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AND WHO IS A HARLOT? Please read this!!!
Genesis 34:31, "But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?”

We tend to term or tag a harlot or prostitute to a woman who usually has sex with different men for money. But the reality is that, being a prostitute is far more than being a street or hotel sex worker. From the light of the Word of God, in the sight of God, a woman can be a prostitute or harlot without being a regular sex worker or without having sex for money; a woman can be a confirmed Prostitute and still looks and behaves decent, and still be a serious or zealous Christian woman, she can even be a minister or a minister's wife. It is a limited and inadequate insight and knowledge of people that see only women standing beside the road or hotel as prostitutes.

There are different types of harlots or prostitutes, and they are of different levels, but before God, all are seen as harlots. Let's see some other types of harlots apart from the regular sex workers:

(1) HARLOT BY GARMENT
Genesis 38:15, "When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot"

You can be registered as a harlot in heaven simply by the way you dress. You don't need to become an active sex worker, you don't need to commit a single sexual immorality with a man before Heaven will recognize you as a prostitute and remove your name from the Book of Life; in fact you can be a virgin but still a heavenly recognized harlot. How does that happens? It happens simply by what you wear and how you wear what you wear. If you wear low-cut dress or low necklines including ball gowns that exposes your cleavage, meaning, that shows the upper part, little trace of your breasts when you bend down, you are a harlot. You don't need to be half Unclad before you become harlot by garment, but as long you wear any clothing that reveals your cleavage a little, you are a harlot.

Also if you wear tight clothes that shows the anatomy of your body to the world as to show your shape, you are a harlot; if you wear transparent or perforated clothing that shows your inner-wears, you are a harlot; if you wear any dress which does not covers your arms or your kneels, you are a harlot. This may be hard to take but a spiritual reality for holy standard of the heaven minded.

You can be a pastor, a minister, deaconess; you can speak in tongues of angels, you can sing like angels, whoever you are or claim to be does not matter, but to God, you are a decent harlot. If this is too hard for you to take, you can wait until you get to the gate of heaven, only that will be too late, and I will not advise you to wait that too late. There will be surprise on the rapture day and in heaven, when our identities are declared to us, and we may say, "Lord, I am not a harlot, and never be one"

As a Christian woman, what will be your reason before God for wearing clothing that exposes your cleavage? How will you defend your motive of wearing tight, transparent, perforated and short dress?

(2) HARLOT BY GETTING
Genesis 38:21, "Then he asked the men of that place, saying, “Where is the harlot who was openly by the roadside?” And they said, “There was no harlot in this place.”

A harlot is a woman who gives sex to a man in order to get something back; so if you, as a woman, give sex to get a job, you are registered harlot in heaven, even if it is once. If you, as a woman, allow a man to sleep with you because of promotion at work, because you want to retain your job, because you want to get contract, because of your schooling, because of favor- you are a heavenly recognized prostitute. Prostitution is giving sex in exchange for something, it doesn't matter if it is money or not, and it doesn't matter if it is just once or forever.

Here is the is the terrifying truth: Whatever you have gotten by allowing men to sleep with you - even if those things were supposed to be your right, but as long as you allowed man to sleep before you got it through, you are a harlot - the job, certificate, etc are dividends of your harlotry, and the salary, profit, whatever you are getting as a result are wages of a harlot. The most terrific matter here is that, if you are giving tithes, offerings from the wages you got through harlotry, you are only waging serious judgment of God against your life and eternity, because God warned that no wages of harlotry should be brought into His house.

Here is the word of God in Deuteronomy 23:18, "You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God."

Your pastor can collect your tithes and offerings, your prosperity pastors can say anybody can bring tithes, but you are only doing yourself havoc if you are in such category. To have the mercies of God, you need to repent, open up and confess, then do necessary restitution.

(3) HARLOT BY GIVING
Genesis 34:31, "But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?”

If you are in marital relationship, and you commit premarital sex, in a way of giving your love or promise to the man, you are a harlot. Premarital sex in a marital relationship is only an act of harlotry. In the book of Genesis 34, a man called Shechem loved Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he slept with her, even though he had not married her; when her brothers heard it, they were angry and said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?” - Only a prostitute will be sleeping with a man before marriage, that is what the brothers meant.

If a man is asking a woman for premarital sex in a relationship, he is only addressing the woman as a prostitute, taking her to be a prostitute; and if a woman is allowing a man to sleep with her in a marital relationship, she is only presenting herself to be a harlot. So the same man who has been sleeping with her can think and decide tomorrow that he doesn't want to marry her again, and why? "She is a harlot" But you are the same man who has been sleeping with her. The man answers, "Yes, I know, but I am not her husband yet, it only proves she is a harlot."

If you had premarital sex before you got married, and you covered it up, you need to repent NOW and realize your sin. Then you will need to confess to the necessary people: your parents, your pastors, including the pastor who joined you together. If you think it is a past matter and no need to confess to the necessary people, you are only embalming your past sin, and enlisting yourself as a harlot in hell.

Take or give, a woman who has extra-marital sex is also a harlot, even if it was once or it was in past; until she confesses to her husband, she is still a prostitute in God's eyes. But as long as such a woman has repented and confessed to her husband, she is as clean as a virgin before God, because when we repent and confess, God is always faithful to forgive and cleanse us, and never remember again our sins as long as don't go back.

AND WHAT ABOUT MEN?
So, what about men who have who ask or commit premarital sex or extra-marital sex, are they also harlots or what should we call them? The same thing is applicable to men, a man who commit premarital sex is a fornicator and a man who commits extra-marital sex is an adulterer. The solution to settle the matter is not a matter of saying, "I don't do it again and I have asked to forgive me" Such a man will need to repent, confess to God and to his wife, to one another as the case may be. If you, as man, has asked a woman for premarital or extra-marital sex, after you have repented, you will need to apologize to the woman for the "evil asking"

Hebrews 13:4, "Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge."
This message is not meant to condemn us, but it is to correct us so that we will not be condemned with the world at the end. Let us make the necessary amendment.

1 Corinthians 11:31, 32, "For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world."

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"MANY"
Jesus said “many” you know when Jesus says many He means many, that is majority. And He said all these are not evidence of genuine salvation; that you calls Him Lord; that you go to church, that you receive blessing and miracle from Jesus are not an evidence that you are saved, he said those who perform the miracles can’t use that as an evidence, but those who do the will of His father. So, do you want to be among the many with insufficient claims or the few that do His will?

"Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" Matthew 7:22, 23.

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THE ENEMIES OF GOD
"Let God arise, Let His enemies be scattered; Let those also who hate Him flee before Him." Psalm 68:1.

The Bible declares God's judgments upon all the enemies of God. And to us, we may think the enemies of God are evil people working against the children of God or the work of God. We can also conclude that enemies of God are those Muslims or terrorists who are killing Christians, or Government officials who oppose Christians, closing churches or Christian activities.

But do you know that being an enemy of God is easier than all that? Let's read another set of enemies of God from the Bible in the Book of James 4:4, "Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."

Worldliness makes a Christian an enemy of God. Are there not many enemies of God today? When you refuse to surrender your life to Jesus Christ, you are an enemy of God.

When you love the world, you become an enemy of God. When you dress worldly, make your hair with worldly style, when you care for the things of this world more than heavenly things, you become not just worldly but an enemy of God.

When you care for prosperity more than purity, when you like expensive things, showing off, you are worldly and automatically an enemy of God.

Any "so called" ministers of God who allows worldliness in his ministry is an enemy of God, any minister who preaches more on earthly things than heavenly things is worldly and also an enemy of God.

That is the reason I don't care about what many people say when I preach the truth against these prosperity and luxurious ministers, some say they are elderly fathers in the Lord, some say we should not speak even preach the truth that against men of God. But I say they are not men of God but enemies of God, and they should be treated as one.

Any preacher that preaches more about being comfortable in the world than being mindful of heaven, rapture or death is an enemy of God, not minister of God.

You may not be worldly, you may not love the world, you may not dress worldly, but when you become a friend of the world, when you become friendly with worldly ministers and churches, you become an enemy of God.

The Bible also says, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?" James 4:4.

We must not be friendly with what God hates in the name of being civilized or friendly.

When we allow worldliness, we become an enemy of God. That is the reason worldliness leads to hell fire, because hell is prepared for enemies of God.

We should search our lives by the light of God's word to expose any worldliness in us and repent of it, no matter how small.

"Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever." 1 John 2:15-17.

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HEAVENLY VISION
…. I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. Acts 26:19

Heavenly vision is very important for every Christian, minister and church as a whole. A Christian without heavenly vision will belong among the common Christians, a Christian minister without heavenly vision will remain a carnal minister, and a church without heavenly vision is a worldly and lukewarm church. And the worst is when a Christian or church loses heavenly vision, it become worse than never having it.

WHAT HEAVENLY VISION IS ALL ABOUT!
When we have heavenly vision, we will want to do everything to enter heaven and to bring others to heaven; when we have heavenly vision, the things of this worldly will be dim to us and things of heaven dearly to us; we will not be encumbered by the cares of this world. When we have heavenly vision like the earthly Christians, we will go extra miles for the kingdom of God and we will not have the mind of pursuing earthly things.

The beginning of revival in a Christian life and in a church is to have heavenly vision, because without that Christians will remain lukewarm, worldly and spiritually frivolous.

What is this heavenly vision is all about? Heavenly vision is when you come to the point of understanding and realizing that making heaven and helping others to make heaven is the paramount purpose of your living on earth, that every other thing apart from working towards making heaven and winning souls to heaven amounts to little or nothing, that it is the most urgent matter that needs the greatest attention on a daily basis. When you crap this heaven vision, your perspective of life will change, your reasoning will not remain the same, your Christian life will turn around, your life view will be of eternity not on this temporal care, your prayer points will be different from what it used to be, it will center on your Christian growth and winning souls, your ministry will turn different and your message will be heavenly focused.

DO YOU KNOW WHY CHRSITIANS………
Do you know why many Christians are worldly and lukewarm? It is simply because they don’t have heavenly vision. There is nothing as terrible and dangerous in life as being a Christian without heavenly vision.

Do you know why you compromise the word of God, and care for things of this life than heaven? It is because you lack or you’ve lost heavenly vision. Do you know why you pray more on prosperity than purity of life? It is simply because you lack heavenly vision in your Christian life. Do you know why you involve in worldly dress and stuffs and it seems impossible for you to part away with such things? It is simply because you don’t have heavenly vision yet.

Do you know why your priority of life is about getting money, having more possessions of life, getting position or popularity in life? It is because you don’t have heavenly vision. Do you know why you pray more against enemies in your life than you pray against sinful nature in your life? It is because you don’t have heavenly vision. Do you know why you pray against the witches and wizards in your family to die than you pray for sinners in your family to be saved? It is because you don’t have heavenly vision. You don’t need to speak in tongue before you know Christians void of heavenly vision, it is very obvious.

