TRESURES FROM THE PRESENCE OF GOD

Chapter One

IMMEASURABLE POWER OF

THE MOST HIGH

God is immeasurably massive in His operations

A song writer penned ' You got the whole World in your Hands'

Though the musician's song is apt in describing God but it may not be adequate in demonstrating " How tremendously great is the dependence of the World in God's Hand

World records that the World is about eight (8) billion people in the World. We know that this is an estimation because the Census execercise in Africa nations is not accurate.

But every man who breathe owns their life to God, the Maker of the Heaven and The Earth.

Everyman is a living Soul because we have a spirit which was originally given to us by the breathe of God. The Bible states that the Soul of all men, women, Teens and children belongs to God. It means that a man may owns houses, mansions, cars, companies and other assets and properties and he can do as he so please with them.

But no man owns his own soul and spirit; it came from God and can is the sole determinant of when that soul departs finally from the heart. A man can take his own lives through suicide, exposure to danger and death. A man can be killed and murdered by others but ultimately no man can decide to live forever on the earth no matter, the power of science discovery and the potency of medicine

In this God is greater and bigger than all men, he sustains all things by the power of His Word. He created all things, He knows all things and all things are truly His but He chose to give them to the Sons of men.

He is the God who dwells in the Heaven but has made His abide with the sons of men by realting directly with those who believe in Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World.

God is Limitless in power, His strenght is InExhaustible; the Earth is maintained and renovated by His wisdom. It's from His wisdom that witty inventions and products are manufactured for mankind.

His name is Yahweh, Jehovah ELOHIM ADONAI!

He created everything visible and invisible while He was created by no one. He operates the Earth on the principle of His spoken Word and nobody can take the reins of control of the Sun and moon in their orbits unless God permits them.

He silenced the gods of the Sea, -Leviathan who folic there and made dry land appear within the Sea walls. The gods and their hosts could not stop Him. When THE ALMIGHTY proposes to do anything on earth and he gets a man/woman to believe in Him, no created force -visible and invisible can stop or hinder Him.

Jehovah Jireh brought uncountable numbers of men, women, girls and boys and the unborn into the DESERT- a dry land where no plants grew, no flowing river, and no animals dare graze permanently yet these people never died from starvatuon for forty (40 years)

I guess the Enemy roll out their drums of singing and dancing. Yes, they will raise their songs, we have trapped the MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, His chosen people, His elect and beloved in this dry land.

They will all die in the wilderness.

But ADONAI JEHOVAH called THE ELOHIM, which gods or idols can stop HIM, when he chooses to operate on Earth, in the Sea and in the Sky.

Oh that men will learn to praise HIM

For His goodness and for His wonderful works

To the Children of men

He has broke the Gates of Bronze and cut the Bars of Iron asunder

THE ONLY ETERNAL GOD

WHO DWELLS IN ETERNITY

WHO CREATED ETERNITY

WHO KNOWS ETERNITY

WHO OWNS ETERNITY

The God of Israel and the friend of Abraham imported BREAD and MEAT from heaven through Air fleight of the Wind to feed millions upon millions of people for 40 years, 480 months, 14,400 days without suppliers of food from any existing nations of the World.

It is the same God that has anointed every Believer , the Apostles, Teachers, Prophets, Evangelist, Deacons, Deaconess, Ministers, Sisters and Brothers with His Limitless power to do His Work on Earth.

Whatever displays of Power you have seen in the Body of Christ; The Church, The Denominations and Para Church organisations Worldwide is infinitely tiny/little to the ABILITY, POWER, WISDOM of the Almighty.

CHAPTER TWO

CHRIST IS SUPREME

I am celebrating Christ the King of kings and Lord of lords, my beautiful SUBSTITUTE: He paid the PRICE and faith in Him, gives me every spiritual, material, financial and mental blessings in God.

The Almighty is the richest, wealthiest, wisest, and all the ‘ËST” wonderful adjectives you can find in all languages in the world No other being tops the Almighty in anything and everything. In all ramifications and concerning all issues, He is the BEST; of Him we can rightly say ‘SIMPLY THE BEST’ as sang by a music artist. The Bible penned this beautiful poetry about the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, our Messiah and soon coming King, Christ Jesus:

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth.

He made the things we can see and the things we can't see—such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.

Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. Christ is also the head of the church,

which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything. For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself.

He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ's blood on the cross. Colossians 1:15-20

New Living Translation

And The GOD called the Almighty decided to make another Being like Himself-MAN. What an awesome privilege to be created in the image and likeness of the Almighty. What an honor to have the same nature as Christ Jesus as a believer. And all these blessings can accessed and possessed by FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.

When a patient visits the doctor and drugs are prescribed, the patient is obliged not only get the drugs, but also take them at the scheduled time. WHY? The patient believed the diagnosis of the doctor and showed his faith by buying the drugs and taking them as instructed by the doctor.

If and when we truly believe in Christ Jesus, we will follow His percepts willingly and obey His Words at all times.

BLOW OUT

Christ paid the PRICE and faith in Him, gives me every spiritual, material, financial and mental blessings in God.

If and when we truly believe in Christ Jesus, we will follow His percepts willingly and obey His Words at all times.

CHAPTER THREE

THE HOLY SPIRIT

There are communications and transactions between human entities in the invisible ones. The will and desires of a man can be imposed in the spirit and soul of another human being through connection secured by demonic powers and influences; in the case of men and women who are actively engaged in the Occultic and witchcraft

They can tell a man what to do and what not to do without speaking to the man in the visible realms. The thoughts and intentions of the Occultic practitioner is imposed on their victims Nd it appears as if it is the original thoughts of the victims

The intention of God for communication between humans who are visible creatures because of their physical body is communication in the physical realm

When God appeared to Moses in the Burning Busy to sent him to the Children of Israel in Egypt, Moses did not see the physucak for. Of God but He heard the voice of God.

But when Moses was to dwliver the same messages to the Israelites Moses did not pass these messages to the Israelites through invisible communication. Rather Moses spoke to the Israelites through utte to ed speeches from His mouth and the Israelites heard Moses through their ears, then the message passed on to the mind of the Israelites where they assimilated the information, analysed it and made a decision if they should believe if the message is from God or not.

It was only after they had arrived on a decision based in what they had heard that the members of their bodies was moved to take appropriate actions based on their decisions

The LORD told Aaron and Miriam " if a prophet is among you, l sepak to them through dreams and visions but for my Servant Moses, I speak to him face to face

DREAMS

A dreams comes at night when a.man is aside and his body is at rest. Though the body of the man is at rest, the spirit or innerman of the man is not asleep because our spirits is created in the likeness of God, it does not sleep not stumble like the Almighty from which it derives it own existence

Therefore the man is asleep, it's spirit and soul is not at rest, it starts its own sojourn in the spirit realms. It's at this point that God reveals his counsel and will to a man. They may come in form of pictures as if a man is watching a movie or a film.

The vehicle which b to brings this message to the man uses the pictures/photographs/ word data available in the man's mind and soul to communicate the divine message to the man

It means that the same nrsage may be communicated to two different believers in different pictures and photographs

This is so be auad the data of pictures and imaginerirs in every believer differs

When God gave a dream to the Butlery and the baker of the events that will happen in their future. God used baked food to show the Baker that he would die while a wine cup is used to show the butler that he would lived

God may as well as used the wine cup to show both the butler and the baker that they will either kuve or die

The imaginerirs stored in a man's mind determines to a great extend what kind of dreams they will have . The Bible says a man will dream from the abundance of multitudes of business. It reveals that adream will come from the different events that occurred in the day of a man. It's is these various pictures captured by the mind and the spirit during the day, the time of consciousness of the mind that results in the dream of the mind

Therefore divine instructions and counsel is communicated via dreams. God gave an instructions to Joseph in a dream to take the baby Jesus and flew to the desert to preserve his life

Joseph and Mary lives became endangered because if their son Jesus Christ. Many thousands boys in Jerusalem lost theirs lives because Herod was after the life of our KORD Jesus to terminate it

So God communicated this event to Hospeh through a dream. But when God was to speak to Mart, the mother of our LORD Jesus about the birth of the Saviour and the angel of the LORD appeared to her and spoke to her about it

Joseph and Mary received divine messages about the same person but through different means.

VISIONS

Vision have the same components as dreams but the state of the man receiving them differs. While a dream comes while the man is awake and not sleeping, a vision is given when the man is awake and conscious.

A vision is as if a television set is our in front of a man and the man is shown pictures l, imaginerirs and motion pictures of past, future and specific instructions from God

It's your spiritual eyes been open to see into the invisible realan of things that God wants you to know

It must be understood that it is not only God that uses dreams and visions and transces to speak to a Child if God. The Enemy can also use this means to speak to a Child if God. A believer must ducern the source of every dream and vision through the ministry of The Holy Spirit and the Word if God. Because the Holy Spirit and The Word of God always agree

The Bible stated that three bears witness to the testimony of our LORD Jesus, they are the Spirit, the Word and the blood.

FACE TO FACE COMUNUCATUIN

Face to face communication is a New Testament blessing enjoyed by an Old Testament Saint. It is when a man heard the audible voice of the Most High God.

In this instance, the man does not hear the voice of an angel rather the Man hears the Voice of God rather than the voice of an angel. Most of the communication Moses received from God were a face to face communication

Face to face communication was the plan of God for His children. When the LORD first met His people in Mount Sonai, they heard the audible voice of God from the Mountain.

It was because they were terrified at His voice that The LORD chose to speak to Moses while Moses communicated to the people

As anointed and close to God as Moses was, there is no place in the Bible that Moses communicated divine instruction and mandate to God's people by going directly to their as I up l and their spirits and inj we cting this as thoughts directly

DIVINE ORDER OF COMMUNICATION IN THE NEW TESTAMENT

The New Testament communication opened with an angel coming to a virgin called Mary in the Mathew account and revealing to her that she will have a Son called Jesus . Mary could hear the voice of the angel. Mary was awake at this time; this shows that it was not a dream.

It was a direct communication with the angel of God. But the Bible sis not stare if Mary saw the angel

But in the case of Joseph an angel appeared to him in a dream and gave him specific instructions through the dream. Two persons receive divine word concerning the same LORD but through different methods. The personality who delivered the message was the same but the method through which the message was delivered was round.

In the case of Zechariah, the Scriptures staters that he saw the angel because the angel appeared

"Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John" Luke 1:11

In the case of Mary, the angel did not appeared but she heard the words of the angel

"In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting

to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David. Gabriel appeared to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!” Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”

Luke 1:27‭-‬29‭, ‬31‭-‬33 NLT

The Bible stated that the angel appeared to Mary and Mary HEARD his words. But in the case of Zechariah, the Bible reveals that the same angel appeared to him and he SAW.

Yahweh , our KING and LORD always choses the means and mode of communicating with Him we mustboearn to walk and work with Him in faith and trust.

Joseph, to whom she was engaged, was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her publicly, so he decided to break the engagement quietly. As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. And she will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 1:19‭-‬21 NLT

The LORD wanted to sepak to three individuals on the mission of our LORD Jesus Christ ( May Christ reign and be praised forever) but He used three through method but the same personality.

The angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and spoke God's word to him; the angel appeared to Mary in the visible realm but Mary did not see the angel but heard him and felt the present of the angel and the angel appeared to Zebhariah in the visible realm and he saw the heard and heard his word

CHAPTER FOUR

HOW YOU ARE HELPED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GRACE?

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of grace. Everything that the Grace of our LORD Jesus bought from us, the Person who makes power, wisdom available to accomplish it is the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ could not do anything until the Holy Spirit came on Him during his baptism. The Bible said in Matt. 4:1. That after fasting for 40 days and night, Jesus Christ returned in the power of the Holy Spirit and then defeated the devil by that power via the spoken Word.

But what makes the power, wisdom, knowledge of God available to us is the grace of our LORD Jesus. Jesus paid the price we enjoy the benefit.

HOW WERE YOU HELPED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GRACE?

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of grace. Everything that the Grace of our LORD Jesus bought from us, the Person who makes power, wisdom available to accomplish it is the Holy Spirit.

But what makes the power, wisdom, knowledge of God available to us is the grace of our LORD Jesus. Jesus paid the price we enjoy the benefit.

In Acts 2:1 when the Disciples gathered in the Upper room. They were baptised with the Holy Spirit and this outpouring of the Spirit made timid men become confidant men who won multitudes to the Kingdom.

