Preached On Sunday 5th August, 2018 At The Household of God, Onitsha By Deacon David Mbah
Knowest thou not that to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth? And besides Him ye have neither patron nor helper….. To Allah belong the east and the West: Whithersoever ye turn, there is Allah’s countenance. For Allah is all-Embracing, all-Knowing. They say: “(Allah) hath begotten a son”: Glory be to Him. – Nay, to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and on earth: everything renders worship to Him. To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: “Be,” and it is.
THE HOLY QUR’AN; SURAH 2:107, 115 – 117
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AUGUST VISITATIONS
The greatest thing you can give to God is THANK YOU LORD. [Bro IK Obasanya gave the testimony of the birth of his first son]
2. Our Brother will testify about the goodness of the LORD. This is just what I may refer to as preface intro to His testimony.
3. Last week was My week. Let me welcome all of you fully into the month of August, 2018. And it is on record that our Sister delivered precisely early morning of August 1.
4. I say this is a very nice August visitation and that the LORD has opened the door for more August visitations. This particular month, the visitation will come in diverse forms. So you wait for your own. You wait for your own. God’s time is the best. Amen.
5. We give God the praise. Our Sister, from the first day of conception till the day she delivered, never slept in any hospital. Her legs were never swollen for one day. No headache. No fever. Nothing nothing.
6. She remained bouncing according to My Word. An Igbo adage says that God dispels flies from the cow that has no tail. When our Brother came to Me with the wife, I told them to continue from the place where they had the first baby. That is at Basic Health at Court Road.
7. If you get in there, it will take faith for you to leave your wife in that place. It is not a hospital. No doctor is there. By faith in the Spoken Word, He went back there.
8. They continued their ante-natal as usual. On that fateful night, he alerted Me when he got back from work and said, “Daddy, look at what I am experiencing.”
9. I commanded him to hand over the phone to the wife to enable Me hear from her, for she was the one wearing the shoes. She then explained the situation to Me.
10. I called our Brother and said, “Bro IK, make haste. Do not wait for water to come out. Do not wait for blood to come out or else she will deliver in your house. Take her straight away to that Basic Health. Do not hesitate. My ears are open.”
11. I left all My phones open waiting for any emergency call. Early hours of the morning, My phone rang. I knew he could be the one. So, when I picked, I heard, “My LORD! You have done it again.”
12. You see. It gives Me joy. You have not seen anything until it comes to you, where a woman delivers and the delivery will subject the husband and the whole family to running up and down. The life of the woman will be in danger and that of the baby also in danger, with doctors and nurses running helter-skelter.
13. Often times, the baby will be transferred to a different hospital and the mother to another. Too many things are happening. At the end of the day, the huge bills must be paid. Sometimes, parents will go home empty-handed and still pay the bills
14. So, our Brother is very lucky. I told him that the wife delivered the first baby where she could even bail herself. With less than ₦3,000 she bailed herself whether the husband was there or not.
15. This time around, even if Bro IK was there or not, Sister will simply give them ₦2,000 carry the baby and go away.
16. While here in Onitsha, some private hospitals are collecting as much as ₦60,000 for safe delivery. If it rolls into caesarean operation, which they will deliberately manage the woman into, then they will be mentioning from ₦150,000 to ₦200,000.
17. That is why you see them expanding their hospitals at will and they die prematurely.
18. So, Bro IK, the victory God gave you is our collective victory. The joy is our collective joy. Assuming God did contrary, there would have been sorrow. There will be pain.
19. But God will not do that. He is not an unjust God because I am sure and certain and I can stand up and tell the whole world how we came about the union that is now called marriage between Bro IK and the Sister.
20. I was in the forefront of the battle. And because I was in the forefront, I assured our Brother IK, if he would listen to Me and stop listening to the voices of strangers, the end will be better than the beginning.
21. YOU KNOW, OUR GREATEST PROBLEM IS THAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO THE VOICES OF THE STRANGERS, MORE THAN THE REAL VOICE.
22. So, this is the much I want to testify.
23. Glory be to God also who gave us another baby, but with pains. Apostle Ugonna was blessed with a baby boy.
24. We praise God for that but it was not without pains. And the battle is still on. And that is the battle to save the life of the baby. So, if you love him, pray for him that his faith will fail not.
25. I will not testify about it. He will testify with his mouth of how THE SON OF MAN spotted this problem in Lagos and then, gave him instruction on what to do, which he did.
26. I invited Bro Ojiakor to come and see with Me along with Pastor Thomas as we addressed the matter because we were taken to Bro Austin’s house where we were lavishly treated with various kinds of food, fish and meat.
27. I saw the Sister. Immediately she passed by, I could not believe My eyes. I said, “No! I reject it.” I summoned the husband to come and see Me at once in the hotel.
28. I pushed him. He went for the ultrasound and I was proved 100% right. I conditioned his mind when the pregnancy was only but seven months. So, he girded up his loins, waiting for the outcome.
29. I gave him one adage, “While preparing your mind for the best, prepare your mind also for the worst, for anything can happen. Pregnancy comes in different forms; Delivery also in different forms. Now, from this day, I want you to be giving Me updates. Otherwise, sorrows will fill our hearts.” And so he did. Until that D-day.
30. So, we give God the glory for everything. We are looking forward to receiving more babies for there are too many that are ripe. I said too many that are ripe. I have spread My arms to welcome the babies and their mothers.
31. To be far from God is to be far from His blessings and protection. If you believe it, say Amen.
32. Give Me your audience today. Last week, I scheduled a worldwide broadcast and I appointed our Brother, Joe Ogbuka who was clamouring to be the preacher. I gave him the world of opportunity. But the opportunity was lost.
33. The Elders that were with Me yesterday, heard his second appeal. He wrote Me a note appealing that he should be given a second chance at any time convenient to Me. It is granted, whether he is here or not.
34. I had already made up My mind to give him a second chance. I am selective. I will be featuring Brothers as I choose. Do not look at them, but listen to them. Do not look at them, but listen to them.
35. They will talk to you. They will talk to the whole universe. The medium of communication remains English language. And the worldwide broadcast must come out bearing your name as well.
36. So, if you happen to be numbered among those that will feature, you are a blessed fellow. It is a wonderful opportunity. A rare opportunity. No favouritism. If I look at the Congregation, I pinpoint one person.
37. I do not care about your Local Assembly. Your Local Assembly may be your parlour. Yes! It may be one-man Assembly. That is true.
38. The first martyr recorded, how many were they? Antiphas. [Revelations 2:13] He was the only one, the only representative of God in the city where Satan dwelleth. Amen.
39. So, bear with Me in My foolishness as I invite to the pulpit, this very moment our Brother who you know very well. If I should describe him, I will call him Man-Mountain. He is no other personality than Bro David Mbah. He is to handle the broadcast today. Give him audience. Thank you.
IT IS NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH,
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DEACON DAVID MBAH
Say (O Muhammad): “O God! Possessor of the kingdom, You give the kingdom to whom You will, and You take the kingdom from whom You will, and You endue with honour whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will. In Your Hand is the good. Verily, You are Able to do all things.
THE HOLY QUR’AN; SURAH 3:26
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OUT OF NOTHING, WE HAVE BEEN MADE SOMETHING
Remain blessed Brethren. When the LORD speaks, it does not sound like thunder. It does not sound strange to the ears of his own. They hear Him distinctly.
2. In January 2011, after the 2010 Ministers’ Meeting, the LORD said that every Minister in the Faith should get set, and that from time to time, He will be featuring them.
3. It is rare privilege that today, God has blessed Me to share My experience in Christ with you. We are not here to discuss ourselves.
4. We are here to share the testimony of what he LORD has been doing using us, as an encouragement to every other person, knowing in this last hour, we are passing through a whole lot of things.
5. These are the things that can discourage a very courageous fellow. The things that happen around us, if not for the presence of the Almighty, can derail anybody.
