HANDSET, TV, ETC. IN THIS DYING MINUTE (MORNING ALTAR MESSAGE) PREACHED ON SATURDAY, 18TH APRIL, 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE HIDDEN REVEALER
Neglect the Voice of THE SON OF MAN, you must land yourself in trouble; And at the end, you must come back to the same Voice. The highest favour God will show us, He said, “Is to remind us of His Voice we have not obeyed.”
CAMP RULES; Preached on Sunday 25th December 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha;
Pg. 104 vs. 30
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INTRODUCTION
(By Pastor Wisdom Odoemena)
I was telling my Brethren that leaving this phone on, will distract me. And now that I am at home, not doing anything, and with the pressure that comes from the calls urging me to do this and to do that, you have to be pressurized.
This one is not browsing. This one is phone call that will distract my attention from what I want to do. I switched off the phone for a full day. I dropped the phone. And I did not make use of it.
What am I doing with it? I am not going to school. Anything you want to discuss with me can wait, but let the phone be switched off for that day. Do you understand me?
This is because this is the only way I can win the battle by switching off that phone. I did it and I achieved what I wanted to achieve that day.
So, you should be aware of the strategies the devil is using to fight you. He fights us in different ways. The way he fights Mummy differs from the way he fights Bro Chika or Bro Ikem. It fights us differently.
Recognize where he [devil] is fighting you, and do what? Wait for him there. And God said we should keep on fighting. Do not draw back, for pressure breaks resistance. Amen. Let us listen to the Message.
William Branham spoke about the strictness of Apostleship. All and sundry in this Faith will bear witness that THE SON OF MAN, Apostle Peter Odoemena (Blessed be to His Holy Name) has maintained the strictness of an Apostle. From the inception of this Faith, up to this very moment, I have never for one day compromised the strictness with anybody because of your relationship with Me. The highest thing that you can give Me is money and food, or provide shelter for Me, or buy a car for Me. I have never for one day, because of all those material considerations lowered down the standard by pampering. Rather, at that time you are rendering the services, that is the time you must be extremely careful, for I must prove the spirit. And that is why this Faith has remained alive till this day.
I AM THE STANDARD FOR JUDGMENT TO ALL MEN VOL 2; Preached on Sunday 9th October 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 79 vs. 19 – 21
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TV AND PHONES ARE DANGEROUS SPIRITS
The number one thing you must look into is the spirit that controls that phone you are holding in your hand. Find out the initial purpose why you were desiring to have a phone.
From the day you were requesting for money to buy phone, what were you having in mind? Nobody just wakes up in the morning and says he wants to buy a car without having a purpose.
I want to say that somebody can desire a car as a necessity to help his work or to help his family. Another person will desire a car to boost his personal ego. The same is applicable to television. It is only now that television can be useful to intelligent and wise people.
There are too many people that bought televisions to boost their personal egos. They do not have time to watch the television, but they mounted the television.
Some mounted air conditioners of all types, even split systems, when they do not even like anything air conditioner. They use them to decorate their houses and everything to boost their personal ego.
So it is with this handset. A good number of the people[let Me say that 95% of the people] handling handsets never purchased handset for the purpose for which handset was constructed.
They just purchased it as a result of pride to boost their personal egos. That is why you see them changing handsets from one caliber to another caliber. And the best handset to them is the costliest. And that is spirit of pride and competition to boost personal ego.
Not that there is something one had as an advantage over the other. At least, for some time now, you can see now that the value of the smallest handset owned by Bro Elijoe is by far greater than your android. It is serving us now more than your android. Of what purpose is your android other than to boost your personal ego and pride? So it is.
The other day, I was paying attention in the kitchen. I left all of you because of Chika who was contending and contending because he has seen people putting on the Bluetooth earphone. He has seen a good number of them.
Then he told Me it is his need and that he could purchase it even with one million naira [₦1,000,000.00].It is not that he has need of it, but because his mates are using it. He has seen people going about using it. It is a spirit. It is pride.
By the time I knew it, I caught Promise with his own upstairs. He abandoned what he was doing, and he was struggling with his own in his ear as if nobody listens to whatever he has in his phone without Bluetooth earphone.
Moreso, when it is not even beneficial to your health, to the extent that even the whites that manufactured it do not use it unless they are in a very serious condition.
How many times have you seen an expatriate rolling his hand upon his android? They prefer using tiny phones even the ones that look like biro pens.
They do not carry all these heavy materials we are carrying. It is very cumbersome to them. It is not that the Bluetooth earphone is serving any other better interest. It is to boost personal ego.
When pride is in you what you will be desiring is something that will engender much more pride so that you have a sense of belonging.
And if you purchase it with that spirit, that equipment may turn out to be a torment to your soul, a torment to your liberty and a torment to your time. I mean a torment to your precious time.
WHATEVER THAT CONSUMES YOUR PRECIOUS TIME YOU COULD HAVE USED FOR MEANINGFUL THINGS, WHATEVER THAT CONSUMES THAT TIME IS YOUR ENEMY. BUT YOU CAN HARDLY NOTICE IT.
That is why the time you spend playing games with your phone, browsing and many other nonsenses you are watching, you will notice that you do not spend that amount of time to study the Word of God or even to read your academic books.
You will notice that the phone takes a greater part of your time every day, and it is now a dangerous spirit that will follow you into your bed.
You may because of the use of phone go to bed before the time. Because of phone, somebody can go to bed by 7, 8 or 9o’clock in the night, with the pretense that he is weak.
The person will close the door, open the window and will remain awake in the bed with the phone till about 1am. Do you believe it to be true? Even in this house, some of you are guilty of it.
In the day, you know you must be caught. So, you now device another means. It will be in the night when everybody must have slept, or I know I will be going to bed early so that you will be free.
When you think you are free with that nonsense you are in the stadium with the devil. I say, millions of demons are surrounding you from one page to another page; from one file to another file. You will even be downloading some. There is no amount of devilish information you will not download that night.
