A SURE ANCHOR VOLUME 1 ON Sunday, 18th July 2021 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN THE ALPHA AND OMEGA
31What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] 32He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s Elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]
ROMANS 8:31 – 33 Amplified Version
If you belong to the Elect, believing God to be Man, it is an easy case. There is nothing difficult there. But if you do not belong to the Elect, it is an unbearable saying which attracts death penalty.
– THE SON OF MAN –
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 74
PROLOGUE
PRAYER
1. Let us bow down our heads.
2. To You O LORD of Host, we have come, bowing our heads before You as the only One and True God. You are the Most Holy, the Most Righteous, the Most Perfect, the Most Faithful, the Most Tolerant God, the All-Knowing and All-Understanding God, plenteous in Mercy and always forgiving the iniquities of His children, for there is no God as compassionate as You are.
3. There is no God that is touched by the infirmities of his children more than You. There is no God that is as protective as You.
4. From the day, O God, we identified with You till this very morning, we have nothing to regret.
5. You have been our SURE ANCHOR in this time of storms. You have been our refuge in these critical times. You have been our Provider, our Healer and our Comforter. You have been our Instructor and our Guide.
6. Father Divine, we have been enjoying Your rich blessings without paying any dues at all. How glorious O God, You are. Plenteous in mercy. Always showcasing Yourself as the Almighty in everything pertaining to your children. You have never ceased from making a Name for Yourself.
7. In all situations, we have seen ourselves. You have always been there for us. Father, we say THANK YOU.
8. Often times, we feel that THANK YOU is not enough. There is nothing we have which will be enough to appreciate Your loving-kindness, Your goodness and mercy we have been enjoying all these years.
9. There is nothing in heaven and on earth that belongs to us which will be enough to give You in return.
10. Father, we surrender our lives to You. Accept us as living sacrifices, Holy and pure in Your sight, Father. Father, through the blood of Christ make us acceptable in Your sight and receive our sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving which we have poured to You at this altar of our souls.
11. Father, we say THANK YOU once again for creating this particular forum; this Fellowship where we normally gather to hear You speak to us, Father; to praise and to worship You; to exhort Your Most Holy Name, for that is our whole duty.
12. Father, bless today for us. Bless our hearts. Bless the hearts of all the Elect of God scattered all over the world. Meet them at the points of their needs. Bless every family that is called by Your Name.
13. Let today be a day of wonderful visitation to every family that look up to You, O God. Heal the sick among them. Comfort the broken-hearted. Set the captives free. Let there be nobody that will feel feeble in the midst of Your people.
14. Remember O God Your Promise that there shall never be found among Your people any feeble fellow. Even while they were in the wilderness, our fathers never found even one feeble among them, for You were always there for them, caring and providing for their needs.
15. And You have never changed. You are the same yesterday, today and forever. We worship You because of Who You are to us.
16. Father, we really bow down before You. We submit totally O God, our intellect, our hearts and all we are made up of. We submit totally to You. Have Your way in us. Control us. Dominate everything around us. May You never permit us to have our ways.
17. Father, we THANK YOU. Peradventure within the week, we erred in Your sight, by going contrary or speaking contrary, in any way we have acted that is not acceptable in Your sight, LORD I stand in the gap for Myself and for all Your children scattered all over the globe.
18. Forgive them all. Set them free O God. Count not their iniquities against them. Remember the blood that was offered there as a sacrifice for their sins.
19. And by that singular sacrifice O God, You said You have perfected all that will come to You through that blood sacrifice, which speaketh better things than the blood of Abel.
20. Father, therein we hide ourselves under the blood. When You see that blood, pass us by. May You never permit the Angel of death to ever visit any of us, any of our children, any of our grandchildren, any of our Brethren, no matter where they are located throughout the whole globe.
21. Stretch out Your healing hands there and get them recovered and restored, even O God our relations, whose lives are tied to our own Father. If they are sorrowing, we shall sorrow. Whatever befalls them befalls us.
22. Even our neighbours O God, reach out to all of them. Let there be no exemption. Meet their souls’ demands. Meet their physical demands O God, that they will live and glorify Your Name.
23. Remember O God, the dead can never worship You. We can never say, O God, “Praise the LORD” if we go down to the world of the dead. It is only the living that will say “Praise the LORD.”
24. And that is why we are praising You because You have given us a place in the land of the living. Father, accept our praises and sacrifices. Accept even the songs that proceed out of our mouths. Even in the prayers and meditations of our hearts, be there O God.
25. Father, we really THANK YOU this morning. We need a touch of love from You. Only one touch will turn us around again. Only one touch of love from You will rekindle the light of hope in us; will renew us and revive us in Your presence O God.
26. Father, having brought us to the knowledge of the truth, up to the point where we are, may You never O King of Glory cast us away.
27. In all situations, always restore Your right Spirit in us that we may continue to remain acceptable before You through the Beloved Whom You have sent O God, to Guide us back to Paradise; in Whom we are sanctified; in Whom, we are made holy.
28. Father we really THANK YOU this day. Create no room for the devil to tempt our hearts away. You are ours, and we are Thine. We are the workmanship of Thy hands. The Flock of Thy Pasture.
29. Remember what we are made up of. Remember how long we sojourned in the world before You arrested us. So whenever it comes, O God to bringing that judgment upon Your children, tamper justice with mercy.
30. Always remember where You picked them; from the dustbin! You cleansed and washed them.
31. Father be merciful unto all Your Elect. Let there be not even one that will smell hellfire.
32. LORD, I make a proclamation here: As many as are holy in Thy sight, steadfast, immovable, whose anchor is holding unto Christ, The Solid Rock, Father, uphold them there.
33. Those that are yet to find their ways to that place, Father, help them to be there. We are waiting and we are watching. Do not allow us to wait at the Gate longer than necessary. Do that which You know is right and expedient. Expedite Your action.
34. Father, we really THANK YOU this morning. All the vessels You are going to use, not only in this Glorious Bridal Studio this morning, but in every family wherever they have gathered to worship You.
35. All the vessels, Father anoint them with Thy Holy Spirit. Uphold them with Thy Mighty hand. May they speak as oracles of God. Cease their mouths from proclaiming lies and vanity.
36. Father Divine, we are bowing low before You. We say, “Receive all the honour. Receive all the Praise. All the Thanksgiving, all the Adoration which we pour unto You this morning.”
