ENDEAVOUR TO RAISE YOUR SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS VOLUME ONE PREACHED ON WEDNESDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 2020. AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD OBINGWA, ABIA STATE NIGERIA BY TEACHER JAMES NNADI A book in the days of the son of man MEMORY VERSES:
“And after this I looked and behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me which said “come up hither and I will show thee things which must be here after. And immediately I was in the spirit, and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne” Rev.4:1-2KJV.
“I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Daniel 7:12-13.KJV.
EVERY TRUE MAN OF GOD WHO HOLDS THE WORD OF GOD MUST SURELY COME TO A POINT IN HIS MINISTRY, WHEN HIS ELDERS WILL DEPART; MANY OF HIS ELDERS WILL SAY; “NO, THIS ONE NA DEVIL,“ AND THEY WILL GO AWAY. IF THE
MINISTRY HAS NOT COME TO THAT POINT, IT IS NOT FROM GOD.
From the message “lo I am with you always vol 2 preached on 30th April 2000. Page 42 verse 2
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TAKE HEED YOU YOUNG MINISTERS OF NEW TESTAMENT
To God be the glory for the great things He has done. I am led to teach on this topic in appreciation of what God has done in our midst.
This message is dedicated to our young ministers who are now ordained ministers of the gospel of Christ in the ministry of the “Bride of Christ World Wide”.
Some of them are residing with The Son of man the Elohim himself like pastor Wisdom Odoemena, Apostle Chukwudi Odoemena, Evangelist Chibuikem Odemena, while others are residing with their parents in their local family setups worldwide.
So this ordination of the children as ministers is in fulfillment of the scriptures.
Scripture: “Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord and He shall turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” Malachi 4:5-6.KJV.
Our children, by God’s ordination, now have become the fathers and the Elders in mind, while the ancient men and the fathers are now given the heart of the children to be like little children. Any ancient man who refuses to have the heart of the children cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Scripture “And they brought young children to Him that He should touch them and His disciples rebuked those that brought them, but when Jesus saw it, He was much displeased and said unto them “suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God .
Verily I say unto you, whosoever shalth not receive the kingdom as a little child he shall not enter therein”. Mark.10:13-15KJV.
Likewise any child or youth who would refuse to take the heart of the ancient and fathers cannot inherit the kingdom of God.
I am happy and we should also be happy being led by grasshoppers to the promised land.
The Son of man, like any other Godly father is much happy seeing His children upholding this most Holy faith of Christ without wavering.
Only an ingrate will not be happy seeing his children doing very well in the Lord. Happy, blessed, and to be envied is the man who is surrounded by Godly children as the heavenly angels.
This is Godly treasure and everlasting legacy a good father can leave behind in his family.
To these vibrant young ministers I say endeavour to raise your spiritual consciousness in Christ for greater awareness and upliftment as we wait at the gate of paradise.
Look away from these old debunk, dead and backslidden ancient men, the dead wood that hang on the tree, these are the fallen angels who could not maintain their estate as we can see in the book of Jude and they have made shipwreck of their ministries.
They are envious of what God is doing, not knowing that envy and jealously is evidence of acceptance of failure. Their light have died down and you can only see the smoke of envy and jealousy coming out of their heads.
Do not allow anybody to underrate you because of your age or level of your education or stature or height for in Christ age and academic attainment do not count.
Look unto Christ the author and the finisher of our faith. As we can see from our memory verse, that the Bride must go up higher above the world, to be in the spirit of the hour.
Look up to heaven and look away from the world and the things that are in the world.
Scripture“ But all things that were gain to me, those I count lost for Christ, yea doubtless I count all things but loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count but dung that I may I win Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is of the law but that whish is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith”phil.3:7-9 KJV.
As Godly youths and able ministers, shun every form of immoralities and all unfruitful works of darkness which easily beset all the youths because of sophistication and search for fuller knowledge even as the scripture said it.
That in this last days people shall run to and fro and knowledge shall increase.
So this day this scripture is fulfilled as we see ourselves living in a computer and internet age where the youths claim to know more than their fathers and can hardly listen or adhere to Godly advice given to them by the elders and their Godly parents.
So make sure you are using the right key in operation of your handset which is of great value when used as God stipulated.
We should pay heed to God’s warning that we should make sure we operate within the boundary of the faith. Of course you know very well that GSM should not be handled by fools. The Almighty God said “Remove GSM from the hands of fools.”
Who is a fool? A fool is one who doesn’t know the value and purpose of God allowing the introduction of GSM, that it is for making calls, sending messages and receiving messages from one another.
So it is only the wise that can make good use of the handset according to God’s guide lines, the rest will not.
Look away from shinning objects that fade away with time. Look unto Christ the author of all wisdom, knowledge and understanding.
Scripture “Many shall be purified and made white and tried but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand” Dan.12:10.KJV.
Be careful to take God’s warnings to your heart for many have stumbled into God’s home without knowing, and many have wrestled with God unknowingly like Jacob.
Scripture “And Jacob awake out of his sleep and he said surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said, “how dreadful this place is”.
This is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of heaven” Gen.28:16-17 kjv.
So many have stumbled into God’s house without knowing it. A blind man who was touched once by the Lord was seeing men as trees.
We need another touch from the lord for us to have perfect understanding of the personality we are having dealing with.
Scripture “And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of U’-lai, which called and said, Gabriel make this man to understand the vision”Dan.8:16. KJV.
If God does not open your eyes of understanding, you can see God and call Him devil.
You can even slap God without knowing as Jacob wrestled with God thinking he was wrestling with his fellow human being who later gave him a sign on his thighs. On the wings of a snow white dove God gave us a sign.
Scripture: “Say unto wisdom, thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman; that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the strangers who flattereth with her words” Prov.7:4-5. KJV.
I want to put you in remembrance of God’s warnings concerning boy friend, girl friend, sugar daddies, sugar mommies, I love you, you are the apple of my eyes and such likes which are the traps the devil have laid against all the youths in this dying generation.
Remember our messages “preserve your youth and achieve your dreams” and also “make sure that you are holding your vessels in honor as Godly children who follow after Godliness”.
Let’s turn to our message, THE TRUE TOKEN vol.2 preached on 29th December 1994 at the house hold of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of man. page 24 from verse 47 – 49.
Roman 8:5-9 “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the things of the spirit do mind the things of the spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace”.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be, so then they that are in flesh cannot please God , but ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if so be ye that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man had not the spirit of Christ, he is none of His. KJV.
IT IS THE MARK OF OWNERSHIP. IF ANY MAN HAS NOT THE SPIRIT OF GOD WHICH IS THE HOLY GHOST EVEN IF HE LAVISHES EVERYTHING HE HAS FOR THIS MOST HOLY CHURCH, HE IS WASTING HIS TIME, HE IS WASTING HIS ENERGY. IT IS NARROWING DOWN GRADUALLY.”
THE TRUE TOKEN vol.2 Page 38 verse 14 – 18. I beseech you by the mercies of God to surrender your body unto Christ as the living sacrifice, Holy without blame, total surrender. The extent you surrender to God is the extent He will use you.
We have to ask God to fill us with the Holy Spirit, because no man can fill us with the Holy Spirit, no man can change our heart, no man can give us that new heart that will make you have that new experience, except God.
