MORNING ALTAR MESSAGE PREACHED ON WEDNESDAY 17TH JUNE 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN The incarnated Christ
YOUR LIFE CANNOT CHANGE UNLESS YOU WANT IT TO CHANGE. THE PURPOSE OF THE SON OF MAN APPEARING IS NOT ONLY FOR YOU TO BE HEARING MESSAGES AFTER MESSAGES, IF YOU OBEY THEM, WILL ADD KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM TO YOU. THERE SHOULD BE A NEW ERA IN THE LIFE OF EVERY TRUE SEED OF GOD. THERE MUST BE A TURNING POINT. WHAT WILL WAKE YOU UP? IT IS THE EDUCATION FROM GOD. THE EDUCATION OF GOD WILL GIVE YOU A NEW APPROACH TO LIFE. STOP BLAMING GOD FOR YOUR WOES, BLAME YOURSELF.
BLAME YOUR SELF AND NOT GOD Preached On 30th September, 2007 Pages 10 and 1
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I AM A STAKEHOLDER TO MY LIFE
Chika had the best phone. I gave you an android phone. I know I gave you an android phone which you used to play music about and lazy yourself about.
You have not escaped the evil of Onah’s family until your eyes have opened, your mind opened, your conscience opened. As long as all of them are groping in the dark, all of them are wrapped up in craftiness, mere suppression.
If you are not intelligent, if you are not listening to Me, you will end your life in disaster, in disappointment. It is not applicable to Chika alone but to all of you here.
It is said that the words of the elders are words of wisdom. The words of the elders are words of wisdom which if the foolish can turn away from his foolishness and listen to the words of the elders which are words of wisdom or wisdom itself, he will become wise.
Words of wisdom make the foolish wise and make the wise wiser. True or false? It is scriptural. I can balance it with the book of proverbs.
Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance. 6 by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the words of the wise and their riddles. 7 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. [Prov. 1:5-7 NLT]
Why you must listen to wise people. Wise, intelligent, understanding and God-fearing people. Why you must pay attention to their words for their words are words of wisdom that will make the foolish wise and make the wise wiser.
An Igbo adage says that a young man that takes delight or a child that takes delight in carrying the traveling bag of a wise elder, if he is wise and understanding, if he is intelligent and desirous of possessing wisdom, he must learn wisdom by carrying the bag of a wise elder while following him about.
He that carries the bag of a wise elder; which means that where a wise elder is going, he will carry you along. Whatever he eats is what you will eat. Wherever he sleeps is where you will sleep. You are close to him.
If you are one that is poised to have wisdom, you will definitely get wisdom and understanding through that elder.
But if you are a foolish fellow, in whom the only thing that will be found is pride, “I live in the King’s Palace. Wherever the King goes, he takes me along.”
Ask yourself this question: “When the King took you to His destination, where did he keep you? Did he bring you into the house or did the king keep you in the car? Did he abandon you outside and went upstairs?”
This is because a child that is qualified feasts with the elders. But if the fellow is not qualified, wherever the elder gets to, the child will be kept in the same place with the unqualified.
He will have the same place with maidservants and houseboys, where he will be oblivious of whatever is going on upstairs.
Upon his return, if you ask him how he fared with the king on the trip, he will say that he does not know. That he was stationed under the tree when they got there, then the king left for where he wanted to go. And at the end of the king’s business, he came back to meet him there.
The king had already noticed that he is a foolish fellow. When the king notices one with wisdom, wherever he [the king] is going, that fellow is going with him.
Wherever the king is seated, he will give the fellow a seat by his side, left or right. He will eat whatever the king eats. Whichever vehicle the king enters will be the same vehicle the fellow will enter.
I am laying down an important principle of life this morning. Let the wise understand what I am saying. And let the fool set it aside. I have said it before with every amount of seriousness and also repeated it yesterday.
One that does not have parents that will give him reasonable advice is likened to one that has living parents but who have nothing to offer you than foolishness.
When you have foolish parents, they will offer you what they have. True or false?
An Igbo adage says that whatever the parents have is what they bequeath their children.
If what your parents have is foolishness, and parading up and down the city, devoid of progress, do not expect that you will be a prominent personality.
If you cling unto them anyhow, wherever they end it in life is where you are going to end it. You will continue their life style, for it can never leave you.
As I say this, so I give specific examples, and the differences that are inherent in it.
But you discovered while you are still tender that your parents are foolish people who do not have any reasonable thing to offer you and you are desirous of attaining great heights, do you follow their lifestyle? You cannot because what crippled them will cripple you.
Get away from their lifestyle. Carve out a future for yourself by carving out the way you want to live your life. For every human being is entitled to his own life.
I AM A STAKEHOLDER TO MY LIFE. YOU ARE A STAKEHOLDER TO YOUR LIFE. IF YOU DO NOT PROTECT YOUR LIFE NOBODY WILL PROTECT IT FOR YOU. REFUSE TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE AND YOUR ENEMIES WILL STIFLE LIFE OUT OF YOU PREMATURELY.
When I was living with you in 20 Benjamin, I used to tell you this thing every time. You were still infants. You were coming up, both male and female.
I gave all of you equal training, equal opportunity to develop yourselves, for what is good for the goose is also good for the gander.
For the optimal level of development for every male child is the manhood level like others. The same is applicable to the female child who grows into womanhood like others.
Upon weaning, the mother hen sends away its chicks. It is a must. Everybody will be on his on her own, and explore his or her destiny. Is it a lie Brethren? The mother hen never keeps her grown chicken perpetually.
There is an age a young girl gets to and the mother will start challenging her to seek her own kitchen. There is a level a man gets to and the father will equally challenge him to start thinking of becoming an accomplished man.
Any man that is blessed with a son from his loins, but is blind to the signs of his son’s charisma, vision, spiritual inertia, spiritual strength to be a capable representative or a capable successor, that man is doomed.
A MAN IS NEVER AT REST UNTIL HE HAS SEEN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 OR MORE OF HIS CHILDREN MANIFESTING SIGNS, CONVINCING HIM, CONVINCING SIGNS THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE SUCCESSORS THAT CAN CONTINUE WITH THE FAMILY.
I have always been mentioning the departure of My late father. He never went to school but he was full of wisdom. He had no money but he had the fear of God.
He never worshipped idle. Always worshipping God, encouraging us to worship God more and more.
Even if our mother was talking nonsense, he will say that we should not pay attention, that God is real.
My father had no money, he had nothing to offer but he had truth. He had Christ. He had the fear of God.