37. Answer our prayers, for You are the only God that heareth and answereth prayer. And that is why we come to You with prayers and supplications believing O God that as a loving Father, You will never ignore our prayers, but You will do that which is right in Your sight.
38. Father, we say, “Renew our strength through the entrance of the Word into our hearts this morning.” Build courage. Father, build Faith upon Faith so that no evil will find any space to hang on, either around us or in us. Build a strong hedge around every Elect of God.
39. Make it impossible for the enemy to operate either physically, spiritually or diabolically against any of them.
40. Father, possess Your possession. Possess Your possession, for You paid a great prize Father, to possess us. Do not allow Your enemy to snatch any of us out of your hands.
41. To Your Name alone we give the Glory and not unto ourselves. To Your name alone, O LORD of Hosts, we give the Glory and not to ourselves. To Your Name once again Father, we say we give all the Glory, all the Thanksgiving, all the Praises and not unto ourselves, for the great things You have done for us; and You will do for us.
42. THANK YOU for hearing our prayers. THANK YOU for attending to our supplications for Your Name’s sake O LORD, we pray. Amen!!!
Glorifying Him (THE SON OF MAN) means going back to where He came from. That is going back. You proceeded from God and you are all going back to God. I have reconciled you unto God. You are no longer enemies and as long as I am here, you cannot go ahead of Me for you do not know the Way. If I did not tell you that we have come to the end, do you think you would have known? You know events that will mark the end. Now we have hopefully arrived at the end.
– THE SON OF MAN –
I AM THE CONSOLATION OF THE BRIDE; Preached on 31st December 2011
Pg. 53 vs. 8
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TODAY WILL SHOW US THE PICTURE OF TOMORROW
To God be the Glory for all he is doing for us. Today is the 18th day of the month of July 2021 and you can see the level of rainy season.
2. New yam is in the market, but see the level of rainy season and begin to see the future.
3. I was at Onitsha yesterday discussing with the Divisional Police Officer [DPO], Chukwudi who is in-charge of Ekwulobia.
4. And before Me, the man while repairing his vehicle was telling Me that he went to buy (red) palm oil and groundnut oil [vegetable oil] for his family.
5. He showed Me 20 litres he bought at twenty-six thousand naira [₦26,000.00]. He said that the wife told him that they were selling twenty-four thousand, four hundred and fifty naira [₦24,450.00]. He got to the market and the people insisted on twenty-six thousand naira.
6. He showed Me the vegetable oil which he also bought at the rate of sixteen thousand, five hundred naira [₦16,500.00]. Local oil! Begin to imagine what the foreign one will be.
7. I know that at a time like this, during rainy season, red palm oil is very expensive, but not as expensive as we see it today. A painter of Garri is now sold for almost two thousand naira [₦2,000.00].
8. Begin to see the level of havoc and hunger we are going to experience next year, because it is the rain that will determine whether the crop will yield fruits [dividends] or not.
9. A YEAR OF SCANTY RAIN MEANS A YEAR OF SCANTY FOOD. Remember it started last year. Many things are in Nigeria and worldwide, but the world cannot see it. See the handwriting on the wall.
10. TODAY WILL SHOW US THE PICTURE OF TOMORROW. ANYBODY WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE SYMPHONY OF THE MESSAGE TODAY WILL MISS THE EFFECT TOMORROW.
11. In other words, God is saying “We should not be wasteful.” God is saying we should remember the Message he gave us during the COVID-19 lockdown about the 3S: [1] Savings, [2] Sustenance [3] Success.
12. Let us never think that COVID-19 is over. It is not over. Let us never think that hardship is over. It is not over. The real hardship is coming. Let us never think that the troubles are over, for the real troubles are yet to come.
13. We are only having the introduction of the troubles around us. I am telling you that there is going to be worse hunger and anger on the land.
14. I was talking to My wife the other day, and I said, “Can you not see that there is great hunger and anger on the land?” A hungry man is an angry man.
15. Tell Me how we are going to contend with this situation if it gets worse tomorrow. There is anger on the land. Nobody is happy on the land anymore. Nobody is happy.
16. If there be any place somebody can say, “I am happy”, it is only in Christ. So, Christ must be your Sure Anchor at a time like this. If Christ is not your Sure Anchor, you are perishing.
17. For our Sunday School this morning, I want us to consider this Message. Give ear as we use it for Sunday School. Thank You.
1I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on men: 2God gives a man wealth, possessions and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires, but God does not enable him to enjoy them, and a stranger enjoys them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.
ECCLESIASTES 6:1 – 2 NIV
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THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE MIGHT LEARN OUR LESSONS [1]
LOOK ON TO THE REDEEMER AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE OF PARADISE.
SONG: Nations are breaking, Israel’s awaking, The signs that the prophets foretold; The Gentile days numbered, with horrors encumbered; Eternity soon will unfold. Sure!
2. The day of redemption is near, Men’s hearts are failing for fear; Be filled with the Spirit, your lamps trimmed and clear, Look up! Your redemption is near.
3. I there is any group looking up with a steadfast hope, and expecting complete redemption daily, it is the Bride of Christ. Amen!
4. …25For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last HE [THE LAST ONE] will stand upon the earth. Job 19:25 AMP.
5. “He shall come as a Redeemer to Zion and to those in Jacob (Israel) who turn from transgression, says the Lord.” Amen! Isaiah 59 verse 20 AMP.
6. “For we know that even the things of nature, like animals and plants, suffer in sickness and death as they await this great event. And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also we groan to be released from pain and suffering.
7. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children,…
8. Note that portion of the Scripture. Every true child born in a family has his rights to claim from the parents.
9. There are certain things children will benefit from the parents which are not gifts but their sole rights as children. Is it not true? Is it not true?
10. I am a Father. And I am a grandfather. I know when My children are demanding their rights from Me. And I cannot argue with them for too long over it.
11. I may argue with them to test their intelligence. I can argue with them to test their temperament. I know it belongs to them, but may be the hour for Me to give it to them is not yet come.
12. I may argue with them because I am watching their ages and to know their maturity in handling such things, if I should bestow it upon them.
13. As their rights, whether I am alive or dead, they have those things to claim from Me as their rights. And I do not need to mention them one by one.
14. It is not so to a stranger. What a stranger receives is a gift. A stranger receives gifts, but a biological child born receives his rights.