St. Luke 11:9-19 “And I say unto you, ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be open unto you.
For everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
Or, if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
ARISE AND SHINE FOR THY LIGHT HAS COME
In the book of Isaiah chapter 60 from verse 1 the Almighty God urge every youth to rise and shine for their light have come because this is the era of the youths.
The glory of God has risen upon the youths to take over the mantle of leadership.
The spiritual overtaking is now allowed by the Almighty God, that’s why He empowered and authorized the youths to collect the steering from the ancient men who are now sitting down and resting while the Almighty God is still standing and firing.
As true children of God, we should not be like the vulture; earth bound bird which always looks downward in search of rotten and dead carcass, but we should be like an eagle whose focus and attention is always upwards looking for fresh manner.
John the revelator was called to come up hither, immediately he did, he tuned to the spirit. Hence he said,“I was in the spirit on the Lords day”.
The spirit led him and showed him things that would be hereafter. You cannot be a part of what God is doing without being in the spirit of God.
As many that are led by the Holy Spirit are sons and daughters of God.
Anybody without the spirit of God cannot know what God is doing in his day neither can he participate in God’s work. Anybody without the spirit of God can never live a life that is pleasing to God.
It takes one without the spirit of God to call things of God accurse through his contrary life which he lives, for our character speaks more than words of our mouth.
WOE TO THAT PERSON WHO BRINGS STRANGE DOCTRINE OR STRANGE LIFE STYLE TO THE FAMILY OF A MAN OF GOD.
GOD HAS GOT A STANDARD OF LIFE STYLE SET IN HIS FAMILY WHICH EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY ARE EXPECTED TO FIT IN. AS THE WIFE MUST ADJUST HER LIFE STYLE TO FIT INTO HER HUSBAND SO MUST THE BRIDE ADJUST HER LIFE STYLE TO FIT INTO CHRIST LIFE STYLE.
Let us turn to the message: OPEN YOUR EYES AGAINST SPIRITUAL DANGER (THE GREATNESS OF SIMPLICITY EXPLAINED) vol.2, preached on Sunday 31st January 2016 at the House hold of God Onitsha by Apostle peter Odoemena the Son of man (the perfection of beauty) Chapter 1 page 16 verses 6- 26.
Last time we heard about the possibility of breaking bad habits which we fought over the years.
The problem we are having here is that after hearing, we can hardly go home to cross check what we heard. Even things we documented in our jotters, we can hardly go there and continue refreshing ourselves.
I TOLD YOU HOW TO BREAK BAD HABITS: CONSTANCY AND CONTINUITY IN ABSTAINING FROM IT. ELIMINATION IS WHERE WE WANT TO TOUCH TODAY. THE PRINCIPLE OF ELIMINATION.
Anything that is unprofitable in your life, any thought, any habit, anything at all, even what you have heard with your ears that is likely to upset you and you know the things is intangible, it is rubbish, it cannot help you, it does not foster your goal, do what? Eliminate it. before that thing eliminates you. That is what God is saying.
WHATEVER THAT IS COMING CONTRARY TO THE REVEALED WORD THAT HAS COME TO YOU, THE THING IS COMING TO ELIMINATE YOU EITHER FROM THE EARTH OR FROM THE FAITH OR FROM LIFE HERE ON EARTH. ELIMINATE YOUR ENEMY BEFORE YOUR ENEMY WILL ELIMINATE YOU.
Notice all these enemies that are operating against you within. Because all these troubles emanate from the heart. When you begin to struggle within yourself, you are no longer in harmony within yourself.
Often times, we appear to be confused. Sometimes, you will be living in fear when fear does not exist. Figments of imagination of your heart can generate great fears in your life. Truly speaking, before you know it, you will be paralyzed spiritually.
The moment you are spiritually paralyzed, you hinder inflow of spiritual knowledge. You hinder inflow of anointing that can break the yoke.
You will only be seeing your destruction; you cannot see your salvation. It is not good at all. Begin today to imbibe the practice of elimination of all unnecessary things.
Weigh everything that comes to you, as long as eternal life is not attached to it, eliminate it. If you refuse to eliminate it, the thing will remain there and grow to a size where it will be causing you sleepless nights. Before you know it, you become hypertensive.
What is stress? Stress is not as a result of much work. Stress is as a result of overburdening of your mind, overburdening of your brain with too many intangible things.
Thus do not think that stress means overwork. Overwork is a different thing. Overwork produces fatigue of the flesh.
But when you over work your brain, overwork your spirit by allowing inflow of useless thoughts, you see stress manifesting in your life. Wrinkle will be developing, you eyes will turn red.
Before you know it, hostility will appear. Before you know it, you become hostile to everybody, even hostile to yourself. Gradually, gradually, your appetite will snap.
From morning till night, you will not eat and you will not feel hungry. You will be thinning down every day. You will be losing weight. There is food in the house but you do not have appetite to eat.
Every person’s appearance can be offensive to you. Before you know it, you will hate yourself and the moment one begins to hate himself, suicide is inevitable. This is what we want to eliminate.
Live a simple and quiet life. Live a straight forward life, a life of transparency. That which you want in life is what will kill you.
Do not say, “I want to hide it.” Expose it! Do not feel sorry about it. Eliminate it immediately. Do not feel sorry when you want to eliminate an obstacle. That thing which constitutes an obstacle in your life, do not feel sorry in eliminating it.
If the thing never felt sorry attacking you, do not feel sorry attacking you, do not feel sorry while eliminating it.
“…Simplicity is the elimination of the non-essentials, in all things.” Pure truth. simplicity reduces life to its minimum of real needs,…”
Simplicity reduces life to its minimum of real needs. Not a world of myriads of wants. Complex human beings saddle their minds with too many wants.
He can hardly make a line between what he wants and what he needs.
When you get to that person’s house, it is flooded with useless things simply because he wanted them. But he does not need them.
Why buying things you do not need? Why passing sleepless nights to get something you do not need. For you to go out to buy something, find out whether you really need that thing or you want it.
There are too many items you have in your house because you want them. From year to year, you will never make use of them.
But if you do not have them, you will be feeling you are losing something.
What God promised He will give us is what we need, not what we want. If you ask me what I want, I will tell you to give me the whole of the world.
But God knows that I have the capacity for bed, one room. I will not even occupy all. But a little space in the bed, one pillow.
Stop looking down wards like a vulture looking for rotten and soared meat to eat rather look up like an eagle for fresh manna.
A MAN THAT OPERATES IN SIMPLICITY IS ALWAYS HAPPY WITH HIMSELF BECAUSE HE FACES LESS COMPETITION IN SIMPLICITY. COMPETITION IS MORE PRONOUNCED IN GREAT THINGS OF THE WORLD AND THAT IS WHY THE DEATH TOLL IN THE STRUGGLE IS ALWAYS HIGH.
FROM THE MESSAGE THE SALVATION LINK OF YOUR HAS BEEN REVEALED. PREACHED ON 6TH MAY 2012 PAGE 85 VS 20.
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SIMPLICITY
QUALITY OF A GOOD LEADER THAT LEADS TO GREATNESS.