DO YOU KNOW WHY MANY CHRISTIAN MINISTERS……
Do you know why many Christian ministers preach more on prosperity of life than purity of life, why they preach more on goodness of life than godliness of life, why they preach more about temporal blessings of this life than eternal blessings of life to come or you wander why on the other hand some preach more on overcoming problems of life than overcoming temptations and persecutions of life or why they put witches and wizards In their lives to death than they put sinful old natures in their lives to death? It is simply because such Christian ministers do not have heavenly vision.

Do you know the reason why most of the preachers today do more of prophetic declarations than repentance declaration? It is simply because they lack or have lost heavenly vision. You know what Paul said? He said, “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance.” Acts 26:19, 20. After Paul got the heavenly vision, he was going different places and making declaration, not prosperity declaration, not prophetic declaration as they do today, but declaration of repentance, of turning to God and of doing work of righteousness and holiness. It’s the heavenly vision that makes the difference. But these pastors, evangelists, daddy GOs, papas, bishops in America , Europe, Asia or Africa who are busy preaching, publishing and making declarations of prosperity, success and sweet things, and asking you to type “amen” on their Facebook posts, it is because their lives and ministries are void of heavenly vision.

We cannot deceive ourselves. Our priority of life is determined by the vision we carry in our hearts; if it is heavenly vision, automatically we will live, pray and preach more on heaven, and if it is earthly vision, we will live, pray and preach more on earthly things, that exactly is what we are seeing among Christians and pastors today. Where your treasure is determines the priority and purpose of your living.

GETTING IT RIGHT!
Before you can get to heaven, you must get it right on earth. And to get it right, you need to start with the right steps, and repentance from sins and worldliness is the right step to start with. To have heavenly vision, you must start with repentance. I pray for you as you read this message that God will open your eyes to see and seek the heavenly vision and make it to heaven. All you need now is to repent, turn to God and begin to do the works befitting repentance. Please click on this link on how to experience genuine repentance http://www.facebook.com/notes/revelation-of-truth-evangelical-ministries-rtem/how-can-i-be-saved/270674586372252

Thereafter you rededicate your life to Jesus Christ and live on earth for heaven. Amen

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PROSPERITY PREACHERS
"By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber." 2 Peter 2:3

The prosperity preachers will exploit you with deceptive words because you are covetous of quick money, because you too like prosperity and deception of freedom without holiness, because you too enjoy the deceptive declarations of breakthrough, prosperity and unlimited favour.

You cannot be deceived with something or by somebody if you are not covetous of something.

These pastors, bishops, daddy G.O, evangelists, prophets, etc exploit you to enrich themselves and they live luxurious, extravagant lifestyle like the rich man in the parable of Jesus. Where did they get their riches? From you, your sowing seeds, prophetic offering, expensive school fees, etc. They abuse you spiritually, physically, financially, and mentally.

The Bible says the prosperity preachers will exploit you with deceptive words simply because of your covetousness for worldly things and care. The only weapons against prosperity preachers are the virtues of godliness and contentment, if you are saved and possess godliness and contentment, the prosperity pastors cannot deceive you with their preaching and prayer.

"useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself."

"Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
- 1 Timothy 6:5-10

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WHEN YOU LICK POISON CALLED LIPSTICK
The average woman eats 4 to 9 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime, up to one pound per year, that’s somewhere between 481 and 1083 tubes.

A study conducted back in 2004 found that 28% of lipsticks contained cancer-causing chemicals. Modern lipsticks are formulated from upwards of 10,000 chemicals, 89% of which have never been tested for human safety. Additionally, those who use lipstick for 3 days increase their risk of developing lupus by 40%.

From the above studies, it shows using lipstick is as dangerous to human health almost like drinking alcohol or smoking.

Now, as a Christian woman, do you see that using lipstick is not only a false appearance but a dangerous health hazard? Or you want to keep using it by faith? Such faith is not in God but in Satan.

When you claim that using lipstick has nothing to do with your faith, that God does care about your body but He looks to the heart not lips. Wow, good defense, but when the chemicals you licked up in your lipsticks cause health problems to your body, will you still ask God who doesn't care about your body to heal you? Will you ask God who doesn't care about using lipstick cares to heal you from sickness caused by the lipstick?

Don't let Satan deceive you, face the truth. Lipstick is health destructive like drinking, smoking and more than that, it is false, deceptive and scary. Painting lips red or in any color does not represent anything about Christianity but blood shocking vampires and satanic agents.

Repent and reject sinful materials in your possessions.

2 Kings 9:30, "Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window."

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PREMARITAL & MARITAL UNFAITHFULNESS.....Please read this!
As a single lady, if a man you are in relationship with is demanding per-marital sex from you, the truth is that he will ask another woman for extra-marital sex after he marries you. What makes him to ask for premarital sex from you is what will make him to ask extra-marital sex from another woman after marriage: Lack of self control. It's the same sin of sexual immorality, but the only difference is:

When you allow premarital sex with your partner during courtship, you don't feel cheated, disappointed, or heart broken as Jesus feels, but when your husband does extra-marital sex, you will feel the same disappointment, brokenhearted and cheating that Jesus feels.

The Problems and their Solutions.
(1) If a single man has problem with uncontrollable passion which is called lust, uncontrolled sexual huge, the solution is not premarital sex, it is not even marriage, because marriage cannot solve the problem of lust, and marriage does not produce self-control. The solution is to surrender to Jesus genuinely and bring forth the fruit of the Spirit called Self-control by total dedication to God in His Word, His will and prayer for God's grace. Self-control comes by God's grace after genuine salvation, not by marriage or premarital sex.
".....gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law." Galatians 5:23.

As a single sister in the Lord, if a man is not ready to surrender to Jesus and to live in purity with you, to keep yourselves till marriage, such man is not God's will for your life or he has lost his way. You cannot be happily married with immoral man who will cheat on Jesus and on you at the end. It is better to let go and let God, than to hold on and get burned.

(2) If you are a married or you are a single woman, and your man is asking you to wear body exposing clothing, immoral dress; the issue is because the man has problem with lust and he thinks seeing you half naked in public can solve that problem, NO. The solution is Salvation in Jesus and grace of God for self control. (But you can wear anything in your room to attract your husband alone in your apartment without another man seeing such.)

(3) If you have committed premarital sex, that is, fornication, before marriage, all you need to do is to confess to God, and ask Him to forgive you, then you confess to your pastor, spiritual leaders, to your Christian partners, and to your parents. If you are already married, you will still need to confess to your church and the church that joined you together without the knowledge of the fornication. If you are not yet married, and the man or woman you are in relationship with is not ready for repentance, purity and to open up, it means the person is not a child of God or he is a backslider or a fake Christian.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
"For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit."

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GOD’S POWER IN ACTION
“And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.” Acts 5:12

Jesus Christ left the disciples with the power of Holy Spirit to help them accomplish the ministry He had given unto them. The power of Holy Spirit is not just in word, in writing but in action as evident in the ministries of the apostles. Their preaching and prayers were backed up with the action of the Holy Spirit. The early church experienced the power of God in action

What are the purposes of the power of God in action? Is it to show that the ministers are powerful? No, the manifestation of God’s power is not to make us proud or to idolize a man but to humble us that He can use even us. According to the Acts 5:12-33, here are the reasons for God’s power in action:

TO LEAD MULTITUDE UNTO JESUS CHRIST Acts 5:14
The manifestation of God’s power in action is not to make name or pull crowd for nothing, it is to lead the crowd to Jesus Christ with genuine salvation, not lead them to our church. God’s power is unto salvation, which is the primary purpose of the manifestation of God’s power. The power of God is to deliver us from the bondage of Satan and sin. If you claim the power of God is in action in your ministry and multitudes are not being turned to Christ through genuine salvation, then it means you are either using your own power or misusing the power of God.

Genuine salvation is not just to make or answer altar call; it is to repent and starts a new life in Jesus Christ. Calling altar call without first taking good time to explain salvation and repentance to the people is a mere act of fulfilling all righteousness.

God’s power in action is not just to perform miracles; it is to lead many to salvation. Experiencing miracles, signs and wonders in the life of sin is a miserable life. The power of God in action is to convict of sins Acts 2:37, it is to convert us from sinners to saints Acts 2:41, and to make us instruments of turning others to Christ Acts 9:15.

When the primary purpose of manifesting God’s power in our lives is to turn multitude to genuine salvation in Jesus Christ, we will not be seeking power from Satan to boost ministry. Any Christian or Christian ministry who lacks the understanding of the primary purpose of God’s power in action will miss everything.

TO DELIVER MULTITUDE FROM BONDAGE OF SICKNESS AND SATAN Acts 5:16.
The power of God in action is to put Satan to an open shame, to destroy the works of Satan, which was the reason of Jesus’ manifestation. “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil” 1 John 3:8.

Jesus Christ manifests His power in our lives to set us free from the bondage of sin and to destroy every work of Satan in our lives. Where the power of God is in action, Satan’s works are destroyed, where the power of God is in action, Satan is put to shame and permanent silence. Where the power of God abounds, sickness, curses, and every satanic work will disappear.

If we should ask, why do we have children of God who are still under the bondage of satanic attack? The simple answer is because such believers lack understanding. Many children of God pray, fast, go to mountain, go for deliverance, yet still under the torment of Satan; many exercise strong faith, yet nothing happens. All these happen as a result of ignorance. Deliverance from sickness or satanic attack does not come through faith in your prayer, through faith in a man or woman of God or through faith in a particular church or mountain. Deliverance from sickness and satanic attacks comes only through faith in the name of Jesus Christ. It is not the prayer you pray that will put God’s power in action, it is not a man of God that will put God’s power in action, but it is name of Jesus Christ that put God’s power into action. Here is the word of God:

“Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God” Acts 3:6-8

“Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed. 12 So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?” Acts 3:11, 12.

It is not our prayer, power or perfection that moves God’s power into action. Here is what Apostle Peter said, “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” Acts 3:16

What this means is that you can pray and fast without God’s power in action if you faith is in your prayer – how fireful, how fasting or long you pray. You can lack God’s power in your life if your faith is in a “powerful man of God” even when Apostle Peter said “it is not by our power” You can walk with God with a perfect heart and still remain in bondage of satanic attack if you lack strong faith in the name of Jesus Christ.

It is funny that many Christians today, including ministers, think that praying in the name of Jesus Christ alone is not enough, that you need to speak in tongues, that you need to use anointing oil, that you need to use mantles, and others. But are we seeing greater signs and wonders now than when the believers were using only the name of Jesus Christ?

When your faith and focus is solely in the name of Jesus Christ, you will see His name as the only force that can spark up the power of God into action.

EXTENDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH Acts 5:19
God puts His power in action in our lives and ministry so as to extend His kingdom on earth, to reach out the gospel of Jesus Christ to more people; to destroy every obstacle and reach more people with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. God’s power in action is not to build an empire in the name of ministry, it is not to become fame or popular, it is for the gospel of Jesus Christ to the glory of God.

