ALLOW YOUR FAITH IN CHRIST TO DISMISS YOUR FEARS IN CHRIST VOL.1 (STATE OF THE NATION REVISITED) PREACHED ON FRIDAY, 23RD OCTOBER 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN
It is good that preachers have been bringing the Kingdom of God closest to the people, even Paradise or rapture. There has never been a Preacher that succeeded so much in narrowing down eternity more than Apostle Peter Odoemena. And because I received the quickest and shortest Ministry, it is a sure sign that He that said He is coming to clothe you will not tarry too long, for He has already promised that He is going to cut it short in righteousness……
I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; Preached on Sunday 31st December 2000; Pg. 139 vs. 15 – 16
INTRODUCTION
PRAYER
Let us bow down our heads.
Our Dear Heavenly Father, the Creator of the whole Universe, in whom there is no variableness. You are the KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords, Jehovah Adonai, Jehovah El-shadai.
2. There is none like unto Thee in heaven and on earth, beneath the earth. There is none to compare to You.
3. You are the Most Compassionate God, the Most Merciful, the Most Tolerant, the Most Patient. You are righteous in all Your ways; perfect oh! God in every way of life.
4. There is nothing oh! God that is happening under the heaven which You never oh! God ordained before the world began.
5. Everything is happening oh! God, in its own time, according to Your own perfect will. And they are oh! God, working together for good unto us, because we really love you and we are called according to Your purpose.
6. Father, continue in the work that You have initiated even here on earth oh! God, among the children of men.
7. Father we know that what is happening is your judgment that is going on across the globe. Lord, we are not praying against it. We are praying rather that Your will be done. May Your will be done.
8. Teach us, oh! God, to say from our hearts always that Your will be done, not our own will. Father we look up to You for deliverance. At a time like this oh! God, to whom do we run to?
9. You are our sure anchor at a time like this. We have no other place to run to but to You. You are our Rock of Salvation, the Rock of our escape, the Rock of our Refuge. In You oh! God, we have taken our refuge.
10. In Your secret places oh! God, The Most High God, we have hidden our lives. Father we pray Thee, confirm Your love towards us by saving us from this untoward generation. Save us from Your wrath. Save us from the wrath of men.
11. In any way that we have compromised our faith by words oh! God, by action, in any form or shape even by the thoughts and the imaginations of our hearts, Father we pray for perfect cleansing tonight. May the blood of Christ atone oh! God, for our sins. Father, those we sinned even ignorantly, those we deliberately oh! God, compromised, forgive all for your Name sake.
12. Let Your face be turned towards us Father, for good and not for evil. Stretch forth Your mighty and everlasting arms Father and deliver us from mockery, from shame, from ridicule, from humiliation that will accompany, Father, our being dropped when the saints are going to be translated.
13. We know that You have already spoken to us that we should expect no other sign for the sign is already with us; no other voice for the Voice is with us.
14. Father, we know that you are standing upon the earth in this end time judging the entire human race that Your Word of prophecy might come to pass. Father, events are made clear by prophecy. As we see them oh! God, fulfilling, we see prophecies fulfilling, may our hearts oh! God Father, be merry. May we never tremble. May we never be in fear. Father, may the Faith we have in You surpass the fears we are expressing.
15. Do not allow oh! God, the fears of destruction to ever enter into our minds, for that means doubting Your ability to save. We know that You are more than able to save those that have put their trust and hope in You. For You have already proclaimed it with Your mouth saying, whosoever that cometh unto You, You will in no wise cast away. For in You is our eternal security.
16. For security is of the Lord; for the arms of flesh can never give us security. Weapons of warfare can never give us security. We do not put our trust in any body, in any flesh. Those who are armour bearers oh! God, can never safeguard their own lives nor can we mere mortals who are armless and harmless.
17. We are only depending on You, The Rock of Ages. Please cleft for us. By day and by night, cleft for all your children. In all circumstances, be there for them. Father, no matter where they are located globally, be there for them. Cleft for them, stand in for them, wage war for them, be their defense, be their deliverer, be their succourer.
18. Father we have no other place to run to except to You. In You oh! God, we confide. In You we hide our lives. We surrender oh! God, at Thy feet. If You do not save us, who then will save us?
19. You said that an hour is coming and this is the hour where those that trust in You Father, will call upon You and You will answer. They will call once and You will answer seven times! You said it shall come to pass that when as many that shall call upon the Name of the Lord Christ shall be saved, shall be delivered. This is the hour.
20. We have no other God that we are calling but You the Great Jehovah that rules over the affairs of men. You are the one behind all the affairs of men.
21. All that is happening here Father, they are happening according to Your own divine programme, which You programmed oh! God, concerning the end time. You said that we shall be witnesses, we shall be spectators as we march on the ashes of the wicked. May it happen that way.
22. Father, no matter how it will be noised abroad, people will be running up and down. May this particular house, this particular compound be a replica of Rahab’s compound, a replica of the Ark of Noah, a replica of the Rock where Lot and his family went for escape.
23. When calamity shall strike, severe us. You know how to severe Your own children from the destruction. You know how to keep them safe during the time of destruction and devastation;
24. For in no distant time, the entire earth will lie desolate. But You said that calamity will never strike the household where Your children are hiding.
25. Father, make this place a hiding place where all that will run into shall be secured. According to Your Word of Promise, fail us not, oh! God, at this very crucial moment.
26. If there was ever an hour that we need Your help, Father, it is this time around that we have entered into the most troublous times in the history of the world. Father this is the time that we need Your help more than ever.
