MESSAGE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES AND DYNAMICS!!!

(My Personal Experience)

– Pastor Bimbo Animashaun

My message preparation is 60% PRAYERS; 20% MEDITATION and 20% HOMILETICS.
Now in message preparation, MUCH PRAYERS are required because it is the Force of the Spirit that will project the thoughts of God and etch them on the canvass of people’s hearts.

It is error of the highest order to allocate a small chunk of time to prayers while preparing your sermons.
While other aspects of message preparation are necessary, I believe that constant, consistent and sustained prayers are indeed pivotal to navigate the mind of the Spirit.
Not only that, it prepares the minister to be in a good frame of mind that’s suitable and conducive for the free flow of revelation knowledge through the dissemination of God’s precious Word.

So, let’s say I have a preaching engagement, from the day I get to know about it, prayer commences – deep praying in tongues – soaking it in prayers and navigating the mind of the Spirit, and that process of prayer continues until the message is delivered.
In the course of the aggressive prayer preparation, I swing into meditation and ponder on the Word with my heart and mind open to the Holy Ghost.

As usual, the Spirit of God begins to speak gently to my heart, leading and guiding me as to His plan for and thoughts on the sermon and I begin to write them down in my notepad, sometimes this is in skeletal form.
Then the last stage is to systematically organize those thoughts with scriptures (with a lot of cross references) and write them out as my message outline, then my message is ready.
Now note that even at that, the prayer momentum is sustained at intervals (that’s the advantage of praying in tongues) until the message is finally delivered.

Now somebody may have access to my note and do “copy and paste” but the person does not have access to the burden of the Spirit in my heart which I have nursed and carried in the place of prayers for a protracted time, and that burden is an indispensable tool in sound message delivery.
That’s the way it works for me and it has been like that for years by God’s Grace.
Messages must be incubated in MUCH PRAYERS; it’s until then that they will penetrate into the core of the spirit of man.
The power of the Spirit is what makes your message “spirit”, and you will notice that Jesus paired THE SCRIPTURES and THE POWER OF GOD together – they work hand-in-hand.

He once told the Sadducees:
MATTHEW 22:29
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing THE SCRIPTURES, nor THE POWER OF GOD.
The same Jesus had a protracted time of prayers before He began to teach, and while He began to teach the Word, the power of God was present to heal.
LUKE 5:16-17
16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and PRAYED.
17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was TEACHING, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and THE POWER OF THE LORD WAS PRESENT to heal them.

Now you can’t separate the availability of God’s power in teaching and healing from Jesus’ life of prayer.
In this particular instance, He just finished a personal prayer retreat in the wilderness and He taught with power.
As a matter of fact, the Scripture makes it abundantly clear that our Lord Jesus Christ did not teach like the scribes; He taught as One having authority.

MARK 1:22
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
Now let me give one more instance; Jesus had just fasted for 40 days and nights and the power of the Spirit was activated thereby making Him to conduct “teaching seminars” across the region of Galilee.

LUKE 4:14-15
14 And JESUS RETURNED IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
15 AND HE TAUGHT IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES, being glorified of all.
Still under the same influence of the Spirit, He opened up the seal on the Book of Isaiah 61:1-3 in the synagogue at Nazareth of Galilee and the eyes of everyone was fastened on Him; they bore Him witness and saw GRACIOUS WORDS flowing from His mouth – THAT’S THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT.

LUKE 4:18-22
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. AND THE EYES OF ALL THEM THAT WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE FASTENED ON HIM.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
22 AND ALL BARE HIM WITNESS, AND WONDERED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
We also realize from the New Testament that it is through the instrumentality of prayer that we release and activate the power of the Spirit.
Look at the experience of the Apostles here:
ACTS 4:31
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Strong! Isn’t it?

(1) They prayed.
(2) The activated the power of the Spirit.
(3) The preached and taught the Word with boldness.
The same pattern and sequence is woven into the entire fabric of Scriptures.
Therefore MUCH PRAYERS are necessary in message preparation.
A message soaked in MEDITATION and SUPPLICATION is not only an EXPOSITION but also a DEMONSTRATION – and that’s THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND POWER.

The Apostle Paul also made mention of this:
1 CORINTHIANS 2:4-5
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF POWER:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Therefore in your message preparations, ensure that you give room for MUCH PRAYERS, especially PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT.

That way, light will come; understanding will come; guidance and direction will be given; faith will rise and your discernment will be sharpened, and then you will be ready the dispense the Word of life to the edification of the saints.
The good news is that YOU CAN ALWAYS STAY FRESH, following this procedure and the light of God’s Word in your spirit will shine to the ends of the earth.
Amen!