He never gave Me any wrong advice for one day and for that reason, I tied Myself to his Word. He never joked with Me and I never joked with him.
My mother was a direct opposite, who delighted herself in what I will bring not minding how I will get it. Even if I am dying, it does not matter provided she enjoys her own life at My own peril. But My father did not milk My blood.
A man that accepts or encourages his children with the word of the mouth or even uses his body language to push them into evil habits for base gains of unrighteousness, is he not drinking the blood of his children?
He is drinking of the blood of his children. Any woman [mother] that does that is drinking the blood of her children. It is just like a hen that cracks her own egg and drinks the content of the egg.
This is because that gain he or she is enjoying will, one day, lead to bringing back the corpse of the child. He or she will be alive to carry the corpse of his or her child for burial.
Then, that is the time he or she will be happy. The source of the unrighteous gains that was being enjoyed will be shot abruptly. This is because an evil fellow is bound to be stopped one day abruptly, prematurely and unexpectedly.
One that has an evil fellow in his family is likened to one that has a fowl.
When the fowl returns to roost in the night, it is then your own, for the wild cat or any such predator can eat it when it goes out in the morning. It may go out in the morning and never come back again.
That is the replica and type of an evil fellow in a family that lacks understanding. That is the reason why evil should never be allowed entry into any family.
I want you to give Me a little audience before you go. Pay attention.
Life is nothing but what you make your own. Life is nothing but what I make My own life. Whatever you want your life to be is in your hands.
God has given you intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, trained you in His word to know that it is better to follow a righteous path than to follow a wicked path.
So, after training us, we can now be in a position to make comparison between good and bad. Between God and devil. Between right living and wrong living. True or false?
For God has given us that wisdom, knowledge, understanding to differentiate between what is good and what is bad; what is acceptable in the sight of God and what is unacceptable.
The right life that will give us our target, that will help us achieve our ambitions and the wrong life that will forestall all our ambitions, put us on a stand still.
God has given us the wisdom to know the two. So, we now know the two sides of the coin. We can identify counterfeit.
If you are acquainted, conversant with the two sides of the coin, to identify counterfeit is very easy. So, you can no longer live a counterfeit life, you will live the original life.
For the original life will produce the original character. Original character will take you to original destination.
For God destined good to every seed of God, for His thoughts towards us are thoughts of good and not of evil to give us expected end.
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A GOOD TREE CAN PRODUCE BAD FRUIT
That is the original plan of God. Original plan of God can be thwarted by the individual for there is no way My wishes can work for you no matter how good I wish you, until you join your own wishes for yourself to My own wishes, the two can now work together.
No matter how I pray for you, desiring good things for you, as long as you are not praying for yourself, wishing yourself success, wishing yourself good life, long life, there is no way My prayer can work. Did you get the message?
That is why the Bible said, “when the two agree, God will answer their prayers.”
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. [Mathew 18:19 KJV]
If you pray in Enugu and I pray for you here in Nsugbe and the prayer is a prayer of agreement, two of us have agreed, as touching on one thing, God will grant it for us.
Meaning that if your desires, your motives, your objectives agree with that which God had purposed for you from the very beginning, by combining the two, nothing will stop you. It must surely come to you. It must surely come to pass.
It is like believing God. When you believe in the promises of God, they will come to pass as it affects you as an individual.
But when you do not believe, you are doubting, you are limping between two options, no matter how good God has been to you, you will never realize it for you cannot realize it when you are disbelieving God.
DISBELIEVING GOD MEANS WALKING CONTRARY TO THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD WHICH HE HAD ALREADY PURPOSED FOR YOU. You as an individual can decide to set it aside.
There are too many people that received good counsel, good training, good advice, good teachings from their parents. While they were with their parents, they were giving them the impression that they were with them.
Immediately they left the families, the true colours came out.
That is why, often times, bad fruit can be harvested from a good tree. Pay attention.
Do not say, “a good tree cannot produce bad fruit.” It can. A good tree can produce bad fruit.
Eli was a good tree, he produced a bad fruit. Moses was a good tree, he produced a bad fruit. Samuel was a good tree, produced bad fruit. David was a good tree, produced a bad fruit. True or false?
That is why I am saying that life is nothing but what you want to make your own. Remember that, that tree that produced the bad fruit, produced good one.
The same loins where Absalom came out with other renegades, Solomon also came out from the same loins. True or false?
Remember that the house that housed Hophni and Phinehas, the same food, the same drink, everything, that was where Samuel was brought up.
The same counsel the renegades received was the same counsel one that was desirous of achieving the best. First, recognizing that he was born according to God’s promise. Two, he was dedicated to God’s service.
These were the two things that saved Samuel. One, born according to God’s promise. Two, dedicated to God’s service.
For that reason, Samuel never cared about the behaviors of Hophni and Phinehas.
Eli gave him the same counsel he gave the two of them. Their mother gave them the same attention. Congregation respected all of them. But at the end of the day, watch what happened. What am I trying to say?
ANYBODY WHO IS DESIROUS OF LIVING A GOOD LIFE, PLEASING GOD, HAVING REAL SUCCESS, SHOULD NOT PLAY WITH HISTORY.
The moment history is forgotten, you will be the next example that will be quoted everywhere.
THEN, WHAT IS HISTORY? HISTORY IS NOTHING BUT THE ONE YOU WANT TO CREATE FOR YOURSELF. HISTORY IS NOTHING BUT THE ONE I WANT TO CREATE FOR MYSELF.
THE ONE I WILL LIKE EVERYBODY TO BE QUOTING CONCERNING ME. THAT IS MY HISTORY. THE ONE YOU WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW YOU FOR, QUOTING YOU FOR; REFERENCE POINT. THAT IS YOUR HISTORY.
If you become a criminal today, you are creating a history. You become a referent point for criminality.
A person that is trained in a Godly home who turned out to be a criminal, you are a reference point.
A person that was trained in a Godly home and he turned out to be a vagabond, a fugitive, a good for nothing human being, a nonentity, empty headed, unprogressive. You are the reference point.
You are like one who drowns even with a life jacket. Did you get what I am saying?
While you are there, you will also be seeing some who received the same training with you, ate the same food, slept under the same house, received the same counsel from the same parents with you.
Attaining lofty heights both in Christ, in everything pertaining to life and godliness. They are attaining lofty heights. They will also become a reference point for good.
Can you see two individuals raised in the one family with the same teaching, the same counsel, with different manifestations. Why?