27. For we are not depending on our strength; our strength will fail us, our courage will fail us. But we are depending by faith in You, for our faith will never fail us. Father come to our rescue.
28. We make this supplication, Father with all our hearts, on our behalf in this Premise and in the dwelling places of all your children, young and old. No matter where they might be under the sky, Father be there for them.
29. Close their doors against enemies. Give charge over Your host of Guardian Angels to be on guard twenty-four hours around their dwelling places.
30. May no calamity, may no evil, may no destruction ever knock at their gates. Father, be there for us. Be our watchman. For if thou Great Jehovah fails to keep watch over a city, all the watchmen are staying awake in vain.
31. Father keep awake, twenty-four hours over our premises, over our beds and over the highways where we shall ply.
32. This is the hour we are calling, Father for that immortal body. For there is no other hour that we need that immortal body if not this hour. Whatever we are seeing out there is the impersonation of the original. Father we need the original body. We need that translation.
33. We need that new body which is our right according to the promises of the Holy Scriptures. This is the hour we need it, not to make a boast. No! Not to pride about but to help us escape all that is coming upon the earth.
34. For there is no other estate we can be in to escape the horrifying destruction that is coming on swiftly upon the children of disobedience. Father we need that immortal body. We need that promise to fulfill in our lives.
35. As we go to our beds, Father we pray, if it shall be possible, before morning, may we appear in our new bodies, new garments. Help your elects to possess it.
36. Father we bow low and say THANK YOU for hearing our prayers, for in You we confide, in You we build our confidence, in You we build our Faith. You will never disappoint all that trust in You.
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Father, to Your name we give all the victory, all the Praise, all the worship for hearing and answering our prayers for Your Name’s sake. Amen!
God knows the end from the beginning. He knows what every man will be in this Faith: The role I will play, the role Brother Ansalem will play; God knows all, whether good or bad. If you are doing anything thinking that God does not know, God knows more than you. Who will do anything and God will not know? Who are you? Is there anything that you will say and He did not know? Is there anything you will do and He did not know? None. . .
IF YOU KNOW THE VALUE OF GOLD, PRESERVE IT; Preached on 12th August 2012; Chapter 6, vs. 90-91.
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GOD KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING
I hope you people brought lantern? If the rain will disturb us, we will go inside to make our tape. I want us to make our tape. It is my pleasure tonight, to add pep to all that we have been hearing.
2. Within this period, we have been having problems in Nigeria, our youths demonstrating against the Nation’s treatment meted towards them.
3. A peaceful demonstration that started by demonstrating against the police; just an arm of the police called SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad). Our youths criticizing the actions of SARS. They said that they were tired of the police brutality and they demonstrated.
4. Before our eyes, what started as a peaceful demonstration, became another story altogether. From violence free demonstration to full violence. In spite of my warnings which I placed in the Net [internet] long, long time ago which both the State, the Federal Government, and the Local Government ignored.
5. Well, I told you that we are a different people altogether. We are the children of the Most High God. We do not participate in such activities at all.
6. We proffer remedies to problems. We cannot constitute problems to the state, for God enjoined us from the very world go. From the Holy Scriptures, the Holy Quran, we were enjoined to pray for the Nation, pray for our countries, pray for our rulers, those that are in authority over us. So that we may live in peace. So we cannot be violent.
7. And I told you as children of God, you have the right to demonstration, but you do not have right to violence.
8. No child of God has any right to violence. No human being has the right to violence. So whatever that is associated with violence in all ramifications is a condemnable act.
9. Violence is a condemnable act by the Almighty God, even by sincere human beings. So please, there is no way we can tolerate any act of vandalism, violation of the right of others.
10. We cannot indulge in anything violence. For there can never be violence without people’s right being violated in one way or the other. You are living witnesses. You can see what is happening everywhere. For which cause curfew has been imposed in some states just to check the level of violence.
11. But what do we do at a time like this? We put ourselves in remembrance of the teachings we received from God concerning situations like this, because God knows the end from the very beginning.
12. And we have a Prophet among us, even THE SON OF MAN, vindicated and confirmed by Almighty God to be his mouthpiece in the age; The Watchman of this generation. What makes him a Watchman? He sees danger ahead of time and he warns the Nation. He warns his own people concerning the dangers ahead of time.
13. It may take many years before the things he spoke about begin to happen. If those who are warned fail to take necessary precautions, if they do not pay heed to the warnings and the calamities will come at last, the Watchman will not be blamed.
14. But if the Watchman signals alarm, shouts, blows the trumpet and the people heard him and failed to take heed to his warnings, well whatever might be the calamity, they will have themselves to blame.
15. So be on the alert and be spiritual tonight. I want to put you in remembrance of the warnings we received as I have been doing within this period, for which cause I first gave the message, long, long time ago. On the message titled “Preserve your Youth and achieve your dreams”.
16. I gave messages, ‘The state of the Nation’ Part 1, ‘The state of the Nation’ Part 2, 3, 4 and 5. From time to time, I normally appraise the situation. I keep you informed about the situations that we are in.
17. During the COVID-19 lockdown, I equally instructed you on the way you should follow it; I mean Covid-19. I instructed you the way to follow it. There has never been any serious development in the Nation which I failed to alert you, because you are children of the Most High God and for your sake, THE SON OF MAN is sent in these last days for your salvation, and for your redemption.
18. At a time like this, there is no other place that we can run to except to God. When we see prophecies fulfilling.
19. All the prophecies foretold by all God’s prophets of old, we have seen all of them fulfilling in this end time.
20. So the accumulated judgment of God starting from the Garden of Eden where Cain killed Abel will break forth on the heads of the people of this generation.