Let’s go further through the same message “open your eyes against spiritual danger.” From page 47 verses 26 – 84
Do not rule out the possibility of too many tolo tolos (Turkeys). There can be too many tolo tolos. But amidst them, there are simple, humble and bright ones whose transparency can be seen at a glance.
It does not mean they are angels but they have discovered the secret of narrowing down their lives. “…They are made gentle, calm and simple by the discipline of their responsibility.”
By what? The discipline of their responsibility. I appreciate this truth very well. If the discipline that is required of your office is not reflecting in your character, something is wrong.
There is a level of discipline that is expected to be manifested by somebody who occupies a position. If that discipline is not seen, there may be trouble along the way.
If you can imbibe these teachings, the world will stand up for all of you. This present world filled with rotten spirits must surely stand up for you.
“They have no room in their minds for the patience of personal vanity…” petty, petty, petty. “…Any man that does not admit this truth is not capable of leading an enviable family or organization of human beings.
You are not capable of leading, directing, heading and overseeing an enviable family or organization. The person is not a leader and he can never be a leader.
Remember I told you I am raising leaders in this most holy faith. I am raising pioneers and not settlers.|
“An empty university student calls himself great. Assume the air of one to whom is committed the wisdom of all the ages…”
Abi na lie? Enter the school premises, “Great, Great, Great.” Even those that have not confirmed their admission, all of them are great as if mere acquisition of ID card makes them great.
You see him commanding respect than the VC of the school when his admission is still questionable. Let us revisit that passage because we have too many students here and everywhere.
“An empty university student…” An empty university student. calls himself or herself great. Assumes that air of one to whom is committed the wisdom of all the ages. But a creative student, full of drive and initiative is always simple, focused and humble.
Full of drive and initiative. A creative student, an unassuming student, industrious and focused. This should be a guide to our children if they must make headway in their career in life.” Rewind, I like that place.
“An empty university student calls he or herself great assume the heir of one to whom is committed the wisdom of all ages.
But a creative student, full of drive and initiative but a creative student full of drive and initiatives is always simple, focused and humble.” Abi na lie?
This should be a guide to our children if they must make headway in their career in life. We must appreciate our lives if we can look at it as simple.
When we can brush aside those trivial, casual, unimportant cases and sorrows, worries and failures and then say to ourselves, they do not count. They are not the real things of life. They are but interruptions.
They are not the real things of life. These things are mere interruptions. If I do not teach you, I have no right to blame you.
Remember, if after teaching you and tomorrow, I begin to receive sad reports, I will not be happy with you. He that has taught you has every right to blame you for not following his teachings.
If it is difficult for you to follow, simply watch me. Watch me, get acquainted with me and that settles it. I am the perfect interpreter of all these things.
There is something within me, my individuality …There is something within the SON OF MAN. Is there anything within you? The Son of man’s individuality.
There is something within me, my individuality that makes all these myriads of troubles that I passed through in this Bridal faith seem too trifling for me to permit them to have any domination over me.
They seem too trifling. There is something in me, my individuality that makes all these barrages of attacks, insidious attacks, scandals seem nothing to me. For they are distractions I have zero tolerance for.
There is something within me, my individuality that makes all these myriads of troubles that I passed through in this Bridal faith seem too trifling for me to permit them have any domination over me.
If you do not permit these trifling, useless nonsenses, they can never have dominion over you. For the moment you allow the inflow of these useless thoughts, gimmicks, surely, they must dominate you. Your heart, your mind will be on fire.
Who set the fire burning? Na you! What is the aim? They are obstructions you have permitted to obstruct your way of peace. Your way of relaxation, your way of progress. Even, they impair your blood circulation.
Before you know it, one of your legs will be dying every morning until you get paralyzed, simply because you allowed all these things to have dominion over you.
Are you surprised why the Bible said, “We should not permit all these things to have dominion over us.
You should not permit trivial thoughts to have dominion over you. Place them where they belong to. Where do they belong to? Dustbin? They are good for dustbin.
I do not care where they are emanating from. (I comment that “every facebook, 2go, lotto, lottery, pools, yahoo, boyfriend, girlfriend should go to the dustbin too”).
Whether your wife, your husband, your children, your work place, wherever the thing is coming from, trivial means trivial. Useless means useless. But do not call the person a useless fellow.
Regard the human being a human being, but his thoughts useless thoughts. That is an indirect way of telling the person that he is useless.
There are certain things that happened, certain statement I dare not want to make public. I do not want you to follow my way of describing things because I have bad mouth. Yes! If I want to dress you down, I know the terminologies I will use and you will think I am praising you.
If you discover it, please, emanations it because it will help you…. If you do what? If you discover these hidden traits in the son of man which have constituted His shock absorber against insidious attacks, emulate them because they will help you.
All these destructive emulations of the tongue of envious people which if he had given them any undue place in his heart that would have been the end of this ministry.
But he set them aside. They are disastrous. They are oppositions, obstructions he cannot even recognize. A rebellious person is seeking recognition. THE MOST PRONOUNCED METHOD OF SEEKING ANT RECOGNITION IS REBELLION.
SIMPLICITY IS A MENTAL SOIL WHERE LYING, DECEITS, TREACHERY, SELFISHNESS AND LOW AMBITION CANNOT GROW. THE MAN, WHOSE CHARACTER IS SIMPLE, LOOKS TRUTH AND HONESTY SO STRAIGHT IN THE FACE THAT HE HAS NO CONSCIENCE OF INTRIGUE AND CORRUPTION AROUND HIM AT ALL.
No conscience of intrigue, corruption or impunity around him at all. A simple minded fellow. He can never over do things. Very conscious of his environment. Very surreptitious. Meticulous in handling affairs. Why? He hates tendering unnecessary apology.
He is deaf to the imps of wrong that a suspicious nature would suspect even before they existed.
Before they even existed. He had already taken care of those things, God can rubbish His people.
I say, God can rubbish His people. When I rubbish you, you go out and rubbish them out there.
When they think they are doing you hurt, they do not know they are fertilizing your soul with vitamins even.
You know there are certain things they will do, they will think they have done you hurt. They do not even know that they are even encouraging you.
That God is using them as experimental equipment to test your maturity, your understanding your tolerance, your love even. Love wins all.
“…Let us seek to cultivate this simplicity in all things pertaining to life and Godliness. The first step towards simplicity is ‘simplifying’.”
The step towards simplicity lies in what? Simplifying. The beginning of mental or moral progress or reform in our lives is renunciation or sacrifice.
Renunciation or sacrifice. You renounce or sacrifice. “…it is rejection, surrender or destruction of separate phases of habits or characters we inculcated for a very long period of time…”
Total elimination of those useless characters. Unprofitable habits we inculcate for a very long time. it is rejection, surrender or destruction of separate phases of habits or characters we inculcated for a very long period of time, due to poor guidance, false teachings, based on erroneous religious beliefs, evil association or influence, poor family up-bringing, etc that have kept us from higher and nobler achievements.
My brethren, is there lie there? Everybody got a share in this one. Reform your diet and you simplify it, reform your morals and attitudes to life and you begin to cutoff your immoral and wrong attitudes to life and advance your course of life for the better.
Simple habits, simple dressings, simple manners, simple needs, simple words, simple faith such as ours. Simplicity is never to be associated with weakness and ignorance. It is the life of fuller knowledge.