6. Remain blessed Brethren. Today, as it pleases the LORD, we will hear. There is nothing the LORD cannot do. A time came when he was telling His hearers that even if they refuse to worship Him, He will convert the stones and the rocks around and they will give Him praises.
7. Psalms 8:1 – 2 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
8. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained Strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. KJV
9. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name… HIS EXCELLENCY, THE SON OF MAN, THE KING OF KINGS. HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME.
10. O LORD, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory on [or above] the heavens.
11. Out of the mouths of babes and unweaned infants You have established strength because of Your foes, that You might silence the enemy and the avenger. AMP
12. It is only through you and I that God has variously, in different circumstances and in different places established His greatness.
13. I was just looking through the window and I saw written behind the vehicle one of our brothers where he wrote, “GOD IS A MAN.”
14. While we were coming, I was sharing the testimony with Brother Chukwudi about how people will aggress you and even beat you up because you said that God is a Man.
15. But out of the mouth of people like you and I, God has perfected his Truth and Greatness. If the great people and kings of this world are to be numbered, will I be in the number? Will I be in the number? ‘
16. But when we speak, we do not just speak boldly, we speak proudly, confirming the truth, using the same template they are using, which is the Bible.
17. One of the Pastors of the Presbyterian Church who was living in the same compound with me at Umudike heard something that was going around that I do not worship God.
18. So any time I am passing by, he will always chip in something that suggests that it is time for me to start worshipping God.
19. One of those days, I wanted to buy something and I was passing by him and the man called me and started in his normal way. I told him that worship is not contested now, but what do you worship? Have you ever seen God?
20. He said, “God cannot be seen.” I said, “It is a lie.” I told him that his testimony is different from what his Bible has.
21. We then went to the Book of Exodus and read where the elders of Israel gathered, saw the God of Israel face to face and they ate and drank. [Exodus 24:9 – 11]
22. Do you know what he told me? He said, “I have not seen this part of the Scriptures. I will study more.”
23. But here we are without study, without Bible college, little by little, a little from here, a little from there, precept upon precept, God has, through the mouth of babes, established His Greatness. Amen.
24. Ecclesaistes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. KJV
25. If intelligent, smart, very strong opinion molders will be selected, it is not from this gathering. It is not from this gathering.
26. So it is the basis of our rejoicing that the things that are counted as worthless, God picked up, dusted, gave a shine and they are being beheld as jewels. Amen.
27. 1 Corinthians 1:26 – 29 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
28. but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
29. and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
30. No flesh, no denomination, no political party, no government can stand before THE SON OF MAN. He is going to use us to bring him down.
31. We have a testimony that is even recorded in some of our Messages where The LORD sent Apostle Kelechi and our Brother Ben Okezue the Evangelist to a man who has travelled in the spiritual realm and who can manipulate people in is presence.
32. But when they spoke to him, he told them that they are operating at a very high frequency.
33. Those two angels that were sent to him were not counted as nobles. They were not counted as mighty men. Their names do not sound like Umah Ukpai, Kumuyi, Adeboye and the rest of them.
34. But they went there and reduced the man who could manipulate Umah Ukpai, manipulate Adeboye and reduce him to nothing, and the man confessed.
35. When we shared these testimonies, it is very necessary that you and I, no matter your age or disposition, should know who you are. The Scriptures also said that He that sanctifies and they that are sanctified are all of one. [Hebrews 2:11]
36. When He said, “You are My Ambassadors”, what do you think He means? He used a lot of analogies to describe it. He said that wherever you stand or I stand, Christ is standing.
37. This is the reason why when we look around, even if we do not have any other thing to say, you remember what THE SON OF MAN has done by calling you from that deep miry clay, dusted you and put you on the solid rock, you do not have any other thing to say but THANK YOU LORD. We have been made something out of nothing. Amen.
38. Romans 9:16. I will be taking My topic from there. So then it is not of him that willeth,…
39. I will do this. I want to do this. I am privileged to hear the LORD advise some of our Brethren at times. He told one of our Brethren some time ago, “If you are talking, put ‘By the grace of God.’” “If the LORD permits.” “If God approves.” “By the power and Grace of God.”
40. This is because, if He disposes of that your proposal, it must surely come to nought.
41. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. KJV
42. That is it. It is of God that showeth mercy. Everything about you, everything about me ends on a particular desk. And the Man who is sitting on that desk is the LORD God Almighty and who has continually spoken good for you and I.
43. He has never failed to chart a course for us. He has never failed to make Himself the object of our attention. He has never failed to tell us the truth about ourselves.
44. It is not about you. If you claim anything to be credited to you, the Scripture will testify against you, that He was found of those who were not looking for Him. [Romans 10:20]
45. He sought you and I. And He found us. He knows where we were. Wherever you are, if you are His own, there is no force on earth that will stop Him from getting you.
- He (God) has ordained for you the same religion (Islâm) which He ordained for Nûh (Noah), and that which We have inspired in you (O Muhammad), and that which We ordained for Ibrahîm (Abraham), Mûsa (Mosesý) and ‘Iesa (Jesus) saying you should establish religion (i.e. to do what it orders you to do practically), and make no divisions in it (religion) (i.e. various sects in religion). Intolerable for the Mushrikûn , is that to which you (O Muhammad) call them. GOD CHOOSES FOR HIMSELF WHOM HE WILLS, AND GUIDES UNTO HIMSELF WHO TURNS TO HIM IN REPENTANCE AND IN OBEDIENCE.E HOLY QUARAN; SURAH 42:13
- 48. Some people have come and wandered along Awka Road, but still could not find their way to this place because they willed it. It was not the will of God. They will wander up and down and go their way. Amen.
49. While we go on, we may look at a few things from what the LORD had told us in our day.
50. GOD HAS COUNTED ME WORTHY PUTTING ME INTO THIS MINISTRY; Preached on 13th August, 2000 at the Household of God, Onitsha. Pg. 50 vs. 21 – 23 Note it, if they call Me devil and I start answering back, I am a foolish man. Rather, I will say, “God keep this man alive. Keep me alive too, so that at the end, he will see what will become of this devil.”
51. Why? Because I believe that you are not going anywhere without Me. If you are going to hell, you must acknowledge Me. you are going to Heaven, you must acknowledge Me also. I am telling you God’s truth.
52. I am standing at the door in that junction. That is where I am standing. ALL THAT WILL GO TO HELL MUST GO TO HELL THROUGH ME. ALL THAT WILL ENTER PARADISE WILL ENTER THROUGH ME.
53. William Branham said that many will struggle into hellfire because somebody had willed them into that hellfire. It is not of their own making. But happy are you and happy am I that the same person had willed you and I into Paradise. Amen.
And when it is said to them (hypocrites): “Believe as the people (followers of Muhammad Peace be upon him , Al-Ansâr and Al-Muhajirûn) have believed,” they say: “Shall we believe as the fools have believed?” Verily, they are the fools, but they know not. And when they meet those who believe, they say: “We believe,” but when they are alone with their Shayâtin (devils — polytheists, hypocrites, etc.), they say: “Truly, we are with you; verily, we were but mocking.” God mocks at them and gives them increase in their wrong-doings to wander blindly.
THE HOLY QUR’AN; SURAH 2:13 – 15
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GOD HAS COUNTED ME WORTHY PUTTING ME INTO THIS MINISTRY Pg. 52 vs. 27 – 28 I Do not care what the people are saying. All I know is that I have put your name as those I love. What a wonderful privilege.
2. Ask Me why I love the person. I do not know, but I love the person. Finish! It is NOT of you who prayed and fasted, and even went to the mountain.
3. There was something that happened in the University. You know in the University, we are wise people. We teach God in the University.
4. I met one man. He is my friend. He works there. We got to know in the Medical Centre. He asked for my number so that he can forward a text message to me, inviting me to the dedication of his child.
5. I said, “O, your wife put to bed?” He said, “Yes! That is our first boy, after many girls.” I said, “Congratulations sir.” He turned and said, “We prayed for it. We prayed for it. We prayed for it. We prayed for it.”