21. 50that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zechariah, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. [Luke 11:50 – 51 KJV]
22. We are the escapees of the Judgment of God. So, while we are here, I want to put you in remembrance, because you can never err until you forget what God said concerning a particular development.
23. What is happening this hour globally, is not a Nigerian issue. I said it long ago that unemployment is not peculiar to Nigeria, for it is a global problem. Terrorism is a global problem.
24. Youth’s demonstration against their government is becoming global. Too many countries are involved. Syria has been demonstrating. Egypt has been demonstrating.
25. There was a time Britain went into demonstration. Even France, Germany, Yugoslavia and Brazil. Name them! Almost all the countries.
26. It is like every problem that engulfs a particular nation, sporadically and spontaneously will engulf other nations. That goes to show that the hand of the Almighty God has rested upon the whole world for judgment.
27. I told Brethren the other day when they were talking and I said, “Look, be mindful of the way you talk. The problem of Nigeria is not caused by our President, Muhammadu Buhari. He can never be the cause of our problem.
28. The problems even pre-dated his advent in 1984 as Nigeria’s Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. The problem we were having was there before he became Head of State then.
29. When he was ousted by Babangida, the problem continued. The problem was increasing with every passing year.
30. So, he inherited a baby of circumstance and he is trying his best to put things together, though he is being misunderstood. Well, it has always been like that. There is no leader that is not grossly misunderstood.
31. So, to us children of God, our responsibility is to pray for those who are in Authority. We do not constitute a cog in their wheel of progress.
32. Our duty is to pray for them, not to find fault with them and not to attack them. No, no, no! We are not to make things very difficult for them. If we do it, we are going to suffer for it. Is it not true?
33. So, our duty is to pray that God will give them the strength, the wisdom, the Knowledge that they will need to rule the affairs of this Nation in such a way that we can have relative peace, pending the day the Almighty will say that it is all over for all mankind.
34. 1I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; [1 Timothy 2:1 – 3 KJV]
35. Until then, we will continue to see too many things happening. Even if he resigns or goes away. Even if his tenure expires and somebody else comes, let Me tell you, the person will inherit a problem.
36. If you watch Gaddafi of Libya, a time came when they thought that he was their problem. When he was removed, the problem continued. True or false? So we better begin to take note of this thing.
37. Egypt thought that Mubarak was their problem. When he left, the problem continued. A time came when Israel thought that Menachem Begin[1977-1983] was their problem. When he left, the problem continued.
38. In Syria, the problems are still there. In both Iraq and Iran the problems are still there. Iran thought that Shah of Iran was their problem. Shah left, but the problem is still there.
39. IT THEN MEANS THAT THE WORLD IS YET TO DISCOVER WHERE THEIR PROBLEM IS COMING FROM. AND WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF THE ENTIRE WORLD? THEY DO NOT KNOW GOD.
40. They are holding religion without reality. They do not Know God. They have never believed in the Creator of the whole universe. If they had known God and have totally submitted to the will of God, everybody, I believe that there will be peace of God everywhere.
41. Do not worry, when the Almighty God shall assume leadership of the whole world, we shall have theocracy here. Government of the people by the Almighty God.
42. And that is when iniquity has been purged. Corruption will be no more. Death will be no more. All the promises of God will come to pass, irrespective of your faith. You will see everything come to pass.
43. What is My joy? All the prophets of old foretold about the forthcoming kingdom of God where righteousness will reign and where peace will reign.
44. It is in the Holy Quran. I have read it before you in the Surah, I have read it before you in the Hindu. I have read it from all religious books.
45. 126And this is the Path of your Lord (the Qur’ân and Islâm) leading Straight. We have detailed Our Revelations for a people who take heed. 127For them will be the home of peace (Paradise) with their Lord. And He will be their Walî (Helper and Protector) because of what they used to do. [Surah 6:126 – 127 Hilali-Khan Translation]
46. 45“Truly! The Muttaqûn (pious and righteous persons) will be amidst Gardens and water-springs (Paradise). 46“(It will be said to them): ‘Enter therein (Paradise), in peace and security.’ [Surah 15:45 – 46 Hilali-Khan Translation]
47. 60Except those who repent and believe (in the Oneness of God and His Messenger Muhammad), and work righteousness. Such will enter Paradise and they will not be wronged in aught. 61(They will enter) ‘Adn (Eden) Paradise (everlasting Gardens), which the Most Beneficent (God) has promised to His slaves in the unseen: Verily! His Promise must come to pass. [Surah 19:60 – 63 Hilali-Khan Translation]
48. 15And he said to me: ‘He proclaims to you peace in the name of the world to come; for from there peace has proceeded since the creation of the world, and it shall be with you forever and forever and ever. 16And all shall walk in His ways since righteousness never forsook Him. Their dwelling-place shall be with Him and it will be their heritage, and they shall not be separated from Him forever and ever and ever. [Ethiopic Book of Enoch 71:15 – 16]
49. 30Even if the most “sinful” one worships Me with undivided heart — he should be counted as righteous, because he decided righteously! 31He will promptly become a performer of dharma and attain eternal peace. Be sure, he who loves Me will never perish! [BHAGAVAD GITA — an ancient Hindu monument of spiritual literature; Conversation 9 (SOVEREIGN KNOWLEDGE AND SOVEREIGN MYSTERY) verse 30 through 31]
50. There is going to be new order. A new kingdom fashioned by God in righteousness where God and the survivors, those that pleased God, those that fear, honour and respect God; that worship Him in spirit and in truth, where they will sojourn with the Almighty God and rule this world in righteousness, where iniquity will not be found, death will vanish.
