A Charge on a Sunday Morning

So you are up already preparing to go to church as usual. It is a routine, isn't it. What we do Sunday mornings. Have you ever asked why? Do you ever ask what results it brings into your life and existence?

What do you do in church? Good music, meeting with friends and family, meeting business colleagues for fresh opportunities, or some sort of motivations for the coming week's rat race, some exciting preaching and sometimes some mental exercises?

When you miss the purpose of anything, you abuse it and so you can do without it. But when you understand the purpose, it becomes almost compulsory till the purpose is achieved!

Our gathering together in the name of Jesus is to move us away from false humanity to genuine divinity! From mere religion to deep spirituality, from the weaknesses of man to the grace and strength of God, from carnality, fleshly and selfish living to spiritual, sacrificial and qualitative living!

If going to church isn't making you more godly, more spiritual, more in tune with your inner man, more in line with God, more understanding towards Christ and His word and more dependent on Christ through the toughness of this present life and seeing His relevance in your world daily...you might need to review that aspect of your busyness!

Maybe your church isn't being a Christ proposed church....
Maybe you are disconnected from what's happening in church beyond the carnality going on at the fringes...
Maybe you aren't in a church that speaks your language...
Maybe your heart isn't yearning and seeking for God ab initio...

These and other points may be of help in reviewing your church going experience...

Church doesn't have to be comfortable, sweet and exciting to you...those aren't the primary reasons for church... but it has to practically affect your day to day living, relationships with men and with God and create a spirituality in you beyond mere observation of rituals and rites...

So, do the review and stop being mere church statistics to being a lively stone taking your place in the spiritual building inhabited by God offering quality praise to God and submitting to the Lordship of Christ, doing the will of God and enjoying His Kingdom of love!

Happy Sunday!

A Psalm for a Monday Morning

Good morning folks! It's a great day!

The Spirit of God will lead as we yield and His Word will guide as we read...His will shall be done in obedience in our lives. His kingdom shall come to crush the kingdom of darkness and sin...

Here we are, rejoicing in the Kingdom,
Delivered from the dark kingdom and translated into this grace where we stand...Let's by faith keep on standing in this nation where God rules...none other can say and have it so except our King.

He must reign till all enemies bow...and In His name we ride on in majesty. With no fear for whatever might be...we know we are safe in the hollow of His hands...none can pluck us from His grip..we are on the Lord's side and the world must know, in righteousness this kingdom is made exalted...as our  righteous King reigns over us...righteousness, peace and the Spirit's joy reign...

Full of the Spirit, Filled with the Spirit, drunken in His love, laughing as in harvest, carried by His Spirit we walk in step not fulfilling the lust of the flesh.

Changed heart, new spirit, written laws upon our chest, with the Spirit accompanying, nothing stops us from the Holy of holies.

So boldly we come, boldly we enter, barriers broken, the veil is torn, never again with a mortal high priest when Christ lives on making intercession and saving to the utmost!

So help is with us from the sanctuary, grace is available as at when needed, His power bringing His will to pass in us... expressions of His everlasting love...

So we keep trusting and believing, declaring His Word in the face of Satan's roars, by faith we quench is darts, never flinching ever strong standing still...

And so we stand till He comes, occupying the space and holding down domains. We His body covering from point to point...digging wells as we go till our Rehoboth appears...shining His light still in this present darkness.

His word we must keep holding, His life we must keep living, not driven by the various winds of doctrine and not swinging to mammon and his music...as our hearts and mouths are filled with His psalms and hymns...

Good morning folks...
It's a great week in God!

These are the Days of True Holiness!

These are the Days of True Holiness!

Lot's of preachers today would like to play the music of holiness softly. The subject of holiness would, most often, trigger some degree of godly sorrow and in a world where entertainment rules, godly sorrow is something unpopular and something the world wouldn't want propagated. Most preachers would rather tread that path with caution!

One excuse is that man is imperfect and so shouldn't be forced into holiness and that those who claim holiness are hypocrites.

But the same imperfect world creates precision over and over in technology, warfare, medicine and even in economy sometimes.

Man pursues perfection and development in every other area and that to some degree of awesomeness but would call anyone after same in relationship with God a perfectionist! To me that's the true meaning of hypocrisy!