To experience the power of God in action in your life, in your ministry, in your career or business, you must have a right mind about the power, you must rededicate your life to Jesus Christ in genuine repentance and forsaking your sins, you must be ready to use the power in the ministry, the profit and blessing in the business and career for the gospel of Jesus Christ and only to the glory of God, not your own.

Turning many to righteousness in Jesus is the primary purpose of God’s power in action, deliverance from sickness and satanic attack is the secondary, and extending the gospel of Jesus Christ to all the earth for the glory of God is the end result.

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HOW SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR THE RAPTURE?
About 5 years ago, I was communicating with a Christian brother who lived in UK on phone, he was so much zealous with research and fact that rapture would take place soon, not only that, he began to make research about Barrack Obama, the US President then, and he concluded that Obama was to be the real Anti-Christ. It got to a time that my spirit was no more comfortable with those calculations and research again, because several time we talked on phone, he would share more about rapture calculation and Anti-Christ speculations with less of sharing of Bible.

The same thing happened recently when a man in US concluded that the world would end today 23rd of Sept. 2017, bases on his biblical and scientific calculations. All such calculations and predictions are erroneous and unbiblical.

Now more than these, many wonderful Christians today are so concerned about the rapture, they teach and preach more about rapture; some say because rapture would happen soon, they should not think or plan for the far future, they should not engage themselves with proper plans for their future. Such is also extreme and unbiblical.

The Question?
The question is that, should we be conscious of rapture, calculating and not planning for our marital, financial and academic future? The answer is no!

Being conscious of the rapture is not what will not make you rapturable. There is difference between being conscious of the rapture and being prepared for the rapture. To be conscious of rapture alone is to be talking, counting, calculating and researching about rapture, but to be prepared for the rapture is to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and living to pleasing Him.

Should we not plan for our earthly future, invest in business, plan to get married or have children because we are waiting for the rapture? The answer is NO!

The Bible says no one knows when the rapture will take place, so what we need is to be prepared always, and also occupy till He comes. We must occupy in God's work and in anything we do on earth - school, business, job, career. Being idle on earthly things does not guarantee making the rapture.

In fact the Bible recorded how rapture will take place in the book of Luke 17:35, 36, "Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left." A woman busy grinding and working, it does not hinder her from make the rapture. The man that is busy in the field, farming or investing, yet he makes the rapture.

What this means is that, as children of God, we can be prepared for the rapture in holiness and serving God and still go to school, plan for better future on earth, work, invest, marry, aspire to succeed in career or business, even while you are waiting for the rapture to take place. We must be occupied till He comes.

What matters about rapture is not just to be conscious of it, but to be prepared always, and while we wait for the rapture to happens anytime, we must occupy profitably till He comes.

Are you ready? May we be counted worth on that glorious day. Amen.

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BEREA ONLINE BIBLE TRAINING PROGRAM 2017
October 6th - December 29th

12 Bible courses for 12 weeks for all Christians and Christian ministers (Evangelists/Pastors/Missionaries, etc.)

To equip you with sound teachings and doctrines of the Bible for a successful Christian life and ministry.

Organized by Revelation of Truth Evangelical Ministries RTEM

COURSES OUTLINES:
001 – FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE: GENUINE SALVATION EXPERIENCE
002 – GROWING IN THE LORD IN SANCTIFICATION
003 – WATER BAPTISM AND ITS REFLECTIONS
004 – RESTITUTION IN CHRISTIAN LIFE
004 – SERVING GOD AFTER YOUR SALVATION
005 – BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
006 – CHRISTIAN DRESSING IN LINE WITH GOD’S WORD
007 – CALLING INTO MINISTRY
008 – RUNNING A BIBLICAL MINISTRY
009 – WOMEN & MINISTERS’ WIVES IN MINISTRY
010 – BIBLE TEACHING ON GIVING & RECEIVING
011 – CHURCH’S CONDITIONS
012 – ESCATOLOGY

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMS
The program will run a course for per week; participants will receive the program courses on their email; read, and study and must respond to each course by answering questions after the teaching.

BIBLE READING
There will be weekly Bible reading and activities

PRAYER
Weekly prayer period which every participant must observe.

COUNSELING & QUESTION
Participants will freely ask question or seek counsel on their personal Christian lives, marriage and ministries.

Course Registration is FREE
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-------STORY OF MY LIFE-JESUS CHANGES-------

At times when I look at how far God has brought me in my Christian life, I run out of words to describe God.

I use to think that dressing SEXY was Beautiful, I used To think SHOWING MY BODY WAS CUTE , I used To Think My Beauty Was Depending On "MAKE UP" that I was NOT Really Beautiful Without It. I Used To Think Without Fake Hair I Wasnt Beautiful And No1 Will Love Or Like Me Like That But Guest What? But Guest What ??
I WAS LYING TO MYSELF"..

I Used To Live A Life That I Always Said " Dont Mind Them, God Look InSide The Heart" but the Day God Told Me :
"I Dont Only Look Inside Your Heart, I Look In All You Do", I couldnt Stop crying because I was wrong for years at the same time I was happy That I Met The Lord Before its too late..
But..
When I decided to change my life for Christ many said "give her 1month she will come back to her old ways, "she changing because of the church boys, oh how they made fun of me because i decided to walk with God. 8Months with God have not been easy, I have fell so many times but God is FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD. I WILL NEVER TRADE ANYTHING FOR WHERE I AM NOW. NEVER !!! JESUS CAN DO THE SAME FOR U !!

Now Many people say I dress simple, other Say I look like an old woman, but the truth is they don't know where God took me out of. Ladies you don't need to dress or act a certain way to attract a man but just be yourself. Stay in the presence of God in TRUTH and spirit you will attract the man the God has for you. True beauty of a woman is when she can be herself and not feel the need to impress anybody. A woman who knows her worth and value will always live her life to please God not men . Ladies it's great to look good and respectful but looking good and #seductive LUSTFULp is not respectful in the eyes of God. Honouring God is not only in what we say , preach but also with our bodies and dressing

NOW DEAR FLESH...

I have a problem with you. You hate me. And I hate you. We call that "enmity". That's defined as mutual hatred. I read Romans chapter 8 and I found out that you also hate God and that in you dwelleth no Good thing. You can't be redeemed, you can't do good, and you are wrapped in iniquity and sin. YET, you are still apart of me. I read over Romans 7 and I see the effect that you even had on the apostle Paul. You hate God, so I hate you. It may sound weird but their is a part of me that I hate. And it's the part that's tied to you, the flesh. But here's the thing, I don't have to obey you. So when that man walks by, I won't look and stare and When my neighbor offends me I won't retaliate anger for anger. Why? Because you are no good for me. You use my emotions to try to lead me to sin but I won't stop fighting you...until I die..I won't stop killing you. I read Romans chapter 6 and I learned that I no longer have to be a slave to you. I choose to serve Christ and not you. I've accepted that this will be an everyday battle, and Im up for it..Lets Go

•God Can Really CHANGE
•NO1 MEETS THE LORD AND REMAIN THE SAME.
•From WORLD LOVER TO CHRIST LOVER..

Prepare To Meet God
Witout Holiness No1 Will See HIM

Blanche Munia

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THE ROD OF GOD
“He who spares his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him promptly” Proverbs 13:24

Rod serves to discipline and correct a child by a loving father. A child without correction may be a bastard or unloving child to the parents. From the view of the Word of God, disciplining a child with a rod is an expression of love and care of a parent towards a child. “But he who loves him disciplines him promptly” Proverbs 13:24

As an earthly father corrects his children, so it is applicable to the heavenly Father – God. When you become born again through genuine repentance and forsaking your sinful lifestyle, you become a loving child of God, and He becomes your heavenly loving Father. Now as a loving and responsible Father, He has the responsibility of correcting you when you mistakenly of deliberately err.

God uses rod to correct and comfort His children. Psalm 23:4, “Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”

Correction Of God By Rod
“If they break My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,
32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity with stripes.
33 Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.” Psalm 89:31-33

When we break God’s rule and displease Him, in His loving-kindness, He does not abandon us, but rather correct us by His rod. This rod can come in form of physical or spiritual discipline, all at the aim of drawing us back to the right path in God. If God should leave us without discipline, it means we are abandoned by Him and we would be judged and condemned with the world, it means we are at the mercy of Satan.

God corrects His children by rod through several means and methods so that we may not be lost forever with the bastard world.

“And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
“My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:5-11

What To Do In God’s Discipline:

1. REALIZE – When the Lord is correcting or disciplining us, the first thing we are to do is to realize ourselves – where we have gone wrong and sinned against God. “For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.” Psalm 51:3.

2. REPENT – Realizing one’s sin without repentance is a real waste of time. Immediately we realize something wrong, we must promptly repent from those sins. Repenting means turning away from one’s ways into God’s way, forsaking the usual sinful life immediately.

3. RENEW – After we repent from the wrong way and error or any sin we found ourselves, we must separate from those things and renew our commitment to God in His word, will and work. We must be prayerful and watchful not to allow such error or sin to overtake us again.

“Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.” Hebrews 12:12, 13

Comfort Of The Rod of God
“Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:4

When God discipline us through His rod, we have comfort:
1, that God still loves us. “Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Hebrews 12:6

2, that God still receive us as His children even though we erred. “And scourges every son whom He receives.” Hebrews 12:6

3, that God’s corrections in our lives will lead to greater blessings – spiritually and physically. When we endure God’s discipline and take to His corrections, it will lead to our profit.

“Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:11.

Warning!
We must not ignore or run away from God’s rod of correction or chastening, because God will not continue to strife with a man or correct him forever. Those who continuously reject correction from God will be rejected by Him at the end, and He will leave them to a reprobate hearts to continue to do sinful things without correction from Him again. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” Romans 1:28

This is the reason there are many “once upon a time” children of God and ministers who now continuously go deeper in sin, worldliness and disobedience to God as if they never experienced genuine salvation before, but because they rejected God’s correction, so they become abandoned and spiritually debased.

When the Spirit of God corrects us through any means, we must quickly realize, repent and renew our lives to God before it gets too late.

Revelation 3:19-22
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
22 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”’

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REUBEN SOLUTION FORMULA
– Worsen The Situation.

And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me: Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin. All these things are against me.” Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.” Genesis 42: 36, 37

Jacob lost his son Joseph years back, another son Simeon was retained in prison in Egypt, and they were demanding his last born son Benjamin again. And so this situation was too much for Jacob and he refused to release his last born, he didn’t want to lose 3 children all together, but to convince Jacob, Reuben the first born had to come up with a solution – Reuben’s Solution, a formula to solve Jacob’s tough situation. And here is the Reuben Solution presented to Jacob: If your son Simeon does not come back, and if I can’t bring back your last born Benjamin, then kill your 2 grandsons! But how stupid is this Reuben solution? How would killing one’s grandsons solve the problem of losing one’s son? Will that not increase the loss and multiply the sorrow?
That is it! But in many ways we are applying Reuben’s solution formula into our situation, and that is the reason for the increase in loss and multiple of sorrow, that is the reason many are where they are today – worsen situation, because they apply a terrible solution formula of Reuben to their situations.