51. All these troubles that we are experiencing today will vanish. No more economic meltdown, no more atomic bomb, no more rioting, no more vandalism, no more hoodlums for it will be total peace.
52. There will be peace, peace, peace on the land. Righteousness will reign. That is God’s own new order. Who will inherit it? It is going to be you and I if we do the will of God and hold on to his promises unto the end without wavering, without shaking, totally submitting to the will of Allah which is the essence of our being created as human beings.
53. The essence of God creating human beings is to worship God in spirit and in Truth. To fear, honour, revere Him, obey him and do His will. Not to come and kill one another or begin to make one trouble or the other. No! We are missing it if we do that.
54. That is why at a time like this, a guide is needed and God has given us a guide; a perfect guide who has been guiding us. So, if you err, you blame yourself.
55. Remember that there is no good way of doing a wrong thing. And the wise man does not follow the majority when they are wrong. Amen!
56. God can never acquit the wicked. Let hands join hands, no sinner will go unpunished. Allah will punish every wicked person.
57. 21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered [Proverbs 11:21 KJV]
58. Everybody God has adjudged wicked in his sight must receive a just recompense from the face of the Almighty God who will judge the iniquity in every man, in every heart, in every family wherever it is traced. He is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity. No evil man will go unpunished.
59. 13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? [Habakkuk 1:13 KJV]
60. So, tonight, I want to remind us of all that we heard from the mouth of THE SON OF MAN, even before now. This Message we want to consider is titled, ‘The State of the Nation’. That was as it affected our Nation, Nigeria as at that time. It was handled on the 19th July, 2009! How many years today? About eleven years ago. Am I correct? Yes! Eleven years ago!
61. I need a good reader. Promise, why not come and try and see whether you can make it. We want to make a tape that will go global. So, I want you to read it. This is where we started. Then, when you finish chapter one, you stop and I will give you chapter two. Continue.
8You are my witnesses till that day. Before anything had ever come on the scene, as your Watchman, I have always highlighted it, announced it, monitored it, preserved you so that when those things will begin to happen, you will not be shaken in mind. 9Jesus the Christ in His day said, “I tell you all these things before they will come so that the time you will be experiencing them you will remember that I had earlier warned you.”
THE STATE OF THE NATION (VOLUME 2); Preached on 17th October 2010; Chapter 2 vs. 8-9.
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STATE OF THE NATION REVISITED [1]
Brethren you are all blessed. This message is, The State of the Nation, Volume 1′
2. State of the Nation, volume 1, as at 19th July, 2009. I want you to pay attention because by 19th July 2009, our current President, General Muhammadu Buhari (Rtd.) was not there as our president. Another person was on that throne.
3. We want to see whether this problem existed then for which cause THE SON OF MAN alerted our youths and everybody. When you are apportioning blames, you blame yourself. Do not blame anybody. Just like I gave you a message ‘The Change’. The change begins with you, the change begins with me.
4. The time is over when we shall be blaming one another. If we shall blame, let us blame ourselves for our own failures. Let us stop blaming those who are in authority. We have constituted a lot. Go ahead!
5. State of the Nation, Vol. 1 part 3. Democracy Does Not Thrive in A Corrupt Society. Note the date! The date is 19th July, 2009. Preached By the Son of Man at the Household of God, Onitsha. Chapter 1 of Part 3. Democracy Does Not Thrive in A Corrupt Society.
6. As many as honour and fear God, take note of this message. You have seen and you have heard the recent developments in our Nation called Nigeria over some months now.
7. Do you honour and fear God? Take note of this Message. Take note of the date. Remember that I am putting you in remembrance, that you may know that we have a prophet among us. That you may know, believe and acknowledge that we have a prophet sent by God in the midst of the Bridal Movement.
8. Remember the message we received in the month of January, 2009, as our New Year message. God told us clearly when he touched the economy and politics. He said, I do not need to begin to talk to you concerning the economy, the politics and so on. For you all are aware, you are seeing things as they unfold that the economy of Nigeria can never improve one bit.
9. As at 2009! Pay attention! Has it improved? Brethren, has it improved? It is deteriorating with every passing year.
10. He went further to say, let no man ever fool you that things are going to be better tomorrow. He continued. No! It is going to grow from worse to worst. For there is no policy that is being put in place to grapple with the state of the economy so far. For our leaders are generally corrupt.
11. For our leaders are generally corrupt! As at 19th July, 2009! I am not making a case for anybody. But I want you to see that the Almighty God, who knows the end from the very beginning, had already alerted all of us. Remember that as at this time, the man who was there was Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He was there 2009.
12. The President before him General Olusegun Obasanjo is still alive. I was listening to him (Obasanjo) speaking the other day and I said, well I do not know what to say again because I am not making a case for anybody.
13. They are expressing their opinions, but this is the mind of God. Every true seed of God must know the mind of God on any matter. That is why we are warned that we do not talk because others are talking. We do not follow them because they are doing anything. We are on our own with God alone.
14. We take side with God. We do not take side with any human being. For when God speaks on a matter, it is final.
15. Note it. 19th July, 2009. And I had earlier made that tape before that 19th. When I called everybody to order. When I handled the message, ‘Preserve your youth and achieve your dreams’ I highlighted it. In my World Press conference in the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, I highlighted it. I gave the indices of a failed Nation. Rewind that message again. Pay attention. Democracy does not thrive in a corrupt Nation….What is the title of this message? “Democracy does not thrive in a corrupt Nation” Good and the address is the State of the Nation, vol. 1. If you do not read according my taste I will slap you here.