15. If his rights are denied him, heaven will fall. Heads must roll. He will never allow the family to see peace until he gets his rights.
16. That is why the problem of Nigeria will linger for too long, for the rights of the citizens of Nigeria are being denied them.
17. Hear Me very well. Whenever people are vying for their rights, the pressure they will mount are always irresistible pressures. They will keep on mounting the pressures until the resistance is broken because pressure breaks every resistance.
18. There is no nation that does not know when her citizens are vying for or fighting for or demanding their rights.
19. Under the law, we have our rights. Under our customs and traditions, we have our rights. And every person tries to protect his or her right. True or false?
20. Nobody wants to forfeit his own to his brother or sister or neighbour.
21. It was the right of Naboth that cost his life because a greedy and covetous king Ahab and his family wanted to capitalize on his poverty to take away his right over his father’s heritage.
22. A land that was located near Ahab’s house, but it did not belong to Ahab. He wanted to buy it with money because he was rich, but the poor man said, “No! I will not sell off my birth right. This is my heritage from the father.”
23. The king closed his mouth because he was sure and certain that what Naboth said was right.
24. 1Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
25. 2Ahab said to Naboth, “Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth.”
26. 3But Naboth replied, “The Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.” 4So Ahab went home, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay on his bed sulking and refused to eat. [1 Kings 21:1 – 4 NIV]
27. But a wicked wife took it upon herself to kill an innocent man and possess his right.
28. 7Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I’ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” [1 Kings 21:7 NIV]
29. Did it augur well with that woman? The LORD judged her and punished her according to the weight of the iniquity she committed. And punished her entire family; punished all the elders of the land who became mean because of money and then took sides with error. How we ought to learn lessons from what happened to them.
30. 17Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite: 18″Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who rules in Samaria. He is now in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.
31. 19Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’ Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood, dogs will lick up your blood-yes, yours!’ ” [1 kings 21: 17 – 19 NIV]
32. Hear Me very well. This issue of our new bodies; God clothing us with immortality is documented everywhere in the Holy Scriptures. All ancient manuscript bear eloquent witnesses to this thing.
33. IT IS THE RIGHT OF EVERY TRUE CHILD OF GOD. WE HAVE FALSE CHILDREN OF GOD AND WE HAVE THE REAL CHILDREN OF GOD. WHO ARE THE REAL CHILDREN OF GOD?
34. THOSE THAT ARE HUMBLE, MEEK, LOWLY AND TREMBLES AT THE WORD OF GOD. THEY ARE TOTALLY OBEDIENT TO THEIR FATHER’S WORD.
35. That is why we need to go back to the ancient manuscripts which God raked up; TESTAMENT OF [OUR] TWELVE PATRIARCHS. We need to go back to THE 2ND BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE, and read the portion concerning Seth, the third son of Adam, who vowed within himself that he will never dishonour his father’s words; neither will he dishonour the words of his mother, for they were talking to him based on the experiences they had with the devil who tempted them and put them into enmity with God. And they learnt their lessons that there would not be a repeat occurrence.
36. Watch all the sons of Jacob. Watch Joseph in particular. Watch Asher. Watch! Even Judah vowed a vow and said, “Until this my age, I know I am about to die and join my ancestors; I have never for one day resisted or disobeyed my father’s word. I have obeyed to the least detail. Neither have I neglected my mother’s counsel that are right.
37. Is it not scriptural? In the Book of Proverbs, it says, “My son, listen to the voice and words of your fathers for they will help you to grow up intelligently in wisdom, in knowledge and understanding; and in the fear of God. Neglect not the good counsel of your mother.”
38. 8My son, hear the instruction of your father; reject not nor forsake the teaching of your mother. [Proverbs 1:8 AMP]
39. 20My son, keep your father’s [God-given] commandment and forsake not the law of [God] your mother [taught you]. [Proverbs 6:20 AMP]
40. But today, watch what we are having as children everywhere.
41. In the New Testament, Ephesians 6, the Scripture says, “Children, obey your parents in the LORD.”
42. 1CHILDREN, OBEY your parents in the Lord [as His representatives], for this is just and right. [Ephesians 6:1 AMP]
43. Take note of it. Your parents are not godless. They are all children of God, living with God and in God. I say, “Living with God and also in God.” The Kingdom is with them and also in them; established.
44. Pay heed to their words so that you will live long and prosper, for this is a command from God that has a lasting reward.
45. Anybody who goes contrary to it because you feel you are of age; you have attained some height academically; you have been exposed to life more than your parents, but you have not been exposed to Christ more than your parents. Have you?
46. You may be exposed to life [social life] because today, there is no end to travelling. There is no end to making contacts, whether with phone or anywhere.
47. You see a young man here in the morning, but in the evening, he is in London without even enquiring from the parents or relating with them, simply because he thinks he knows the way, he can control himself and he is no longer a kid.
48. Must I wait until my parents will put food into my mouth? And they will never pause to think how God will see the whole thing.
49. If God is not behind you in all your decisions and actions, you are coming back saying, [1] “I nearly died” [2] “I left my home full but I have come back empty-handed”, for without God, we can achieve nothing.
50. The triumph of evil is just for a little while. After a little while, sorrows, pains and anguish will now dominate the life of the individual which will take him to premature death.
51. People will only see where they are heading to, and then see green pastures where they are heading to. But they will never see the green snakes hiding under the green pasture.
52. You think the devil will allow you to come and take it like that? Never!
53. Inside the green pasture, there must be too many green snakes. Too many things are hiding under the cover.
………Whoever that is avoiding THE SON OF MAN is stupid. Whoever that is avoiding THE SON OF MAN is joking or playing with His life because you do not know what lies ahead of you. That place where you think is safe for you may be the place where you meet your doom and disaster and you might be thinking that if you tell THE SON OF MAN about it that He will stop you. For that reason, you hide it away. Amen!
– THE SON OF MAN –
BRIDAL WATCH! ISRAEL AND PALESTINE IN PROPHESY VOL 2; preached on Sunday 30th March 2014;
Pg. 73 vs. 44 – 45
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THINGS HAPPEN THAT WE MIGHT LEARN OUR LESSONS [2]
It is just like people have been orchestrating since yesterday before Me that all roads lead to Oba [Anambra State].
2. I asked, “Who and who are at Oba? Who is that person? What is his name? What impact has he made in his community?”
3. Deacon Vin came yesterday and testified that he knows the family and that he is not a name even in their own village. He is not a name.