And the moment it steps into your life, you have set your soul ablaze. You have set your soul ablaze. Any day you do not visit those sites, you will feel you are losing something. Your life is incomplete daily until those sites are visited. And I call them Evil Sites. Evil Sites. That is where you will now communicate with the devil more.
When the television was permitted to be used among us, I made it clear to all and sundry how I use my own, for I vowed never to use it until my children have come of age.
I told them, “Be it known to you that the evil you abandoned in the streets is now in your parlour. You do not need to go out to see the world, for the world has moved from where it is located into every man’s parlour. And then, from their parlours, it will filter into your hearts.
And the moment the world moves from where it was out there into your homes, from your homes, you befriended them, and then carried them into your hearts, you are doomed. I say, you are doomed.”
Many have turned their handsets into mobile televisions. I am telling you God’s truth. If you have turned your handset into mobile television, it is a spirit. You are inculcating a spirit that will be very difficult to kill.
You will remain restive. In your bed, you are restive. Anywhere you are, you are restive. You can forget anything and continue your journey, but not your handset. This is not because you are expecting a very important call, but because of what you will like to use it for.
There are some people that have developed such a silly spirit, so much that even if they enter a vehicle, they will lose their consciousness. Right from Nsugbe to Onitsha, you will never hear their voice. Their eyes are on the telephone
From the time they entered that bus, even if they are going to Enugu, you will see them using that phone. They will never sleep because they can never hold the handset and doze off.
This is to show you the extent that spirit has permeated into your system. You can browse it from morning till morning. As long as it is on, you will never blink your eyes. But if you take away the handset, in less than five minutes, you will sleep. You will sleep.
That goes to show that it is a dangerous spirit that is giving you sleepless nights, which the Word of God cannot give you.
There is nothing that you will do that will improve your lots that the devil will allow you to do for ten minutes without complaining and saying, “I am going away.” But the moment it brings you into that hall; Hall! Hall! It is a hall; then, you are at “peace” with it. It draws you away.
YOU BEGIN TO ROAM THE WHOLE WORLD. YOU BEGIN TO ROAM THE WHOLE WORLD. SO, PHONE IS ALWAYS A ROAMING EQUIPMENT IN THE HAND OF FOOLS. I SAY, ROAMING EQUIPMENT IN THE HAND OF FOOLS.
You will stay here in Onitsha and roam the whole planet earth with your phone. Am I making sense? Is it the purpose why the phone was created?
YOU SEE, THAT IS WHY YOU MUST PRAY THAT YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, THE SPIRIT OF RIGHT BEFORE YOU WILL DESIRE ANY OF THESE THINGS.
Some females went for android with the pretext that it will help them do their assignments. That is not true. When there were no android handsets, were they not doing assignments?
When there were no handsets, were the universities not there? Were people not going to school, doing their assignments and handling their projects? The acquisition of the phone is to boost their personal ego.
How do you know people who purchased it because of the pride that is associated with it? Anywhere they are, they are holding it. In the kitchen, they are holding it. In the bathroom, they are holding it. On the street, they are holding it.
If they do not have anything in their pocket they will put it where it will be prominent in their pocket. In any public place, they will be bringing it out and putting it in, so that people will know that they are holding android; and so that people will know the caliber of android phone they are holding.
Some will even give it a name “Machine. O boy! This one is machine. O boy! I saw another one.”
So the devil capitalizes on it and then manufacturers will be coming up with different calibers of handsets.
Know it of a surety that the purpose for which anything comes into your house OR into your hand determines how you will use it. If pride, boosting your ego was what motivated you, you are doomed till eternity until you control it.
That is why before ever you indulge in anything that has social attachment, [I say social attachment] please be very careful that you are spiritual.
AN UN-SPIRITUALLY-MINDED FELLOW CANNOT CONTROL ANYTHING THAT CAN BRING HIM INTO CONTACT WITH SOCIAL LIFE. NOTE IT, THAT WHAT YOUR HANDSET IS PROMOTING IN YOUR HEART IS SOCIAL LIFE, INTRODUCING DIFFERENT LIFESTYLES TO YOU.
EVEN WHEN YOU ARE NOT EXPOSED TO THE WORLD, YOUR HANDSETS HAVE OVER-EXPOSED YOU TO THE WORLD AND ITS SIN. THERE IS NO LEVEL OF ATROCITY IN THE WORLD YOU CANNOT SEE IN YOUR HOUSE, AND THEN BEFRIEND. I SAY BEFRIEND.
When somebody will stay here and have boyfriend, have girlfriend, even marry, get betrothed to a woman or to a man, stay there through chat, through 2go®, through browsing and through everything, you can link up with evil spirits unknown. I say, evil spirits in the form of human being.
Evil spirits who logged on their photographs, I mean in the WhatsApp®. You think you are the only people that go there? Do you not know that millions of people you see walking on earth are not human beings? And all of them use this devilish instrument in yoking themselves.
Watch all the celebrities. Who do you think they are? You think all of them are normal human beings? It is because you are not spiritual. It is because you are not spiritual.
8 But for the Elect there shall be light and joy and peace, and they shall inherit the earth. 9And then WISDOM shall be given to the elect, and they shall all live and never again sin, either through forgetfulness or through pride: But those who are given WISDOM shall be humble.10And they shall not again transgress, Nor shall they sin all the days of their life, Nor shall they die of the anger or wrath of God, But they shall complete the number of the days of their lives. And their lives shall be increased in peace, and their years will grow in joy and eternal gladness and peace, all the days of their lives.
THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH; chapter 5 verse 8 through 10
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WISDOM SAVES THE WISE
What am I saying? There is a statement in the Scripture that is always a guide to one that is desirous of making heaven. If you are desirous of saving your soul from this sinful world, desirous of escaping from the corruption that is in this world through lust, there is a Scripture.