Here are some ways in which we consciously or unconsciously apply Reuben Solution Formula:
– Somebody offends you, causing a problem for you, and you want to revenge and cause problem for that person, how will that solve your own problem?

– You lose your job, your business and the devil is suggesting that you should abandon your Christian commitment and devotion to God, how will that solve the problem? That is Reuben formula formulated by Satan.

– You are desperately looking for job, now you have offer to falsify your personal information to get the job, how will that help you fulfil God’s purpose for your life? That is Reuben formula formulated by Satan.

– You lost your wealth, and Satan is suggesting that you take action that will make you lose your integrity, how will that make you a better person?

– Your husband/wife cheats on you, and now you want to do the same thing, how will that solve the problem of cheating?

– You are having problems in your marriage, and now you are thinking of divorce, has divorce ever solve problem in marriage or it dissolves marriage and scatters family?

– You are single and getting older, and now you just want to marry anyone available, you want to marry a shallow Christian because you are in hurry, do you ever think of unity in marriage? And how will you unite in marriage with such a person? Will your singleness and sorrow not multiply in that marriage?

– You have misunderstanding with your spouse and you refuse to communicate, then how will the misunderstanding be settled without communication? Don’t you know that lack of proper communicate increases misunderstanding in marriage?

– You are having some difficulties and challenges in life and satan is giving you Reuben’s formula to abandon your Christian integrity, devotion or service, now how will there be a good solution without the Source of Life – JESUS CHRIST?

Reuben Solution Formula ( RSF) is like one cutting off his head to solve problem of headache, losing your life to the devil because you want to solve the problem of your life, losing your marriage because you want to end problem of your marriage, losing your identity in Christ because you want to be popular in ministry, losing your purity because you want to get a marital partner; it is like giving what you need most and getting what you need the moment, it is like giving up your God’s giving vision to get a good television; it is like getting money from Satan and giving him your life and what you use the money to buy, like giving Satan a chance in your life so he give you chance in hell fire.

Don’t be among the fools and do not apply a bad formula into your life that will lead you to a wrong end. The way out of every bad situation is Jesus Christ, the Way, Life and Truth.

If you have not given your life to Jesus, won’t you come to Jesus now and have rest of mind?

If you have given your life to Jesus and you’re at a crossroad, won’t you rest in Jesus for a good solution and not run your way of destruction? Won’t you trust and wait on Him till your change comes? Won’t you be faithful to the end for your crown of life waiting for you?

When we faithfully rest on the Lord, He uses our present situation to present us an overwhelming success. That was the end of Jacob’s story; he refused Reuben’s solution formula and rested on God by faith. “But when they told him all the words which Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. 28 Then Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.” Genesis 45:27, 28.

You will not want to allow this present situation push you to use your own hands kill the living vision and purpose of God for your life, to ruin your testimony and future, will you?

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BEREA ONLINE BIBLE TRAINING PROGRAM 2017

12 Bible courses for 12 weeks for all Christians and Christian ministers (Evangelists/Pastors/Missionaries, etc.)

To equip you with sound teachings and doctrines of the Bible for a successful Christian life and ministry.

Organized by Revelation of Truth Evangelical Ministries RTEM

COURSES OUTLINES:
001 – FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIAN LIFE: GENUINE SALVATION EXPERIENCE

002 – GROWING IN THE LORD IN SANCTIFICATION

003 – WATER BAPTISM AND ITS REFLECTIONS

004 – RESTITUTION IN CHRISTIAN LIFE

004 – SERVING GOD AFTER YOUR SALVATION

005 – BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

006 – CHRISTIAN DRESSING IN LINE WITH GOD’S WORD

007 – CALLING INTO MINISTRY

008 – RUNNING A BIBLICAL MINISTRY

009 – WOMEN & MINISTERS’ WIVES IN MINISTRY

010 – BIBLE TEACHING ON GIVING & RECEIVING

011 – CHURCH’S CONDITIONS

012 – ESCATOLOGY

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMS
The program will run a course for per week; participants will receive the program courses on their email; read, and study and must respond to each course by answering questions after the teaching.

BIBLE READING
There will be weekly Bible reading and activities

PRAYER
Weekly prayer period which every participant must observe.

COUNSELING & QUESTION
Participants will freely ask question or seek counsel on their personal Christian lives, marriage and ministries.

Course Registration is FREE
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WAY OUT OF THE BONDAGE OF MASTURBATION
I have received calls and messages for counsels and prayer on the issue of masturbation than many others, and Satan is using this on many youth and even older Christians, making them to remain stagnant in their spiritual growth and exposing them to evil forces.

You can't finish masturbate and you feel free in God's presence, your conscience will tell you something is wrong, that you are defiled. If you now feel no quilt in masturbating, it means you have silenced or killed your conscience, since the Spirit of God will not continue to strive with a man, but you know it wasn't like that at the initial.

Masturbation is satanic anchor by which he uses to grip souls under his bondage. The solution is not to argue it is not a sin, the solution is not marriage or attractive spouse, that will never solve problem of lust.

The solutions are:
(i) You repent and rededicate your life to Jesus by admitting it as a sin against God and ready to forsake all your sins, not only masturbation.

(ii) You watch out against it. You detach yourself from immoral materials, movies, music and thoughts. Resist the devil when he brings the pressure on you to masturbate; just hold the feeling and resist the devil, it will seems you can't survive or resist it when the temptation overwhelm you.

Behind masturbation is an immoral demon, I have been in such situation before, but he can't stay long, he will flee because your strength is in Jesus Christ, not your power, you should always remember that when it comes. It will come over you as if you can't resist it, but that is not true, you just hold it, don't torch, don't play along with the feeling, and don't think about. It is a sin and you don't want to bring yourself under the bondage anymore. The more you resist and overcome the feeling, the more you are strong, keep watching, it can go and come after some months, don't relax but guard to resist.

(iii) Pray about it. You must take it to God in your daily prayer to conquer the sinful notion and nature; pray for grace and strength to resist, to discipline your body and keep it under the Spirit of God.

What many Christians do not know is that new life in Jesus is a war between God and Satan, between flesh and Spirit of God, and your heart is the battle ground. You must see masturbation as war and ready to stand and subdue your flesh. It is applicable to all children of God, not you alone. Flesh will come, but don't let it overcome you again.

Apostle Paul, after many years of his salvation in Christ, he said, "But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified." 1 Corinthians 9:27.

We must continuously discipline our body - tongue, feelings, legs, hands, eyes, ears, etc. no matter how long you have been saved or how genuine your salvation is.

What many Christians do not understand is that after their souls are saved in Christ, the flesh is not saved. Your body is Satan's device to war against your saved soul, so you must discipline your body and subdue it to the Spirit of God by the Word of God, by watchfulness and daily prayer. This is the reason why many Christians fall back into sins, because they are ignorant of this, but we must not be ignorant of devices of Satan.

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BUT I DISCIPLINE MY BODY...
Apostle Paul, after many years of his salvation in Christ, he said, "But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified." 1 Corinthians 9:27.

What many Christians do not understand is that after their souls are saved in Christ, the flesh is not saved. Your body is Satan's device to war against your saved soul, so you must discipline your body and subdue it to the Spirit of God by the Word of God, by watchfulness and daily prayer. This is the reason why many Christians fall back into sins, because they are ignorant this, but we must not be ignorant of devices of Satan.

We must continuously discipline our body - tongue, feelings, legs, hands, eyes, ears, etc. no matter how long you have been saved or how genuine your salvation is.

We are getting closer to the glorious day, and His grace will see us through. Amen!

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HAVE YOU BEEN TO GETHSEMANE? ……Please read this!

Have you ever visited Gethsemane recently? It’s inspiring and very refreshing there. There is no other place on earth as pleasant and peaceful as this wonderful place called Gethsemane. The Gethsemane in topic here is not a country, state or a street; it's not a church or physical place. It’s a spiritual place that every serious minded Christian and every one who cares to make heaven must be visiting as the situation demands.

Gethsemane is a place where you surrender your struggles unto God and receive strength in return to see you through in your onward journey to eternal life. It’s a point where you surrender your ways, your wills, your wish and your wants to God and you accept His will and word into your life.

No pretense, struggle is natural and human, it was applicable to Jesus Christ likewise during His earthly ministration as He was about to move forward to Calvary for our work of redemption. At Gethsemane, He expressed His struggle to God but He surrendered His struggle, His wish and want, to God’s will. Have you been struggling with your life, living as you want? You urgently need to surrender all to Jesus now and let Him give you a brand new life with eternal value.

Have you been struggling with a particular sin in your life? Rising and falling? Maybe you think it doesn’t matter or you can’t help give it up? Have you been struggling with un-forgiveness or any matter in your life and you find it hard to let go? You need to surrender all to Him now, all, not 99%; so that you don’t loose all. You repent, confess and ask Him to take over from here.

Have you being struggling with God’s will in your personal life? For your marriage, ministry, etc? No pretense, it’s not easy but it’s easier to surrender to God than to struggle. Jesus understands, He has been in such situation before and He wants you to visit Gethsemane as He did; where He surrendered all to His Father’s will saying, “Not as I will, but as You will.” Do not continue to struggle with God's will for your life, it is a sorrowful life.

When we surrender our struggles to God in sincere prayer and confession, He gives us the strength that will sustain and hold us through it all, no matter how difficult. And at the end we shall sing songs of praise and victory! Take it all to God in prayer with all sincerity and surrender; He is waiting for you right there!

“Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.” 39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” - Matthew 26:36-39

“Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” – Luke 22:43, 44

" Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16.

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HELL IS FOREVER!
Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT." Just look how the Bible warns of the eternity and permanence of hell:

everlasting fire - Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment - Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains-Jude 1:6
eternal damnation -Mark 3:29
eternal judgment -Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire -Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire - Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched -Mark 9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
fire unquenchable - Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever - 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever - Jude 1:13

What could possibly be worth eternity in hell? No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"

Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this THE JUDGMENT"

Friend, it is appointed unto man once to die . . . and one day — YOU will die . . .
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments . . .

But God is a God of LOVE. . . Why would a GOD OF LOVE send me to hell? Yes, God is a GOD OF LOVE — but God is also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD demands payment for sin. Otherwise God would NOT and could NOT be HOLY.

Because God is holy — sin MUST be condemned. Joshua 24:19 says, ". . he is an HOLY GOD;. . . he will NOT forgive your transgressions nor your sins."

BUT FRIEND I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
God does NOT want you in hell because hell was not made for man. Matthew 25:41 says, hell was, ". . . prepared for the devil and his angels:"

Because God is a GOD OF LOVE, and He LOVED YOU so much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die a cruel death on a cross to pay the price a HOLY GOD demands for your sins.
Roman 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. God does not send someone to hell. You choose hell when you reject Jesus Christ. When you refuse God's love gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. . .