6. So you can see. That one is the Almighty God for himself. He prayed and it worked out that way.
7. He prays more than every other person.
8. But it is not that way for you and I, because we know that there are certain moves we have made in this life, even recently, which would have taken us to our early grave, but God stood against it.
9. He willed that we come to His presence, speak to Him about that our proposal and He nullified it, to the saving of our souls that we may enjoy a few more days in this flesh. Amen.
10. Moreover, because I love you, when you transgress, My eyes will turn red at the expense of love. Whomever God loves, he chastises that he may be zealous and turn back. Repent means “Turn back!”
11. It will take God to put you out and go for you. He that pushes a man out and goes for the man, does He hate the man? we have come to the end of all things.
12. God has come for you and I. This is now our own turn. God said that this is the continuation of the Church in the Wilderness, where our testimony will be testimony of victory.
13. In the days of Joshua, they never fought any war. God was chasing their enemies away. Who can claim he has fought any war here? Amen.
14. GOD HAS COUNTED ME WORTHY PUTTING ME INTO THIS MINISTRY; Pg. 89 vs. 8 – 9 I am saying that for you to have been adopted into this great and wonderful family, it is a wonderful privilege.
15. It is not a right.
16. Many were called but you and I were chosen. On the day Bishop Okoh dropped that verse of the Bible, we were three that were seated there, enjoying ourselves, but it pleased the LORD that the hook will go into my larynx and drag me to Him. And today, I am happy. One of them is dead. So, what is his fate?
17. It is not of him that willeth. It is not of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
18. Recognize your point of adoption into this family. In time past, you were enemies to this Faith, you were enemies to this family, but today you are not only friends but members of this household.
19. You now share in all inheritances of this household. Why? There is One that appeared in whom you have your way into this family. If I did not come your way, you would have remained enemies till now.
20. All that have not come My way by the preaching of this Gospel Truth, have they found themselves into this family? Now, have you recognized the point of your adoption into this family?
21. It is not because you applied. Nobody applied. We were even moving far away from God. Amen.
22. GOD HAS COUNTED ME WORTHY PUTTING ME INTO THIS MINISTRY; Pg. 109 vs. 6 – 9 I believe with all My heart that I know those I have chosen. And those I have chosen, they know they have been chosen by Me.
23. We are sustained by our experience. God knows the heart of man, that He will need to prove Himself to you. He will need to prove His Word to you, for He will allow you to pass some experiences to sustain our faith.
24. That is why He was telling us this morning that if we love our Brother, Apostle Ugonna of Lagos Household, we should pray for him, that his faith fail not.
25. He is passing through an experience that will, at the end of the day and by the grace of God, strengthen his faith in THE SON OF MAN.
26. He [God] willed it that we come in. He willed it that we will be strongly rooted in Him. So he has been passing us through some experiences we cannot deny. They are experiences no false doctrine can take us away from.
27. We never designed those experiences. We never paid any tuition fee to learn. He is the one that determines what we will pass through at any point in time. And at the end of the day, the testimony of God’s victory strengthens our faith in Him.
28. You did not choose Me for one day. I chose you. Even if you were asked to choose Me, you would have rejected Me. Many of you were even running away from Me.
29. I was hunting you from place to place, even using hardship to make you stop somewhere. Even using sickness to make you stop somewhere, for if you fail to stop, you will fly away beyond My reach. Hence you have to stop somewhere. While you will be running around it, I will meet you there.
30. You were wandering without any hope of salvation. God was not even in your programme. That is why, whatever comes your way, as long as you are an Elect, it is predestinated by God. Thus, take it that those He had chosen to survive will survive.
31. He has chosen you to survive. If He has not chosen you, why has He invited you to this Meeting? I think all that are members of His family have already survived.
32. Note it. Not that they will. That is why hellfire is not mentioned in the Kingdom. We speak hellfire to them that are without (outside the Ark). Not inside the Ark. We are safe and secure from all alarms.
33. There is a thanksgiving Message BE PATIENT WITH GOD, preached at the Household of God, Port Harcourt on 14th December, 2014 on the day we were rejoicing exceedingly, for another experience turned out to be joyful. And the LORD spoke lavishly and wonderfully concerning you and I.
34. BE PATIENT WITH GOD; Pg. 56 vs. 24 – 27 The ways of God are too high and they passeth human understanding. There is no one that knows the mind of the Father except the Son who is in the bosom of the Father.
35. You do not know what righteousness is all about. You only know religious righteousness,… Yes! traditional and customary righteousness. Sure!
36. What your people generally accept as their norms. If you do it, you are acceptable to your community. If you do not do it, your community will say No. So it is with religion.
37. But God rigs away religion, rigs away custom, rigs away tradition, rigs away everything so that all glory will go to Him and Him alone. Rewind! Rewind!
38. The ways of God are too high and they passeth human understanding. There is no one that knows the mind of the Father except the Son who is in the bosom of the Father.
39. You do not know what righteousness is all about. You only know religious righteousness,… Yes! traditional and customary righteousness.… Sure! …What your people generally accept as their norms. If you do it, you are acceptable to your community. If you do not do it, your community will say No. So it is with religion.
40. But God rigs away religion, rigs away custom, rigs away tradition, rigs away everything so that all glory will go to Him and Him alone. Sure!
41. If a man can be saved by his own righteousness, he has reasons to boast. But as far as this salvation is concerned, nobody can boast before God. Pure truth!
42. It is not of him that willeth. It is not of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. The buck stops on the table of THE SON OF MAN who called us in righteousness.
43. He has even fortified us, established us in the Faith that is found only in Him. We came with nothing. All we came into this Faith with are dangerous implements, dangerous equipment, dangerous insinuations, dangerous philosophies, dangerous and divisive things that are counter-productive. Little by little, He kept disarming us one after the other. Amen.
44. This truth is very open and clear.
45. GOD’S OWN MARK OF OWNERSHIP, Preached on 27th June 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha by the Almighty Himself. Pg. 22 vs. 7 – 10.
46. …And because of what Christ did, all you others too, who hear the good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ…
47. You others too who heard the good news on how to be saved, and trust Christ, even this trusting is not of your own making. Somebody made you to trust Him. It is God’s doing. If God does not help you, you cannot trust.
48. You cannot believe. It is the grace of God, lest any man should begin to boast. No! You contributed nothing to your salvation. Sure! God wants to save you because He wants to save you. Period! …Because he wants to save you, the Bible said that He has given you a believing heart to believe the truth.
49. Those he does not want to give a believing heart they are still encamped in the denominations, believing lies and countering the truth.
50. When you come face to face with them, the viciousness with which they will hold on to their imaginary God will baffle you.
51. But HE that has come for our salvation gave us everything: The mechanics, the dynamics. He called you and I.
52. He now put a different mechanism in us to believe Him, so that when the truth goes out, instead of frowning like other people do, we rejoice, we clap hands and we jump up; not hypocritically, but truly believing that what we heard is the truth, for it agrees with what He has put in us. Amen.
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BE PATIENT WITH GOD; Preached on Sunday 14th December, 2014; Pg. 67 vs. 29. If God does not give you a believing heart, what I am saying will be sounding strange to you. And the more I speak, the more you stumble.
2. I AM HERE STANDING AS A ROCK OF OFFENCE WHERE PEOPLE STUMBLE AT. And what is that thing? They stumble at the WORD.
3. Everybody you call friend, neighbour, relation, you enjoy everything whenever you come in contact with that person, but once the Word of God leaves your lips, strife comes in. Division comes in. Hatred comes in.
4. SONG: [Neighbours are kind. I love them, everyone. We get along in sweet accord. But when my souls needs manna from above, where could I go but to the LORD?
5. Where could I go o? Where could I go, seeking a refuge for my soul? Needing a friend to help me till the end. Where could I go but to the LORD?] Amen.