FLEE FROM ALL THE APPEARANCES OF THE DEVIL. [1 Thessalonians 5:22] It said, do what? FLEE! DO NOT EVER HAVE A COMMON GROUND WITH THE DEVIL. DO NOT EVER HAVE A COMMON GROUND WITH THE DEVIL.
How I wish you can define your objectives. Define your objectives in life, including your calling in Christ which should be number one, your holy and high calling should be number one. Define your objectives very well.
You will be in a position to know the programs that will help you to achieve your objectives and those that are there to distract your attention, for every role the devil is playing is diversionary. The devil is an expert in diverting people’s attention from their noble goals.
So, if you notice that your handset is serving a diversionary purpose in your hand, it is a sure sign that your victory has started. Your victory has started.
HOW CAN YOU NOT CONTROL SOMETHING YOU PURCHASED WITH YOUR MONEY? IT IS BECAUSE IT HAS METAMORPHOSED FROM AN OBJECT TO A SPIRIT. IT IS NO LONGER A PHYSICAL HANDSET. IT HAS BECOME A SPIRITUAL HANDSET.
Even when you switch it off your phone. Those sites you have already logged into your mindset you see them opening. In your private closet, it is opening page by page. You will be ruminating on them.
How can you retain the Word of God under that condition, when your heart is supersaturated with false and destructive information which you gathered from a little thing that destroys a mighty world?
God said, “It is a very small instrument, but with a very highly powerful and destructive spirit embedded in it. The spirit is embedded in it.”
As I am talking to you now, even if you break your own into pieces, there are living handsets in your hearts. There are too many files that have already opened in your hearts. You know that what I am saying is the truth.
HOW THEN DO YOU WISH TO ESCAPE FROM THE HAND OF THE DEVIL WHEN YOU ARE DAILY RUMINATING AND ROMANCING WITH THE DEVIL IN THE STADIUM HE CREATED FOR YOU?
Like I am here. Can a person get drowned to a river he has not stepped into? I do not know how to type or send messages. I equally do not know how to browse. I do not know what you call megabyte or gigabyte, or what it looks like.
When you talk about handsets, is it not calls that I use mine for? If I get a call I do not like, I hang up or even warn the person not to call this line again. And I drop it.
But you notice somebody who may not receive even a single call a day, but he is busier with the phone than one who is working with the phone. When it comes to the use of the phone, there is time for it. But for doing a noble work, no time. What is choking you?
RECOGNIZE YOUR ENEMY. YOUR GREATEST DOMESTIC ENEMY IS YOUR HANDSET. I CALL IT DOMESTIC IN THE SENSE THAT IT HAS BECOME AN INDISPENSABLE EQUIPMENT IN YOUR HAND, TO THE EXTENT THAT EVEN WHEN IT IS NOT CHARGED YOU FEEL LIKE PULLING DOWN THE ROOF.
WHEN YOUR BATTERY GOES DOWN YOU FEEL LIKE COMMITTING SUICIDE, NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE USING IT TO SERVE A USEFUL PURPOSE, BUT YOU ARE USING THE PHONE TO DESTROY YOURSELF.
THAT IS WHY IGNORANCE DESTROYS THE FOOLISH AND THE SIMPLE-MINDED. WISDOM SAVES THE WISE. Wisdom tells Me, “I bought this water, and there is no way this water can turn out to be my blood.”
ANYBODY THAT IS CONTROLLED BY HIS APPETITE IS DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION. THE DESIRE TO USE YOUR PHONE IS A STRONG APPETITE. A STRONG PASSION.
WHEN YOU HAVE DEVELOPED THAT PASSION [THAT APPETITE], TRULY SPEAKING, TO DESTROY IT WILL TAKE THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD. IT WILL TAKE A STRINGENT DECISION TO FIGHT IT OUT OF YOUR SYSTEM.
And as long as you have not risen up to recognize it and the havoc it has already caused, and see to the future what is going to be your landing point, if you should continue that way, there is no way you can begin to fight it. Then who brought it? You!
Have you seen that man’s greatest enemy has been himself? Who is wronging you? Allah? Allah does not wrong anybody. People wrong themselves. [Surah 10:44] When you are obeying the voice of the devil ignorantly, you are worshipping the devil ignorantly.
WHAT AM I SAYING? PRIDE DESTROYS THE SIMPLE-MINDED. PRIDE, STUBBORNNESS, ARROGANCE ARE POWERFUL INSTRUMENTS IN THE HAND OF THE DEVIL TO DESTROY THE FOOLISH AND THE UNREASONABLE.
Since you purchased the Bluetooth earpiece, what have you achieved with it? You were corrected, and you became hostile.
You are sitting down under a lockdown, as if when you were in the school your father could give you such a money to use six thousand five hundred naira [₦6,500.00] to purchase something you put in your ear because you have seen others using it.
And this is because the devil will suggest to you, “If I do not use it I have not arrived.”
The first day Promise was tempted, I was in Lagos, and gave him the money go and buy your trousers, buy your shoes and this and that. It was just for a test to know his desire. He messed himself up.
When I came back and interviewed him, “Why did you behave that way?” He said, “Daddy, it is not that I decided to waste the money. I have developed this passion. I desired this trouser while I was at Aba, only that I had not the money.”I said, “Is that so? Good! Thank you very much.”
YOU SEE. YOUR DESIRE WILL ALWAYS CLASH WITH THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IF YOU ARE NOT SPIRITUAL.
Sometimes you are doing something because others are doing it. And you feel that if you do not do it the same way they are doing it, you will no longer be a human being, or that you will no longer be regarded. Is it not true?
This is what the devil does. And that is why you should check the spirit behind this fashion. Anything Fashion. Fashion! Fashion! Maybe you do not know that this handset has become a fashion. I say handset has become a fashion.
The same way foolish people have turned their laptops into fashion. After dressing, if they do not carry a kit at the back, even if it does not contain the laptop, they will feel incomplete. Is it not true?