They only had access to the Holy Spirit because they believed in Jesus Christ and followed. The blessings of God was available to all people and not just the High priest but it was the Grace in Christ that made the gift of the Holy Spirit available to all the disciples on the day of Pentecostal

The Holy Spirit did not come on the disciples because they were praying and fasting rather the Spirit descended from Heaven to the Earth and only fall on a group of people ' Those who believed in Jesus Christ and obeyed His instructions to tarry in Jerusalem.

There were many people in Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost but only those who believed in Jesus Christ received the gift of Heaven.

This is what the Grace of God does. The Holy Spirit only came to accomplish what Grace had released.

John goes to work everyday. You think on how to make more money and become rich. Your son sits at home and do not do the work that you do. Yet your son's meals are constant. Your son's clothes and toys are constant. Your son hospital bill is paid.

But your son do not lift up his hands to do anything, the only reason your son enjoy all he does is because he is your son and bears your name

That is the meaning of grace. You as a believer enjoy is transformed by the Person of our LORD and enjoy every spiritual blessings in the heavenly places because of the Grace of our LORD Jesus.

The Benediction is the grace of our LORD Jesus, the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

HOW WERE YOU HELPED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AND GRACE?

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of grace. Everything that the Grace of our LORD Jesus bought from us, the Person who makes power, wisdom available to accomplish it is the Holy Spirit.

But what makes the power, wisdom, knowledge of God available to us is the grace of our LORD Jesus. Jesus paid the price we enjoy the benefit.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” 2 Cor. 12:9

They only had access to the Holy Spirit because they believed in Jesus Christ and followed him. The blessings of God was available to all people and not just the High priest but it was the Grace in Christ that made the gift of the Holy Spirit and his power available to all the disciples on the day of Pentecostal.

There were many people in Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost but only those who believed in Jesus Christ received the gift of Heaven.

This is what the Grace of God does. The Holy Spirit only came to accomplish what Grace had released.

But your son do not lift up his hands to do anything, the only reason your son enjoy all he does is because he is your son and bears your name

That is the meaning of grace. You as a believer enjoy is transformed by the Person of our LORD and enjoy every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places because of the Grace of our LORD Jesus.

The Benediction is the grace of our LORD Jesus, the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

The Person that opens the door to Love of God to the Believer is Jesus Christ, faith in His Name gives us a cess to the presence of God and makes us benefactors of His Love and not just His provision as those without Christ.

"The grace (favor and spiritual blessing) of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the presence and fellowship (the communion and sharing together, and participation) in the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen (so be it).

2 Corinthians 13:14 AMPC

It is this same grace that gives access, the platform to have direct fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

There were many people in Jerusalem at the feast of Pentecost but only those who believed in Jesus Christ received the gift of Heaven.

This is what the Grace of God does. The Holy Spirit only came to accomplish what Grace had released.

InSpired

Sometimes there is no single cure to a case of domestic abuse. I worked in a home for Abused Women; 'Another Chance Women's Home: as an administrator for about six months. The first three women received into the home, returned to their abusive husband's after a while.

This was after the Home reported the cases to the police, engaged a lawyer in their behalf, facilitated a temporary separation, made them residents in the home with their children, enrolled them in skill acquisition centers

They still settled with the men who physically battered them because the man promised not to hurt them in the future. As an NGO, we had done our best, yet the final decisions lies with the victims

I came into Ondo State my present place of residence as her lady in her twenties and worked with a Christian organisation for close to twelve (12) years. Presently, l am unmarried but l have been involved in the Event industry as a Venue Decorator for many couples. I have been involved in counselling for many single ladies and men who eventually got married yet l am still unmarried.

My Boss and leader in the former denomination, l attended did their best in presenting suitable marraige partners to me but somehow, l did not marry any of them. So should l hold the leaders of my former denomination responsible for my challenge of late marraige. When others in the same denominator found and married their wonderful spouse s and are still happily married till date.

The Society is fond of holding Church leaders responsible for every mistakes committed by its members. Yet this same society advocates on a daily basis that Members of denominations should live their lives without been accountable to the leaders of their denominations . You can't eat your cake and have it.

Presently, we have a war in Ukraine and Russia because we have men who are not accountable to others. This is what you breed when you tell people; you are your own god.

Some of the reports circulating on the media is that the late singer had been a victim of abusive for many years with the knowledge of her immediate family. I heard from one of the blog that there was a time she left for her parents home after a case of violence and abusive from her husband yet the family allowed her to return to her abusive spouse without reporting to the police.

The angry thoughts that entered my heart when l heard this narrative of her story was anger " Why did the family not take the necessary steps to secure the live of their beloved sister.

The Church should not always be blamed for the mistakes of their member. Let's go down Church history as written in the Bible.

GOD & ADAM WITH HIS WIFE.

# God gave Adam, everything He had. He gave Adam his best yet Adam and his wife chose to follow the Enemy and it resulted in their spiritual death.

# Should God be blamed for Adam' s failure because he allowed the serpent to continue to exist inspire of it evil nature.?

# Stop blaming the Church of Jesus Christ for every wrong turn in events that concern them

Truly some Church leaders are wrong but remember they are Men anointed by God (Man of God) and not gods anointed by men. Imperfection is permitted to be covered by the grace of our LORD Jesus Christ.

"Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.

A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers. The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold. The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for a sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone. The second river is named Gihon; it flows through the land of Cush. The third river is named Hiddekel and flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates."

Genesis 2:8‭-‬14 MSG

MOSES, MIRIAM & AARON

# Moses was called by God to be a prophet and Miriam called to be the Woman leader while Aaron called to be the Priest.

# Yet Aaron and Miriam though Moses siblings criticised Moses for his choice of a another wife when his first wife chose to remain with her father rather than her husband in the desert.

# what else did Miriam wanted, Moses's position as the leader of the nation of Israel.

# Do not question a man/woman's close relationship with God when you are not ready to pay the price of consecration that they paid to arrive at that point of mercy with God. It is Mercy alright but they had to pay a price to enjoy this mercy.

"Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing. Miriam sang to them:...........Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. “Has the LORD spoken only through Moses?” they asked. “Hasn’t he also spoken through us?” And the LORD heard this. (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

At once the LORD said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out. Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam.

When the two of them stepped forward, he said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD.

Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” The anger of the LORD burned against them, and he left them.

When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam’s skin was leprous—it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, and he said to Moses,

“Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming. Number 12:1-15

JESUS CHRIST THE LORD AND JUDAS ISCARIOT

#. Judas Iscariot was a direct disciple of Jesus Christ the Son of God. Judas listened to all of Jesus teaching, partook of the anointing on Jesus's life, yet he betrayed Jesus Christ The LORD and Saviour of the World

"These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, even then getting ready to betray him, said, “Why wasn’t this oil sold and the money given to the poor? It would have easily brought three hundred silver pieces.” He said this not because he cared two cents about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of their common funds, but also embezzled them.

When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.” “What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.” So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

# Jesus did all he could for Judas yet Judas hung himself.

# WHY BKAME THE CHURCH FOR EVERY WRING IN THE KIVES IF ITS MEMBERS.

CONCLUSION

My submission is

SCENARIO ONE

CHALLENGED

A young lady noticed, she is often afflicted with terrible sores in her private parts after the use of public toilet, and even after medication, she is put under house arrest by the excruciating pains from these sores. At such times, she would pray and take prescribed drugs yet the sores remained and only disappeared after some few days.

Then she spoke to the Holy Spirit about this recurring ailment and the Spirit impressed Isaiah 53:5 in her heart and opened her understanding to see that Jesus Christ had bore every sickness and diseases that can ever come on her. Christ received punishment for very pain, headache, etc.

But it was our sins that did that to him,

that ripped and tore and crushed him — our sins!

He took the punishment, and that made us whole.

Through his bruises we get healed.

Isaiah 53:5

THE MESSAGE

“I know,” she wordlessly replied the Holy Spirit. “I know Christ took it all, yet l still experience it”’ Gently the Spirit spoke to her heart “if you know Christ took it all why accept the symptoms of this sickness, for if you accommodate the symptoms you have opened the door for the sickness to stay in your body.

Then she realized that Satan had taken advantage of her ignorance to inflict pains on her body and she set out to experience the truth of God’s Word. For John 8:32 says:

Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in him.

"If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you. John 8:32

THE MESSAGE

She memorized Isaiah 53:5 and confessed it daily. She stopped every negative confession of, “am always having sores anytime, I use public toilets” and replaced it with “am covered with the blood of Jesus and the blood immunes me from any kind of diseases and sickness, therefore I cannot be affected by any.”

The next time she used a public toilet, she was not expecting any itching or sore yet some few days later the itching began immediately; so she anointed herself and declared

“I don’t have any itching or sore because Jesus Christ bore it, I can’t have it, I don’t have any toilet disease or its symptoms. The sore remained for two days, and then disappeared completely. The same experience happened twice after this encounter and she repeated the strategy of confessing the word and rejecting the symptoms. Today, three years layer, she confidently use public

The word of God works for any situation, if you can plant it in your mind and believe it with your heart, you shall indeed be set free.

BLOW OUT SCRIPTURE

The Word of God works for any situation, if you can take away from your mind and plant it in your heart, you will certainly experience it in your body.

Reject the symptoms, and the ailment will flee.

SCENARIO TWO

THE BEST

There is the good, better and also the perfect Will of God for you as a believer as revealed in Romans 12: 3. Some attain the good, others the better and the Holy Spirit-led attains the best.

Presently, you may not be operating at the peak of your career, ministry, business, family life and academic and this may be a great concern to you as a Child of God. You may question, if this is all God has for you and pondered if you have missed the voice of God.

You may have been told by friends, family to accept the " inevitable," this is all God destined for you; a leader or mentor may have made you believed by words and actions that you are not good for the top rather you are fashioned and ordained to be a servant to those at the top.

Whatever are the excuses or reasons given by yourself or others for not attaining the best that God planned for you as revealed in

Jeremiah 29:11-12

For I know the plans I have for you, “declares the Lord,

"Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope

and a future.

NIV

The Almighty God, your Father wants the best for you, He ordained the best for you, He planned the best for you.

I will instruct you says the Lord and guide you along the best pathway

for your life; I will advise you and watch your progress.

Psalms 32:8-9 (TLB)

He configured you to reach the peak of your career, ministry, business, education, so that you can showcase what God's power and glory can do for a Believer and through a Believer.

"For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come." Ephesians 1:16-17 (NIV)

God can do much much that you ever think or imagined. Only Him has true wealth and He will only receive it to you if you allow Him to help you on His own terms and conditions

“If you will only let me help you, if you will only obey me,

then l will make you rich." Isaiah 1:19 (TLB)

SCENARIO THREE

SUDDENLY

Life is about making steady progress; for anyone who arrives suddenly at Success' corridor may exit it in a hurry too. Check out men who win Lottery without either financial plan or money management skills, they certainly lose same money the way they got it ‘Suddenly’. For suddenly arrival always try to cheat the processing of time. Examine the lifestyles of armed robbers and fraudsters: they can’t keep the money they generated rather it is exhausted as it is received. ‘Suddenly’

Therefore they must continue in their ungodly quest for more money to replenish their stocks of money.

But check out great men in the Kingdom and secular, the process of time is always involved in their Success story. Even Naijabet obeys the process of time- you hit the jackpot after careful study of games to make accurate predictions.

So wherever you are presently in achieving your dream, vision, divine assignment; whichever Success story, you want to written about you, do not join the bandwagon of fast and ungodly accumulation of wealth gained through cheating and abandoning God’s principles for wealth creation.

Study the Bible and gain insight on God’s principle for wealth creation. Embrace the virtue of integrity, sincerity, truthfulness, giving to Kingdom project and the poor. It is only this practice that can get you enduring wealth without sorrow and eternal condemnation.

'Your beginnings will seem humble,

so prosperous will your future be.

Job 8:7.

SCENERIO FOUR

TRUE LABOURER

"The harvest is so great, and the workers are so few," he told his disciples.

"So pray to the one in charge of the harvesting, and ask him to recruit more workers for his harvest fields."

Matthew 9:37-38 TLB

Let me start with a question; how can Christian laborers be few in a generation when the Church is Church attendance experiencing a bump and it seem as if the Church is exalted above other mountains and a vast throng enters its chamber of mercy and prosperity.

This is an era where politicians and businessmen publicly declare their membership of one denomination or the other; a period when intellectuals present Christ with logical accuracy, a Season when it is fashionable and trendy to be a Christian and a Church worker. "No, saying laborers are few in this generation can't be right, certainly we have many laborers’

Then l realized, indeed we have many BELIEVERS and attendees who attend Church services, many who are church workers in lofty positions in the church hierarchy, but these Christian workers have little or no knowledge about Christ their leader and employer and don’t walk in his ways.

