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You must trade the world for the great treasure

As we read in Mt. 13:44, you must sell everything in order to be able to buy divinity. Don’t be deceived by modern Christianity; divinity is not cheap.

Re. 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you can cover your shameful unclothedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so that you can see.

Mt. 6:31 So do not worry, saying, `What shall we eat?’ or `What shall we drink?’ or `What shall we wear?’
Mt. 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

In order to be able to put on the full armour of God, you must give a lot of time and thought to spiritual matters. That will greatly reduce the amount of time you could spend on worldly matters. This will limit the kind of job you could involve yourself in and your associations with people. It will negatively affect your worldly wealth. Without much of worldly wealth and influence, people will look down on you and life in the world will not be so easy. That is the price you must pay in order to obtain the hidden treasure.

He. 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
He. 12:2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Full Armour of God

Even though Jesus Christ has redeemed mankind by providing the way for us to grow in divinity, the process of growing in divinity is still not easy. The kingdom of darkness mounts great opposition against any attempt to grow in divinity. The worst part of the opposition involves the use of human beings by the evil forces. Consequently, any person who wants to grow in divinity must be capable of overcoming every satanic opposition. It is satanic opposition that made Adam and Eve to fall. But Jesus triumphed over satanic opposition.

Ep. 6:11 Put on the full armour of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.
Ep. 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

In order to overcome every satanic opposition, one must put on the full armour of God (Ep. 6:14-18). One component of the full armour of God is the knowledge of the truth. Knowledge of the truth prevents a person from being ensnared by lie of the devil. It is a belt we use to hold our divinity; if we lose our divinity we become spiritually naked. Have you ever seen yourself naked in dream?

Another component of the full armour of God is righteousness, which is the desire to please God. Determination to please God guards one’s heart against enslavement by Satan. Satan conquered Eve by convincing her to displease God, thereby capturing her heart.

The next component of the full armour of God is preaching the gospel. This is an offensive action, as it seeks to enlarge the kingdom of God and shrink the kingdom of darkness. The person who goes to preach the gospel must prepare himself well with both knowledge of the truth and righteousness.

The next component of the full armour of God is faith. Faith is being certain of what we do not see (He. 11:1), or as Ro. 4:17 puts it, calling the things that are not as though they were. Faith serves as a shield, by which we overcome whatever weapon the evil one fashions against us. Faith enables us to take hold of God’s promise, even though the promise is not yet manifesting. Divinity takes some time to manifest in a person. During the latency period before divinity begins to manifest, one needs faith in order to continue to believe and confess that God will surely fulfill His promise.

He. 10:36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

The next component of the full armour of God is salvation, which simply means that one is baptized into Jesus Christ; in water and in the Spirit. Salvation serves as a helmet, which protects your mind. In my early days of committing my life to Jesus Christ, I suffered great instability. I went through cycles of having wonderful time with God, followed by suddenly falling out of the faith. Some years later, I wondered how the spiritual instability ended. I was able to trace it to my baptism by immersion in water in the Deeper Life Bible Church. That was when I really obtained salvation by being baptized into Christ. The minister who baptized us prayed for God to fill us with His Holy Spirit. I can definitely tell you that if you are not properly baptized into Jesus Christ, even though you commit your life to Jesus, the evil one can easily capture your mind and throw you out of the faith.

Apart from the overall salvation that is obtained by being baptized into Jesus Christ in water and in the Spirit, there is also the salvation that comes by invoking the blood of Jesus and by testifying our oneness with Christ. This is the actual practice of faith, which protects us against the fiery darts of the evil one.

Re. 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

The final component of the full armour of God, and the only offensive weapon against the evil one is the word of God. The word of God is the sword of the Spirit.

Ge. 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Ge. 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Ge. 1:2 describes an unpleasant situation. Even though the Spirit of God was present in that situation, nothing changed until God spoke His word. Then the Spirit of God drove away the darkness with light. When a Christian is confronted by forces of darkness, the Holy Spirit will not intervene unless the Christian is able to speak the word of God by faith into the situation.