The same mentality has found itself into the church too and the message is gaining grounds and being taught and practiced in different and various ways contrary to what Christ taught.
But Holiness remains a possibility! Righteousness is attainable!

The way to holiness is what the world has refused to discover! And that is what Christ came to give to the world!

It isn't the way, if we want to independently pursue and achive holiness by whatever strength we can muster without God and what He has provided! If we try we'll always fail. And that's the error that has led to other negative conclusions about holiness and righteousness.

Holiness won't come just by a disciplined, moral or spartan lifestyle. Somewhere there, an error will set in and crash the pack of cards.

If God sets an exam for mankind to His standard of holiness man will always fail.

So to attain success in holiness, God would have to find a way of indwelling man and through man work out what pleases Him in spite of man.

And this is what is called grace!

Galatians 2:20-21 English Standard Version (ESV)
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

The power of the New Covenant is that God gives a new heart of flesh, a new spirit, writes His laws upon the tables of the heart and dwell in us by His Spirit.

With His Spirit indwelling us we are moved and quickened beyond the power of sin and temptations and through that we reign over sin instead of being slaves to sin as we had always been!

Grace doesn't mean, that God condones sin or that He overlooks sin. Sin remains a displeasure to God any day.

When we live in pride, selfishness and in sexual immorality we create evil for ourselves and for others and displease God.

And to preach that God is ok with that is to create a god for ourselves different from the one and only True God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

That's not the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is purely a self seeking error to use freedom in Christ as a covering garment for unrighteousness. We can't continue in sin and expect grace to continue!

Today, we have the very nature of God indwelling us and that grace strengthens us in our weaknesses to walk as God would expect of us.

2 Corinthians 12:9 English Standard Version (ESV)
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

To those willing to walk in holiness, these are the days of true holiness!

This had always been the way of holiness! God permitted the laws of Moses as a way to holiness to make man see how impossible it is for man without Him to please Him!

Now, He has made every provision available in grace to make man walk in holiness, righteousness and unconditional love towards others even towards his enemies.

Much have been given us in our days and much is expected of us and we have nowhere to hide than to walk in God's pleasure! It's no use thinking that lack of holiness will be condoned or should be overlooked!

God has and will always give us all that's necessary to do His will, as He consistently works in us that which is well pleasing in His sight! Hebrews 13:20

We have been set free from sin, we need to walk free and in dominion over sin, walking otherwise is taking the grace of God in vain 2Corinthians 6:1, frustrating it Galatians 2:21 and doing despite to the spirit of grace, Hebrews 10:29...

Sin shouldn't have dominion over us in these days...these are the days of true holiness!

Romans 6:14 English Standard Version (ESV)
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

The days of grace are the days of holiness!  These are the days when we have available all that it takes to live in holiness and in true righteousness! We have no excuse so let's live it up!

Good morning!

Let's Pray...

Father of all grace and everlasting mercies, we thank you and give you praise for your loving kindness and truth as they merge to produce grace for us...to you be all glory in Jesus name.

We come to you today asking that you perfect us unto every good work to do your will, working in us that which is well pleasing in your sight.
We release ourselves to your Spirit within us to lead and quicken us into righteousness and holiness!
We declare that through your grace, sin shall no longer have dominion over us. We believe we are Christ's and we have crucified the flesh and the lusts thereof and whatever residue will vanish with time as you strengthen us with your might in our inner man according to your glorious power and grace!
We receive strength not to do despite to the Spirit of grace, frustrate it or take it in vain, rather we take our stand through faith in this grace which you have provided through Christ and we reign in life!
Thanks so much for your truth...all the power and glory remain yours forever...and we believe we receive all these and much more in Jesus name...Amen!
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One of the courses in the upcoming Grace Missions International School of Christian Ministry is THE MESSAGE, in which we explore what the message of the gospel is, the harmony between it's different aspects and how these relate with many other things being propagated today! You don't want to miss it!

Prepare to be part of this school, let it prepare you for a qualitative ministry that rightly divides the word of truth!

I'll be expecting you!

Every Saturday in October 9am-3pm

@
Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

JESUS IS LORD!

Be the Man!

Be the Man!

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 6
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

[My Offline Bible] Philippians 2
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

It's natural with people to complain about what others should do that they wouldn't do.

We expect others to love us, we expect others to meet our needs, we expect others to be trustworthy, we complain about the negative attitudes we receive from others....