6. BE PATIENT WITH GOD; Preached on Sunday 14th December, 2014; Pg. 68 vs. 31. The stumbled at the Word. That is why I have espoused the Elect of God to the Word of God. To the Word of their testimony which is able to save their souls and give them a place among those that are sanctified by the Faith that is in Me. Sure! Sure!
7. Not the one we had before. Our preconceived idea of what salvation should be. Sanctification is a definite experience.
8. It is just as we are seated here. Nobody can deny the goodness of the LORD. It is better felt. You may not be able to explain it, because most times, it comes in mysterious ways.
9. That is truth.
10. You may not be able to explain it, but you know it is there. Amen.
11. BE PATIENT WITH GOD; Preached on Sunday 14th December, 2014; Pg. 81 vs. 9 – 10. IF THERE IS A PROBLEM PERPLEXING YOUR SOUL, IT IS THERE BECAUSE THE LORD HAS NOT STEPPED INTO IT. What?
12. IF THERE IS A PROBLEM PERPLEXING YOUR SOUL, IT IS THERE BECAUSE THE LORD HAS NOT STEPPED IN. Period!
13. THE HOUR FOR GOD TO STEP INTO IT HAS NOT YET COME. 10WHEN THE TIME COMES, NOBODY WILL PUT GOD IN REMEMBRANCE. HE WILL REMEMBER HIS OATH. HE WILL REMEMBER HIS PROMISE.
14. HE MUST GO IN THERE AT A TIME WHEN YOU MIGHT NOT BE EXPECTING HIS VISITATION, SO THAT ALL GLORY WILL BE TO HIM ALONE.
15. God has told us severally that you do not point out anybody for death. The same way, nobody points the fly to anything that is smelly. Amen.
16. BE PATIENT WITH GOD; Preached on Sunday 14th December, 2014; Pg. 82 vs. 13 – 14. How does God come your way? When? When God comes your way, or when he wants to come, he does not wait for your invitation. If God wants to come your way, He will not even draw your attention.
17. Even those that were born into this Faith, do you have a proof of the agreement you had with God that your parents will give birth to you and you will be in the Bride of Christ Ministry?
18. He will come because He has remembered you and He will surely come. So, all you need in everything is to have patience. That is why I gave you a Message ahead of time, YOU HAVE NEED OF PATIENCE.
19. Even the translation of our mortal bodies, He has severally told us that where he has brought us, we cannot do anything from now on. All we have to do is to wait. Even the remaining things that have to be done, we cannot do anything about it.
20. Even the patience we are talking about, with God saying, “BE PATIENT WITH ME”, is there anybody who knows the meaning of patience? It is He that has built His wall to restraint us, calling us LIONS IN CHAIN that has made us to be patient, waiting for Him.
21. BE PATIENT WITH GOD; Pg. 120 vs. 38 – 42. He was there to prove that He was the resurrection and the life. No more. No less. FOR ANYTHING GOD DOES, THERE IS A PURPOSE. FOR ANYTHING GOD DOES, THERE IS A PURPOSE. There is a purpose. I want to say something.
22. IF YOU ARE OF GOD AND YOU ARE SURE AND CERTAIN THAT YOU HAVE IMPLICIT TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN JEHOVAH – YOUR MAKER, SERVING HIS INTEREST WITHOUT HYPOCRISY,
23. LET ME TELL YOU, THE DEVIL HAS NO HAND IN ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU.
24. We do not run helter-skelter. Every experience is to fortify us in Him that has called us to Glory and virtue.
25. GO AND TRACE IT. IT IS GOD FROM THE BEGINNING TILL THE END.
26. FOR GOD TO HUMBLE SOMEBODY DOWN, HE KNOWS HOW TO DO IT. WHEN HE WANTS TO EXALT SOMEBODY, HE KNOWS HOW TO DO IT. HE KNOWS HOW TO FRUSTRATE A MAN’S AMBITION FOR HIS OWN PURPOSE.
27. THAT IS WHY I SAID TO EVERY SEED OF GOD, “ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THEM THAT LOVE GOD. TO THEM THAT ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.” [Romans 8:28]
28. THINGS HAPPEN TO CHILDREN OF GOD ACCORDING TO GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE WHICH HE HAD ALREADY PURPOSED IN HIMSELF CONCERNING THAT PERSON BEFORE THE WORLD BEGAN.
29. It must be according to God’s purpose and not according to your own purpose. Amen.
30. If things had happened according to my own purpose, maybe I will have reasons to glory.
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GOD WORKS ACROSS PURPOSES
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rethren, I want to share this testimony so that you will understand a little of what we are talking about.
2. Even when God sends you on an errand, if He does not follow you, you are bound to fail. Remember, God sent the young prophet. For you to go and come back successfully, He has to go with you.
3. Out of exuberance, ignorance and may be out of stupidity and blindness, I enlisted into the cult in my third year (300 level) in the university in 1995.
4. When William Branham said that some people will struggle into hellfire, believe him. I was entering all types of bushes. I was beaten by my fellow students with sticks and belts for close to one year.
5. I was being humiliated and I was still going further. Why? I wanted to be something. Why do I want be that something? I do not know.
6. So, in the course of enlisting, we passed through all those experiences. Some people failed the tests. I got in.
7. On the day of our initiation, I do not even know the place, even as I am talking to you now. We were taken to another bush, beaten almost all through the night.
8. Before then, we were told to dress very well and we dressed very well. When we got there, with the white shirt, we were rolling on the ground and experiencing all manner of dehumanization.
9. At the end of the day, we were taken to the oath. I am speaking to our young Brethren. I am also speaking to our desperate fathers. Yes! EVERY ASSOCIATION ON EARTH IS A RELIGIOUS GROUP.
10. If you enlisted out of ignorance they are lying towards a belief system that dovetails to an idol. That is truth!
11. When you take an oath, at the end of the day, you say, “So help me God.” On that night of my initiation, after reciting all the thing they wrote there, beautiful and wonderful things on how to make Nigeria good and “to fight off these barmy governments”, the much I could remember, we say, “So help me Bacchus.”
12. Bacchus is the Greek god of alcohol. And I battled alcohol until, the day the Lord preached the Message, THERE IS NO HABIT THAT IS UNBREAKEABLE.
13. Through the words that came from His mouth, He restrained Me from alcohol. 1995 – 2018.
14. We were fifteen that were initiated that day. How many of the fifteen are in Christ? How many of the fifteen are saved? How many of the fifteen are alive? But I am alive, with my God.
15. Brethren, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
16. Before one year elapsed, I got disenchanted with the group. I wrote a letter, the same letter I wrote before I joined. I wrote a letter denouncing my membership.
17. I ran into the Roman Catholic Church. They [the cultists] allowed me be but they were watching me. Under normal circumstances as a student, you do not denounce the cult and walk the streets of the university free.
18. They were watching me. Two were my classmates. They were watching me. After one year, I got disenchanted with the Roman Catholic Church because I did not see what I was looking for and I was not at rest.
19. What did I do? I went back to where I came from. On that day, I drank, I smoked and we were drumming till almost the wee hours of the morning as they were celebrating my coming back.
20. It was so celebrated that our neighbours in the boys’ quarters of the staff quarters of the University of Nigeria Nsukka knew that some people were happy in that boys’ quarters, drumming and drinking and singing till it was almost daybreak. The lost one is back.
21. I willed that I leave that association, but as at that time, God’s own time has not come. When it was His time to rescue me, I had already clocked 15 years in the cult.
22. It was time to elect a new capon that will head Enugu state. I was not in the leadership lineage and I was not even the favourite for it. They trumped up charges and then suspended me for one year.
23. Unknown to them, the Word of God has come to me and I was even wondering, “How do I now extricate myself from this cult?”
24. As at that time, I was very friendly with Bishop Okoh who was the person God used to fish me home. So, I was just wondering, “What do I do? How do I leave this cult group?” hatred was now brewing between myself and them. There was nothing I did which is good before them, but I was looking for an opportunity.
