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RESERVED FOR THE BEST

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 serve 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 suppose 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 deserve it. So, God’s delay is to determine if you deserve the best.

God bless you!

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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 serve 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 suppose 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 deserve 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 bibically 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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A regional agent comes to introduce another territorial agent as the best.....Jesus is coming soon, and all these satanic agents will end their missions in sorrow. Prosperity, demonic teaching of once saved, saved for ever, the teaching of grace and continuity in sin, immorality, freedom of masturbation, freedom of divorce, occultism, luxury lifestyle, etc; these are already shaking the unstable souls into hell and eternal damnation.

THE PROSPERITY MINISTERS
"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

Who are the prosperity ministers? The prosperity ministers are those ministers who center their preaching, prayers, messages, drama, songs on earthly things or preach and pray more on prosperity than purity, on earthly blessings than beatitude, on healing than holiness, on faith than faithfulness, on grace than work of righteousness, on favor than fruit of the Spirit, on making it in life than making heaven.

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 NEED TO LET GO OF PEACE AND CHOOSE HOLINESS

Have you taken note of this Bible verse of Romans 12:18 which say, “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.” What does this means, “If it is possible?” and “as much as depends on us?” We should live peaceably with all men. In a simple indication, what this Bible verse means is that there some times that it’s not possible, depending on the situation and circumstances, that we cannot have peace and holiness with people at the same time. Peace and holiness go together, Hebrews 12:14, but sometimes, it is not possible to have peace and holiness at the same time with people, in such situation; you will choose holiness and let go of peace.

Peace Or Pieces?
When you get to a junction whereby for you to peacefully live or relate with some people, you will have to compromise your faith, then you better let go of such peace. In your family, when your parents say you must deny Jesus or your standard of holiness if you want to peacefully live with them, then you must let go of peace and choose the right part of holiness. When your husband says, “If you want to peacefully live with me in this house, you must……. Do something against the word of God” then you must not settle for such temporal peace. When your wife says, “Oh, if you want peace to reign in this house, you better do this or that – what is against the path of righteousness” then you forget about such fake peace.

In your place of work or anywhere you are, when people are giving you condition of peace that will make you compromise life of holiness, then you need to let peace go and stand for holiness and righteousness. What is the essence of being at peace with human being and then at war with Almighty God? Because when you compromise the word of God, the standard of holiness just because you want to be at peace with your parents, your spouse, your boss at work, your co-workers, your fellow students, you are already positioning yourself at war with God.

It’s not always possible to be at peace with all men when you want to uphold the word or will of God, that is the reason the Bible says, “If it is possible” Romans 12:18, so the possibility must depend on the standard of God and not wishes of men. When the Word of God clashes with the wish of men, we must let go of peace with men and let them come with their persecutions, at the end, we will have a permanent place with God in heaven.

Any peace deal that will make you compromise your faith in Christ or the standard of holiness is not a genuine peace, it will only pieces your life in eternal pain and sorrow.

Reaching A Compromise Or Reaching A Condemnation?
It’s good to reach a compromise with people in some situation, maybe with your business partners, clients, customers, or with your spouse, parents or the person you want to marry; but don’t reach the level of condemnation, don’t reach a compromise that involve compromising the standard of righteousness or the word of God, that is condemnation.

We must not please men to displease God, we must not deny Christ to friendly deal with people, we must not sin against God in the name of socializing with society, and we must not accept any peace with human being that will turn us against the Word of God.

Romans 12:18, “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.”

1 Timothy 6:13-16, “I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, 15 which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

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CAN A CHILD OF GOD INVOLVE IN MMM, BETTING OR LOTTERY?
One of the evidence of the evil of love of money is desire to get money without any process of working to earn it; it is like getting a product without process of production, it is called a short-cut of getting money or get-rich-quick. God does not bless people in such way. Getting money through unclear, unclean or illegal means is originated from Satan to deceive and destroys the souls of people.

WHY A GENUINE CHILD OF GOD CANNOT INVEST IN MMM
– IT’S ILLEGAL AND ACT OF COVETOUSNESS

MMM is a Ponzi scheme, which is an illegal investment scheme where the person or organization running it pays returns to existing investors from capital paid into it by new investors, rather than profit actually earned by the company itself.
Typically companies running such schemes offer higher than usual profits.

When you are promised 30% monthly return of your investment, the first thing a child of God will care to know is what does the organization really does? But when you are given or promised a profit without production or legal investment, it means you are part of illegal activities – what is not approved by Government, and you are covetous - you don’t care if they really make profit or not, if they are real or not, if they invest or produce anything or not, but as long you get money, that is ungodly act of covetousness. God does not bless in such way and anyone who has the Spirit of God will never be involved in such thing.

WHY GENUINE CHILDREN OF GOD CANNOT INVOLVE IN BETTING, LOTTO OR LOTTERY
-THOUGH THEY ARE LEGAL BUT THEY ARE ACTS OF COVETOUSNESS

Football betting, lotto or lottery is all about gambling. The word gamble means “to risk something of value on an outcome that depends on chance.” God’s blessing does not depend on chance, when people begin to seek for money by involving in activities like gambling, then there is a demon of covetousness behind that.

Any activity that involves gambling is ungodly because gambling is not part of the system of God, but covetousness which is unduly desire to get money, gain wealth through a short-cut means – a product without process of production. Playing the lottery as a get-rich-quick scheme is statistically futile, and it focuses the lottery player on the temporary riches of this world (see Proverbs 23:5). The fact is, God wants people to earn their money honestly by working hard: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). We ought to gain wealth through diligence, as a gift from the Lord: “Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth” (Proverbs 10:4).

Gamblers, including players of the lottery, typically covet money and the things that money can buy. God forbids covetousness.

1 Timothy 6:9, 10, “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. 10 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.”

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PRAYER WITHOUT OBEDIENCE
Obedience to God is more important than prayer to God. When you ignore to obey God’s word, and you keep praying, it means you are doing vain repetitions. Maybe you suppose to repent and confess your sin, but you ignore that and keep praying for God’s mercy, such prayer is vain repetition. Some people commit sins, and instead of them to open up, confess to God and the necessary people, they keep praying for forgiveness and mercy – they are doing VAIN repetition. We can only receive mercy when we confess and forsake our sins. Proverbs 28:13.
When the Spirit of God is leading you to open up your covered sin or to do restitution, but you refuse to obey, and you keep praying for mercy, mercy; you are only doing vain repetition. Obedience is better than sacrifice!

Maybe you are living in sin, living with sinful partner, doing a sinful business, working at an ungodly place, using fake document, age or you are benefiting from your past sin; then the Word of God is warning you to forsake the sins and forfeit the sinful benefits and surrender all to God, but instead of you to simply obey, you remain in the sinful thing and you keep fasting and praying for God’s mercy. Such prayer is a waste of time and a vain repetition. Some even go to the extent of giving huge amount of money and time for God’s work, thinking God will consider that and overlook their disobedience; they are ignorant that God cannot be bribed by fasting, long prayer or sacrifices.

Obedience to God’s word is more important than prayer and fasting, than sowing or giving for God’s work. Your pastors or your church can accept your gifts and pray for you, but you are not at peace with your Creator until you simply obey. Matthew 5:23, 24, “Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”

Prayer should be made continuously without ceasing. In any particular request, we should keep asking, reminding God until our joy is full - that is faith repetition not vain repetition. Keep the Word of God in total obedience, keep the faith, and keep praying until your joy is full.
John 14:13-16: And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever.

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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 the work of redemption. At Gethsemane, He did not only expressed His struggle to God but He also surrendered His struggle, His wish and want, to God’s will. Have you been struggling with your life, living in sin? 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 your situation, 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.

Are you rising and falling into sin and you feel like giving up this Christian journey of heaven? Don't! All you need to do is to visit Gethsemane, a place of total surrender for genuine salvation.

Do you feel weak and like giving up to Satan's deduction into sin? You feel like you can't resist the devil, the sin again? Even if you are weak, the Lord will turn your weakness to strength, all you need do is to quickly visit Gethsemane, a place of renewing strength, Jesus is waiting for you there.

Are you really struggling with God's will in your marital life, ministry or career, or you are confused on which way to choose? Then save yourself of those confusion and struggle, just visit Gethsemane - a secluded place where you pour all your struggles, weakness and confusion to God without pretense, and all matters will be settled right there.

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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A PLACE TO VISIT WHEN.....

Are you rising and falling into sin and you feel like giving up this Christian journey of heaven? Don't! All you need to do is to visit Gethsemane, a place of total surrender for genuine salvation.

Do you feel weak and like giving up to Satan's deduction into sin? You feel like you can't resist the devil, the sin again? Even if you are weak, the Lord will turn your weakness to strength, all you need do is to quickly visit Gethsemane, a place of renewing strength, Jesus is waiting for you there.

Are you really struggling with God's will in your marital life, ministry or career, or you are confused on which way to choose? Then save yourself of those confusion and struggle, just visit Gethsemane - a secluded place where you pour all your struggles, weakness and confusion to God without pretense, and all matters will be settled right there.

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.

God bless you!

DELIVERANCE BY HOLINESS
“But on Mount Zion will be deliverance; it will be holy, and Jacob will possess his inheritance.” Obadiah 1:17

About 3 weeks ago, on 18th of Oct. this year (2015), I received a text message on my phone, it reads,

“Sir, I need deliverance from ogboni cult group. Our leader is a spirit being that has power to command anything; he can appear and reappear anywhere. He lives in the air, many pastors are members too and top politicians in this country. I want to leave them but am afraid because of the covenant and oath I took with them”

I later called him, and let him know that there was no prayer or deliverance program that could deliver him except salvation in Jesus Christ, that genuine salvation in Jesus Christ would not only deliver him from evil group but deliver his soul from eternal judgment. I also told that this salvation is not a shortcut for relief temporal attack, but a total surrender to the lordship of Jesus Christ – meaning that he should make a decision for genuine salvation in Jesus Christ that will transform him entirely, not just a means to be free from evil group. He was ready to surrender his life to Jesus Christ, I told him to forget the issue of the evil group and focus on his relationship with Jesus and his eternal life in Him. He prayed and surrendered his life to Jesus Christ.