4. No wonder his father remained inside and said that he will not come out throughout what was happening. And then watch the life of the people who were there.
5. I am not envying the wicked. And I will never envy the wicked, for the prosperity of the wicked is a great temptation to the righteous.
6. But a foolish fellow who is blinded by the prosperity of the wicked will not see death that is imminent. He will not see where it is landing him.
7. One thing is to go to Dubai or go to South Africa. Another thing is to return alive. We see a situation where one thousand people will troop into foreign lands to go and catch gold or bring back gold, but at the end of the day;
8. At the end of the day, only one or two will survive. Is it a good business where one thousand will engage in and only one or two will be favoured? The rest will either die, come back mad or end it in the prison. Then all their life will be a waste.
9. Oh! I thank God. Go to the Messages I have given to the youth. I documented all these things. I documented all these things.
10. Who have been victims of xenophobia both in Ghana and in South Africa? The greatest number are Nigerian youths who are uncontrolled because of their penchant for materialism.
11. I said it. We are living in an age where the criminal propensities in our youths have become uncontrollably unacceptable by every sound-minded individual or parents.
12. That your eyes are opened, are they opened to what? That is what the devil will promise you, “Shine your eyes! Let your eyes be opened!”
13. When he deceived Adam and Eve and their eyes opened, what did they get in return? Death! Did they get that which the devil promised? Never!
14. Anybody venturing outside when people who ventured outside are now being bundled back, is making the most grievous mistake.
15. Things happen that we might learn our lessons, for the prosperity of the wicked had always been a great temptation to the righteous, according to the Scriptures, for the Bible said, “Consider not their present estate. Consider the end of their lives, for it has always been a disastrous end, for no evil fellow who defied the truth has ever ended his life in pleasure in the sight of God.”
16. He that liveth in pleasure, now he is alive, the Bible said “He is dead.” Amen!
17. 6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. [1 Timothy 5:6 KJV]
18. 20Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting among you, and rivalry in respect of wealth and children, as the likeness of vegetation after rain, thereof the growth is pleasing to the tiller; afterwards it dries up and you see it turning yellow; then it becomes straw. But in the Hereafter (there is) a severe torment (for the disbelievers, evil-doers), and (there is) Forgiveness from God and (His) Good Pleasure (for the believers, good-doers), whereas the life of this world is only a deceiving enjoyment. [Surah 57:20 Hilali-Khan Translation]
19. If you are a true seed of God, follow God’s way of making people wealthy; making people rich. God maketh a man rich; he addeth no sorrow to it.
20. 22The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. [Proverbs 10:22 KJV]
21. How does He do it? He gave you a command, “First seek ye the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; every other thing shall be added unto you.”
22. 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. [Matthew 6:33 KJV; Also in Luke 12:31]
23. And nobody who obeyed it has ever been disappointed. Whoever that has Christ as his Sure Anchor will never be disappointed in this life nor in the life to come. Otherwise, the Word of God will be made of non-effect.
24. They asked Jesus Christ, “We have forsaken our parents and everything and we have followed You. What shall be our reward?”
25. He said, “I assure you most solemnly; Most solemnly, I say unto you, “No human being who follows Me, forsaking parents; forsaking brothers and sisters; forsaking the world and its pleasures will ever go disappointed.” Number one: those things you have forsaken, while in this life, you will get them a hundred folds. Then in the end, you will get eternal life.”
26. [27]Then Peter said to him, “We left everything to follow you. What will we get out of it?” [28]And Jesus replied, “When I, the Messiah, shall sit upon my glorious throne in the Kingdom,* you my disciples shall certainly sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
27. [29]And anyone who gives up his home, brothers, sisters, father, mother, wife, children, or property, to follow me, shall receive a hundred times as much in return, and shall have eternal life. [Matthew 19:27-29]
28. Can you imagine? Double blessings! That is why you have to be patient with God. I hope you are hearing Me.
29. It takes an impatient fellow to jump the fence when there is an approved door. Jumping the fence means going beyond the reach of God’s grace and blessings; going beyond the reach where the grace of God cannot reach and protect you because you want to be rich overnight. You want to surprise people.
30. What will surprise people will be your casket. Your casket will be the greatest surprise, “The parents are alive. The senior brothers are alive. And this man has ended it like this.”
31. I was asking of the age of the boy who was causing waves yesterday according to them, and they said he is forty-six this year. And I said, ‘Praise be to God.”
32. Then I enquired about the one they buried at Arondizuogu. Bro Stephen the welder went there with all of them. He was causing waves in Onitsha. Then they buried him at what age? Thirty-two years!
33. He is blessed with four infants. When they got there, there was no reasonable accommodation in his father’s compound. All his seniors are alive. His parents are alive. And at thirty-two, he is causing waves in Onitsha.
34. Let us be very careful. After life cometh judgment. It is appointed unto men, once to die. And after that, judgment follows.
35. And it is said that the evils that men commit not only live with them here, but follow them even in the hereafter.
36. The days are over when you think that it is only when you die, then God will bring you back and begin to torment you. Your torment starts here. Your punishment starts here, for the Bible said that a wicked man cannot enjoy good days.
37. All you are seeing are mere cover-up. I say, cover-up. Do you know what he is passing through? Do you know what his conscience is telling him? Do you know whether he sleeps very well in the night or not?
38. Why do you think that those you call millionaires commit suicide? They are millionaires, but they commit suicide.
39. What could make a prominent medical doctor to commit suicide? What could make a prominent business man who owns over 26 filling stations to commit suicide?
40. What would make a prominent woman who is married to a very wealthy traditional ruler to commit suicide?
41. When they have committed their consciences to the point where they can no longer bear the torment and the shame, then the next thing is suicide.
42. When they are tired of continuing to obey the devil, like the young man from Isuochi of which everybody heard that happened in Cotonou [Republic of Benin]; who said he was tired of eating his own faeces.
43. He was tired for he ate it for 27 years, using it as Egusi soup and carrying it in his vehicle. He said that he was tired of the money and he was tired of everything.
44. What did he do? After documenting everything, he handed over to the wife, went and committed suicide. And then his members came and looted everything in his house, for that was the agreement he signed.
45. People enter into agreement with the devil because of money; when you see money. Money!
46. Money is good if it is obtained after a godly sort. And money that is obtained after a godly sort does not make a man to be proud, for the gift of God makes the recipient to be very humble.