We want the man to step into our lives and help us! When people don't pursue our own goals, we complain, when they don't give to us, we whine. When they don't fit-in into our mould we feel betrayed.

As followers we expect the leaders to be all in all. As leaders we expect the followers not to have a life outside of us. We always have expectations of others but never of ourselves!

But that won't serve any purpose in the world, until we start focusing on ourselves as those responsible!

That advert said, if I don't do it who will? We need a sense of responsibility towards the needs of the people around us....

God's looking for a man... and you are the man and you have to stand up and be the man!

Enough of complaining about someone not feeding the poor....feed them, even if one at a time!

Enough of complaining about having no one to help you; you step out to help someone!

Enough of complaining about the rot in society, don't add to it and roll up your sleeves and clean up what you can!

You said man can't be trusted and I agree...but you are the man! Can you be trusted?

You are the man!

Who shall go for us? That's the cry of the Spirit! Who shall care in a world that doesn't care?

Who shall we send to be the answer to the cry of the young boy who can't enrol in school for lack of funds?

Who shall we send to provide a meal to the family starving out of economic depression?

Who shall we send to provide little healthcare for those who can't afford the cost of drugs?

Who shall we send to help out with those about to be thrown out of the accommodation they have?

Who shall we send to help bear that burden too heavy for the young orphan to carry?

Who shall we send to that old man or woman whose children won't care?

Who shall we send to encourage the broken hearted? Who shall we send to bring back the straying hearts to God? Who shall we send to transform the decaying society and help the people maximise their potentials? Who?

That's the cry in the heavenlies!

But you and I are the answer to that cry!

Every need is the expression of that cry...and every time we turn a deaf ear when we can do even a little, we join the selfish lot, who seek not the things of Christ but the things of self!

Some of us always know what the poor should do that they aren't doing?

We can easily identify the lazy, we can identify the unwise and could tell how that brought about their predicaments. And so we believe it isn't our duty to help anyone since they brought such upon themselves!

The truth is, whatever causes the poverty of the poor isn't ours to tell, our responsibility is to find a way out for them to get out of their needs!

We can identify the lazy, the fool and the bad choices that made the indigent and the insolvent what they are but we can't identify the selfishness in us! We can't identify the error in our thinking and the vacuum that only us should fill! Selfishness protects itself to every extent...there's always a reason not to share!

Be the man!

Don't only ask, where is the man? Let your cry be, Here I am, Lord send me!

Jesus Christ gave Himself to us not just to forgive our sins and keep us from sinning but also to help us actively pursue doing what's good and right!

[My Offline Bible] Titus 2
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Our religion is nothing if we aren't offering ourselves as living sacrifices on God's behalf to meet the needs around us...

It's another Sunday, don't just go to church with enough to give offerings and tithes...package something for someone who is in need... take a little extra meal along, it may be all that the Lord would need to feed thousands, and make it a habit henceforth!

Be the man! Be the answer to someone's prayer! Break the chain of selfishness, be there for someone else's success: leader, you too go out and be servant to someone to succeed, it's not just about you succeeding by what other people contribute! Servant, go out there and help a leader succeed...not just because you are paid to do so....

Senior pastor, find another ministry to help too...it's not meant to be a rat race!

It isn't about us alone...let others too eat of the fruits of our branches! No tree eats it's own fruits, every tree that does that remains barren!

Be the man...someone has been waiting for!

Let your answer be...

Here I am! Send me!
Good morning and have a lovely week!

Let's Pray...
Father in heaven, we give you praise for your loving kindness and faithfulness, we appreciate you for who you are, you are love who won't change. Thanks for sharing your nature with us, thanks for connecting us with your Spirit. Thanks for planting us in yourself to suck from your sap so that we can bring forth good fruit for the world to feed on. Let our praise be acceptable to you in Jesus name.

We come to you today, in total surrender to you and your truth, we come to offer our lives as living sacrifices to answer your demand to send someone to meet the world's needs, and to be the vessel to bring your answers to people in need...

We cry, Here we are! Send us!

Help us to identify the needs around us, keep our hearts tuned to hear the fainting cry of the needy behind the facades.
Help us never again to turn away our ears to the cries and never to blind our eyes and hearts to the people who need us.
Equip us with what we'll need to do your will, help us identify what we already have to share. Give us grace to be humble enough to care and to show it.
Help us to be the man to someone else without demanding of them in return....