After praying with him and leading him to Jesus Christ, he asked, “what about the cult group, the covenant, the demonic leader?” I told him not to be concerned about that, but to focus on his personal relationship with Jesus, reading his Bible, studying it, and making amendment of his life, that it is not his responsibility to be concerned about the evil forces, God would take care of that, but his concern is to start a new life of holiness and righteousness. At initial he was so afraid to talk with me on phone, saying the group was monitoring him, but I made him to understand that Jesus was with him to save him more than the demons that would destroy him.

Since then we have been talking on phone, his spiritual life has been going forward, he started doing the necessary restitutions, confessing to his wife all his unfaithfulness, and all others. The last time he called me about 3 days ago, he has been doing fine in the Lord, I asked him about the demonic evil group, and he said he never heard from them again. God has been wonderful!

PERMANENT DELIVERNACE
If you found yourself in cultic or any evil group, they may tell you there is no way out! Yes, there is no way out except Jesus Christ, He is the only Way, Truth and Life. What you need is simple – Genuine salvation in Jesus Christ. You must genuinely repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them and start a wonderful new life in Jesus Christ. You don’t need a pastor or bishop before you do that, you can do that right away and Jesus will set you from, not only from that evil group but from all your sins and eternal sorrow.

PERSISTENT BONDAGE
Many people are suffering from bondage and attacks of enemies, they are looking for deliverance, and many churches and pastors and misleading them with all sorts of “enemies fall down and die”, fasting and prayers, anointing program, deliverance services, and etc. while those people continue in sins and worldliness. What type of deliverance are you looking for while you are still under the bondage of sin? The all-round deliverance you need is salvation in Jesus Christ. I am not talking about answering altar call, but genuine salvation that starts a new life in Jesus Christ.

Many people do not understand the meaning or magnitude of this salvation in Jesus. When you are genuinely saved, He delivers you from sins and every form of bondage of Satan and enemies, physically and spiritually, sickness, past covenants and commitment, and you become a new creature in Him, He begins to fight your battle for you; your only fight is the good fight of faith. No genuine child of God is bound to remain in bondage of attack, curse, evil covenants, and hereditary curse or evil, because everything has becomes new in Christ, and greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4.

BUT WHY?
But why do we see many children of God being attacked by evil forces, suffering from hereditary curses? The answer is simple – it’s according to their faith. Many are ignorance of the victory in Jesus Christ, they live in perpetual bondage even in the freedom in Christ. Many churches are misleading people that salvation in Jesus Christ cannot totally set them free every bondage. It will only be according to your faith – what you believe is what becomes of you.

When the boat of the disciples was sinking on the lake, they were so afraid and troubled, then they cried to Jesus for help, but Jesus did not say the situation was normal, but he asked them, “Where is your faith” Luke 8:25. So, it is possible for Jesus to be present in the boat of your life and still sink, simply because you’ve lost your faith. It is better you get your lost faith in Him before you get lost.

Faith in Jesus Christ means being victorious in Christ over Satan, principalities, powers, evil people, program, plans of enemies. You see, Satan will not first attach a child of God except he first attacks his faith in Christ. When your faith in Christ is not victorious over all, then you will be defeated at some point. If you or your pastor makes you believe that generational curse can still have power over your life after you are saved, so it will. If you believe enemies can attack you, so it will be. That is the reason you see the set of Christians who pray problematic prayer never stop praying such prayer, because they are never free. It will simply be according to your faith.

I heard a story about a pastor; a young girl who was possessed of evil power walked to him and asked him, “Sir is there anybody that evil power cannot overcome?” The pastor said no, that anybody could be attacked and overcome by evil power. The pastor was attacked and killed that same night, because he confessed it by himself.

Deliverance does not come by all these problematic enemy fall down and die, special deliverance program, prayer city Mountain and marathon prayer, but total deliverance comes by genuine salvation in Jesus Christ.

NOTE: Many Christians also remain under bondage of enemies because of unsettled restitution, while they are busy praying and fasting for deliverance. Unsettled restitution exposes believers to old curses, covenants, attacks and persistent bondage of the devil and loss of heaven at the end.

CONCLUSION
If you are in any evil cult or covenant, the only way out is salvation in Jesus Christ through repentance, and that you can do now! If you are suffering from any attacks of the devil or if you want to live a victorious life in Jesus and live in eternal blessing with Him, surrender all to Him, start a new life in Him, settle every restitution, serve the Lord and stand firm in faith!

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WHY MANY KEEP RISING AND REVERTING TO SIN AFTER SALVATION.
- What You Need To Do TO avoid Falling Back into sin

Many people desire to serve God and live life of holiness. Many, knowing fully well that the only way to escape eternal destruction and danger of hell is by serving God, but they can’t why it is difficult for them to serve God in genuine salvation without falling back into sin. Many people have tried several times to repent and confess their sins but they can’t understand why they keep confessing and committing the same sins, why they keep reverting back to sinful vomit or why they are only struggling with their Christian life and can’t stay long. Answering altar for salvation many times but can’t resist temptation of sin.

On the other path, some are serving God in a way but they always find themselves back to the old addicted sin that is serving as a stronghold in their Christian life. It could be a sin of masturbation, fornication, adultery, pornographic, anger, etc. and unfortunately many have been discouraged by the devil to abandon their desire to serve God. The devil may tell you, “See, you are not meant for this Christian life, no matter how many times you try, and you are always a failure, you are too weak spiritually for God’s standard, just stop deceiving yourself.” Such thought is from the pit of hell to discourage and destroy you.

The Lord is revealing to you right now why you keep confessing and committing sins, why your Christian life is always forward and backward, why you keep falling back into those sins, and why you have not be able to steadfastly serve God. There are three things you lack all this while and when you understand these 3 things now, your Christian life will never remain the same again, you will experience total deliverance from sins with the peace and strength of God to serve Him for the rest of your life without falling back again. Here are the three things you need:

GENUINE REPENTANCE
Before you can experience genuine salvation and serve God in righteousness, you must first experience genuine repentance – which is the foundation of salvation in Christ. There is difference between repentance and remorsefulness, which is difference between Peter and Judas Iscariot. Genuine repentance is to realize all your sins and ready to forsake them. If you only realize the immediate sins, maybe like masturbation, fornication, and you ignore some other sins, you are not genuinely repenting so there will not be genuine salvation. If you realize all your sins and you are not ready from your heart to forsake those sins, you are not repenting; you are only being remorseful or being sorry for your sins and such will not bring victory over sins. Genuine repentance that guarantee total freedom from sins is to realize all your sins – both small and great, serious ones and simple ones, and ready to forsake them.

This is the first step into total freedom from sin and genuine salvation that guarantee eternal life. Before you confess your sins, before you answer altar call, you must first genuinely repent in this respect so that your confession will not be empty. Confessing sins without genuine repentance of realizing all your sins and readiness to forsake them all is a waste of time. How you keep confessing sins without first repenting from those sins.

The false gospel of this modern day that leads people to altar-call and confession of sins and confession of Jesus Christ as the Savior without first teaching and leading people into genuine repentance is satanic manipulation to give people fake salvation and false hope in Jesus. No matter how many times you confess your sins, no matter how much time you answer altar call or repeat prayer of salvation, without genuine repentance, you will keep confessing and committing the same sins.

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

AFTER YOU ARE SAVED
After you genuinely repent, confess your sins and saved from sins, you will need two things to do and keep doing for you to maintain your salvation. It is a bad news that many people are saved but they lose their salvation and fall back to old bondage of sin because they lack the understanding of new life in Jesus Christ. It is possible for you to be saved in the morning and lose the salvation in the evening if you don’t take these two necessary steps. Salvation is conditional, not an unconditional certificate.

Many people do experience genuine salvation but fall back into sin because they fail to take these two steps after they are saved. And the same thing is applicable to falling back into addicted sins.
Failure to do the right things after you are saved will lead you to fall back into sins you have rejected. Let’s look at the Word of God, Matthew 12:43-45:

“When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

This reveals why many people who were genuinely saved usually fall back into sin. Behind every sin is an unclean spirit, and when you genuinely repent and experience salvation, the unclean spirits will go out of your life, including the addicted sins, and your heart will be swept clean and in order, but if you do take the right steps of total separation and devotion after you are saved, some forces of those sins will come back and you will fall back into old sins.

So if you don’t want to keep rising and falling, if you don’t want to keep falling back into the addicted sins, you need SEPARATION and DEVOTION after you genuinely repent from all your sins. Let’s look at them one after another:

SEPARATION
After you have experienced genuine salvation, the first step you will need to take immediately is separation, you must separate yourself from every connection to old sinful life, from things that will not help or support your new life in Jesus Christ such as worldly music, movies, magazine – you will delete or destroy them; you will immediately stop going to places that will not help you spiritually includes worldly churches. You must detach yourself from people that will not help your spiritual life, friendship or relationship. You must destroy every sinful, worldly or cultic material in your possession including all the worldly dresses, clothing, jewelries – you don’t keep them or give to people, but you get rid of them completely and immediately.

After you experience salvation, failure to separate yourself from old sinful and worldly things and people will lead you to fall back into sins. Instead of you to move forward with Christ in new life, those things or people will pull you back into darkness and your old vomit. That is what Apostle Peter says in 2 Peter 2:22, “But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

Every Christian journey that will successfully lead to heaven must daily involve separation as a continuous exercise. Separation from worldly, sinful things and people is not only for new convert, it is not only useful for us at our early Christian level but continuously till we get to heaven because when you separate yourself from this sinful or worldly thing today, the devil will introduce another thing tomorrow. That is the reason the Bible warns us to daily search ourselves so as to continue the spiritual exercise of separation. Unfortunately many long-time Christians and Christian ministers are majestically marching straight into eternity without realizing that the devil has implanted some ungodliness, uncleanness or worldliness into their lives, because they fail to exercise daily spiritual checking for separation.

DEVOTION
Salvation in Christ is the beginning of new life as the foundation of our faith, separation is your commitment to settle your new life and devotion is your consecration to God to seal your new life in Christ Jesus. Devotion unto God involves three things:

(i) Daily prayer. To maintain a victorious Christian life, you need a fervent prayer life, praying for God’s sanctification, strength and grace every day; praying for the spiritual understanding and knowledge of God to help you avoid errors. A heavenly minded Christian must spend much of his prayer time on his spiritual life, but the carnal minded Christians pray more about earthly stuff, blessings, provision, and attack against enemies. You must pray morning and evening about your new life in Jesus, let your spiritual life be your priority in your daily prayer, and every other things good will follow. Prayer strengthens us to resist the temptation of sin. Matthew 26:41. “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

(ii) Daily Bible Reading. It is a must for you to spend at least 30mins daily to read and meditate the Word of God. Don’t just read, but prayerfully read and meditate, thinking over and over the Bible passages as you read until you understand and take note. The Word of God helps us not to fall back into sin.
Psalm 119:9-11,
“How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10 With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11 Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

The more you read and meditate the Word of God, the more you are being purified and renewed in the Lord.