Without carrying the bag, your dressing is now incomplete. Even if you are wearing shorts, you put it there so that the world will know that you have a kit. And then when you watch the television, they will say it is reigning fashion.
You carry your laptop there, you are carrying your whole world there, since the laptop is important to you.
But in those good old days when we were sensible, laptop had its own bag. I say, laptop has its own bag, and no laptop has ever been imported into any nation with the bag you carry at the back. It has a bag. A protective bag the manufacturers made for it.
But that one now is out-fashioned. So, that one now, nobody can use it. Even if the laptop comes with the other one, it is the devil that is manufacturing all these things. If you are not spiritual. That is the emphasis.
Even to learn how to drive, watch the spirit. Watch the spirit. Driving has its own spirit. That is why, if you want to learn how to drive as a show of pride, to show your mates that you can drive, I bet you, you will not go far.
You may kill yourself or others may kill you. You may be crushed. You may even go to jail for using it to kill somebody.
This is because, if it is pride, you will like to be showing off, especially when you get to where people that know you are. You will change your driving system to show them that you have mastered it.
You can even place one hand on the seat and hang the other one proudly so that they call you big guy. “A big guy!” And you will be showing off. The devil is promoting your cause. I say, the devil is the one promoting your cause.
If you are spiritual, find out whose music you are dancing to. Who is playing the music you are dancing? Is it God that is playing it or the devil?
A person dancing to the tune of the devil, where will his corpse be found? Hell, for the devil will lead you straight to hell. You will keep on dancing to the music until you dance into hell.
But if God is the one playing the music for you, step by step, you are following God. Step by step, you are following until you land yourself in paradise. You land yourself in paradise.
LET ME TELL YOU. ALL THESE GADGETS AND EVERY INFORMATION YOU ARE ACQUIRING, THE AIM IS TO NULLIFY THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR HEART. THE SOLE AIM IS TO WHAT? TO NULLIFY THE WORD OF GOD in your heart. I SAY, IT IS TO MAKE THE WORD OF GOD OF NON-EFFECT.
WHEN YOU ARE STRUGGLING TO COME OUT OF IT, THE THING WILL HOLD YOU BACK. IT WILL COME TO A POINT WHERE THE HANDSET WILL NO LONGER BE TALKING. THE HANDSET WILL NOW GENERATE A DANGEROUS SPIRIT, WHAT IS THAT DANGEROUS SPIRIT? DREAMING.
Your dreams will no longer be about the things of God. Your dreams will be as a result of your activities in the day. After all, dreams come through multitudesof activities, interactions AND conversations. Is it not true?
SOME DREAMS ARE SPIRITUAL DREAMS. YOU CANNOT BE CARNAL AND HAVE SPIRITUAL DREAMS. NOBODY IS CARNAL AND IS GIVEN SPIRITUAL DREAMS. YOU MUST BE FILLED WITH SERIOUS THOUGHTS BEFORE DREAMS CAN COME TO YOU FROM GOD.
AND THAT MUST BE THE THOUGHTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LOTS, ON YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD OR TO FULFILL YOUR AMBITIONS IN THE FAITH OF CHRIST.
BUT ANY OTHER THING, WATCH IT. IF YOU ARE FOND OF HOLDING ALL THESE THINGS, LET ME TELL YOU, YOU WILL BE HAVING SOCIAL DREAMS.
INSTEAD OF SPIRITUAL DREAMS YOU WILL BE HAVING SOCIAL DREAMS BECAUSE ALL YOUR DAY IS FILLED WITH SOCIAL INTERACTION.
SOCIAL MEDIA. IS IT NOT WHAT THEY CALL IT? SOCIAL MEDIA. THAT WORD “SOCIAL”, LET SOMEBODY GIVE ME THE MEANING OF THE WORD “SOCIAL”. I WANT YOU TO SEE SOMETHING. GIVE ME THE LITERARY MEANING OF “SOCIAL”.
THIS IS BECAUSE IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF “SOCIAL”, YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE WANDERED AWAY COMPLETELY FROM CHRIST.
SOCIAL MEDIA. SOCIAL COMMUNICATION. SOCIAL INTERACTION, WHEN YOU ARE SITTING DOWN IN YOUR HOUSE LOCKED UP WITH THE DEVIL.
THIS LOCKDOWN CAN BE LOCKDOWN WITH CHRIST IF YOU ARE SPIRITUAL. IT CAN BE LOCKDOWN WITH THE DEVIL, IF YOU ARE UNSPIRITUAL.
It will be the opportunity for you to perfect in evil because it has given you ample opportunity to roam your handset and to roam your television. When the television goes off, you pick your handset. In short you are doomed if you are not careful.
That is why I gave you the Message, be very careful about snake bite at this dangerous hour. Watch injury time and play your game to avoid injury at this injury time that will take you out of the way of Paradise.
…. We are not what people think we are. If they had known God, they would have known us. Thus, do not be amazed at what you are witnessing. The Scripture said that we are of God. We are children of God. The rest of the people around us are under the power and control of the evil One. If you do not want the Devil to control you, to be under his power, remain in Christ. Abide in Me and I will abide in you. The Lord said, “When you abide in Me and My Words abide in you, ask whatsoever you will!” What a blank cheque!
GIVE YOURSELF A PLACE WHEN YOU ARE ALIVE; Preached on Friday 27th November, 2015 at THE SON OF MAN’s Family Altar, Mbaise; Pg. 43 vs. 26 – 29
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SOCIALIZATION IS NOT SPIRITUALITY
social [Meaning]: [1] A festive gathering to foster introduction,[2] a dinner dance event usually held by company or social club,[3] BEING EXTROVERTED OR OUTGOING.”
Being what? Extroverted! You are either extroverted or introverted. I hope you understand what I am saying. You are now acquiring the wider world. The wider spectrum of life.
SOCIAL [Meaning continued]: [4] of or relating to society, [5] the internet relating to social media or social network, [6] relating to a nation’s ally,[7] cooperating or growing in groups.
