Talk2nanro:
You are correct my brother but to briefly ship in something important, we do not give to be blessed but rather to fulfill the commandment of God, " depart from me you workers if iniquity, for i was hungry and you did not feed me"

You are accurate. We must see giving as an assignment from God.

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Guys have started again

jesusjnr:
This is good.
More Spirit!

Amen

What if you guys was never destined to work for Dpr? Truth is hard! What if God has not purposed for you to say "sir" to bosses? How many people here knows God's plan for his or her life? This is a big problem! Ask questions! This is why graduates get out of school and immediately take loan to get bike. These ones disregard God and they will die poor. What is God's will for my life? What's my purpose of being born? If any can answer this question he would solve problems, he wouldn't be slave to any man's idea, he would walk in his calling and be less tossed about by the folly going on here and in the country. The government is not the source of your crisis, you are the source and solution to your problem. Look for your calling. Every human being has one. God created every man to solve a problem. Ask Him to reveal what you are here for, don't just follow the crowd and die poor. If Dangote was hellbent on working under an organization he would die there poor thinking he is rich, not knowing he has a better glory somewhere else. Rest your minds, stop struggling to get what God has not given you. God has a hand in everything going around you. He knows you have been cheated yet he allows it. He is wiser than any human being can be and He has a purpose in all His discission. We all have our gift and we are a solution to someone's problem somewhere. Ask God to lead you to your destiny, instead of trying to rebel against authority.

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Fruitless protest. Eish.. You all go get busy doing something worthwhile with your lives.

Who Made Time?


Time is a distortion of eternity. Time came about due to the fall of man. Man was created to live forever, not in time. But then he fall, he became limited in every way, he even lost his glorious body filled with light. Even creation was afflicted because of man's fall, because man is connected to all these things. God gave them to man, so he rules over them. The fall of the king is the fall of the whole setting. Jesus came to restore eternity, but only to those who receive Him by faith AND walk after the Spirit (the just shall live by faith). For in the spirit there is no time, religion, commandments, pattern, distance nor any of our limitations in this realm. All there is in there is walking in faith, according to God's Spirit. Even angels walk according to God's Spirit. This is why we could pray for someone a thousand miles away and he receives God's blessing. Time is a distortion, never in God's plan. This is why a minister could conduct deliverance from a distant place. Everything that walk IN TIME will be destroyed at the final judgment, including humans, to be replaced by that which belongs to or possess eternity (the new Jerusalem). Every little sin in its most innocent form is a distortion of eternity. Only by walking according to the Spirit do we walk in God's timeline and are we able to please Him. Walk by the Spirit.

Every religion comes from time, born after the flesh. Only by Jesus Christ is any man restored. Satan reigns in time. God rules in eternity. If we walk according to the Spirit we please God because we are on his timeline. Life of holiness through the Holy Ghost is the timeline of God. While every little form of sin is walking in Satan's time. Man was holy before the fall. Satan's message to God's children today is that holiness is impossible. However, most followers of Christ Jesus wholeheartedly believe the joke, denying that Christ has restored all Adam lost. Man's natural state was holiness, now we have holiness and can be holy. We are created in the image of God. We are supposed to be like the Father in all things. Christ came to show us what the Father looks like. We can be holy. Holiness is our natural state! Spread the message. Satan is a liar that Christians can't be holy. Our Father demands we be holy. We have the Holy Ghost who continues to supply the life of Christ to us. We can live the life of Christ and be holy. Let's destroy every stronghold of Satan in the heart and mind of God's children. God's timeline is here. You can be holy! Holiness is your natural state! Christ has restored you. Believe it and walk in it!

They will call you guys.

Assurance Of Salvation


John 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you..

To be assured of salvation, two actions must be undertaken. One is carried out by God, the other by the believer. Ephesians 5:30; For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. This is the first part carried out by God when we respond to the gift of salvation by faith, He puts us into His Son. Here is our part, John 15:5-7; I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. "If a man abide not in me," he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Haven been put into Christ, we must willingly remain there! 1 John 5:11; And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. There is no life anywhere else but in the Son and we must remain therein. If any man step out of Christ such has lost his salvation, for there is no salvation anywhere else but in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).

We must note that the Lord never said, "I will make you stay in Me or I have made you stay in me," but He says, "remain in Me!" Why? Because we have been given grace, empowered to do so by His Spirit. This alone are we all called to, to remain in Christ! Lest if we abide not in Him we get cast away as a branch and are withered, burned eternally. But how does one remain in Christ? 1 John 4:13-16; Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. What is love toward God and my neighbors? Love is not some sick emotional display as the world paints it to be, Love means seeking the highest pleasure and glory of God in all circumstances of life, and seeking the highest and greatest good, peace, and benefit of my neighbors always! This is what it means to remain in Christ, this is the only assurance we have, if we continue in biblical love.