(iii) WATCHFULNESS. Watchfulness is simply to work out your professed salvation with trembling and godly fear. It means to carefully apply the Word of God you read and the grace of God you receive through prayer into your daily living. That is when we become fruitful in the Lord. So that the grace we receive in prayer and the strength we receive in the Word of God will not be in vain, we must be watchful how we live our lives, how we talk, how we behave, how we response to people’s provocation, how we abstain from distance appearance of sin, how we dress, cloth we wear, the motive behind our dressing, the motive behind our desire for money, all these must be controlled by the Word of God – this is what watchfulness is all about.

Genuine repentance to salvation in Christ Jesus, total Separation from worldly and sinful things and people and complete Devotion unto God through daily prayer, Bible reading and watchfulness. These are the steps we must daily and carefully take in our journey to heaven.

“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:8-11.

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WHY MANY CHRISTIANS WILL MISS THE RAPTURE!
“Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Luke 13:24

Since Rapture will not happen twice, but once, wise Christians will do more to focus and strive to be counted worthy. Why will many miss the rapture even after they are born again and serving God? Here are 7 common reasons in which any of them can hold back a Born again Christian:

(1) UNDONE RESTITUTION Acts 24:16
After you are genuinely saved, there may be some wrongs of the past that need to be corrected in your present new life in Jesus. Restitution includes restoring things wrongly acquired, revealing lies and deceptions and reconciling with people we offended, and also forgiving with all our hearts people who offended us, no matter how terrible. Forgiveness from the heart is part of restitution and many Christians, ministers of God will miss rapture and heaven just because of un-forgiveness and bitterness. Matthew 6:14, 15.

UNPAID & INESSENTIAL DEBT, when you have the power to pay but postponing or does not want to pay, this can hinder Christians from being raptured or entering heaven. And a serious minded Christian will be wary of unnecessary debts of buying inessential stuffs in credit.

(2) JUST A LITTLE SIN Galatians 5:9
Many will miss rapture and entrance to heaven not because they are not born again and serving God, not because they are committing serious sins, but just because of a little, besetting sin, just little but too heavy to hold people down from making rapture. Can you imagine that wearing tight clothes, tops that show a woman's cleavage or transparent clothes would hinder so many godly sisters from making the rapture? When the Holy Spirit calls your attention to the little sin, you excuse yourself that it doesn’t matter, everybody is doing it or it is your own weakness since everybody has a weakness. It may be little anger, envy, jealousy, even in the work of God. Little, little lies, using people’s or your office’s materials for your personal purpose without taking permission. You think it doesn’t matter? It does. Let’s repent NOW. Common sins will commonly hinder common Christians and ministers back.

(3) LITTLE WORLDLINESS 1 John 2:16
Little worldliness will hinder so many Christians from making the rapture. This little worldliness does not matter to many Christians and churches today. The worldly music which you call normal, worldly movies, magazines (fashion, entertainment or pornography), TV programs inspired by Satan (American Idol, African Idols, Big Brother Africa, MTN Project Fame, Gulder Ultimate Search, Dance shows, African magic, animated cartoon, etc. ) Also worldly dress (wearing tops, blouses that show the trace of your breasts as a woman or that reveals your back, tight, transparent or shot dress) Many Christian women are tapped by Satan with worldly dress unknowingly but they will know after the rapture. Those who have died have gotten to know already but too late.

(4) OVER CONFIDENCE 1 Corinthians 10:12
Over-confidence will hinder many believers from entering heaven. You see the shortcoming of others without seeing yours, without daily searching your life with the Word of God and prayer for forgiveness and daily sanctification. This category of people believe they can never make mistake after they are saved, they believe they are once and entirely sanctified and no need for daily prayer for cleansing and sanctification, they are bound in bountiful hypocrisy which is one of the most terrible sins- hypocrisy. Believing that you can’t make mistake after you are saved is a serious mistake. Tenderness and watchfulness serve better.

(5) UNCONFESSED SIN 1 Timothy 5:24
Unconfessed sin remains a secret sin. You did something wrong and you realize it and confessed to God but concealed it from people, you refuse to confess to necessary partners or people even after the Holy Spirit has ministered to you to expose it, you are listening to the wrong preachers and your wrong motive and defending yourself that you have confessed to God so that should settle it. This will block many ears from hearing the sound of the Trumpet of rapture. Please, you must confess to one another, James 5:16, as the case may be, why will you miss rapture just because of this little shortcoming?

(6) LITTLE COMPROMISE 1 Corinthians 5:6
Little compromise at workplace, in your business, to get contract, job or promotion; little compromise to get your documents and papers - being smart. Little compromise in examination hall, in marital relationship or in your tithes and offerings; these little, little, overlooked stuffs will hold and hinder many Believers and Ministers from making heaven. If you are careful, the compromise of your society, of your church and idolized Pastors will not infect and affect you.

(7) LACK OF LOVE 1 John 4:8
Do you think it’s possible to make heaven without love? And does your life shows the love of Christ? Please read 1 Corinthians 13:1-8. Most churches and Christians lack love. Love is kindness and expresses goodness to all men, especially brethren, it helps and shares. The syndrome of “sowing” into the lives of big pastors, the several church projects and personal projects have blinded many Christians from loving and helping people around them.

Purity without love is hypocrisy, love without purity is lust, but real purity means PURE LOVE. Christian life without love is hypocrisy.

Please, we should all search our lives with the light of God’s Word, let’s repent now and confess and correct everything as the Holy Spirit calls our attention. Irrespective of our spiritual attainments and positions, God is not a respecter of any man. As long you still see yourself as a little child in God’s hand, you must be humble and careful enough to look into your life. Let’s ask God to sanctify us, and let’s also be more watchful from now, be more vigilant and prayerful everyday as we ask for God’s grace and mercy to be counted worthy, we all need these, we are all striving and no man is a superman, until we get to heaven. May God help us and see us through to the end in Jesus name.

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1 Peter 4:7,“But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”

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When church started ordaining people who were not called by God as ministers, the church was warned but they didn't listen, they said as long the people are born again, can quote Bible, can speak good English, have academic qualification or are automobiled, they can be ordained as ministers. So the church continued ordaining everyone willing to become a minister, and here we are today in spiritual recession instead of revival.

Secular knowledge, academic qualification, personal interest joined with physical capacity without divine calling into ministry will never enhance divine manifestation but mere grammar.....no one takes this honor for himself except those who are called by God.

Those who enter into full time ministry without God's calling and commission will experience spiritual commotion and recession.

G R A C E !
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not!" Romans 6:1, 2.

The grace which Jesus Christ brought to us is not a license to continue in sin, the gospel of grace is not a privilege to continue confessing sin and committing sin. And so what is grace then?

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is the supernatural strength to resist Satan, to reject sinful desire from ourselves and refuse sinful demand from people. You cannot be a heavenly recognized Christian and continue in sin at the same time; you cannot have the grace of God upon your life and continue in sin at the same time, God forbid!

What makes the difference between a sinner and saint is the grace of God; both sinner and saint are human beings, and both are daily exposed to sin, but grace of God empowers the saved to deny every sinful demands and to do the will of God.

We receive the grace of God through genuine repentance of our sins and confession to accept Jesus Christ as our Lord. If somebody claims to be a Christian or a minister of God and continues in sin, it means he has not experienced the grace of God. So, have you received the grace of God to live above sin since you have been a Christian? Are you living daily by the grace of God to live godly life or you are living on the ground of modern and misled preachers that you have the grace to keep committing sin and confessing and continue in the same sin?

The grace of God does not cover sin, but it empowers us to deny sins and serve God in holiness and righteousness. We should plead for God's grace by repentance, and we should keep praying for God's grace every day to overcome every sin.

Titus 2:11, 12, " For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age."
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YOU NEED TO KNOW THESE REALITIES
Genuine prosperity does not come by praying or preaching more about prosperity, you can check those prosperity pastors and their members, who focus more on prosperity, they tell lies, cheat, bribe to get contracts, they change their age and personal information to get job, they bribe and commit sexual immorality to get job, promotion, and some even join occult group to get wealth in their businesses, careers or profession. And these people still claim God’s prosperity and share testimonies.

Genuine deliverance and victory over evil forces does not come by continuous or daily prayer against enemies or by prayer of “fall down and die” or by focusing on such prayer, you can check those who are in such ministry or system, they are never delivered, they are never free from enemies, the more they pray such prayer, the more they are afraid of evil forces, some of their men cannot even go to barber shop for haircut, they are afraid lest the barber use their hair for rituals; they can pray and fast for 100 days, but they are never free, they never stop praying to be free, they never believed they are free, and they never re-direct their prayer and preaching on heavenly things.

Don’t be among the ignorant in this end time, don’t be among the foolish virgins; be wise and be warned.

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Matthew 6:33

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GRACE WITH LABOUR (2)
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“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10.

Grace enhance more labour, it does not reduce labour, because more labour that get more fruitfulness.

THE PURPOSE OF GRACE IN MINISTRY
The purpose of grace in the ministry is for salvation of sinners and edification of saints, anything apart from these is eternally useless; it is also for self-sacrifice in the work as Paul said he labored more to serve people and not for people to serve him. The abundant grace of God in the ministry is not for motivation of sinners and distraction of saints from heavenly focus, it is not for a minister to amass wealth or exercise lordship, it’s not for self-serving system opportunity for pastors and leaders in the ministry. The grace of God in ministry is given free of charge and it should be used freely from charging.

The purpose of grace in ministry is not to be famous, not to make fortune or to make followers or fans but for salvation of sinners and edification of the saved.

The effect of grace in ministry does not imply that the ministry will be less stressful physically, but the more grace you have in the ministry, the more labourous and productive you will become. The purpose of grace in the ministry is to labour more in the vineyard of God, but unfortunately many are misusing the grace of God in their ministries. When God releases His grace on a minister in any ministry, He expects him to make use of that grace for kingdom productivity - winning souls, edifying believers, and extending the kingdom of God on earth. This grace of God in the ministry can be spiritual gifts, divine capacity or signs and wonders, but the biblical primary purpose of this grace is for the salvation of sinners and edification of the saved, any effort made apart from these are in vain.