Salvation of Mankind

Adam and Eve were headed towards becoming like God; Lucifer didn't want that to happen and so came and scuttled the process. God brought Jesus into the world to save the old mankind. As soon as God began the process that would make Jesus to become like God, by anointing Jesus with the Holy Spirit (Mt 3:16), Satan once again went into action with the aim of scuttling the process. This time around, Satan lost the battle and Jesus successfully went through the process and became like God.

Jn. 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Jn. 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

What God has done in order to save mankind from ungodliness is to send a new man into the world to save the old mankind. God placed the new man (Jesus Christ) at the first level of divinity (He. 2:9; Mt. 3:16), just as He did to Adam in the beginning. God then moved the new man to an environment where he could grow in divinity—desert where he was tempted by Satan (Mt. 4:1). Tribulation is always an opportunity for a human being to grow in godliness. Jesus handled the desert experience very well and God promoted him to higher level of godliness. It is in this higher level that Jesus began his earthly ministry.

Lk. 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.

Jesus’ earthly ministry ended with him dying on the cross for the salvation of mankind. The salvation of mankind by Jesus Christ is the basis upon which any human being could grow in divinity.

Mt. 13:44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.

What is the kingdom of heaven? In order to understand what the “kingdom of heaven” means, we need to look at the early days of mankind.

Ge. 2:7 The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

God created man as an earthly being and later anointed man with His Holy Spirit. God created mankind with the structure or potential to become like God. Mankind could grow in godliness or divinity. There are seven stages or levels of divinity. When God breathed His Holy Spirit into man, this placed man at Level one of divinity. Man could rise up to higher levels of divinity by fulfilling necessary conditions.

Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Having started man off at the first level of godliness, God created an environment where man could rise up in godliness and thereafter put man in it. The environment is the Garden of Eden. One third of God’s angels, led by Lucifer, were not happy with this variability of man’s divinity. The angels apparently feared that this variability could lead to mankind rising up to become greater than some angels in the scheme of things. These angels therefore rebelled against God and decided to prevent mankind from growing in divinity.

Ge. 3:4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Ge. 3:5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Satan deliberately misinformed Eve by telling her that the way to grow in divinity was by doing the very thing that God warned them never to do. Mankind followed the word of Satan and lost their divinity—they became spiritually naked. Mankind therefore lost the capacity to grow in divinity.

The hidden treasure is to become like God, by rising up to the seventh level of divinity. It is hidden to mankind by Satan and his angels. They are still scared of human beings growing in divinity. Due to the fall of man, the kingdom of darkness has had total control over the human race and so keeps the idea of human beings growing in divinity hidden. Instead, it encourages mankind to seek for worldly prosperity, which leads them nowhere. They mount great opposition against any human being who moves towards growing in divinity.

intrepidJ:
I am from Edo State but born and bred in Lagos, with no ties to my state of origin. My grandfather however was a native doctor, and as a kid before the age of 7 or 8 I remember my father taking me to some dirty native doctors place where I am sometimes made to take a shower. I have had incisions made on my body with blades after which some dark substance is robed on it.

My dad is a born again Christian now, prays and fasts often. My question is will the FOUR generational curses mentioned in the bibe affect me?even though my father who is now born again must have broken the curse with prayers? My life is a mess. I suffered untold emotional abuse growing up. My adult hood is no different. I am victimized everywhere, people take undue advantage and make mockery of me. What I find really bizzare is people coming together to gossip about me where ever I got I find this very odd, I am always hated, despised, lied against, unjustly accused. It goes on and on. I'm 34 now, will likely never get married because I have OCD and am Schizotipal, but i can live with that. But i am currently facing spiritual affliction by some bastards who accuse me of dabbling Into witchcraft and bewitching them. An entire family have waged a spiritual war on me, for what I did not do.

