Rising Above Your Roots To The Top

Isaiah 2:2, Matthew 5:14–16, 2 Chronicles 33:1–7, 9; 34:1-2

At your age, you do not think you should think about your life, settle down, and think of something that will move your destiny forward. You go to places where people just waste their lives and time. The time you are wasting to do all those useless things, the time you are wasting sitting down to make your hair, if you use it to run a bakery, sew, type, or do computing, or booksetting, will move your life forward. “Nooo, I am a beautiful woman.”.

The Bible says ‘beauty is vain’. Total vanity. Because the Bible says it will fade away. That is the truth. People now start doing all kinds of things to improve their beauty instead of improving their destiny. Vanity

The top is that level where you become a significant chapter in the history book of your destiny. People like John Wesley and Thomas Edison have chapters in their books. It is where you mature to a level where God places you in a strategic position to help your generation. The top is the road to securing a capital place in the master plan of God for your life. This is what we mean by the top.

I just want to read a little about Manasseh to you before we stop here and continue the next PMCH.

If you do not know Manasseh, let me introduce you to Manasseh. I do not think there is anybody in this congregation whose father or grandfather can beat Manasseh in evil.

2 Chronicles 33:1–7 (KJV) says: “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:”

2 Chronicles 33:9 (KJV): “So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.”

This was Manasseh. He now had a son called Josiah. Having been born with this kind of root, you would have concluded that Josiah was finished. But what happened? In chapter 34, we see Josiah’s life.

2 Chronicles 34:1-2 (KJV): “Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.”

That was the son of Manasseh. He did not allow his roots to limit his destiny. Therefore, whoever you are, you can rise above the circumstances of your past. You may have been born out of fornication, incest, adultery, poverty, or failure, but you can rise above that level by the power in the blood of Jesus. No matter the physical, spiritual, and social stigma, you can rise higher than your source. Raise your right hand above your head and shout this loud and clear. This is a statement I want you to make seven times, then you add ‘in the name of Jesus.’ Make sure nobody’s voice is louder than yours. Shout it the way I will shout mine:

I rise above my roots, by the power in the blood of Jesus.

We will continue from here next week.

PRAYER POINTS.

(Pray this seven hot times) Every parasite in my foundation, be wasted, in the name of Jesus.

(Lay your hand on your head.) Holy Ghost Fire, sanitise my life, in the name of Jesus.

Ancient battle of my father’s house, die in the name of Jesus.

Powers that stopped my parents, you cannot stop me, die in the name of Jesus.

Satanic embargo, assigned against my finances, die in the name of Jesus.

Power of captivity and badluck, I am not your candidate, die in the name of Jesus.

Miracle that surpasses explanation, I am available; manifest in my life, in the name of Jesus.