We believe yours is the omnipotence and wisdom and we know you'll be there for us as we step out to do this from now on in Jesus mighty name!

When there's no Man!

When there's no Man!

Men are important in fulfillment of destiny. Human resource is one of the four basic factors of destiny and it could be an issue when that seems not to be available.

Let Reuben live and not die, let not his men be few...was the blessing Moses pronounced on the tribe of Reuben and that's significant and desirable!

But it does happen that men would be scarce. God was at such a point where he needed a man and had to create one in Adam.
At another time He needed even one who would stand in the gap of intercession that he may not destroy! Isaiah 59

Mary, the mother of Jesus was in that state too. The promise of God was lofty but ordinarily, she would need a man to make a baby and the promise didn't make provision for one.

The man at Bethesda was there by the pool near the filthy sheep market waiting for the angel to trouble the water for his own trouble to be troubled but he would need a man to help him into the water before any other stepped in...he had no man.

Men as important as they are can be flaky. Many aren't that selfless as to be there for others when they are needed. But we all need other men around us to sacrifice their lives for us and we won't mind finding a way to discard them as soon as they had deposited what we want...

Many may be around, just as Joseph was around Mary but may not be part of the plan.

Many may be around just as God has billions around Him but none willing to step in!

Many may sincerely not have what it takes to deliver what's needed per time.

So many are stranded just as God, Mary and the man by the pool were.

At that point when there's no man...God steps in for those who would trust Him.

He, out of ordinary dust made a man to till His ground, without a man the Holy Spirit overshadowed Mary and the power of God came upon her and the Saviour of the world, the second Adam was born!

It was this same second Adam, Christ who showed up for the man at the pool and discharged him from the hospital where not having the necessary man had put him.

It is possible that all you have ever gotten in your life is your sacrifice for other men and when it comes to yours no man shows up...

You aren't alone! God's been there and there's always a way out!

God who set the protocol that involves man can also do without a man by another protocol!

When He looked for a man to intercede and found none, His own hand brought Him salvation! Isaiah 59:16...

When Mary wondered how a virgin would bring forth a child without a man, God sent His Spirit to create the child.

When the man at the pool waited and wouldn't get a man in 38 years, Jesus showed up and discharged him pronto!

Now it is your turn to experience divine protocol! The protocol that involves man would fail when you least expected it but there's always an alternative protocol with God that won't fail!

If no one would intercede, God's own hand would bring salvation. He will break any protocol to reach us. He will suspend the failing law of nature to get His purposes fulfilled. He will bypass angelic protocols to discharge you from the squalor where religion and superstition had held you for generations!

Jesus told the man, even on a Sabbath day to carry his bed and go home... a Sabbath that wouldn't bring a man to help him must be suspended, it's now time to work!

Meaning God wouldn't mind breaking religious protocol to be the Man you wanted to you and get the result needed!

How do we get there!

Look not to men except if God absolutely would provide one!

Look up to God who wouldn't need a man to operate except He provides one.

Hang on to God who said His purposes will stand and that He'll do all His pleasures!

When you get to the point of having no man...don't forget He said...He'll be there....and would never leave you!

That men wouldn't help or couldn't help is a sign that the particular job was designed for God to do!

Don't put your trust in man, put it in God. Don't be disappointed in any man just make sure you keep your appointment with God...

Love all men and have faith in God! Man would help only if God had helped you...seek God's help and He won't disappoint you!

Good morning!

Let's Pray
Oh Lord God our Father, who dwells in light. The mighty God who is mighty to save, yours is our worship, our praise and to you we give thanks.
We come to you today with the help of the Holy Spirit whom you gave to us and we ask that you'll step in for us with your mighty saving hand where we have no man to help us.
We pray that the difficulties anyone may be going through right now will receive your attention and solution. We ask that you deliver your people from every affliction and discharge everyone stranded anywhere and in any situation.
We pray that those in any kind of need be abundantly supplied, we pray that those in trouble will be delivered. We pray that what's beyond us will receive the attention of your omnipotence and your will prevail over the will of the enemy in our lives! We trust you that at the end of the day, testimonies will abound to your glory and praise because we prayed in Jesus name! Amen!

