heavenly Father. The heart and purpose of prayer is to seek our Father's Heart, to behold His Face and to enjoy sweet communion with Him. Prayer also involves asking for things, but if we don't get our hearts right with the Lord we can get too focused on that. Our prayers should involve thanksgiving and worship of who the Lord is. It should involve acknowledgement and praise for all the Lord has done. Even more than this, prayer should be our opportune time to listen to what God wants to tell us, affirm in us or ask us to do. The Lord says " My sheep hear my voice" (John 10:1).

When you go through Psalm 139 and see how well and intimately, Papa knows us, the least we can do is to begin to get to know Him intimately too. We need to endeavour to get to know Him better each day. We should be able to look back over 6 months and assess how much better we know Him. When we speak of knowing the Lord, we also mean experiencing Him, so we get to understand His ways and acts.



James 5:16 tells us that the effectual prayers of the righteous "availath much". The Good News Bible puts it this way, "the prayer of a good person has a powerful effect. This implies these prayers are powerful. It makes us wonder if God has selective hearing. It makes us wonder which type of prayers the Lord loves to answer.

From the Bible, we read that God hears ALL our prayers. Isaiah 59:1 reminds us that "His ears are not dull with deafness that it can not hear. Psalm 139:4 tells us that there isn't a word on our tongue, still unuttered, that Father God does not already know. He understands our heart's thoughts, which is the store from which the mouth speaks. John 5:14-15 encourages us to pray according to God's Will. This helps us understand that in one sense, God answers all our prayers, but we may not always receive what we ask or receive in the way we desire. God responses are "Yes", "No" or "Maybe".



My ability to understand answers I receive from God in prayer is highly dependent on my relationship with and trust in Him. If I know how much Father God loves and accepts me, I am able to accept whatever answer I get and feel peaceful. If He says "wait" I would do this happily. If I have experienced His love, I know that Father God is all-knowing so will enable everything to work out for my good. I would rather trust and align with His will if it's a "No", than insist on mine. Therefore spending time in God's Presence, helps me align more fully with His Heart and thus pray effectual prayers. While in His Presence, I can always ask Him exactly how to pray concerning a matter.

Righteousness is a position given to us by Jesus Christ when we accept Him as our Saviour(Romans 3:21-24). We must believe that we have been made righteous in God's sight before we can walk in it. We must believe that just as we had all sinned, we are now justified and made righteous, through the redemption provided by Jesus Christ. Understanding and walking in this "positioning ", also referred to as "good" in some translations, causes faith to rise up in us, thus enabling our prayers to be answered. In other words, these prayers produce powerful results because it comes from a heart that is perfectly aligned with God's heart and will.



Sometimes I wonder if "we" are on the same page as God regarding powerful prayer! Our idea of powerful prayer seems to involve increasing the volume of our voices to add a bit of drama, as opposed to God's idea of powerful prayer which is seeing our prayers answered. No well brought up child would be seen shouting at their parents, especially when you are asking for a favour. It therefore seems really odd when we are shouting at God, Our loving Father during our time of prayer.

As we meditate on Jesus's journey to the Cross, and all He accomplished for us during this Lenten season, let us assess our prayer lives again. Father God really wants us to come and interact with Him in the place of prayer. (John 16:23-24; John 15:16) He really does want us to get great results (answers) when we pray. If we spend time with Him, He can sort out any wrong motives that would hinder our prayers in any way. If we are able to get our prayer lives to the next level, we will be setting ourselves up this year for effectual prayers that get results.


Mina x

Announcement

Breaking News: 
We are having Conferences in 3 Cities this year.

It was received in the place of prayer that the 2019  Conferences will hold in three cities. Kaduna has been identified as the third city for a Prophetic Conference on Thursday  22 nd  & Friday  23 rd August. Venue will be communicated in our subsequent newsletter.

The two cities for Kingdom Invasion Conferences are Abuja & Lagos. The conferences will hold on Monday 26 th & Tuesday 27 th August at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.  It will continue on Friday, 30 th August and Saturday, 31 st August, 2019 at the Landmark Event Centre, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos.


Tomi and Tobi Arayomi will be at the 2019 Conferences in Kaduna, Abuja and Lagos.

Tomi and Tobi Arayomi are mighty prophetic ministers with a passion to expand the Kingdom here on earth. Tomi has visited Nigeria a couple of times in the past year but Tobi has not. It would be amazing to hear what the Lord has put on both their hearts for our nation for a time such as this.
 
Please, watch Tomi's 2019 prophecy for Nigeria.

Nigeria 2019 Prophecy | Tomi Arayomi
Nigeria 2019 Prophecy | Tomi Arayomi

Please put the dates in your diary and share the information with your family, friends and contacts to enable them also attend. It will be a refreshing and inspiring time together.

Testimonies...lives transformed...
In this edition, we have an amazing testimony from Mr. Olumide and Mrs. Maya David who started a discipleship centre after the 2018 Kingdom Empowerment Conference.

"I would like to share my testimony after receiving impartation during the Kingdom empowerment conference.

After the conference, my wife and I look for areas with cluster of people and evangelise in those areas. We try to set up a discipleship centre where we can share the Word of God and build people up in the faith. We visited a yard where mechanics, car painters, and artisans generally work. We began ministering to them weekly and eventually got them to begin morning prayers amongst themselves while we come once a week to share the Word.

We noticed that one of them was absent week after week, we asked about him and we were told that he had been sick. On this day my wife got a word of knowledge of a headache. She asked if anyone had a headache there but nobody did. We were however told that the person we had asked about who had been absent had a form of tumor in his heading. They tried to explain that his head was swollen and soft and he was in a lot of pain, and there were plans for him to be taken back to the village the next day because the hospital had said there was nothing they could do anymore.

We called him immediately and prayed for him over the phone, and to our greatest surprise, Alex called the next day and said he had been healed. He said he was no longer in pain and although he would have come around, he was just waiting for the sores on his head to dry up. We saw him in about two weeks and the swellings on his head except one had gone down, there were just scars there. We saw him again the next week and the last swelling had also gone down.

One day I saw him carrying something on his head and I exclaimed and told him not to carry things on his head, he said I didn't understand, that his head was now stronger!

Thank you."



May the Lord continue to uphold and preserve us all.

God's blessings,



Femi and Mina Bajomo



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1. Thanking God for the start of the elections, for INEC  and for Father God's ability to bring the elections to a conclusive end.

2. Praying for safety, peace and unity in our nation.

3.  Praying for love to flow through the Body of Christ.

4. Praying  for the mighty success of the Kingdom Conference to be held in both Abuja and Lagos in August 2019.

5. Praying for the safe release of Leah, and all other girls held in captivity.


Calling Intercessors

 
We would like to ask Intercessors who have attended our kingdom conferences and would like to meet in your states to pray for the Nation and for Lapis, to please do so.

Please send contact details of your group to us - info@lapislazuliministries.org OR 07034371401.
 
Bible Passage
John 16:23-24

23. "And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 

24. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

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