Miracle2020: Our greatest mistake in this country is given us independence. Nigeria would have been better if we are under colonial leadership. It is better to be a slave to a white man than being a free man to a black Nigerian man. I wish the US will colonise us.
Slavery is a curse.
The only problem is the black man has a poverty mentality and still behaves like a slave when he's free.
pradoyeep: You may have been encouraged to do something for God in your church. It is a good idea, but you need to take caution. Before serving God in a church, you need to pray well for the following reasons.
(1) To know if the church is truly of God and what spirit is really controlling the church. I tell you, if you serve God with your whole heart in a church that serves the devil, you are technically serving the devil, even if you are innocent. So no matter the prayers, worship, praises a church gives openly to God, if the founding pastors use occultic powers and demons to operate, you are technically serving satan no matter how innocent you are.
(2) To know what department, role or function God wants you to do. If God directs you to a unit in the church, He wants to bless you through that unit, and will empower you to be profitable in such unit.
True. There are many occultic pastors and churches out there.
3 major signs of an occultic church:
1. They don't preach holiness, repentance, fear of God, evangelism, restitution, rapture, hell fire, heaven, etc.
2. They preach mostly on miracles, power, financial blessings, giving, prosperity, breakthroughs, etc.
3. The pastors indulge secretly in sinful lifestyles and yet demonstrate God's power in church.
pradoyeep: You may have been in gatherings were so-called christians shout fire, Holy ghost fire, without any tangible results in their lives. Some may even result in looking for diabolical means if their prayers are not yielding results.
Why are prayers Hindered.
(1) Unconfessed sin: If a Christian does not confess his or her sins to God, and make peace with those he or she offended, it may cause hinderances to prayers.
(2) Evil Covenants: As sincere and genuine as a Christian may be, if there are known or unknown evil covenants that are not broken, this may resist answers to prayers. Positive confession s might be resisted if there are hidden evil covenants.
(3) Pride: spiritual pride, normal pride, pride of being a prayer warrior can resist answers to a person's prayer.
(4) Lack of Importunity: Praying without intense satisfaction may not bring answers. You must pray deeply until your soul and spirit are satisfied. Do not force faith on shabby or unsatisfactory prayers. Apply great faith when you have prayed through.
(5) Foundational Issues: A Christian who has not dealt with foundational powers, ancestral powers, idols of his father's house, powers of his or her father's house, may have resistance to getting results after prayers.
These insights are from myself and others.
The 3 major reasons why prayers are hindered:
1. Unconfessed sin.
2. Lack of faith.
3. Lack of sufficient faith through Fasting and praying.
There is no power that can withstand prayer and fasting.
azammi: did you read d part where he said he fasted and prayed .
This Scipture doesn't not relate with what you said .
I am not a kid in spiritual matters.
Jesus apart from the 40days, lived a fasted life.
His disciples didn't fast, because Jesus was with them, empowering them spiritually and covering their spiritual lapses.
But after Jesus left them, they began to fast for more spiritual power.
The same thing applies today. As disciples of Jesus, unless we fast, there are certain miracles or blessings we cannot receive because there are levels in the spiritual realm.
Matthew 17 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¹⁹ Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
²⁰ And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
²¹ Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Because He too respected The Sabbath of the 7th day (Saturday).
Thus, He came back on the lawful day when it is allowed to work.
Thus, devils have used people's lack of knowing and understanding to deceive them with a reason for disobeying God's Command.
Go check it out do you not see that Friday Night is the most unholy night whereas it is the beginning of The Holy Day of the 7th?
Satan is very evil and cunning for He has deceived the whole world and gotten them to disobey God by giving them a reason that sounds reasonable but people do not learn that there is sometimes a reasonable sounding reason to disobey The Law and God as the one Eve must have gotten from Satan when she broke The Law and later said "he beguiled me".
Now you have been warned o, so hence forth, It is you who hearkened unto Satan rather than unto God!
So are you saying Christians who go to church on Sunday won't make heaven??
Yes, Saturday remains sabbath according to the OT, but we choose to worship God on Sunday.
Nebes: Men should always pray. You can pray without fasting but fasting without praying is just a weight loss program.