My people are ruined because they don't know what's right or true.

Because you've turned your back on knowledge, I've turned my back on you priests. Because you refuse to recognize the revelation of God,

I'm no longer recognizing your children. The more priests, the more sin:

They traded in their glory for shame. They pig out on my people's sins.

They can't wait for the latest in evil. The result: You can't tell the people from the priests, the priests from the people. I'm on my way to make them both pay and take the consequences of the bad lives they've lived. They'll eat and be as hungry as ever, have sex and get no satisfaction.

They walked out on me, their God, for a life of rutting with whores.

They Make a Picnic out of Religion “Wine and whiskey leave my people in a stupor. Hosea 4:6-11

THE MESSAGE

We have multitudes who sees Christ as their ATM machine and make withdrawal whenever they need His help, they attend church strictly for the miracles, and return to their former lifestyles of disobedient to Christ’s Word and his ways after getting their miracles.0

Sadly, we have laborers who are passionate about Christ and willing to work to bring in the harvest but most of them are ignorant about kingdom principles. They have zeal but their zeal is not backed by knowledge, men and women who are ardent prayer warriors but do not pray as the Word dictates. GOD, PLEASE SEND US LABOURERS FOR THE HARVEST!

We have Christian workers who can sing to motivate people to shake their bodies in dancing; move their feet to the latest dancing style and rhythms, but few LABOURERS, who worship God in Spirit and the Truth.

We don’t have anointed singers like King David who set the captives free when ministering to God in songs with heartfelt lyrics which exalt the King of kings and Lord of lords; singers who can through their ministration deliver demonic oppressed king Saul, singers whose singing bring men to the Altar of repentance crying for the Savior's Touch. Indeed we have singers: Indeed we have “plenteous worship leaders:”

But obviously, we have few Palmists who are laboring to bring in the ‘PLENTEOUS HARVEST’.

Let’s pray as our Master Jesus requested that God will send in LABOURERS, who are trained and have a heart for the KINGDOM OF CHRIST. And pray that God will make you a laborer who worships him in spirit and in truth.

SCENARIO FIVE

PAINFUL OBEDIENCE

Difficult circumstances and situation ios one of the catalyst that God uses to build charrcter and tenacym in a believer. But y6ou will agree with me that one of the most difficult pain to bear is the poain of losing a loved one. Such tradegy especially the death of a young person did not fade away away quickly.

Abraham was not just going to lose a loved one, he was going to kill his own son, who he loved so much, this was his only beloved son, a son of the promise bornee after many years of waiting. I cant describe the kind of sorrow, sadness, grief that would have covered the household of Abraham if Isaac had been sacrified on the altar of love.

Genesis 22:1-10

After all this, God tested Abraham. God said, "Abraham!" "Yes?" answered Abraham. "I'm listening." He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll point out to you." Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants and his son Isaac. He had split wood for the burnt offering. He set out for the place God had directed him. On the third day he looked up and saw the place in the distance. Abraham told his two young servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I are going over there to worship; then we'll come back to you." Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and gave it to Isaac his son to carry. He carried the flint and the knife. The two of them went off together. Isaac said to Abraham his father, "Father?" "Yes, my son." "We have flint and wood, but where's the sheep for the burnt offering?" Abraham said, "Son, God will see to it that there's a sheep for the burnt offering." And they kept on walking together. They arrived at the place to which God had directed him. Abraham built an altar. He laid out the wood. Then he tied up Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill his son.

THE MESSAGE

Abraham is a man to be studied and emulated when it comes to love for God and obedience to His instructions. Nop wonder God recommendt his obedience as sacrifice. Firstly, he was asked to leave his country and kindred for an unknown land and there were no friends, relative waiting to receive him on this unknown land, yet this friend and lover of the God, he had never seen left everything and followed the Almighty.

Next he is asked to sacrifice His own son, the son he loved so much to this unseen God and Abraham never argued, never said God are you sure, never presented his strong argument like he ddi when he interacted with god to spare the land of Sodom and Gommorrah for the sake of nephew.

Abraham did not consulted with anybody on this issue, not his wife, he just rose up and left to obey. I don’t know if I can carried out that kind of obedience without presenting my strong argument.

Firstly, I will question if the request is fromgod and after ascertaining it from Him, I don’t know if I can sacrifice my son of promise to demonstrarte my love for god, but I know God’s knows.

But we must be very careful not to make anything more important than God to us. An idol is anything that is more important to us than money. This is why the Bible qualified Abraham relationship with his son Isaac,

Genesis 22:1

After all this, God tested Abraham. God said, "Abraham!" "Yes?" answered Abraham. "I'm listening." He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love

Anything in yoiur life that makes obeying God difficult ore impossible has become an idol in yourn life. You must understand that your money, husband, career, ministry, ambition can take the place of God in yo, ur life. God asked Abrahm to take his loved son and sacrifice him to test if Abraham loved Isaac more than the Almighty. May God help us to keep opur hearts puire before, may we b e ready to give up anything for Him and to Him. Our lord jesus our perfect example was ready to give up the applauds of men, a successful ministyr, the installation as an earthly king of Israel not for a better seemly immediate option but rather to die an excrutiating death on the Cros for an offence he did not committed and for a people who rejected it.

Obviously men like Abraham, Jeremiah, Abel, our Lord Jesus, Peter, John, Paul and others saw something in the Almighty beyond the original that would make them forsake worldly pleasure for something beyond the earthn they hace not seen physically or handled. It must take a very unsusal insight into the spirit realm and etenality to do this. May we see the same things they saw and hera the same things they herad.

Hebrews 11:36-12:4

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.KJV

SCENARIO SIX

NOTHING HAPPENS……

Praying heartfelt prayers backed with faith is the apparatus God uses to carry out divine agendas on earth. The prayer of the believer is the invitation and authorization given to the Almighty by men to intervene in any matter. Prayer of Saints empowers and emboldens heavenly messengers called angels to execute divine mandate and agenda in a destiny, family, Church State, Nation, Continent; just as spell, incantation, sorcery, divination by children and agent of Satan empowers evil spirits to spread wickedness and sins on earth.

Without prayers the wings of heavenly angels are stifled and God’s mighty Hand of Salvation is cut short. l know you pray for yourself, your family, your friends, your business, your ministry, the death of your enemy often as you deem necessary and God’s word supports asking for things.

"Ask, and you will be given what you ask for. Seek, and you will find.

Knock, and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives.

Anyone who seeks, finds. If only you will knock, the door will open.

Matthew 7:7-9 (TLB)

But did you remember to pray for that woman, man, boy, girl who lives in your neighborhood yet unsaved? Did you pray for that unsaved security man who works for you: The man or woman who sells provision on your street: The driver and conductor in the vehicle which drove you to church, office, the market. Did you pray for that actress and actor who featured in your favorite soap opera or film, did you pray for the cast and crew of the film to know Christ as you do? Did you pray for the senators and other Law makers that they may make right and godly decisions: Did you pray for the governor of your State that he will always be under the influence of your God and make godly policies that will help the people.

Here are my directions: Pray much for others; plead for God's mercy upon them; give thanks for all he is going to do for them.

Pray in this way for kings and all others who are in authority over us, or are in places of high responsibility, so that we can live in peace and quietness, spending our time in godly living and thinking much about the Lord.

This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4 for he longs for all to be saved and to understand this truth: That God is on one side and all the people on the other side, and Christ Jesus, himself man, is between them to bring them together, by giving his life for all mankind.

1Timothy 2:1-6 (TLB)

Miracles happen on planet earth when believers in Christ ask God in prayer, for prophecies are beautiful, but we must tarry in his presence until they are fulfilled. The Bible says King David served his generation by doing God’s will.

If you refuse to intercede for the land: Then wait patiently for the time your home and houses will be set on fire by fanatics; when your hard earned money will be stole by a kidnapper who demands all your wealth as ransom. You may say, l have money, I will travel abroad with my family for safety, cool, but then you may find yourself in a shopping Mall where a fanatic shoots people at random and a stray bullet ends your sojourn to safety.

Please, CHRIST did not just die to save you; He pay the price that unbelievers will come to accept Him as Lord and Saviour and be saved just as you. You may not be able to travel to nations ruin by war, but you can sow a seed of prayers for God intervention. Christ cares for lost souls, do you care enough for Christ your Lord; to help fulfill his dream of World evangelization. He said in Matthew 28:18-20

He told his disciples, "I have been given all authority in heaven and earth. Therefore go and make disciples in all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and then teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you; and be sure of this-that I am with you always, even to the end of the world."

TLB

For the Harvest is Ready Now!

SCENARIO SEVEN

DESIRE OR NEED

Sometimes, what you desire in life especially in the area of relationship may not be what you need to achieve divine mandate. When our Lord Jesus was on earth as a man, the Pharisees rejected him because he was not the kind of King they desired.

They desired a political king, a leader with military power to deliver Israel from its visible enemy, but God gave them a spiritual king and leader who would deliver them permanently from the enemy of their Soul. God destroyed sin and Satan’s power over them. If God had given them just a political leader as they desired and requested, they would have been delivered for a season and then go back into captivity. The Pharisees desired a political King who would give them temporary relief but they needed the King of kings who will liberate them forever.

Also, In 1 Samuel 8, the Israelites requested for a king like other nations around them, a king whom God said, will conscript their sons and make them run before his chariots, and turn their children into slave laborers etc But what they needed was the King of kings, who will defend them always and forever.

Most times, what we desire in a marriage partner may not be what we need for fulfillment in life. Sincerely, am not against desiring the best in a marriage partner, the bible says the desire of the righteous shall be granted. God promised in Psalm 32:8 'l will instruct you and guide you in the best pathway for your life, l will advice you and watch your progress'

But a righteous man must always seek to align his desires with the purpose and plan of God for His life. Today marriages are falling apart because men and women alike make choices that please their sight.

Prophet Samuel saw Eliab and thought ' surely, the Lord anointed stand before the Him' and the answer God gave him is golden for all generations. God said ' Samuel, men look at the outer appearance but l see the heart'.

In essence, it is not just physical appearance, a big bank account, a prestigious background and tribal affiliation that makes a blissful home, it is the state of the heart and of course some other factors that produce the joy, prosperity, peace and happiness in the home.

In every area of our lives, we must walk with God and ensure our desires align with His, we must depend on His leading always. Jesus Christ our Lord said ' Not, my Will but you will be done. Am not discussing the Will of God in marriage here lets leave that teaching to the Clergy but certainly am advocating that God is our Father and He is interested in every area of our lives and when we invite Him, He will guide us in the best pathway. IT MEANS, THERE CAN BE BAD, GOOD, BETTER, BEST pathway for your life, career, marriage, ministry and family.

King David, a man after God's heart sought God ' leading in matter of war but l observed that he did not do so in his relationships. May God help us for before and after marriage, we need His help. The married says, marriage is hard work and l believe them, then we must seek for His grace and wisdom to excel in it.

SCENARIO EIGHT

GOD WITH US

Truly, we cant see God with our physical eyes, but his works reveals His person. We are I n a generation whereby men do not kbnow who the true God is ; there is confusion everywhere, peril at every doorsteps, no nation is excepted, no homje has 100% guarantee that evil will not touch their homes because as Isaiah 28 reveals the world and its people are in the hands of a evil ruler, the only way out is the staqtement spoken in I Samuel 18:14…and David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.. ..

In verse 13 of the same chapter, the bible says:

Therefore Saul removed him from him and made him his captain over one thousand and he went out and came in before the people.

This statement stryck a chord in my mind because david left the king’s presence for the presence of the people yet he still prospered.

Sometimes in life we consciously and unconsciously reasons that we aree successful because of the relationships, connection and the people we know. We feel they arew the reason for our progress. As one man of God and women of God believes, they normally say that the men around them are blessed people of them, meaning those men have no right to God’s blessing on their own rather God chose to bless these individuals who surrounds them for their own sake.

The bible says king Saul thrust David outside his presence, he forced him out and you will expect the blessings and victory in David life to stop because he had been disconnected from an anointed man of God.

David was sent out of Saul presence to the people yet the prospered abnd did well in everything he was involved in-the secret was revealed in verse 14-God was with him.

God with us is all we need in life to become our best, god with us is our insurance and reinsurance. The book of Daniel says those who know their god shall be strong and do exploits.

The same scenario was reported in Genesis 39: Potiphar saw that the Lord was with Joseph and that the Lord made Joseph prospers in everything he did

Scenario Nine

THE PASSIVE ……………

A football team with eleven (11) defenders and no strikers may never concede a goal but be sure of this, they will never score a goal and win the match. A Christian who rarely attacks the works of darkness in the place of prayers will not experience increase, gain new grounds, attain higher height.