Heres the puzzling thing. I go on my knees and cry to God for help. God always responds immediately, but then they come back. I was made to understand that they are trying to take my life but God almighty stands in their way. At home I see cockroaches anywhere I am, in places they have no busines being there. When I play gospel songs by Paul Wilbur some thing strange happens, cockroaches starts coming out of their hidden places to die in my living room. There are birds all monitoring me each time I step out. I leave home and run to the hotel they still somehow locate me.

Recently my toilets keeps getting clogged. If I fix it today within 48 hours it will mysteriously get clogged again, I fix it it repeats the circle. I have another toilet downstairs exactly the same phenomenon. It's gotten so bad I cannot even use the toilets anymore, so I left the house. There us this bizzare smell that permeates my house and as a consequences i have been forced to live in isolationist. I have no friends, it seems to me %80 of my friends are into juju or witchcraft.

I was just watching a tape on monitoring spirits when I came across generational curses and its effect on generations as far down as the 4th generations. Could this be why I keep getting hated, lied about, gossiped about and taken advantage of?

All I can say is that I am very experienced in what the OP has posted here. After I became born again, my life became like hell. I understand all that the OP has posted. In my case, I was in a church in December 2000 and a visitor to that church said that God revealed to him that there was somebody in the church who works so hard but gets little as dividend. He said that it was revealed to him that this person was dedicated to an idol when he was seven days old. The Spirit told me that he was talking about me. I was so shocked! After church dismissed, as I wanted to enter my car and go, the visitor also came out of the church and asked me if I was going towards the garage so that he could follow me. I was actually going to drive through the front of the garage, so I asked him to get in the car. As we moved I told him that the Spirit made me to believe that the revelation he gave in the church was about me. He excitedly said yes that it should be somebody of my age, and that he saw the baby's mother hand him over to the idol. The moment he said "mother" I knew that he was right.

For years, even after this revelation, an idol continued to appear to me in my dreams as my lover--spirit wife. I could not marry. I prayed and prayed and prayed; the prayers couldn't change anything. However, God always somehow responded to my prayer. The idol-spirit-wife was very stubborn. God eventually intervened and I got married. But the spirit wife thing continued and life continued to be like hell. After many years of spiritual warfare, I finally overcame the idol that fronted as my lover through mere confession. Each time I woke up from dream involving the idol, I would vehemently say that I have no part with any idol or the kingdom of darkness and that I belong only to Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God.

Today I can definitely tell you that the solution to this kind of spiritual problem is very simply Re. 12:11.

Revelation 12:11 (NIV) They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

There are two things that will solve this spiritual problem: (1) the blood of Jesus; (2) your word of testimony. As for applying the blood of Jesus, see this thread:
https://www.nairaland.com/4175032/exercise-holiness

I have already described my testimony that set me free from spirit wife. It is simply testifying that you belong to Jesus Christ and the kingdom of God and want to have nothing to do with any idol or demon or the kingdom of darkness. They are wooing you to come over to them; if you consistently tell them that you belong to Jesus and do not want anything to do with them, they will soon leave you alone. I wish you all the best.

Nnewi people! A man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions!!

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GoodMuyis:
What is it doesn't happen, or expected result doesn't come, don't you think the seeker will be discouraged?

It is better to allow the Holy Ghost who empowers believers to guide, instruct and lead us on the path to spiritual gift attainment.

What you did, you may think it's by chance or some random action, what if its the holy spirit himself that impress that into your mind to do such, and the result came.

Am not against the OP as I will love to see generation of Christian force with Holy Ghost power. My concerns is the discouragement that will come should it happen that expected result do not come.

For example some Fasted Months before getting Baptist in Holy Ghost, some few days, Some did not even pray for it but God gave them, while some are still anticipating.

If scientists were this afraid of discouragement before they research new frontiers, the world would still be in the dark ages. This is why there is zero spiritual progress: people who claim to be authorities in religion believe that they already know all there is to know. Any deviation from what they hold to be truth is heresy.