It means that the individual has seen the folly and nothingness of those things that make the sum of the life of others as vanity.
He has lived down what others are seeking blindly to live up to. the way up is down. Let your simplicity be seen by all men for this is the will of God for you.
Scripture “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee and His glory shall be seen upon thee” Isaiah.60:1-2. KJV.
The Almighty God said that evil habit is not broken in one day. But the project got to be started, for He said, God cannot come to your aid until He sees that you are trying to help yourself by making your wrongs right.
Give a little push to one who is willing to climb, he crosses over immediately; but give a push to one who is not willing to climb, you break your waist. It is a waste of time and strength. Give gold only to those who know the value of gold.
Let us go to the message; THE DANGER OF LOSING HEAVENLY VISION preached on 5th may 1996 at Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the son of man. Page 80 verses 49 – 51”
The God that is being introduced’ is the same one that is taking away what He hates in us, to make us live. Has He done us bad to give us Everlasting life? Every gospel from Him has Everlasting life.
I am admonishing you, letting you know that God doesn’t respect persons. The God that is revealed by His word is ever in his church. He is mindful of one thing and that is what will make His church attain His own expectations.
For he that has this hope in Him must purify himself. You will take in that purifying power into yourself, it will do you good.
That of manifesting His power because we neglected this for the care of this life that is not manifesting exactly what God wants us to manifest. The moment it manifests exactly, I tell you, vibration will lead us up.
Scripture; “Therefore leaving the principles of the (elementary) doctrines of Christ, let us go unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from the dead works and of faith towards God , of the doctrines of baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment.” Heb.6:1-2. KJV.
Our faith is the most holy faith in the land, and should produce the most holy people with most holy life. The righteousness of the faith exceeds that of the Pharisees and Sadducees and the church denominations because of the presence of the Son of man.
The Bride is not consumed because the shout of the king is in the camp among us. The Lord Jesus encouraged us thus; “let your light (the light of God in you) so shine that men will see it and glorify our heavenly father.”
A sinner is full of darkness and he lives to fulfill all unprofitable works of darkness. The true child of God is a child of the light and transparency fulfilling God’s righteousness.
Lets continue the same message from “Page 93 verses 35 –38 of the same message The Danger of Losing Your Heavenly vision. …they will be hard-headed and never give in to others; they will be constant liars and trouble makers and will think nothing of immorality.
They will be rough and cruel and sneer at those who try to be good. They will betray their friends; they will be hot-headed, puffed up with pride and prefer good times to worshiping God.
They prefer pleasure to worshipping God. Go to Onitsha now see all of them both young boys and young girls with their jean trousers, all in beer parlors and disco places.
They love pleasure. God has nothing to do with their programmes. Try to preach to them, you are in trouble. They will even slap you with your Bible.
Somebody was saying the other day that if she had power that she would make her own Bible. She doesn’t believe what we are saying.
That she would write her own. She never believes that this one is the word of God. This is the age we are living.
Let us go to the message “PROGRESSIVE LIFE EXAMINATION preached on Sunday 7th September 2008 at Household of God at Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the son of man. Page 31verses64 – 65
Let me tell you, nothing keeps you younger more than the entrance of the Word of God. If you want to look younger than you really are, be faithful to the Word of God.
The Word of God illuminates your heart. It illuminates your brain and recreates you. You become a new individual within and without.
If you do not have the Word of God in you, you can never be happy. To be happy means to be alive. Does someone who is sick know happiness?
The greatest multi-vitamin I know is the Word of God. Page 33 verses 70 – 71 Let me tell you, eating the food prepared by somebody else makes you feel ashamed sometimes.
When you start enjoying the fruit of somebody else’s labour it makes you feel ashamed sometimes. If you are not ashamed of the fact that you do not contribute anything in this Ministry, keep it up.
Some come to Onitsha for fellowship and ask for books as if the books fell out of the blues. Do these books fall out of the blues?
Many of you in the Faith are educated. Civil servants in the Faith are innumerable. If it comes to verbal assault, you speak sophisticated English; sometimes, French, SwahilI or Latin, but when you are called upon to transcribe any of our Messages, everybody becomes illiterate.
Page 37 verses 80-82 In the Message: STRIVE TO BE A STAR; in what area do you really want to be a star? Do you want to be a star in lying; a star in laziness; a star in idle life; a star in cheating; a star in criminal activities; a star in fraudulent habits; a star in deceit; a star in lateness to duty; a star in unfaithfulness?
You must be a star in one thing or the other. Where do you want to be a star? The choice is yours. Do you know that you can be a star in fighting?
You can be a star in quarrelling, nagging, stubbornness: “Do you know who I am? Is it because this Faith has calmed me down?
If you do not know much about me, make enquires. Who are you? In short, if it had been in those good old days, I would have dealt seriously with you!” A star in teaching others lessons.
Where do you want to be a star? Where do you want to make your own contributions? STRIVE TO BE A STAR Page 45 verses 13 – 28
Now, you are going back to school, going over to new classes; you are going to meet harder, harder challenges because the higher you move, the harder it becomes.
Is it true? The higher you move, the harder it becomes. Remember the ministry of the Bridal faith is a great school of the Son of man (UNIVACI-UCHE) in which we have God in person as our teacher according to St. John. 6:45.
It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned from the Father cometh unto Me. John 6:45 KJV.
Once one is born here on earth, the person is born. There is no going back. It is forward ever until you meet death or until you retire in death.
Besides, you notice that life entails that the higher you move, the harder life becomes; the more difficulties you are likely to meet; the more the responsibilities.
You must know these truths, little children. You must understand what I am saying. (Hearing, understanding and acting is what God wants from us).
If you are moving from primary two to primary three, what you are going to face there is greater; what you are going to face in primary three is harder than that of primary two.
The same thing is applicable to those of you that will move from JSS one to JSS two; the higher you go, the harder it becomes.(St. Paul said, when I was a child, I behave like a child but as I grow to adulthood, I put away childish behaviours).
However, you have to be emotionally, psychologically and mentally balanced for you to sail through. You have to talk to yourself.
What do I mean by talking to yourself? Tell yourself that you are more than able to read that class; you are able; you are qualified and if others are there, you must be there.
Do not underrate yourself at all. See it as another opportunity.
And if the wife of the Son of man and all the children are living with the Son of man without being driven away, I can also live with the Son of man without being driven away. We have one Sonship in Christ
If you were not performing very well, maybe you secured promotion through poor pass, find out why you were not performing well and see your new class as another opportunity to perform better.
If you are not doing well in the school, you are discouraging your parents. They may be thinking that they are wasting their money, time and efforts on you.
But if you are performing very well, you are encouraging them. Is there any higher institution of learning higher than the home of the Son of man?.
NOBODY FALLS SICK PHYSICALLY WITHOUT FIRST FALLING SICK SPIRITUALLY, THE SAME WAY IF YOU ARE NOT SPIRITUALLY SOUND, THERE IS NO NEED TALKING ABOUT CHARACTER. CHARACTER IS THE FORMATION OF THE SPIRIT. EVEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE ARE BOTH SPIRITUAL. WHEN YOU FAIL SPIRITUALLY, YOU MUST FAIL PHYSICALLY. YOU BETTER THINK ABOUT IT AND BEGIN TO REPOSITION YOURSELVES IMMEDIATELY,.
