8 BOCNEWS.com JANUARY 2018 Overcoming Hurt for Divine Acceleration In this new year I want to lay the foundation of Divine Acceleration. To accelerate means to gain new strength. It means you are already on a speed, but you pick up speed. You know when you are driving you can put your car on cruise control. Do you use that? In your cruise control, you are mov- ing, but constantly at the same speed. You are moving, but you are moving at the same speed. Which means the speed you were moving on before was not fast enough, but you continue in that same realm. And it can be counterproductive sometimes. Sometimes you need to accelerate. God takes you to a place where He wants to accelerate your results. You see, when you are on cruise control, if it’s not fast enough, you will still be late. You might say, “Oh, I’m on cruise control, but I need more speed,” so you accelerate. And even if you are not in cruise control, you cannot join the highway of life without accelerating. You know what I mean? If you are coming from the sideway to join the highway, there is no way you can join without acceleration. There is no way you can join the highway of life without acceleration. And so, we are going to look at things that can make us to not accelerate well or things that we need in our life to make us accelerate. One time I was driving my car, and inside it there was a pipe, and I did not know it was already cracked. I wanted to join the highway and I pressed the gas, and the cars were flying behind me. My car just slowed down. If I had been faster than my car I would have come out of my car and run. I was expecting a big bang behind me. But I managed it and took it to the mechanic. The mechanic said, “Come and see.” He opened the hood and showed me. “See, this is cracked. It is not intact. So even when you press on the gas, there is not enough pressure to push your car forward.” Could there be those among us that are working so hard but there is not enough pressure to push them to the desired speed? So, we will look at some of those things that can cause cracks, that can make us to not gain speed, even though everything seems good. As I drove my car, if I hadn’t tried to join the highway, I wouldn’t have known anything was wrong, because it could still gain speed gradually. When I needed it to pick up it would not pick up. One of the things that makes a man or a woman to not accel- erate is hurt. What did I say? Hurt. They are hurting. We are going to look at how you can overcome hurt. Psalm 147:1-3 (NKJV): 1Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful. 2 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; He gathers together the out- casts of Israel. 3 He heals the brokenhearted And binds up their wounds. God is going to heal all your wounds. He wants you to be free from hurt. Hurt can actually stop you from accelerating. Proverbs 18:14 (NKJV): The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness, But who can bear a broken spirit? You probably have heard people say, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” That’s not true. Words hurt. Can you witness to that? Words hurt. When people tell lies about you it hurts. When people misrepresent you, it hurts. When they call you names, it hurts. When they gang up against you and speak badly about you, it hurts. When they reject you, it hurts. But God will heal your broken heart in the name of Jesus. Listen to me; you cannot build anything on the foundation of hurt. That’s why we must know how to avoid building our lives on the foundation of hurt. Wherever there has been hurt, the Spirit of God will bring healing. Proverbs 12:18 (NKJV): There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health. The tongue of the wise promotes health. In other words, there are those who speak rashly, but the words of the wise bring healing. One of the most dif- ficult things that people have to deal with in being hurt is stay- ing hurt. You see, it’s so easy to be hurt and stay hurt. Hurt feelings will rob us of so many of God’s blessings. God wants you to prosper in every way of your life. He wants to empower you in many ways, but if you are living a life of hurt, and you are hurting so badly, it can rob you of all God’s blessings that He wants to bring into your life. Before you can move on in life— before you can accelerate—you must deal with hurt in your life. You might say you have never been hurt before, but you might also say that you have never lied either. Except for now. Hebrews 12:1 (NKJV) says: Therefore, since we are sur- rounded by so great of a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, Don’t build your life or anything on the foundation of hurt. Don’t build business on the foundation of hurt. “Because they hurt me I’m going to do what they do.” You may not find it funny when you start. Many people start ministry on the basis of hurt. I always know the spirit of whoever started the minis- try by the name they name their ministry. Have you noticed that? I’m telling you, walk around the whole world, that hurt will come out in the name that they name their ministry. If it is not based on hurt, you will know too. When we hear the name, “The Only Truth Pentecostal Church”, we already know where the pastor is coming from. You don’t need a prophet to tell you this brother is hurting. “God Will Revenge SCRIPTURE By Rev. Dr. Ade Ajala Ade Ajala 1. Patrick Lundy - By Faith 2. Marvibn Sapp - Close 3. Earnest Pugh - Survive 4. Troy Sneed - Taking It Back 5. The Walls Group - The Other Side 6. Angella Christie - Intimate Conversations 7. Travis Greene - Crossover 8. Tye Tribbett - The Bloody Win 9. Williams Brothers - Timeless 10 Isabel Davis - The Call Don’t build your life or anything on the foundation of hurt. Don’t build business on the foundation of hurt. Continued on Page 9