Fountain of Living Waters Ministries (FOLWAMS)

DIVERSE WAYS BY WHICH GOD SPEAKS  (Part 2) Hebrews 1:1-2 Encounters, dreams and visions are good and God uses them but they are not His best way of communicating with us.  They are not 100% safe and must be checked with the Word of God. That we have visions, encounters and dreams from God does not mean we know God or know Him by His word, 1Samuel 3:7.  One is chaff the other one is wheat, Jeremiah 23:28. Job said I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee, Job 42:5. Talking of two different ways by which he has come to know God.  Samuel had an encounter with God through vision but He didn't know God by His word, yet he was already an established prophet and God did not allow his words to fall to the ground, 1Samuel 3:19.  But God appeared to Him once again and his word was revealed to him, I Samuel 3: 21. Until then He did not know God by his word, but only through visions and encounters, 1Samuel 3:3-7.  Apostle Peter was rel...

DIVERSE WAYS BY WHICH GOD SPEAKS HEBREWS 1:1-2 The safest and the best way to know God is through His Word. God loves man so much and He wants to fellowship with us and reveal Himself to us. He does this through different means.  God reveals Himself to different generations in different ways, even though it is the same God.  To Abraham, God revealed Himself as GOD ALMIGHTY(ELSHADDAI), Genesis 17:1. In the time of Moses, He revealed Himself as JEHOVAH(THE LORD), Exodus 6:3  Down the line, in the Old testament God spoke to the fathers through the Prophets but in the new testament He speaks to us through His Son, Jesus, Hebrews 1:2. Hebrews 1:1 revealed to us the fact that God speaks in divers manners.  Having establishes the fact that God's valid way of speaking to us in these last days is through Jesus(our born again spirit), it is important to know that there are conditions that determines how God speaks to us at different times.  There are three conditions that...

THE LORD OUR SHERPHERD Psalm 23 Is the LORD your sherpherd?  To answer this question correctly we need to define who a Sherpherd is.  Who is a Sherpherd?   A Sherpherd is one that has charge of a flock.  The primary responsibility of a sherpherd is the safety and welfare of the flock.  The shepherd  grazes his animals, herding them to areas of good forage, and keeping a watchful eye out for poisonous plants.  The Bible calls this making the sheep to lie down in green pastures and leading beside the still waters, Psalm 23::2.  A Sherpherd leads while the sheep follows.  In the same way, Jesus our Great Shepherd leads while we follow and everytime we follow, He leads us to green pastures and still waters.  If we have been following correctly that is the result we will always get in the end.  It may not look like that in the beginning.  Imagine the sheep walking long distances in search of green pastures and sometimes without...

THE UNCONSCIOUS SOWER  (PART TWO) MATTHEW 13:3b When a farmer goes out to sow, he doesn't finish sowing and go back expecting nothing in return, Psalm 126:6. He goes back expecting a harvest.  That is what makes him a sower. You become a sower when you carry seeds with the consciousness and expectation of an harvest.  If you are not expectant of an harvest you are an UNCONSCIOUS SOWER.  Begin to see everything you do as a seed and you will see yourself living more carefully like never before. You have become a conscious sower.  After God created a new earth following the destruction of the old by flood, the covenant He made with Noah was that as long as the Earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease, Genesis 8:22.  These are the law that governs the earth, the law of sowing and reaping, the law of seasons and the law of daytime and nighttime.   When you become a conscious ...

THE UNCONSCIOUS SOWER MATTHEW 13:3b What I want to teach us this morning is so powerful that if you live by it it will change your approach towards life and living.  One morning during quiet time the Holy Spirit expound a small portion of the scripture to me in Matthew 13:3b. He said, "Behold a sower went to sow".  Before I continue I want to counsel us to be a doer of the Word.  Many of us read and hear things but after reading and hearing we are moved and touched, we are even inspired by what was written but we don't go ahead to put to practice what we read or heard, so what we know or have read or heard don't profit us, Hebrews 4:2, 1Corinthians 10:11.  We are like that man beholding his natural face in a glass but after beholding himself and seeing what he looks like, goeth his way and straightaway forget what manner of man he was, James 1:24.  It is those that move beyond reading and knowing to doing that get blessed. The blessing is in doing not in reading...

THE POWER OF MEDITATION MARK 4:24(AMPC) This morning by the help of the Holy Spirit I will be sharing with is on the power of meditation.  What does it mean to meditate? To meditate means to focus one's mind over a period of time in silence or to think deeply about something. Many believers pray, many fast, many still read their bible but only very few meditate. This is because of all kinds of evil things that have been associated with meditation. Things like astral travel, christian science and the likes. You only bring out the power in a scripture through meditation. You squeeze out the juice contained in a scripture through meditation. Jeremiah said I found your word and I did eat it and it was a joy and a rejoicing unto my soul, Jeremiah 15:16. You will want to ask how one eat scriptures? It is through meditation. When a child eats food and assimilate the nutrients into his body after digestion it shows on his body but a child that is eating without assimilating the n...

GO FOR KNOWLEDGE (PART 2) ISAIAH 33:6 You can copy a man but you won't have the confidence of that man. Allow God build confidence in you.  An authentic ministry has foundation upon which every result you see is built.  Many people desire the results, but very few desire the foundation.   They copy the result but because they have no foundation, one fierce storm and they are thrown off balance and they topple over.  Allow God give you a deep foundation, don't be in a hurry to get results.  Anytime you catch yourself running after things you have just misplaced your priorities.  Things are suppose to run after you not the other way round, Isaiah 60:4-7. Results are not to be sought or pursued, they are what follows us as we follow God faithfully, John 15:4-8. And these signs SHALL FOLLOW THEM that believe, Mark 16:17. Stop praying for signs and wonders and miracles to happen in your life and ministry, instead go for knowledge.  As you go for knowle...