DON’T GO TO HELL!
Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview,” I’m looking forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I belong." You say —a fool! But friend, when you say "No" to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin — you are saying the same thing! "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them, become a new creature in Jesus and you will be saved from the terror of hell.

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YOU HAVE GOT TO AHEAD!
It was a wonderful and funny experience I had that evening around 5pm as I was driving home. The rain was just dropping and suddenly it became so heavy that I could only manage to see ahead, I had to put on my full light and the emergency light also as the wipers were working at the highest level. As the rain continued to pour heavily, I was thinking of parking aside, I don’t like driving in the heavy rain especially after I watched this movie, 90 minutes in heaven, (LOL). The sky was cloudy as the heavy rain continued, but as I looked ahead I saw a bright sky, so I felt I should continue driving. As I continued driving in the heavy rain and cloudy sky, within few seconds, I found myself in a dry, bright, sunny sky without rain. It was a surprise to me, from heavy and cloudy sky rain to a dry, bright sun sky. I was like, “Thank God I didn't pull over in the rain. And do you know that the same thing is applicable in our Christian race?

WHEN THE CHRISTIAN RACE GETS TOUGHER
Sometimes the Christian race gets so tough that we could barely feel the power of God and hardly see the possibility of God’s promises, when flesh becomes so tough to subdue, when Satan becomes more roaring to resist, when walking with God becomes so tedious and tiring, when working for God becomes so difficult and waiting on the Lord becomes so annoying like wasting time and when heaven becomes so far away, do you know what we are to do? It is not to pull over or pull back or look back, we are to do what Jesus Christ did. In Hebrews 12:2, the Word of God admonished us to “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith" meaning we are to look unto Jesus and do as He did when things were tough for Him during His earthly ministry, we should look to the secret of His success during His earthly ministry when things got so hard and tough, here it is in that same Hebrews 12:2, “Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Jesus Christ looked beyond the cross, and He saw the joy, of salvation of many souls, the rewards, and glory, so He was encouraged to endure the cross and despise the present, passing shame of the cross. And so we are to follow His steps, we are to look ahead of the present situations. Look ahead to the eternal joy that is set before you in heaven, of the rewards in heaven and eternal blessing of being in the present of God for ever and ever and ever. And why should we not endure the temporal cross and difficulties, why are we not going to despise the passing shame of the world? By God's grace we will!

Are we going to fall back from the race to heaven because of the present pressure of sin and persecution of Satan? Are we going to forfeit the mansions, crowns of glory and eternal joy of heaven? Are we going to forsake our precious salvation and covenant of total faithfulness to God because of these temporal, screen-saver earthly gains? Are we going to miss the glorious heaven and mess up in the gloomy hell forever? NO! God forbid! By His grace, in this Christian race, we will not pull over, we will not pull back, we will not fall, we will not faint and we will not falter. When flesh becomes so tough to subdue, we will plunge into unlimited God’s grace and put the flesh to death. When Satan becomes more roaring, we will resist him by faith in Christ, not by our power. When walking with God becomes so tiring, He will renew our strength to fly. When working for God becomes so difficult, we are going to look unto Jesus Christ, we are going to wait on Him and He shall take us to His Father’s house of many mansions, and there we shall be with Him and reign with Him forever and ever. Amen!

Satan is a bad Satan but God is a good God, Satan is a liar and way of death but Jesus Christ is a Way of Truth and Life. And so we are not going to join the stupid generation who choose death instead of life, who choose sin instead of salvation, but we are not going to turn back like many others. By daily prayer, daily Bible reading, daily watchfulness and daily available God’s grace, we are making it, I am making it and you are making it to heaven.

You know what the Bible says in the same Hebrews 12:22, “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. Amen!

It also says, “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.” Hebrews 12:28.
Amen!

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A SUCCESSFUL SINNER
Recently I got to know a Christian woman who is also a businesswoman. She has been doing her business and established her successful financial company in Nigeria. But her running business involved some little lies and false information that hunt no one but just to things presentable to Government agency regulating the sector, without that, it would be impossible to successfully run the company, in fact the, the Government agency officials usually teach them how to "work things out."

Going to her office few months ago, the big and beautiful office she built for years is now dry and semi-empty, why? Because she stopped the false information and those "little" lies, and immediately the business ran down, because it's not possible to run such business with lies. She was determined to make heaven and make things right even if it will cost her to lose everything and trust God for everything.This made me to think seriously.

Are there not many successful Christians in business, career or even in workplace with sinful means. Yes, people are celebrating you as a successful person, you are making it in business, in your career; yes, you are getting contracts, yes you got the good job, and your family, friend, brethren in the church are celebrating you as a successful person, but you know within you that the means by which you get the success is sinful. You know what? You got to chose to amend your way with God, let go of the sinful success and let God take control from here, or you continue in sinful success with no hope for eternal life.

Many are getting or keeping their success and blessings by sinful means, yet they are celebrating and testifying in the church, they are ignorant that such blessings or success are not from God but from Satan. When you get your success through telling lie of any kind, running business through lies or false information, falsifying information, documents, changing your age, state of origin or by giving bribe/settlement, by sexual immorality, by joining occult group, by stealing company's or Government's money, or any fraudulent means, as long you continue in such situation, you have lost any hope of heaven, no matter how committed you are to God's service and to people.

You need to face the reality, are you not ready to let go of the whole world and gain heaven? Will you not let go of the job, sinful connections and business and save your soul from eternal condemnation? What shall it profit you after you get all the blessings and success and land in hell fire? Are you thinking of what people will say, of how you will start again if you let go? Is't not better to start afresh with God than to continue on that broad way of sinful success that leads to eternal sorrow?

It's not too late for you now. You can surrender all to Jesus and let Him take control of your life from here. He has a better plan for you and beautiful heaven prepared for you, if you humble yourself and let go of the sinful success and ways....God bless you as you obey.

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I have never seen anyone who has genuine encounter with Jesus for salvation arguing that alcoholic drink is not a sin.

Some years back, I had argument with someone who claimed alcoholic drink is not a sin as long the person is not drunk. He quoted from Bible that Jesus turned water to wine and all that. But later the Spirit of God told me not to waste time to argue with people of such, that "Arguing with people who say alcoholic drinks are not sin will never save them, and that when they are genuinely saved they will not argue about such thing"

People who says a child of God can still drink alcohol moderately is not yet saved in Christ, no need to argue with them, because that will not save them. What they need is salvation in Jesus, when that happens they will not have problem with dropping anything that has to do with alcohol.

A saved person in Christ does not take alcoholic drink, not even moderately, those who do take it are mere religious Christians.

Someone who is saved in Christ has nothing to do with alcoholic drink, and an alcoholic drinking person has no salvation in Christ.

When Wisdom Is Profitable For Nothing
It's a common Bible verse with many Christians and Non-Christians to quote that "Wisdom is profitable to direct" Ecclesiastes 10:10. But the unfortunate matter is that many times people quote this Bible verse, the wisdom they are using is profitable for nothing.

When the wisdom you are applying in your life, marriage, business, ministry, relationships, or in your career is against the word of God, such wisdom is profitable for nothing.

You may gain many things through worldly, smart, devilish wisdom, but you will lose everything at the end and be left with nothing but regret.

Any wisdom that involves telling lies (No matter how little) is against God's word, it will profit you nothing at the end.

Any wisdom that involves bribing, falsifying information, or giving false document will profit you nothing at the end of your life.

Any wisdom that involves sexual immorality to get your way, such will profit you nothing but eternal damnation.

Any wisdom that involves cheating will leave you with nothing at the end.

The conclusion is that, in all your getting, get the wisdom from God, that will get you all round profit - gaining the blessings of God on earth and gaining eternal life.

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Proverbs 9:10.

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HOW TO BE SAVED AND START A NEW LIFE IN JESUS!
Dear reader, it’s by God’s mercy to exist to this time, Satan’s plan for us is to die in sin and doom forever in hell fire. Without genuine salvation, there is no way we can escape the judgment of God, so count it as a great privilege to have this opportunity, and so you need to make the best use of it for your salvation and new life in Jesus.

How can you have genuine salvation that will guarantee eternal life with Jesus and grant you the grace to overcome sin, Satan and self? Please follow the following steps:

No Excuse, but admit it.
If truly you need God’s mercy to pardon your sins and give you grace to overcome them, then you need to face it by yourself and acknowledge your sin. Don’t excuse sin because everybody is doing it - in your church (even your pastors, parents or partners), in your family, in your place of work, etc. Don’t says, “Does that means everybody doing it will go to hell fire?” Yes, everybody can go to hell and God will still be righteous. Jesus said instead of you to be thinking how many will be saved, YOU strife to be saved NOW. Don’t excuse sin because of its popularity, it’s in person - you, face it. And sin is sin, either small or great, there is no difference, you just be sincere and confess it.

Psalm 51:3
For I acknowledge my transgressions,
And my sin is always before me.
4 Against You, You only, have I sinned,
And done this evil in Your sight

Make a Genuine Confession
Do you wonder why you’ve made several confessions of your sins and yet you still have guilt of those sins, you still go back into such sins, and your salvation is not certain or you find yourself going back into your sins? It’s simple: you didn’t make genuine confession. Genuine confession is not just using the name of Jesus, not answering alter call and so on. Take the next 2 steps that lead you to genuine salvation in Jesus Christ:

First Repent before You confess.
There are many fake confessions, but if you sincerely want to make acceptable confession, you must first repent. No need for you to confess if there is no repentance in you. Repentance is thoughtful realization of your sins and determination to forsake them. If you confess without readiness to forsake the sins you confess, you are simply wasting your time, and the sins will soon get you down. To repent is not to be sorry for your sins, if you are sorry without readiness to forsake all, you will have a sorry case and that is not a genuine salvation. Humble yourself before God now and surrender all.

Proverbs 28:13 He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

Pray It All
Now all you need to do is to go before in prayer as you confess your sins and ask God to forgive you through His Son Jesus Christ. Tell Him you are sorry for how you have lived and all you have done, ask Him to cleanse you by the Blood of Jesus and give you a new heart and a new spirit. He will do it as He has promised in His Word saying, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9.

Now is the time for your salvation! Do not delay further, do it now, don’t allow Satan to distract or delay you, because another chance may not come. You can pray the prayer for the next 5 to 10 minutes.

Have you prayed the prayer for your salvation? Then let me pray with you:
“Lord Jesus, thank You for dying for our sins, thank You for coming to seek us and counting us worthy to be saved. You promised that if we come to You, You will not cast us away; that if we admit and confess our sins, no mater how many and how terrible, You will forgive and cleanse us. So I pray for this beloved, as s/he has repented, confessed and asked for Your forgiveness, save her/him and give her/him a new nature of Yours to live for You from today. Thank You Lord because You have answered, for we prayed in Jesus name. Amen.”