Cooperating or growing. This is because in every definition, you will take the one that is suitable to the discussion, so that security cannot be offered to you through this handset. It is impossible. I hope I am making sense?
Neither are you to use it to foster anything other than your group chat and so many other social interactions. Then, there are so many other things you are exposed to there.
SOCIAL [Meaning continues]: [8] needing companionship and therefore, best suited to living in communities,[9] an informal social gathering.
Is it not informal? Is this one a formal one? You can stay in your house and be a member or a party. I mean, a party member. You stay in your house and attend informal social gatherings.
[9] An informal social gathering especially one organized by the members of a particular club,[10] If you are social, you like to be around people,
www.vocabulary.com: [11]a social butterfly is one who is social or friendly with everyone, flitting from person TO PERSON, THE WAY A BUTTERFLY MIGHT.
This is the best dictionary. This is the one that got the meaning I am looking for. Am I making sense? Flitting from person to person like butterfly. The way the wine fly moves from the palm tree to the raffia palm. And from there it moves on uncontrolled. That is what you are.
That is how your mind will be wondering and roaming. Butterfly roams. Bird flies from one tree to another tree and perching, but butterfly will begin to make and flap its wings because it is very beautiful in appearance.
[11 continued] The word “social” comes from the Latin “socius” meaning “Friend”. When you are being social you are being everyone’s friend.
So, you befriend the devil. No discrimination. I have not even gotten what I am looking for. Flitting from one corner to another corner, and from person to person.
[12] A person who uses every way possible to communicate with as many people or group as possible, often using technology to do so via text messaging,… Have you heard it?…mass e-mailing, blogs, ….social websites and especially social networks like Facebook®, Myspace®, twitter®, and more.
You see the place they are leading to? Have you seen the whole groups mentioned? Then you call it socialization.
IS SOCIALIZATION SPIRITUALITY? CAN SOCIALIZATION PROMOTE SPIRITUALITY? RATHER, IT DESTROYS SPIRITUALITY. TO BE CARNALLY-MINDED IS EVIL. TO BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED IS GOOD.
WHY NOT BORROW A CUE FROM ME? WHY NOT FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE, SO THAT WHAT SUSTAINS ME WILL SUSTAIN YOU? WHY NOT DECIDE TO HAVE THE SON OF MAN’S STANDARD?
DOES IT MEAN THAT WITHOUT SOCIALIZATION, I WILL HATE PEOPLE? WITHOUT SOCIALIZATION, WILL I BE HATING PEOPLE?
I MEAN, MY SOCIALIZATION IS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF MY FAITH. DID YOU GET WHAT I AM SAYING? MY SOCIALIZATION CAN NEVER GO BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF MY BELIEF. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE NOW?
That is why My liberty will be among the Brethren, but out there in the world, I can never be at liberty. If I will try to exercise My liberty out there, I will be grossly misunderstood. Is it not true?
So, there is no way I can attempt it. Is it not true? But in the midst of the Brethren who believe in the same Faith I believe, you see my liberty. You see Me talking. You see Me drinking. You see Me having everything in common with them.
This is because we have our common ground; our common belief; things that are common among us. Is it not true?
But with your phone, you have wandered away from the boundaries of the Faith. Your handset can take you even where the hand of God can never reach and bring you back again. This is because it is the devil that is using it to lure you out.
And the moment you are drawn out spiritually and enticed, you continue to move from one stage to another stage.
Look at the way handset introduced it; from this one to this one, from this one to this one. You will be fidgeting and flitting from one person to another, from one group to another, from one site to another.
Tell Me whether the person is not lost. The person is totally lost. Yet, he is sitting down in this house. On that day, you might be asking, “When did I go to that group? When did I join them? When did I do that? I was in my house from morning till night.”
Yes! You were in your house from morning till night physically, but your spirit has gone beyond the lockdown.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE DEVIL IS PUTTING EVERYTHING IN HIS ARMOURY IN DISPLAY IN THESE DYING MINUTES.
Look at what reached My own ears. As I am talking to you, I am talking to Myself because God speaks to Me first. When I go to bed, God speaks to Me. When I am in a solitary place, God speaks to Me. He warns me concerning the dangers of the hour.
If THE SON OF MAN is afraid of over-exposure or afraid of socialization, do you mean to tell Me that He does not have the knowledge or that He does not have the wherewithal even to tour Onitsha every day and to join people and be junketing the streets. Do you mean that I do not have the means?
Why have I decided to be parking Myself at home? Let Me tell you. This thing is helping Me because it is a habit I inculcated from my childhood. I do not visit people. I find it difficult to go to people’s place from my childhood. Go and verify.
I was a hermit and I loved it. My people hated Me because of that. I could be in the house for one year, and nobody will see Me outside. Somebody said it will make Me to be timid and that was why I was always shy.
I said, “Yes! I am shy after a godly sort. I am timid after a godly sort, but when you provoke Me and take Me to the Scriptures, you will know that I am no longer shy. I am no longer timid. My timidity ends there.”
But after that, I will recoil to My house. You will not see Me on the street because that philosophy has already been in Me. Someone cannot get drowned in the river he never stepped into.
My father told Me that, and I enquired from him whether that could be the reason why he named Me Oshimiri [Ocean]. He said no, that a sea does not dry up, and that I will be like a sea. He said that I will be like a sea. And I accepted it.
But the fact remains the river does not drown one who has not stepped into it. Patty Obasi [a mucisian] sang a song saying that there had never been a time when the sea went looking for someone in his house. That was the much he knew. He saw it physically.
But spiritually now, the river goes to people houses. Do you understand what I am saying? The sea now comes looking for people in their houses.
Be it known to you that God spoke concerning this handset the same week it was introduced. God said that it should not be found in the hands of fools. Get rid of it! Get rid of it!
God said, “Let us begin by disarming ourselves and our children of the use of handsets. It is a destructive instrument that should not be found in the hands of fools. It is much more destructive that rifle, than gun, and bomb.”