GoodMuyis:
Sir, spiritual gift cannot be projected, the term can be called *gift projection*. If you do certain thing to achieve certain result, others may do it and will not get same result.

God deals with us in different ways and we also have different levels of faith that produced different level of result.

cc: Shadeyinka

This is end time, my friend. The era when only those who possessed spiritual gifts could do certain things have passed. We are now in a time when God is revealing the secrets of the kingdom of heaven. It is very much like the principles of science. Whoever that practices the principles gets the same results. My o.p. in this thread invites people to practice an experimental prayer and give testimony of their experiences. It is very much like scientific research.

Pierohandsome:
God bless u bro

You are extraordinarily blessed, my bother.

Drinking the Blood of Jesus and eating his Flesh

He. 4:2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith.

Jesus spoke the most important word in this world to Jews, but the message was of no value to them, because they did not combine it with faith. The message is simply that the fruit of the tree of life is now available to mankind, in the form of the blood and the flesh of Jesus Christ. Anyone who continues to drink the blood of Jesus and eat his flesh has the life of God.

Even today’s Christians are also confused by the all-important message of Jesus Christ. They cannot understand how to drink the blood that Jesus Christ shed on the cross some two millennia ago. They therefore argue that the all-important message of Jesus Christ should not be taken literarily, but allegorically. But I have come to learn that words of Jesus Christ are most effective when taken literarily, albeit by combining them with faith.

Faith is being certain of what we do not see (He. 11:1), or as Ro. 4:17 puts it, calling the things that are not as though they were? So, even though there is no way we can lay our hands on physical blood and flesh of Jesus Christ, we can lay hand on them spiritually by faith. Faith is all about believing in your heart and speaking with your mouth in agreement what you believe (Ro. 10:8,10).

2Co. 4:13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” [Psalm 116:10] With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.

One day in the year 2013, as I meditated on the word of God while lying on my bed, I thought about this statement by Jesus that unless we drink his blood and eat his flesh, we have no life in us. From that day, I began the practice of praying, “In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I drink the blood of Jesus; I eat the flesh of Jesus.” As I say the prayer, I open my mouth and use my imagination to visualize me drinking the blood and eating the flesh. Not long after I started this kind of prayer, I noticed that the prayer stirred the powers of darkness and they came to probe the source of this disturbance. Towards the end of 2013, I suddenly noticed that I had this ability that if I said very short prayer over any person that was sick, the person got healed immediately. By then, I couldn’t really explain how the power to heal came upon me.

Recently, I began to drink the blood of Jesus Christ and eat his flesh by faith again. I have noticed tremendous change within me. I hereby invite you to sort of experiment by praying as follows:

In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I fill my being with the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I eat into my being the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I cleanse myself from all my sins, all impurities and all idols (evil spirits) by the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God.

The above prayer is derived from both Jn. 6:53, Ez. 36:25 and He. 9:14. Please share the testimony of your experience.

Salvation of Mankind

How could mankind be saved from the ungodliness that Adam and Eve plunged them into? Some religions like Judaism and Islam say that all it takes is to ask for forgiveness and God will forgive. Unfortunately, the issues involved are not just a matter of that man has sinned against God. The issues involved are very deep. The nature of mankind changed, as result of the wrong choice made by Adam and Eve. Recovery of the original nature of mankind actually requires recreation of mankind—born again. God will not just recreate mankind with a wave of His magical wand because He has His angels to contend with. One third of God’s original angels accused God of unduly favouring man. God must have defended Himself by saying that He did not unduly favour man. After all, did He not place man at a level of godliness that is below that of angels (Ps.8:5; He. 2:7) and then gave man the opportunity to work himself even up to the seventh level of godliness? Now that man has worked himself down to negative godliness, God will not unduly favour man by pulling him out of ungodliness.