47. Who will the LORD regard? I mean, who will He show pity? Who will He listen to his voice? Who will He look up to? Those that are meek. Those that are humble. Those that live the life of obedience to God. [Oh No!]
48. Those that do not cherish the material things of the world more than worshipping God in spirit and in truth.
49. 2For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. BUT THIS IS THE MAN TO WHOM I WILL LOOK AND HAVE REGARD: HE WHO IS HUMBLE AND OF A BROKEN OR WOUNDED SPIRIT, AND WHO TREMBLES AT MY WORD AND REVERES MY COMMANDS. [Isaiah 66:2 AMP]
50. David said, “O LORD! There is one thing I request concerning my son Solomon. You have given him everything to make him a wealthy king above his fellow kings all over the world. Give him a humble spirit. A humble spirit that he will obey you in the minutest details. And then help him to prefer obedience to your Word more than making money.”
51. [18]“O Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel! Make your people always want to obey you, and see to it that their love for you never changes.
52. [19]GIVE MY SON SOLOMON A GOOD HEART TOWARD GOD, SO THAT HE WILL WANT TO OBEY YOU IN THE SMALLEST DETAIL and will look forward eagerly to finishing the building of your Temple, for which I have made all of these preparations.” [1 Chronicles 29:18-19 LB]
53. [36]Help me to prefer obedience to making money! [Psalms 119:36 LB]
54. Today, God is left last; “When I must have become rich, I will now come and worship God. I cannot waste my youth serving God. Then in my old age, I will be poor.
55. David said, “I was young. Now, I am old. I have never seen a seed of God; a child of God forsaken, not going about begging bread.”
56. 25I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. [Psalms 37:25 KJV]
He that conceals a stolen property, is he not a criminal. Whoever that receives a stolen property is also a criminal. You are encouraging the criminal to go ahead. You have to decry all forms of criminality. Find out what your children are doing in their schools and colleges, and in the universities. Find out the type of association they are keeping there. Do not close your mouth. If you close your mouth, evil will keep on increasing. And do not feign ignorance when you know the truth. I say, do not feign ignorance.
– THE SON OF MAN –
RUN AWAY FROM ALL FORMS OF CRIMINALITY; Preached ON Saturday, 22nd February 2020; page 41 vs 80 – 83
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NOT EVERY WEALTH IS FROM GOD
If God could take care of the lilies in the forest, animals in the forest and the birds in the air. If God could take care of them, the Bible asked us a question, “Why do you think that your Father in heaven will not take good care of you.”
2. 26Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. ARE YOU NOT WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THEY? [Matthew 6:26 AMP]
3. 27Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither [wearily] toil nor spin nor weave; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory (his splendor and magnificence) was not arrayed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today, and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, HOW MUCH MORE WILL HE CLOTHE YOU, O YOU [PEOPLE] OF LITTLE FAITH?
4. You are the highest creature God made after His own image and likeness. How can God forsake His own? Impossible for God to tell lies.
5. AT A TIME LIKE THIS, WE OUGHT TO LOOK UP TO THE REDEEMER WHO WAS PROMISED TO BE HERE IN THE LAST DAYS, STANDING ON THIS PLANET EARTH ON TWO FEET WHILE HE JUDGES THE ENTIRE WORLD.
6. Let us pay attention to all we are going to hear in this Sunday School. Let us never allow the conversation of the wicked to entice our souls.
7. Do not give ear to such fables that there is a place you will go to and then you will carry money like sand without suffering. Do not ever give in to such fables.
8. If money is like sand everywhere, why do Chinese people come here to work? Why do Indian people come here to work? People from all walks of life; as we go to their own, so they come here.
9. Do you not see them on the streets? I have worked with them and I am still working with them in the factory.
10. THERE IS NO PART OF THE WORLD WHERE YOU WILL GO WTHOUT SEEING POOR PEOPLE. THERE IS NO PART OF THE WORLD YOU WILL GO WITHOUT SEEING SHANTIES AS STRUCTURES; WITHOUT SEEING BAD ROADS AND POOR TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS. WHAT IS OBTAINABLE HERE IS ALSO OBTANAIBLE THERE.
11. IF MONEY IS LIKE SAND WHY ARE OUR PEOPLE WHO TRAVELLED TO MAKE MONEY COMING BACK IN THOUSANDS? THEY HAVE NO TRANSPORT FARE.
12. THEY ARE BEING EVACUATED FREE OF CHARGE BY ALMOST ALL THE NATIONS IN THE WORLD AND THEY ARE COMING WITHOUT EVEN “GHANA MUST GO” BAG. THERE IS NO WATER-PROOF [POLYTHENE] BAG IN THEIR HAND.
13. When they come back, they say, “We thank God that we could arrive here alive.” Many died at the airport. Some died at the seaport. While waiting to be lifted, they perished there. And their parents are expecting them to come back, maybe one of these days.
14. Our Brother Chika from Opi was testifying to us that if he knew that it will be like this, he would have become a reasonable fellow in Nigeria than wasting his time travelling abroad, only to come back empty-handed.
15. Let us be very careful. Do not allow yourself to be lured by the conversations of the wicked. THE PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED HAS ALWAYS BEEN A GREAT TEMPTATION TO THE RIGHTEOUS.
16. They see green pastures or greener pastures, but they will not see greener snakes hiding under the greener pastures, for there can never be green pasture without green snakes.
17. And who will notice the green snakes? A child of God who has the spirit of God. He is the one who will get to the place where everybody is jumping up and tell them, “See! I can see snakes where you are marching.”
18. YOU CAN NEVER TRAVEL OUT WITHOUT GETTING SNAKE BITE THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO MORTUARY OR BRING YOU BACK HALF DEAD, AND YOU WILL BE A LIVING DEAD.
19. Many who travelled out thinking they will go there to push drug, when luck ran against them, they were injected [with an incapacitating substance] according to the rule of that country and then pushed back to Nigeria as a nuisance or nuisances. Living dead!
20. They will inject the fellow and push him back to us here in Nigeria. There are too many of them. A good number of them are brilliant students and graduates from first class institutions who wanted to make it by all means.
21. GET RICH QUICK AND THEN GET DEATH QUICK. WHEREVER THERE IS QUICK MONEY, THERE IS QUICK DEATH. IS IT ANY WONDER?
22. Watch obituary posters everywhere. 35 years! 40 years! 28 years! Was it like that in the beginning? Was it like that before? Why these deaths? People that do not see but they have the eyes.