FROM THE MESSAGE STRIVE TO BE A STAR PREACHED ON SUNDAY 2ND SEPT 2007 PAGE 15 VS 12
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CHILD’S TRAINING
Let it be known to all the little children in this Faith that your parents will provide books for you, provide school uniform and every other material, but will never enter the class with you.
They can never read those books for you. You are the one that will read; you will do the studying; you will write the examination.
The worst thing that can happen to you as a youth that found yourself in the house of God is to be dismissed disgracefully one morning like that. To reject the light is to walk in darkness.
What is the essence of the examination? It is a test. Your result each time you take any examination is only revealing to you the level of effort you have made within that period.
If you are going there to play, your result will show that. If the food you carry to school causes you to sleep there, your result will reveal it to your parents.
As you are going over to new classes, remember two things are there: one, you are growing in age.
You are also going to grow in knowledge, for every new class means addition of knowledge. THERE IS NEED FOR SPIRITUAL ADJUSTMENT EVERY DAY; IT PAVES THE WAY FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH IN CHRIST.
There are foolish behaviors that you exhibited while in primary one that are not expected of you in primary two. Is it true?
If you were foolish in primary one and the foolishness continued in you in primary two and still continued in primary three, when will foolishness depart from your life?
Don’t you see that something has gone wrong? Something is wrong in your life.
If you carry this foolishness till the end, well, when you graduate, you will become what we call “An educated fool; an educated illiterate.”
You will be one that went to school and yet remained foolish. There are too many of them in the society; educated fools, they are found everywhere even in government offices.
You see educated fools occupying positions they do not even merit. You should be industrious. You should take your studies serious because time has changed.
It is becoming harder every day. Whatever you are having in mind to be in this life, it is a must that you must be educated before achieving it.
If you are not educated, you will make no headway in life. Your parents might even be better than you. Remember academic education without spiritual moral education end in producing educated fools.
These are the people that pollute the society instead of refining the society. The Holy Spirit had made us to know that all that our parents did in the olden days to help themselves cannot help us today.
If we do them today, we will make no headway in life. What sustained our parents in their days cannot sustain us today.
That is why you have to be very, very industrious. Maybe you do not know that: “I will be back in a jiffy,” can consume a human’s head?
If you leave your house to an unknown place till 9, 10 or even 11pm without your parents’ knowledge, if anything happens to you, how will you be traced?
That is why in the message: ARE YOU A CHURH GOER OR A CHILD OF GOD , it is stated clearly that obedience to the words of your parents is a prerequisite to becoming whatever you want to be in life.
Even if the instruction is against your lifestyle, you have to change. After all, if you are a child born into that family, your lifestyle must agree with the lifestyle of that family for every family has a tradition.
If it is a tradition of my family to lock up my gate by 7pm, everybody must adhere to it.
Wherever you are, once it is 6:30pm you should start running home because you know that your daddy will lock up the gate by 7pm.
So, do not tell me that your child is beyond your control or that your child fought with you because you lashed him.
Do not spoil your children and invite my attention, especially when I warned you to catch them young.
If the behavior of my children is contrary to my beliefs, I must take drastic steps to restore them to the normal estate so as to justify my authority and headship over them. It is my responsibility which I cannot shift
let me ask you people a question: If a child in secondary school cannot fear his father to the extent that if the man tells him or her to kneel down he or she will do so, or if the man decides to punish the child for a wrong doing and he or she yields not, what do you think will happen if such a child get into the university?
If a child behaves the way he likes under the roof of his father; under the full control and authority of the father, what do you think will happen if he gets into the university?
Will he now behave well? Lose your child at this Elementary level and you lose your child forever. This is why our people usually say that you know a child that will eventually become a debtor at an early age.
Whatever your child will turn out to be in the future is usually revealed at an early stage. The footstep you are noticing; those early signs will tell you what the child is bound to be in the nearby future.
Find out your children’s Delight and that will tell you where they are heading to. If you love where they are heading to, allow them to continue; but where you hate where they are heading to, block that way.
Put a barrier there. Not an ordinary barrier but an insurmountable barrier. I know when the problem started. Listen to me; in this life and in the life to come, a man should strive at all times to tell himself the truth.
A man that does not tell himself the truth always has his family in shambles, especially on the training of the children.
If there is any gender that should be trained with “red eyes,” I believe it is the female gender because once a female is born, a nation is born.
Is it a good thing to have your daughter back in your home after a few months of marriage? She even becomes worse if she comes back to her father’s house. You can never have peace. Her siblings will also not have peace.
If her elder brother happens to marry a wife, she will do her best to make sure the woman parks home because she does not see the usefulness of a wife.
Is there anybody as pestering as an unmarried woman? The most troublesome woman I know is a woman who is still living with her father unmarried; followed by a widow.
The third is a barren woman living with her husband. She will be very troublesome because anybody who bears a child in that family will become her greatest enemy.
To the widow, her greatest enemy will be the woman whose husband is alive. To the woman who is unmarried, any married woman is her enemy; whether married in the neighborhood or into her own family.
These are the People everybody should pray not to have in his or her family.
Respect yourself and you will be respected by everybody. What will bring respect to you? Your character and your decisions in life.
If your character is poor, your decision must be poor. Your vision about life must be poor, whether you like it or not. Your reasoning is a reflection of your character, is it not true?
I cannot admit, no matter the way you bring it before me, that a man will correct his child (through punishment) and the child will fight back.
Even till the next world to come, I will never believe such a thing. I do not think there is any abomination greater than this. When you see a man that is all out to check evil in his family, he needs no introduction.
All his decisions, action and steps will convince everybody that he hates that evil. If a child misbehaves and you make threatening comments like: “I will deal with you; be very careful; enough is enough.” are you correcting that child?
“A human being must die in this house today,” is that the correction the child needs? In short, if the thing is not afraid of coming my way, let it come. I have more than what is needed to handle it.
Yes. I normally tell Wisdom, my son whenever he wants to misbehave, to ask his mother who I am: “I am a lion. If you do not know, go and ask your mummy. So be mindful of it.”
I do not give a kid warning twice. Any moment you misbehave, whatever I lay my hands on, I must slam it on your body- even if it is a pestle.
This is why my people fear me. The day Lambert, my younger brother misbehaved, I nearly killed him. I just lifted a pestle and he felt I was kidding.
Before he knew it, the thing landed on him – gbuaa. I lifted it the second time and landed it there. When I strike somebody, I do not do it with the intention of leaving the bones of unbroken.
Actually I aim at breaking the bones so that I will take you down to the orthopedic hospital where your bones will be mended while I pay for the services. When you return from there, you will fear me.
When your child proves stubborn, what do you do? I think you married the woman. Are you sure you are the one that impregnated the mother to give birth to that child?
How can you scramble over this issue with your wife? A girl for that matter! Let me tell you, if you cannot correct this imbalance in your family, you have also lost the younger ones because every evil character is infectious.
“When the nanny goat chews cud, the kids imitate her,”
What is our aim? Our aim is that our children will remain our pride forever. If your children are not your pride, you are priding in vain.