16. As many as honour and fear God, take note of this message. You have seen and you have heard the recent developments in our Nation called Nigeria over some months now. As at that time, 2009! Yes.
17. Remember the message we received in the month of January, 2009, as our New Year message. God told us clearly when he touched the economy and politics. He said, I do not need to begin to talk to you concerning the economy, the politics and so on. For you all are aware, you are seeing things as they unfold that the economy of Nigeria can never improve one bit.
18. He went further to say, let no man ever fool you that things are going to be better tomorrow. He continued. No! It is going to grow from worse to worst. For there is no way, no policy that is being put in place to grapple with the state of the economy so far. For our leaders are generally corrupt. Any exemption? No sir!
19. Remember that it was in that message that I told you that democracy does not thrive in a corrupt society. Democracy can never and has never succeeded in a corrupt society. Never!
20. The society is corrupt because the practitioners of the democracy are corrupt. I have equally told you that we are living in a nation where an individual in that country is by far richer than his country. True or false? True!
21. You begin to wonder, how can an individual be richer than his country? I went further to highlight it that we are living in a situation where the margin between the poor and the rich is extraordinarily wide…True or False?
22. The margin between the poor and the rich is it not extraordinarily wide? Who can bridge the gap again? Am I making sense? Is it not one of the reasons people are demonstrating? That there is a wide disparity between the rich and the poor.
23. A situation where the government has no clear programme for the teeming youths. No program for the youths at all, what do you expect? I concluded by telling you that crimes, violent crimes must remain on the increase.
24. As at 2009, I warned my nation which is your country Nigeria and my country Nigeria. Did our leaders listen to my voice? They were listening to the voice of false prophets from the churches, denominations that deceived them and they are still deceiving them till today.
25. Remember their New Year messages. They were telling our President all is going to be well in Nigeria this year; that there will be peace, economy will improve, Covid-19 will not do this and that. What are we witnessing today?
26. Every year, false prophets from churches in Nigeria will continue to deceive themselves and deceive others. But the voice of The Watchman can never be heard. Somebody might be thinking that I am currying for people to hear me. No! I am not a public figure. My voice will not be heard in such celebrated places. My voice is always coming last. But this time around, I warned ahead of time as I have always been warning.
27. I concluded by telling you that crimes, violent crimes must remain on the increase. That the combined team of Army and Police coupled with the Vigilante services, no matter how they pull them together, they will never, never succeed.
28. Has it come to pass? I warned, far back in My Message. January 1, 2009. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was our President as at that time. I warned the Nation.
29. A nation that has no programme, no clear cut programme for empowering their youth as at that time. But today, they are calling for the head of one that is there as if the previous administration did anything.
30. After Obasanjo, came Yar’Adua. After Yar’Adua came Goodluck Jonathan. Before this man, the warning had already been placed there for Nigerians.
31. …Why? Because what is needed is rehabilitation of the Youths. Youth empowerment. Finish! If government can come up with clear cut programmes that will benefit our youths, give them gainful employment that can sustain their future, strive earnestly to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, surely, crime checks itself.
32. True or False? 2009, July 19th, I handled this message. But it was the message I handled on the 1st of January, 2009. I repeated it in my message on The state of the Nation in the month of July.
33. This was my New Year message on the 1st of January, 2009 which I brought forward on the 19th of July, the same 2009 warning my nation and your nation called Nigeria; warning the leaders ahead of time, drawing their attention on the impending danger.
34. When I am feeling comfortable and you are feeling comfortable, is there any need for crime? Watch countries like Benin Republic even Togo, look at Ghana.
35. I have equally told you that we are living in a nation where an individual in that country is by far richer than his country. You begin to wonder, “How can an individual be richer than his country?”
36. I went further to highlight it that we are living in a situation where the margin between the poor and the rich is extraordinarily wide. Too much!
37. A situation where the government has no clear cut programme for their teeming youths; no programs for the youths at all, what do we expect?
38. I concluded by telling you that crimes, violent crimes must remain on the increase. I told you that the combined team of the Army and the Police coupled with the Vigilante Services, no matter how they put them together, they will never, never succeed.
39. Did it come to pass? You are all my witnesses. That they may know and acknowledge that there is a prophet of God on the land.
40. Why? Because what is needed is rehabilitation of the youths. Period! Youth Empowerment, finish. If government can come out with clear cut programmes that will benefit our youths, give them gainful employment that can sustain their future, strive earnestly to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor, surely crime checks itself.
41. Are they not the reasons for the demonstration? What if they were handled? What if they listened to me starting from Obasanjo’s regime? Do you think that we would not have averted it? We would have averted this trouble.
42. When I am feeling comfortable and you are feeling comfortable, is there any need for crime? Watch countries like Benin Republic even Togo. Look at Ghana. You have a testimony that people drop their handsets in Ghana on the streets in Ghana, go wherever they want to go, comeback and pick up their handsets. Yes! Benin Republic the same thing except if Nigerians living in Benin Republic will pick the handset.
43. I made it clear to you that the name Nigeria has become a mere geographical description of a place or people. But talk of the meaning of Nigeria, it is no longer there. That the name Nigeria speaks volumes abroad. So many countries have stopped giving Nigerians visas to travel out. As at 2009! July 19th.