23. But it is not so with us. We are in the Light. We are children of the Light. We will never allow our eyes to be blinded by the prosperity of the wicked; or our hearts to be deluded into not remembering the warnings God had earlier given to us concerning the hour we are in.
24. Who cherishes all these things most? Greedy parents! Covetous parents hiding among us. Unbelievers hiding among us. They cover the hypocrisies of their families. They know they are not in the Faith. They know their children are not in the Faith of Christ.
25. You dare not correct them or expose them. You incur their wrath. Say anything wrong concerning their children, they will mark you their greatest enemy.
26. But those who are really in the Faith are doing everything within their power, and within their capacity to help their children to understand what the Faith of Christ is all about; the only place we have our security; the only place we have our Sure Anchor; and the only place we have our eternal life.
27. The wealth of this world perishes. I have seen everything, but I have not seen anybody that died and his wealth was emptied into his casket or into his grave. Have you seen any? Have you seen any?
28. Some will even vow, “Let me get it, but let the living eat.” Well, thank you for labouring for strangers to eat. The people you do not know, and for them you mortgaged your life.
29. BE VERY CAREFUL. THIS IS THE ERA WHERE CHILDREN THAT STARTED IT WITH CHRIST ARE LIKELY TO END IT WITH THE DEVIL BECAUSE THEY ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE CONVERSATIONS OF THE WICKED.
30. THEY ARE KEEPING COMPANY WITH THE WICKED, USING THEIR TELEPHONES TO BROWSE EVILS. THEY LOVE PLEASURE MORE THAN GOD. THIS IS THE ERA OF MASS DEPARTURE FROM THE FAITH OF CHRIST.
31. This is the period of mass departure; family departure. Any family that esteems wealth more than God must raise their children as cannon fodder. Both they and the members of their household must perish in the end, for God cannot speak in vain. Neither will the Word of God fail.
32. But whoever that trusts in God liveth forever. No good thing shall the LORD God Almighty withhold from those that walk uprightly. Is it not Scripture?
33. 11For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honour, splendour, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. [Psalms 84:11 AMP]
34. IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS. IT SHALL BE WELL WITH THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT THE UNGODLY WILL NEVER SEE GOOD DAYS, FOR GOD FRUSTRATES ALL THE AMBITIONS OF THE WICKED, BUT MAKES AN OPEN DOOR TO THE RIGHTEOUS.
35. Not every wealth is from God. Of course, I do not need to dwell on that. Anybody who does not know the truth about it, let him remain ignorant about the fact that not every wealth is from God.
36. Do not say, churches, churches. You are saying churches, but they are associations. They are societies. What is the power propelling the churches? Wealth acquisition.
37. That is why what they need is money, not how the money is being made. It is not how you make the money, but bring the money to us.
38. Where is T. B. Joshua today? Did he carry the Synagogue of the nations to the grave? What happened to the wealth? What happened to the people he deceived into believing that he will not die?
39. At what age did he die? He was My junior and will remain My junior. I am still here. Two of them are dead. I met them in Lagos. Only one is alive. And that is Chris Oyakhilome.
40. Ezego 1 of Ihiala is gone. T. B. Joshua is gone, remaining that young man, Chris Oyakhilome. They took off together and then formed that society, Synagogue of the nations when they left Celestial Church of Christ there at Ilupeju in Lagos.
41. And they wanted all of us to be there. Those who went there fancied it, but I said, “No! There is no truth there.” I left and went to Deeper Life.
42. There, I saw something that resembled truth. I subscribed to it because there was not even one higher than that.
43. But when I saw a higher ground, I jumped out immediately and went to a higher ground.
44. If My desire had been to make money, I would have stopped at that Synagogue of the nations. And this is because they loved Me. I was coming up convincingly. They saw the gift of God in Me, but I said No!
45. There were too many other places I visited, and I declared all of them anti-Christ movements. I would not be a part of anything that is against the truth and against the Word of God revealed to Me in My own day.
46. Thank God. At last, the Almighty guided Me to where I am today. I have no regrets. And He vindicated everything, that I was not resenting them because of any other thing, but for not holding the truth of the Gospel of Christ. Amen.
47. So this morning, as we pay attention, let us ruminate. Let us meditate. Let us think, for too many things are informing the decisions of our children everywhere now, both male and female. No exemption.
48. Many can hardly graduate in the schools again. Many just go to universities/higher institutions to dupe their parents and make their parents poorer than they were before they left.
49. At the end of the day, where are your results. No way! When are you joining your folks for the National Youth Service? No way!
50. What are you doing? Their mouths are filled with lies. They think they are deceiving parents, not knowing that they are deceiving themselves.
51. When they come home, they look like pussycats. They look humble. They look meek and lowly. But when they leave the house and join their folks, their physical appearances will tell you that they are merely fooling themselves thinking they are fooling their parents.
52. Their language will change. You will see their real nature. But the moment they come home, they will be humble in appearance; meek in appearance, but watch when they go out.
53. THE REAL SELF OF EVERY MAN IS SEEN WHEN HE GETS OUTSIDE. THAT IS WHERE HE WILL MANIFEST HIS REAL SELF. BUT WHILE UNDER AUTHORITY, MANY THINGS WILL CAUSE HIM TO SOFT-PEDAL.
54. But such hypocrisy can never be hidden for too long, for the LORD will always expose it. God will bring situations around you and around Me that will make your hypocrisy and My hypocrisy to be made manifest. And then, you cover your face in shame.
55. The day is going to reveal everything we are raising as our children. The day will reveal everything we are doing, answering the children of God.
56. I have given one of our Bishops a topic this morning, to give me the best from that topic. What is the topic? INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD.
57. When you knock at the door, somebody will enquire, “Who is knocking?” Introduction starts. It is what you have introduced yourself to be that will cause Him to open the door or to say, “Get back! The door is closed against you.” Is it not true?
58. You cannot hear a knock and say, “Open and come in.” If the introduction suggests that it is an enemy, will you open? Will you open? So, I have given him that topic. Let Me see what will become of him, for we must introduce ourselves.
59. It is not that the Almighty God does not know who we are, but He will bring us to a place; a point where we will tell him who we are. Amen.