25. As that election for their new Capone was coming up, they had a choice candidate. The ruling cabal had a choice candidate.
26. They felt I would be a threat because many of the members loved me. So, they trumped up charges and then suspended me. I said, “PRAISE GOD!” I escaped.
27. A month later, after the election, they said there is an amnesty and that all that were suspended had been given amnesty to come back. I then said, “Good! You have reminded me something. I have not written a resignation later.”
28. I wrote a two-sentence letter of resignation, took it to them and ran away. Unknown to me for it was much later I found out that the person I gave my letter was the person they elected as their new Capone, who incidentally was the third person that was there the day the Message of salvation came.
29. It is not of him that willeth. It is not of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. It just suited the purpose of the Almighty God that I should come out from that cult, otherwise, I would not have been able to do that. Amen.
30. In the course of my journey in Christ, I started fellowship with my first son, but my wife did not quite understand what I was talking about. I was uncomfortable.
31. She took in for our first daughter and that was her second pregnancy. Towards the time of delivery, we went for a scan. When the scan result came out, she went to see the doctor.
32. I did not go with her, but the doctor told her when she went there that she should go and bring me. I went back with her and the doctor said that I should choose between Tuesday and Thursday of the next week because what she has is type 2 placenta Previa, meaning that baby was neither presenting with the head or the legs.
33. The baby was in a bridge configuration. And worse still, the placenta was presenting before the baby. So the placenta was blocking the entrance to the womb and the only thing that could be done was surgery.
34. There was a man that died in Apostle Ojiakor’s family and so the burial came up. I spoke to the LORD about the scan result and he instructed that I should bring the scan to Umuoji.
35. I travelled to Umuoji. The Brethren from Onitsha were there that day. So, in our normal way of rejoicing, even a mad man decided to add colour to our gathering.
36. He was there running some little errands for us and the LORD insisted that we should not chase him away and that he should stay.
37. So when the LORD beheld the scan result, He just asked, “Apostle Ojiakor, do we still talk about this type of thing in this Faith?”
38. The next thing the LORD said was, “Which day is 18th?” the Brethren chorused, “Sunday!” He instructed, “On the 18th, take your wife to the hospital.”
39. On Sunday morning I took my wife to the hospital and then called the doctor. The doctor told me that he gave Me Tuesday or Thursday and that I never got back to him.
40. So, the doctor said that I should instead, take my wife to any other hospital, for he does not have any other thing to do.
41. I do not know what gave me that courage and I just asked him, “Could you please give me a referral note?” He said that he was coming.
42. He came to the hospital and gave me a referral note, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. We took the referral note and dashed off straight to Parklane Teaching Hospital, Enugu.
43. It was as if we were playing. We got to Parklane. The nurses, as a result of the policy of the hospital were unfriendly because she does not have any history of ante-natal service with them.
44. They were very averse to touching her. But they had their little disagreement about who will buy breakfast for them and who will not. I cashed in on the opportunity and bought breakfast to create friendliness.
45. My wife’s aunt who was with us was working at Parklane hospital before state creation, when she left the services of the hospital.
46. She started appealing to them. My mother in-law was also a nurse that worked in the hospital and they were all appealing to them.
47. Looking at her, God changed their hearts and they felt pity for their fellow woman in labour. They just instructed me to go and get a folder so they may attempt helping out. I ran out straight away and got a folder which I brought to them.
48. The long and short of it all is that, as at the time the Brethren were still in Fellowship, at about 1 o’clock [pm] that Sunday, I called Apostle Kelechi to tell him that my wife had delivered.
49. Brethren do you know the wonderful thing about it? Only nurses were there, the only doctor there was one senior house officer I met in 2004.
50. I met him as a final year medical student who came looking for his brother who was also a doctor at the Parklane and who incidentally was the same person I came to see there.
51. That house officer will only peep through the labour room door and enquire if the nurses had any challenge. The nurses will gladly reply that there was none.
52. At the end of the day, God used only nurses to deliver a baby, of whom scan and every other thing had declared impossible to be delivered unless via a caesarean section. No doctor was there.
53. In other for God to show His mighty hand, that unit where my wife delivered her baby was still the same unit where that consultant that rejected us was working. So when he came for his routine ward-round in the evening, he saw my wife and the baby. God works across purposes.
54. I am sharing these experiences because, when the chips are down and I remember them, I get strengthened, knowing that I am not alone.
55. The LORD said that Wednesday fellowship is for the children of God, while Sunday fellowship is for everybody, a crusade.
56. We went for our Wednesday Fellowship in Enugu Household. Midway during the Fellowship, a very torrential rainfall started. It was raining cat and dog.
57. It was so heavy that when we dismissed from Fellowship, and we decided to brave the rain after some time, Sister Ozioma’s son who came to carry us to Phase 6 [in Trans-Ekulu] was having difficulties.
58. The windscreen wipers were operating at the highest frequency, but he could not see very well. Many places were flooded.
59. I got home and decided to stay so that when it is 7:30 or 8pm, I would the go and lock up my shop. I decided I would not go there for business since the rain must have driven people to their various homes.
60. On a second thought after we got home, I went to my shop. Around 7 0’clock in the evening. I found out that from every shop around the Phase 6 junction of Sani Abacha Street, Trans-Ekulu, the owners were not scooping just water but also mud from their shops.
61. My small tiger generator that was outside had already been covered by mud. If this hall gets flooded, small pieces of grasses and dry woods and things like that will show you the level of the flooding when it recedes.
62. I came to the slide door to my shop which was the only thing I locked, for the metal door was open. I look at the door and cried that flood has finished me here. I put my key and opened the slide door.
63. I looked at the floor and it was clear. I was wondering whether the water had settled and cleared. I put my finger on the floor and behold, it was dry.
64. My shop turned to a tourist attraction. Everybody was coming to ask me, “So the flood did not enter your shop?” and I would retort, “How can my shop be flooded? The Owner of the rain also owns the shop.”
65. But for God to tell me that it is HE that is doing the job, He decided to waste the generator that was outside, which we later recovered.
66. Bro Lucky helped me to revamp that generator. He cleaned the mud and everything and the generator served me the next day.
67. As for the flood, not even a drop of water entered my shop. I do not really know what to say again. It is the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Amen.
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THE ROCK OF AGES IS ALSO THE ROCK OF OFFENCE
BLOW THE TRUMPET IN ZION VOLUME 2 PART 2; Preached on Sunday 25th May 2014; Pg. 105 vs. 58, 60. Let us put our hands together. Not our righteousness, not our power, but the one that is imputed unto us by THE SON OF MAN, who is our Bridge, our Link, our Chief Designer, our Chief Instructor, our Saviour, our Leader, our Guide! Oh, everything for us.
2. God gets offended when any of us is behaving or walking as if it is through our effort or power or righteousness that we shall be saved.
3. If all of us will always and forever give God glory for imputing this righteousness on us, because righteousness is not attained. Rather, it is imputed. He has imputed it on us.
4. It is a gift. Even the Faith of Abraham which the LORD has proclaimed in this very Ministry. If he gives to you, you will express it. If He does not give it to you, you cannot express it.
5. Some of our Brethren who have come face to face with death and who also vowed to die for the Faith, it is because of what God has put in them.
6. The same faith that made little boy David to face Goliath. David did not fight Goliath because he was David or because his father was Jesse.
7. He made a proclamation before he flung the stone from his catapult, “I come against you uncircumcised Philistine in the name of the LORD God of Israel.” Amen.
8. So when we do or testify in such a way as to suggest that we have become experts, and that it is because of our expertise, education, intelligence, smartness, God sees this as an insolent thing to do.
9. We must have to give Glory to whom Glory is due. And we know He who deserves our praise, honour and glory. Amen.
10. BE YE PERFECT, FOR I YOUR LORD AM PERFECT PART 1; Preached on Sunday 3rd March, 1996; Pg. 51 vs. 68 – 70
11. GOD WILL SAVE US NOT BECAUSE WE HAVE BELIEVED HIM. He is saving His Name. Psalms 91 said, “Because you have known My Name I will save you.”