44. You go to Embassies, once you come there as a Nigerian, they will tell you, ‘not here’. To crown it all, our former President, General Olusegun Obasanjo Rtd. went to Europe with his campaign against Nigerians living in Europe, hence their repatriation every day. Some are in prisons.
45. You go to South Africa, it is flooded by Nigerians languishing in their prisons. The authorities of South Africa under Thabo Mbeki killed many of them there. You are witnesses.
46. The killings became so much that the President and the Senate had to send a team to South Africa to solicit for their repatriation instead of killing them. In 2009!
47. WHEN HISTORY IS FORGOTTEN, THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST MUST BE REPEATED.
48. And the President there (South Africa) was callous and said that Nigeria should carry out a reprisal if they wish to do so. Yes, they know that there is no South African sojourning in Nigeria for any reason.
49. What do you think is pushing our youths to go there? Is it not frustration? Is it not lack of jobs? Do you think that they are happy with what they are doing there?
50. They are not happy. This was what prompted my message titled: “PRESERVE YOUR YOUTH AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS”.
51. Can you imagine the ridicule? I read it in a national newspaper, ‘The Spectator’ that the British government volunteered 10 million pounds to come to Nigeria and build a prison that will accommodate 400 prison inmates.
52. As at that time! That was their donation [10 million pounds] to build a prison that will accommodate 400 Nigerians. That was a help to Nigerians.
53. Do we begin to clap hands? Is it not a slap on the face? The British government looked into everything in Nigeria and their relationship with Nigeria, the only help they can offer us was to build a dungeon where our youths will be clamped down, I said God help me. Are we not offspring of the same God?
54. When God created us, did he discriminate between the White and the Blacks? Who shared the natural resources all inequitably? Amen.
Gross darkness is bound to cover your eyes. As long as I am in the world, I remained the light of the world. I am just a little Voice out of the voices. I am still sounding to this generation as a still small Voice, hiding in simplicity out there in the wilderness from a little group, called the Bride. God will do something in the last days that will go round the globe. See it coming before your eyes; what your Prophet predicted many years ago: a little group; something will spring forth.
THE STATE OF THE NATION (VOLUME 2) AS WE SEE THE DAYS APPROACHING; Preached on 17th October 2010; Chapter 2 vs. 12-13.
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STATE OF THE NATION REVISITED [2]
I want to speak to you on the state of the Nation. When I listened to the news written in the Newspapers concerning the Amnesty granted to the Niger Delta Youths, I laughed within myself. I said no, this goes to confirm that we do not have leadership any more.
2. Why Amnesty? [1] That Amnesty is useless and cannot go to anybody. [2] The time frame is poor. That is, the time limit is unimaginable. How can you grant Amnesty to a people you do not know and give them mandate of 4th October as last day?
3. Then I said within myself, if by 4th October, they fail to accept the Amnesty, what next. Now the question arises.
4. Who and who are being granted the Amnesty? Who and who make up MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta)? I began to wonder.
5. MEND as a movement is a freedom-fighting movement; a radical movement borne out of gross marginalization.
6. Now, watch, they have over 200 seen and unseen commanders. Even the kangaroo commanders do not know themselves except the prominent ones. In addition, there is no commander that knows the number of youths he has recruited for there is no recruiter’s license. There is no number with which to identify them. Now, where are their locations?
7. How can you grant Amnesty to a people you do not know? You do not know how many they are. You do not know their various locations. You do not even know the type of weapons they have imported which they are using.
8. Where did you say that they are going to surrender their weapons? You say it is 82 division Enugu. Why not Bayelsa or Port Harcourt or Aba? Why not Imo State Obinze Artillery Unit? But they said it is 82 division in Enugu.
9. Now, what and what are they going to surrender? Why not reason properly? What if they refuse to go there to surrender anything? If they go there and said that they have surrendered. What if they just went there, dropped some pistols and put down their names that they have surrendered and go their way?
10. The Atlas Cove jetty that was demolished in Lagos recently, was it demolished with ordinary pistol? It was a master plan. I am coming to something. Follow me strictly. God is doing something now. God is confirming his word.
WHAT IS NEEDED IS DIALOGUE AND NOT VIOLENCE
What is needed is what? Dialogue and not violence. 2009, concerning MEND, a militant group in the Niger Delta versus Nigeria. What was needed according to THE SON OF MAN was what? Dialogue and not violence.
11. I am saying that the Amnesty is a useless Amnesty. What was needed was not even bombing and shooting them. What was needed was a round table conference. That is, negotiations.
12. Once there is a dispute, ask them to cease fire. Let them come to the round table and present their agenda So that you will know their grievances. Then you begin to tell them the extent you can go to address them within the capacity the nation has found herself. SURE! It is not violence versus violence.
13. Nobody has ever succeeded in quelling the yearnings of the people through violence.
14. Do you know that despite all what happened during the civil war, Biafra still exists in the hearts of all Igbos? Do you believe that? It is not existing in name. It is in the heart.
15. Up till today, the Igbos are still clamouring for separation. Is it not true? Are we not witnesses? Why is it so? It is simply because General Gowon [retired] came up one morning and granted amnesty without hearing from the people. So, that agitation has remained there.
16. What is more? Before our eyes, we begin to see marginalization continuing. Check all the newspapers, news, you will hear marginalization, marginalization, marginalization every day. That goes to show that the real problem is yet to be addressed.
17. It is not yet addressed. Why? They were not listened to. They were not called upon to the table to air their grievances for which cause they embarked on secession.
18. They just granted amnesty. General amnesty. No Victor, no vanquished, without giving them audience. From that time till now, have we rested?