THE PURPOSE OF GOD’S GRACE IN OUR PERSONAL LIFE
In our personal living, we receive grace of God at different levels, and the purpose behind the grace of God in our lives is to use it to glorify Him by, 1, living our lives to please and, 2, leading people to God through the grace. When God gives you grace to perform well in your schooling, the purpose is to use it for His glory. I remember when I was in a particular school, I was performing well as the best student, and I was respected by my fellow students, so I used the opportunity to share the word of God with them; that I would stand in front of them and they would keep quiet and wanted to listen to whatever I wanted to say was a great opportunity to use the grace for God’s kingdom.

God can give you grace of good position in society, in organization or workplace, this grace has a purpose, and the purpose is to use the grace for God’s kingdom, not for yourself, not to be in vain but to use it to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. When God place you in any position, it’s a grace, you are to use the grace to reach out the word of God to sinners and to establish the kingdom of God in that capacity, don’t let the grace be in vain.

Grace can also come in times of getting a job or favour in your place of work, like Daniel, you must not misuse the grace, you must not let the grace given you by God go in vain, but you use it for God so He can give you more. First, use the opportunity of your job, promotion, position or favour you are getting to preach Christ to the unsaved there and live a life of Christ before you think of any personal benefits. When God gives you the grace as a teacher, do you use the opportunity to reach out God’s word to those students?

In our businesses and careers, God can give us grace, the purpose is to use it first for His kingdom’s glory by using the opportunity to share and spread God’s word with people there, it is not to eat the blessing and forget the gospel. The grace that God gives you to be connected with some people in the society, in your workplace or school should not be in vain, but you should use it to share and spread the word of God to them. Don’t be too much particular about what you will get than what the kingdom of God will gain.

God has given my wife and I a small company, when people order for products we try as much as possible to include a gospel tract with the products, and so that is how we are reaching out the word of God to people and homes who never would have had access to the word of God. I believe many have read the message and are saved. Great and small people in society, Christians and Muslims we supply also get the message. By so doing, the grace of making sales that God gives us will not be in vain, and God may want us to sell more so we will be able to share His word, and so God gets more glory and we get more blessing by His grace.

I went to a printing office sometimes ago and I talked with the manager who is a Christian if they can change their TV cable to a Christian cable so that everyone who comes in will watch Christian movies, and she said no, that some of their customers are not Christians and so they don’t want to sound religious. So the grace of God upon that business is in vain. And many Christians are ignorantly doing the same today; they think they are being wise; they don’t want to interrupt their job, position, contracts, sales, career or business with the gospel of Jesus. Some are afraid that if they share gospel with their unbelieving clients or connected personalities, they will lose them; not knowing that God connected them with such people in the first instant for the purpose of reaching out to them with the gospel, and when they fail to do that, the grace of God will be in vain over their lives.

CONCLUSION
We must be ready to use the grace of God to expand the kingdom of God on earth, either in the ministry or in our personal lives; the grace of God must not be misused or go in vain.

2 Corinthians 6:1, “We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.”

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THE PURPOSE OF GOD’S GRACE IN OUR PERSONAL LIFE
In our personal living, we receive grace of God at different levels, and the purpose behind the grace of God in our lives is to use it to glorify Him by, 1, living our lives to please and, 2, leading people to God through the grace. When God gives you grace to perform well in your schooling, the purpose is to use it for His glory. I remember when I was in a particular school, I was performing well as the best student, and I was respected by my fellow students, so I used the opportunity to share the word of God with them; that I would stand in front of them and they would keep quiet and wanted to listen to whatever I wanted to say was a great opportunity to use the grace for God’s kingdom.

God can give you grace of good position in society, in organization or workplace, this grace has a purpose, and the purpose is to use the grace for God’s kingdom, not for yourself, not to be in vain but to use it to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. When God place you in any position, it’s a grace, you are to use the grace to reach out the word of God to sinners and to establish the kingdom of God in that capacity, don’t let the grace be in vain.

Grace can also come in times of getting a job or favour in your place of work, like Daniel, you must not misuse the grace, you must not let the grace given you by God go in vain, but you use it for God so He can give you more. First, use the opportunity of your job, promotion, position or favour you are getting to preach Christ to the unsaved there and live a life of Christ before you think of any personal benefits. When God gives you the grace as a teacher, do you use the opportunity to reach out God’s word to those students?

In our businesses and careers, God can give us grace, the purpose is to use it first for His kingdom’s glory by using the opportunity to share and spread God’s word with people there, it is not to eat the blessing and forget the gospel. The grace that God gives you to be connected with some people in the society, in your workplace or school should not be in vain, but you should use it to share and spread the word of God to them. Don’t be too much particular about what you will get than what the kingdom of God will gain.

God has given my wife and I a small company, when people order for products we try as much as possible to include a gospel tract with the products, and so that is how we are reaching out the word of God to people and homes who never would have had access to the word of God. I believe many have read the message and are saved. Great and small people in society, Christians and Muslims we supply also get the message. By so doing, the grace of making sales that God gives us will not be in vain, and God may want us to sell more so we will be able to share His word, and so God gets more glory and we get more blessing by His grace.

I went to a printing office sometimes ago and I talked with the manager who is a Christian if they can change their TV cable to a Christian cable so that everyone who comes in will watch Christian movies, and she said no, that some of their customers are not Christians and so they don’t want to sound religious. So the grace of God upon that business is in vain. And many Christians are ignorantly doing the same today; they think they are being wise; they don’t want to interrupt their job, position, contracts, sales, career or business with the gospel of Jesus. Some are afraid that if they share gospel with their unbelieving clients or connected personalities, they will lose them; not knowing that God connected them with such people in the first instant for the purpose of reaching out to them with the gospel, and when they fail to do that, the grace of God will be in vain over their lives.

UNEDUCATED JOHN -VS- EDUCATED JUDAS
Some years back, when I was a member of a Deeper Life Bible Church in Nigeria, I know of a brother pastoring a campus fellowship, and I heard he was doing well, and then later he was removed from pastoring the fellowship, why? I heard because he was not a university graduate, and he was replaced with a “university” graduate pastor. And I began to see the demoted pastor coming to our district church to fellowship with us, and sitting at the back. Not long after, I heard the “university” graduate pastor could not successfully pastor the school fellowship, so they had to call the demoted no-B.Sc. pastor to come and help the “university” pastor as assistant pastor of the school fellowship.

This is the generation where high education is now one of the requirements for working for God at a level. No wonder I saw many of the pastors there going back to school as part-time students, not for the purpose of getting promotion in their businesses or offices, but for them to qualify to become senior pastor, because there was a limit you could reach in working for God in the church if you are not a university graduate, in fact, it wasn’t possible for anyone to become a state overseer if the person was not a university graduate. And in this same type of Christianity we are praying for revival, which type of revival, is it academic or sarcastic revival or revival of the Holy Spirit?

Do you know why we are not experiencing the move of God in the church today as before, why lots of funny things are happening, why powers of darkness are prevailing of many Christians, why pastors cannot rescue their members from darkness? It is simply because the called are not the ordained and the ordained are not the called, as a result of misappropriate of priorities, depending on human wisdom instead of God’s power, ordaining people into ministerial position by physical outward look such as academic outlook of higher education, able to speak good English, and physical, outward look of financial capacity, having a good car, able to fund the church, instead of ordaining those who are genuinely called by God. How can God back you in what He doesn't call you into?

Jesus Christ ordained Peter as the “General Overseer or Senior Pastor” of the early church, and you know who was his deputy? It was John. But both Peter and John were stark illiterates, you know people that you don’t need to spend too much time speaking with before you discover that they are illiterates and unlearned? Those were Peter and John. Let’s read it in the Bible: Acts 4:13, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.”

Peter and John were not only uneducated but also unlearned, meaning they were not civilized, and Jesus Christ handed over the leadership of the church, not only in a village but worldwide, unto them. That would be impossible in this civilized type of our Christianity today where pastor are reading Bible from ipad, that is the reason our civilized Christianity cannot contain the power of God as of old.

What A Funny Generation We Are!
We are in generation where people prefer attractive packaging to effective products
We are in a generation where people prefer quality to quality
We are in a generation where people prefer popularity to productivity
We are in a generation of Christianity where people prefer speaking in tongue to speaking the truth
We are in a generation of Christians where people prefer educated Judas Iscariot to uneducated John.
We are in a sarcastic funny generation of Christianity

Depending on God’s Power Not Human Capacity
In the days of John Wesley, lay preachers with limited education would sometimes conduct the church service. One man used Luke 19:21 as his text, “Lord, I feared thee, because thou art an austere man.” KJV. Not knowing the word austere, he thought the text spoke of “an oyster man.” He explained how a diver must grope in dark, freezing water to retrieve oysters, in his attempt; he cuts his hands on the sharp edges of the shells. After he obtains oyster, he rises to the surface, clutching it “in his torn and bleeding hands.” The preacher added, “Christ descended from the glory of heaven into…..sinful human society in order to retrieve humans and bring them back up with Him to the glory of heaven. His torn and bleeding hands are a sign of the value He has placed on the object of His quest.”

Afterward, 12 men received Christ. Later that night someone came to Wesley to complain about unschooled preachers who were too ignorant even to know the meaning of the texts they were preaching on. The Oxford-educated Wesley simply said, “Never mind, the Lord gets a dozen oysters tonight.”

If we want to experience the move of God and His glory in our lives or in our ministries, we must totally depend on God for His will, not our ways, we must let God use our inadequacies and that of others for His glory. God does not choose by physical, outward look, but by His own divine calling. We cannot experience revival in our lives, families, ministries, career, or business until we revert back to the standard of God and His wisdom.

1 Corinthians 1:26, 27, “For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty

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GRACE WITH LABOUR
“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10.

Grace doesn’t cancel the effect of work and labor in Christian life, ministry or in our personal life, but rather it enhance more labor and work. The more grace we have, the more laborious and hardworking we are to become. What is grace? Grace is God’s enablement, empowerment to do something extra-ordinary in our Christian living, in our ministry and in our personal living.

VAIN GRACE
When we receive grace from God and we fail to add our own part of work, then the grace will be in vain – becomes useless. Apostle Pail said he became fruitful and so effective in the Lord because he made use of the grace of God in his life by working hard to make the grace fruitful. .. and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly. 1 Corinthians 15:10.