Your consolation in your old age remains your children if they are useful.
If they are useless, you are dead. To the young able ministers of the gospel, remain focused, formidable and steadfast in the commission God gave to you for he said,” I will help you to succeed.”
STRIVE TO BE A STAR. Page 115 verses 44. STEPS TO GAIN RESPECT. GAINING RESPECT.
The Almighty God wants us to take eight (8) divine steps to gain respect, remember the number 8 spells eternity. 8 letter words. You do not get respect because you want it you get it by being.
Competent
Intelligent
Trustworthy
Flexible
Generous
Transparent in honesty and
Displacing an unquestionable behavior
An unquestionable behavior.
QUOTE: There is something in a name, “Odoemena” – 8 letter words, spells eternity. The 8th day ministry of the Bride is here, ushering us into eternity”.
We are in Him that is eternal even The Son of man who is the eternal word.
In this world, true children of God are aliens and temporary residents for they are earnestly and desperately looking forward to a permanent abiding place devoid of violence, hardship, sorrow, pain, death etc and this is the promised paradise of God where God himself will rule His children, the world over in righteousness and peace. This promise has been ridiculed into oblivion by many because to them it has over delayed. I wish to affirm here that this age long promise is as real as your experience in the faith of the Son of Man if you are actually in his faith or have been acquainted with His faith.
THE FAMILY MENU VOL 1 PAGE 4 VS 6-7 BY THE SON OF MAN IN THE YEAR 2001.
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WE ARE PILGRIMS AND ALIENS
Let us go over to the message “THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT YOU volume 1 preached on Sunday 6th March 2016 at household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of man. Page 16 Verse 3 to 33
In short, to me, this is eternity. I am looking forward to that day when we shall gather and we will not go home again.
Eternity will unfold when we are on a happy mood. And with that happy mood, we enter into eternity where nothing will upset us again.
The only place we can be and stay in a happy mood is only in the fellowship of the saints, in the world we have troubles and tribulations but in Him we have everlasting peace of mind.
DO NOT DOUBT ME. THE STATE OF THE HEART OF A MAN AT THE POINT OF DEATH CANNOT BE REVERSED. THE STATE OF HEART OF A MAN CANNOT BE RESERVED AT THE TIME OF DEATH.
ONCE DEATH STRIKES, THE STATE OF THE HEART CAN NEVER BE RESERVED. HE ROLLS INTO ETERNITY WITH THAT STATE OF HIS HEART.
If he gave up the ghost when the heart is merry, with merry heart, he rolls into eternity.
If he gave up the ghost at a time the heart was heavily laden with too many troubles, he has entered eternity with the heart overburdened with many troubles.
And on the resurrection day, his face cannot be bright. Enter death with gloomy face you have entered eternity with gloomy face.
You see why you must be happy at all times filled with Holy Spirit. Let nothing upset you.
If you can pause a little, I will inject just one sentence of wisdom into your heart. Whatever that is upsetting you is what you met here.
It is not what you brought here. It is what you met here. Many met it and left it here.
You came and met it. The only animal which human beings do not know how to dissect is the one that has never been dissected before.
When you kill an animal, whether goat or cow or whatever you want to call it, and you tell me that we do not know how to dissect the animal, the reason why nobody knows how to dissect it is that it has never been dissected before.
If you know that which you met here which nobody ever met here before you came, mention it. I will call you a liar. I will tell you millions that met it.
Anybody that is upset by what he meets here is the most foolish human being on earth.
Because you met it here, it goes to prove that you are not the one that placed it here and you can never go with it. It is not your property.
Every child of God has heavenly property and there is nobody on earth that is upset by heavenly property. If you know that what is upsetting you is heavenly bound property, raise your hand up.
Nobody is upset by the things of God. We are upset by the things that do not belong to us which we want to covet by all means.
You want to covet something that does not belong to you. You are in another man’s house. Even, you are a tenant trying to covet the landlord’s house.
Every true seed of God is here as tenant. Whatever you are paying as your price for staying here is your tenancy fee. That is why your tenancy rate is increase every day.
The owner of the world was coming. Jesus saw him coming. He said, “He is on his way coming but I thank the Father for he has no part in me.”
How did he live his life? He never possessed the world. And he said that was the reason why he overcame. And told us how we should conduct ourselves as tenants, pilgrims and strangers.
Let Me tell you. Whether you believe It or not, the world is meant for pilgrims. Heaven is the abode of the Saints. The world is for the pilgrims.
Heaven is the abode of the saints. Everything you are possessing in this world, things that give you sleepless nights, the name I called it in Igbo is Alawa aghara (abandoned property).
If it is your child, you will abandon it. Your husband! You will abandon him. Motor! You will abandon it. Clothing! You will abandon them.
If you know that thing in this world which you think belongs to you and which you cannot abandon in death, mention it.
When you even abandon your own child and your husband, what is left with you then? At that moment, do you even know where your money is?
Who has ever taken his or her child when death comes? Who has ever taken her husband along when death comes?
When you die, do you know where they are? Sister Moses so loves the husband but see her here.
Her husband is now in another world but see her here. She still eats and comes to Fellowship, clapping and dancing. See her here.
If you know that thing which the Son of Man has not touched, mention the name:
The causes of your sleepless night, sicknesses and diseases, the reason why you are constantly tensed up. Mention them. It is because of the things you saw in the world.
It is only a fool that passes through sleepless nights for the things he met in this world.
When you have played your role in this world and in the best way you can, you go back to your God. There is no human being that ever spent all his earnings before he dies.
If you ate everything, did you eat up all your children? Did you eat your husband? Did you eat your wife? Did you eat your relations?
These things were there before you ever came into existence and they will remain there even after you are gone.
God is opening up the truth so that you can have victory just like Jesus Christ had victory. This is because he placed everything where they all belong to.
Everything he met here on earth, he also place them here on earth. That is why he said that what should give us sleepless nights, what should saturate our hearts at all times should be things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
There is no envy or jealousy there. There is no competition there. Do you go to court for the things of the kingdom of God? Do you require the services of a lawyer? No sir.
Everything that pertains to engaging a lawyer and going to court are the things that are of this world and they were also met here on earth.
Meditate about your life. If there is anything that should give a child of God sleeplessness, it is not the things of the world.
Jesus Christ testified of this thing. In the Old Testament, all those that knew about this thing also spoke concerning it.
I am here to ensure that the promises the covenant of God in all the ages stand sure, and to make you understand that God is real.
It is not a fairly tale. To espouse those that think that God does not exist, to believe that God really exists. The whole world knows that God exist but the form He exists, they do not know.
The reason why the Son of man was made manifest is to show you who God is. The world is missing the way because what they think of God is not what God is.
The same way, what you think God will do is not what He will do. It is what you are doing. There is something you have done thinking that God did it.
God does not have a hand in it. There are things God does and you will think you are the one doing them, but you do not have a hand in it.
It is in God that I have my life. Life exists in God. He has saved me from slavery and I do not have a hand in my salvation. It is in God that I have my life.
Your money can buy a car for you, build a house for you, help you get married and everything. Your money can even buy you a child.
Yes! But money can never purchase life for you. With your money you can buy a house. You can buy a child. Money can never buy life.