Preparing for the Coming Hostilities!

Preparing for the Coming Hostilities!

Christian should be warned, particularly those at ease: a time of hostility is at hand and everyone need be prepared!

Matthew 10 prophesies of Christ tells us that much. There shall be religious persecutions from organised religions and their leaders verse 17, there shall be governmental persecutions by officials and antiChristian laws and policies verse 18 and there shall be general persecutions of all men verse 22.

And the coming of Christ in His glory shall be during this moment.

There shall be a lot of falling away during this period. Out of fear brothers shall betray brother and there shall be great conflicts even within households for Christ's sake. Many would prefer to join the persecutors to be spared and so abandon their faith in Christ.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Doctrinal imbalance and disagreement will be sharp and intolerance for the sake of personal safety and economic security and ordinarily because of demonic deception.

Ignorance will also be a weapon in the hands of the enemy as many Christian organization would neglect teaching the truth of the gospel to concentrate on temporal matters instead of spiritual and eternal issues due to satanic deception.

As usual God will be criticized to every limit, His love and salvation plan maligned and His person seen as wicked in the bid to discourage people from following Him.

Satan and his angels will cover up as angels of light. Pretending as the true lovers of men as they put all the blame for the evil they do on God: whereas they'll step up their evil deeds and messages of hate and unleash terror on humans to make men see God as wicked in their desperate last efforts to gather people behind them...

Many human philosophies shall contend with the truth of the gospel even on Christian pulpits and on all other platforms of communications to cast doubts on the truth of the gospel and many distortions on God's word will make many scoff at the word of God, asking where the promise of His coming was written.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Peter 3
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

And now in our day, we are here witnessing how these things are playing out before our very eyes...

Unbelief and heresy have always been but the dimension today is unequaled! Yet, evil men and seducers will wax worse and worse...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 3
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

So the situation will become worse...and denying it won't change anything. So we have to brace up.

We must not count it strange or buckle under the pressure but rejoice that our salvation is closer than when we first believed!

[My Offline Bible] 1 Peter 4
12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

We must not fear, rather we need to see these things as a sign of the truth of what we believe.

Meaning each one must revisit his or her conviction in Christ and in His gospel of the kingdom.

It is time to develop a personal relationship with God though that's becoming an issue among organised Christian religions, but that'll be the way of escape...otherwise you don't know who's going where, possibility to follow false Christs will be rife!

It's time things are judged by the word that's rightly divided, checking from the teachings and the practices of Christ and the Holy Spirit within to know what's true. Sticking with Christ's interpretation of the Old Testament is key...He is the Saviour, His sayings keep the house strong in the coming storm!

To think that people will see the obvious truth is to be self deluding. Many won't see, and many will be antagonistic and persecuting even within those who claim to name the name of Christ!

To think that the world would suddenly become sympathetic to the cause of Christ is to be in dreamland.

This is the reality that must become clear to us today as Christians...

There is a very stern hostile season coming, it will be a shaking and we need to latch on to the grace of God to survive!

Shalom! Peace!

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 12
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
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Atted
The Bible Class, TBC
Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class

Let's search the scriptures on those issues that divide us and see what the stand of scriptures is on them...that the truth of the gospel might continue and that we may all come in the unity of the knowledge of the Son of God unto the perfect man!

Every Wednesday 6:00pm

Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

You'll be blessed coming!
Jesus is Lord!

In Search of a New Homeland!

In Search of a New Homeland!

Hebrews 11: 8-10, 13-16

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an
inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

I'm of the opinion that many believers are yet to come to terms with their status as members of God's kingdom, delivered from the authority of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's darling Son.

Yes, we may remain a kingdom within the kingdoms of this world, yet the difference is clear and it must show in our gait and swagger!

Our body language must pitch us on the other side of the fence, with well articulated difference in our words, actions and general lifestyle!

We won't be the first to be told about the Kingdom of God. It was a mere vision for the patriarchs back then, it was preached by John and came to reality in Christ and now we wait for the perfection when all other kingdoms would have literally submitted to Christ's and He too would submit all to the Father....1Corinthians 15:24

But we have quite a lot to learn about the kingdom and the attitude required to enjoy its full benefits from the Patriarchs.

After getting the knowledge about the new homeland, they went out of their old home...by faith.