I trust this is a blessing Sirs and Mas?MESSAGE PREPARATION TECHNIQUES AND DYNAMICS!!!
(My Personal Experience)
By Pastor Bimbo Animashaun
My message preparation is 60% PRAYERS; 20% MEDITATION and 20% HOMILETICS.
Now in message preparation, MUCH PRAYERS are required because it is the Force of the Spirit that will project the thoughts of God and etch them on the canvass of people’s hearts.

You see, if you don’t incubate your message in prayers, by the time you deliver it, it will be a presentation of letters; head knowledge exposition and not spirit-to-spirit communication.
Although what I’m sharing by the permission of the Holy Spirit is personal, and no one is bound by another person’s experience, but if such experience bears credence to the truth of God’s Word, then we can learn from it.
So, let’s say I have a preaching engagement, from the day I get to know about it, prayer commences – deep praying in tongues – soaking it in prayers and navigating the mind of the Spirit, and that process of prayer continues until the message is delivered.

In the course of the aggressive prayer preparation, I swing into meditation and ponder on the Word with my heart and mind open to the Holy Ghost.
As usual, the Spirit of God begins to speak gently to my heart, leading and guiding me as to His plan for and thoughts on the sermon and I begin to write them down in my notepad, sometimes this is in skeletal form.
Then the last stage is to systematically organize those thoughts with scriptures (with a lot of cross references) and write them out as my message outline, then my message is ready.

Now note that even at that, the prayer momentum is sustained at intervals (that’s the advantage of praying in tongues) until the message is finally delivered.
Now somebody may have access to my note and do “copy and paste” but the person does not have access to the burden of the Spirit in my heart which I have nursed and carried in the place of prayers for a protracted time, and that burden is an indispensable tool in sound message delivery.

That’s the way it works for me and it has been like that for years by God’s Grace.
Messages must be incubated in MUCH PRAYERS; it’s until then that they will penetrate into the core of the spirit of man.
The power of the Spirit is what makes your message “spirit”, and you will notice that Jesus paired THE SCRIPTURES and THE POWER OF GOD together – they work hand-in-hand.
He once told the Sadducees:

MATTHEW 22:29
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing THE SCRIPTURES, nor THE POWER OF GOD.
The same Jesus had a protracted time of prayers before He began to teach, and while He began to teach the Word, the power of God was present to heal.

LUKE 5:16-17
16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and PRAYED.
17 And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was TEACHING, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and THE POWER OF THE LORD WAS PRESENT to heal them.
Now you can’t separate the availability of God’s power in teaching and healing from Jesus’ life of prayer.
In this particular instance, He just finished a personal prayer retreat in the wilderness and He taught with power.

As a matter of fact, the Scripture makes it abundantly clear that our Lord Jesus Christ did not teach like the scribes; He taught as One having authority.
MARK 1:22
And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
Now let me give one more instance; Jesus had just fasted for 40 days and nights and the power of the Spirit was activated thereby making Him to conduct “teaching seminars” across the region of Galilee.

LUKE 4:18-22
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. AND THE EYES OF ALL THEM THAT WERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE WERE FASTENED ON HIM.
21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
22 AND ALL BARE HIM WITNESS, AND WONDERED AT THE GRACIOUS WORDS WHICH PROCEEDED OUT OF HIS MOUTH. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?
We also realize from the New Testament that it is through the instrumentality of prayer that we release and activate the power of the Spirit.
Look at the experience of the Apostles here:
ACTS 4:31
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

Strong! Isn’t it?
(1) They prayed.
(2) The activated the power of the Spirit.
(3) The preached and taught the Word with boldness.
The same pattern and sequence is woven into the entire fabric of Scriptures.
Therefore MUCH PRAYERS are necessary in message preparation.
A message soaked in MEDITATION and SUPPLICATION is not only an EXPOSITION but also a DEMONSTRATION – and that’s THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND POWER.
The Apostle Paul also made mention of this:
1 CORINTHIANS 2:4-5
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF POWER:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Therefore in your message preparations, ensure that you give room for MUCH PRAYERS, especially PRAYING IN THE SPIRIT.
That way, light will come; understanding will come; guidance and direction will be given; faith will rise and your discernment will be sharpened, and then you will be ready the dispense the Word of life to the edification of the saints.
The good news is that YOU CAN ALWAYS STAY FRESH, following this procedure and the light of God’s Word in your spirit will shine to the ends of the earth.
Amen!
I trust this is a blessing Sirs and Mas?