Here is what the word of God says, “We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain.” 1 Corinthians 6:1.

When you have the grace to give your life to Jesus, but refuses and think you will always have the grace, then the grace will be in vain and you will be lost forever. After you give your life to Jesus, God gives you grace to grow, but if you do not make use of it; the grace will be in vain. When God gives you grace to preach to somebody somewhere, but you refuse and thinking another time will come, you have allowed the grace to be in vain. When you have the grace to do restitution but delay it, then the grace has been in vain. Grace of God without our own working to make use of it goes in vain. 1 Corinthians 6:1.

GRACE + WORK = FRUITFULNESS
In Christian Life
The effect of grace in Christian life is not a license to live a careless Christian life or falling and rising in sin, thinking the grace of God is always available. What the grace of God does in our Christian life is to empower and enable us to overcome sin and temptation, to work righteousness, self-denying, godly life, and also to be fruitful in the work of God. Titus 2:11, 12, “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age.”

Purpose of Grace
Some erroneous pastors and misled Christians believe that grace is meant to enjoy with a careless living, that, “we are in the era of grace so you can live as you like, dress as you like and the grace of God covers you” They say, “As long you have confessed Jesus as your Savior, you have unlimited grace to continue in sin, that your work of righteousness is like a filthy rag, so no need of stressing yourself to work righteousness, all you need is grace and grace alone.” Such a teaching like this is not only erroneous but a self-destructive. In the first instance, if you believe in grace, what is the purpose of grace? If you know the need for something but you don’t know the purpose of it, then it will become in vain for you or even cause you problem. And that is what is happening to many Christians today, receiving the grace of God in vain, because grace alone is useless, grace without working to make use of it is in vain.

The purpose of grace is to make use of it to do above human power, by the grace of God. The grace of God helps us to overcome temptation, to overcome sin, that is to discontinue in sin, not to continue in sin, because grace does not work in sin but work against sin, and we cannot continue in both together. We can either, continue in sin and perish or receive the grace, make use of it by adding watchfulness, vigilance, prayerfulness and meditation in God’s word to live above sin. We cannot not continue in sin, when we knowing fully well we are sinning against God, and expect the grace of God to abound in our lives. We have got to choose one – grace to discontinue living in sin or living in sin to discontinue grace, but both cannot continue together, says the Bible. Romans 6:1, 2, “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not!”

We must make use of the grace of God now by surrendering our lives to Him, confessing and forsaking our sins, and in our Christian lives by living to overcome sin and temptation by the grace of God and also being fruitful in the work of God, in evangelism and edification. May the grace of God never be in vain in our lives in Jesus name.

“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.

This message continues tomorrow on GRACE WITH LABOUR 2 in ministry and personal life of our academy, career and business.

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GROWING IN THE LORD AFTER SALVATION
Here are the steps to take immediately after you are saved or after you rededicate your life to Jesus afresh:

TOTAL SEPARATION
After you surrendered your life to Jesus ore rededicated your life to Him anew, the first thing you need to do is that you should separate yourself from sinful friendship, people, places and things. You must delete or destroy any materials, contacts or anything that will not help your spiritual life.

TOTAL DEDICATION
You must dedicate yourself to Jesus in daily reading and meditation of your Bible and daily prayer. Don't let a day pass without reading your Bible, at least 2 chapters and spending time to pray, especially for your Christian life and God's grace.

TOTAL WATCHFULNESS
You must be watchful and vigilant against devices of Satan. The devil will come in different ways to drag you back into sinful life, he will use different means and different people, but you must be watchful daily at all time with God's grace.

TOTAL SERVICE TO GOD
You preach and share the word of God daily. Doing evangelism anywhere and any time helps to distant you from old lifestyle and strengthen your new life in Jesus and also make you fruitful for God's kingdom.

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THE TEMPLE OF GOD
"Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" 1 Corinthians 3:16

In the Old Testament, temple of God was a physical building in Jerusalem, but in the New Testament, the physical body of every child of God is the temple of God. When you surrender your life to Jesus Christ, your body becomes the temple of God, and your heart serves the throne of God.

DEFILING THE TEMPLE OF GOD
Many Christians and preachers claim that God is only interested in their hearts and nothing with their body, and so they can do anything with their bodies. Such teaching and notion is from the pit of hell, very deceptive and destructive; the same Christians ask God to heal their bodies when they are sick and also ask God to protect their bodies, so if God is not interested in their bodies, why will God heal their bodies from sickness? If they think their faith in God has nothing to do with their body, why will they exercise faith for the healing and protection of their body from attacks? This is nothing but self-ignorance.

Jesus Christ died for our soul, spirit and body, to give freedom, not only for our soul but also our body. When you become a child of God, your body is no longer your body but God's temple, whatever you do with it is very important to God. Involving in any act that defiles God's temple attracts serious judgment of God. "If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." 1 Corinthians 3:17.

ACTS OF DEFILING GOD'S TEMPLE
Here are some acts that defile God's temple, which every child of God should flee from:

(1) SMOKING: Smoking is not just a wrong against one's health, but also it is a sin of defiling God's temple after salvation. After you are genuinely saved, going back to smoke is destructive to your spirit, soul and body, it defiles God's temple - your body, and it attracts God's judgment.

(2) DRINKING ALCOHOL: Drinking alcohol was not allowed in the temple of God in the Old Testament, “Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die." Leviticus 10:9; and how much more do you expect with the temple redeemed by the Blood of Jesus? The reason why drinking alcohol is a forbidden thing to a genuine child of God is because his body is the temple of God, and alcohol is not allowed in the temple of God.

(3) TATTOO: Painting tattoo to the body is only meant for the gentiles, the unbelievers who owe their own bodies for their destruction, but when your body becomes the temple of God, redeemed by the precious Blood of Jesus, it becomes sinful and evil to paint tattoo on your body. "You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord." Leviticus 19:28 "I AM THE LORD OF YOUR BODY AFTER YOU SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO ME, NOT YOUR OWN ANYMORE" - Jesus CHRIST.

(4) BLEACHING: Toning and bleaching skin is an act of defiling the temple of God. When you become a child of God through repentance, your body belongs to Jesus, and you dare not do anything to your body that will not glorify God. Bleaching and toning skin is evil and destructive.

(5) MASTURBATION: Masturbation is an act of manipulating one's body for sexual pleasure, it is forbidden by every genuine child of God, because our body is the temple of God and we cannot manipulate it. Masturbation actually mean having sex with demon; since it is for sexual pleasure and it usually involves two people; in masturbation, the other person is invisible and that is demon. When you surrender your life to Jesus completely, you must resist and reject the demon of masturbation when he comes back to play with you.

(6) MouthAction: Either in marriage or outside marriage, MouthAction is an immoral act of working against the normal cause of nature, it is turning the cause of nature upside down by using what is meant for oral for sex and what is meant for sex for oral; but since your body is the temple of God, you will not want to turn the temple of God upside down, you know God will not take that for granted?

(7) FORNICATION & ADULTERY: These are the worst of all sins, because sexual immorality is the only sin that cuts across spirit, soul and body at the same time. it's a serious sin that poisons the whole system. Sexual immorality is a sacrifice that empowers the kingdom of darkness, what it means is that whenever sexual immorality is being committed, demons are readily present to empower themselves. Bodies or places where sexual immorality is being committed are filled with demons. Since your body becomes the temple of God, it is a must to keep yourself and flee from every form of sexual immorality. If you have involved in such before, you repent, ask Jesus to cleanse you and do not go back into it.

DESTRUCTION FOR DEFILING GOD'S TEMPLE
"If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." 1 Corinthians 3:17.

There is grave judgment of God for anyone who defiles temple of God by any act. If you have been involving in any of these acts, you have to repent and ask God to forgive you and turn to Him in a new life completely.

Romans 12:1-2, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."


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MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER?
The history of motivational speakers started in 1950s by Normal Vincent Peale in US who was anointed by Satan to pollute Christianity, another topic for another day. But you can search it yourself the origin and motive behind motivational speakers and their mega churches. They all have same lifestyle - luxury, private jets, etc.; their primary purpose in their preaching and prayers - prosperity and little or nothing about purity of life; their mind focus - earthly, earthly and earthly.

My advice for you is to run away from motivational speakers and their churches, they are the false teachers of the end time.

1 Timothy 6:5, " 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."

QUESTION & ANSWER ON FUNDING MINISTRY AND MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS

QUESTION: RTEM, pls I nid ans 2dis quest. Hw did Jesus generate funds 4 his ministry? and apart frm dt, d motivational speakers, they also demand money as dey use d gospel of Christ in der motivational speeches. wot do u tink abt dis coz most of dem take it as a career rather dan as a callin or ministry?
- Awoyemi, Nigeria.

ANSWER: Jesus was supported by close women and men who were transformed by His teachings, and by miraculous provision from God. These two means are available for every genuine minister of God. Motivational speakers are agents of Satan in the ministry today, they are not serving Jesus Christ. There is no such ministry in the Bible. Those people motivate people in sin for physical success and for money making, you hardly hear motivational speakers maybe in their books or preaching promoting holiness of life. Any minister, pastor, bishop, prophet, G.O in America, Africa, Asia or Europe who claims to be a motivational speaker is serving Satan not Jesus Christ.

The history of motivational speakers started in 1950s by Normal Vincent Peale in US who was anointed by Satan to pollute Christianity, another topic for another day. But you can search it yourself the origin and motive behind motivational speakers and their mega churches. They all have same lifestyle - luxury, private jets, etc.; their primary purpose in their preaching and prayers - prosperity and little or nothing about purity of life; their mind focus - earthly, earthly and earthly.

My advice for you is to run away from motivational speakers and their churches, they are the false teachers of the end time.

1 Timothy 6:5, " 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."

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CHRISTIAN MATERIAL REVEIEW: CHRISTIAN MOVIES
(Reviewing Christian movies, music, books for spiritual growth and edification)

Christian movie is one of the major Christian materials God is using to bless lives and ministries in this end time, but many people are ignorant of this. I can say Christian movies, especially those inspired by God, are the greatest Christian material you can lay your hand on for your spiritual growth and edification, for your marriage and ministries blessing. I don’t joke with Christian film since I discovered the great impact it could have on one’s life, marriage, ministry, business or career. God has been using Christian movies by different Christian drama ministries especially in Nigeria and USA to bless my life, marriage, ministry, and even business.