The New Christianity, A Wide Path To Hell


Luke 13:23-24
[23]Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
[24]Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

There is a wide path Christianity out there today which allow believers to run the race with their garbage, they believe the way they live has no implication on their eternity, these ones live for their happiness and pleasure, not God's glory. They teaches salvation is the happiness of man, not the glory of God. This counterfeit grace allows them to sin, even though it doesn't state it blatantly, maybe sometimes because sin does not affect their relationship with God they say, they are permitted to be friends with God and the world at the same time (James 4:4), this is the broad road Christianity, the path to eternal damnation!

Matthew 7:13; Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Many! Either out of ignorance or deception! Many! Broad is the way and men love that broadness, for this path is wide enough to accommodate their sins, flesh and self! But the narrow path is too tight to allow such garbage! These things must be denied for anyone to claim he is on the right path!

God is calling believers today into intimacy, a heart to heart, a deep walk, communion with Himself, not religion, but relationship. To go deep with God believers must be ready to let go of the very life they live to get the life of Christ. Luke 14:33; So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. If we are not sanctified we cannot be useful for His glory and should not think to reign with Him. Romans 8:1; There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Can it get clearer than this when he said in Romans 8:14; For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God? How many of us here can boldly declare we are led by the Spirit of God this day? God's true children are indeed few! Few! Most are hypocrites.

Matthew 7:14; Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Few. Only the Chosen few find the road because not all believers are willing to let go of the sinful sweetness of life and embrace the way of the cross. The road is narrow because it is a path of crucifixion, of denial and of death to myself, my flesh and the world! Are we dead to these things? Have we submitted absolutely to Christ that He might reign in life through us? Have we submitted to the dealings of the Holy Ghost and stopped hindering His work in our life? Let us be sure that no man is sanctified or prepared for God's kingdom unless we get to that point where the world no longer matter to us but God's glory in it and we can in good conscience boldly declare with Paul, "the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." (Galatians 6:14). This is salvation of our souls, the end of our faith!

greatnaija01:
wow... a great read BUT.... its really confusing.....

if your 7 POINTS to receiving the Holyghost is CORRECT then kindly show proof of each point in ACTS 2 and 3 where they received the Holyghost, and in other places in the book of acts.... the HOLYGHOST COMES TO CLEAN YOU UP.... He does not need you to clean up before He can enter your life... He is the HOLY ghost... meaning, anywhere He enters He makes it HOLY.

RESTITUTION is not also part of it o..... ELSE PAUL NEEDED TO RESTITUTE PLENTY.... and many of the others.

the other points too.... they are somehow because the Scripture calls the Holyghost a GIFT.... so we do not do ANYTHING to receive the gift apart from being BORN AGAIN.... thats all. Infact, a person needs the HOLYGHOST BEFORE THEY CAN BE DEVOTED to GOD or HUNGRY FOR THE SCRIPTURES... or any other thing... without the Holyghost, IT IS ALL NEVER GOING TO WORK. EVEN JESUS COULD DO NOTHING WITHOUT THE HOLYGHOST.

You read not properly. The topic is "You can be filled with the Holy Ghost" not "You can receive the Holy Ghost." Only those who have the Holy Ghost can be filled. You should read the first paragraph again.

And don't be deceived, restitution is a crucial part of repentance. Restitution wherever necessary must come before confession. What if I still have my brother's stolen goods with me while I pray to God to forgive my stealing habits? Will He listen? No. He will first say, "return those stolen goods, get rid of it." That is restitution.

Luke 19:8
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

This is true repentance.

You Can Be Filled With The Holy Ghost


Acts 4:31
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

At conversion when believers put their faith in Jesus by believing the gospel, immediately they receive the Holy Ghost and a renewed spirit even though the senses does not feel it, this is called baptism of the Holy Ghost, in this does the Holy Ghost baptises us into the body of Christ or His Church. The Holy Ghost makes His home inside this renewed spirit but He is locked up in there. The believer is filled when he surrenders his will totally to Christ, when he desires in his heart to walk according to Christ's word. Being filled with the Holy Ghost means that the Spirit of the Lord has broken forth or come from within the spirit of the man to fill his human spirit. This is likened to having in a cup just a drop of water, when this cup is full to the brim with water, we say the cup is filled. The human spirit is the cup, the Holy Ghost is the water. We must reject some false teachings out there that all believers have all the Holy Ghost there is at conversion, this is deception of Satan to lock the Holy Ghost within, enslave believers and keep them powerless. In fact, the Holy Ghost must fill our human spirit for the work of sanctification or baptism by fire to fully begin. There is another falsehood out there, that baptism into the Holy Ghost is the same with being filled, they are confused about this because sometimes when the Lord fills the believer He also baptises him. These are two separate experiences but it pleases the Lord to carry them out once for some very few believers. Believers baptised into the Holy Ghost are always filled, even to overflow. This can be likened to having a cup filled with water but it does not run to overflow, this is being filled and should be experienced by every believer. But then suddenly a large tank of water from the outside is poured into such cup it becomes full and overflows, the cup is continually filled, surging and running over that others might drink of the Living Water, we call this the overflow anointing or baptism into the Holy Ghost and it is only for the work of ministry. Baptism into the Holy Ghost is only carried out by Christ Jesus and is a call to ministry in the body of Christ, and is given only to vessels which has been prepared by the Lord for many years for His service, whereas infilling of the Holy Ghost can be done by ministers, yea, by laying on of hand (Acts 9:17). Being filled has to do with the anointing within, while baptism into the Holy Ghost has to do with the anointing without or power or overflow anointing.