The life you have chosen to live becomes your personal life. The one I have chosen to live becomes My personal life and that decides what My end shall be. That will decide what I will be in this life and hereafter whether we like it or not.
Words of the elders are words of wisdom which if the young, the youth will listen to, the foolish will become wise, the wise will become wiser.
For that reason, one that is desiring a good thing for himself, a brighter future, lofty heights both in Christ and in everything pertaining to godliness does not joke with words of the elders.
Especially an elderly man who is God-fearing, who is intelligent, wise, understanding. More so, when He has been vindicated and approved by God to be one that you must listen to. One that is worthy of His confidence. One everybody should look up to.
Despise and neglect His words, it is your right. But the truth is this, you have determined a dangerous future for yourself.
Remember, your future starts today. Your tomorrow starts today. Whatever you want to be in this life starts today.
Every good morning is the beginning of your new life. Every good morning is the beginning of your new growth, awareness. True or false?
Life is a teacher. It teaches us both good and bad. In this life, often time, life can be bitter. From that bitter experience, you learn a lesson. It can be sweet. From that sweet experience, you learn a lesson. Did you get the message?
That is why we say continually that life is a class room. It is teaching us on a daily basis.
A foolish man will be an expert in learning evil. He takes the evil side of life while the wise man takes the good side of life. That is why I gave you the message; CHOOSING THE GOOD PATH.
If there is no path that leads to evil called bad path, will there be any need to teach you on the need to choose the good path?
That is why life offers two opportunities that are unavoidable. Whether you like it or not.
Two opportunities, two roles await every mankind. [1] The road that leads to destruction and disappointment, despair, death, disdain and so on. Disaster.
And [2] the road that leads to real life including eternal life, real success, real peace, real harmony, real family, real children. Everything real. No artificial. No makeup. Did you get the message?
Hear Me well, all of you. The attention a man gives to the fig tree, hear Me very well, determines the importance he has attached to that fig tree.
The attention a man gives to the fig tree, attending to the needs to the fig tree, watching the fig tree, doing weeding when it is supposed to be done, watering the fig tree when it is supposed to be watered, watching the fig tree as it grows up, determines the investment he has made on that fig tree. It is based on what he is expecting from the fig tree.
No matter your expectations from a fig tree, if you do not watch over a fig tree and nurture that fig tree, your expectations will fail. True or false?
We have born children. How many are nurturing their children as fig trees? But we have great expectations from our children. How many are working towards helping our expectations come true?
What if your parents have been taking their time, forfeiting their pleasure, their joy, everything but investing on you? Watching over you? Watering you when you need water. Weeding!
You know what it takes to weed? What do you weed? Undergrowth that will over crowd in you, too many worries of this life.
For the Bible said, there are seeds that are sown on a good land, the worries, the cares and worries of this life. He said that the seeds germinated quite alright. While it wants to come up, it was over grown by weeds.
And by the interpretation of Jesus Christ in the Scriptures, the book of Matthew said that the weeds now represent the too many cares of this life that overcrowded the seed that germinated very well from doing well and producing the right fruits. He said, it withered.
4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: 5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. [Matt 13:3-6 KJV]
But there is one that fell on a right soil, loamy soil, watered, taken care of, watched over day and night.
The Bible said, those ones produced fruits in their due seasons, in thousands, in millions. They produced good fruits in thousands, in millions.
8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. [Matt 13:8 KJV]
Now, liken yourself to that tree. For we are planted here on earth as trees.
Anyone that does not produce good fruit is a reject that must be hewed down. And will end its destination where? In the fire. Unquenchable fire. Is that scripture? Is that Holy Qur’an? Is it in the Book of Enoch? Is it in the Hindu book? Is it in the Grail Message?
Simply accept this truth. You can never be wiser than all the writers of all these ancient manuscripts.
You are nothing but a bare when compared to those people and their wisdom, their encounters with the truth.
As parents, we share our experiences with our children. Our encounter with Christ, our encounter with life, we share with our children.
What is our aim? It is what the Bible recorded in the book of St. Luke chapter 1 from verse 1 through 12.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, 2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; 3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. 5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years. 8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course, 9 According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. 11 And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. 12 And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. [Luke 1:1-12 KJV]
St. Luke used his experience as one who was there, an elderly man, from the very official beginning of Jesus Christ’s ministry to prepare Theophilus, prepare him very well, against error.
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DESTINY IS A MATTER OF CHOICE
WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF TEACHING? WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF CORRECTION, ENCOURAGEMENT, ADVICE? IS IT NOT TO PREPARE YOU AGAINST ERROR?
FOR WE ARE LIVING IN THE DAYS WHERE PEOPLE TAKE DELIGHT IN EMULATING THE ERRORS OF THE WICKED INSTEAD OF EMULATING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
LIFE OFFERS EVERY HUMAN BEING TWO OPPORTUNITIES. [1] OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE YOUR PERSONAL AND DEVILISH INTERESTS. AND [2] OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE GOD. TRUE OR FALSE?
THERE ARE TWO PATHWAYS IN LIFE. YOU CANNOT DODGE THE TWO AT THE SAME TIME. YOU MUST EMBRACE ONE WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. IF YOU ARE GUIDED RIGHTLY, YOU WILL CHOOSE THE WAY OF GOD.
AND WHEN YOU CHOOSE THE WAY OF GOD, YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE WAY OF WISDOM. THE WAY OF LIFE. THE WAY OF REAL SUCCESS. THE WAY OF REAL PEACE, AND THE WAY OF RAISING A HARMONIOUS HOME. THE WAY THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO ETERNAL LIFE, PARADISE.
YOU CHOSE TO THE LEFT, NOBODY WILL BRING YOU BACK. IT IS YOUR CHOICE.
That is why destiny is not matter of chance but a matter of choice. I am saying that the life any man is living is a matter of his choice.
The life you have chosen to live, do not ever expect God to stop you. Parents will not stop you. Friends will not stop you.
You may even be living that life in secret and still be dwelling, hearing the messages, eating and drinking with upright people.
That is why the Bible said, “Let Favor be shown to the wicked, he will never appreciate it. In the land of Godly people, he will still like to practice ungodliness.”
10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. [Isaiah 26:10 KJV]
He will take delight in going the way he has purposed for himself. It is not God that is leading you. What is leading you the way you are living is the desires of your life.