King David was a great war lord, the Bible says he never lost any battle. But King David did not just build high walls around Israel and Judea to keep the enemy out rather he sent General Joab out with the army to conquer new territories.

And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time

when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon,

and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 11:1 (KJV)

God's plan for you is to 'Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords' Isaiah 54:1. For His

'His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.’ 2 Peter 1:3

When Moses got to the Red Sea, he stood still supposedly waiting on God but in reality God was waiting for Moses to move forward and lead God’s people through the Sea to Canaan; the promised land- a land filled with honey and precious stones.

“And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.” The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

Exodus 14:13-16 (KJV)

Sometimes, we believe and testify that we are waiting on God to change our situation and give us victory, but we forget that God has supplied all we need to be victorious over every works of Hell.

You must know that the day you surrendered your heart to Christ to worship and serve Him, you also signed an enmity treaty against Satan: You may not be serious about this treaty but be sure that Satan is ‘doubly serious’ about you and will do all he can to steal from you, kill anything that belongs to you and ultimately destroy you. He shall not succeed against your family in Jesus name. The enemy testified about Job and God’s faithfulness in his life.

Satan retorted, "So do you think Job does all that out of the sheer goodness of his heart? 10 Why, no one ever had it so good! You pamper him like a pet, make sure nothing bad ever happens to him or his family or his possessions, bless everything he does — he can't lose! Job 1:9-10 (THE MESSAGE)

2 Peter 1:3 shows that God has given you every missiles you need for a victorious life. He has given you weapons to use against sin, opposition, sickness, diseases and these missiles are contained in the pages of the Bible; they are called the Word of God.

'The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.' 2 Cor. 10:4

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” Eph. 6:17

The Word of God is our defensive and offensive weapon. Some Christians are more defensive than offensive; they do not attack the works of darkness against them until they are attacked by the enemy. For example, a defensive believer only remembers Psalm 91 and Psalm 23 after his finance and health is attacked by the enemy. But a believer on the offensive would use same Psalms to prevent the enemy's attack. Never wait until the day of trouble before you pray but daily destroy the works of Satan against you before they arise.

Why wait till your head is cut off before you pray for the power of resurrection to restore your head, why wait till your husband stop loving you before you pray for renewal of love in his heart. You must by day and at night protect your family with the Word of God. Tell the enemy, he is not permitted to touch your home, business, finance etc.

We are surrounded by men and women who attend church yet use’ juju’ and evil power to boost their career and business. You must attack all these evil works against you constantly and use your faith to draw from the wall of Salvation.

Scenario Ten

CHRIST TAUGHT THEM

Matthew 5:1

Jesus taught them. Unless you teach men they don’t know what they should know, teaching them helps them to know. Go and teach my people about me and muy ways.

Everyman is ignorant in one area or the other. The only Supreme Being who is all-knowing and omniscience is god, He knows all things and created all things.

Therefore for men to know about an issue, they must be taught. Every child is born blank in knowledge, they don’t know anything except what they know intuitively. Every baby learns the norm and culture of the society they are born into, this why why though all babies cry and dhave certain behavioural pattern, the attitude, different knowledge and account of who God is and most times, this account is wrong and very far from the truth. We must teach new convert about the true knowledge of God and his ways.

The word of God is the change agent, it helps change the wrong mindset of a believer. One way to believe like God is to behave like the word. The word will change uis, heal us and save us if will allow the word tro work in our lives.

The bible sats He send his word and healed them and delivered them from all theuir troubles. God never works out the confine of Hos eword. God is bound by His word, he allows Hos word to control him

So Jesus taught the people because Hde only knew that is one of the easiesrt ans simple way of knowing God and his ways.

Jesus taught the people because he wanted them to know abot God and Himl this is why he says :thois ewho knows their God shall be strong and do exploit.

Afte4r ward he lived another 300 years in fellowship with God . genesi 5:21

SCENARIO EIGHT

Godly Models.

Blessed morning, l pray your day will be filled with awesome testimonies.

So by God's grace, I teach teenagers of age 9-12 in my church and last Sunday, they won trophies in a competition.

Christian mothers, aunties, fathers: we must strive to present our children as trophies to Christ..

Presently, this is one of the assignments, l enjoy most: the enthusiasm of the children motivates me, their excitement of learning new things, their crave for adventure keeps my heart glowing with youthfulness.

But it is also a huge responsibility for me because I understand that they are entering the phase of consciously making life choices and God has entrusted me with the responsibility of helping them to make choices that honour Christ.

I must be careful about my lifestyle in the secret and public.

I must not just act and speak right in church, but daily, I should ask God for power to live a pure life in the secret.

Though this children cannot see my secret life, it can be transfered to them as l teach and interact with them.

The Bible says bad company corrupts good manner, this is true because there is always transference of spirits between associate.

If am living an ungodly life in the secret, the spirits fueling my ungodliness will be transfer to this children. ( excerpt their parents consciously and prayerfully protect them from the activities of hell.)

Today' society is filled with ungodly contents that influence our teenagers to turn away from God.

I got saved as a teenager but was a backslider for eight years because the sister who was my mentor at that time left our vicinity and my late father of blessed memory, a stalk unbeliever lured me back to sin and ungodliness.

Our young people need godly models, men and women whose private and public life model Christ; not men who profess Christ with their lips but don't fully model Christ in their actions.

Christ told the disciples, l sanctify myself for your sake

We are Christ' ambassadors and must live carefully, showing Christ in all our actions.

I remember an incident that happened some few years back when I was working in an orphanage. I had taught the children that it was wrong for them to watch obscene films. So this fateful day, we were watching a Nigerian movie when a boy and girl were kissing, all the other children immediately close their eyes but one did not and saw that I was watching that scene. Immediately, he spoke 'aaah, aunty Abigail, you are watching something that is bad'

I was caught and guilty as charged.

Please as Christians, lets be a Godly model and influence for this young ones.

Christ is depending on us to win them wholly to Him.

The system of the world has intensify its agenda to make our children ungodly,

We must intensify our strategy keep them pure for Christ.

I pray God helps us.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 19

HOW CLOSE?

The Holy Spirit is the head of the Church in this dispensation; He represents the interest of Christ and His Father on earth.

Therefore He must be the initiator of every kingdom vision, direction, project etc. Believers must learn to wait on Him for instructions and guidance on issues of life and ministry. Acts 20:22 says "And now, compelled by the Spirit, l am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.

Also Luke 4:1 confirms this truth 'Then Jesus full of the Holy Spirit left the Jordan, being urged by the Spirit out into the barren wasteland of Judea.....

The life and ministry of Apostle Paul was directed by the Spirit . The Bible states in Acts 13: 2 'One day as these men were worshipping and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, " Dedicate Barnabas and Paul for a special job l have for them..... Directed by the Holy Spirit they went to Seleucia and then sailed for Cyprus.

There is confusion and disorder in the Church today because many preachers, pastors, believers don't wait on the Holy Spirit for guidance and instructions. Rather men run their lives and ministries by common sense and logic, presenting their ideas to the Holy Spirit for empowerment. (You cannot be the legislator and judiciary of your ideas and expect the Holy Spirit to be its executor.)

The Holy Spirit is the Source, the Giver of gifts and power for a ministry with maximum impact. 1 Corinthians 12: 4,7,8,10,11

'Now God gives us many kinds of special abilities, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all....To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice....He gives power for doing miracles to some, and to others power to prophesy and preach..... It is the same and only Holy Spirit who gives all these gifts and powers, deciding which each one of us should have.

Therefore if the Holy Spirit holds such crucial, important role in the life of a christian, then you must do all you can to get close to Him HOW?

# study about Him

# Obey Him at all times

# Pleasing Him always.

Psalm 1:2 says " But they delight in doing everything God wants them to, and day and night are always meditating on His laws and thinking about ways to follow him more closely.

CLOSENESS TO THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHO DETERMINES IT?

YOU!

SCENARIO 20

VERY CLOSE

LUKE 15:31-32

How close?, how far? though measurable, is relative based on individual perspective.

A wife may see herself as very close to her husband because they sleep on the same bed and even make love yet that man may be closer to his secretary or colleague in the office because they speak his love language and make him comfortable in their presence.

Closeness to the Holy Spirit can be view in the same light: attending church often, preaching, teaching, praying, giving is good but they don't necessarily mean we are very close to God.

In the story of the prodigal son, the father commended the eldest son with this statement" Look , dear son, his father said to him, " you and l are very close, and everything have is yours. How did this young man achieve this admirable feat?

He was more interested in doing what pleased his father and not in getting an inheritance.

The elder brother kept on working with the father, though, no goat was killed on his behalf, no fatten cow killed to celebrate him.

His father called him a dear son, a valuable son. who is very close to the father' heart. A son who is concern about the father's business, not just only for fame or a reward but works in Christ Vineyard as a stake holder.

We must aspire to be very close to the Spirit of Life: His concern should be our concern, His desire, our desire, His will, our will. CHRIST IN US, THE HOPE OF GLORY.

We should keep loving Him even when our 2+2 is not equal four.

We should see ourselves as stake holders in His kingdom.

Apostle Paul said 'And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there. I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me. However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. “Now I know that none of you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will ever see me again. Therefore, I declare to you today that I am innocent of the blood of any of you.

May God plant our feet on Higher Ground in Jesus name.

Abigail Hephzibah

INSPIRED

SCENARIO 21

FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM

Ever you are been in love?

When your heart is embedded in that of the one you cherish; when the syllables of the name of your beloved is sweeter than vintage wine,

and your heart liven by warm thoughts of the person you adore.

Thoughts of tenderness towards your Love infiltrate your mind as you knee in your sacred place to pray

Imaginary begging for a place to stay in your memory;

sceneries of bliss, serenity, of unquenchable love where your beloved is flawless and every mountain is made plain by your love

This was the same picture of love in King David' heart when he exclaimed in Psalm 27:4

"One thing, I have desired of the Lord.

That will l seek after

That l may dwell in the house of the LORD, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord'.

I guess his heart was overwhelmed with God' s love for him and his lips burst forth with songs of desire for his King and LORD-Jehovah.

David married many wives, hoping he would find this kind of ethereal love in the arms of a woman but l guess he did not, because he grew old and died in the body warmth of the most beautiful damsel in Israel who kept his body from the cold but could not warm his heart.

Your heavenly Father loves you and wants you to love Him in return. His greatest commandment is 'Love the Lord your God with your whole heart, mind and strength.....

El shaddai feel used when you only seek Him when you need things from Him, when you relate with Him as your ' goody bag' who coughs out all the Gucci bags and shoes you need. He wants your attention, He wants you to sit with him and learn from him not just when you need a sermon for your family or the people, or a new revelation to dazzle your listeners, or a religious routine of quiet time or power to overcome the enemy.

He wants you to sit at his feet and listen to his voice like Mary, Martha' sister.

He wants you to discuss you next move with him before and not after you have made a decision.

Even He, the Almighty could not make a decision on Sodom and Gomorrah without the input and opinion of His friend Abraham.

Truly, He can have all the worship he wants from angels; who are created and programmed to give him worship but the willing worship from you with a free will is sweeter to Him.

(Oh the love of a guy who chooses you to love, above other options, though you are the least qualified for his love) Oh, how sweet is the sound of your willing love and adoration to God, your KING.

This is the value the Most High God placed on His friendship with Abraham, a man like you. He wants your friendship too, not just your service.

He desires your love, not just your work for Him

Psalm 25:14 says 'the Lord tells His secrets to those who respect Him, He tells them about His agreement.

Another version says 'God friendship is for God worshippers. They are the ones he confide in:

HOW TO LOVE HIM MORE?

To Be Continued

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 22

HOW TO GET CLOSER TO HIM

1. DESIRE HIM

Your life follows the direction of your desires. Your pursuit is a reflection of your desires.

Psalm 40:8

"I desire to do your will, my God;

your law is within my heart"

Luke 10:42.

but few things are needed—or indeed ONLY ONE. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

2. SEEK HIM

Men who find God, are worshippers who place the highest value on Him. They see Him as more precious than Gold, so they seek earnestly.

MATT. 6:33

"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Jeremiah 29:13

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord.

CORRECT YOUR MOTIVES

Its good to want His glory, power, favour, prosperity, riches, international ministry and fame but ask yourself: WHY do l want all these things.? If not for His glory, youanswer's have missed it.