You can't believe in the new kingdom and remain at home in the old. It's a sign that the reality hasn't dawned and you can't get there except you move towards it.

They dwelt as strangers in their promised land in tents as they wait for God to fulfil His promise of total taking over and building a new homeland from foundation!

Today, we must also dwell here as strangers waiting for the King. This contraption isn't our heaven. This isn't our kingdom yet, and its sheer foolhardy to expect much from this old dying world...the stone is destroying the image, only the weak toes, made of a mixture of iron and clay are remaining! Daniel 2. It's over for this present physical worldly kingdom...only waiting to pass away!
According to Apostle Peter, 2Peter 3:11&12 what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy lifestyle as we wait?

The patriarchs kept their eyes on the picture of the new homeland, they embraced it and confessed their being strangers in their then present state. We must keep it in our minds that we have no continuing city here. We must live in the kingdom of God by faith even now.

They kept the old country out of their minds. They believed keeping their minds of the old country, even though they were living in it, would give them the opportunity to go back there.

We must never envy the world. We have missed nothing following God's will and kingdom, we only have gained a land flowing with milk and honey. We must put our minds on the full manifestation of the kingdom of Christ wherein dwell righteousness, peace and fullness of joy.

And to now realize that they all died in faith not seeing any part of God's kingdom put on us a great responsibility particularly when it was so ordained that they without us cannot be made perfect.

Now in Christ those who have believed genuinely have redemption and forgiveness of sin, a new heart and a new spirit within, with the laws of God written upon the tables of their hearts and the Spirit of God living within they are said to be born again having access into the kingdom and living under the rule and will of God through Christ waiting for the next phase of the revelation of the kingdom towards its full manifestation.

We under such grace must keep our focus with a clear vision of the New Homeland which God has prepared for us...we may be in the world, we must not pretend that we are of the world...

Good morning!
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The Bible Class, TBC
Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class

Tonight at 6:00

Havila Place
#46 DF street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

We are exploring the knowledge concerning the Kingdom of God...join us today!

Peace to you!

In Search of a New Homeland!

In Search of a New Homeland!

Hebrews 11: 8-10, 13-16

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an
inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

I'm of the opinion that many believers are yet to come to terms with their status as members of God's kingdom, delivered from the authority of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's darling Son.

Yes, we may remain a kingdom within the kingdoms of this world, yet the difference is clear and it must show in our gait and swagger!

Our body language must pitch us on the other side of the fence, with well articulated difference in our words, actions and general lifestyle!

We won't be the first to be told about the Kingdom of God. It was a mere vision for the patriarchs back then, it was preached by John and came to reality in Christ and now we wait for the perfection when all other kingdoms would have literally submitted to Christ's and He too would submit all to the Father....1Corinthians 15:24

But we have quite a lot to learn about the kingdom and the attitude required to enjoy its full benefits from the Patriarchs.

After getting the knowledge about the new homeland, they went out of their old home...by faith.

You can't believe in the new kingdom and remain at home in the old. It's a sign that the reality hasn't dawned and you can't get there except you move towards it.

They dwelt as strangers in their promised land in tents as they wait for God to fulfil His promise of total taking over and building a new homeland from foundation!

Today, we must also dwell here as strangers waiting for the King. This contraption isn't our heaven. This isn't our kingdom yet, and its sheer foolhardy to expect much from this old dying world...the stone is destroying the image, only the weak toes, made of a mixture of iron and clay are remaining! Daniel 2. It's over for this present physical worldly kingdom...only waiting to pass away!
According to Apostle Peter, 2Peter 3:11&12 what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy lifestyle as we wait?

The patriarchs kept their eyes on the picture of the new homeland, they embraced it and confessed their being strangers in their then present state. We must keep it in our minds that we have no continuing city here. We must live in the kingdom of God by faith even now.

They kept the old country out of their minds. They believed keeping their minds of the old country, even though they were living in it, would give them the opportunity to go back there.

We must never envy the world. We have missed nothing following God's will and kingdom, we only have gained a land flowing with milk and honey. We must put our minds on the full manifestation of the kingdom of Christ wherein dwell righteousness, peace and fullness of joy.

And to now realize that they all died in faith not seeing any part of God's kingdom put on us a great responsibility particularly when it was so ordained that they without us cannot be made perfect.