THE DESIRE OF A MAN’S LIFE DIRECTS HIS PATHS, DIRECTS HIS THOUGHTS, DIRECTS HIS AMBITIONS. TRUE OR FALSE? AS IT IS TO A MAN SO IT IS TO A WOMAN.
That was why when you were coming up, male and female, we took our time to tell you the truth about life.
Before you will know what life is all about, it is better we lay a foundation for godliness in you, upright living. So that when you come up, you make comparison.
You check the ways of the wicked and the ways of the hypocrites who listens to the truth and act wrongly. Where they end their lives, what follows them.
You compare and contrast with that of those who have chosen to live right with God, righteous living, Godly living. How they ended their lives and what follows them. Then, you can make a choice between the two.
Make your choice between the two. And a choice is something that once you make it, to depart from it is not easy. Do you get it?
Once you have chosen the way you want to live your life, to depart from it is not easy.
That is why, if you watch all hypocrites among us, married and unmarried, it is not because of Covid-19 that they are living secret lives. They were living it even before Covid-19. It has been their life. It has been their desire.
Often time, they do not have the opportunity to practice it. Once they see that opportunity, they will be let loose. Am I making sense?
But one who fears the Lord, honours the Lord, in open and in the secret, he has a reservation. There are too many things that will restrain him. He can never go to the extremes of people for there is a check in him.
I want to share this testimony to show you what is happening. Although I am not happy with the testimony but it has to be shared.
The second son of brother Shed came to Me yesterday. Promise came upstairs to alert Me that Ifeanyi was around and was looking for Me.
I delayed a little to enable Me pray, meditate and know how to go and see the young boy. I married before his father married. I had children before his father had children.
Although I am of the same age or almost of the same age with the father, but I know I am wiser than the father. I know the setup of the family.
I had to pray, meditate. It took Me some time before I went down to see the boy. When I got there, it dawned on Me that he came with a report I should not listen to alone.
He came with a report that will benefit Chika, who is the first son. So that Chika will begin to appreciate where he is, why I adopted him into this family not by imposition.
His father gave his consent to his stay with Me. Chika, true or false? When I wanted to eject you, your father came here begging and begging that if I should eject you, that he is not sure he will win you again.
Only your mother that is still desiring that I should let you go so that you will join Ifeanyi and the rest but your father is saying no.
Each time I threatened to sack you, your father has always intervened. True or false? Has he delighted in your coming back for one day? He wants you to stay here. He is happy with your stay.
I do not know about you. You may not be happy but you are suppressing it. You may be happy only because I am helping you to achieve lofty heights, to achieve your ambition.
For without this family, you have written yourself off. Your parents wrote you off. You have no ambition. You have nothing to pursue.
It is this family that has changed your sense of reasoning and direction. True or false?
YOU CAN NEVER CHANGE A MAN’S DIRECTION WITHOUT CHANGING HIS SENSES OF REASONING. WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR WAY OF REASONING, AUTOMATICALLY, IT WILL AFFECT YOUR SENSE OF DIRECTION.
REASON RIGHT AND ACT RIGHT. REASON WRONGLY AND ACT WRONGLY. Am I making sense? Man or woman!
Remember where I took off. That it is the condition we find ourselves that is exposing us right now. It is not making us what we are.
What did he report yesterday? That he is afraid of his life. That is number one. He wants to inform Me that he has changed from Vikings cult he was romancing with.
That the people decamped to black Axe. That they approached him this last Saturday. That he followed them, four of them.
They took them to an island on the express along Umuleri express way. They slept in the forest where they initiated them into the black Axe cult.
Chika, am I bearing false witness? Was it not what we heard? You bent down sorrowing and shedding tears, hearing what your brother was confessing with his mouth, and that he has decided to come to Me for a guide. That I should advise him on how he will live, how he should conduct himself.
I said eeh? You had already initiated yourself in the forest? They beat you from night till morning? You ate every dangerous thing with them? You vowed a vow with them?
Now, you came up now, today being Tuesday, you now came to Me only to inform Me of what you had done? And then to seek My counsel? What do you want Me to advice you? To come out or to stay?
He said he has never slept since that Saturday. That he is feeling guilty within and also filthy within. That he is feeling he is dirty. Chika, was is it not what he said?
I said that I do not have any advice to offer on a situation like this. But you could have consulted Me before going in.
Were you not the one that exposed Ugochukwu, when he enlisted in the Vikings cult? Who carried My whole money in the house to enrich himself and his cultists?
Were you not the one that carried the cult members to My house? Now, you decamped from Vikings, you entered black Axe. And at this age, look at your height.
The other day, you came telling Me the wound sustained in your work place. I do not whether it is true or false.
But your father brought a report to our pastor on Monday morning. Called him over the phone, telling him how you have formed a habit of leaving the house 8:00 o’clock in night only to come back by 3:30am in the morning with hoodlums, men he does not know.
And this time around, that you used your leg to force the door open and threaten to kill your mother, your father, to desecrate your sister, Chiamaka.
You were vomiting venoms from your mouth and warned them that whenever you leave the house, no matter the time, that the door should remain open until you come back.
Then pastor asked your father whether he knew what he has produced in his family as a pastor in charge of his family. He said, yes.
He [pastor] said, “Are you now aware that you have produced an armed robber?” Brother Shed said he is aware. Pastor switched off, came here and reported to Me and some elders. Brother Shed has never called Me till now.
I called Chika. I narrated everything to Chika, warned him never to call them, let us wait. While waiting, his brother came yesterday evening with another sad story. From one evil to another evil.
Because, THE SECRET OF AVOIDING EVIL LIES IN NOT PRACTICING IT AT ALL.
The moment you practice evil once, twice you will be tempted to continue anyhow. Before you know it, you have become a habitual evil fellow. That is how every wrong character begins.
Every wrong character starts one day. You might be good, maintaining a good record. But one day, something in you will say, why are you living this way? Can you not see your people over there?
Like all these women we call sisters among us, both young and old, married and unmarried, you know all of them. Something suggested evil living in them.
They became prostitutes by their desires which drew them away from the Faith. They made themselves men. They do not know that they are women who are likely to get married tomorrow.
Nothing is really hidden under the sun. Even if a man parades the streets naked, he will still be able to get a woman to marry.
If a woman does the same thing, can she ever have a husband? Am I making sense?
Are you doing that which your husband can do, are you a man? Do you not know that you are a married woman? Are you competing with the man?
A man has every right to bring back a woman to his house, even until he brings in the number he wants to have in his household.
Can a woman do that while the husband is still alive? Even if the husband is dead, a widow does not live that type of life. If she tries it, people around will think that was the live she lived which killed her husband. True or false?