What must we do to be filled? If we are positioned for God's blessing God can direct His ministers to fill us by laying on of hand. Matthew 5:6; Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. This is another way, firstly to receive we must;
1. Be dedicated to Christ.
2. Have an inner thirst or hunger to be filled! Anointing does not come cheap, it always comes with a price, yea.
3. Pray to the Father to fill us in Jesus name. Ask and it will be given. Ye receive not because ye ask not.
4. If our intention is not to grow in righteousness or closer to Christ, it is impure and what we seek will not be given.
5. Confess and forsake every last known sin. Let there be a deep commitment or absolute surrender to Christ.
6. Do restitution and keep self clean from defilements.
7. Immerse self in study of scripture and pray more frequently. Let us draw closer to the Lord and seek His presence always and everywhere. This is the positioning.
Secondly, let the believer wait patiently upon the Lord and not expect his needs met in a second. It is God's will that we are all filled and He withholds nothing good from his children. Matthew 7:7-11; Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

These are the signs of being filled. Romans 14:17; For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Righteousness, peace and joy! For most believers, unexplainable joy and peace of the spirit is their sign of initial filling (Acts 13:52) even though this joy quickly wears away as they drop into sin, others feel nothing at all in their spirit. But there is an increased hunger for God's presence, a desire to worship God, a deep sense of the indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost (which must not be mistaken for bodily feeling), easiness to obey the words of scripture, praying becomes natural and comes with ease, God's mind is easily discerned, gifts of the Spirit manifesting almost without the believer's knowledge, easiness in believing the words of scripture, easiness to forsake sin, inner thirst to listen to God's word preached, and the scripture becomes more understandable, very clear. Let believers stick to their simplicity of faith because being filled launches us into the spiritual realm, and we become very open to God's truth and also to Satanic deception. Let us watch therefore and be careful what sort of "truth" we believe. Every "truth" that is not from the Bible must be rejected, lest we get deceived by demons. We must take note that after the initial filling we have a choice to make whether to be continuously filled or to sometimes blackout. We are commanded to be filled always, Ephesians 5:18; And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. But how? Colossians 3:16; Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. By meditating in the word, singing spiritual songs in our heart, and praying without season ever drawing closer to the Lord.

Lust of the Eyes


[8]Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
[9]And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
[10]Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. (Matthew 4:8-10).

Now the devil tempted our Lord with what belongs to him! Psalms 24:1; The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. All these belongs to the Father of our Lord Jesus, however our Lord has claim over them all by inheritance. Is he not also offering us what already belongs to us today? What men kill for this day are mere benefits of the kingdom life, though these are not to be the purpose of seeking God. In this does the devil convinces us that we must strive to get this degree, get that wealth, houses, food, clothes, and that spouse to be successful, all which our Father in heaven is able to give us much more than we ask or think if it pleases Him!

Satan sets these things before men that they might not seek God. What a stumbling block! Only few of God's children understands that we are not to strive after these things for they will be added unto us after we have sought, received the kingdom of God and live His righteousness as a lifestyle. Some have bowed to Lucifer, sold their soul for what they could gain here and now. Esau's of the 21st century! All these see is the pleasures of now, nothing more. Who has lost the battle to Satan? The shortsighted! For Satan's main objective has ever been to draw us completely into the pleasures of present, and take our sights off the glories of then, contrary to our Lord Who always desires we walk in light of our consciousness of the eternal glory ahead.

If Satan has successfully kept a brother in seeking after the happiness of now, such has been captured by him and he is useless to God. If we would look into the world today all there is that is in there is lust, to acquire this and that, at the expense of men's souls. Have we not also bowed to these idols and demons? What do we serve? Education? Haven't we esteemed our children in place of God? Mammon? Health? Friends? Parents? Entertainment? Good Job? Wife or husband? Service in God's house? These things take most of our time, for we serve them, not God. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me (Matthews 10:37), saith our Lord.