60. Pay attention to that Message.
THE SON OF MAN has been revealed from all scriptural and prophetic manifestations. We are sure and certain that He is the Promised Christ that will come in the end-time and no other. However, where you do not believe in Him, He does not hold it against you. Keep on waiting for one that will come who might be greater than Him. But as for Me, I have looked everywhere, I can see no other coming. If one is coming, I will inform you, but no other is coming. And you can never go higher than where you are. For that reason, where you are now calls for sober reflection.
– THE SON OF MAN –
ARE YOU THE PROMISED ONE TO COME OR DO WE WAIT FOR ANOTHER? VOL 2; preached on Sunday 26th August, 2012;
Pg. 128 vs. 65 – 66
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LOOK UP TO THE REDEEMER
Romans 8 verses 22 to 23 Living Bible. [22]For we know that even the things of nature, like animals and plants, suffer in sickness and death as they await this great event. [23]And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also we groan to be released from pain and suffering.
2. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, INCLUDING THE NEW BODIES HE HAS PROMISED US-bodies that will never be sick again and will never die.
3. 1st Peter 1 verses 4 to 5, Living Bible. [1]And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life;…. Who reserved for His children? God! What did He reserve for His children? A priceless gift of eternal life.
4. You can never purchase it with that your money. Both you and your money are all tied to time. There are too many things that money cannot provide for you. ETERNAL LIFE IS BETTER PREFERRED TO MAKING MONEY. ETERNAL LIFE IS BETTER PREFERRED TO MAKING MONEY.
5. [1]And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life; it is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay.
6. [2]AND GOD, IN HIS MIGHTY POWER, WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THERE SAFELY TO RECEIVE IT,…
7. Are we not reading Scriptures? What we are quoting is from the Holy Scriptures. God Himself, in His mighty power has taken it upon Himself to help us to get there safely, and then receive it.
8. [1]And God has reserved for his children the priceless gift of eternal life; it is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. Beyond the reach of change and also decay.
9. [2]AND GOD, IN HIS MIGHTY POWER, WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THERE SAFELY TO RECEIVE IT,… Amen! …because you are trusting him.
10. Because you are trusting God, he will make sure you get there safely and also receive it. Why? You are trusting God. You are not trusting yourself. You are not trusting any other thing.
11. SONG: [Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy in the LORD but to trust and obey]
12. Is it not true?
13. [When we walk with the LORD in the Light of His Word, what a glory he sheds on our way. While we do His good will, He abides with us still. And with all who will trust and obey.
14. Trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy in the LORD but to trust and obey]
15. [2]AND GOD, IN HIS MIGHTY POWER, WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THERE SAFELY TO RECEIVE IT,… Sure! …because you are trusting him. It will be yours in that coming last day for all to see. Amen!
16. 1 Peter 1:4 – 5, Amplified version. 1[Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
17. Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God’s power through [your] faith [TILL YOU FULLY INHERIT THAT FINAL] SALVATION THAT IS READY TO BE REVEALED [FOR YOU] IN THE LAST TIME.
18. Amen! Has it not been revealed? Has it not been revealed? What is your heritage? Whatever you inherit is your heritage in Christ.
19. Acts 3 verses 20 to 21, Living Bible. [20]AND SEND JESUS YOUR MESSIAH BACK TO YOU AGAIN. For he must remain in heaven until the final recovery of all things from sin, as prophesied from ancient times.”
20. He will send Jesus back to you again. Has He come again?
21. SONG: [Christ has surely come again. Christ has surely come again. Government is now upon His shoulders. Christ has surely come again. THE SON OF MAN has come again. And the Sovereignty power of this Kingdom. All that are the true Bride will be handed to the LORD.
22. All the Saints of God will be with Elohim. Your Kingdom is from Everlasting. Those who abide in Your Word are like Zion. Which cannot be removed, but abide everyday. No more death, crying, pain would be gone.]
23. Whatever we are enjoying today was promised aforetime. If it was not promised that God will send the same Christ back to us again, and we begin to see the revelation or appearance of one, maybe in the semblance of Christ or standing in the stead of Christ, we may be doubting it because it was not promised aforetime.
24. The LORD our God will do nothing but revealeth His will to His servants the prophets, for He promised to do a New thing. And before that New thing will come to fore, he must have revealed it to the people who will be the possible beneficiaries.
25. All these things had already been predicted or prophesied. And we happen to be those people the Prophets were enquiring about, “Who could be these people who will be here when the Almighty God will send back Christ. And who will help them inherit the promise.”
26. They were told to sleep, for it was not for them, but for those who will come in the end. Everything God promised was pointing everybody to the end.
27. Brethren, Are we not at the end of everything now? Tell Me. Whatever that is happening in our midst is prophetic. It is scriptural. It is according to truth.
28. What then will gladden your hearts more than discovering these amazing truth that you are not being deceived by anybody. You are standing on the Solid Rock that is immovable and unshakable. It has become your Sure Anchor. And it is going to stand the storms of time.
29. Isaiah, the prophet saw a new branch from the old root of a chopped down tree. This tree was chopped down when Jesus the Christ died on the cross of Calvary. However, He that descended, died, resurrected, and ascended in the cloud as a Jew has now descended again.
30. He descended in the same cloud from heaven at this last time as a Gentile with a message of Grace, Truth, and complete restoration to mankind.
31. Amen! Fulfilling the prophecies of William Branham, “that that God Who revealed Himself as Christ back yonder in the east in the beginning, will in the end-time reveal Himself to the people in the west as the same Christ”. Not another person.
32. 240…. The same Gospel, the same Christ that lived in flesh back yonder at the beginning, on the Eastern people, shall live again in the Western people at the end time. “It shall be Light in the evening time.” [THE FEAST OF THE TRUMPETS; Preached by Prophet William Marrion Branham on Sunday morning, July 19, 1964, at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A.]
33. He migrated from the east to the west. When He shall be revealed in the end time to the people all over the world, He will be revealed from the west as a Gentile.
34. That is why the Prophet said, “He will come; God will raise Him, a King and a Priest at the same time in the fashion of the Gentiles and no longer the Jews.”