Now You Are saved!
Now, you are saved, you are born again with a new life by Jesus Christ. You need to start the new life guided by God’s Word. You have to disassociate and detach yourself from old lifestyle; old things that are not according to God’s Word and friendship that can pull you back to old life in sin. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” You can’t continue in your old lifestyle anymore, you are now a genuine, heaven recognized child of God and your life must be guided by His Word. You need to be reading Bible every day and praying about your new life. You should be reading at least 2 chapters of Bible everyday and take time to pray for your spiritual growth and daily strength; you can start from Matthew chapter 1. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding before you read and pray after you finish reading. Pray for God’s grace and Spirit to live daily according to His word and to overcome every temptation on your way, and be watchful every time at every situation in your new life in Jesus!

As you have now started a new life in Christ Jesus, heaven is rejoicing over you as your name is written in the Book of Life. Look only unto Jesus, not any man or any pastor. There are many false teachings everywhere because we are in end time, so let the Bible be your supreme guide!

THE STORY OF MARTHA & MARY
Distraction In The Presence of The Lord
Luke 10:38-42

This is a short study about two sisters with different perspectives and orientations. In the Book of Luke 10, it was written in verse 38, “Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.” From here we could see that Sister Martha was a disciple of Jesus Christ, and Jesus knew her house. Moreover, Martha had a sister with her, called Mary, she was also a disciple of Jesus, “And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word.” Luke 10:39.

When Jesus visited these two sisters in their house, they displayed different attitudes towards Him; while Mary diligently sat at the feet of Jesus Christ to learn the Word of God, Martha was busy with other stuffs. “And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me.” Luke 10:39, 40.

Why would Martha get herself distracted right in the presence of Jesus while her younger sister was diligently learning at the feet of Jesus? Could she be doing something reasonable? Maybe was a very hospitable woman, busy preparing food for Jesus and His disciples? She was so busy with what she was doing that she couldn’t cope alone, and she was not happy with her sister leaving her alone to the plenty works, so she had to report Mary to Jesus and requested that Mary should come to join her.

As many others would say that Martha was busy preparing food for Jesus Christ to eat. So can we say Martha was wrong to have been busy preparing food for Jesus and His disciples? No! that would not be a wrong thing for Martha to do, but could that have cause her to be distracted? To human eyes, we may justify and excuse people for their actions; people may hide under justified activity to excuse themselves, but God see beyond the outward. To human eyes, we can say Martha was busy doing the right thing, but Jesus sees beyond the outward.

Can we blame Martha for being busy for the welfare of Jesus? Was that the cause of her busyness? The true picture was revealed in verse 41, “And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.” The issue with Martha was not not being busy for Jesus, she was not busy about preparing something for Jesus, but she was worried and troubled about “many things.” Many things? Where did she get many things in the name of serving? And why was she worried, even to the point of being troubled while her sister was hearing the Word of God? It was as a result of distraction from Jesus.

DEVOTED OR DISTRACTED?
Many Christians and ministers of God today claim to be devoted to God’s work while they are actually distracted from God in the real sense. Here are common distractions mistaken to be devotion to God:

Busy But No Fruit Bearing.
You are a worker, leader or minister in your church, you are so committed to God’s work that you don’t have enough time for your personal life. You are really busy for God’s work and many appreciate it, but what about your personal relationship with Jesus? Are you bearing the fruit of holiness and righteousness as you are busy working for God? Can your spouse, parents, friends, family members, workers, fellow students, co-workers, neighbors and maids at home see the fruit of godliness and holiness in your life? Or you are just busy without bearing fruit worthy of repentance? Busy working for God without bearing fruit worthy of your calling is a plain distraction and self deception. Until others see Christ in you, you cannot see Christ at the end.

Busy But Not Building.
Martha was so busy serving that she did not have time to learn at the feet of Jesus. If you are a worker or minister of God in your church or anywhere, and you are so busy with different programs, preparations and meetings that you don’t have good time for personal Bible reading, Bible Study and good time to pray, because many things are in your care, and many people are waiting for you, it means you are distracted and not devoted. It is of necessity to build yourself up daily in the Lord with good time for personal Bible Study and prayer, before you can build others in the kingdom of God. The day you get so busy that you skip your personal devotional time in order to serve, is a day of distraction from God, even if people are blessed mightily in your ministration or serving.

Busy But Guilty
The system of many churches today has turned to mere serving without caring if the services are acceptable by God. Many Christians work from Monday to Friday, they don’t have time for their family throughout the week, and Saturday and Sunday which they need to spend time with their family, they get themselves busy with several activities and meetings in their churches. As a godly woman, how will you be so busy in your church that you forget to go home early to prepare food for your husband and kids? As a godly man, how will you be too busy and indispensable in your church that you don’t have time for your wife and with your children on Sunday? Sunday is a day meant to (i) serve God, (ii) rest, and (iii) have time with family and friends. That was the original purpose of Sabbath. Exodus 31:15. When we are too busy to fulfill these, then we have become distracted.

DEDICATED OR DISTRACTED?
You have a career or a business; you have children to cater for, these are good, but when you are too busy serving at work or at home that you don’t have good time for God in daily Bible reading and prayer, then you have been distracted. People may say you are a dedicated mother, others may see you as a diligent business person or career person, but before God, you a distracted person, as long you don’t have time with God before you rush out in the morning, and you are too weak and sleepy in the evening.

Whatever our professions, our positions, or our places, what we must daily put as priority is our personal time with God before anything. No matter how busy the schedule or situation, do not be distracted from your daily reading of God’s word and good time to pray. A day you rush time without time with God is a distracted day which can lead to spiritual destruction.

When you take God first in your day, your day is secured with God. People observed John Wesley that the days he would have a lot to do were the days he would spend more time in his quiet time in the morning; because he knew without the help of God, nothing would be achieved. What can we achieve from the day without God’s help? What can you receive if God does not give you?

Your personal relationship with God is more important than anything. You will be wise to care for your eternal soul more than your temporal business, job, or whatever. Because you can survive if all those things are taken from you, but one things is very important that should not be taken away from you, and that is your personal relationship with God for eternal life.

Luke 10:41, 42, “And Jesus answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE FOR GOD'S MINISTERS
The owner of a distributing company of our products in US was so diligent and working hard to see things successfully work out, later I got to know that he is the present President of Baptist Convention of a major state in USA, having 100 churches under his supervision and he told me before the end of his tenor as the state President, he hope the churches reach 300 in numbers.

Then I wonder if American minister who has many things easy for him financially could plan and work towards his financial independence, what about us in Africa?

This elderly man is a busy man with different activities in the churches, meetings and travelings, but he care to establish his company so he can independently take of his missionary partners in different countries and his families without compromise.

Apostle Paul, with all his busy mission and ministry activities could still work with his two hands for his financial independence, he said, "Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me." Acts 20:34

Many ministers of God have limited themselves to what they can get through people or what they can sell in the ministry, which is wrong, which is the reason many can't boldly preach the whole truth, which is the reason many are turning their ministry to business, selling everything "sellable" in the ministry.

The truth is that a minister of God, like Apostle Paul, can run a small business outside his ministry and then run a free of charge ministry without selling anything in his ministry and without begging for his ministry or family to survive.

That is the reason God is leading us to organize this seminar: FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE FOR CHRISTIANS AND MINISTERS.

In this program we are going to share how to start and run business in good and godly way successfully, with different business ideas including farming, We going to do enlightenments on productions of some products such as foams, mattresses, Balms, Lubricant oils, etc. and also on effective marketing strategies.

Date: Monday Oct. 2nd 2017
Venue: Institute of Church and Society, Samonda, Sango/U.I road, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria.
Registration Condition: Registration is free but you must register before the date to make proper arrangement.

To register, send your name and location to Evangelist Shola Oyin-Adejobi on 08132914000

Guess Room: If you are coming from afar, you can call the Evangelist for room booking, the Institute has cheap guess room.

Facilitator: Gideon Akande.

God bless you!

POLLUTION & PERVERSION: FIGHT WITHIN
In our Christian walk with God and work for God, the enemy of our souls will not relent, using different devices and means, and so the Bible strictly warns us not to be ignorant of them because such ignorance is very costly. Looking from the book of Nehemiah, after the people of God were mocked and attacked in order to abandon God’s way and work, they didn't; so the devil brought about the most terrible device against them which is fight within through pollution and perversion.

Through lessons from history, it is easier to resist and overcome fight outside than the fight within. As a child of God with a resolute mind to serve and live for God, it is easier to resist the devil outside than inside. As a church standing on the Word of God, it is easier to fight Satan to flee away than to fight the battle within. The children of Israel conquered all the enemies but they could not conquer themselves.

The people of Nehemiah resisted Sanballat, Tobiah and the Arabs, but they would have to resist perversion and pollution among them. After they overcame mockery and conspiracy, they must overcome their selfish and sinful interests.

Nehemiah 5:1, 6-8, “And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren. 2 For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live… And I became very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. 7 After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, “Each of you is exacting usury from his brother.” So I called a great assembly against them. 8 And I said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?”

Pollution and perversion are the last but not the least among satanic devices; it is applicable in personal and ministerial walks.

Personal Walk
As children of God, dedicated to live holy and righteous life, after we fight opposition from people, after we resist temptation for sexual immorality, lying, drink, fighting and other outward sins; after we have settled restitution and resolved matters with people, having done all, we must stand against the wiles of the devil within. Many believers and ministers of God overcome outward sins but are careless to resist the devil within.

There are two types of sins: Maximum sins and minimum sins, also outward sins and inward sins; all unrighteousness is sin, and sin is sin with capacity to drag one to hell, no matter how small. Most time we focus on maximum and outward sins and we become careless about inward sins, many ministers are free from outward sins but are slaves to inward sins. As the examples given about bitterness, a child of God may not revenge or repay evil for evil, but if he or she allows bitterness, Satan has eventually won the battle. Among children of God today, among ministers of God, many claim to be holy based on outward sins but fail to look inward and be watchful.

In our personal walk with God, after we overcome outward sins and opposition, Apostle Paul admonished us to still stand and watch against the wiles of the devil because it does not end outward. Here are some of the inward sins we must daily watch against:

Ephesians 4:31 “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.” Bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking – gossip, backbiting, envy, jealousy, etc – must be put away, because the tendency will always come without notice in our personal relationship and in the work of God among other workers and ministers; watch out, they come on a daily bases.

To overcome bitterness, the solution is forgiving one another. To overcome wrath, anger, and clamor, the solution is to be tenderhearted. And to overcome tendency of evil speaking, the solution is kindness to one another. These are stated in the next verse to Ephesians 4:31, verse 32 says, “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”

Do you know as times goes on in your Christian life, it may be easier to resist telling lies than to resist envy and jealousy? And worst still, do you know that it is easier to develop envy and jealousy among brethren and ministers than among family members and unbelievers? It is also easier to develop bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking after we have become mature in the Lord than when we first gave our lives to Jesus; it is easier among the workers and ministers of God. In the parable of the workers of the vineyard, the old and long time workers were rebuked of such evil. Matthew 20:13 But he answered one of them and said, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 15, “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’”

Along our Christian walks and ministerial works, if care is not taken, we can become evil, evil speaking, envious and jealous. The only remedy is selflessness and watchfulness.