Jn. 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Jn. 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

What God has done in order to save mankind from ungodliness is to send a new man into the world to save the old mankind. God also placed the new man (Jesus Christ) at the first level of godliness (He. 2:9; Mt. 3:16). God then moved the new man to the desert where he was tempted by Satan (Mt. 4:1). Tribulation is always an opportunity for a human being to grow in godliness. Jesus handled the desert experience very well and God promoted him to higher level of godliness. It is in this higher level that Jesus began his earthly ministry.

Lk. 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.

Jesus earthly ministry ended with him dying on the cross for the salvation of mankind. The salvation of mankind from ungodliness is hinged on the blood that Jesus shed for us on the cross and on his flesh that was broken for us.

Jn. 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Jn. 6:52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jn. 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Jesus made it clear that his flesh and his blood together form the fruit of the tree of life that makes a human being to live forever. The only way to grow in godliness is by drinking the blood of Jesus and by eating his flesh. Like the Jews of old asked, the question remains: How can Jesus give us his flesh to eat and his blood to drink?

Ge. 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Ge. 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Ge. 3:4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Ge. 3:5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The Bible says that God created mankind in His image; yet the serpent said to the woman, “When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God.” Is there a contradiction here? Or was the serpent just lying? There is no contradiction and even though the serpent lied to the woman, the lie was not about whether mankind was already like God or not, but rather about how to become like God.

God created mankind with the structure or potential to become like God. But mankind was to grow up in godliness. There are seven stages or levels of godliness. At the time of creation, man was placed by God at the first stage of godliness. Becoming like God, which the serpent talked about in Ge. 3:5, refers to reaching the seventh level of godliness.

Ge. 2:7 The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Having started man off at the first level of godliness, God created an environment where man could rise up in godliness and thereafter put man in the environment. The environment is the Garden of Eden or Garden of God. Lucifer and some other angels of God were not happy that God had given the new being that God just created (man) the potential to grow in godliness without limit. Angels themselves had limits as to how far they could grow in godliness. God decided to harness the jealousy welling up the hearts of Lucifer and some other angels to good use. (All things work together for good—Ro.8:28). He allowed Lucifer to tempt mankind to rebel against God. If mankind resisted this temptation, they would grow in godliness.

Jn. 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

In order to earn the food that endures to eternal life (the fruit of the tree of life), one must resist every temptation and do the will of God. This is a natural law. People ask why God allowed the serpent to go and tempt mankind, but without temptation or tribulation, mankind can never grow in godliness. Man must do some spiritual work in order to earn the food that endures to eternal life. It is unfortunate that Adam and Eve could not do the work. They chose to flow with the tide, instead of going against the tide. Flowing with the tide (serpent) means doing no work, while going against the tide is a lot of work. Mankind was therefore degraded from the stage one of godliness that they were in.

Does it mean that no person has bothered to practice the prayer in my op? I'm surprised that there has been no response so far. i wish that this could go to front page so that many people could see it.

dainformant:
This shows that the education system in the country needs total over-haul... Imagine teachers who are to impact knowledge into students can't even express themselves in English especially on social media platform. While Nigerians are still recovering from the situation in Kaduna were many teachers were sacked after failing basic competency tests, a teacher in Sokoto state is in the limelight after "releasing a banger" on Facebook. See below;

Source; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2017/11/teacher-from-sokoto-shocking-posts-on-facebook.html

Is it "impact" or "impart". The OP must be from the North.

Fine couple.

Kei144:
These days I regularly pray, coupled with imagination, as follows:

In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I fill my being with the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I eat into my being the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I cleanse myself from all my sins, all impurities and all idols (evil spirits) by the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God.

Since I started praying this way, I have seen some changes taking place in me.

Re. 12:11 They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.

The above quoted prayer is currently doing wonders in my life.

Yakubu Gowon is only concerned about Aburi Accord.