In my house, we have a large TV but it’s not connected to any satellite dish, cable or TV station, we only use our TV and DVD player to watch several Christian movies we buy almost every week. When we have visitors, one of the things we use to entertain them is Christian movie we quickly play that bless their lives. You will be surprised that you have visitors and they forget about everything around and focus on the Christian film on the TV, and be blessed, and when they are going, we package some Christian movies for them and their families. Yes, that is another thing God has been helping us with, anytime we have visitors, we try to package some Christian films for them when they are going - another powerful means of preaching gospel and spreading message of salvation and edification without saying a word by yourself.

REVIEW ON CHRISTIAN MOVIES
In this ministry – Revelation of Truth Evangelical Ministries – RTEM, on weekly or monthly base in our Facebook page, website and on our future radio and TV programs, we are going to be reviewing Christian movies and recommending different Christians movies for people, starting from here. Here I will mention some of several Christian drama ministries, names of one of their ministers and their movies, which every Christian must watch and share with as many as possible people:

EVOM – Brother Shola Mike Agboola – My elder brother in the Lord  (Ilorin, Nigeria) I recommend you get all their movies including their new release – MISSING LINK.

LADTEM – Evangelist Lekan Asikhia – The Bible Teacher (Nigeria) I recommend that you get all their movies, and don’t forget the sin series.

Mount Zion Film Productions – Evangelist Mike Bamiloye – The Apostle in Christian movies (Nigeria) I recommend you get most of their movies, especially THE FRUITLESS TREE, THE PERILOUS TIME, THE ULTIMATE POWER, ETC.

SHERWOOD PICTURES – Kendrick Brothers – The Godly and Creative brothers (USA) I recommend you get all their movies, especially FLYWHEEL, every Christian must watch that.

By the grace of God’s, on every weekend, we will continue to review several other wonderful Christian drama ministries, ministers and movies, at least 2 to 3, on this platform of Christian materials review, and where to get them. Few weeks ago, we bought about 50 copies of several Christian movies in Nigeria from two Drama ministers who distribute Christian movies; I will give their contacts below. Sharing Christian movies is another great means of preaching gospel, edifying souls and ministries, reaching out to family members, church members, youth groups, neighbors, co-workers, co-students, your boss at work, your lecturers, your politicians, and even non-Christians. I will call this BWS – Buy, watch and share (Christian movies).

We can also support these Christian drama ministers, especially the genuine and godly ones who shun any form of worldliness; they need our spiritual, financial supports and encouragement. Many of them are full time Evangelists without any source of income or offering or salary, yet they spend their money and time for God’s work tirelessly.

We continue CHRISTIAN MATERIAL REVIEW with Christian drama ministries and movies next week, by God’s grace.

Here are the contacts of where we bought our recent Christian movies in Nigeria, and they are also wonderful drama ministers, and they can send them to anyone interested to buy anywhere in Nigeria and to every part of the world:

SHILOH GOSPEL CONNECTIONS
Ilorin, Nigeria - +234 (0)8132073473, 07051339456

HONEYSON MUSIC & VIDEOS
Ibadan, Nigeria: +234 (0)8132914000

God bless you as you watch and share a Christian movie!

FORCES BEHIND MouthAction
MouthAction was originated by Satan for people to dishonor the cause of God and to dishonor their bodies."Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves" Romans 1:24. MouthAction is of same category of sin with homosexuality, that is the gays and lesbians. In reality, MouthAction and homosexual are the same before God, who work against the natural cause. "who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men." Romans 1:25-27

If you have been involving in MouthAction, you urgently need to repent and ask the Lord to forgive and purge you with His precious blood.

M A R I T A L - U N F A I T H F U L N E S S : Seek For The Right Solution.
As a married person, if your husband or wife is not genuinely saved, though they may be committed Christians or ministers in the church, and you discover that he or she is committing extra-marital sex, what is the solution? The solution is not to fight with the person, though you can challenge, the solution is not to divorce, the solution is not to fight the sinful partner outside, the only solution is to pray for the salvation of his or her soul, preach to the person by your own way of life and patiently wait on the Lord.

SALVATION, THE SOLUTION
I have come across several women whose husbands are unfaithful in marriage, sleeping with other women outside; most of them are seeking for wrong solutions, some are praying wrong prayer that God should detach the husband from the strange woman; that God should destroy the strange women or that God should take the mind of the husband away from the particular strange woman outside. None of these prayers is the right prayer for the right solution, because to unfaithful husband, there will always be a strange woman out there. The solution for unfaithfulness in marriage is salvation of soul, when your husband is genuinely saved, he will not commit adultery anymore. The major prayer to pray for such person is that God should save him or her. But if you yourself are not saved, then there is a compounded problem. You need to get saved yourself, because sin is sin before God; the person who commits adultery and other partner that usually gets angry, shout, rude, and not submissive are the same before God, no difference.

When you are saved, you can pray for the salvation of your husband or wife and divine solution will follow.

LOVE, PRAYER & PATIENCE
The three in one solution for the critical solution in your marriage, no matter how terrible or tough is: LOVE – you love your spouse; for better understanding on what this love means, please read 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, please read it.

PRAYER – you prayer for the salvation of your spouse, if he or she backslides, you pray for the restoration. Pray without ceasing, until something happens. When a saved person earnestly prays for the salvation of another, the answer will definitely come through. Romans 10:1, “Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.”

PATIENCE – you stay patient with your unsaved spouse, you know God was patient with you also before you eventually got saved, so do the same thing with your spouse. Believe that God is using you to save your spouse, and so patiently wait for its manifestation. “For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.” 1 Corinthians 7:14.

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P R E M A R I T A L - Don't Mess With Costly Mistake
If in a Christian marital relationship, either of them is demanding for premarital sex, it means there is a mistake somewhere, it is either the person who demands premarital sex is a mistake to the other person or the other person is making mistaking by going into marital relationship with somebody who demands for premarital sex; it may also be that the person who demands for premarital sex backslides along the way during the relationship or the other person got saved along the way during the relationship and then refuses premarital sex. Premarital sex is a fornication of the highest order, and fornication or fornicator should not even be mentioned among the genuine children of God.

It is a mistake for a child of God to get into marital relationship with a fornicator who demands premarital sex. If you are a child of God, you don’t go into relationship with a brother or sister who is a fornicator; it is a serious mistake of life. Here is what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 5:9, “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.”

It is a serious mistake to lose your salvation and relationship with God because you don’t want to lose a relationship with a partner who demands for premarital sex, because it is even a mistake to get into relationship with such person in the first instance. When by mistake a child of God finds herself or himself in a marital relationship with a wrong person, the right solution is to end the relationship immediately. It is a mistake to think God will save a fornicator along the way or the fornicator may change, because it is a serious mistake to base your life on probability after God has helped you to see the truth clearly.

NOTE ON MASTURBATION
If you claim masturbation is not a sin as sexual immorality, why do you masturbate? What is the motive, purpose of masturbating? Is it not to derive sexual pleasure? Any sexual pleasure you get apart from what is biblically obtainable in marriage is a sin. Such sexual pleasure people get in masturbation is alike in pornography, and can you also say pornography is not a sin because it is not a raping? And also, while you are masturbating, what goes on in your mind, what do you think about? Immoral thoughts that defiles heart, isn't it?

IS ABORTION BEST SOLUTION FOR UNWANTED PREGNANCY?
Please read this story...

A worried woman went to her gynecologist and said:
'Doctor, I have a serious problem and desperately need your help! My baby is not even 1 year old and I'm pregnant again. I don't want kids so close together.'

So the doctor said: 'Ok and what do you want me to do?'

She said: 'I want you to end my pregnancy, and I'm counting on your help with this.'

The doctor thought for a little, and after some silence he said to the lady: 'I think I have a better solution for your problem. It's less dangerous for you too.'

She smiled, thinking that the doctor was going to accept her request.

Then he continued: 'You see, in order for you not to have to take care of 2 babies at the same time, let's kill the one in your arms. This way, you could rest some before the other one is born. If we're going to kill one of them, it doesn't matter which one it is. There would be no risk for your body if you chose the one in your arms.'

The lady was horrified and said: 'No doctor! How terrible! It's a crime to kill a child!'

'I agree', the doctor replied. 'But you seemed to be OK with it, so I thought maybe that was the best solution.'

The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point.

He convinced the mom that there is no difference in killing a child that's already been born and one that's still in the womb. The crime is the same!

Love says, 'I sacrifice myself for the good of the other person.' Abortion says, 'I sacrifice the other person for the good of myself.'
FROM 'THE BIBLE IS AGAINST ABORTION SITE'.

Abortion is the greatest murder on earth, because it’s killing an innocent person. No one on earth is as innocent as unborn baby. Women who commit abortion are like Judas Iscariot, men who sponsor or support abortion are worst than king Herod, medical professionals who carry out abortion are worst than Hitler’s armies, and friends or family who aid or abet abortion are equal to Ahithophel. Innocent blood only cry for God’s vengeance of destruction and eternal doom.

MERCY SAYS NO!

Isaiah 1:18
“Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.”

If you have found yourself guilty of abortion in any form, all you need is God’s mercy, and how do you get that? You repent, confess and surrender your life to Jesus completely. You are not going to just pray for the forgiveness of abortion, but you will need to confess all your sins, totally surrender your life to Jesus completely and become a new creation in Him; it is then that ALL THINGS will become new in your life. After that you confess to necessary people.
Proverbs 28:13, “He who covers his sins will not prosper,
But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”

If you are now a genuine child of God, living a new life of holiness and righteousness in Jesus, but you committed abortion in the past, you need not to be disturbed because God has forgiven and cleansed you. Do not allow Satan to haunt you with the sin God does not remember again; and you know what? Your aborted children are waiting for you in heaven. So if for any reason you must make heaven, you have your child waiting eagerly for you in heaven. When you get to heaven, you will meet her and know her name.

Never allow the innocent blood of unborn baby to stain your life again, because there may not be a second chance!

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WHY MASTURBATION IS A SIN.....Please read this!

To start with, masturbation is self service by which one derives pleasure; it's a sexual stimulation of the genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. So the question: Is it sinful for a child of God to masturbate? The sincere and simple answer is that, it is biblically sinful based on these three points:

(1) IT'S DISHONORING YOUR BODY.
Pastors and preachers who claim that masturbation is not a sin are the same people who say a godly woman can dress any how; their base is that God's is not concern about what you do with your body, watch out! Such people believe God is only after your mind or your heart, and your body is none of His business, you can dress half naked as a woman, you can wear earrings as a man, perm your hair like woman; you can smoke, drink, it is your body, normal habit, and none of God's business.