John 6:26-27

"Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did then eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Jeremiah 9:23-25

Thus saith the Lord,

Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,

neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

But let him that glorieth glory in this,

that he understandeth and knoweth me,

that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth:

for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

I Corinthians 4:4-5

My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 23

IS IT POSSIBLE TO BELIEVE IN CHRIST AND NOT LOVE HIM?

King Saul was anointed by me, he sat on the throne and was king over my people and my nation, But the only time he offered me sacrifices was when he needed my help. The only time he made an attempt to seek for me was when he consulted a witch to get information from Samuel after his demise.

King David was anointed as king over my people and nation. He penned various Psalms to praise me, he offered sacrifices of love to me and created a beautiful abode for my Ark of the Covenant. . Also he desired and attempted to build a permanent place of abode for me among my people.

It means King David, thoughts were full of me. When you love someone your thoughts are full of them. You are constantly thinking of what you can do to make their lives better and increase their happiness. Jesus Christ asked Peter" Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?

Apostle John the beloved was distinguished from the other disciples because he was exceptional close to the Messiah, our Lord Jesus. The Bible stated that Christ was very close to him. He outlived all the other disciples and wrote the concluding book of the Bible.

Loving God will keep you pursuing Him even when other have stopped the pursuit.

Abigail Hepjzibah

SCENARIO 24

LOVE GOD MORE THAN THESE?

Righteousness is bequeathed to believers by faith. Immediately, you believed in Christ, and accepted Him as Lord and Saviour, there was a shift in your standing with God: you moved from the status of an enemy and became a son. Before faith in Christ Jesus, you were on the wrong side of the fence and had no relationship with God but faith in Christ Jesus puts you in right standing with God.

You are positioned to relate directly with God and receive every blessing on the ticket of Christ.

A worker in an office, is paid a salary at the end of the month for work done. The salary is not a gift, rather its payment for service rendered. But if you were paid without rendering any service, then it's a gift.

This is the story of righteousness, we do not receive God's protection, kindness, love, health, healing, prosperity, miracles, favour and even eternal life because we worked for it, NO! we received because our Lord Jesus paid the price for us to qualify for God's blessings.

In the book of Deuteronomy 28:1: The Bible says If you fully obey my commandments, these blessings shall come to you......

It means you can only be blessed in the city and the country, be blessed as you go in and come out, be the head and not the tail- when you fully obey the laws. On the other hand if you partially obey the laws of God, you can't receive the blessings.

In the Old Testament, you have to obey to be blessed, in the New Testament, you have to believe in Jesus to be blessed.

Christ Jesus our Saviour rendered the service of obedience to the Will of the Father by dying on the cross so that you can have right standing with God.

The question is if we receive the blessings on the basis of Christ finished work. Then what is the place of obedience in our relationship with Christ.

We obey Christ because we love Him.

Jesus Christ our master showed every believer why we must obey in John 14:15 and 21

"Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them. Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching.

We no longer obey God because of the blessings he bestows rather we obey Him because he loved us and has freely given us all that pertains to life and godliness..

This is perfect love.

I don't obey because l want a car, house, jet, happy marriage, all these are included for free in my salvation package and l only need to access them by faith.

# l do not access them by the seed l sow into the life of the man of God, NO! I access these blessings by faith

But now, l must obey God because l love Him.

Who are those who love God?

# Those who claim they love Him? NO!

# Those who claim they are God's s favourite? NO!

# Those who spend hours singing songs of praise and worship yet do not live according to the word? NO!

# Those who claim they are a special breed among believers and other believers are created specially for them? NO!

Who are those who love God?

Jesus Christ our Lord says

# THOSE WHO KEEP HIS COMMANDS, #THOSE WHO KEEP HIS WORD

Do you really want to love Him?

Then keep His word.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 25

INSPIRED

TIME AWAY FROM GOD IS A MOVE CLOSER TO DANGER

Recent events in the Society and the World has necessitated the urgency of believers spending ample time of fellowship with God their Father.

A young Christian lady left her home and entered a public transport in the Park and she ended up in a Ritualist den and that was the end of her glorious destiny. Another young university post graduate student was returning from Lecture when she entered a Ritualist Bus. She found herself in their Occult forest but she was released because she heard the voice of her master Jesus saying "pray in tongues and she began the heavenly language that caused confusion in the Ritualist's den and she was asked to leave with her possession after she witnessed others killed.

You go shopping in a Mall for your family and never return home because you were unfortunate to have an encounter with terrorists who are fulfilling the mission of their father - to steal, kill and destroy.

Everywhere you turn, the enemy has set traps to seize your life and cut short your destiny: Every corner, evil is beckoning.

But the Word of God says

"Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust.”

Surely he will save you

from the fowler’s snare

and from the deadly pestilence." Psalm 91:1-6

We have a God who neither sleep nor slumber . He is ever ready to protect you: But his protection for you is greatly impede by your ability to hear you.

You cant hear him accurately, if you don't spend sufficient time in his presence. During your Quiet time, He reveals the pattern of your day, week, and future to you, He reveals the plan of the enemy to you. He can speak to you about what Satan plans to do in ten years time. He has the ability and capacity to adequately predict 1000 years ahead of you and His prediction happens exactly.

I present again to you that God who is perfection in mercy and love. , your helper and refuge who can never fail, the one who delights in keeping you from the deadliest attack from the enemy.

But the catch is shown in Psalm 25 which says

"Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?

He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.

They will spend their days in prosperity,

and their descendants will inherit the land.

The Lord confides in those who fear him;

he makes his covenant known to them.

My eyes are ever on the Lord,

for only he will release my feet from the snare."

How many hours you spend in His presence is a call to believers to spend more time with their Father. Am not talking about your 30 minutes blasting in tongues, it never sufficient a time to spend in the presence of the Kings of all king and Lord of lords. He deserves your love, attention and commitment.

I know you give Him money and service in church but He desires to fellowship with you. He wants you to give him attention. Please how can you love someone and only spend 30mins with them out of your 24 hours. That is insane, it's a sure way to kill the relationship. What makes you think the few minutes of your lifetime you spend in fellowship with your Lord is sufficient to know Him and access his secrets.

This God is too good and He is your God. He wants your love and l can tell you He certainly deserves it.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 14

YOUR DESIRES, CHRIST DESIRES

Happy Sunday, l pray the New week and month will be filled with awesome testimonies.

The christian walk and lifestyle is fashioned for progress and stagnancy should be abnormal to every true christian.

Generally, man is designed for progress and increase" Be fruitful, multiply... God commanded increase for every man born of a woman.

In same manner, our walk with God must not be on the same level year after year, as we increase in our finance, career and business, our spiritual walk and work must also progress.

2 Peter 1:5-7 "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love".

God expects you to grow spiritual; get to know Him more. And one of the ways you can attain this is contained in Luke 9:23

" Then He said to all, anyone who wants to follow me must put aside his own desires and conveniences and carry his Cross with him everyday and keep close to me. (Living Bible)

Desires are the beam for world class achievement. Sometimes, the reason A is more successful than B is the difference in their desires.

Desires are what you long to see happen in your life and environment, they are what you want, what you yearn for, the longing of your heart and it determines the form of your life pursuit and defines the shape your destiny.

But Christ said, you need to grow in your christian walk, he said, you are too far from Him. Though you are anointed and speak in tongues, heal the sick, raise the death, Christ says you are not close to Him

WHY? Because your life is still ruled by your own desires and not that of Christ. You are running your destiny in your own way, you are serving God on your own term, you serve God only when its convenient for you.

You need to move closer to Christ, you must willing surrender yourself to him completely and learn his ways for his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

Every believer must learn to seek the desires of Christ and follow it through; though it's contrary to your personal desires and inconvenience.

Peter desired to be a first class fisherman and after walking, working and eating with Christ, he went back to the fishing lifestyle. But Christ's desire for Peter was to be a 'fisher of men'. It is only those who pursue earnestly Christ's desire that will get close to Him.

Please spend time in His presence and seek His face and desires always this new week for the time is short.

May God keep and preserve us with His kindness in Jesus name.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 15

THE HARVEST IS NOW

Syria war- thousands killed before they could say yes to Jesus Christ,

Bombing in Russia

Bombing in France

Bombing in Canada

Bombing in Great Britain

Kenya killings

Somalia killing and famine

Sudan killing

Now, its coming Home

Nigeria killings.

Hell is populated daily

We must arise and go to the field now

For the HARVEST IS RIPE NOW

Christ death must not be in vain

We must save all we can on our knees praying

In the field evangelizing: And on social media writing

Chatting must be deliberate : Adding friends must be for the purpose of building men for Christ

You can't be physically in Syria, Russia, Kenya, Sudan

But you can pray for God to give His grace to men and women in these cities grace to receive Christ and be saved.

See, the peace you enjoy; see the hope for eternal life you enjoy

Please have compassion on others, let then have this life you enjoy

Train Christians under your influence to become solders for Christ

For the HARVEST IS NOW.

SCENARIO 16

SCENARIO 17

QUOTATION

JESUS IS NOT JUST THE ANSWER FOR THE WORLD TODAY,

HE WAS THE ANSWER FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD AND THE ANSWER FOREVER

.Peter gave JESUS his boat 4 preaching yet nothing happened to his business But D moment he obeyed Jesus' instruction, GUESS WHAT?GUESS WHAT? Peter experienced the miraculous. CHRIST' S VOICE can break through any resistance. Obey HIM

SCENARIO 18

WHAT MANNER OF MAN? Acts 30:22-35

"And now, compelled by the Spirit...."

Men, who do great exploit for the Kingdom of Christ are such who passionately, unselfishly commit their all to the work of the kingdom at the risk of their lives and comfort; they are men and women whose directions and decisions are controlled by the Spirit of Life.

The statement made by the Apostle in Acts 20:22 tally with Luke 4:1 "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Our Lord Jesus and Apostle Paul had something in common: They were led by the Holy Spirit, meaning they were guide on a way by the Spirit, they were

directed on a course or in a direction by the Spirit, the Spirit directed their operations, activity, performance.

This can be likened to a blind man been guided by a man with sight. The blind man must trust the judgement of his guide and believe strongly that he is led in the right direction.

The Spirit of God is the omniscient God leading and guiding you in His truth.

You must submit and surrender your live to the Spirit of Life. I know, He dwells inside of you but He must occupy the driver seat of your life, family and ministry.

Christ our Lord could not live, breathe or succeed without the Spirit. You too must consciously cultivate and nurture a relationship with the Spirit for He will never interfere in your affairs unless you invite Him.

Please the Spirit is not your servant, rather you are His child and His servant, therefore you must learn to wait on Him and listen to Him always.

Remember, He loves you.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 26

LAUGH! YOUR SEASON OF AWESOME TESTIMONY IS HERE!

Our God is awesome and specialises in giving His people mouth watering testimonies, Overnight Joseph moved from the position of a PRISONER to the PRIME MINISTER IN A LAND THAT WAS NOT HIS COUNTRY (na Bible story, check out the testimony of Pastor Osinbajo of Federal Republic of Nigeria) .

SEE! GOD IS CHANGING YOUR STORY FROM NORMAL TO EXTRA ORDINARY. ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE SUPERNATURAL LIFTING COMING YOUR WAY, FOR JEHOVAH IS DOING A NEW THING IN YOUR LIFE IN JESUS NAME.

HAPPY SUNDAY.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 28

Live and make decisions with rapture in mind. It can happen Now! Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 29

Loving Christ is not an option, it is the only way of living right

SCENARIO 30

ITS ABOUT CHRIST SECOND COMING!

Recent events have reinforced my faith in Christ and His word. Sometimes circumstances try to dictate otherwise and make Christ' claims about the end time false but the Word of God says 'forever, Oh, Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven, it is settled.

Some nations have legalized same sex marriage, Incest is celebrated, there are wars and rumour of war, , earthquake, famine and mass death in cities considered safe, false prophets on the altar and pulpit of the Church of Christ:

Evil has increased and the hearts of many failing as Christ predicated.

Believers must and should live as if this day may be their last.

Rapture can happen Now,

We can be called home today or tomorrow

But whatever the outcome, lets live with God as our priority.

Nothing should make you compromise, backslide or forsake God.

Remember that the earth and everything in it will pass away, Christ is the "Only Real Thing"

Study God' Word day and night, it empowers you to live in the world and keep your soul from corruption.

Walk and befriend believers who genuinely fear God, obey His Word , WHY, you become like your companion over time.

As a believer RAPTURE is your right by faith, but actions and decisions contrary to God's Word can keep you away from it.

God bless you and have a blessed week

Abigail Hephzibah

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QUOTATION

SCENARIO 31

You believe in Christ, Yea. You speak in Tongues, Yea. Your name is in the Book Of Life, Yea.