A Body Prepared for Him

2Ti. 2:20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble.
2Ti. 2:21 If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

Ez. 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
Ez. 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ez. 36:27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

2Ti. 2:21 tells us that if anyone prepares his body by cleansing himself from ignoble things, God will manifest His divine life through the person. Even Ezekiel 36 shows that in order for God to put His Spirit in a person and move the person by His Spirit, the person must first of all be cleansed from all impurities and all idols.

These days I regularly pray, coupled with imagination, as follows:

In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I fill my being with the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I eat into my being the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I cleanse myself from all my sins, all impurities and all idols (evil spirits) by the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God.

Since I started praying this way, I have seen some changes taking place in me.

The Divine life and Us

How can we, the descendants of the fallen Adam receive divine life? The answer is simply, as it was in the beginning; by eating the fruit of the tree of life.

Re. 5:6 Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the centre of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits [Or the sevenfold Spirit] of God sent out into all the earth.

When Jesus ascended to the throne of God in heaven, God raised him to the seventh level of divine life. That made Jesus to become the personification of the tree of life. It is now only through Jesus Christ that we can get the divine life. How do we get divine life from Jesus?

Jn. 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Jn. 6:54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jn. 6:55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Jn. 6:56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

Jesus says that the way to get the divine life is by eating his flesh and drinking his blood. We must take him literarily and then combine it with faith (He. 4:2). What does this mean? It means that we actually have to eat the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ and drink his blood. The question of where we can obtain the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ is taken care of by faith. Is not faith being certain of what we do not see (He. 11:1), or as Ro. 4:17 puts it, calling the things that are not as though they were? So, even though there is no way we can lay our hands on physical blood and flesh of Jesus Christ, we can lay hand on them spiritually by faith. Faith is all about believing in your heart and speaking with your mouth in agreement what you believe (Ro. 10:8,10).

2Co. 4:13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” [Psalm 116:10] With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak.

One day in the year 2013, as I meditated on the word of God while lying on my bed, I thought about this statement by Jesus that unless we drink his blood and eat his flesh, we have no life in us (Jn. 6:53). From that day, I began the practice of praying and imagining, “I drink the blood of Jesus; I eat the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Not long after I started this kind of prayer, I noticed the prayer stirred the powers of darkness and they came to probe the source of this disturbance. Towards the end of 2013, I suddenly noticed that I had this ability that if I said very short prayer over any person that was sick, the person got healed immediately. Along the way, I replaced the blood of Jesus with the Holy Spirit and the flesh with divine power, in my prayers. Over time the power to heal ebbed and I could not understand how the power to heal came upon me in 2013.

The Most Controversial Quest

Mankind’s greatest and most controversial quest is the quest for divine life—to become like God in the inner being. Lucifer’s rebellion against God occurred when he realized that God created in man the potential to grow in divine life, whereas the extent of divine life in every other creation of God is mostly fixed. Lucifer came to this realization when God breathed into man the breath of (divine) life (Ge. 2:7). Consequently, as soon as God moved the newly elevated mankind into the Garden of Eden, Lucifer decided to prevent mankind from growing in divine life. That was how Lucifer rebelled against the will of God.

Ge. 3:4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Ge. 3:5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Lucifer was obviously focused on the issue of becoming like God. He cunningly misled mankind into a path of spiritual death, which is the opposite of growing in divine life. He therefore became the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which fruit leads to death.

Pr. 8:22 “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old;
Pr. 8:23 I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world began.
Pr. 8:24 When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no springs abounding with water;
Pr. 8:25 before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
Pr. 8:26 before he made the earth or its fields or any of the dust of the world.
Pr. 8:27 I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
Pr. 8:28 when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
Pr. 8:29 when he gave the sea its boundary so that the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
Pr. 8:30 Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
Pr. 8:31 rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.

Jn. 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jn. 1:2 He was with God in the beginning.
Jn. 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
Jn. 1:4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

Re. 4:5 From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits [Or the sevenfold Spirit] of God.