Such teaching of your body is not God's business is satanic and unbiblical. God is interested in your body as well as your soul, God wants you to keep your heart holy as well as your body. Romans 12:1, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." Your heart is the throne of God, and your body is His temple; when you defile God's temple - your body - with masturbation or any uncleanness, you expose yourself to God's destruction.

1 Corinthians 3: 16, 17, "Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are."

(2) IT'S SEXUAL IMMORALITY
Any action by which one derives sexual pleasure - orgasm - apart from, between husband and wife, such is sexual immorality. There are several sexual immoralities like fornication, adultery, masturbation, homosexuality, etc. Those who involve in masturbation before or after marriage are immoral people before God. 1 Corinthians 5:9, "I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people."

(3) IT'S A SECRET SIN
Any habit you like to do in secret which you don't want people to have the knowledge that you are doing is a secret sin, and masturbation is part of it, it's something usually done in secret, after you dedicate your life to Jesus. You can't have fellow children of God in the same room and you begin to masturbate. You can sleep or snore while people are around, but you can't masturbate while good and godly people are around.

NO PRETENSE!
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.

THREE WAYS OUT!
Masturbation is satanic anchor by which he uses to grip souls under his bondage. The solution is not to say it is not a sin, the solution is not marriage or attractive spouse, that 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 it. (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, he can't stay long, he will flee. It will come over you as if you can't resist it, but that is not true, you just hold it, don't torch 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, he can go and come after some months, don't relax but 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.

1 Corinthians 9:27
But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

NOTE: If you claim masturbation is not a sin as sexual immorality, why do you masturbate? What is the motive, purpose of masturbating? Is it not to derive sexual pleasure? Any sexual pleasure you get apart from what is biblically obtainable in marriage is a sin. Such sexual pleasure people get in masturbation is alike in pornography, and can you also say pornography is not a sin because it is not a raping? And also, while you are masturbating, what goes on in your mind, what do you think about? Immoral thoughts that defiles heart, isn't it?

Another point that needs to be made cleared here is that, this message is for people who are ready for new life in Jesus for conversion and children of God who have been redeemed and regenerated for correction; the message is not for the unsaved or backsliders who are not ready for God's mercy and forgiveness. I do see people reading this message and feel condemned and then argue to silent their conscience. This message is not to condemn but to correct children of God. If you have not totally surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, if you don't understand what holiness and righteousness is all about, and if you have backslided, what you need to do is not only to stop masturbating, but to first surrender your life to Jesus, repent from all your sin, including masturbation - but not only masturbation - and confess them. Then you start a new life in Jesus Christ.

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THE SNARE OF FEAR FOR SATANIC ATTACK
-You've got to read this!

2 Timothy 1:7, " For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

Do you wonder why many genuine children of God are being attacked by demonic people? It is because of fear. You can be a child of God and still remain under bondage of Satan and evil people, why? Because of fear! Without fear, it is impossible for a child of God to be attacked by Satan. When you genuinely give your life to Jesus Christ, you have power and authority over Satan, demons and all demonic people Matthew 10:1. But while you are suppose to command authority over evil spirits, they can exercise authority over you if you are afraid of them. You can be a child of God and your ship of marriage, health, family and finance can sink if you are afraid, simple. Many children of God think they need special anointing before they can overcome principalities and power, no, what they need is faith in Jesus Christ. If you call the name of Jesus without faith in that name, it may not always work for you.

You can be a sinless Christian and remain in the snare of satanic attack, simply because of fear. And if you are lamenting about that and asking Jesus, why you remain under bondage after you are saved, the only question Jesus may ask you is, "where is your faith?"

When fear is chosen instead of faith, there is bound to be failure and falling.

If you have been attacked by evil people before you gave your life to Jesus, and then after you are saved, you are still afraid instead of you to exercise authority in Jesus name, you will remain under the attack. Do you know how Satan brings children of God under his snare of attack? It is by scaring them, he scares people by dreams, by negative thoughts and evil utterances of demonic people; instead of such children of the Most High God to exercise authority to resist the devil, reject the thoughts and rebuke those dirty demonic people and cast down every evil imagination, they become afraid and fall victim.

You know what? It will be biblically impossible for you to overcome what you are afraid of, it is just God's mercy that preserves us most times. Fear brings you into the snare of what you are afraid of; if you are afraid of wizards and witches, you will be ensnared by them. Churches and pastors who preach and pray mostly about demonic attacks are under the bondage of Satan. It is also one of the major distractions of Satan in the churches today; while we ought to be praying for more of God's grace and righteousness in our lives, we are busy chasing after witchcraft; while we suppose to be running away from sins, we are running away from enemies, and while we ought to be running after God's kingdom and His righteousness, we are running after "so called" deliverance.

If you always have the consciousness and awareness of demonic attacks in your life, if you always pray and fast against attack of the enemies, it means you are already under the bondage of Satan. Christians who pray every time against attacks of witches, wizards, or demonic people are under the snare of the devil, they will never be free, because they will never stop such prayers. Churches and Christians who pray "problematic, enemies fall down and die, enemies here and there, witches against progress" prayers are never free because they never stop praying such prayers. Have you see those churches or Christians stop praying such prayers since they started? NO! They never stop praying problematic and enemies fall down prayer even after many years because they are never free.

You cannot be free from enemies' attack simply because you have the consciousness of enemies, victory over witches and wizards does not come by daily and continuous prayer, it is by faith in Christ after genuine salvation.

Some of them have been praying such prayers for the past 20 years and they still pray it till today; they believe enemies are siting on their destinies, and so it happens, they even pronounce it in their prayer that "Every enemy seating on my destiny" They believe enemies are covering their destines and so the enemies do; they are never free from the bondage of witches and demonic people, because they are conscious of the presence of enemies than the presence of God, they are clearly aware of the destruction and defeat of demonic evil forces than the victory Jesus Christ has won for them, they will never be free until they have faith in Jesus because It will happens to you according to your faith.

Do you realize that the more you pray more of "enemies fall down and die, and problematic prayers" the more you will be afraid?

Those Christians who are accustom to such prayer life are more afraid and living in bondage of fear than ordinary non-believers. They are so afraid of evil forces that they term everything to them with fear, some cannot even go to barber shop to barb their hair because of fear of the barber using their destinies, they are living in perpetual fear, their pastors always bring stories of how enemies destroyed destinies and lives, and that the situation they are now is as a result of the work of enemies, after the problematic sermon, the people also will cry and pray with fear, and so they remain under the snare of fear of the enemies.

If you are a child of God, your priority is purity of life, because purity gives power over sin, Satan and all his demonic and human agents. You cannot run away from sins and run away from Satan at the same time; you cannot run away from unrighteousness and run away from witches and wizards at the same time. When you surrender your life to Jesus and run away from sin, Satan is under your feet and demonic people will see you and run away.

Today, Christians run away from demonic people, because of fear. Churches who preach and pray always on demonic attacks are teaching the doctrines of demons, Bible only teaches us to exercise authority over them and focus on righteousness and evangelism. Running from pillar to post because of problems of enemies is because something is wrong with you; you are either under the bondage of sin or snare of fear.

In Jesus is freedom and total freedom. You need total freedom from bondage of sin by repenting and surrendering your entire life to Jesus. You need total freedom over Satan and his principalities by faith in Jesus Christ. The name of Jesus Christ, the Blood of Jesus Christ and fire of Holy Spirit are three spiritual weapons for every child of God which no Satan, no powers, no principalities, no personalities, no people or person can withstand in our lives. Philippians 2:10, 11. Revelation 12:11. Hebrews 12:29.

When you are saved and serving God, you must "fear not" lest you fall into the snare of Satan. Fear is a sin of disobeying, disregarding and disrespecting God, as if God's power is not enough to preserve you, as if Satan is more powerful than your God. So why are you afraid? God warns us about 365 times in the Bible to "fear not", disobeying that only brings danger. You don't need specialized deliverance minister or church, what you need is faith in Jesus Christ for your deliverance. You don't need to go to special mountain or special program, what you need is faith in the power of Jesus Christ for your total freedom and protection, simple! It is not your prayer or your power that will do it, so you need not to worry, it is the power of Jesus that will do it.

Be free!
1 John 3:8, "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."

Have Faith!
Colossians 2:13-15
And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.

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DISCIPLE OF CHRIST OR CHURCH MEMBER?
Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit”

Jesus Christ gave us the command to make disciples of all nations, which is what the Great Commission is all about. But the difference is the case in our churches today. People are focused on making members for their different denominational churches in the name of working for God. But if you look closely to the Master’s commandment, He didn’t say, “Make church members of all the nations” He said, “make disciples of all the nations” Matthew 28:19.

There is a clear difference between making disciples and making church members; there is a crystal clear difference between being a Christ’s disciple and being a church member. You can be a certified, recognized and appreciated church’s member, who is well known in the church, did all sorts of New Covert’s, Believers or Membership trainings, and yet you are not a disciple of Christ. You can go through all these “so called” workers trainings, ministers trainings or Pastoral trainings and yet you are not a disciple of Jesus Christ, you can be so committed into your church, that most of your time and money are spent on different church’s activities, programs and services, and you are not a disciple of Jesus Christ. You can be devoted to your church as a member, as a worker, as a leader, minister or pastor and yet not a disciple of Christ Jesus.

The Great Commission Jesus Christ gave to us is, “Make disciples of all nations” But the devil has deceived us and turned it to “make church members of all nations”. That is the reason you see every denominations struggling to have large number of members that is the reason you see them everywhere, every street, they want to have their own denominational branches or assemblies or parishes, whatever name they call them.

Think about it, if a church or a Pastor says they want to create another branch or parish in a particular street, is it because there are no existing biblical churches in that particular location? If the motive is that all or most denominations in the area are unbiblical and teaching errors, that is good. But they create their new branches there and preach and teach the same thing. They don’t care about that, their mission and focus is to make members from every street, every town, city and state, but not necessary in every village. Because they are not after the mission of making disciples, they only want to make members for their denominations.