Now in Christ those who have believed genuinely have redemption and forgiveness of sin, a new heart and a new spirit within, with the laws of God written upon the tables of their hearts and the Spirit of God living within they are said to be born again having access into the kingdom and living under the rule and will of God through Christ waiting for the next phase of the revelation of the kingdom towards its full manifestation.

We under such grace must keep our focus with a clear vision of the New Homeland which God has prepared for us...we may be in the world, we must not pretend that we are of the world...

Good morning!
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The Bible Class, TBC
Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class

Tonight at 6:00

Havila Place
#46 DF street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

We are exploring the knowledge concerning the Kingdom of God...join us today!

Peace to you!

When they say There is no Hell!

When they say there's no Hell!

Jesus spoke extensively on the issue of hell...

Most of His parables depicting the kingdom of God show us an alternate place incomparable to where those saved will be.

The word 'saved' itself is indicative of an alternate dangerous situation...

That God is pushing for His own kingdom is enough to tell us there's another kingdom ruled by someone else contrary to God...

It was Jesus in Matthew 7 who said a place was reserved for Satan and his angels...or are they going to be in heaven also?

Those who won't live in line with God's rulership would live under the rule of Satan and his angels...

Why should we preach the gospel of the kingdom as a witness against the world? If there's no judgment?

What is the essence of human's freewill? Is man responsible for his choices?

One of the things I've heard on this subject is that whatever we do is done by God through us either good or evil... if that's so, why would Jesus teach us to pray that we should not be led into temptations or be delivered from evil? Why would He deliver us from what He caused, if it is true that He causes everything?

I've also heard that Satan will be forgiven. That God who said we should love our enemies also loves His own enemy that is Satan...and wouldn't send him to hell...

The truth is that even if Satan is pardoned he'll still not want to live in heaven with God, he hasn't repented of his ambition and deceit... even in hell, he remains adamant!

Even after 1000years in prison, he'll still come out to rebel against God and His kingdom! His case is irredeemable!

Call it hell, gehenna, valley of hinnon, lake of fire...and whatever, the truth is that there is an alternate kingdom, and an alternate place aside God's kingdom as it is even now... and the place won't be palatable!

Evil and good are eternal reality. And their eternal separation is just!

God's kingdom is made up of those who have voluntarily submitted to the rulership of God and sworn the allegiance to do His will and take Jesus as Lord no matter what, who also would resist satan at all cost...

There are others who are contented with their own kingdoms, with Satan's kingdom, kingdom of this world both secular and religious, ruled by the god of this world...2Cor 4:4

But to us who have believed, we have been delivered from the power and authority of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear son... and we should stay there doing the will of God Col 1:13

We are told of principalities and powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places...these entities rule in their kingdom of darkness and wickedness....these rule in the kingdom of Satan Ephesians 6, and a time of separation that's coming; the kingdom of God is still in the stage of seedling, the full corn isn't yet but at the full corn, there will be harvest Mark 4. And then eternal separation....

Now imagine when all the rule will be under the devil and the wicked rulers of that kingdom? If that's not hell, I wonder what that is...

We don't have to call it hell...whatever that'll be isn't what anyone should desire...

And God is doing His part, calling people into His kingdom, doing all that He can to save as many as would be willing...through the redemption and the forgiveness of sin that's in Christ and His blood through nothing but faith....

but these devil sent messengers and preachers of doctrines of devils are misrepresenting God as if it's only God who makes things happen...to weaken people's faith in God...and drag people into eternal damnation through unbelief and doubt...

We should be careful!

People erroneously believe that whatever happens, God must have done it...good or evil...and so technically exonerate Satan who steals, kills and destroys...John 10:10

And that makes people doubt God... when we factor Satan into the equation...we know who is causing the trouble! And he can't stop...he won't stop through eternity and through all the separation that's coming! Woe betides those who will be under his rule at such times...and that's the reason why we must not relent in helping people escape him through the preaching and the declaration of the truth...

We need to study the parables of Jesus closely, whenever He says '...the kingdom of God is likened to...' and be sure we read to it's end and notice the separation that often ends them...

That separation is vital and when we downplay the pain that would accompany those separated on the wrong side, we also downplay the essence of Christ's sacrifice, His efforts in sounding the warning and the whole essence of being saved from an impending danger!