In Proverbs 8 and John 1, we see the tree of life that was in the garden of God. God birthed the tree of life or the Word from Himself before He created anything. Re. 4:5 describes the tree of life or the Word as the sevenfold Spirit of God. God’s divine life is in His Spirit (Jn. 6:63). When God breathed into man the breath of life, it was through His Spirit. The term “sevenfold” implies that there are seven levels of divine life. When God breathed life into Adam, Adam received the first level of divine life, which is below the divine-life level of angels (Ps. 8:5, He. 2:9).

He. 10:5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.

When the divine life (Christ) was about to manifest in man (the world) again, God prepared a new man for the divine life since no descendant of Adam was pure enough to host the divine life. That was exactly how God prepared Adam to host the divine life in the beginning of mankind, which irked Lucifer and a third of the angels. So, the divine life became flesh (Jn. 1:14), in Jesus Christ. Jesus received the first level of the divine life during his baptism in the River Jordan. He was then moved by the Spirit in him into the desert, where Satan was given the opportunity to also try to prevent him from growing in divine life. Jesus successfully warded off the misleading words of Satan and thereby qualified to move into the next level of the divine life (Mt. 4:11; Lk. 4:14).

According to the 1679 prophecy of Jane Leade of England: “There will be a total and full redemption by Jesus Christ! This is a hidden mystery not to be understood without the revelation of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is at hand to reveal these truths to all Holy seekers and loving inquirers. The completion of “Such Redemption” is withheld and abstracted by the apocalyptical seals of the book of revelation. Wherefore as the Spirit of God will open seal after seal, so will this redemption come to be revealed, in part and then universally.”
http://forerunnertv.com/teachings/1144-prophecy-of-1619

We are now in the end time. It is time for total and full redemption by Jesus Christ to become reality. Redemption by Jesus Christ is through his blood that was shed for us on the cross.

Re. 7:13 Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes — who are they, and where did they come from?”
Re. 7:14 I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Re. 7:9-14 describes the rapture of the saints. What will qualify a person to participate in the rapture is the robe (character) being washed and made white in the blood of Jesus. How does a person wash his life in the blood of Jesus? In order to answer this question, which is the gate to full redemption in Christ, we need to first of all clear some ground.

sirBLUNT:
i pray it brings an end to this fulani herdsmen madness...plateau state have had enough...

The helicopter gunships are piloted by Fulanis. You know what that means?

Ez. 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.

Don't go Celestial Church that somebody has suggested; there you will get more powerful spirit wife.

You need to be baptized into Jesus Christ, by immersion in water. You have to join an evangelical church for that purpose. After baptism, pray for God to give you His Holy Spirit. The pastor, or any spirit-filled Christian, can also help you in the prayer to receive the Holy Spirit.

Jn. 6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Once you have been baptized into Jesus Christ, you can overcome spirit wife by the blood of Jesus, through faith. Faith is a matter of believing in your heart and speaking with your mouth. Following is a very powerful prayer.

“In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I drink into me the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit of God. I eat into me the flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. I cleanse myself from every impurity and every idol by the blood of Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit. You spirit wife that has been troubling my life, I overcome you by the blood of Jesus and I cast you away from my life by the Holy Spirit of God.”

Use your imagination or visualization when you say this prayer.

Re. 7:2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:
Re. 7:3 “Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
Re. 7:4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

Re. 14:1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Re. 14:2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
Re. 14:3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No-one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Re. 14:4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.
Re. 14:5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
Re. 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying in mid-air, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth — to every nation, tribe, language and people.

Mt. 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

The 144,000 Israelites will arise during the Feast of Tabernacles. Notice that Rev 14:2 speaks about "the roar of rushing waters"--the latter rain; rivers of living water. Only Israelites who undergo the purification of Yom Kippur could be included among the 144,000. However, the necessary purification of Yom Kippur is not any of the ceremonies that Jews typically carry out during the Feast of Atonement; rather it is the washing by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Once the 144,000 Israelites arise, an angel will give them the eternal gospel, which is the end-time gospel of the kingdom, and they will preach it all over the world in a period of about forty days—quick short work. Then the resurrection or adoption of the sons of God will occur. This will later be followed by the rapture of the sons of God.