12. And in this Ministry, we have a Message that ran from volume 1 through 3, THE REVELATION OF THE NAME OF GOD AND IT POWER.
14. He has revealed His name to us because He wants to save us. We did not know that name before now. We did not get it through study. We did not get it through the university education. It is not in the market place. It is not as a result of your wealth that God has made it known to you.
15. It is because He wants to save you. That is why He told you, “Come! My Name is this. Whenever you are in trouble, use it.” Amen.
16. There are many people that will not know the Name of God until God will take away the people. Do you think it is easy to know the Name of God? From all the ages God decided to be hiding His Name.
17. Even telling Manoah, the father of Samson the Great, “Why ask of My Name, seeing that I have kept it as a secret.”
18. To them that are of the Faith, he will first of all, unveil Himself and tell them, “I AM HE. THIS IS MY NAME.” Amen.
19. BE YE PERFECT, FOR I YOUR LORD AM PERFECT PART 1; Preached on Sunday 3rd March, 1996; Pg. 53 vs. 79 – 80. Christ is the mystery of God revealed.
20. Christ is revealed. Christ is not discovered. Nobody discovers Christ. Both believer and unbelievers stumble on Him.
21. On one side, he is the Rock of Ages [The Rock of eternal Salvation] while on the other side, he is the Rock of offence [The Stumbling Block].
22. For you and I, he made it possible that we saw the other side, the very friendly and welcoming side, the salvation side, that we now call Him, “THE ROCK OF AGES.”
23. A lot of people see Him as a rock of offence because when His Word goes forth, they get offended. That is the way He has willed it for them, but for you and I, He remains the Rock of Ages. Amen.
24. Christ is the mystery of God revealed. It is mystery that is hidden since the ages gone by, but in our day it is revealed.
Similarly (to complete My Blessings on you) WE HAVE SENT AMONG YOU A MESSENGER (Muhammad) OF YOUR OWN, reciting to you Our Verses (the Qur’ân) and sanctifying you, and teaching you the Book (the Qur’ân) and the Hikmah (i.e. Sunnah, Islâmic laws and Fiqh – jurisprudence), and teaching you that which you used not to know. HOLY QURAH: SURAH 2:151 with
25. Nobody can know God, except whom God revealeth Himself. It must be by divine revelation. Amen.
26. BE PATIENT WITH GOD, preached at the Household of God, Port Harcourt on 14th December, 2014. This Message is a testimony of the victory of God as it went forth in Port Harcourt in 2014.
27. Pg. 50 vs. 21 – 26 I AM NOT STRIVING TO SAVE ANYBODY FROM THE WORLD. NO! I AM ONLY STRIVING TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE ARK ARE COMPLETELY SECURED. THAT IS MY DUTY FOR NOW.
28. IT IS NOT PUTTING SOMEBODY IN THE ARK THAT MATTERS. IT IS GUARANTEEING THE SECURITY OF THE PERSON TILL THE END OF THE JOURNEY.
29. IT IS NOT BOARDING THE AEROPLANE THAT COUNTS. IT IS LANDING SAFELY AT THE APPROVED DESTINATION.
30. I told you that I am greater than the pilot in the aeroplane. The lives of millions of people worldwide are entrusted into My care. I do not say it so that you can begin to clap hands for Me.
31. You know that every week, we have not less than three hundred thousand persons that feed from the website alone, coupled with the millions that have heard the Gospel of Christ through the Message of THE SON OF MAN.
32. And they have pinned their hopes in Me. What a disappointment it will be, if at the end of the road, they will not be in Paradise.
33. This is God making you feel “come what may, O SON OF MAN, I am solidly behind you.” It is not of my own making. Neither is it of your own making.
34. He that has called you, vowing that it is taking you to Paradise that matters, so that as he tells us on a regular basis, “On that day, you will say, “Of a truth, the Elohim dwelleth in THE SON OF MAN.”” Amen.
35. Of what essence are these signs and wonders [and] this great event that no human being in this dispensation can boast of?
36. The essence of all these experiences is to sustain us in this very Ark, in this very movement and in this very faith until that day when our joy will know no bounds. All these little little distractions that we are having here and there will be seen no more.
37. We are like a people whose leader has led us to a point where we are wondering, “Can we pass through this?”, and He says, “You see all these numerous problems you are encountering, you will soon see them no more.”
38. That was the experience when they got to the Red Sea. And then Moses put his back against the Egyptians, who represents all the challenges, all the distractions, all the insinuations, all the seductive moves the devil is making to seduce us away from Him.
39. He has put His back towards them and has put them into darkness, so that from the point of view of this Faith, you and I can see the nakedness, the foolishness, the idiocy or stupidity of those that are outside this Faith. Amen.
40. CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED; Preached on Sunday 13th May 2018: Pg. 30 vs. 6 – 11.
41. It is still about the history of the Faith. Some of our Brethren who are still alive in the Faith have been in this race since the 30th of December, 1992.
42. But of the things that are part of the history of this Faith, the only testimony they can give is “I WAS THERE” and not “it got to this point, I contributed this. The LORD told me and I contributed that”, for it is the LORD alone that has been doing it, to confound the unbelieving world and to strengthen you and I.
43. This is so that, at the end of the day, he will empty us into the place of unlimited happiness.
44. We were just there in My house. I told all the Elders that were with Me to download THE BRIDAL COMPENDIUM. They thought I was crazy. Pastor Thomas pulled out his handset. Pastor Chizoba pulled out his own. Before their eyes, they downloaded THE BRIDAL COMPENDIUM on Thursday by 4: 00pm.
45. Remember, on the Sunday preceding this Thursday, the LORD was sharing the testimony of the Compendium and said that we should pray that before the end of month, the Compendium will be in the website.
46. But 4 days later, without the help of any living human being, the LORD put it on the web, for all to feed on. If you cannot buy one, browse.
47. It is not a surprise because by the time I launched the Bridal Ministry into the web, I reasoned with no flesh. I reasoned with no blood. Nobody was by My side. I only made a promise and I said, “Brethren, I am about to achieve a feat. I am embarking on it. In the next three months, I bet you, the whole world will know about this Faith in the web. Just pray for Me.”
48. I went about it. In two weeks, Brethren gathered in My house and I told them to open their handsets and they will see The Bride of Christ Ministry up there. They were shocked. We started with 8 responses, 12 responses, 3 countries, seven countries.
49. Before we knew it, the thing became a wild fire. Like it is right now. Then I launched more of the websites until I completed them four to enable you know that people are actually going in there.
50. I launched one where every information will be stored and printed out for you to know that people are actually reading the books. That is the website for the Chronicles of the Bridal Faith.
51. Before we knew it, they started sending correspondences, appreciating God for what He is doing. A sure sign that we are not wasting our time. But why must you help others to be saved when you are heading to hell because of your willful disobedience?
52. So, this time around, we launched the thing in less than four days. The whole world started reading THE BRIDAL COMPENDIUM.
53. This is the testimony of the Bridal Compendium. I did not contribute and you did not contribute, but he did it.
54. At the end of the day, when He is glorified by the confessions of people, “This Faith is wonderful”, then we will come around.
55. He moves around with His own T-shirt and we equally move around with our own T-shirt. He moves around with His doctrine and we move around with that same doctrine.
56. Whenever victory goes to the Faith, victory goes to the person from whose mouth God made that Word to go forth. The same Word. So, we contribute virtually nothing.
57. This is something that should give us the disposition of thanksgiving 24 hours of the day. From nothing, and now we have everything. Amen.
There is nothing good in Me that can attract the world; a man of sorrow, a man that is misunderstood by all – except the Elect. Many shall be offended by Me, but blessed is he or she that will not be offended by Me. The Greatest gift God has given to this generation is THE SON OF MAN – The Eternal Spirit. Any Spirit you yield to is the Spirit that will possess you. Believe it if you can.
