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I Receive


We normally see and hear prophetic ministers shouting ‘Receive it’, and the members would be like ‘I receive it’, with actions of their hands as if they see the blessing trying to slip away from their eyes. Before you can think that perhaps I am criticising this behaviour, we have to come to the word of God and see what it says. The reason I write about this, there is one minister who is trying to oppose this also saying to his congregation that they do not receive but they do. We all know that there is nothing to do but receive.

Before again getting confused about my whereabouts concerning these argumentative ideas, let us see what our Lord Jesus said, “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them” (Mark 11:24). The Lord Jesus did not say believe and do and you will have them, rather He said believe that you receive them. The problem that I have with some ministers is that, they see something done in a certain church, they criticise and put their idea and enforce it without knowing exactly where it came from. So the idea of this opposing minister is that, this cause people to be passive.

In other words, Jesus was wrong when He said we must believe and receive. As long as we are pushing the ministry of Jesus, we will preach the word of God and not our own ideas. ‘I do’s’ are said when couples are making their vows in their wedding day, but in the Lord we receive. What you think people will do after telling them the truth it doesn’t matter, those who have the Spirit of the Lord, they will respond to it and those who don’t have they won’t, it is not your duty as a minister.

In the Greek writings, the word for receive is ‘lambano’, it is used four times in the gospels where Jesus was arrested. This word is not just to receive but it means to seize, meaning to receive actively not passively as this minister states. In the gospel of Luke and John they have the word sullambano which is in place of arrest, the prefix which is ‘sun’ for sullambano; it’s a primary preposition denoting union. I guess we are clear that receiving according to the bible is not passive but active.

The idea of 'I receive' and people act it out as if they are catching their blessing, it’s not wrong. It is their faith, however we know that after this they will not sit at home and wait for the blessing. You received the blessing but it is not in your house, it is outside. For the Jews to receive or should I say to arrest Jesus, they had to go where He was. You know where your blessing is, go there and receive it. When you arrive there, lambano it, receive it, seize it, arrest it, and get hold of it. This word lambano is used in place of passive receiving in rare cases in the bible, but in many cases in the bible, it is always active.

This Greek word lambano, receiving is present progressive tense, meaning that it is not for you to receive only once, but it’s for perpetual receiving. When a minister ministers God’s blessings over your life, don’t be shy to receive it. Just say it, ‘I receive it.’ This is in line with the word of God. Do not add your idea because you think people will act weird; it’s their problem, if you preach the truth and they act weird, then they don’t have the heart for Jesus. You cannot make them to have the heart Christ, Christ will work in them. Until they have the heart for Jesus, they will act weird.

Stay in health through grace and favour...

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