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Friday 29 November 2019

Welcome to the month of November 2019: Our Month of Divine Rest

“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” Heb.4:9-10

Divine favour greetings family! I welcome you to the month of November 2019 which the Lord has graciously declared to us to be our month of Divine rest. Divine means that which originates from God. Therefore this month, we shall enter into the rest God has ordained for us from the foundation of the world.

Several years ago, I heard the Lord say to me: “Labour not to be rich.” I sought to understand what he was saying so I searched the Scriptures for it. Then I came to this text in Proverbs which reads thus: “Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom” Prov.23:4. I got to understand from that text and more that we should not allow the motivation of earthly riches be our reason for working. This I believe is what makes the word for the month so meaningful to me. When we run in pursuit of the riches of this world, we would wear out ourselves for nothing. At the end of the day we would find that all we have acquired is vain compared to what God wants for us.

This month therefore, we have been told by God what to labour for. If we take the time to look at the entire Hebrews Chapter 4, verse 11 tells us to labour to enter into His rest. “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.” The rest referred to here is the rest of faith. This is a state where we will live our lives trusting in the Lord for everything. No matter how much possessions God has given to us, we should live our lives trusting in the Lord for everything. The riches of this world are fleeting; Proverbs 23:5 makes us understand that they develop wings and fly away. This is the reason the Lord said that there are the unrighteous mammon and true riches. Our labour is meant to be for the true riches of God. Sadly, what is mostly celebrated today is the unrighteous mammon.

One day, I was talking with a Pastor who was working as an employee of a very big Church. He was excited that he was posted to a big branch of the Church but felt cheated when he was schemed out of that branch by another Pastor. His friend was angrily speaking against what they saw as injustice. I was surprised by their behaviour. I asked them why they thought the bigger branch was better. Long story short, it was about the fame and access to big gifts he potentially stood to benefit. I asked them whether it was about the glamour or the perfect will of God for the Pastor’s life.

Hear what the Lord says in Lk.16:11 “If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?” the question therefore is how do we overcome labouring for the mundane? We do so by faith. That is why the bible says we who believe enter into His rest. Thus it is by faith we enter His rest. The Lord Jesus Christ tells us how in John 5:30 He said here that he can of himself do nothing that he takes instructions from the father. This means that the chief labour we have to labour is to do whatever it takes to hear the father’s instruction.

In light of the foregoing, this month, we shall be learning what it takes to enter the rest of God. John 5:19-20 – in seeking to please the Lord, we can count on Him to instruct us all the way and as we hear, we are to take instructions and do what He says. This is the place of true faith; resting in obedience to divine instructions. This month would therefore mark the end of all our strivings to do God’s will in our strength. None of us shall labour in vain anymore. In addition, we shall seek to pursue God more for the relationship with Him rather than what advantage we seek to have from Him.

Someone may be reading this blog who has been seeking answers as to what life was all about and seem to be getting nowhere. I have good news for you; get born again and your life would be set on the course to know the true meaning of life God’s way! If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, you can start right away by saying the following prayers out loud in faith and you will be born again:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan plus his unfruitful works of darkness and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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Thursday 10 October 2019

Welcome to the month of October 2019: Our Month of Praise

“Rejoice in the Lord, o ye righteous: for praise is comely to the upright” … Ps.33:1

“Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.” Ps.147:1

Divine favour greetings family; welcome to October our month of praise. As the year hastens to the end, one is left in wonder of how fast the year has run as though time is in a hurry to quit existing. The period of gestation is nine months at the end of which time, a baby is welcomed into the world. It is undeniable that God has been doing a great work of birthing some new life in us for this period of nine months that the year has ran swiftly. As I sought the Lord on what to write for this month, He gave me the scripture about praise being comely for the upright.