Let us check ourselves, for whatever we are desperate for, such has our heart! For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matthews 6:21). Some may say, "oh we haven't knelt before a stone nor prostrated to some wood that we might be accused of idol worship." Let us be fully aware that whatever takes preeminence in our heart that is our god! And we must note that no spiritual adulterer shall have a part in Christ's kingdom (Revelation 21: 8 ). Let us walk by the spirit not by the flesh, by faith not by sight and by the spiritual not by the physical. For if we run after these things they might destroy us, but if we seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness we shall be blessed and joyful and content with whatever God has given us. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matthew 6:19-20).

Lust of the Flesh


[3]And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
[4]But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. (Matthew 4:3-4).

Our Lord Jesus had just descended from a 40days and 40nights fast being led of the Spirit of God, anyone could imagine Him extremely hungry. If we look carefully into this account, we would realise that Satan always tried to draw the Lord out of walking after the spirit into walking after the flesh or fulfilling the lust of the flesh, which is sin, but the Lord stood His ground! These are sins carried out in the body of sin, the desires of our body lusting against the spirit.

This haven shattered so many great destinies leaving them unfulfilled also have the highest percentage of believers in its bondage, especially the youths who cannot abstain from fornication, while the elders also struggles with adultery and little common lies. These think in their minds that their evil works have no consequences, that the fires of the lake which burns with sulphur is no longer hot, they console their souls that the Judge of heaven and earth will mistakenly overlook their wickedness and whoredom. What a dream! Awake! For they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Galatians 5:21)! Shall not!

What can be more plain? Dear drunkard, glutton, liar, thief, drug addict, pornographer, masturbator, lesbian, sodomite, hater, smoker, cheater, worshipper of false gods, reveller, gossiper, backbiter, sorcerer, new ager, unbeliever, coward, and the likes, listen to what Paul has to say! 1 Corinthians 9:27; But I keep under my body bringing it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. If Paul the great apostle of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles could be castaway, can we escape the consequences of this evil that we do? Shouldn't we bring our bodies into subjection that we might not be condemned with the world?

Brethren, Christ has dealt with these sins and we unnecessarily no longer have to be slaves, for sin has no dominion over we who are in Christ Jesus by faith in his blood. Are we not baptised into His death? Do dead men commit sin? (Romans 6:2), For he that is dead is freed from sin (Romans 6:7). If we believe that we died when Christ died, we shall no longer be ruled by the desires of the body, because Christ has done away with the body of sin. Let us step into the reality of the victory of Christ's cross by faith, deny these wicked sins and forsake these condemnable practices that we might walk in the fullness of life in Christ.

God Sent No Man With The False Teaching Of Prosperity


1 John 4:5
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

The test of every minister is this, do they speak of things of this world and mind earthly things? They belong to the world! Preach they holiness and stress relationship with man and communion with God? They are sent by and from God! Prosperity preaching as the world calls it is a great falsehood, deception of Satan to draw and set the minds of God's children on fleshly pursuits. In this we prove them liars, For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5). If we carefully search scripture we shall find out that God never at any point in time sent any minister to go teach his children how to get rich nor did Jesus ever prayed for anyone to get wealthy. These make wealth off God's people through deceptions, tithing and sowing of seed, having reduced the gospel to mere prosperity plan, they serve mammon, not God. These prosperity ministers offend not in words but present their filthy lies in sweet pleasing words, emotion lifting charades, soft music play in background, hence the believer continues to die spiritually while he dines with demons. Paul the Apostle warned of these wicked pigs and their followers, For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (2 Timothy 4:3-4). What is the truth? Holiness without which no man shall see God! Holiness at the expense of my happiness and pleasure!

God has called no man to preach prosperity, not one. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18). This is the ministry! What ministry? Reconciliation! What should your pastors and prophets preach? Holiness! For this is the sum of ministry, the ministry of reconciliation, even reconciliation of man unto God and the perfection of the saints is the goal! Should any deviate from this by any degree, God has not called such. They deceive the gullible with cheap grace and prosperity plan, because they know the brethren loves the world and the things in it, not God, so they present what would gratify the audience. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things (Philippians 3:17-19). They mind earthly things such as making more wealth and the prosperity of this dead world! They take tithes by disrupting obvious scriptural teachings a practice which has been abolished, these liars call giving them money "sowing of seed," they buy private jets, buy cars, build mansions and schools with your money and give 1% of their gain out to deceive you into thinking charity is what they do with your money, they do sell anointing oils, waters, handkerchiefs, they distort bible stories to convince the brethren of giving them money, these fools worship the rich setting their seats at the front role and disregards the poor, they force men to build their prayer halls or centers, they receive money to pray for folks and if not given they rain curses on their audience. This is the enemy of the cross, hypocrites, artists! Their God is their belly!