HEAR ME VERY WELL. IF YOUR EYES ARE NOT OPEN TO SPIRITUAL DANGER, YOU ARE ALREADY IN CAPTIVITY BY THE SPIRIT I AM EXPOSING HERE.
This is because I heard it from upstairs. I came down and met it. I said I must tell you the fullness of it.
Many are already in the devil’s camp even this morning, waiting for their catching away. They are waiting for their translation when the devil is still holding them captive and has locked them in the prison.
God said, “All these things where the devil is using to oppress us[you know its oppression] we should hate them as a woman hates her menstrual cloth.” It is our doctrine. Nzubechi! Is it not true?
You hate evil, hate appearances of evil, symptoms of evil as a woman hates her menstrual cloth saying, “I do not need you again.” No woman uses menstrual pad twice. You hate it. Where do you dump it? In the toilet. You flush it out.
AND THAT IS WHAT GOD IS SAYING, THAT WE SHOULD GET RID OF ALL THOSE USELESS APPLICATIONS FROM OUR HEARTS. FROM OUR HEARTS! WHAT IS MAKING THE APPLICATIONS USELESS? IT IS USELESS IF WE ARE NOT SPIRITUALLY MINDED.
Is it not the one that we are now using to disseminate information? We are using it to serve God, but some are using it to serve selfish interests because the heart is not yet regenerated. The heart is not yet exercised in right doing; in righteousness.
That was why I gave you the message last night titled THE RAMADAN VOICE. I know that you have all known the meaning of Ramadan. That is where we are now.
THERE IS NO WAY THERE IS SERENITY IN YOUR HEART WHEN YOU ARE BROWSING NONSENSE. THERE CAN NEVER BE TRANQUILITY IN YOUR HEART. NEVER!
Many have used this handset to deny Christ because of socialization, social media information, and nullifying the word of God continually.
You see why, if you want to run this race and emerge victorious, watch what is happening in this dying minute. Dying minute. It is very difficult at this dying minute to escape from the hand of the devil.
The only people that will escape remain the Elect. Why? The elect have the eye salve. I say, they have the what? The eye salve that sifts every information,[look at the word I used. Sift. S.I.F.T.S.] Sifting every information to know those they will take and throw the rest away.
When you settle down to wash your rice, is it not to remove the stone and to wash off the sand. Is it not the reason? This is because they will serve no purpose than to destroy the food and destroy the health of the consumers.
Let Me tell you: You are placed on the highest pedestal. If what has happened in your midst will happen in the denomination, all of them will be in Paradise. You have been over taught. God has over displayed His Majesty in your midst. Pray that it will not be to your condemnation.
JUDGE YOURSELF; Preached on Wednesday 23rd July 2014 at the Household of God, Onitsha;
Pg. 59 vs. 1
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SPIRITUAL REALM
Why must you allow all these nonsenses that are worse than corona virus to permeate into your system and begin to torment you? This is because he that has wandered out of the way of truth is under torment in the hand of the devil.
What you have in your hand can torment you, but you do not know. Often times, you can even postpone your eating because of it. You can even postpone your eating or postpone other projects, “Wait until I finish”, to show you that the devil is crafty. I mean, the devil is resting at nothing.
THAT IS WHY I AM THE GREATEST ENEMY OF THE DEVIL, FOR THERE IS NO WAY, THERE IS NO MODE OF HIS OPERATION I WILL NOT CAPTURE.
Remember that we are fighting a spiritual battle and the devil has metamorphosed into the spiritual realm. Spiritual realm! If you are not growing spiritually, you are growing carnally.
And because you are carnally-minded, your phone becomes your best friend. Your phone is your pillow. Your phone is your bed. Your phone is your pot of soup. That your phone is everything.
If you are a woman, your phone is your hand bag. Your phone becomes a part of your life because you are carnally-minded. If we are not watchful, spiritually watching for the spiritual dangers…
REMEMBER WHEN GOD TOLD US THAT WE SHOULD FIGHT OUT OF OUR SYSTEM THE FOLLY OF SOPHISTICATION AND SOCIALIZATION. DID IT START TODAY?
SOPHISTICATION AND SOCIALIZATION. THESE ARE THE TWO POWERFUL INSTRUMENTS THE DEVIL IS USING IN THIS LAST BATTLE.
THE DEVIL IS NOT PRESENTING YOU WITH THE PHYSICAL WOMAN. THE JEZEBEL THAT WILL DRAW YOU AWAY. THE JEZEBEL IS IN YOUR PHONE.
THE JEZEBEL CAN BE A NIGERIAN. SHE CAN BE FROM ANY NATION FOR THERE ARE TOO MANY JEZEBELS IN THE AIR ALREADY, SEEKING CONNECTION.
Often times, you receive alert in your phone with many phone numbers that these people will like to be chatting with you. People you do not know. Do you not see that the sea now comes to people’s homes?
I get them. The lines might be up to twenty saying that the lines are the line of the people that want Me to chat with them.
I will say, “Look at these people. Do I know what chatting is? Should I call these lines? Before I will finish calling the line more requests will come. Should I write text message? I do not know how to write text messages. This is a diversionary role I am not interested in.”
SO RAISE UP A STANDARD IN YOUR HEART AGAINST SOCIALIZATION AND ALSO SOPHISTICATION WHICH PROMOTES PRIDE; WHICH PROMOTES PRIDE. AND PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL.
Remember the three things God hates.[1] A proud look, [2] A froward mouth and [3] A leg that runs doing evil easily. Three things! [1] One that is accustomed to doing evil readily because it appears light to him.[2] a froward mouth. Somebody whose words cannot be dependable. A very unreliable fellow. And then,[3] a proud look.
So please pay attention to what I am saying, and it will save your life.
Yesterday, we were extolling what God wrote when Wisdom was almost seven years old. We read it.