SOLUTION
Continuous watchfulness against such notions and constant prayer of sanctification are the solutions.

Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, we have come to you, we have surrendered our lives to You. We want to walk with you and work for You, so we ask You to sanctify us within and without, help us to watch daily against every pollution of soul, of mind and of the spirit. We ask in Jesus name. Amen

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THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO MAKE HEAVEN
The race to heaven is narrow, the kingdom of God suffers violence, right, but you just need these three things in your life after you surrender your life to Jesus, and heaven is sure and certain. The foundation and basic thing is your genuine salvation, you need to dedicate or rededicate your life to Jesus first before you start the race. So, after you have experienced salvation or rededicated your life to Jesus afresh, you go ahead with these things and heaven is sure, no matter what! Let's see those three things:

From the book of Luke 21:36, "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

From this verse, we see three things: The Word (Jesus Christ), WATCH and then PRAY. These are the three things we need on daily bases to make heaven. Let's start with prayer

Pray Earnestly Every Day
A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian. For you to overcome past sinful natures and resist the present temptations, you need the strength of Holy Spirit, and you get this strength through prayer. Many Christians are ignorant of "daily" prayer in their Christian living. Luke 22:, 41, "And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed.....Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground"

Jesus Christ prayed to prevailed. For you to prevail over sin, self and Satan, you need daily and earnest prayer. No matter the addicted or persistent sin, daily prayer over it prevails.

Do not waste your time praying over enemies and others, your priority in your prayer should be on your Christian life, for grace and strength to live victorious life. When you are having struggle with any particular sin or temptation, take it to God in prayer. Praying every morning before you start the day and evening before you sleep is not to fulfill all righteousness but to present your spiritual weaknesses and issues to God and receive strength. It is not possible for you to live a consistent Christian life without consistent prayer life. Never miss daily prayer, both in the morning and evening. Start with 30mins prayer and move on from there.

Read Bible Every Day
"How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word." Psalm 119:9.

For you to grow in the Lord, to live a victorious Christian life, you need to read and mediate on God's word everyday. You cannot resist the devil without the Word in your heart, not just in your brain. You must read at least 2 chapters of Bible everyday, at least. The Word refreshes, empowers and enables you to move on without falling. Before you read your Bible, you need to ask Holy Spirit to teach you, and read without distraction. Mediate what you read and write some down.

Watch!!!
"Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night." Nehemiah 4:9.

After prayer and Bible reading, you must watch against wiles of the devil day and night. Do not relent or relax, because devil doesn't. You must be watchful to apply God's Word into your life. Watch over your heart, your thought, your tongues, your tones, your temper; watch against sinful tendencies and resist them. To watch means to detach from people or places, to delete any thoughts within or materials without and destroy anything that will lure or lead you back to sin. To watch also means to resist, reject and refuse sinful demands and desires. Never entertain the thought again, never give room to the devil, and never move close to the appearance of sin. WATCH!

With these three things, victory is certain and heaven is sure. But only sure if you have experienced salvation as the foundation. If you have not surrendered your life to Jesus completely or if you have been rising and falling into sin, all you need is to start afresh by dedicating or rededicating your life to Jesus and have a better start. You realize, ready to forsake and confess your sins to Jesus, and ask Him to forgive and cleanse you, to save and give you a new heart and spirit.

God bless you!

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REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE
“Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32.

At this point and period of time, if there is any message to remember, if there is any warning of the Bible to remember, it is the warning of Jesus Christ to remember Lot’s wife. When this world is coming to a predictable end, when the Anti-Christ is set and the agents of 666 mark and Great Tribulation are ready, when God has made the message clearer that the rapture is about to take place any second from now; if there is anything to remember, it is to remember the warning of Jesus Christ to remember Lot’s wife.

At the point when God was to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, the Angels of God came to rescue Lot, his wife and two kids. After the warning by the angel not to look back to the perishing Sodom, Lot’s wife looked back because of the possession and prosperity of Sodom and she perished with the Sodomites.

My friend, this is not an exaggeration and it’s not to frighten you, this world is about to crumble with all the people therein, the predicted, prophesied end of the world has come but Jesus will first come to pick, rescue His holy children through rapture before it will crumble. With what is happening around, even the blind can see that the end has come, with all the news and revelations around, even the deaf can hear the emphatic warning from heaven that end has come.

Jesus want us to look away from all the cares of this world because they are about to perish, Jesus want us to surrender all our sins and excuses now so that they will not hold us back from being raptured. It is either you learn from Lot’s wife and be wise or you are left behind. This timely warning is applicable to all, irrespective of your Christian life or level.

So, what shall we do? Here are the things you urgently need to do now if you don’t want to perish with this perishing world:

R E P E N T
No need to pretend but repent, no need to proof and no need to procrastinate, you need to repent now, and we all need to repent. This is not just the incessant confession of sins; repentance is realizing your sins as sins and ready to forsake them. Your confession will do you no good if you are not ready to forsake them and start a new life, if you are not ready to surrender all. Everyone needs to repent and every sin needs to be repented of. The serious sins and simple sin, common sins and general sins; secret sins and open sins, normal sins, it-doesn’t-matter sins, and besetting sins. No need for further delay, no need for comparism game, and it is foolish for anyone to be fooling himself now by saying, “this is my weakness, every body has a weakness, and no one is perfect” That little weakness has the strong capacity to hold you back from the rapture. Now is to repent from all forms of sins and worldliness.

R E D E D I C A T E
Every one has to rededicate his or her life to Jesus afresh now and start a new life of holiness no matter your position, possession or popularity. If you are a child of God, you need to still rededicate your life to God to search and sanctify you. Proving and pretending will cause you great havoc at this time. Humble yourself!

R E S T I T U D E
Many Christians will miss the rapture because of undone or procrastinated restitution. Satan is deceiving many Christians that restitution is not necessary, that God has forgiven you all and no more condemnation. But you can be wise. You need to make right the existing wrongs of the past. Don’t be deceived but do it now. Put your life in order for the rapture is about to take place, so that you will not be found wanton.

R E V I V E!
Repent from all forms of sins, rededicate your life to God, re-consecrate your life to Jesus and be on fire for God and be fervent for Him. Go extra miles. After you surrender all, read your Bible every morning and evening, pray first and mostly about your Christian life and growth, go stronger. Preach the message of repentance and rapture to people; we can’t overdo it because rapture will only happen once. Don’t compare yourself with others, whoever. Let people call you fool, don’t mind them, they will soon see who fool is after the rapture. People also called Noah fool but when the Flood came they got to know who actually the fool was. They called Lot fool, you also be a fool to this present perishing world and be wise to God in your life, in gentleness, sincerity, purity, openness and simple life. Let your purpose of living, focus of life from now, and your expectation be to meet Jesus pure. If they say your own is getting too much or you are going too far, tell them you just started, because you have got to go far from Sodom before the destruction will take place. Take the things of this world with loose hand and hold strongly to holy and godly living.

Even with all that is happening everywhere in the world, many are being fooled by the devil through the deception of riches and cares of the world. The truth is that they cannot spend the money they are saving now after the rapture except they receive the mark of the Ant-Christ, they cannot use the cars, houses and all the possessions Satan is using to delay their salvation and distract them from serving God wholeheartedly. What a foolish generation! But you will be wise now, won’t you?

Luke 17: 29, but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife. 33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35 Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36 Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.

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BABA APERIRE VS BABA ADEBOYE (Part 2)
This is the second and last part of this Message.

In the first part, I shared about Baba Aperire who is serving God in a remote village of Lafiade, abandoned the luxury and necessities of the city and serving God in the Bush. And on the opposite side is Baba Adeboye who is serving God in the city but needs some necessities of private jets and others to effectively serve God.

Now I need to clarify this: God can call someone to serve Him in village and another person to serve Him in the city, but the issue is that we must serve Him in moderation in line with the word of God.

The work of God still involve stress, hardship and sacrifice, either in the city or in the village. When a minister of God want to get everything necessary for easy work of God, then somethings are wrong.

Some people are saying private jets, exotic and expensive cars are necessary for God's work, I ask, are they serving people or people are serving them? When it is too stressful for a minister of God to take public flight, then somethings are wrong with those ministers. The problem of these ministers is not private jet but worldliness.

Some people say Pastor Adeboye and other private jets cabals in the ministry have suffered before so they are eating the past labor. I ask, is it in this world Jesus promised to prepare mansions for us or in heaven? Is it in this world we are going to fly with private jet or at the rapture?

Those ministers who are rewarding or receiving reward of mansions, private jets, exotic cars have received their rewards on earth already, they have nothing to receive in heaven, that is the reason they preach more on earthly things than heavenly things, because they have no heaven to go. Watch it, all these private jets pastors in America or Africa predominantly preach prosperity and earthly blessings, how often do they preach on holiness, restitution, contentments, rapture, second coming of Jesus?

Some said pastors receive private jets as gifts, not that they bought it by themselves, then I answered, "The worst level a minister of God can find himself is to receive every gift offers to him" So if they were Elisha, they would definitely have received gifts from Naaman. They collected private jets gift because they feel they needed them, if they saw private jets unnecessary, they wouldn't have collected it. So they don't only buy or collect one, but two, three, and more.

Now, let's go back to the story of Baba Aperire vs baba Adeboye, and let me ask you this simple question and I need your sincere answer. If God should ask Baba Aperire in Lafiade village to move to the city and tells baba Adeboye to move to the village with the same lifestyle of Baba Aperire, how easy would that be for baba Adeboye? To take public trucks and buses to village and live there, somebody who find it too stressful taking 5 star commercial airlines.

That is reason we need moderation to serve God acceptably, either in the city or in the village, so we can easily adjust to any situation in God's work.

Apostle Paul said, "Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:11-13.

Can your Daddy G.O, senior pastor or bishop say the same thing like Paul? Can a pastor living in mansion, flying with private jet say the same thing as Paul said it? Think about it.

Call into Christian ministry is a call into Christ's army, to be a genuine minister of God is to be a soldier of Christ, well trained to adjust and endure any hardship, and there is no graduation in serving until you endure to heaven. Not that you serve to a particular point and expect to be served and play seniority and lorship over others, that is a common heresy in ministry today, that you will not find Bible training for soldiers of Christ.

When you are called into ministry, you are called to serve, not to be served, you are called into moderation - not necessarily being poor and never being wealthy and extravagant, but godliness, contentment and moderation.

2 Timothy 2:3-5, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules."

God bless you.

Please note that the story of Baba Aperire is from a Christian movie "The Forgotten Ones" by Mount Zion Faith Ministry. Nigeria.

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THE TRUE GOSPEL OF THE BIBLE
Note: You must read every Bible reference in this teaching from your own Bible.