Be careful! INSPIRED Be careful, for your name can be blotted out of the Book Of Life because of your deeds. Rev 3:5

SCENARIO 32

SCENARIO 33

I KNOW YOUR DEEDS

A man who accurately predicted events 2000 years after his demise should be obeyed and followed closely. Jesus predicted war, betrayal, disasters etc during His ministry on earth and they are happening exactly as He said. He is speaking again

"These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!" Revelation 3:15

"I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name." Revelation 3:8

"I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God." Revelation 3:2

"I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first." Revelation 2:19

"I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false

You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary." Revelation 2:2

"I know your afflictions and your poverty —yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan." Revelation 2:9

..... I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

Christ is coming back to reward each believer according to our deeds. I pray our deeds will be praiseworthy in His sight. And the rest of this year will be the favourable for you in Jesus name.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 33

INSPIRED

AMATEUR/ PRO

Obeying God may seem difficult for an amateur who is just practising the art and act of obeying God's Word because such amateur was a Pro In the act of disobedience as a sinner and under the power of the spirit of disobedience who operate in the world.

Every sinner is a Pro in disobeying God but the sad thing is some Christians after many years of attending Church and speaking in tongues are still Pro in disobeying God' Word and His ways, Pro in living after the pattern of the world and amateur in living the kingdom lifestyle.

Whichever is your case, you can become a Pro in kingdom lifestyle by practising the art and act of storing God' word in your heart and mind; living according to His revealed will, (the Bible), and allowing His Word to control your decisions and actions.

Obedience is a ART because it can be learnt. The Bible says Jesus Christ our Lord learnt obedience by what He suffered. Its an ACT because it takes practising, it must be voluntarily, an action is needed on your part.

So get up and start practising the art and act of obedience to God' Word till you become a PRO saved and sustained by His grace. Become so used to obeying the Holy Spirit that disobeying Him seem strange to you. The disciples of my Lord, Jesus Christ lived a lifestyle of obedience unto death and their names are engraved in the Tablet of Eternity. That can be your testimony if you start now.

Have a testimony filled week in Jesus name.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 34

INSPIRED

ENCOUNTER

Your encounter with God will determine your level of exploits in the Kingdom. The Book of Daniel says -those who know their God shall be strong and do exploits.

David was just a young boy; a keeper of sheep and goats yet his encounter with the God prepared him to defeat and entire army and its General. It was sufficient to terminate Goliath and his entire followers. This was a feat the Israel King, Saul and hid entire army could not achieve.

Exploits in the Kingdom and degree of anointing is not by title or age. David' s encounter was equal to the anointing to destroy a whole army and it General, but his title and responsibility was just a shepherd boy and leader over a free sheep.

Therefore respect all persons especially believers because you don't know who carries the anointing to break your yokes and give you your long awaited breakthrough.

Our Lord Jesus could do no miracle in his hometown because they recognised and related to Him as the Carpenter's son . His title at that period was the son of Joseph the Carpenter but his encounters and anointing was the Saviour of the world. His mother who recognised his true spiritual worth benefitted from it at the marriage at Cana.

Don't look down on anyone that carries God, for they can either make you or break you.

The statute and appearance of Saul qualified him for the throne but he lacked the encounters to secure the throne for his dynasty.

The encounters of David with God qualified him for the anointing which brought him to the throne; though he made mistakes, his encounter kept his relation with God his Father intact. He secured the throne for his dynasty and his name reigns through all generations.

Please pursue encounters and not titles, pursue intimacy with Christ and not fame.

You may be the most famous preacher in the Universal but be bankrupt in your relationship with God. Those who seek him wholeheartedly and sincerely, find Him. Happy Holiday.

Abigail Hephzibah

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GOD IS ETERNALLY FAITHFUL. FAITHFULNESS IS HIS NAME. TRUST HIM ALWAYS. CELEBRATE YOU JESUS

AGAIN AND AGAIN

SCENARIO 35

TIME AWAY FROM GOD IS A MOVE CLOSER TO DANGER

Recent events in the Society and the World has necessitated the urgency of believers spending ample time of fellowship with God their Father.

Everywhere you turn, the enemy has set traps to seize your life and cut short your destiny: Every corner, evil is beckoning.

But the Word of God says

"Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High

will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust.”

Surely he will save you

from the fowler’s snare

and from the deadly pestilence." Psalm 91:1-6

We have a God who neither sleep nor slumber . He is ever ready to protect you: But his protection for you is greatly impede by your ability to hear you.

I present again to you that God who is perfection in mercy and love. , your helper and refuge who can never fail, the one who delights in keeping you from the deadliest attack from the enemy.

But the catch is shown in Psalm 25 which says

"Who, then, are those who fear the Lord?

He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.

They will spend their days in prosperity,

and their descendants will inherit the land.

The Lord confides in those who fear him;

he makes his covenant known to them.

My eyes are ever on the Lord,

for only he will release my feet from the snare."

This God is too good and He is your God. He wants your love and l can tell you He certainly deserves it.

Abigail Hephzibah

SCENARIO 36

ACTIVE N POSITIVE THOUGHTS

Twelve men entered Canaan; ten and two saw differently. Twelve men were on planet earth., had Moses as their leader, listened to God via Moses, ate the same manna,:were subjected to the same weather condition, experienced the same trials, the wilderness, the Red sea, threatened by the same enemies yet the result of ten was different from the result of two.

Perspective and attitude to God and his ways differentiate our results.

What you see regularly through the eyes of your heart is what you eventually become. Life, success don't just happen, your present and your future is sharpen by your thoughts, expectation and confession. You can never become what you don't know. Proverbs 24 says by knowledge a house is filled with different treasures and precious things. Your though patterns and of course expectations is sharpen by what you know either negative or positive reports. He who listens to the negative often will expect the negative always.

Guarding your heart with all diligence is actively guarding what thoughts you allow to pitch a nest in your mind. Because your thoughts birth your expectations and ultimately your faith.

Passivity reigns in your thoughts life when you don't consciously guard your mind to think on those things that are lovely, truthful, of good report. The scripture is given so that you will use it to train and guard your thinking. Thinking in line with the scriptures is creating the miraculous in your expectation and in your life.

There will always be thoughts of fear, failure, untimely death, diseases, sickness seeking invitation to dwell in your mind but you have the right not to open the door of your heart to them or send " Thus says the Lord to them.

Sebi, Goliath present the speech of " I will kill you and feed your carcass to the birds in the air " to David, David rejected it with ' the God who delivered me...

Even Jesus our Lord replied Satan" it is written.

Carefully guide what you see and you have carefully programmed what you will become. The ball is in your court and not the court of the enemy.

God says " For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome

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INSPIRED

WOW, WHAT A GOD!

How do you describe this God?

He is beyond the thought and imagination of any man.

The God who can predict an event 1000 before its occurrence and behold time runs from 0 year to 1000 years, and God prediction will happen exactly as predicted.

How do you describe this God, so rich in glory yetade himself simple to have a relationship with men.

Please come with me and visit a rich preacher and he or she tells you it's a privilege for you to get close to he or she. 😬 that just a man whose breathe is in his nostril.

But this humble God is covered with undescribable glory and awesomeness. Wow, what a BEING. Aah, na wa o

God is covered with every precious stone you can imagine: sapphire, carnelian, chrysolite, emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl, and all these are engraved in gold. And guess on whose body all these stones were placed? Lucifer now called Satan; he was a covering Cherub.

I pray for you that the person closest to you will not betray you. May someone you give your best not turn to overthrow you and accuse you wrongly.

This God that we serve sincerely deserves our worship.

He wakes you up every morning,

He ensures no harm comes to you.

Check out mad men on the street;

Please visit a ritual den and see beautiful and handsome men and women dissected for charms.

But you travel and this God keerp you.

He is greater than the greatest. there is no one who can compare to Him

I salute the King of kings

You truly deserve all the adoration

He who existed before any other

He has no beginning and no conclusion

The l Am, that l Am

Kabiyesi, Himself

Who is worshipped day and night by uncountable angels who know his worth

They are not coerced to worship Him, they have a choice.

Abi, Lucifer left to worship himself and This God did not stop Him

This angels have a choice buy they chose to worship Him

Who will not worship a beautiful God like the God of our Lord Jesus Christ

Caring to a fault

Loving without bound

Patient with our feeble frail

I don't know know how to speak about this God

But l pray you will come to really love Him

Not because of the goodies He gives you.

He gives this goodies unconditional, that is why unbelievers van be very wealth and live in good health

God's love is unconditional.

If you lose all the goodies He gives. Will you still follow Him

Will you still obey Him

May l breathe my last breath in Him, may this God ensure nothing take me from Him

May forever find me in Him

How do you describe a God like this?

And. He is your Father,

He is on your sides

No matter what is your pain, if you believe in Jesus and you obey God in your life, you are safe, because very soon, His wonder will happen in your life

Bury yourself in the Bible which is His Word amd

acquaint yourself with the Almighty

You are limited by your ignorance and not by God.

Sincerely l pray that you become the best ordained for you and enjoy God's rich blessings.

God loves you too much to fail you.

Abigail Hephzibah

BABA,

Many questions are raised in people' heart about who Satan is, present times has brought his name and personality in the open by the actions of Satanist, Occultist etc. Previously, the activities of these Satanist group was shrouded in secrecy and operated in darkness. Today we have a Satanist. Temple, church, ogboni shrine etc and all these groups openly claim to worship Lucifer who is commonly know as Satan.

WHO IS. THIS LUCIFER AND WHAT IS ORIGIN.

Everything on earth is created by God, Lucifer inclusive. He was named Lucifer(Isaiah 14:12 by God when He was created, which mean's shinning one or morning stars, he was created as an anointed covering cherub; (Ezekiel14), he was full of light and his purpose was to cover The Most High God with His light but he left His purpose and wanted to be as God. God is kind but also powerful. Lucifer is a created being, created for the sole purpose of giving God pleasure. He wanted to be as the Most High God receiving worship when he was cut short.

He was removed from his position as an anointed covering cherub, he lost his position of arch angel and was cast onto the earth (Revelation 12:9). From the Eden of God, Lucifer was throw to the earth from the position of morning star, Lucifer became deceiver and saw the earth as his habitation, his domian, his dwelling place.

The earth under Lucifer care became formless, filled with choas and covered with darkness. The work of creation was not just calling things into place, it was also displaying Lucifer from the earth and Putting man in control. The pronouncements be fruitful, multiple and dominate the aerth was to let Lucifer and his agents know that. They were not in charge of the earth.

Do you know there is no place in the bible where God handed over the earth and it's fullest to Lucifer and there is also no record where man/Adam handed over the earth to Satan. Satan has control over the earth as long as he has conrol over the man. If Satan cannot control the earth, he cannot control. The man. Ie if Satan cannot control the man, then he cannot control the earth.

CHRIST without WALLs

So l lived in this Estate where each flat is a bungalow and separated by a tall wall. One day, I heard crying and shouting from my neighbour' flat; I was concerned and wanted to help but I could not because of the tall wall between us.

Fence walls are good because of their protective purposes, their uniqueness of giving privacy and branding for our individualism. But they become a trap and a pain when they hold us back from getting the help we need and from being our neighbours' keeper.

Denominations are allowed and ordained by God to cater for our cultural difference, political inclinations, social behaviours etc but they should not take our eyes off our common focus CHRIST IN US, OUR HOPE OF GLORY.

You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly.

You have one Master, one faith, one baptisone God and Father if all, who rules over all, works through all and is present in all Ephesians 4: 7

Believers all over the world are brothers and sisters no matter your race, tongue, cultur and personality.. We are begotten by one Spirit, have same constitution and code of conduct and most important one Father.

We are bought by the same Christ and at the same price.

It means if a member mishave, he has affected the reputation of all and not just on, because a believer winning is raising the banner that Christ is Superior and has won. When a great man of God fails, its an indicator and a fear signal that it can happen to another believer. Our kingdom is ridiculed, our faith mocked. we ought to pray for one another even if we don't attend the same denomination because we are all enforcing the victory of Christ and are backed by Christ' Spirit.

Its not a race of who has the largest denomination or church, whose congregation is the richest. It is about Christ and us been on the winning side.

Check history, anytime politicians want to win a political race, first they divide the church along denominations so that the church will present two candidates to God for approval in prayers.. So the side with the strongest reasons before God wins because God said present your strong argument

Daily, the church is losing it voice in world affair and we having lesser representative in the legislation and business world because we are more interested in building a name and dynasty for ourselves and immediate family and forget about the joint dynasty of Christ we are charged to build.