35. …The third — a new name shall be called over Him, because He shall arise as King from Judah, and shall establish a new priesthood, after the fashion of the Gentiles, to all the Gentiles. … [TESTAMENT OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS – The Testament of Levi Concerning the Priesthood and Arrogance; Paragraph 8]
36. That is why God said, “O Israel, your God cometh from afar.”
37. 27Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire: [Isaiah 30:27 KJV]
38. Expect Him! He is coming as a Black Man. And the Bible also said, “Despise me not, for I am black.”
39. 6LOOK NOT UPON ME, BECAUSE I AM BLACK, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. [Song of Solomon 1:6 KJV]
40. WHAT CAN BE TRUER THAN THE TRUTH DOES NOT EXIST. ANYTHING THAT CAN BE TRUER THAN THE TRUTH DOES NOT EXIST.
41. By so doing, He has justified Himself to be the God of the whites and the God of the blacks. So, whether you are white or black, your colour is immaterial.
42. THE GOD OF THE BLACK MAN IS THE GOD OF THE WHITE MAN. THE GOD OF THE WHITE MAN IS THE GOD OF THE BLACK MAN. IN GOD, THERE IS NO DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN.
43. 11[In this new creation all distinctions vanish.] There is no room for and there can be neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, [nor difference between nations whether alien] barbarians or Scythians [who are the most savage of all], nor slave or free man; but Christ is all and in all [everything and everywhere, to all men, without distinction of person]. [Colossians 3:11 AMP]
44. [11]In this new life one’s nationality or race or education or social position is unimportant; such things mean nothing. Whether a person has Christ is what matters, and he is equally available to all. [Colossians 3:11 LB]
45. …In the same vein, whoever that will believe in, trust in, confide in, depend on, and rely on the Righteous Branch will have eternal life, but as many that will take their eyes off He that called them to Glory, will perish! Sure!
46. …Hence, number one secret of retaining ourselves in our sanctified estate is to maintain Vine-Branch relationship with Christ.
47. MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE STRONGLY CONNECTED TO THE GODHEAD AT ALL TIMES. Making sure that you are not a loosed feather in the body of a chicken or hen.
48. You should be firmly fitted to the tree (the Tree of Life/Holy Ghost) because it is from that tree that you draw your nourishment. Sure!
49. ….As a result, when you think that you are so important and you think you can exist alone; your place will easily be forgotten very soon, because without me you can do nothing. Sure!
50. After all, you were not in this faith before, you did not know anything about this faith, whether it be white or black, you did not know. You were even in darkness thinking you were doing God a Service;… And you have never gone this Way before.
51. … Once there is a gap between you and Christ there is a problem there because sin creates separation. Sure!
52. THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SEPARATE YOU FROM THE GODHEAD IS UNBELIEF… SURE!
53. “LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, I SHOW YOU A SIGN, ON THAT GREAT MORNIING WHEN SALVATION OF THIS MORTAL BODY SHALL BE MADE COMPLETE, WHEN THIS MORTAL SHALL BE CLOTHED WITH IMMORTALITY.
54. NOTE IT, THERE WILL NOT BE A SINGLE MESSAGE, BE IT CASSETTE OR AUDIO OR BIRO PEN OR WRITTEN FORM OF THE SON OF MAN THAT WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
55. NOTE IT, I SHOW YOU A MYSTERY, WHENEVER THE WORD OF GOD ACCOMPLISHES HIS MISSION FOR WHICH IT WAS SPOKEN, IT GOES BACK TO HIM.
56. They will run helter-skelter for it, but they will not see it anywhere. What if on that day when salvation shall be made complete, you are coming in without anything to wave.
57. TOO MANY OF YOU THAT CLOSE THEIRS EYES WHEN YOU SEE PUBLICATIONS, YOU SQUEEZE YOUR FACE, EVEN WHEN WE WERE GIVING IT OUT FREELY, YOU HAVE NO LIBRARY TO MAINTAIN. ON THAT DAY, BRETHREN WILL COME WITH THEIR COLLECTIONS.
58. DO YOU THINK THAT BRINGING YOUR SHEAVES MEANS BRINGING CASSAVA AND YAM? MY CASSAVA AND YAM REMAINS THIS MESSAGE.
59. THIS IS THE EVIDENCE. IF IT IS NOT A SERIOUS MATTER, GOD WOULD NOT HAVE DESCENDED VERY HEAVILY ON A FOOLISH MAN CALLED IFEANYI KINGSLEY AT NSUKKA FOR NOT PRESENTING HIS OWN SHEAVE WHEN THE SON OF MAN DEMANDED FOR IT AT NSUKKA. AND THE REPLY WAS THAT HE HAS NEVER COLLECTED ANY.
60. THERE IS NO WAY SALVATION WILL NOT COST YOU SOMETHING. EVEN THE LIFE YOU ARE LIVING, FOR YOU TO SURVIVE, YOU EAT. Is not true? Don’t you eat?
61. BUT THE MOST USEFUL EXPENDENTURE IS THE ONE YOU SPEND FOR THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOUL. Sure!!!
62. WHATEVER IT TAKES YOU TO GET THE WORD OF GOD, IT IS NOT IN VAIN. IT IS AN INVESTMENT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. YOU ARE STORING YOUR TREASURE ON SOMETHING THAT IS NOT PERISHABLE.
63. FOR FOREVER THE WORD OF GOD IS SETTLED IN HEAVEN, SO IT IS NOT PERISHABLE. THE WORD OF GOD CAN NEVER PERISH AND YOU DO NOT FIND THE WORD OF GOD ANYHOW.” [IT IS FINISHED PREACHED ON 16TH OF SEPTEMBER 2012 AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF ONITSHA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA; PAGE 76, VERSES 15- 20]
64. So, far back in 2012, God had already hammered on this thing. And in 2021, God now reminded everybody of the necessity and posted it as a circular again on the Bridal platform.
65. [This Circular was posted on the Bridal platform on Friday 25th June 2021 and captioned, “WARNING FROM THE ALMIGHTY GOD AGAINST SELF-DECEIT TO THE TRUE SEED AND ELECT OF GOD WORLDWIDE”]
66. What a defeat. What a shame? What a disgrace to those that say they are believers of THE SON OF MAN.
67. One thing is to call Him SON OF MAN by revelation. Another thing is to call Him SON OF MAN because others are calling Him SON OF MAN.
68. I am only THE SON OF MAN to you when you are obeying My Words. When you are living a life of disobedience to My instructions; My instruction, and you are calling Me, “Daddy! SON OF MAN! My LORD! My Maker!” you are a mocker.
69. You are a scoffer, for that will add to your condemnation on that great morning. Many have regretted already. And many will regret as we journey along.