19. The problem is still agitating their minds. It does not exist in reality, but it exists in their hearts for they must surely look for a way to vent it out.
20. Moreover, we were of the opinion that, that which the army could not do because it was force, democracy can do it now, because it gives everybody a sense of belonging to air his or her views on National issues. But unfortunately, those that have the brains are not invited.
21. The National confab they said that they were conducting ended in the pipeline. I am going somewhere. I want you to know the state of the Nation. God spoke concerning this Nation… as at 2009! January 1, this was my message.
22. We can see crimes on the increase. When we started hearing kidnapping in the Niger Delta, remember that I mounted the pulpit and told you that this kidnapping must extend its tentacles to the South East. So, it will continue until it will engulf the whole Nigeria. Has it come to pass?
23. For that is the area affecting MEND. the criminality side of it was the part kidnapping and collecting Ransom. It is a condemnable act by God.
24. Now, watch what is happening, the state of kidnapping, nobody will say that he is not aware. If anybody is pretending that he does not know that kidnapping has come to stay in Nigeria, that person is a liar.
25. 2009! July 19th. We have A Prophet that is not recognized. The unrecognized Messiah. The unwelcome messiah whose voice can hardly be heard on the streets for he does not make a noise.
26. Even our authorities know these things. Who should be blamed? Surely those that are in authority. A situation where few individuals are controlling the wealth of the Nation. True or false?
27. Few individuals controlling the wealth of the Nation. Few! Check the population of Nigeria, we are over 200 million. How many people are controlling the wealth? They are in the minority. So they should be blamed. They are responsible for what is happening. They are responsible for what is happening.
28. You watch violent crimes. Just of recent, we saw what happened at Awka. From Awka to Nnewi. About a month ago, we saw what happened at Nnewi. Now, it has shifted to Nsukka. Everywhere, violence, violence, violence. You get to Abia, all the newspapers write volumes concerning the violence that is happening in Abia.
29. Banning Okada (Commercial Motorcyclists) without providing them with a substitute. What do you think the person will be doing? You wean me from my mother’s breasts without providing me with food supplement. In other words, you want me to die. I will not die. I will not like to die. I must struggle to survive and I know how I will do it.
30. Now, I am continuing. I am saying that banning Okada is not the remedy. After all, it is on record that no rich man has ever been kidnapped with Okada. You see the man on Okada and carry him like that? They use costly new vehicles, the type that the person is driving also.
31. So I am saying that Okada is not our problem for now. They have not yet addressed the problem.
29God said we should not complain. In 1992, God told us in one of our Messages titled, “Signs of Our Time”, that government must surely increase our hardship. He told us that when we see these thing happening, that we should not complain. Rather that we should pray that God will provide money for our sustenance. To give us money for our sustenance; that we can never be the worst hit. 30These suffering did not start now.…..32……What is the cause of all these? The hand of God is in all. We are not complaining. We are giving it as our own testimony that God who spoke ahead of time, is bringing His Word to pass.
GOD IS PERFECT IN HIS WISDOM; Preached on Sunday, 1ST January, 2012 & Wednesday, 4th of January, 2012, Section two; Chapter 1 vs. 29-30, 32
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THE HAND OF GOD IS BEHIND WHAT IS HAPPENING
I am coming to something. We are coming forward to look at the state of Nigeria. As of the time God spoke concerning the state of the economy, we never knew or heard anything called economic meltdown. It was unknown. But as we journeyed along, that language appeared as headlines on all our National Dallies.
2. Before we knew it, the capital market crashed. Banks started struggling again for survival. All Bank Officials have now been emptied into the Market places for marketing. They now open accounts with 1kobo deposits. Many, many things are happening now.
3. They are struggling to survive. The little they will gather from the general public, overnight, armed robbers will attack them and carry that one away. It then appears they are now saving for armed robbers. They are making a pool of money available for them to carry.
4. We are addressing something serious. What I am telling you in this faith, you can never hear it in any Church. Before all these things begin to happen, the Lord Almighty will always announce it and then prepare your minds so that when they begin to happen, nobody will panic. You know that the hand of God is behind it.
5. We are in this Faith for a purpose. Once the purpose is achieved, we go away. No more, no less.
WHAT CAUSED THE RISE IN CRIME RATE?
Watch the rate at which violent crimes are increasing, it can be traceable to something. I told you in the New Year message (2009 New Year message, January 1) that the Government of Nigeria under the leadership of Obasanjo and El-Rufai had made their greatest mistake.
6. What was the mistake that they made? They retrenched able bodied and trained people from the Civil Service of the Federation during their productive ages, when they were vibrant and productive. They retrenched them from service.
7. Most of them were soldiers. Some were Police officers, some were Customs officers, some were Drug Law Enforcement Agents. Then majority of them fell within our group;
8. Under the guise of Federal Civil Service Reforms, they engaged on mass rationalization without recourse to what the people will do after. Who were affected? Vibrant Youths that were in their productive ages. Who were left? Deadwoods who could dance to the tune of the Directors in those offices.
9. Majority fell within our group, the Civil Service and the Parastatals. We had the hard pill. Besides, all that returned from ECOMOG under the UN Peace keeping force, remember that many landed in Nigeria. Nigeria accused them of looting, of violence and raping women over there. All of them Nigeria discharged them from service without providing any alternative.
10. Now the question arises, when you discharge young, young men that still have up to 10 or 15 years to still go in their service, you terminated their contracts like that, you made no reservation for their rehabilitation, what do you think will happen?