58. 9TH NOVEMBER 2008
59. (Also found in HE HAS COME, HE HAS GONE; Preached on 23rd September 2012; Pg. 3)
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OF OUR OWN, WE CAN DO NOTHING
THE LORD SHALL JUDGE AND VINDICATE HIS PEOPLE VOLUME 1; Preached on Sunday 11th February, 2018; Pg. 40 vs. 25, 28 – 29, 32 – 35.
2. I AM THE ETERNAL WORD OF GOD. I FULFILL MY PURPOSE AND I KNOW WHEN MY PURPOSE IS FULFILLED. I AM NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE EXCEPT IN MY WORD. A WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF MY MOUTH DOES NOT COME BACK TO ME VOID.
3. If you are a Seed of God, one thing is clear. You fulfill the Word of God ignorantly. Samuel told the people of Israel, “It is true you have offended God, but do not ever turn your back against Him. Remember He is the Almighty. He formed you. He created you.
4. “He brought you into existence. He has called you his own people. I am sure He will never forsake you. Do not ever withdraw from Him. Rather, follow Him gradually, gently, pleading your case. Towards the end, He may set you free for His Name’s sake. Not for your sake.”
5. It is not because you prayed. It is not because you cried. It is for his Name’s sake because originally, he has called you by His Name. FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE. NOT FOR YOUR SAKE.
6. If you come to a point in this Faith where you appear to be confused, go back to The Great Sermon. You must find your way back to God. You must find your way back to God.
7. I do not care the situation you are in, the solution is there. You have not found it because you have not taken time to pray for guidance into the particular topic that treated your condition.
8. For there is no condition anybody can find him or herself in this Bridal Faith that has not been taken care of by THE SON OF MAN ahead of time. He that made an atonement before human beings came into existence; did He not know that they must err?
9. That is why God told us, “The devil is holding you down; the opposing spirit is challenging your conscience with the things you did yesterday and with your present condition, but it does not know your future.” It does not know your future. Amen.
10. Thus, He took precaution so that the enemy will not take advantage over Him. He had made a provision for us, even before LET THERE BE LIGHT. An atonement.
11. Thus, He took precaution so that the enemy will not take advantage over Him. He, ahead of time, prevented that disaster.
12. What is left for you and I? THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE as we see the day approaching. Amen.
13. Let us visit the Great Sermon on this all important matter. It is not of him that willeth. It is not of him that runneth. It is if God that showeth mercy.
14. THE GREAT SERMON (EPISTLE 17: WITHOUT ME, YOU CAN DO NOTHING, CHAPTER 1) Pg. 377 vs. 32 – 33 This is the time every true Elect of God must stand on his personal revelation of who THE SON OF MAN is and what His Message is all about, and also the purpose for which He is sent.
15. If you’re measuring or judging Him by His inability to alleviate your financial, domestic, physical etc., hardship, you will end it calling Him devil like your father did. But if you judge Him by having the Words of eternal life, you will surely acknowledge Him as God.
16. THE GREAT SERMON; Pg. 378 vs. 39 – 41. To as many of you as have believed in Christ that is revealed in the Bride, you must realize that He is the One who invited you and caused you to believe Him.
17. He is the One that invited you when your time came. He is the One that also invited me when my time came. I DID NOT CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING. I DID NOT PRAY FOR IT. I WAS NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT GOD WHEN HE CAME MY WAY.
18. If you were to choose a place of worship or a man of God, you will never choose this Faith. Neither will you acquaint yourself with this Man of God or ‘God-Man’ that is revealed among us.
19. He that has called you is able to sustain and see you through; because without Him, you can do nothing. Basically nothing. He is able. Abundantly able to fulfill that which He has promised us.
20. What we are holding is the promise and the name of the promise is IT MUST COME TO PASS. We are only waiting for time. Just like every other thing that has been happening that leads us to testimonies and songs of praises, that one will happen. Amen.
21. THE GREAT SERMON; Pg. 379 vs. 48 – 49 This spiritual blindness or inability for one to recognize the way of salvation that is meant for God’s people, is the worst blindness. This was the type of blindness the Jews suffered. It is the blindness that Christ was sent to cure.
22. This blindness was in the minds of the gentiles until Saint Paul was sent to them. This blindness was also in your minds till God sent His own Son, (The Son of His pleasure) to you to open your eyes of understanding and make your sacrifices acceptable unto God.
23. In the days of Jesus, he told them, “For judgment have I come that those who say they see will be made blind, and those who are blind will be made to see.” [John 9:39]
24. Before now, even as it is continuing, you see people on radio, on the street sides, on television and everywhere saying, “The Lord spoke to me. The Lord spoke to me”, and you will be wondering, “Which LORD? Which God?”
25. THE GREAT SERMON; Pg. 380 vs. 59. He that has been dealing with us from the very beginning is God; He does anything He likes with us, because we are the clay and He is the potter. Whatever he does with us is out of His own good pleasure and He cannot be wrong and there is no unrighteousness in His actions.
26. All that the LORD has been doing from the very beginning till now are not for His own good. It is for our own good. In many of our Messages, you see where He said, “God cannot be lost.” Unbelievers are the people that will be lost.
27. But God, who made other people blind opened your eyes, gave you a clear vision that you do not see Him as trinity.
28. You see Him as THE MAN, THE SON OF MAN, THE SON OF HIS PLEASURE, THE FATHER HIMSELF, THE FATHER OF ALL SPIRITS, who has bequeathed us with the spirit of belief and the world with the spirit of unbelief.
29. We did not contribute anything. Rather we should be enjoying, jumping up and down by day or by night, no matter what, thanking God for Him.
30. There was a day we were in Fellowship in Umudike and a prayer line was going on. One of our Brother who was in the pulpit was praying, thanking God for all that He has done for us, and also thanking God for the things that He did not do for us.
31. Those things God does for us are His own purpose. IF YOU WANT GOD TO DO YOUR OWN WILL, YOU MAY NOT SEE 6PM TODAY, AND I MAY NOT SEE 6PM TODAY.
32. THIS IS BECAUSE, MAN BY NATURE, DOES NOT THINK GOOD OF HIMSELF. But His thought for you and I are thoughts of good and not thoughts of evil, to make us have an expected end, which is Paradise – Eternal life. Amen.
33. CHURCH ORDER; Preached on 13th April, 1993. Pg. 104 vs. 66. ALL OF YOU THAT ARE IN THIS CHURCH ARE THE SEAL OF MY APOSTLESHIP. Rewind!
34. ALL OF YOU THAT ARE IN THIS CHURCH ARE THE SEAL OF MY APOSTLESHIP.
35. FROM THE BEGINNING, FROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST, WITHOUT THIS GOSPEL, NONE OF YOU WILL BE SAVED.
36. IS THERE ANY NUGGET THAT CAN BE CREDITED TO THE SON OF MAN WHICH ANY BODY CAME INTO THIS FAITH WITH? Even the proverbs and idioms that we use to hear, God has knocked them into shape to give what they are supposed to be originally.
37. We came in with counterfeits. In short, we were moving towards our caskets.
38. THAT IS WHY THIS GOSPEL SHOULD GO TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, SO AS TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE.
39. THE MYSTERY OF ANGELS VOLUME 1; Preached on 26th December, 1996; Pg. 55 vs. 4. EVERYTHING IS BY GOD’S GRACE. THAT IS WHY NO MAN CAN BOAST. YOU ARE NOT SAVED TODAY.
40. YOU WERE SAVED BEFORE YOU CAME INTO THIS WORLD. I AM ONLY CALLED TO BRING YOU BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM. THAT’S ALL.
41. Calling us back? Is the person being called back not straying away? You do not call back somebody who is comfortably seated where he or she should be found. You only call back somebody who is straying away.