As we look back on this year, there are so many things God has done for us as individuals, families and a ministry that we must not only be thankful for; we need to praise God for. This scripture in essence means that praise looks good on us. I believe in this month of Praise, God is set to beautify our lives as we lift up praise to Him. We cannot pay Him for all He has done for; and been to us. We can only express our appreciation by lifting up praise to him. I am grateful that the idea to praise him is His. Thus every time we spend praising the Lord this month, we can see ourselves in obedience because that is His desire for our lives. In addition, we would be manifesting this thought that praise looks good on us. Do not forget that last month, as the dew of heaven brought the blessing, the earth responded with the delivery of God’s blessing on our lives. For that and every other blessing of the year, we are to return gratitude to God and release ourselves to praise Him. In all our services this, month, we shall be dedicating some time to praising the Lord because He has been so good to us. In addition, in our studies, we shall be learning about praising God and why it is important to God for us to praise Him.

In Ps.67:5-6, we learn that when the earth praises the Lord, God will cause her to yield her increase. I believe that as we separate ourselves to praising God this month, it would reflect in the increase of all that touches and concerns us. It would show in the work of our hands and the increase of the fruit of our labours.

Therefore, complaining should be put far from us this month. Instead, we should cultivate a thanksgiving and praise habit. Our prayer sessions should be laden with praise for all of the wonders of God in our lives and families. God has done more good than the devil has done us evil. The enemy brought sickness but God healed us. The enemy brought problems, but God gave us solutions. Through all our tests and trials, we have come out as better people because what the enemy thought for evil, God has turned around for our good. Indeed, praise is comely on the upright.

Someone reading this blog may be thinking; they are not upright, can they also praise? My answer to you is; you are the one God is looking for to praise him because He came to seek and to save you. As soon as you take advantage of His offer of salvation, you can immediately start praising Him and the beauty of your life will begin to speak as well. If you are that person, you can start right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you will become His righteousness in Christ Jesus:

Heavenly Father,

Sunday 18 August 2019

THREE MEASURES OF MEAL pt.1

One day the Lord Jesus Christ was teaching the multitude of people in parables. His disciples did not understand some of them. They sought to know the meaning of the parables. This gave the Lord the opportunity to teach them something that has become a great lesson for us in this dispensation as we approach the end of the age of the Gentiles.

The Lord told them that it is given unto you (He was addressing His disciples here) to know the mysteries or the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven. He further let them understand that these things are too precious for those without. I believe they are concealed from others for the glory of the Church who is expected to show principalities and powers the manifold wisdom of God. See Mt.13:10 –11; Eph.2:10-11.

In this simple parable, The Lord told His disciples that The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. It is a two line parable packed with insights for the disciple of Christ.

I observe that unlike the parable of the wheat and Tares and the parable of the sower; the Lord did not interpret this. So I sought the Lord to know the meaning and how it affects discipleship. Here is what He told me.

Man is a triune person. He is spirit. He has a soul and lives in a body. See 1Thess.5:23; Heb.4:12 and 1Sam.1:15 where Hannah said she was a woman of sorrowful spirit who was pouring out her soul before the Lord. In this example, Hanna is here physically in her body saying these words to Eli about possessing a soul and spirit.

The meal which the woman took was divided into three parts. The yeast according to the Lord is doctrine or teaching. See Mk.8:15; Mt.16:11-12; Lk.12:1.