You will see in a particular street where different denominational churches are staying side by side. You will see a two, three storey building of different denominations on each floor, the ground floor is denomination A, the first floor is another denomination of B, and second floor is a different Pentecostal denomination C. When church A is doing Sunday School, church B who does not do Sunday School in her denomination will be doing heavy Praise Worship with loud shouts and instruments, and church C will be having a “fireful” and prophetic moment of prayer; all at the same time with their speakers loud enough so as not to be overshadowed and suppressed by the other church. Everything will be boiling in the air, in the name of serving God? This is because they are looking for members not disciples. It is confusion; it may be seen as united confusion, friendly confusion or prophetic confusion; whatever name we call it, such is confusion and God is not an Author of confusion.

Every church wants to have the largest congregation, many branches or parishes and many rich people, all in the name of the Lord. Competition and rivalry among denominations all in the name of the Lord.

It’s a terrible thing in the Christianity of today that the devil has turned the Great Commission to the great competition. The devil has diverted and deceived pastors and churches to think and believe that making church members, creating more parishes or branches are as the same as making disciples. You see more denominations and more parishes of churches today, and at the same time you see more sins, more evil, more competitions, and more immorality. Why? Because most of these pastors and their churches are only making members not disciples. Anybody can be a member, but a not a disciple.

Anybody can be a worker, an ordained minister of a church. Is it not to be regular, committed and do their different classes? But it takes those who are genuinely saved, regenerated, who have forsaken their sins and living new life in Jesus to be a true disciple of Jesus Christ. John 8:10, 11, 31, 32.

THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR!
There are clear differences between a church members and a disciple of Jesus Christ:

A disciple of Christ is somebody who genuinely comes to Jesus Christ for the salvation of his soul and eternal life and keeping following Him for the bread of life. John 6: 63-67. But a church member may have other purposes like problem solving, prosperity, prophecies, healing, etc.

A disciple of Christ is somebody who come to Jesus and repent from all his sins, forsake them and continuing in the Word of God. Acts 14:21,22. A church member does not necessarily need to be genuinely saved; they may just answer altar call and be committed and faithful to the church ordinances. Are you a disciple or a church member?

To make disciples, Christ, and Him alone must be preached with the sole aim of leading people to salvation in Christ and helping them to grow and live in holiness, truth and righteousness, and to make heaven. To make members, no need of priority of genuine repentance, salvation, restitution and holiness of life, just preach what will attract people in the name of Jesus. If your purpose is to make people get to heaven, it’s not a must to make them members of your church. You can have thousands members in your church and none of them is a disciple of Christ. The population of a church is not in proportion to the spiritual value of that church. The number of the members in a church is not in any proportion to the number of Christ’s disciples in that church.

ANYTHING GOES!
Many pastor and church is looking for numerical growth today, they want to make members of every nation, every city and every street, and they are ready to preach and perform anything, ready to change any standard to have this dream of mega church come through.

Some denominations say their vision is to have their denominations at every corner of every street and to make members for their denominations from every family. That is a human and personal ambition and not Christ’s ambition. It’s an idea generated from personal ambition to build personal empire not the kingdom of God. You see, there are some things that you don’t need to speak in tongues or have the gift of prophecy before you know if they are biblical or not; all you need to do is to check the Word of God and compare them with the Scriptures that doesn’t change. Jesus said, “make disciples of all nations” He didn’t say, “make your church members of all nations” The only means such denominations can justify their visions or missions is if they claim and prove that their church is the only biblical church through which people can get to heaven and through their church alone people can become disciples of Christ. But if you don’t believe your church is the only church recognized by God and that not all your church’s member are real disciples of Christ, then you don’t need to have your church’s member in every family and at every corner. Christ’s mission is to have His disciples in every family not in your own denomination, except if you believe only your church members are Christ’s disciples in the world.

Most of the missions in the ministries today are selfish, self ego generated missions. Pastors are just building their own empires in the name of God. Pastors are seeking their personal glory in the name of working for God. They are using you to fulfill their own ambition and personal agenda, to boost their personal ego in the name of working for God. They want to have large congregations; they want to have the biggest church auditoriums – multibillionaire, so that it will be written at the back of their books – for that, they are ready to swear on both Testaments, to say anything with God’s name to convince you.

SOME UN-BIBLICAL METHODS OF MAKING AND MAINTAINING MEMBERS
(1) Membership Certificate
Most pastors and their churches today are using various strategies to make and maintain members. Some even go to the point of making their church members to have membership certificate. That is funny. They may tell you, “If you don’t go through our membership class and have certificate, you are not a bona fide member of this church” there are different classes in different churches today, to promote holiness and maintain old standards or maintain members? You wonder why you didn’t hear such things among our founding fathers of faith. Well, you can certify somebody as a genuine member of your church, right? You can be certified by your pastor or General/Senior Pastor as a genuine member but you may not be part of the Disciples of Christ. Having your name written in your church’s book does not mean your name is written in the Book of life in heaven.

Paper certificate is useless; membership certificate is immaterial to becoming disciple of Christ. It may be part of the modern system to maintain church membership. If our genuine aim is to help people to be true Disciples of Christ, there is no need making them to be your certified church members as if being recognized as a genuine member of your church has anything to do with being recognized in heaven. Only Jesus knows His own in a church, no pastor can judge by certificate the true and genuine members of Christ’s kingdom. The classes and certificates are not enough evidence to certify people as genuine disciples of God. Only God can determine His own in the public meeting, so such act is usurping God’s territory and very inadequate.

You see, in those days, our founding fathers of faith were not using all these human ideas, they only preached Jesus alone, and it was evidential in their own personal lives and the lives of the members, because the Bible says by their fruits you will know them, not by their church’s certificates or by their commitment to their church classes and activities. Being a devoted church member or minister does not imply you are a true disciple of Christ. Your church can say anything to sooth you, to make you so confident as if you are a candidate of heaven as long you come to their church, if you build your life on that, it will amount to disappointment at the end of your life.

(2) Membership Marriage
Some churches go to the point of telling their church members not to visit any other churches or marry from another church apart from their own. That is nothing but selfish ideology, not Christ’s or biblical ideas. Not all churches are biblical but that does not mean every other church apart from your own is unbiblical. How can we invite other church members to our church and we don’t want our own church members to be invited to other churches? That is not the commandment of Jesus Christ and has nothing to do with the Great Commission. Jesus says, “Do unto others as you want them to do to you” if you don’t want your church members to attend or visit other denominations, then you don’t need to invite people from other denominations too. It’s all about personal and human ambition and wisdom to make and maintain members. Except if such denomination can biblical prove that their own denomination is the only heavenly recognized church on earth and all others are fake and all their members are sinners going to hell.

Some churches don’t allow their single sisters to go and marry in another denominations, maybe they can allow their single brothers to marry from another denominations and bring the women to their church but not that their sisters would go and marry in another church and then join the church. If your ambition is for kingdom of God, not for your own personal denomination, you don’t need such smart not-biblical tactic. The Bible standard for choosing marital partner is simply “only in the Lord” 1 Corinthians 7:39. It doesn’t says, “Only in your denominational church” a selfless pastor will not care if his single members marry from his church or not, he will only care if the person is in the Lord, not necessarily in your denomination.

Teaching or persuading people to marry only in your denomination is an extra-biblical teaching, EXCEPT you are saying only your church members are in the Lord and other children of God from all other denominations are outside the Lord. You don’t justify people by the church they attend, that is an ungodly judgment, heaven doesn’t recognize any denomination and no denomination is registered in heaven, only people who are washed by the Blood of the Lamb and living daily in righteousness, truth and holiness are recognized in heaven, irrespective of your denominations. So why are we fighting, competing and dividing more and more everyday as if becoming a church member is the same with the command of Jesus Christ of becoming His true disciples and making disciples for Him? Why can’t we base on the biblical standard that by their fruits you shall know those who are truly in the Lord and not by their denominations? Why can’t we stop the great competition of making members for our churches and let’s start the Great Commission of making disciples for Christ Jesus of all nations and of all denominations?

(3) Motivational Methods
Some pastors, in the process of making more members, they changed their messages to motivational, miraculous speaking in order to sooth people. Since many people want preachers that will deceive them by telling them what they want to hear not what they need to hear. So to make many members you must make mention what the many people want to hear at many times. People want motivational messages not rebuking messages, people want prosperity messages not message of purity, people want to go to churches where they perform miracles not where they practice holiness. So many preachers have become motivational speakers; others go to the point of getting demonic powers to perform miracles. You preach prosperity, breakthrough, faith for fantastic living and to overcome problems of life, but not the faith for holy life or to overcome temptations. They preach materials blessings and business success with long life. They sweeten their messages to psych your emotion and make you scream, to motivate you in your sins not from your sin. And you feel calmed, cooled and comfortable in your sins but uncomfortable with poverty.

With these, preachers can only make members for their denominations; with these, you can only become a member of a denomination and not disciple of Christ Jesus. You can be busing preaching, praying and sacrificing in the name of serving God, but all for nothing for your eternity. If your preaching, praying and teachings are not turning people to righteousness, all your effort are baseless. The Bible says in the book of Daniel 12:3, “Those who turn many to righteousness shall shine like stars forever and ever.” That is for people who are wise not the foolish ones.

If your purpose for the ministry or God’s work is to turn people to prosperity, to business success, wealthy life, healing and miracles, you are a big looser because no eternal reward for you. Only those who turn people to righteousness are recognized and will be rewarded in heaven. You may be popular here on earth and prospered and rich, but when this world passes away, your gains also pass away. If you are a member or minister of any of church but you are not living a righteous life, you are a great looser. Imagine your offerings, sacrifices and services are waste, your effort and giving are useless. You are just busy for nothing, your pastors and church can be deceiving you to continue like that as if everything is fine with you, they can try to misinterpret the Bible to calm you; Satan can be throwing miracles into your way in the name of testimonies to make you feel as if nothing is wrong or God is okay with you, but you alone has the power to choose not to be deceived by people or satan.

PERSONAL EXAMINATION
You can examine your own life, put aside all the physical and material testimonies, the certificates, the ordained “tittles”, the position you have in and outside the church; are you a true disciple of Jesus Christ or just a church member, minister? It’s not by claiming or ordinary confession, but it’s by your fruit testified to by people. If you are not yet a true disciple of Christ, you can become one NOW. All you need is to be sincere with yourself, realize your situation and repent from all your sins both open and secret ones and ask Jesus to forgive you as you determine to forsake them. Start a simple and sincere new life in Jesus with daily Bible reading and prayer and be zealous for God’s work not a church works.

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