A widow that lives a loose life is always accused of killing her late husband so that she will regain freedom to live anyhow. It has always been the suspicion around unguided widows. True or false? Do you not hear it? Are you foolish?
Watch all these silly women who have joined the worldly language which says, “I will use what I have to get what I am desiring, what I do not have.” The penchant for that evil does not depart from them.
For once evil is practiced and inculcated, to break it is not easy. More so when you are inculcating it at an old age where you will say that nobody can talk to you, nobody, I have arrived. I have done this. I have done that.
What lures them into it? Unhealthy competition. They want to be what they are not. They want to hang their clothes where their hands cannot get to. True or false?
Some have come all out to surprise their husbands. Some want to humiliate their husbands, to have rule over the man in the house and in every aspect.
“Is my responsibility to give him food whenever he comes back Once I feed him to his satisfaction; if I like I will give him beer to drink and I will place my hand around his neck, “My Darling! My Sweetheart!”” A silly man will go to bed.
What am I saying? Can you see that the pastor of Shadrack’s family which is Shadrack has raised a criminal?
So every family is raising one thing or the other. Some are raising prostitutes, beginning with their wives.
They have lost every feeling of shame. They have lost respect for their husbands. They have lost respect for God, for the Ministry they are professing and even integrity for themselves. They have lost all.
All feelings of shame, gone. Why? Satan has disrobed them. Satan can disrobe you. Did you get the message?
You know what it takes to disrobe? Satan can make you go naked. Did you get the message?
If a heathen can cause Me to go naked, has Satan not disrobed Me? So it is with all of you. Watch your attraction. Watch your desire as you move out from this family now.
Always have it at the back of your mind that you have commanded respect and a good record before many people.
Not everybody is happy with you. Some are happy. Some are not happy especially by the way you are coming up, trying to step into the shoes of your father. Trying to elevate the image of the family. What is more? Representing Christ in fullness.
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REVEAL YOUR SECRETS AND HAND YOURSELF OVER TO DESTRUCTION
Read books, but I never read any message credited to Hophni and Phinehas if not their bad records.
I never read the encouragement they gave to the brethren if not raping women in the temple and discouraging worshippers. Because, when a man of God produces evil children, it discourages the worshippers.
YOUR LIFE IS EITHER DISCOURAGING WORSHIPPERS OR ENCOURAGING WORSHIPPERS.
BEING THE CHILDREN OF THE SON OF MAN, DO NOT SAY THAT YOU ARE IN EXILE, YOU ARE IN DISTANT LAND.
ANYWHERE YOU ARE, YOU ARE A WORTHY AMBASSADOR OF THE FAMILY AND OF CHRIST. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
You must aim at it, “I must be a worthy representative of Christ. A worthy representative of my family. A worthy representative of the Faith. A worthy representative of the brethren.
I will never do anything that will bring the reputation of my brethren to disrepute, of my husband to disrepute, of my wife to disrepute, of my parents to disrepute and things like that”.
So that if there be any little problem arising in your life, you can detect it. To check it becomes very easy.
You do not need your dad writing a letter or calling you over the phone. If He will hear it, He will hear the corrected version. He will no longer be hearing that obnoxious story, that you are this and that.
Remember what I told you when you were coming up, all of you, young and old. That you are likened to green snakes or small black snakes, depending on the colour you are wearing.
If you can preserve your life, you become a python. But neglect to preserve your life, people will use ordinary stick to kill you at a tender age. Did you get the message?
For nobody wants to see you survive. Some will use their vehicles to crush you. Some will use motorcycle to crush you. Some will use anything to make sure that your head is battered.
But if you can nurture life, before you cross the main road, you stay in the bush and watch and look side ways to make sure there is no noise, you cross.
Before you want to come into your room, you stay outside and watch and nose around then you can go in.
When you are going out, you pray. When you are coming in, you pray, thanking God for bringing you back. For not all that went out came back safe. Some perished on the way.
You are not enjoying anything by right or by your hard work. You are enjoying by God’s grace. They are all gifts.
Like this morning, many that will go out today will not come back. Few weeks ago, some people that went out at upper Iweka, did all of them go back? Some ended it at upper Iweka.
Was that where they decided to end their lives? That is why your life is in the Hand of God, if only you can recognize it.
Know how to preserve your life for if you do not preserve and protect your own life, nobody will do it for you.
And always have it at the back of your mind that apart from God and His people, everybody is praying for your destruction. Everybody is looking for your disappointment.
Everybody wants to hear sad stories emanating from here. They want to hear that you have become renegades, hooligans, vagabonds, uncontrollably bad.
Let Me tell you, if you have hundred people, ninety percent are wishing you evil. Only but one percent are wishing you good. Do not ever say, daddy is lying.
Remember the Words of God, “Inside, fear. Outside, war”. And man’s greatest enemy must be members of his own very family. In the household of Faith, all of them are there. Both crabs, fish and every kind of dangerous animal from the sea. They are all among us.
Forget about their laugh. They laugh when they do not mean it. Forget about their open teeth. Forget about their “Remain blessed.”
Forget about the words of encomiums “eh! You have arrived. I can see the power of God, the spirit in you, bubbling more than that of the Son of man”.
Do not ever listen to that nonsense. They are cajoling you. They do not mean it. They want to blow a flute that will help you to destroy yourself. They will want to make you to think that you have arrived.
Remember, whether male or female, regard them as ancient and discarded prophets who are hell bound to deceive the younger ones.
How do they deceive them? They lure them to a corner, interview them, with the view to knowing their privacies. With the view to finding out the secrets sustaining them.
Now, to a young prophet, I have to warn you, man or woman. REVEAL YOUR SECRET AND HAND YOURSELF OVER TO YOUR DESTROYER.
REVEAL THE SECRET OF YOUR SUCCESS IN CHRIST, YOUR SUCCESS IN ACADEMICS, YOUR SUCCESS IN YOUR FAMILY.
REVEAL IT TO SOMEBODY WHO PRETENDS TO BE WITH YOU WHEN HE IS NOT; A FALLEN PROPHET, MAN OR WOMAN. HEAR ME VERY WELL. BY AGE, IS OLDER THAN YOU. BY EXPERIENCE, IS OLDER THAN YOU. BUT ALONG THE WAY, HE MADE A SHIPWRECK. SHE MADE A SHIPWRECK AND STILL ABIDING IN THE FAITH.