11. You know that for sure they do not have any other occupation. They have not learnt any trade. What they learnt is what you taught them. You taught them how to handle gun. Did you get the message?
12. Our people say that, the Machete one has is the one he will boast with. Yes, the authorities know what is happening. That is why all of them are afraid. They do not want to comment.
13. It is true that it does not concern you and I in practice but we feel the impact. We feel it because we are living in Nigeria. That is why the Scripture said that we should pray for those in authority that we may live in peace. I thank God for the way things are going.
14. These young men were discharged prematurely and they are Warlords, trained gunmen. I believe there is no other thing that they can use to establish themselves if not that which they are conversant with.
15. For example, if you are not a trained gunman with many, many years of experience, even if you are given a machine gun, you can never attempt entering a Police station and begin to shoot.
16. Once you are not trained, no matter the gun you are holding, once you see the police, you will drop it on the ground and run. But the way and manner these crimes are committed prove to the entire world that these are real professionals. They are not afraid of the Army, they are not afraid of the Police. They are not afraid of anything at all. As at 2009! And they are growing more and more. Do we have a prophet? yes sir!
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ow, I want to come to something. If you have been trusting in your charms and amulets, you cannot be more prepared than all the law enforcement agents. They have the money. They know where these native doctors are. Am I making sense at all?
17. On your side, you do not have the money you can bring. You are as poor as poor can be. Now, if all these things are failing them, is there any need for anybody putting his trust and confidence in those useless things?
18. Do not put your trust in any man. Do not put your trust in any charm or amulet. Do not put your trust and confidence in any other thing than the Great God of all the ages.
19. To our youths, I want to talk to you. You are very, very vulnerable to all these problems because you are vibrant. You move wider than myself. You gather information here and there. There is always the temptation there to get identified with such pressure groups or radical groups to make both ends meet. PLEASE RESIST SUCH TEMPTATIONS.
20. 2009 we had vulnerable youths for which cause God decided warning ahead of time. Please resist such temptations. Do not join them.
21. I have told you times without number that the prosperity of the wicked is always a great temptation to the righteous. Do you believe that?
22. Do not now begin to sit down and think, ‘what if I will take a risk, maybe identify with one group, take the loot and we succeed in one or two operations. By the time we share the loot, I will be able to make up to five or six million naira.
23. You see? You have calculated one way. Death is not in your programme. What if you go and do not return? Is it not possible? It is very much possible. Even if you go and succeed, the truth is there. You do not need anybody to begin to talk. The whole world will know that you have strayed away from the path of truth.
24. Why? Because your occupation must at all times, justify your expenditure. IF YOUR OCCUPATION DOES NOT JUSTIFY YOUR EXPENDITURE, YOU HAVE A QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER. You are a crook!
25. Do not say ‘we are living in a world where the end justifies the means. Once I can make it, everybody will be clamouring at my back. Not always. So please I am appealing to you that you refrain from such ungodly conversations that may tempt you to join one useless group or another. Please say no to that temptation. 2009! July 19th.
26. I am aware that these group that are perpetrating these evils are human beings. They came from families. They did not drop from the sky. Some of them might be your relations in one way or the other. Some might be your friends.
27. Cut off from such people that can lure you into something that can take your life prematurely.
28. Do what? Cut off! Do what? Cut off! Do not have anything to do with them. Get away! Run away from such people.
29. Do not ever indulge in it. Take side with God. Pray for yourself, pray for the entire Brethren, pray for the security agents. Pray for those that are perpetrating the evils that God will touch their hearts so that they will begin to address the truth and drop violence. For we have no other nation than this Nation.
SECURITY IS OF THE LORD
No matter the injustice that we are witnessing in Nigeria, our duty is to pray. Our duty is to trust God. Trust God for your security.
30. What is happening now bears eloquent testimony that what the SON OF MAN is saying is truth, that security is of the Lord. If the Great Jehovah does not give you security, surely, whatever you are surrounding yourself with must surely disappoint you. True or False?
31. Those that are heavily armed are dropping every day, dead! How much less you and I, armless and defenseless people? What can we boast of if not God?
32. If they are not afraid of the Police that are well armed, they are not afraid of the Navy, they are not afraid of the Army and so on, what of you a defenseless and careless fellow? Can you make noise? In other words, your security is in the hand of God as a child of God.
33. When you hear them taking and doing whatsoever that they are doing, feign ignorance, show sympathy as a Nigerian, pray for them. Finish!
34. I am sure and certain that if we do the perfect will of God as we have been instructed, we will only hear these things with the hearing of the ears. Amen! According to the Promise, they will never, never come near us. Amen! 2009! July 19th!
35. For the Lord must surely protect his own. Amen! If the Lord does not protect us, nobody will protect us at a time like this. If you watch all that are living in fenced houses, fenced gates, iron gates, no matter how bulletproof that gate might be, has it saved anybody?
36. That goes to prove that by the arms of flesh, by the works of the hands of man, no flesh has ever prevailed. Nobody! Without God, we can do nothing. That we have rolled into real crisis, see this period as a period of crisis and know where it is going to culminate into.
37. We received the message that said that we should call Christ in the time of crisis. It did not say call the police or call the army. It says call on Christ in the time of crisis.
38. The machete that one has is the one he boasts with. The only thing you have is God, you should use God to boast.
39. Do not boast of any man and do not put your confidence in any man. They will all disappoint you.
40. You cannot be more protected than a DPO. Can you? You cannot. So look up to God in all situations. RESIST THE TEMPTATIONS! What? RESIST THE TEMPTATIONS!