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again (Luke 6:38). This is the true prosperity plan, that we give cheerfully our resources that God might bless us in return. What exactly are we to give? Our money, energy, talents, service, time, care, we should strive to meet our neighbour's need in whatever capacity God has enriched us. Having in mind that God is capable of prospering His children, this gives us peace, and we are content with what He gives, for He loves us. He withheld not His Son and His Spirit from us, how then shall He not give us our needs? Is any believer poor? Not in any way! Whosoever has eternal life is richer than the wealthiest man on the planet, yea. This should be our joy, that God has called us into His eternal family. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (Matthew 6:33). These things are not meant to be the purpose or centre of our lives, but God. Should these things be the focus of anyone's ministry? If it is, such is a deceiver and must be avoided.

That's nowhere near being the mark of the beast. Something worst is coming. This will be an actual mark forced upon folks as they renounce their faith. Whosoever receives not this mark will be put in prison or killed. No one will be killed for not worshipping on Sunday. The worship of God is in the spirit and in the truth, not on Sundays or Saturdays, but every second of the day. This law is merely their first step towards obtaining world power, joining church and state, and preparing the stage for the Antichrist (second beast of revelation) and the world religion (first beast of revelation).

Dtruthspeaker:
A person who Knows and Understand cannot be deceived. My (All) people perish for lack of knowledge (I don't know)

No. In fact, you may have been deceived for believing it is impossible for you to be deceived. That's the way demons lock you up from receiving the truth, by convincing you, "you now have all the truth." There are levels of deception of demons for different levels or classes of believers. The babe Christian has a lie he must battle with, so is the most matured believer. If the most knowledgeable believer does not take caution, he could already be deceived before he knows. We all must stick to the simplicity of scripture. You will have to know what subtility means.

Relationship Between Word & Spirit, Believers Must Be Careful What They Believe


John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Word and Spirit are closely related, these often are confused by the brethren because they are tied. Words are enlivened by the Spirit, and spirit carries or flows with the word. When a word is released, it flows forth with its spirit to make it active and effective. Every understandable word has its spirit, either satanic or scriptural, for this reason we must be careful what we believe lest we receive a wrong spirit. Words fully becomes spirit and gives life or death to man when he believes them in his heart. This is why the gospel must be preached in words, that men might receive the Spirit of the gospel, Holy Ghost, by believing the gospel message in their heart. The words of our Lord Jesus are spirit, and gives life, in the sense that, if anyone receives this spirit or word they shall become the very life such lives. The saying that whatever man feeds himself, that he becomes is very accurate. For as words are received or believed, the spirit of man begins to act on them and man begins to live according to the words. If the believer believes a lie, he yields ground to the devil to afflict him. Let every believer be careful of what he or she believes, because words carry spirits, and if spirits be received into man, he is transformed and acts according to the spirit received. Those who meditate on pornographic material are a good example, for these receive pervert spirits, expressions, words or images, hence lust for more experience, and this spirit leaves not but by serious battle. When Paul warned his brethren of receiving another spirit, he was verily speaking about receiving another words contrary to God's word, for words carry spirits and spirits use words. 2 Corinthians 11:4; For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, And also, Galatians 1:8; But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. The apostle was fully aware of the danger in receiving words which are contrary to the truth of God, be it preaching or admonition. No matter how noble and knowledgeable the speaker might be or how good is a truth, if it contradicts God's word it must be immediately discarded, including our cultures, religions, creeds and mentalities, these falsehoods must be screened, rejected and replaced by scriptural knowledge alone.

If we believe a lie from the devil we receive another spirits, and we put our self at grave risk. When man receives an information into his conscious mind, after a while this information is passed into the subconscious mind and heart, at this point man acts on this information and he is in trouble. If we are filled with satanic information, we are satanic in deeds, even though we could claim to be believers. We could feed ourselves with worldly information, but we must be aware that we are on the verge of being possessed by satanic spirits if we should believe their lies, the same way we received the Holy Ghost by believing the gospel. If demons cannot possess the believer's spirit because the Holy Ghost already lives there, they will for sure seize every opportunity to possess his soul and body. These spirits press their words forcefully into man's heart by movies, music, novels, entertainment, neighbors and other means through which we are informed. Hence, the believer must judge every word in light of scripture before he believes them (Philippians 4: 8 ). If the believer who still derive pleasure in worldly discussions, music, images, views, ideas, movies shall take note, he would realise that his mind is often attacked by satanic spirits, he most times is unable to rule his emotions, he couldn't think what he desires when he wills, he couldn't concentrate on a matter at once he often gets carried away, sometimes his mind auto plays these songs already implanted in his subconscious mind and he is unable to stop them, other times his mind runs wild, he has an unstable emotion, he can hardly understand scripture because his heart is filled with many other things, his mind is not renewed, he receives demonic voices echoing into his mind to influence his decision, voices play in his head sometimes very loudly that he can't think, he forgets crucial information at crucial times, confusing images flashing across his mind randomly then he calls it revelation, he distorts the teachings of scripture, he abruptly receives supernatural suggestions in the mind, he can hardly discern the will of God in his situations, he suddenly gets weakened in his body other times he is punished with light headaches, he is filled with religious knowledge, he has an unstable emotion, he communes with demons through his mind thinking he chats with God, he feels sharp pains in parts of his body especially the waist and the chest, he receives distracting thoughts during meditation and prayer, he gets pinched at times in his heart, these are all assaults of demonic spirits due to exposing oneself to their information, receiving and believing them. This wrong or false information does in the believer influences his character also, because men acts on what they believe to be truth and out of the abundance of heart man acts and speaks. Such mentality developed to believe the lies of the devil through partaking in worldly activities as these is unfruitful to God. However, this set of Christians are useless to God.