God had already extolled his qualities as a son, as a young boy that was coming up with intent to serve the interest of His father, desiring to stay wherever the Father was.
As at that time, whenever I sent Ijeoma my first daughter to fetch water for Me to drink, he will say, “Ok!” When I tell him to go and call Ijeoma, he will say, “Ok.” He will run, and with his hand, he will bring the water, forcing himself into serving My interest.
And I was watching the way he was coming up. I made a solemn promise. I gave him this name Wisdom which nobody answers in My community. And nobody ever answered Wisdom in this Faith until I gave him Wisdom Chibueze.
Then others started borrowing it, including Bishop Ifeanyi, Johnson, Pastor Thomas. Everybody started borrowing it. He was number one Wisdom. He was number one Chibueze.
And nobody gave him the name but the Almighty. This is the name of My first son which I named him, not in my house, but in the welfare center at Court Road where he was born.
The nurses were looking at Me, early hours of the morning when I named him on seeing the face. And I came home and started nurturing him.
Then, there was a miracle which we can never feign ignorance of till eternity. All my life, and in all the history of the world, he is the only one I have ever come across who started walking before crawling.
It is said that a human being does not walk without crawling, but Wisdom walked before crawling. Darling, is it a lie? Kerian was there, and we were washing clothes. He was moving about with the help of his baby’s walker.
That morning, when we were still living in Benjamin Street, Kerian brought him out. And with his hands, he held a pillar there at the backyard. We were there watching somebody who has never crawled for one day.
We were watching, and we saw somebody that jumped the gutter. It was not that he walked past. He jumped the gutter, for there was a small gutter in front of the house. He jumped it and landed on his two feet and then started running.
Kerian shouted. “Nna has started walking! Nna has started walking! Mama Amara rushed out with her husband and everybody who came out was enquiring to know what was happening.
All were asking, “How come that children who were up to one year were yet to start walking, but a child who was barely 7 months was up on his feet running?” This is because we were still praying for him to start crawling because he was plump and was yet to start crawling as at then.
We went after him to restrain him. And everybody was watching him as he was laughing heartily, running towards some tomatoes. Then, once his legs touched the ground, he starts running.
So what we resorted to doing then was to place him in a sitting position any time you wanted to punish him. Once you do that, he will be restricted to that particular spot, for he did not know how to stand up. Neither did he know how to crawl.
Later, after he had started walking, he then learnt how to crawl. Then, we will place him on the floor, and even with his crying, we will leave him and go into the kitchen.
So, he was there trying and making attempts to move. From there, he learnt how to crawl. He remained crawling as long as his hands had not reached a wall.
Once his hand touched the wall, he stood on his feet and the next thing is that you will see him inside the kitchen. The way and manner he came into the parlour then remained a mystery to us.
So, what am I trying to say? If you watch what I wrote concerning him, he was too tender, but whatever God promised there must come to pass.
And what is that thing he promised? God promised that He will give Wisdom something he will use to guide his siblings. What is that thing God will give him? It is what I am giving him now, when I espoused him to the Word of God.
And I made sure he is endued with the spirit of Christ which will give him wisdom, understanding and knowledge, and which will give him the inner power and the inner strength.
Then he will now be able to direct those who are coming after him to Christ, for that is the only way we can maintain continuity in the family. Otherwise, we will hear the story, “Once upon a time”, but God forbid!
Do you think the devil is happy? The devil is not happy. But there is one thing that holds Me. The promise of God to His Messenger can never fail.
We heard it last night in the Ramadan Message [RAMADAN VOICE], “The promise of God to His Messenger can never fail.”
None of my dreams which I started having at infancy has ever failed Me. Even the ones I had at the age of seven, they are fulfilling. And each one the Lord showed Me, He will tell Me to be patient.
And I went through troubles. Yet, God preserved My life so that those promises will come to pass before My eyes.
What is happening in this end time in this family had already been revealed when I was too tender, and when I was not even married.
I saw Myself placed in a kingly position where people from all works of life were bringing gifts, food items, money and everything. And I was there, and all the needy, the hungry and the thirsty were coming to Me. They were just carrying from My house.
I was lacking nothing to eat or to drink, but I was distributing to the needs of the world severally. I shared the dream and the dream put Me into trouble. That is why I gave you the Message, be very careful about dream killers. Be very careful about the people you share your dreams with. Dream killers!
Number one dream killer is socialization. number two is sophistication powered by pride. I SAY powered by pride. POWERED BY PRIDE.
inspiration gives strength to the mind. inspiration gives strength to all these things, but if you are NOT being inspired by God you will destroy all.
Look at what Hezekiah did. Hezekiah was too tender when the LORD appointed him to serve the LORD only. The same way He told Moses, “Only Me will you serve. Be faithful and I will bless you and your generation.”[Exodus 23:25 – 26]
Hence, Moses could say, “I and my children whom the Lord God Almighty has given to Me we are for signs and wonders in this generation.”
Why can we not say it that this family is set to be one of the wonders of this generation, together with everybody that is in this family? That we will remain wonders. People that will be selected by God as a peculiar family that served God and eschewed evil. People that were not partakers of the evil prevalent in their day.
Even when the whole world was filled with iniquity, Noah’s family was different. [Genesis 6:9] When everybody wronged God in the wilderness, Caleb and Joshua had another spirit.[Numbers 14:24] Who must be overcomers in every trial and temptation.
Watch what the Holy Quran said in the Ramadan Message [RAMADAN VOICE]; That we are overcomers already, and that Allah will guide us to overcome for Allah cannot guide a stubborn, a proud, an arrogant and disobedient fellow. [Surah 9:70 – 80; Surah 16:93; Surah 63:5 – 6]
Such, Allah will guide to error, harden their heart, so that even as I am exposing all these spirits, they will not even believe that I am speaking the truth, for the devil is constantly at work in them and in the hearts of children of disobedience.
But if you have been found in obedience to the truth, God said, “Keep on obeying that sum of doctrines you have received from the very beginning. Do not veer off.”