You are my brother and sister if you believe and obey Christ, I should attend your church special program and support it if ledbybthe Spirit. I should pray for the success of your program as long as it honour Christ

Christ our Lord prayed " Father make them one as we are One. He said, a house divide against itself shall not start.

TEACH MY HAND TO PROFIT

In Matthew 25 , a master gave talents to his servants: to one he gave five talents, to another two talents, to another one talent.

Our Lord has endued every believer with talents and gifts for their assignment or purpose. We are expected to use these to bless humanity and increase the kingdom of God. A business man invests money and capital in a business, for profit, our talents and gifts is for profiting and not for showmanship.

This is the lesson in the story of the five talents in Matthew 25. A man was given five talents symbolizing the man can sing, teach God word, give to the work of God, impacting believers and humanity. Dr. Ben Carson' gift of surgery and Bill Gates golden touch with computers is given by God for the purpose of blessing humanity. But they make the decision to either put their talents under the control of Christ and use it according to His principles or surrender their gifts to the control and influence of the enemy.

The man with five talents immediately put his talent to use and increase his master business.

For example, King David was a king who could sing, write, fight war, and had the gift of leadership. He used his singing gift to write and sing anointed songs that relieved king Saul from demonic torment. Psalm 100 and Psalm 23 are cotemporary songs today, he used his gift of leadership to raise men like Joab and other mighty solders of David who were formerly debtors.

In contemporary term, the man with five talents could sing, act drama, write, intercede and teach. The man with two talents has the gift of administration ( coordinating and leading others), and the gift of giving. And the man with just one talent could only sing. The man with five talents joined the choir and whenever he sings, the discouraged is encouraged, the sick is healed, the demon possessed is set free.

The man with one talent can sing but refused to join the choir. He is unhappy that his voice is not as good as the man who has five talent. Or he did not join the choir because he is afraid he won't sing well and people will mock him. Maybe he has the gift of praying for others but refused to join the prayer group because he is too busy to attend prayer champion intercession all night.

Whatever excuses we give for not using out talents for God purposes. We will be judged at the end of time. God will judged based on faithfulness and not how much work we have done. A cleaner in God kingdom may be more faithful in using her talent than a business man who gives million of dollars to kingdom business. God is judging faithfulness and not how much. He is judging quality and not quantity. A man who can only intercede for kingdom business effectively may have more reward than a woman who can sings, write, teach, heal the sick and raise the dead. God is judging quality and not quantity.

1 Corinthians 4:2 says moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful. God bless you and have a blessed week.

My nite rest

was lovely. Though I woke up late. The ever faithful God gave me a wonderful nite rest.

Our God is awesome. The greatest gift you can get from ds earth is that of knowing Him.

Sincerely, you can believe in Him and not ❤ Him. I am not referring to the love you have because He is a great provider, makes men great and famous. You must know that you don't need to love Him to feed, be great and become famous. Armed robbers feed, and are notoriously famous without loving God.

As a man on the face of the earth, the benevolent Almighty God has given the produce of the earth to all, even kings are enriched by it.

Non christians don't believe in Christ yet they are rich, famous and impactful.

Love ❤ God. Because He is the best. Tina Turner sang some years back 'Simply the best. I agree with the lyrics lore gongon of that song. God is simply the best.

Truly, He has some paparazzi that makes you question what He is up to, but when you come to understand that He wants the best for you always, you can let go and trust Him completely because God" DNA is unconditional love.

Therefore learn to willingly go with Him.

Yesterday, He demonstrated his care. I forgot my phone inside the banking hall of a bank located in tertiary institution. I was out of the bank going to another bank when a student ran to me and said' you forgot your phone. I went back to the bank filled with student crowd and picked up my phone.

is God not awesome.

So my gist da morning, is you have the best gift in the whole universal in your life if you believe in Christ.

Pleaseeee, don't take this gift for granted. God is your personal person but He is not your servant. You are His servant. Serve Him as your master. Rev. Funke Felix Adejumo, my mentor often say 'Anu ni a re gba' for non Yoruba. It means we obtain mercy.

Lets make our election sure by handling our salvation with more care and obedience to Christ Laws.

❤ u

and I invite you to an awesome time in His presence at Agape Christian Ministries, Possibility Ground. 1 Agape Ave. Ilesha Rd. Akure by 6pm . Pls have a lovely day.

Studying the book of John 1r:1-2nd, I got the foLlowing gems. 1.

Jesus Knew: its the prerogative of every believer to know before hand about events esp those that concerns him before they take place. The bible says Jesus knew that the supper he was taking was iasr supper on earth. He not only knew the event but He also knew who will betray Him. We must learn to hear from God in this present evil age.

To know more of God, pls read the bible, obey the instructions you read, pattern your life after the Word and ask God to anoint your heart and ears to hear Him. God bless you

Studing the book of John 13 in verse 2 it says; the devil had already suggested to Judas- the gem from this verse is

1. Satan works majorly through our thoughts. He introduces his lies, deceits and cunning devices through our thoughts. A suggestion is passive, it has no power of materialising until acitivated by our faith. Unless you believe the suggestions of Satan, they cannot materialise. The Holy Spirit is teaching that my faith is the magnet of anything that happens to me; good and evil are available in my environment- it is what I believe strongly and consistently, that will eventually happen with time. The woman with an issue of blood thought- if I can touch the hem of His garment; her thought coupled with her faith got her the miracle. Your life follows the direction of your thoughts. As a man thinks, so he is. Consciously monitor thoughts on your mind and feelings in your heart and always reject suggestions from hell.

If Judas had rejected Satan' suggestions, the enemy wouldn't compel him. God bless you

Great is my God and He is greatly to be praised.

I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart, I will enter His court with praise, I will say this is the day, that my God has made, I will rejoice for He has made glad.

What a mighty God, I serve, what a mighty God, I serve, heaven and earth, adore Him, angels bow before Him, what are mighty God I serve. Who is like unto thy, o my God. Who is like into thy, o my God, among the gods, who is like thy, for you are glorious in all your ways and beautiful forever, always doing wonders,

I praise your name.

I love you. I love you my God, in my life, I see what you are doing, one more time. I life my hands in praise, of your name, I lift my hands in Praise of your Name.

Whenever I see another breaking of the day, I say thank you Lord, thank you Lord.

Jehovah, you are the Most High, Jehovah, you are the Most High God.

Recent events hsd reinforced my faith in Christ and His word. Sometimes circumstances can dictate otherwise and make it seem like Christ claims are false.

Americans legalized same marriage, Germany is toying with legalizing incest. There are wars, earthquake, famine in cities considered safe.

Evil has increased and the hearts of many are failing as Christ predicated.

Believers must and should live as if this day may be their last. I am studying and meditating about rapture and second coming.

But whatever the outcome, lets live with God as our priority.

Nothing should make you compromise, backslide or forsake God.

Remember that the earth and everything g will pass. Christ is the "Only Real Thing"

Study God word often, it empowers you to live in the world and not become corrupt limr the world system.

Walk and befriend men who genuinely fear God, obey his word because in a matter of time, you will become like your companion

Pray and confess at all times

I woke up with a song D's morning ' I will praise you for everlasting, from everlasting tto everlasting. Yahweh is to be praised for everlasting for He crushed the powers of our foes and made us Victor in Christ. I imagined a world without Christ victory would be scenes where our two years old are raped and molested by 80years filty men, where our wives are raped by multiple men, our sons molest by animals who practise anal sex. What a terrible, a woman who have children. would watch and see other children suffer and yet steal billions of dollar met for their welfare. Women are mothers and are suppossed to possess maternal llove. Our world today is a sour throat that makes eating painful. A nosal disease that makes breathing a nightmare, certainly a world i don't want for myself.

Having said this, it should be noted the personality called foul spirits from hell who perpetrate, influence and initiate these evil in men desire strongly that their host be Christians. And they will do everything to inconvenient the Holy Spirit in every believer by corrupting His temple of which every believrr in Christ is. God temple is not the church wall you visit during the week or on Sundays. Rather Christ Spirit dwells in you if you believe in Him. Apostle Paul said we have this treasure in earthen vessel. The vessel is dust, it is fragile, it is breakable, it value depends on the value of the treasure it contains or carry, it is priced based on the price of the treasure it carrys

And the bible says whosoever destroys the temple of God, God will destroy. A beautiful story was told in l Samuel 4 where God Ark was taken by the enemy into the house of dragon, the god of the Philistines. The next morning, the Dragon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of God, the next time, his head, hands,were broken. Halleluyah! No power of hell can stand the power of our God. Rev Funke Adejumo is fond of saying, Satan is not the opposite of God, rather he was a servant to God. God hand is against every power that wants to corrupt me the ark of God, God will use His power and crush every power against the purity of our souls. I pray our spirit, soul and body shall remain Christ temple, tabernacle, and shall be preserved pure, holy and blameless and shall never be ravaged by sin, diseases or sickness. Have a pleased week

PREPARATION IS KEY TO YR SUCCESS

Believers pray and believe God for blessings and riches without adequate preparation on how to sustain such blessings. The preparation for an event is equally as important as the success of that event. A common saying goes thus" he who fail to plan, plans to fail.

Some believers are praying for God to give a happy marriage but fail to prepare for a blissful home by acquiring necessary knowledge needed to retian happiness in marriage after the wedding day.

some desires God make them millionaries, billionaires yet they know little or nothing about the dynamics of riches, sustainability of wealth and growth in financial capacity. You can get money and i mean lot of it by inheritance, chance, mercy, favour and sowing financial seed but you cannot have enduring riches without financial knowledge. You can reain rich for a long time without knowlegde.

The fear of God can bring you riches, it takes knowledge and wisdom to have an enduring capital base.

You as a guy or lady wants God to give you one of His best son and daughter as a marriage partner, yet you have not build your heart and life to be a treasured vessel in God kingdom

Thank God for his mercy, kindness, covenant and grace, but remember He is a just and fair God. The bible says the foundation of His throne is justice and fairness.

His mercy, covenant and favour brought king Saul, king Solomon, king Rehoboam to the throne but they perform terribly at the end of their reign because they lacked preparation for enduring rulership. King Solomon had knowledge in alot if arears and about alot of things but it was obvious at the end of His life, he lacked the most important knowledge- ruling continuously by the fear of God.

The knowledge you lack may be your ruin.

Preparation by acquiring necessary knowlegde is essential for enduring blessings.

It is not sufficient to lose weight, you must learn how not to retain lost wealth.

It is good to be delivered from poverty but you must read how to remain in riches.

it is wonderful to be saved from sin, you must study how to live a holy life.

Prepare for your desired destination by studying about it

Ignorance is more expensive than knowlegde.

You pay higher price for ignorance because of its consequence and less price to get knowlegde bcos of it benefits.

Ignorance is free

but the consequence of it is expensive

Prepare for your destination

Jesus our Lord prepared for 30 years for a destination of 3.5 years and His impact is everlasting.

Joseph prepared for 30 years for a life that is still inspiring people today.

David prepared for about 30 for an everlastng impact-The throne of our Lord is named after David

Jesus is a seed of David

Jesus will sit on a throne of David

PREPARATION AND KNOWLEGDE IS KEY.

OBEDIENCE IS KEY

Blessed Day, I pray D's day shall be filled with awesome testimonies.

YOU DONT LOVE GOD.........

I was reading the book of Romans this morning and one of my numerous pondering was answered.

A phrase jumped at me and a bulb lit up in my mind.

THERE IS NO RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD WITHOUT OBEDIENCE TO HIM .

We obey him to leave our lifestyle of unbelief, then turn to Christ, then we say we have the righteousness of God- right standing with God; a position of freedom from condemnation, a place where we are entitled to life in abundance.

although His righteousness is available to all, you must believe in Him and take a step of obedience before you can enjoy the benefits of righteousness.

This scripture blessed me.

" So what should we do?

Should we sin because we are under grace....

No! Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone

Then you are real slaves of that person

The person you obey is your master

You can follow sin

Which brings spiritual death

Or you can obey God

Which makes you right with Him.

YOU CANNOY SAY YOU LOVE GOD AND NOT OBEY HIM AND HIS WORD.

OBEDIENCE IS KEY

Rapture is the second coming of out Lord Jesus. When he first came, he came as a man and died for our sins. His second coming is also for us who believe in Him. Please read 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18, and chapter 5:1-13

He is coming for Christians who fulfill the following conditions

1. You believe that he is the Saviour and do not seek help from other places apart from Him.

Some claim they believe in Jesus but they still visit herbalists, offer sacrifices to gods in their family

2. You obey the bible and live according to it's principles.

A man who claims to believe in Christ, attends church, is a worker performs miracles yet fornicates, lie, cheat will not make rapture.