Has the Word preeminence in our hearts? Information is only conquered by information, we can only get rid of Satan's lies by God's truth. If any man will be free from these things he must deny himself of worldly pleasures and cling to the word of God, that it might shape his mentality, renew his mind and equip him with every necessity to counter every satanic schemes from time to time. Has the believer not been attacked enough by those wicked spirits? Satan hides in plain sight but highest percentage of believers can't see him, his Influence is everywhere expressed through the noblest of advises and men also through music and movies, but only those who are immersed in the power of the Word can detect his suggestions and rebuke his deeds, and refuse to partake of his things. If any desire this victory, let such be influenced and consumed by the word of God that all his conversation must spring from the word, this way is man free from assaults of Satan. Our minds must meditate on the word from time to time and hearts must be filled with the word to be free from Satan's grip. If the believer shall subject himself to God's word in place of worldly activities, he would easily at first glance detect false teachings and he shall reject them. If any man brings a lie, this also shall he reject. The word of God alone will he confess, not poverty, not sickness, not affliction, not pain, but what God says, for he is full of the word. Our only escape route from this satanic system is to get wont to God's word feeding, meditating on it day and night. Is there any man willing to undertake this journey of entering into the pleasure of God's presence by His word? This is where peace and joy of the Lord is perfected! Let such be aware that to touch God's word is to touch God's Spirit, and every hearty visit to the Word is a visit to God Himself. Will anyone be filled with the Holy Ghost without first being filled with the Word? Not in any way. Lest such deceives himself, he must first be filled with the word!

UceeGod:


sorry to say this but you keep sounding like an incoherent broken record because we can't have only One God and at the same time have another God(not god) that is subject to Him, except if you're going to utterly deny the deity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Lord, the Everlasting Father that deserves our worship, that makes Him the same with the Ancient of Days as a Being NOT as a Person.

Jesus is subject to His heavenly Father as a Person NOT in essence. Is your soul not subject to your spirit? Yet your soul and spirit are essentially the same - YOU.

Your position is not different from that of Quran and Muslims, for their main purpose is to deny that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Oh.. being not as a person.. Is that so?

Bring your words out of scripture, not those jargons your pastor taught you. If your argument is not based on scripture you speak falsehood.

As a person not in essence. Lies. But Jesus says the Father (Person) is His God (Essence). Ah! Jesus says His Father is supreme in every way, whether in person or in essence. He called the LORD GOD His Father to prove superiority of Person and also calls Him His God to prove superiority of Essence! How come you people claim they are equal in any way? You people would even say to the Lord Jesus to shut up, that He doesn't know himself, that you know Him better. The Lord Jesus knew hypocrites would come to twist God's word to their own destruction, so He often emphasizes "my God my God my Father my Father." What can be easier to understand than this? Who taught you people these nonsense you spew on net? Where is this in the scripture? Who is the Source of all things? Jesus says, "I have life because of my Father," meaning Jesus cannot exist without the Father Who is the Source of life, hypocrites say no, you have life because you are equal to the Father in essence. What is Person? What is essence? God is Spirit. That is the essence. Man has spirit, that makes him equal with God, right? of the same essence? Angels and demons are spirits too. Absolutely deluded folk and his pastor.

Folly. So Jesus is soul and Father Spirit? This is in fact demonic. Who taught you all these nonscriptural jargons? Were you never taught at Sundays school that God is Spirit? You want to add your little human soul to complete Him?

If Jesus has not another God, why does He always say "my God and my Father?" I thought essence was the same? The Father shouldn't be His God if they were equal in essence, right? Lest you don't know what essence is.

Was Jesus making jokes when He said He has a God and a Father? Oh! He was referring to? His other essence half in heaven?

Your standpoint is most erroneous here. Folks like you want to eradicate the Person of the Son, the Word of God who became flesh, and make Him in the most stupid way One with His Father, calling Him the Father. You are most confused or deceived in here, very confused. In truth, if anyone believes not the Son of God, he is none of his! If Jesus is equal to the Father, then you deny the Son of God, for He is Son, not Father. Whosoever denies the Son is condemned already because He believed not on the Son of God. So you all had better get it right in your minds, if you truly worship God or something you fabricate on your bed. Go study scripture afresh with all humility and simplicity of heart, maybe God will show you something besides the nonsense your pastor has fed you with.