When God said you should fear and avoid all those elders who are out of the way of the truth but are still sitting down in the fellowship. God includes women, includes ladies, includes young men.
There are too many young men that are older than you. Some of them I met in the Faith. Like Emeka Nwanga, I met him in the Faith. I met Sunday Ugorji in the Faith.
Just like our sister Ebele. I met Ebele in the Faith when she was schooling. Do not look at her stature. She is nearing 50 years. Confirm from the sister. Nearing 50 years.
But when you look at her stature, she appears to be very small. I know her age very well. I am telling you she is nearing fifty years. Either two years from now, she will clock 50 years dot. But the smallish stature over masks her age.
If you want to know her age, know the age of Emeka. But before Emeka was born, she nursed eight (8) children for the family. She nursed eight (8) before Emeka.
Remember there was one that was senior to Emeka who died long ago, [Chinenye]. She died after finishing her school cert. I hope you know it?
How old was she when she finished her senior school certificate examination? How old is Emeka today? How old were the eight she nursed and all of them died successively?
Begin to know her age. I know her age. It was late Elder Mike Nwanga that disclosed her age to Me when the two quarreled and I held it firm.
That was why when Paulicap came to marry her, some said she was young. I said no, she is not as young as you think.
Let them go to the family. When they got to the family, Paulicap discovered that she was of age. She never married prematurely. Like some that married at 19, at 20, no! She married at 26.
So, take it. I am telling you the whole truth I know about her. You know the year. From that year, check how many years that have elapsed. What am I trying to say?
Do not think that the people that will deceive you will be the men alone. The women who are old in the Faith, so to say that have made shipwreck. They know those that are still upholding the Faith, that are still matching on.
They will run around you to see a way of cornering you to a corner. If they cannot succeed with the words of the mouth, they will resort to using gifts. Remember that gifts blind.
They will be presenting you with foods, with orange, with apples, with pineapple, with watermelon.
They will be saying “Now we know. Thank God for you oh. I praise God for you oh. Whenever I hear your voice in the tape, I rejoice exceedingly.
God has started using you the way He is using THE SON OF MAN. Hai! I am blessed in you. I just came to say thank you. Take this watermelon. Take this apple. Take this nonsense.”
Why not develop the attitude THE SON OF MAN has for such gifts? That makes Him not to touch or taste any gift that has not lasted for 48 hours or more?
I SOUND A WARNING TO YOU. IF SOMEBODY GIVES YOU A GIFT, DO NOT TAKE IT IMMEDIATELY. THROW IT BY THE CORNER. PRETEND YOU DO NOT SEE IT.
ANY DAY THE PERSON ASKS YOU THE QUESTION; WHETHER YOU HAVE USED THE GIFT OR NOT? HOW DOES IT FEEL OR HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT IT? GO AND DESTROY IT.
BECAUSE WHAT THE PERSON WAS ANTICIPATING, HE DID NOT HEAR IT. SHE DID NOT HEAR IT.
Remember, they may not come to you live. They may send their wards. They may send their agents. They may send it through their own agents. You know it is a syndicate?
Every sinner has a syndicate. It takes two to tango. There is no single crime without syndicate crimes.
Like this boy went to Umuleri. Did he go alone? Good. They came, according to him, with their motorcycles and carried them here, all the way to Umuleri to initiate them.
If they did not give their consent, would they have followed them? Thank you very much
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YOUR LIFE IS NOTHING BUT WHAT YOU MAKE IT
I AM SAYING THAT WHAT YOU DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO CAN NOT COME TO YOU UNLESS YOU ARE INSINCERE.
IF YOU ARE SINCERE, WHAT YOU SUBSCRIBED TO IS WHAT YOU WILL GET. WHAT YOU PLACED IN ORDER MUST ARRIVE TO YOU. SURE! DO YOU BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE?
SO, WHAT ARE YOU ORDERING? WHENEVER YOU ORDER FOR SOMETHING, IF IT COMES, DO YOU REJECT IT?
Just like Iyke school ordered for something and it has arrived. Has he any escape? Even if he says he is not marrying, a record has been created. A history has been created.
It will take a foolish lady among us to have anything in common with him again. Because what happened to the first is likely to happen to the second. Is it a lie?
Do you need a prophet to tell you that? Has he corrected the mistake? The imbalance is still there.
YOU SEE WHY I AM ADVISING YOU AS YOUNG MEN. YOU ARE COMING UP NOW. YOUR LIFE IS NOTHING BUT WHAT YOU HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE IT.
There are two pathways to life. [1] The one that will lead you to real peace and eternal life, real success.
And [2] the one that will lead you to trouble, real upset, that will destroy your integrity, destroy your reputation and bring you to disrepute. Bring your family to disrepute.
You see? That is why if we are public figures, we should be very, very careful.
You know, a public servant should not mess herself up or himself up. For many people know you more than you know them.
Let Me use one example. If you happen to be a class room teacher, do you know how many students that know you in your school?
You may not be teaching their classes. You may be teaching only the class one but the whole students in the school know you as a teacher.
But, you as a teacher, know only but those you are teaching. The parents all know you. Sure! Their drivers know you.
Whenever they see you, they know that you are a teacher in that school. They see you on a regular basis.
Are you not likened to a city seated on a mountain? Can it be hidden? Should such a person walk recklessly on the street? Is there any place you can consider to be a dark place? For you do not know who is there.
It can be the one of the parents that know you. It can be your colleague. It can be one of the students. It can be anybody who knows your going in and going out.
What will be your excuse? Unless the heart is hardened to do evil.
Like those who have that adage which I call devilish adage they borrowed from their colleagues, who are heathens; “Using what I have to get what I do not have or using what I have to get what I need.”
To those people that have forgotten My message. I gave you a message, gave you one illustration. A life illustration I am a witness to, of a lady.
She was not married. The rest got married. She was left with the old mother. The mother was terribly sick and was brought to Pieta hospital here at Nwaziki Avenue. I was serving in Peter ventures that time.
I happened to know this thing because that lady was our staff in our factory.
Now, while the mother was living with her, the doctor diagnosed her and said that she had hernia on one side that needs serious operation.
This lady, how much was her salary? Twelve Thousand Naira every month. She took the mother to that hospital. Operation was carried out.
The doctor said that the bill was Sixty-five Thousand Naira. She pleaded and pleaded. The doctor reduced it to Fifty-five Thousand Naira. She had no money.
She appealed to the company. The company gave her only Twenty Thousand Naira leverage as a help never to pay back.
