Moving from Ashes to Beauty

Prayers

1. Powers enforcing negative things in my life and family, expire in the name of Jesus.

2. I move into newness of life, glory and shinning by the power in the blood of Jesus.

It is my prayer that:

The most high God, the good and great everlasting Father will move you and yours from ashes to beauty in every area of your lives in the name of Jesus.

Text:

And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. (Romans 16:20 KJV)

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Romans 16:20 NLT)

What are ashes?

Ashes has been defined as:

· the grayish white to black powdery residue left when something is burned.

· the powdery residue left after the burning of a substance.

· the remains of something destroyed; ruins.

· the mineral component of an organic substance, as assessed from the residue left after burning.

What is beauty?

· Beauty means attractiveness, magnificence, loveliness, attraction, and splendor.

· Beauty refers to something or someone attractive, pleasing to behold.

· God is beautiful. Our God is Beautiful for situations which brings joy to the whole world.

“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” ~ Denis Waitley

What does ashes signify?

1. A sign of sorrow, loss, deprivation, and deep anguish. And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly. (2 Samuel 13:19).

In this year and beyond, sorrow will be far from you and yours in the name of Jesus.

Deprivation will not know your address in Jesus’ name.

Deep anguish will not visit you in the name of Jesus.

2. A sign of deep repentance: Job said in Job 42:6 I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

3. Purification of the unclean: In Numbers 19:17 the Bible says For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.

For our transformation to Beauty:

4. Jesus Christ has come to perform even what ashes could not do since we have redemption by the blood of Jesus.

12He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. 13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God! (Hebrews 9)

5. A sign of victory and overcoming when situations, problems, afflictions, and oppositions are reduced to ashes under your feet. In Malachi 4: The Bible says:

2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall. 3Then you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.

May all your besetting and unrelenting problems be reduced to ashes under your feet in the name of Jesus.

Moving from beauty to ashes though undesirable is very simple: apply fire.

Fire can reduce:

· a towering skyscraper to rubble in no time.

· an expensive car to scrap in minutes.

· an expensive airplane - an highflyer to rubble in minutes.

· It can ground an highflyer in moments.

However, turning ashes into something desirable is not that simple.

Moving from ashes to Beauty requires:

· Salvation (Acts 4:12, Romans 10:9-10)

· Consecration (Leviticus 20:7, 11:44)

· Water baptism (Romans 6:3-7)

· Holy Spirit baptism (1 Corinthians 14:1-33)

· Knowledge of the Word of God and His provision for you (Joshua 1:8, Jeremiah 29:11, 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 John 3:2)

· Soldier like obedience and attitude in prayers (2 Timothy 2:3-5)

Operations required to move from ashes to beauty

1. Remove ashes (destructive) enforcing powers: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant. (Jeremiah 1:10)

· Root out

· Pull down

· Destroy

· Cast down

anything, any power, any adversary, any evil force, any opposition enforcing ashes in your life or that wants to move you from beauty to ashes.

May any power, adversary, evil force, and any opposition enforcing ashes in your life or wants to move you from beauty to ashes give up and expire by fire in the name of Jesus.

May the planting (seed of ashes) of such powers in your life melt away by fire in the name of Jesus.

2. Build good things of beauty. This is done through knowledge and the application of God’s wisdom for direction and guidance. The Bible says in Proverbs 24 that:

3Through [skillful and godly] wisdom a house [a life, a home, a family] is built, And by understanding it is established [on a sound and good foundation], 4And by knowledge its rooms are filled With all precious and pleasant riches.

3. Plant seeds of righteousness that endures to eternal life. Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate]; Reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness. Break up your uncultivated ground, For it is time to seek and search diligently for the LORD [and to long for His blessing] Until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you. (Hosea 10:12)

Nature of movement from Ashes to Beauty

Movement is an active term. It is not passive. It involves:

· Determination

· Focus

· Aiming at a desired destination

· The use of energy, resources.

We are soldiers of the Lord (2 Timothy 2:3-5).

Therefore, move from ashes into beauty is therefore a command given by our captain, the Lord of hosts – our Lord Jesus Christ to His army.

We have to move militarily against hindrances, opposition, delays, satanic delays, and satanic denial.

Where the crown has been removed from your head recover your crown in the name of Jesus.

Where your wherewithal (ability, grace and resources needed for accomplishments) has been stolen from you or you have been deprived of it, receive a recovery now by the power in the blood of Jesus.

Prayer:

1. Father, let your power eliminate negative and problematic situations from my future and destiny in the name of Jesus.

Prayers

1. Give thanks

2. Born again?

3. I move from ashes to Beauty by the power in the blood of Jesus.

4. Satanic arrangements to turn my glory to ashes scatter in the name of Jesus.

5. Powers assigned to waste my life and destiny waste yourselves in the name of Jesus.

6. Satanic delay to my miracles and lifting expire by fire in the name of Jesus.

7. Satanic hindrance to my advancement, scatter in the name of Jesus.

8. Beauty, glory, supernatural progress come upon my life in the name of Jesus.

9. Powers assigned to ridicule me, bow to me and begin to ridicule yourselves in the name of Jesus.

10.My God appointed destiny begin to manifest by fire by the power in the blood of Jesus.

11.Let my adversary fall into the pit they have dug for me and let every net they have spread for me catch their own feet in Jesus’ name.

12.I receive healing and deliverance from every sickness and difficult situation in Jesus’ name.

13.Father lay your hand of healing and deliverance on our loved ones with special needs in Jesus’ name.

14.My life and family are shielded with the blood of Jesus against every attack from the kingdom of darkness in Jesus’ name.

15.I receive the anointing of ease in my endeavors in Jesus’ name.

16.Personal prayer points.

Give thanks.