[quote author=Agrogbeide post=78304424][/quote]Yea. Jesus was a God who has a God,

Psalms 45:7
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Hebrews 1:9
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

I'll continue to stress this that the term "God" is not anyone's name, it only defines the type of being, especially spiritual beings. Angels were called gods, demons, humans were also called god.

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

There is only One God, the Father. Jesus is not "God the Son" but "the Son of God" who is subject to the Father.

If Jesus is subject to the Father, that makes the trinity doctrine a falsehood, for they claim Jesus to be equal with God or is God, but Jesus was a God who has a God. This is where everyone is confused, they know Jesus was a God, but they confuse Him with the Supreme King. Jesus was a King who has a King. The Ancient of Days is His Father and His God.

If Jesus called His Father "my God," that means the Father receives worship from His Son. How then are they equal? Jesus is the Word of God, not the Father nor is He equal to the Father. The Word of the Father is subject unto the Father, so is the Spirit subject to His owner (the Father) and the Son. The scripture is clear on this.

No wonder our Lord Jesus continued to stress "my God, my God" on earth and in eternity. He knew falsehood will come, with that He destroyed every hope of placing Him as equal with His God and His Father.

My Father and My God. This statement alone destroys every false hope of Trinity. He is called the Father for a purpose, for He is the origin of all things. He is the Father of our Lord Jesus. Is anyone here equal with his father or his God?

You folks should ask yourselves, what does it mean to be a God to someone? If God is my God and my Father, are we still in anyway equal?

bloodofthelamb:


Yes the Bible said, but is the Bible saying it to you, that is if you are a believer in the finished work of Jesus Christ. The Bible said many things to many people in different circumstances. In all thy getting, get understanding.

I don't know any part of the scripture that was written to unbelievers, all was written to believers, the church. Or do you know any part?
If it applies to the believers then what or who makes you think it doesn't apply to you? If it doesn't apply to you, then salvation doesn't apply to you either since it happened back then, not in our time nor was it directed to Nigerians.

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So where comes your theology? You will believe the fake words of your pastor above scripture? Scripture says to confess your sins in godly sorrow, and not continue in them.

bloodofthelamb:


I don't believe in confessing of sins, but I believe in confessing my forgiveness and righteousness in Christ. I don't look at what is wrong with me, I only concern myself with what is right with me in Christ.

These lies my transformation.

But the bible says to confess your sins that He is faithful and just to forgive you? and that godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation? How come you have a special grace of enjoying your little sins without repenting nor confessing them? If your grace does not make you false on your face and cry for help every time you sin, your conversion may need proper scrutiny (Jude 1:4), as demons do counterfeit these experiences, leaving one with a false assurance of salvation.

UceeGod:


1 John 1:9
How do you confess forgiveness without acknowledging your faults. Do you claim righteousness in Christ so you can go on committing the sins you've been forgiven? No my friend, GRACE doesn't work that way.

These are blinded by their false pastors who presents them with hyper grace messages. They don't really care to search scripture for truth, they feed on whatever their pastor gives them. It's all written over the brother's comments, the voice of his pastor who has an holy goat spirit, not Holy Spirit, in him convicting him of righteousness even when he commits an heinous crime.

Be Careful How You Treat Your Conscience!


If our conscience is actively involved in everything we do, this could only imply one thing, that we are mature Christians. The spiritual judges all things. Our conscience must guide every of our words, actions and thoughts, it must be fully involved in our activities and we must be willingly alive to it that it might guide us not to sin. Our conscience raises its voice immediately after we go wrong, sometimes the Spirit of God waits until we are attentive, this could be hours, days, weeks or months after our evil deed. One thing is certain, the Spirit of God does not generalize our sins, He points directly to them. He tells us directly through the conscience, "hey you did this and that during so so time and it is bad, and this is why it is bad," He is always specific and often uses the scripture to convict us.

The Holy Spirit does nothing apart from the word of God. If the conscience is silenced of its voice we put our self in grave danger, for the conscience could be completely seared or weakened if such denial continues. If our conscience dies how shall we be guided? How shall we be led by the Spirit? If we reject its voice how shall we be convicted of our wicked ways and iniquities? How shall we hear God's voice? Then we put our self in dangers of condemnation! Paul the apostle always gave heed to his conscience that he on many occasions attested, "for we have a clear conscience." The believer must always strive to have a good conscience, for if our conscience judges us then God judges us. If our conscience is clear it does not imply that we are pure, for God is greater than our conscience, but a pure conscience must always be maintained by the believer.