Bible verse: Mathew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Jesus Christ came into this world with the greatest blessing for mankind, which is the Gospel! it is a great good news, there had been no such news on earth before Jesus Christ was born into this world, since then no news is as good as the Gospel till He will come back in His second coming. This good news is available for all mankind irrespective of their nation, colour, background or how sinful and terrible their lives have been. This is the greatest good news any man can have in his life

From the beginning of the earthly ministry of Jesus, He presented the Gospel in a clear and simple words and way in Matthew 4:17 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Jesus Christ said, “repent” but something has happened before He declared, “repent” He said, “for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” On the other way, we can read it as “Because the kingdom of Heaven is at hand, we must repent.” What caused Jesus to call us to repentance because the kingdom of heaven is at hand. This is the first preaching of Jesus Christ on earth.

So the Gospel contains two features: One, the kingdom of HEAVEN is at hand, and Two: Repent.

The Kingdom of God is at Hand – meaning the FREE AVAILABILITY of the kingdom of heaven to everyone who cares to enter through the only Way – Jesus Christ.

Jesus brought the Kingdom of God to all human being at their very disposal. Since the fall of Adam, there had being demarcation between God and man, that humanity lost the free access to fellowship with God. Human being trying to seek and serve God by human power will avail to nothing. There is no way any religion can gain us access to God.

But Jesus Christ came down from heaven to restore the lost access to God, He did not only bring it to the children of Israel alone, but to all mankind, that the kingdom of God is now at your disposal, God came in form of a man to restore us back to Him - that is what Gospel is all about, restoring us back to God freely. Now the kingdom of God is now available to everyone at their fingertips, it is at hand- freely available!

It does not matter where you come from, it does not matter where you were born or which religion you were born into; it does not matter rituals or things you have dedicated yourself into or the covenant you have made with the devil; it does not matter how terrible or sinful you are, the salvation of Jesus Christ is made available to you right where you are and how you are. Read Titus 2:11. You don’t need to find a temple or go to Jerusalem before you meet God, you don’t need a priest, pastor or prophet to help you pray to God, He is at hand – available where you are. All we need to do is to talk to Jesus Christ who is at hand – present everywhere – from our hearts and tell Him we want to accept the salvation He has brought to us. This is the first point of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, its availability to all, irrespective of who we are or where we are or what we have done – Gospel for all!

The second part of the Gospel is REPENTANCE.
Repent! Jesus Christ said, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The kingdom of God has been made available to us freely without discrimination, by Jesus Christ, and then He is demanding us to do our part by responding through repentance. Repentance is the only acceptable way of responding to the free Gift of salvation of Jesus Christ. Without repentance, there can never be genuine salvation in Jesus Christ. To repent is to realize our sinful life, to be ready to let go of the sinful life and start a new life in Jesus Christ. It involves being sorrowful of the past and being sincere with our present condition as sinner and unworthy, and to be ready to surrender our onward living to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.

Now, do you know why many who claim to be Christians are not genuinely saved, the reason why people keep confessing their sins and yet keep committing the sins? You know why people keep confessing and answering several altar calls, yet they are not sure of their salvation? The reason why people pray the prayer of salvation and yet get back to old sinful life in few hours later? It is because they did not repent, they only confess and claimed. You cannot come into the kingdom of God with your old ways of living simply by confessing.

It is not just to be sorry for our sins, but we must be ready to forsake them and determined to start a new life in Jesus Christ. Confessing sins without genuine repentance of realization of our sins and readiness to forsake them will only lead to a sorry case – keep confessing and keep committing. We must first repent before we confess our sins. The first thing Jesus Christ asked us to do was to repent, thereafter confess. Confession of sins 100 times without genuine repentance will never result into salvation.
It may seem impossible to start a new life in Jesus, but it is possible by God’s grace, all we need is to repent and surrender all to Jesus. We do not live righteous life by our power, but by the empowerment of God’s grace. Please read Titus 2:11-12.

This is the complete message of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ – salvation is available to all men and women, and repentance is the means to receive the salvation. God does not condemn us with our sins, but He is calling us to Himself with all our sins and unrighteousness, and when we come, we come through the door of repentance for transformation, to realize the danger of living in sin and to forsake the sin so that we don’t continue in same sinful life. We don’t need to be righteous before we come to God, Jesus did not come to call the righteous, but the sinner, He does not condemn sinners. Salvation is a free gift of God to all. So He does not condemn us in our sin, but He does not want us to continue in sin after we come to Him. Jesus came to the world to save us from sins, which is what is called salvation, to be saved from sins and serve God in righteousness. Read Luke 1:74, 75.

The truth of the Gospel of the Bible is:
1. God has made salvation available to all men and women through Jesus Christ. – John 3:16

2. God does not condemn sinner from coming unto Him, irrespective of their past and present. Matthew 11:28.

3. God calls all men to repentance from sin so we do not continue in sinful life. Acts 3:19.

4. God does not condone sin after we have come to Him. Romans 6:1-2.

So the summary of Gospel of Jesus Christ is NO CONDEMNATION and NO CONTINUITY IN SIN. If we truly come to Jesus Christ through genuine repentance and we confess our sins, we must strive by watchfulness and prayerfulness not to continue in sin again. Genuine repentance brings about grace of God, and we cannot continue in that grace and in sin at the same time.

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THE TEST OF TRUST
Exodus 15:22, “So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.”

Before God can entrust greater things into your hands, either in your personal life or in the ministry, He will first teach you how you must trust Him with all your heart and then test if you will eventually trust Him with all your life. The Lord taught and tested the children of Israel in the wilderness, but unfortunately majority of them failed and so they fell in the wilderness.

Do you know that God knows your needs before you are aware of them? Yes He does! God knows you needed a life partner even before you saw the need for it, He knew you would need children when that was like the least thing you thought about. As a woman, God gave you womb since childhood, even when you did not need the womb, because God knew you would need the womb to conceive; God did not give you womb after you are married. And so it’s applicable to all our needs. God knows what we will need and He has made provision for them even when we do not see the needs.

God brought the children of Israel from Egypt to journey in the wilderness to the Promised Land, as all-knowing-God, would He not have known that they would need water to drink in the wilderness? But God wanted to teach and test them to trust Him, so He delayed the provision of the water. If the children of Israel were to trust God, they would have cast their need before God in prayer, who just delivered them from the Red Sea and from the bondage of Egypt; but if they were to doubt and disbelieve God, they would complain. Unfortunately, they doubted God, and so they complained. “Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” Exodus 15:23, 24.

The reason why God delayed in any aspect of your life as a child of God is not because He is trying to denying you, He is not trying to disappoint or destroy you, but He wants to test your love for Him, because He has a special copy of what you need for you, and He wants to know if you actually deserve it. In such a delayed period, if truly you love and trust God, you will keep praying and keep patience before God, and keep working for God. You will not allow the need to drain your love for God, you will not allow the urgent needs to discourage you from working for God with all your strength, and you will not allow the need to drift you into sin against God.

From the Genesis of the Bible, wherever there is a delay for children of God, it means there is a peculiar portion on the way; what it means is that, delay usually serves as a sign for something special for the people of God, from Abraham to Zacharias. In the New Testament, this man called Zacharias was a just man, serving God. He married a godly woman called Elizabeth from a good home of Levi. They were both serving God. Now, who do you think is supposed to get the fastest blessing? Is it not the families that are serving God? Yes, but not always the way we expect it.

Luke 1:5-7, "There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years."

Probably Elizabeth was a virgin, kept herself for her husband, no premarital sex and no abortion; while her friends were messing around, she was only serving God and keeping herself. She was faithful and fervent in the Lord. Now she is married and no child. But her friends who were messing around before marriage, whom she was preaching the word of God to, were easily having their babies in their different matrimonial homes; these friends committed several abortions and slept with so many men, yet they don’t have problem with childbearing. But why is Mrs Elizabeth Zachariah barren while her unbelieving friends are bearing many children? The truth is that all her friends can give birth to many children but none of them can give birth to John the Baptist, the greatest man born of woman.

Only Elizabeth could give birth to John the Baptist, because her womb was reserved for that special child. But God would not just give John the Baptist to any woman to give birth to, God would want to see if Sister Elizabeth really deserves it. So, God’s delay is to determine if you deserve the best.

Can God entrust you with the best? Then you will have to trust Him with every bit of your life in the time of trial. Zacharias and Elizabeth kept serving God even when they were having delay, they were not discouraged; they did not compromise and they did not allow the delay to distract them. "So it was that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, 9 according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord." Luke 1:8, 9. It is actually in serving God during the delay that God serves you with the best.

What is your delay? No job? No healing yet? No spouse? No child or what? As long you are a genuine child of God, God is reserving you for the best, get it clear. So, don’t be discouraged. Everything works together to good for them who love God. But you may think, “But is there any good that can come out of my worst situation? Things have gone beyond retrieve, I’m embarrassed and ashamed already, it is already sealed and no solution anymore, all I care for now is just to make heaven, after all”

Beloved, your thinking is humanly right, but biblically wrong. From the history of the world till the world will come to an end, there is no crime as worst, as evil and terrible as the killing of Jesus Christ, to kill the only sinless Man ever born and ever existed on earth; for creatures to use their created hands to slap their Creator and crucify Him on the cross in a painful death. Oh how terrible! But out of the worst historical event, God brought out the greatest historical blessing – salvation of humanity. So, if God could bring good thing out of the killing of Jesus, if God could make the greatest crime on earth to bring about the greatest blessing of justification, then the same God can work good thing out of your worst condition at the moment, if only you can trust Him and stay faithful to Him.

Romans 8:28, 31, 32, 35, 38, 39.
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or unclothedness, or peril, or sword? For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God’s delay is to determine if you deserve the best. So wait, and I say, wait on Him! Just wait and trust Him, and see the wonders of God in your life.

Stay blessed in Christ

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WHEN GOD CALLED ME...

When God called me into the work of ministry, He didn't say, "Gideon, go and be nice and familiarize with this sinful world" But to "Rebuke the world of sin"

When God ordained me as His minister, He didn't ask me to go and motivate or entertain people in their sin, but to call them to repent from their sins and turn to righteousness.

God didn't call me to tell people sweet things and give false hope in their sinful and ungodly manners, He didn't call me to give false peace and proclaim prosperity without purity.

Here is the message and mandate of God for me and every genuine minister of God:

“Cry aloud, spare not;
Lift up your voice like a trumpet;
Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins." Isaiah 58:1

Do you see there, He said, "Tell My people their transgression,
And the house of Jacob their sins." God said, "My people" the people of God who have been deceived, who have gone astray, the chosen ones, the deceived elects, who have copied the systems of the world.

I'm not here to tell people about prosperity and peace in sin, I'm not here to tell people about God's promises of blessings in their worldliness; I'm not here to motivate you in immorality and manipulate your emotion and make you scream "WOW, THIS IS SWEET, PREACH IT!" I'm not here to tell you what you want but what you need.

Yes, you are one of God's people, but you must know your sins and where you have fallen short, repent and do the work fit for repentance.

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me."
- JESUS CHRIST. "Revelation 3:19, 20"

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