Where the Lord interpreted yeast as doctrine, He also makes understand that there are qualities of doctrine. There he was telling us which doctrine to beware of. As a matter of fact He said the doctrine of the Pharisees and scribes is hypocrisy. We are to beware of these. To be a hypocrite is to pretend to be what you are not. For example, no Pastor in the secret cult would be straight forward because people are actually looking for the true God. Once they know you are fake, they would leave you. Thus such pastors have to pretend to be real. All they teach you that way, is hypocrisy. They cannot be real and remain because they are already committed to the cult to which they belong. They can say all the right things but no power to back it up for you to be able to bear the fruit of the spirit. At the end of the day, people’s lives are not changed in their congregations. As time goes on, they would not be able to give attention to sound doctrines as they would have buried their heads under a pack of lies which they depend on to keep their money rolling in. These are the people that Apostle Paul refers to as having another Jesus, another spirit and another gospel. They are prophets of Baal. See 2Cor.11:4. Why I call them prophets of Baal is that they are operating by the anti – Christ spirit because they were once of Christ but a time came in their lives they had to make a decision to follow Christ but because of the wealth and influence it would have cost them, they preferred to go on with their evil practices than repent. The Lord left them and Satan came to take over their lives and now they are anti-Christ or against Christ. Thus instead of promoting the Lord who died for them, they are coming up with very intelligent ways to fight His bride. Their Churches are now Churches of the Harlot of Babylon and their congregants are getting more and more disillusioned with life and living. They are full of activities without effectiveness. Their congregants are like zombies without the true Christ and God is now made to look like He lies when God is still the same God who cannot lie. These people are very good examples of Jezebel and Ahab deceiving themselves to think they can repent any time they want to not knowing that every purpose is timed with God. Jesus Christ referred to them as white washed sepulchres and told them to fill up the measure of their iniquity. All the Lord is waiting for now before exposing them is for them to fill up the measure of their iniquity. See Mt.23:23-29 quoted below:

“23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Mat 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Mat 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Mat 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Mat 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Mat 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Mat 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.”

I decided to lift this out of the Bible verse by verse for us to see that the end of the time of the Gentiles to take the gospel around the world is upon us but many of God’s former trusted servants have been bewitched into disobedience. My prayer is that the ones whose conscience can still be pricked among us should come out of secret sins, declare their sins to the entire world and openly repent so that God can still use them. Otherwise they would have to make do with perdition because the pack of lies under which they have faithfully taken refuge is about to crumble on them by the hail stones of the Lord.

Please fellow ministers, do not allow the devil to deceive you, God cannot be mocked; you must reap what you sow. Signs and wonders are not the sole proof of ministerial authentication; you have to bear the fruit of the spirit. Not for show, but from the heart. You may need to change who you call your mentor or spiritual father and be rejected by family and friends and even some of your protégés but your soul can still be spared damnation. Repent!!!

In the next part of this message, we shall be looking at the qualities of leaven the proverbial woman can possibly mix with the meal and the result they could bring about in the life of the consumers.

Let me close here by quickly saying that I know you are of the view that a woman should not be allowed to preach and teach. Please forgive me if you consider me too forward but His word within me is as fire in my bones. When I say I would not speak, it burns within me as fire in my bones. So please hear and do as our mutual Lord Jesus Christ desires:

Jer. 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

Wednesday 7 August 2019

HE PAID DEARLY FOR IT

Many considered him weird as they saw him searching dustbin after dustbin in search of what they could not understand. By the way this man was the wealthiest and most respected person in this community and everyone looked up to him for the right answer and solution to all their problems. He owned the only school in the town and wrote all the books used in the school. He was responsible for supplying light and water to the community because he owned the machinery used for drilling their boreholes and all the vehicles for haulage including the haulage of cranes.

All of a sudden, he came out searching all the bins in town all day from morning to night not talking to anyone. Another weird thing about this rich man was that at the end of each day, he went back home with a look of disappointment on his face. Many thought he had lost his mind but the strange thing was that even though he was not talking to people, he still had the courtesy of exchanging greeting with the people around him.

Then, he suddenly stopped searching in the bins; he began to dig around town. No one bothered to stop him because in spite of his wealth, he treated people kindly and was particularly interested in their general welfare. His kindness made him to charge only time for his services to them not bothering about the money since he already owned everything.

Then one day he came home rejoicing and calling for a party requesting the entire community to be in attendance because He finally found what he had been tirelessly looking for. By the way his search had turned from months to years and then to hundreds of years and now about four thousand years.

Guess what this great man found eventually; on a parcel of land in his back yard was a piece of ground where; while prospecting, he found that the land potentially could generate more wealth than the entire world if properly cultivated. He knew his search was over and this became a crown of his efforts.