However, the conscience operates according to the current level of truth or revelation we have in us, this is why as we grow in knowledge we must continue to renew our mind, repent and drop some bad attitudes after conviction. Let us study to know what pleases God and strive after an active, pure and clean conscience. Contrary to some satanic teachings which declares our God-given conscience evil, that we must silence it, they are aimed at softening the conscience's voice so as to cut off man's walk with God. Believers should avoid teachings such as Calvinism, Once Saved Always Saved and other conscience wrecking satanic teachings. If there be a believer whose conscience is seared or dead, let such prayerfully with a readiness to obey God, study the scripture afresh in all simplicity to have a pure conscience once again. So far a teaching weakens the conscience even the slightest bit, it is false. Let us return to the basics of the scripture and study afresh that we might have our conscience working properly again.

Smalliegirl:
Without really going into so much details for now


Anyone ever experience(d) hatred? I mean the spiritual kind of hatred, which even you yourself know it cannot be ordinary.

How do I solve / stop this persistent horrible curse?

Please engage with me.

Ps: I have prayed, fasted, undergone deliverance but yet! Please help me guys...Thanks

The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet. If the feelings comes from the spirit, you will easily get rid of it whenever you want, but if it has demonic origin it will come often and without your easy control. Demons get grounds in us when we sin or yield grounds to them consciously and unconsciously through passivity of our members, sometimes we give them ground to attack by believing a lie or anything that does not come from the bible or God. When we yield this kind of ground, deliverance can't cast devils out. The only time deliverance will work is if the ground yielded to demons has been regained, then they can be casted out by the believer himself. If you can trace the origin of the emotion to a particular sin, confess it to the Lord and ask Him to cleanse you. If sin caused it, since it has been confessed demons no longer have a ground to infuse wrong emotions, this gives you a legal right to cast them out and retrieve your ground. You will carry out a deliverance on yourself if when next it comes and you realise you can't control it. You must fight it off by resisting the devil, that he might flee. When next the emotion comes, reject and willingly deny it as not being yours. Confess the joy of the spirit, believe it and walk in it. And again you might have to think back to a time you received or believed a truth or message, maybe at the start. Think back, if you remember a message which is not according to scripture you have believed, maybe a message on emotions, you might have to discard that message and declare it as a lie by searching the scripture and countering the lies with the truth of God's word. You must believe the truth you come across in the bible so that it can override the lie already believed. Only truth can destroy lie, but the truth must be believed. It will be a serious war at first but as time goes on it gets easier until you are finally free to use your emotions as you will. But if it is of the spirit, you will have control over it. Sometimes the Lord uses these emotions in us, but we still have the will to block them off. May God help you. Amen

iRyan:
why has the spirit been giving different interpretations that does nothing but causes division and hatred among Christian readers?

No spirit is given different interpretations. The words, the book is given different interpretations, true, but the spirit behind the word is still the same. One may study the NIV bible and the other KJV bible, if both of them touch the spirit behind the word then they receive the same interpretation. You could be a kjv user and another man niv user, if both of you receive revelation or touch the spirit behind the word, you will both see the same thing. There won't be difference in interpretation, because the spirit of the word of God is one, and He is Jesus. This is all about revelation of the spirit, not about letters that killeth.

blazzydoc:
I was brought up to believe that the Bible was the Word of God. In early life I accepted it as such upon the authority of my parents, and never gave the question any serious thought. But later in life my faith in the Bible was utterly shattered through the influence of peer group. I found myself face to face with the question, why do I believe the Bible is the Word of God?

I had no satisfactory answer. I determined to go to the bottom of this question if I must serve God as presented by Preachers. If satisfactory proof could not be found that the Bible was God's Word I would give the whole thing up, cost what it might. If satisfactory proof could be found that the Bible was God's Word I would take my stand upon it, cost what it might.

I doubtless had many friends who could have answered the question satisfactorily, but I was unwilling to confide to them the struggle that was going on in my own heart; so I sought help from God, mentors, Fathers of Faith and from books, and after much painful study and thought came out of the darkness of skepticism into the broad daylight of faith and certainty that the Bible from beginning to end is God's Word. The following are largely the outcome of that experience of conflict and final victory. I would say I believe the word of God is one book that changed my life as a person and I have proof of how it changed me from a cultist to a Minister of the Gospel.

I will give THREE Reasons why I believe the Bible is the Word of God.

FIRST, on the ground of the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Many people accept the authority of Christ who does not accept that of the Bible as a whole. We all must accept His authority. He is accredited to us by five Divine testimonies: by the testimony of the Divine life He lived; by the testimony of the Divine words He spoke; by the testimony of the Divine works He wrought; by the Divine attestation of the resurrection from the dead; and by the testimony of His Divine influence upon the history of mankind. But if we accept the authority of Christ we must accept the authority of the Bible as a whole. He testifies definitely and specifically to the Divine authorship of the whole Bible.

SECOND, https://josephifeanyiblog..com/2019/05/three-3-reasons-why-i-believe-bible-is.html

The book and the words in it is not the word of God, but the spirit behind the words. There is a spirit behind the word, that spirit is the word of God. So if anyone picks up the bible and claim to study the word of God he deceives himself, unless he meets the spirit behind the word.

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