And that Twenty Thousand Naira was raised by the staff for the company has no provision for such a thing.
I contributed My own money. Others contributed and we gave her. She deposited the money, there was no other.
She thought within herself, pleaded with the doctor. The held her mother hostage, that he will not release her until the last kobo was paid. That, so people have been duping him or the company will come and sign on her behalf.
Our boss refused to sign. Nobody could sign because we do not know where she is living. More so, when she was just a casual worker. How much was her salary? And that time money had value.
Then, she resorted to doing something. She reasoned with her friends. She went and disguised herself.
Every night, she will come back from work around 4:30, 5:00 pm. She will eat, disguise herself, package herself. Because, women that want to do evil, package themselves.
According to the language, she packaged herself. Every night, she will come out along people’s club, Owerri road. For she was living at Okpoko.
Every night, she will carry her bag, come out there waiting for people that will carry her to unknown distinction. Sleeping overnight with men of all calibers, getting money from them anyhow.
Within seven days, she used what she had to get what she needed. She got more than the balance.
The balance was Thirty-five Thousand Naira. Within the seven days she practiced prostitution in secret, in the night. She never knew that there were some others that knew her until one of our customers carried her and called her name “Ifeoma.”
Just like what happened to the former wife of Brother Emma Agu who went to a party.
Unfortunately, she never recognized that the man she followed home overnight was the vulcanizer, vulcanizing tires in front of Emma’s shade at Ezenwa here. And the man never knew that was Ifeyinwa, the wife of Emma Agu until morning when she was about to go.
He called her, “Mama Ifunanya. What a pity? How did you deceive me this night? How did you come to that party? Oh! No. I am doomed. Your husband is my best friend. How do I tell Emma what happened?”
She said, “You can tell Emma. I am living at Frontline hotel. Emma knows that I am living there at old market road. Tell Emma.” Has she not lost her shamefacedness? I am using a living example.
What happened? Ifeoma paid the bill at Pieta hospital and had a little balance. The mother was finally released. They went to Nempi, Orlu zone, in Imo State.
Then, few months after, this lady developed sickness of different types. Changing from one thing to another. The hospital was responsible for her treatments. She was taken to Ezenwa specialist hospital, Owerri road where she was diagnosed.
They said she had STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases). And according to the conditions of services of the company, we can take care of every ailment not sexually transmitted diseases.
For there is nothing in our company, in our machines that will do that except wildlife. So, it is not covered in the health treatment facilities provided by the company.
Our boss sacked her. We said no, she must be sacked but let her get treated. He said, that will be at her expense. That whether she had the money or not, she must be coming to work. We agreed.
What happened? From STDs, she was diagnosed again, when the condition became horrible. It was discovered that she became one of the early carriers of HIV.
And because it was not handled well, it degenerated to AIDs (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
This lady I am testifying about is now late. That sickness killed her. Can you imagine? She used what she had to get what she desired. Look at where it landed her.
She used what she had to get a disease she could not cure. What she had could not cure it. What she realized could not cure it.
Do you not feel it could have been better if she had gone a begging? Soliciting from one person to another?
She could have gotten more than Thirty-five Thousand Naira to complete the money. Did you get the message?
Do you think it is peculiar to women? It is also applicable to men. Men suffer the same fate.
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BE WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO BE
Few minutes’ enjoyment can land you into eternal regret, eternal sorrow, eternal hell. Do you believe it to be true?
What mars a man’s record is a light thing. What mars a woman’s record is a light thing.
Always have it at the back of your mind now you are going to Enugu that you have become a cynosure of all eyes. Your record has been noised abroad.
Some are wishing you good, some are wishing you evil. Some are wishing you success, some are wishing you failure.
That is life. All that glitters is not gold. Eh! “You are welcome, Remain blessed, Wonderful children.”
Do not listen to that encomium. Do not ever give heed to that encomium. Do not ever accept you are wonderful. Do not accept you are the best. Say no!
You are still on course. You are still a beginner. So, this is the beginning of your ministry.
Always have it at the back of your mind that nine over ten (9/10) of an iceberg is still submerged in the sea. Only one tenth (1/10) is seen on the surface of the sea.
Whatever you are manifesting now, see it as one tenth of your full virtue. Nine over ten (9/10) is still inside. Because you have not yet started life.
Apart from Myself and brother Eli, My wife, nobody here has started life. Rather you are receiving a training that will help you to start life on a good note.
If you will accept this training, imbibe this training. Oh! How I wish I had somebody in My day who sat Me down to give Me this counsel.
I would not be where I am today. But I thank God who through His mercy helped Me to level up and measure up and soared above even My mates, My equals. Not on material things but on things concerning Christ.
Where I am standing now, I still say it, I am the first among all My equals. In Latin, I am primus inter pares. First among My equals. I am incomparable.
And that is what the fear of God and obedience to the truth has resulted in My life. One who came from nowhere. A Mr. Nobody.
But there are people that received better backgrounds, materially and everything but today they are living in penury. They are living from hand to mouth. True or false?
I WANT YOU TO HAVE IT AT THE BACK OF YOUR MIND THAT GOD MAKETH A MAN RICH, HE ADDETH NO SORROW TO IT.
DO NOT LOOK UP TO ANY HUMAN BEING TO COME AND MAKE YOU RICH OR TO COME AND MAKE YOU POOR.
IT IS YOUR DECISION, YOUR CHOICE OF LIFE COUPLED WITH THE FEAR OF GOD THAT WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED AND NOT WHAT YOU WANT.
For God will always supply our needs according to His riches in glory and will never tamper with our wants.
God does not supply a man’s wants. “I want to be this. I want to be that.” Keep it to yourself. Do not present such prayers before God.
When you go in to prayer, the Bible said; “Through prayers and supplications, let God know all your needs.”
6 Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. [Phil. 4:6 KJV]
It said, “God knows all you need at all times.” He knows what is best for you at all times. All you need, not all you want.
That is why people pray and they do not receive answers. For they tell God what they want. They do not tell God their needs. And God will ignore such prayers.
What is luring people into serious problems with God and with their fellow human beings, making them to damage their reputations at will? Is it not pursuing their wants and not their needs?
NO MAN’S NEED CAN PUT HIM INTO TROUBLE. BUT EVERY MAN’S WANTS HAS BEEN PROVED TO PUT HIM INTO TROUBLE WITH HIS FELLOW MAN AND WITH GOD.