All these later days’ introductions from the devil, God permitted them because God knows that we will use some of them to serve useful purposes, but the fools and the ignorant will use them to destroy themselves. Is it not true? Is it not true?
….sincerely, physically speaking, spiritually speaking, I am the Highest Spiritualist. I do not say it for you to clap hands. I know I am the Apogee (Zenith) of Spiritual Realm. I know that. You bypass Me, you will meet nothing but emptiness. I know that very well. When you run and run and get to Me, it is all over. You will go back to the origin again. That is pure truth. I do not say it to seek your opinion. No. No. No. You better prove it before you begin to make noise around it.
MY SALVATION IS NOW IN MY HANDS; Preached on 27th July 2014 at the Household of God, Onitsha;
Pg. 75 vs. 18 – 19
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YOU ARE RIPE FOR “A” BATTLE
I am saying that the promise God made to His Messenger can never fail.
God said to Abraham, “I know Abraham. He is My friend. I love him, for he is able to command his entire household to obey Me. [Genesis 18:19]
There was something God saw in Abraham; An uncompromising spirit. A spirit that was devoted and dedicated to God and to the cause of God.
THAT IS WHY I SAID THAT WHATEVER A MAN HAS IS WHAT HE WILL LEAVE AS LEGACY. WHATEVER YOU HAVE IS YOUR LEGACY. IS IT NOT TRUE?
IF YOU KNOW THAT THING YOU HAVE, THAT IS WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE AS LEGACY FOR YOUR CHILDREN. WHAT DID YOUR FATHER LEAVE AS LEGACY FOR YOU?
I will not leave a fabulous bank account for my child. I do not have that money. I do not have estates, but I have Christ.
I will begat him into Christ. He will be my begotten in the Lord, in the gospel of Christ and stand in my stead.
What is My joy? I spoke to the Elders using the son of Kurt Angle [named Jason Jordan: a wrestler in WrestleMania]. You were there when I said it?
The boy said, “Daddy, do not deny Me this wonderful opportunity. You never promoted Me to be there. I fought my way. I qualified in the qualifying series to wrestle in the WrestleMania alongside with you. What a joy? What an honour that I will be wrestling alongside with my father in WWE?”
The father said, “No my son [that is Jordan]. You are not ripe for this “A” battle. This is “A” battle. You cannot come from 205 and fight “A” battle. It is true you have won there, but still, it is not enough.”
He said, “Daddy I fought the Beast. I fought Lesnar. And I gave them trouble.”
His father [Kurt Angle] asked him, “But how many did you win? It is true you qualified in the Royal Rumble. It is true quite alright, but you are not yet qualified for “A” battle. My dear, you are a small boy to fight “A” battle. If you fight, you cannot make it. WrestleMania is “Do or die”. They will kill you.”
He [Jordan] said, “Sir, please just permit me to be there.” His father said, “You are becoming stubborn.”
Then, being there gave him [Jordan] something which put him off till today. He showed him a sign of “A” battle. A sign put him off.
BUT I DO NOT BELIEVE A SIGN WILL PUT YOU OFF. YOU ARE RIPE FOR “A” BATTLE BECAUSE I STARTED FIGHTING A BATTLE WHEN I WAS UNDER YOUR AGE. AT THE AGE OF TWELVE, I HAD STARTED FIGHTING A BATTLE.
SO, YOU WILL FIGHT FROM A TO Z. AND THAT IS IF YOU CAN DEVELOP YOUR OWN VISION ABOUT YOUR OWN CALLING. ONE THING IS TO GIVE YOU A CALLING, ANOTHER THING IS TO HAVE A PERSONAL VISION ABOUT WHAT YOUR CALLING DEMANDS FROM YOU.
AND THEN, YOU BEGIN TO SEE IT FROM YOUR CALLING’S PERSPECTIVE WHICH YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, IS TIED TO YOUR ETERNAL LIFE.
WHEN YOU PROTECT YOUR CALLING, YOUR CALLING WILL PROTECT YOU, FOR YOUR CALLING WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO MINGLE WITH PEOPLE ANYHOW AND THAT WILL MISUSE TIME, FOR TIME IS NEVER ON YOUR SIDE. THERE IS NO TIME FOR ROAMING WITH HANDSET. NO!
DO NOT EVER JOIN PEOPLE THAT DO NOT WANT TO DEVELOP THEMSELVES. THIS IS BECAUSE, THE EXTENT YOU YIELD YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST, IS THE EXTENT CHRIST WILL USE YOU.
THE EXTENT YOU USE YOUR HANDSET TO BROWSE IS THE EXTENT YOUR HANDSET WILL REMAIN IN YOUR HANDS. IS IT NOT TRUE?
Now that the handset is lying down there, are you browsing with it? If you leave it upstairs, will you browse with it? Good!
Continue wasting your time, thinking that a miracle will happen. The devil is cheating you. The devil is cheating Me through time and also cheating you through time, I mean, by the unconscious energy he is tapping from you.
THE DEVIL IS CHEATING YOU BY GIVING YOU SLEEPLESS NIGHT AND DENYING YOU A FULL NIGHT REST. THE DEVIL IS CHEATING YOU BY POISONING YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR SOUL.
THE DEVIL IS CHEATING YOU BY PRESENTING SOCIALIZATION, SOPHISTICATION, PRIDE AND ITS ATTENDANT EVILS THAT CAN NEVER MAKE YOU TO STAND FIRM IN THE FAITH.
So, first of all, find out for yourself whether what I am saying is true or false. That is why, in conclusion, I will rather hand you over to the Spirit of Christ. Then consider all I have said so far.
And may the Almighty God whom you have gathered here to pray and worship this morning give you perfect understanding, for that is the only way you can escape from the wiles of the devil. He is everywhere. He is everywhere. He is everywhere.
That is the much I want to share. You can share this Good News to every family globally. Nobody has escaped until God has clothed you with immortality. Thank you!