Because, though Christ is your Saviour, you don't obey him. Matt 7:21.

3. You must not live in fear that you will miss rapture, but you mist believe God that by His mercy you will make rapture. Because the fearful will not make it

INSPIRED

LIFE WITHOUT CHRIST

unimaginable, Inconceivable

Implausible

I can't think of my life without Christ

Who took me from the ghetto, give me an education, fine- toned my mannerism, polished me, who bi me or my father's house!

TWALE JESU BABA!

I was driving through Isolo in Lagos, the neighborhood where l grown up as a child.

I marvel at the mercy of Christ

I saw the face to face room where l used to sleep and wake as a girl; a room just a little bigger than my present toilet.

uuuh, God you don try for my life ooooo

Christ is my attracting factor

Who will be drawn to me and count me worthy of an honour without Christ

No impressive pedigree to present, no outstanding and lofty academic history, certainly l can't win any beauty pageant if l contest,

But Christ in me opens door

Christ in me draws attention to me

Sometimes. I ask,

Hephzibah, what is it about you that will make anyone give you a second glance

And l answered

Abigail, its Christ in you from A-Z

God who is Father to the fatherless, friend to the lonely

Helper to us without connection

Christ is the beauty in me

Christ is the honour l receive

Christ is my confidence for safety

Christ is my hope for a glorious future

So today, l give a Shout Out to Christ my Saviour

A Salute to Christ my beautifier

Twale to Christ Baba loke

What will my life be without Him

You don't understand what Christ my padi has done for me.

Uuuh, Christ! I own Him my life

Tonight, I don't care what judgement you give to my writing

Am not out to submit an impressive manuscript

I just need to shout it loud

Christ, thanks for taking care of me.

As l sat in the molue bus driving through the very neighbourhood, where l grew up, memories flowed into my mind like a flood: times of no food to eat after l returned from school, times, I made garri with cold water and ate with bean meshed with water to look like soup.

I almost gave up and wanted to drop out and learn a trade

Jesu, mo dupe oooo

Now, l marvel, if no bi Christ

My life for no get meaning

So again, Oga JESU CHRISTI

TWALE BABA!

Abigail Hephzibah

INSPIRED

HOW CLOSE?

The Holy Spirit is the head of to he Church in this dispensation

He represents the interest of Christ and His Father, therefore He must be the initiator of every kingdom vision, direction, project etc.

You must learn to wait on Him to receive instructions on the next step or direction for your life and ministry. Acts 20:22 says "And now, compelled by the Spirit, l am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to mW there. Also Luke 4:1 confirms this truth" then Jesus full of the Holy Spirit left the Jordan, being urged by the Spirit out into the barren wasteland if Judea.....

INSPIRED

HOW CLOSE?

The Holy Spirit is the head of to he Church in this dispensation

He represents the interest of Christ and His Father, therefore He must be the initiator of every kingdom vision, direction, project etc.

The life and ministry of Apostle Paul was directed by the Spirit of Life.

The Bible stated in Acts 13: 2 ' One day as these men were worshipping and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, " Dedicate Barnabas and Paul for a special job l have for them..... Directed by the Holy Spirit they went to Seleucia and then sailed for Cyprus.

There is much confusion in the Church today because preachers, pastors, believers no longer wait on the Holy Spirit for His guidance and instructions. Common sense, logic and circumstantial reasoning is used to run the work of ministry. The Holy Spirit is the Source and the giver of gifts and power for a ministry with maximum impact. 1 Corinthians 12:

INSPIRED

HOW CLOSE?

The Holy Spirit is the head of to he Church in this dispensation

He represents the interest of Christ and His Father, therefore He must be the initiator of every kingdom vision, direction, project etc.

The life and ministry of Apostle Paul was directed by the Spirit of Life.

Therefore if the Holy Spirit holds such crucial, important role in the life of a christian, you must do all you can to get close to Him by

# studying about Him

# Obeying Him at all times

# Pleasing Him always.

Psalm 1:2 says " But they delight in doing everything God wants them to, and day and night are always meditating on His laws and thinking about ways to follow him more closely.

You determine how close you are to the Holy Spirit.

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VERY CLOSE- LUKE 15:31-32

Look , dear son, his father said to him, " you and l are very close, and everythingvl have is yours. But it is right to velbrate. For he is your brother, and hehis was dead and has come back to life. He waablost and is founs. I was inspired this morning about the story of the prodigal son. The other son who remained with the father is an inspiration yo me.

The prodigal son should be commended too by his action. He was aan who knew his covenant right and demanded for it. He knew he had an inheritance, he knew his father was benevolent and would give to whoaover ask of him.

He went wrong because he had no vision for his inheritance, so he wasted it.

It is demonstration of God's to ensure you don't enter your I heritanve until you are mentally, and spiritually mature for it.

Possessing your inheritance without an equivalent vuauon for that inheritance is disaster. It will be wasted and you may really suffer for the lost.

But the elder brother attitude of staying working with the gather with no goat killed, no fatten vow killed, no celebration for him inspired me.

The father summarized the elder brother attitude "Look , dear son, his father said to him, " you and l are very close, and everythingvl have is yours. But it is right to velbrate.

He called him a dear son, who is very close and a joint heir.

A question was raised yesterday on how close to the Holy Spirit? I believe we should inspire to be very close to the Spirit of Life. His concern should be our concern. We should keep working for Him and loving Him even when our 2+2 is not equals four. We should see ourselves as a stake holder in God's kingdom.

Apostle Paul said '

INSPIRED

FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM

Ever you are been in love

Where your heart is embedded into that of your beloved

When the syllables of your beloved name is sweeter than vintage wine

While your heart is liven by warm thoughts of your beloved,

Thoughts which infiltrate your mind as you knee in your sacred place to pray

Imaginary begging for a place to stay in your memory- scen

INSPIRED

FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM

Ever you are been in love

Where your heart is embedded into that of your beloved

When the syllables of your beloved name is sweeter than vintage wine

While your heart is liven by warm thoughts of your beloved,

Thoughts which infiltrate your mind as you knee in your sacred place to pray

Imaginary begging for a place to stay in your memory- sceneries of bliss, serenity, romance where your beloved is flawless and every mountain is made plain by your love

This is the scenario in King David' heart when he exclaimed in Psalm 27:4

One thing, I have deaired of the Lord.

That will l seek after

That l may dwell in the house of the LORD, All the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord'

I guess God' love for David and David love for God filled so much, that he married many women searching for the same kind of love.

I don't think King David was able to find that kind of love

Scene 1

( a doctor table and chair with patients files nestled on one side and adjacent to it is an examining bed.)

( a nurse in white uniform and cap walks towards the doctor' table with a duster)

Nurse Yemi- Doctor Bunmi will soon be without n the office, let me quickly dust his table and clean his office. ( she puts the duster on the table and put up the files when Dr. Bunmi walks in)

Dr Bunmi- good morning Sister Yemi, ( Hr walks towards his seat in the office) are you the one cleaning my office again ( he asked Nurse Bunmi) the cleaner is late again. I don't know what excuse should would put up again for coming late. ( he sat down when he heard a familiar voice screaming)

Mrs Gbemiga- Dr, Dr, please help ( her voice breaks down in tears) please, ( she is crying) my daughter is dying, Please help, help, ( the crying continues as she rushes into the hospital with a little girl in her arms with a blood stained dress. The nurse walked to the woman and collect the girl from her)

Nurse Yemi- madam, calm down, your daughter will not die, we don't confess negatively here( she took the girl from the woman and turn to lead her out of the office) Jesus is our healer, you need to get your patient card and we need to take the details of the young girl before the doctor van examine her

( the doctor quickly moved towards the nurse and patient)

Dr. Bunmi- its okay, Sis. Yemi, they are my neighbour at home, let me attend to the young girl.

( the girl was placed on the examining table when a young man quickly walked in)

Dr. Bunmi- what happened, ( he asked the mother as he continued to examine her)

Mrs. Gbemiga- ( she was crying) I picked her from school ( she bursted into tears again, the other young man spoke)

Teacher- the girl was found in the school toilet with blood surrounding her and a small cake rolling pin in her private part.

Dr. & Nurse- what! ( they exclaimed in unison)

Teacher- in the school clinic, where the object was removed from her body, she told the nurses that she has been watching men having sec with young girls on her phone and saw them inserting an object and she decided to try at school.

Mrs Gbemiga- what! Tiyi, (/she puts her hands on her head and continue crying,)

You this useless girl, you will kill me. You picked this bad habits from your friends in school.

Class Teacher- madam, no, we have called you several times to report tiyi to you about her poor reading abilities and she told us that there is no one to help her at home with her assigmnets and that you were always busy with your phone at home and don't have time for her. She said, that is why she always steal your phone and go to the toilet and watch it when you are busy in the bathroom.)

Mrs. Gbemiga- (puts both hands in her head and sits on the floor)- aaah Tiyi ( she shouted)- you canoit imitate Dr Bunmi daughter your friend who is always reading eberytime she comes to note house. Can you not see that she is the beat in her class, rather you are stealing phones to watch what is not meant for children.

Dr. Bunmi (/finished examining girl, writes some thing in the medical file and hand over to nurse who continue with the clean up of the child) (Dr. Bunmi turns to Mrs Gbemiga- and speaks)

Dr. Bunmi- Iya Tiyi, garbage in, garbage out( both teacher and Mrs Gbemiga- look perplexing at Doctor) Madam, your daughter never practise what you don't do at home.

My wife, my son and l have a reading time in our home. We trained our son to enjoy reading reading because readers are leaders of the present and the future.

(Hr turned and looks at the girl laying on the bed and then turns to the mother again)

If all you do is bury yourself in your phone and social media, am not surprise your daughter steals your phone to use and eventually expose herself to porn.

You must teach your children the reading culture before they can be readers themselves.

What they see you do is what they accept as the norm and what they eventually do and become.

You want your children to become successful, exceptional leaders of today and tomorrow, then teach them to become readers of God material and be a reader of good material too

Mrs Gbemiga- (/she turned away from Doctor and walksland towards her daughter again and touches her

But my daughter, will be alright daughter ( she asked with remorse)

Dr. Bunmi- she will be alright physically, the object did not damaged any organ in her body. But psychologically is a battle you have to fight. She is exposed to the I'll of porn, it takes prayer and attention to deliver her.me

Mrs. Gbemiga-Dr, l have learnt my lesson. I left that porn site opened on my phone. I did not know my daughter was using my phone behind my back.

I will give attention to reading at home and l will also tell her father to do the same.

We must teach our daughter the reading culture.

Thank you Dr.

(Curtain close)

I HAVE NO MAN

INSPIRED

Questions

Asking auestions is paramount to nation building and individual progress in life

You must ask question about where you are going in life.

You must be visually alert to envision the bus stop you will go through before you get to your final destination.

You must ask yourself if you are making tangible progress.

Stagnancy is a curse for every believer.

It is one of the curses listed for disobedience in Leviticus 26 and Deut 28.

You must know if you are increasing

INSPIRED

Righteousness is bequeathed to believers by faith, immediately you believed in Christ, and accepted Him as Lord and Saviour, there and a shift in your standing with God. Before faith in Christ Jesus you were on the wrong side of the fence and had no relationship with God but faith in Christ Jesus puts you in right standing with God. You are positioned to to relate directly with God and received every blessing on the ticket of Christ.

This is how it goes. s a worker in your office, you are paid a salary at the end of the month. Your salary is not a gift, it is smooth no you worked for, its payment for service rendered. But if you were paid without rendering an service, then it's a gift.

This is the story of righteousness, we do not receive God's s protection, kindness, love, health, healing, prosperity and even eternal life because we analogies for it we receive because our Lord Jesus paid the price for us to qualify

In the book of Deuteronomy 28:1. The Bible says I'd you fully obey my Law this blessings will come to you. It's means as states in Debt 28. You can only be blessed in the city and the country, be blessed as you go in and come out, be the head and not the tail when you fully obey the laws. It means that if you partially obey the law you can't receive the blessing.

In the Old Testament, you have to reiterate service if obedience to the law before you can receive as salary the blessings.

But in the New Testament, Christ rendered the service of obedience to the Fathwr'svwill by dying on the cross so that you can have right standing with God to receive the blessing.

The question is if we deceive the blessings on the basis of Christ finished work. Then there is no need for us to obey God.

Jesus Christ our master showed every believer why we must obey