We must not be deceived!

Good morning!

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Grace Mussions International Ministers and Leaders' Conference September 2015

The Power for Destiny Fulfillment!

Tomorrow Friday 4th September 2015

10am

Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja...

Every minister of the Gospel and church leader is invited!

We must access the knowledge and power provided for what God has sent us to do...don't miss this!

Midwives Needed

Midwives Needed!

[My Offline Bible] John 16
21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

We are in a world where we judge success only by personal physical achievements and it's ok. But we often forget that every physical achievement is a result of many people's contributions either tangibly or intangibly, directly and indirectly, physically or in abstract!

When a goal is scored in a soccer match, the goal scorer receives the credit but there must have been good assistance from the goalkeeper to the scorer...

For a child to be born, there's need for a midwife who will stand between the woman in labor and the joy  of childbirth laid ahead to avoid a stillbirth.

So is success in destiny. Many destinies remain in labor and many have gone to still births or even maternal mortality for lack of adequate life midwifery. Many were born deformed, many were kidnapped at birth for lack of  midwife protection!

Where then are the midwives? Many have gone to carry their own pregnancies because they'll also want to be celebrated not as midwives but as mothers!

When pharaoh gave instruction to the midwives of Egypt to kill Hebrew boys at birth in the days when Moses was born, the midwives intervened and worked against the commandment of the king because they were noble, and Moses was part of their successes!

As a midwife of destinies, your success isn't primarily in your own physical achievements but in how many you have been able to help to be delivered of their purposes and destinies!

It doesn't matter the low publicity you get compared to those you have helped, let your joy be in your contributions and the effect they have on those who made it alive!

And great shall be your reward!

The successful childbirth of each pregnancy that comes around is your success!

But then who among us isn't a midwife? We all are! It's only that we only count the number of children we have been delivered of and not how many we have helped to be delivered of...

We are all midwives! And it's time we looked around for those in labor to help get them delivered of their divine destinies and purposes! For therein is our ultimate joy and success!

Start today! Good morning!
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Join us tomorrow
Wednesday, by 6:00pm
@
The Bible Class, TBC
Non Denominational Bible Discussion Class

Discussing: Understanding the Will of God

Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja, Lagos
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Grace Missions International Ministers and Leaders Conference, Shagamu/Ode Remo edition August 2015

This Thursday 27th & Friday 28th August

Shagamu
5pm daily
@CLOREM Church Auditorium
Behind NEPA
Ajaka
Shagamu

Ode Remo
Friday, 10am

Spread the word! Be blessed!
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Being a Christian and Being Born Again!

Being a Christian and being Born Again!

It's impossible in spiritual technical terms to be a Christian when you aren't born again.

And that's important particularly in our days. Moreso because righteousness which God approves stems out of a heart that's born again...and being born again is a result of total submission to the teachings of Jesus Christ, who taught us that we must be born again by the word and the Spirit of God. Total submission to the Lordship of Jesus in daily practical practice and absolute faith in His death and resurrection for salvation is what it means to be a disciple of Christ, total submission to His words and His ways isn't negotiable in becoming a disciple...and only such disciples whose life has been conformed were called Christians...

But the issue here is the mammoth of people who because they prefer the church building religion to other religions are called Christians without being submissive to Christ's teachings or lifestyle.

They are still Christians while they also embrace the world's philosophies and practices that are contrary and contradictory to the thoughts and teachings of Christ.

These are permitted in churches not that they shouldn't be allowed but they are left without adequate teachings of Christ, being pampered with permissive doctrines that won't show them the demands of Christ.

Jesus said, You must be born again! And I love the word 'MUST' , because if it is a must we must not assume...we must make sure that everyone who patronizes us obeys that to the letter....

From over 30 years of walking with God and doing church work actively, I've realized that being born again is enough to turn people's lives totally around, I've realised that change is possible in anyone through the new birth, I've realised that a truly born again person needs only little proddings to grow from carnality to spirituality...but when people are yet to be born again, there won't be follow-up enough to change them, though enough follow-up will make them committed church members, there won't be enough prayer meetings to make them committed to Christ, there won't be enough Bible studies to make them grow...they must be born again first before anything else can bring any spiritual development towards becoming conformed to the image of Christ....they must be born again first before becoming Christians, anything short is playing church and playing mere religion!