In Matthew 13:44, we read: “again the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field.”

Several years ago in Bethlehem of Judea in Israel, a Savour was born without the involvement of a man. He was called the Son of God because his birth came in fulfilment of words spoken on behalf of God to a virgin which words were preceded by a previous prophecy. The virgin believed and the word was converted to a human being in her womb without sex. See Isa.7:14; Isa.9:6-7; Mt.1:18-25; Lk.1:26-37 Jn.1:1&14

Like the angel told Joseph, the mission of the Saviour was to save the lost from their sins. Sin is really the biggest question of man. Take sin away from man, like the treasure in our story above, he has the capacity to generate all the wealth on earth. Sin cost man his place and he came under the influence of the devil also known as the wicked for a while. This explains the evil and sorrows on earth today. God has nothing to do with it. On the contrary, God has since provided the solution to the crisis of man. He is a person; his name is Jesus Christ. As the word also foretold his birth, his death and resurrection was also foretold and they came to pass. Likewise his return to the earth as the judge was also foretold and they are about to come to pass. When he comes to judge; he will also come to reign on earth as the king of kings and Lord of Lords until the end determined by the father when the final judgement called the white throne judgement will come to pass.

On the final day, there will be a distinction between His disciples and others. If you have not yet received Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord because He is man’s solution provided by God, you will not be like the treasure found by the rich man in our story, you will be lost forever. This is not because he stopped loving and seeking you, but because of his justice. Without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin. So his blood was shed so sin was forgiven. See Ps.22:1, 16-18; Isa.53; Mt.8:14-17; 1Pet.2:24; Heb.9:22; Mt.:16:21; Mk.8:31; Lk.9:22; Lk.17:20-37; Rev.15:11-21; Rev.20:1-15 and Rev.22:12-13.

If you remain unsaved until death, you will be lost forever and that is not what you want. You can avert that death sentence today by saying the prayer below and you will be saved:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH

AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH

In Matthew 24:37-42 we read: But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

From here we can learn the following truths about the days of Noah and compare our current world events with it.

1. Mt.24:38 - People were eating and drinking just like in the ordinary course of life.

2. They were getting married and conducting marriage ceremonies just like in the ordinary course of life.

3. Simply put, they were living their lives oblivious of the spirit realm.

4. Then Noah entered the Ark.

5. Because they never believed Noah, they could not receive the word of the Lord. They therefore were not watching to see when Noah entered the Ark before God sent them the flood. They all got trapped in the rain and were drowned. This was a sad surprise for them because they did not believe Noah’s message. This is the way the world is right now.

The Lord has announced His soon return but many are still sceptical. They do not believe. The three main religions on earth today have three diverse views of His return. They all agree he is coming soon but are in disagreement as to who the Messiah would be.

Please understand that the Messiah first came about 2,000 years ago as a poor Carpenter unknown to many until God concluded His preparation for Ministry through His parents and John the Baptist and all the other mentoring in-between. He submitted to the Baptism of John and was immediately driven by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. No guile was found in Him. Then He was graciously released into public Ministry but was restricted to Israel where He was eventually crucified in Jerusalem on a hill called Golgotha; based on false accusations against him by the then religious rulers who were envious of him.

At that time, He said He came to lay down His life that He may take it up again. He who knew no sin laid down His life and our sins were nailed on him on the Cross so that the body of sin might be taken away from as many as would believe in Him. Jn.3:16-19; Rm.6:4-11 and Jn.10:17-18.

Sadly, the flood of the new age is sweeping many away and causing a great falling away from the faith that may likely drown some in perdition if they do not repent. Also, some have covenanted with death and hades and decided to hide themselves under the covering of falsehood claiming the flood would not touch them. See Isa.28:1-22. I pray dear reader that you will be exempted from this judgement through genuine repentance.

When we believe this message, we can show our faith in His word below by saying this prayer and getting baptized. Baptism is the means by which we express our faith and submit to the Lord Jesus Christ in faith and look forward to His soon return with joy:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.