Imagine you are a log of wood with a treasure hidden inside of you but also with many negative issues clinging on to you. You need to burn the wood to char off all the troubling elements and reveal the treasure within.
Prayer is what sets you on fire. If the wood is dripping wet (with food) it will take a long time to catch fire. On the other hand, if the wood is dry (from fasting) it will catch fire very easily. The longer you fast and pray, the fiercer the fire burns. Not too many things in creation can resist fire.
Why don’t you set yourself on fire today and watch life’s troubling issues melt away? In the end you will come out as gold refined.
NB: The above analogy is also obtainable in other religions of the world. Even the wicked know and practice this. That is why the lazy children of light fall prey to “burning” children of darkness.
Unfortunately, most Christians are allergic to fasting without understanding we need to fast often.
We are primarily spiritual beings living in a physical environment controlled by the spiritual realm.
Coming125: Do you know that Sunday worship is actually wrong?
If you don't know, now you know.
The actual correct day of the week to worship God is Saturday, not Sunday. Saturday is the last day of the week and it's the day God commanded us to worship Him. Sunday worship is a creation of Satan. This is the work of Satan, the enemy of mankind. And God is not happy with people going to church on Sunday instead of Saturday which is the day He chose for us to worship Him.
Most people who claim they worship God are not worshipping God according to His will.
If you are a pastor and you have a church, stop worshipping on Sunday, change your weekly worship day to Saturday and don't mind what people will say.
If you are a church member and a true believer, tell your pastor about it. Tell him this truth because truth is constant and cannot change.
Don't follow the crowd, don't follow the world to do the wrong thing. Don't follow the world, follow God. Only very few people are actually worshipping God.
It doesn't mean that God will not answer your prayer when you worship on Sunday, but that's why this message has come to you today so that you can make a change in your life and in your church and in Nigeria. Be a change agent. Spread the word, share it. This is the will of God.
Yes you can worship every day of the week, even 7 days of the week if you like, if you have the time, but the day God specifically set apart, hallowed, ordained and requested you not to do any work but to go to church and worship Him is on Saturday, not Sunday, because Sunday is the first day of the week and Saturday is the last day of the week.
Also, remember not everyone who goes to church will make heaven. It's your relationship with God that matters most. You may decide to worship God in your house without going to church and if your relationship with God is ok and you are righteous and you fulfill the requirements of the scriptures, you can make heaven with the grace of God on your side, even if you don't go to church and you worship God in your house, shop or office.
Stop worshipping on Sunday. Worship on Saturday and keep Saturday holy.
So either you choose to worship in your house or go to church, let your weekly worship day be on Saturday as God commanded. And don't do any work on Saturday except to worship God. But also remember you should find a church that worships on Saturday and join them or persuade your pastor to change your weekly worship day to Saturday according to the will of God.
Please spread this message. Share it.
God bless you.
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Jesus rose from the dead on a Sunday morning that is why historically Christians choose Sunday to Saturday.
toronto10: When my mother was sick I used to fast hopping that she would recover. But the more we ( my siblings and I)prayed the more she got worse. She later died. We spent a lot in the hospital too. I stopped going to church and praying from June last year till today. So life has thought me that no matter how much you pray, what is destined to happen will happen. Both good thing or bad thing. I still believe in God though.
It's not true.
There are levels of faith and levels of miracles.
To receive a certain miracle, you must attain a certain height spiritually.
That's why anointing differs from different men of God.
However, God always answers persistent Prayers though it might be delayed.
Babypal: Is it possible for a biological parent to get jealous of a child's success? Using mobads dad for an instance some claim he may be aware of the circumstances leading to his child's death.
How possible is this friends?
Any real life experience, kindly share?
Only household witchcraft are envious of their own children's successes.
It is the earnest hope of every parent that their children be greater than them.
Zxcvbnmghtr: Onana is a great goal keeper. If your defenders are bad then it makes the job of a great goal keeper very difficult no matter how good that goal keeper may be.
Strikers are the ones who win matches. Why are they not scoring to win?
The goal keeper' s job is to stop balls entering his net. Even if his defense line is porous, he should try to stop goals as much as possible.
I remember when Nigeria played Argentina with Vincent eyema in goal. He made some world class saves to stop Messi from scoring.