42. In our intelligence and in our own wisdom, we thought we were doing good. But it took He that made you and I to know that we were straying away from Him, ignorantly worshipping trinity, worshipping imaginary gods and paying allegiance to those things that are no God.
43. This is beyond AS I THOUGHT ON MY WAYS. If you can think on your ways, it is when you have been called back, and God gives you the spirit of re-examination.
44. Then, the Word and your life are placed before you. It is only then you start examining, trying to find out whether you are living the life of the Word or not. If not, you may stray away, not knowing.
45. It is only God that can call you to re-examine yourself. It is not because the Messages are in your house. The Messages are, first of all, in our hearts. You start meditating.
46. You start thinking about yourself, simply because His Word has gone forth to be our Deacon. With that Word He has given to us, and is resting in our hearts, we find faults with certain things we do.
47. So, for you to say AS I THOUGHT ON MY WAYS, I thought on my ways does not have anything to do with what we were doing before we came into this Faith, for we were thinking about how to kill ourselves ignorantly.
48. Was there anyone that was thinking life for him/herself. Every way we were thinking was at variance to eternal life. Yes! Think of a situation where someone will finish one bottle of dry gin, all alone.
49. LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOLUME 1; Preached on 30th April, 2000; Pg. 12 vs. 13. I AM THE TRUE VINE (THE REVELATION OF GOD): Some people, you know, due to lack of revelation, think they are in “Peter Odoemena’s Church.”
50. Some even think that if they leave the Church, I am losing something. But let Me tell you. If you leave this Bridal Faith today, I am losing nothing.
51. If you come into this Church –Bridal Faith – I am gaining nothing. YOU ARE A BURDEN TO ME,…
52. This is because He has undertaken to make you feel good, make me feel good, package you to be good and acceptable and take you to Paradise.
53. And that is why you have constituted it as a burden. We are only a burden when we stray from the Word. If not for us, what will be bringing THE SON OF MAN into the valley of decision?
54. YOU ARE A BURDEN TO ME, BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN DO WITHOUT YOU, BUT YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT ME. I DO NOT NEED YOU, BUT YOU NEED ME.
55. AS FAR AS I LIVE, I AM THE TRUE VINE AND YOU ARE MY BRANCHES. YOU CAN ONLY BEAR FRUIT AND YOUR FRUIT WILL REMAIN, IF YOU ABIDE IN ME.
O mankind! Worship your Lord (God), Who created you and those who were before you so that you may become Al-Muttaqûn (the pious). Who has made the earth a resting place for you, and the sky as a canopy, and sent down water (rain) from the sky and brought forth therewith fruits as a provision for you. Then do not set up rivals unto God (in worship) while you know (that He Alone has the right to be worshipped). And if you (Arab pagans, Jews, and Christians) are in doubt concerning that which We have sent down (i.e. the Qur’ân) to Our slave
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THE GREATEST GIFT TO THE BRIDE IS THE SON OF MAN
GOD’S NATURE IS YOUR TICKET TO PARADISE; Preached on 9th January, 2011; Pg. 68 vs. 52 – 53. 52Do we merit it? Are you better than the people in the world? By grace, Israel was given a Saviour.
2. By grace, the Bride was given the Greatest Gift which is the Gift of THE SON OF MAN, not by merit. This is the difference between you and other people.
3. Even our testimony is different. We do not brag like the man that told me, “I prayed for it. We prayed for it.” How can you pray, when you do not even know when God wants to visit you? He visits at His own time.
4. Do not be tempted to boast if your prayer coincides with when God visits you. He did not visit you to answer your prayer. He visited you just because he has purposed to visit you.
5. If THE SON OF MAN has not been given to you, you would have been in the dark like the people in the world who are in the dark…. Amen.
6. GOD IS WORSHIPPED BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS; Preached on 21st July, 2013; Pg. 115 vs. 87 – 88. In the year 2001, I told you in this Faith, “do not destroy yourselves because of the Message of Grace. Something sweeter than Grace is on the way…”
7. Has it come to pass? Call Me bad for I am bad. BAD! I have made it impossible… God made it impossible, not you. I did not make it impossible.
8. It is THE SON OF MAN, through the unlimited power that is in Him who made it possible. This power was communicated to you through the Spoken Word of God.
9. We are only here, putting ourselves in remembrance, lest the sweetness of the level THE SON OF MAN has taken us to will make us start bragging.
10. I have made it impossible for anybody to associate with anything religious denomination.
11. I have succeeded in creating enmity in your hearts against any form of falsehood, all in the name of religion.
12. Wherever you hear somebody talking about God, you are already irritated because this person is talking about something he or she does not know anything about. We are not talking about, “Let us gather. Let us pray. It shall be marvelous.”
13. God had made it possible that we are insensitive to those kinds of ungodly calls. We do not put our sacrifices anywhere we see.
14. Those that travel long distances to Onitsha for worship, you will always notice that the police men you meet on the road, though not harsh, will always ask you, “Is there no other place of worship around for which cause you travel Onitsha?”
15. My landlord had asked me that question, “Don’t you have a place of worship here?” I told him that we have a fellowship centre, but I go to see My God there [in Onitsha], and the discussion ended. Yes! The discussion ended.
16. FORGET NOT WHAT YOUR EYES HAVE SEEN PART 2; Preached on 6th August, 2017; Pg. 21 vs. 1 – 4.
17. 1I want to admire the Camp. It is not by might, it is not by power, it is just by the Grace of God. We are not in any way better than the people out there.
18. 2He that opened our eyes of understanding blinded them. Not any other person. He said that He came so those that claim they see might be made blind, and those that said they are blind, their eyes might be opened. [John 9:39]
19. He gave some believing heart to believe the truth, and He gave some unbelieving heart to believe lies for the world lieth in wickedness.
20. Who did the selection? The Almighty God! Who included you in the number? The Almighty God! I only appeared to show you who you are and then for you to know who your God is.
21. I came to introduce Myself not to the world but to my own for my sheep must surely recognize Me. My stature may change, everything in Me may change but my Voice remaineth the same from generation to generation. That is the unchangeable thing in a human being.
22. It is not of him that willeth, not of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
23. We are being called by this rehearsal, not to forget thanksgiving, not to forget praise and not to forget worship. We are being put in remembrance because the person whose vision has being restored must see.
24. If the LORD has opened our spiritual eyes to know who He is, to hear His Voice and to know His demands, and because we did not contribute anything, we keep thanking Him.
25. The Bible said that out of the mouths of the sucklings and babes (infants that do not even know anything about life), He has perfected His praise.
26. Before today, you and I were not counted as anybody in any of the denominations we found ourselves. Even our children were not counted based on the worship of God.
27. They may be given awards for academic excellence. They may be given awards for technical excellence, but not for this truth.
28. THE ONLY PERSON THAT HAS CALLED YOU AND I, PLACED US ON THE HIGHEST LEVEL WHERE A HUMAN BEING CAN ATTAIN, REMAINS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE SON OF MAN.
29. What is it? He inhabits in the praise of His Saints. Having being called the Saints of God; in the last Ministers’ Meeting, He (THE SON OF MAN) called us the Honourable Ministers of the Most High God, whether you are man or woman, boy or girl.
30. So long as you are projecting the unadulterated Word of God with every amount of godly sincerity in you, you are a Minister of THE SON OF MAN, who is the Almighty God.
31. Having understood that we have been kept where presidents, kings and queens wanted to be but could not, what do we do? We can only say thank you LORD.
32. I thank you LORD for this opportunity given to me to share my experiences with my Brethren and I encourage all of to remain in Him eternally. Amen.
I AM NOT STRIVING TO SAVE ANYBODY FROM THE WORLD. NO! I AM ONLY STRIVING TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE ARK ARE COMPLETELY SECURED. THAT IS MY DUTY FOR NOW. IT IS NOT PUTTING SOMEBODY IN THE ARK THAT MATTERS. IT IS GUARANTEEING THE SECURITY OF THE PERSON TILL THE END OF THE JOURNEY.
– THE SON OF MAN