In his first inspired sermon after receiving the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the apostle Peter summed up God's instruction for mankind: "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began" (Acts:3:19-21).

But what are these "times of refreshing" and "times of restoration" of which Peter spoke?

God's plan for mankind involves restoration. The Feast of Tabernacles symbolizes the restoration process, which will start with the return of Jesus Christ, pictured by the Feast of Trumpets, and the banishment of Satan, depicted by the Day of Atonement. Once these events have taken place, as represented by the previous Holy Days, the foundation is in place for the restoration of the creation to peace and harmony with God.
http://www.ucg.org/booklet/gods-holy-day-plan-promise-hope-all-mankind/feast-tabernacles-jesus-christ-reigns-over-all-e/

This year, in 2017, the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) will begin in the evening of Wednesday, 4 October and ends in the evening of Wednesday, 11 October. This year's Feast of Tabernacles is very important.

The sons of God will be glorified towards the end of 2017. In order for this to happen, God must send the latter rain of His Holy Spirit. That is why this year's Feast of Tabernacle is special.

It was during a Feast of Tabernacles that Solomon’s Temple was dedicated to the Lord (1 Kings 8:2). It was also at the Feast of Tabernacles that the Israelites, who had returned to rebuild the temple, gathered together to hear Ezra proclaim the Word of God to them (Nehemiah 8 ). Ezra’s preaching resulted in a great revival as the Israelites confessed their sins and repented of them. (End time revival will begin during this year's Feast of Tabernacles.)
http://www.gotquestions.org/Feast-of-Tabernacles.html

During Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), two important ceremonies took place. The Hebrew people carried torches around the temple, illuminating bright candelabrum along the walls of the temple. Also, the priest would draw water from the pool of Siloam and carry it to the temple where it was poured into a silver basin beside the altar. The priest would call upon the Lord to provide heavenly water in the form of rain for their supply.

In the New Testament, Jesus attended the Feast of Tabernacles and spoke these amazing words on the last and greatest day of the Feast: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." (John 7:37-38 NIV) The next morning, while the torches were still burning Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." (John 8:12 NIV)
http://christianity.about.com/od/biblefeastsandholidays/p/feastofbooths.htm

Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is considered one of the most holy Jewish holidays. Even though we are no longer under the Law of Moses, God still operates on the Jewish calendar.

Historically, Jewish people believe that God examines our lives during the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur to see if we are ready for spiritual advancement or promotion to a new level of maturity.

http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=13867

Great thread!

Je. 44:14 None of the remnant of Judah who have gone to live in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, to which they long to return and live; none will return except a few fugitives.”

This word of God is very serious. Does it apply only to the generation to which the word was spoken? Or does it apply even to their bloodline? If it applies to their bloodline, then very few Igbo Jews will get back to Israel just before the return of Jesus. The rest will die in the end-time events that are about to unfold.

The fact that Igbo Jews have not shown interest in this thread is a testimony that Igbo Jews cannot repent enough for God to remove the curse upon them. Even on few occasions where I presented this same matter to people in Awka, people come up with opposing argument.

OkaiCorne:
Asteroids have fallen on earth since the book of revelation was written, so has this prophecy not been fulfilled?

Moreover, if it were an asteroid...there was another passage John explained something like a mountain covered with fire falling onto earth, that sounds more like an asteroid, but in this vision he saw stars falling on earth o, please explain further...

Re. 8:8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
Re. 8:9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

This is a very huge asteroid that falls into the ocean. When an asteroid enters the earth's atmosphere, due to its speed (1,000s of km/h), it burns and is covered by flame.

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/-507480.jpg