Money cannot even buy the life you are having here on earth, let alone Eternal Life. So there is something money cannot buy.
Thus, when you make utterances and talk as if you are the creator of heaven and earth, that the world should be left to you, you are a fool.
Standing here, I can tell you about too many heads of state that passed on.
The one that died in office and the ones that were shot to death and even those that resigned for the office. And the world continued.
“THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT YOU volume 1. Page 36 verses 17-38 We cannot see a changed world until human beings change. Yes!
We clamor for change of Government, change of this, but little do we make mention of changing our life styles.
We should be clamoring to change our habit, our life styles. Then, the nation will change.
We pay great attention to providing infrastructure, amenities that will make life livable, a little comfortable, but we pay little or no attention to changing our lives, our visions about life so that we can enjoy those things.
These people that are grabbing our money, collective wealth, they are stupid because they do not know that they are going the way of others.
They must abandon all here. There is nothing any human being is possessing here tightly that can save him when death strikes, not even the cry of your loved ones by your bed side.
If you can use crying to stop death, nobody will die, because there is nobody that will die and his loved ones will keep quiet.
As you are pleading, so the person is telling you bye-bye. It has come. It has come! The transporter that will bring us back to God is death.
We should stop living over-bloated life. Over-bloated life, I say over-bloated. Over-bloated, both in folly, in sophistication, in every kind of unacceptable forms. Over-bloated!
The universities, if I will speak, I will say they are part of the new, new, new things. Our forefathers knew nothing called university.
All these things we are inventing in our days should not stupefy us. They should not take away our senses of reasoning. Yes!
Human being wake up one morning and fabricated a structure called Aeroplane in 1903. Before 1903, there was no Aeroplane. Verify records.
“THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT YOU volume 1 Page 42 verse 31 to 51 Now, I want us to be happy. God wants us to be happy.
It is his desire that we should enjoy good days, live happy lives; enjoy good days, sound health.
If we can dis-overburden our hearts, dismantle pressure, definitely we must live healthy lives. Our life here on earth will be prolonged.
Our forefathers lived two hundred, three hundred because they never overburden themselves with the burdens of life. That which you are calling challenge is a challenge because that is the name you gave it.
Once you regard it as a challenge, it is challenging you. But ask yourself this question: “even if I surmount this challenge, where will I land? I will land into another challenge.”
I have told you that man is yet to discover his problem. That which you think is your problem is not your problem. Once it is solved, you will see another problem greater than that one.
A sure sign that you have not discovered your problem. If you think it is money, when money is given to you, money will be another problem. Some say, “If God will bless me with children…” thank you very much.
Those that have been blessed with children, what is their headache today? Children! Which means they have not discovered their problem.
You say academics. God will help you to become a PHD holder. Then you discover that you are neck deep into problem that you cannot solve.
A problem you cannot solve and the world has no solution to that problem. Do you know why I salute (praise) God every day? After the storm, the dust must settle.
Hear me well. The way God uses death to check human excesses is the way he uses old age to retire those that cannot be gainfully employed under authorities. Hence, you must retire whether you like it or not.
Do not tell me that without you, the world will not continue.
“The world will continue without me. The world was there without me. One day, I will leave the scene.
This world will continue without me no matter my pride and position. One day, I will leave the scene.” One day, I must leave the scene.
“THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT YOU volume 1 page52 verse 1 – 27. Now, since you have this truth settled in your heart, that you cannot change anything here; you add nothing, you subtract nothing. You come here, play our role go into oblivion.
All references to you will be past. What should be your attitude towards this life? Do the best you can, live a happy life. Live a happy life.
And how do you live it? Live your life in Christ, the author of peace, the author of life. Be at peace with God, let the world go into flames, it does not concern you.
Because the moment you fail to live your life in Christ, you are living your life in crisis. And once crisis set in, your life here is already shortened.
You are indirectly taking yourself to the grave because of the pressure mounted on you by things you met here; you cannot remove even a pin.
Show me that your plot of land, and I will show you people that never built on their own until they were buried in the ground. You see why God warned us concerning land dispute?
What am I trying to say brethren? Do you know I am including myself? Live your life in God and try as much as you can to exclude all these things that can never help you live a happy, quiet and peaceful life.
If they look like problems, it is because you made them problems. You think if you do not solve them, nobody will solve them. Who was solving them before you were born?
That problem which you think that except you, no other person can bear, who was bearing it before you appeared? Was it not in existence before?
That has been the bone of contention between me and my uncle since two days now. Life has no duplicate. It is true we shall all die, but we are not permitted to take our lives.
Nobody is permitted to take away his life. Live here on earth and pray that the will of God concerning you here on earth will be accomplished.
And the moment God finishes with you, you are joining your ancestors. That I am still here is because God has not finished with me.
He still has plans for me which I am yet to accomplish. Anybody that is still alive today is still alive because the will of God for the person has not been accomplished.
As soon as you accomplish the will of God for you, God will call you back. I do not want to know how it is progressing. Do you understand what I am saying?
ONCE YOU ARE A SEED OF GOD, EVERYTHING CONCERNING YOU MUST GO THE WAY GOD WANTS IT AND NOT THE WAY YOU WANT IT.
This is because most times, our desires run contrary to the will of God for us. Once it does not go the way we want it, we will be greatly discomforted. It will seem as if the heaven will fall.
But we should not say let it be according to our desire, but let it be according to the will of God. If everything goes the way you want it, all your enemies would have died long, long time ago.
If everything had gone the way you wanted them, all your enemies would have been dead by now. You would have killed all your relations by now. Do you think God is not wise?
If wishes are horses, both the blind and the lame will be going on horses. Our enemies would have been exterminated from the surface of the earth long, long time ago. And nobody will be poor. Nobody will complain of lack of this or that.
NO MATTER YOUR WEALTH, THEY ARE FOR TEMPORARY EXISTENCE. YOU GAIN NOTHING. RATHER, IF YOU DO NOT MANAGE THEM WELL, THEY CAN HINDER YOU FROM POSSESSING ETERNAL LIFE, FOR IF THAT IS WHERE YOU PLACE YOUR SPIRITUAL WEALTH, THAT IS WHERE YOUR HEART WILL BE
FROM THE MESSAGE PRACTICAL REALITY OF GOD PREACHED ON 13TH JAN. 2018 PAGE 101 VS 3
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COVET NOT THE WORLD
Once you are a seed of God, things will not go the way you desire. It will go the way God wants it. That is why, if you are a child of God and you want to go ahead of God, you will die running. You will die while running ahead of God.
Allow God to be in front so that you will follow Him gradually.
One that calls himself a child of God will always want God to be in front, leading and I will be following God gradually, for slow and steady wins the race.
If you look at God very well, you will notice that God does not go after anything desperately. Everything about God is gradually, gradually.
Yes! Taker a look at God. God does not strife with any man. He does not strife with the devil. The hand of God is not in anything that involves strife and pride.
Check all the things that involve strife and quarreling, they are all the things we met here on earth and we will also abandon them here on earth.
“THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT YOU volume 1 Page 70 verses 1 – 42. BE PATIENT WITH LIFE, TAKE HEED TO EVERY GODLY ADVICE AND PROLONG YOUR LIFE.
No matter the way you look at it, I am telling you the truth. This is pure truth. So, do not overburden yourself with the things you met here.
That is exactly where I want to land. If you know that thing which is giving you sleepless nights, is it children? You want to fill the world with children.
Is it money? Is it husband? What is it? Is it your position in the office? Is it the work or job you have secured or the one you are yet to secure? Check all.
If there be any that did not originate from here, mention it. You met all of them here and you are not taking any away. Do people die according to age?
Do people queue when it comes to death? Do you know whether I will die after speaking to you today? You better begin to adjust yourselves.
Too many died last week in many forms, in many states. They have died and they have died. There is no going back again.
What am I trying to say? Let nobody kill himself because of what he met here in this world. Zero your minds. Zero your minds. Zero your minds. I say zero your minds and then the tension will calm down. Your brain will calm down.
Do not even permit your children to ever cause you to act otherwise. Everybody should stay with his/her own. Even you students, while we encourage you to make use of your time, we are not saying that you should sacrifice your life for your studies. We never said so.
Pursue it with wisdom, knowledge and understanding, placing it where it belongs to, because in that same school where you are, not all that started ended alive.
Some died on the way, others, continued to enlist. It is like a war front. Final year students die. Youth coppers die. Lecturers die.
So, do not ever pursue it as if it is the end of life. No! Do it the much you can. Leave the rest there. If you cannot solve it today, tomorrow you continue.
Do not say, “I must solve it or else I will not sleep. If I do not do this, I will die.” you will not die. Leave it there. It must be solved by and by. Take life easy. Take life easy.
I do not think that there is any other remedy you need at this very moment when there is economy pressure on the land. Everybody is complaining very bitterly.
Hardship is biting everybody. Inflation assuming unacceptable height worldwide. You can never be the worst hit. That is the promise.
He said, “We will get our fair share but we can never be the worst hit.” and I am standing here to say that we have not seen a brother here or a sister or a family we can courageously stand up and say “he or she is the worst hit.”
God wants you to sleep when you go to bed, and even have dreams. One who has not slept does not dream.
One that is awake sees vision, while the person that is asleep, dreams. If you are seeing vision where you are being pursued by dogs and masquerades, you are wide awake.
That a dog was pursuing you and you saw it, it is because you did not sleep. If Care is not taken; the dog that was pursuing you may be your wife or your husband.
The quarrelling in the night will now turn to dog in the vision. It may turn out to be a masquerade wielding a cane.
The evil bat that has come to pull his hair and he does not know where the bat is taking the hair to. When he now looked more closely, the evil bat turned out to have the face of a human being.
Whose face did you see? If it is not the face of your wife, it will be the face of your husband.
It was the quarrelling of the day that now turned out to be a human being in the night when all the lights have been switched off. Please, let us be patient with life. Let us be patient with life.
Limit yourselves to your capacities. Stop overburdening yourselves. Life has no duplicate.
Whatever you want to be tomorrow, that is when you are alive. You want your children to be this and that, is it not when you are alive? If you die, will you know what will become of your children?
Bishop Ebenezer sold himself to train his enemies. Today, bishop Ebenezer is in the grave without the children giving him cup water.
The person a man thinks will give him a befitting burial does not even see his corpse. Everybody should be very careful.
If I am training my children, I am not training them so that they will come and bless me. Hear me very well.
I am not training them so that they will come and build a mansion for me. I am training them because that is what I should do for them.
This is what I should do for them. No more, no less. But for me to hang my future on them, I am the most foolish human being.
Why should I place my fate on something that is breathing? Whatever that has eyes must sleep. And sleep does not give notice.
You can know everything; you can never know when you are sleeping. You won’t know when you will wake up. Anybody that says he knows when he sleeps, tell him it is a lie.
You do know not when you sleep and you do not know when you wake up. Please, God wants his people to live in peace; to live a quiet life.
Let us be contented with the little we have. I mean, Godliness with contentment is great gain. But when we pile this; pile that, our hearts will be tensed.
One that does not have a car, is he invited to come that his vehicle is involved in an accident?
One whose heart skips a beat when he hears of an accidental trailer is one who owns a trailer that is on the highway. That is Dangote, because it is where his treasures are.
The only thing that I will hear and know that I have a problem is when there is a ban on worshipping of God. That is when I will tell you that a problem has come.
And you know that God will not allow that to happen. I will be the number one breaker of let that unrighteous decree. I will be number one.
Let me die and others will live for you cannot stop me from worshipping God. You cannot. Nebuchadnezzar tried it. Did he succeed? Pharaoh attempted it. Did he Succeed? Even Herod never succeeded.
Thus, no man can make such a decree while I am here. I must violate it. Yes, I must violate it. This is the only thing that people will do, authorities will do and I will go home and begin to weep and think.
Thinking means going about circumventing it, not obeying it. I will not for any other thing, to hell with the world! Let that thing which will happen tomorrow happen today.
Wait a little. All that piled their treasures at the mile 12 market in Lagos, the whole, Igbos, Hausas, and Yorubas that their treasures are in mile 12 Lagos, what happened there?
The inferno as the result of the clash between the Yorubas and the Hausas razed the whole market to rubbles.
What can we say about the clash between Nasarawa and Benue the Idoma people that left over a hundred dead? The whole community, razed down.
What can you say about the communities, Ogoni community and one in Bayelsa where soldiers besieged the two communities and razed them out of the surface of the earth?
ANYBODY WHOSE TREASURES ARE MADE OF THINGS THAT CAN BE BURNT BY FIRE, THINGS THAT CAN GO ABLAZE IS IN HELLFIRE.
Look at the inferno that destroyed sabon-gari market. Was anything picked from there?
All things that are causing us to pass sleepless nights and not have rest of mind, examine that thing very well, there is nothing that can be associated with the kingdom of God. None of them has anything pertaining to eternal life.
Check it very well. Not even one is permanent. Nothing is permanent until that thing is eternal. Anything that is temporary, is it eternal? No sir!
Do you know that your position is temporary? You can be demoted. You can even be dismissed. Besides retirement, You can be dismissed.
On retirement, you can also be dismissed without benefits. Why is it that man cannot think or meditate about himself?
If God is God, let us worship God, for that is where our consolation is. My consolation is in Christ. My hope is in him. My faith is in him.
Whatever he gives to me, I take it, whatever you have here on earth, check all of them, they are gift from God. But where you do not want to accept the gift of God, the devil will offer his own.
Any gift from the devil does not require to be examined under the light you will get it but you will never have peace. Rest will elude you.
You will keep on floating about. If the devil gives you children, you are lost. These children will kill you. He gives you armed robbers. He will give you kidnappers.
He will give you ritualists. He will give you such children who if you were told that they came from your loins, you will run away.
Any child from God will bring you peace and happiness. You will have rest of mind. Do you know that the children the heathens produced, the bible called pagan.
They are heathens. Most of them, their parents had them before embracing this faith.
Check the children that are giving you joy, giving you what you are desiring from God, they are those ones you produced when the fear of God was in your heart.
From the time you started fearing and honoring the Lord, that was then time you started having children.
But when were living your life according to the dictates and counsels of the devil, check what you had as children that time. Does blood tell lies? No sir! Amen.