SO, BEGIN NOW TO BRIDLE YOUR PENCHANT FOR MATERIALISM WHICH WILL LEAD YOU ASTRAY.
IF YOU HAVE STRONG PENCHANT, STRONG DESIRE, YOU HAVE A HIGH PROPENSITY TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE AT A TENDER AGE, CUDGEL IT IMMEDIATELY. BRIDLE IT!
IF IT IS POSSIBLE DELETE IT FROM YOUR DICTIONARY. DO NOT TELL GOD WHAT YOU WANT TO BE FOR YOU WILL BE NOTHING BUT WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO BE.
TELL GOD, “I WANT TO BE WHAT YOU WANT ME TO BE. FOR WHAT’S GONNA [WHAT IS GOING TO] BE MUST BE.
THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. THERE IS NOTHING. WHATEVER GOD HAS DECREED FOR YOU MUST COME TO YOU.
IF YOU PRESERVE YOUR LIFE TODAY AS A SMALL SNAKE, YOU WILL BECOME A PYTHON TOMORROW. AND WHEN YOU BECOME A PYTHON, EVERYBODY WILL BE DREADING THE FOREST WHERE YOU ARE RESIDING.
No man will ever dare enter there anyhow. They will tell you that a python is in that forest.
But remember it was that small green snake. That small black snake that preserved itself, preserved its life that has now became a python now dreaded by all.
Nobody talks to you anyhow again. Nobody approaches you anyhow again. Why? Because you have acquired a character, a reputation that is being noised abroad. So, you have made all of them to look inferior. Did you get what I am saying?
DO NOT ALLOW PURSUIT OF INFERIOR THINGS TO DESTROY YOUR SUPERIORITY TOMORROW. Did you get the message?
BECAUSE ONCE A DIRTY RECORD IS CREATED IN YOUR YOUTH, TO WIPE IT OFF IN THE OLD AGE IS NOT EASY. Did you the message?
DO NOT BECAUSE OF PURSUANCE OF A MINOR PITTANCE, A MERE CARROT PEOPLE WILL DANGLE BEFORE YOU.
DO NOT ALLOW THE PURSUIT OF MINOR THINGS, TRIVIAL THING, THINGS THAT HAVE NO LASTING VALUE TO DESTROY YOUR REPUTATION TOMORROW.
THAT BY TOMORROW WHEN YOU MUST HAVE CHANGED TO A BETTER CITIZEN, NOBODY WILL BELIEVE IT, NOBODY WILL TAKE IT SERIOUS. FOR YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED BY YOUR OLD DIRTY RECORDS.
REMEMBER THAT YOU CAME FROM THIS FIRST-CLASS FAMILY. NUMBER ONE FAMILY THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD.
I liken you to a class room teacher who is in a school with a big population. Did you get the message?
Some class rooms are made up of forty students and they start from class A, B, C, D, and so on. You go to class 2 the same way, class 3 the same way, class 4 the same way.
Check the population of that school. The teachers are in the minority when compared to the number of the students in that school.
What can you say about other ancillary workers in that school? You do not know where you are meeting anybody. You can meet him at Enugu. You can meet him at Lagos. You can meet him anywhere.
I told you My experience when I was working at Ojuelegba near Stadium in Lagos, and somebody called Me, “Oga sunny! Ah ah! Oga Sunny! Oga Sunny!”
I paused, then stopped and looked back. I said, “Ah! ah! Bahado! Brother, what is happening in Lagos?” Then he asked, “Do you not know that I have been in Lagos since?”
The person I am referring to is the senior brother to Mrs. Obidi, your literature teacher at Rock Foundation Schools. John (Bahado), the mechanic.
He said that he drove the vice principal Madonna secondary school to Lagos, that he is the driver to the vice principal and that Lagos is their base.
What if I was misbehaving Myself at Ojuelegba that evening thinking that nobody knows Me only to hear somebody calling Oga Sunny? Did you get the message?
And this is someone I was living with in the same yard at 45C Okosi Road, Onitsha before I parked away to Benjamin.
From Benjamin, I went to Lagos only for the person to recognize Me there.
Just like the other day I was telling you. I was there at the market square with My wife. Lo and behold, My Master who taught Me in the school from 1973 to 1977, parked his motorcycle where I parked my 505 vehicle.
My wife was sitting down there. He parked his motorcycle, turned to his right. Only for Me to hear My name, Boniface! My wife is here, she is alive.
Did I know that, that man was coming there? What if I was there at the market place messing Myself up? Little did I know that somebody who taught Me in the school, who knew Me very well, could drive in there.
I am saying that your colleague in Onitsha can be met in Degema, in Yenagoa or anywhere. Human beings disperse like oil bean seed. Is it true? Good.
There are so many reasons why we conduct ourselves in a Godly manner. Having commanded a good record before God and before all men, the good record needs sustenance. It has to be sustained.
Otherwise, it will become a fire fighting approach of creating a record. You win the victory in Onitsha, you lose the victory in Nnewi. It is erratic.
A TRUE SEED OF GOD IS NEVER ERRATIC. HE IS CONSISTENT. WHAT IS THE SECRET OF YOUR SUCCESS AS YOU LIVE? CONSTANCY, CONTINUITY WILL HELP YOU TO WIN.
BE INSTANT IN THE SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON. AS A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, WHAT MAKES YOU A MINISTER IS NOT THIS FAMILY.
WHAT MAKES YOU A MINISTER IS THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST THAT IS IN YOU AND YOUR DESIRE TO DO GOD A SERVICE ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, AT ALL TIMES, NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE FOUND.
When you were in the school, did you carry this family to that school? You were a minister of the gospel there.
When you were doing your service in Lagos, did you carry this family there?
Anywhere you are, this Faith is there with you. Christ is there with you, whose interests you are repenting. So it is to man and woman.
It is when we lose this vision that we begin to misbehave ourselves. Before we know it, we have created a record we cannot erase. Did you get the message?
Not everybody that sees you in wrong doing will talk to you. Somebody may see you, catch you red-handed when you are practicing evil, he will not talk to you.
He will go about telling people that are acquainted with you, “Do not respect this woman again. Do not respect this man again. Look at what I know him for. Do not mind what he is doing in this place.
It is all lies. He is a hypocrite. If you doubt me, come I know where I will catch him. Come and you will see.” Is it not true?
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WHAT IS YOUR OWN RESOLUTION?
I WANT US TO BEGIN NOW TO CONTROL OUR EMOTIONS AND IMPULSES.
BEGIN TO LOOK INTO YOUR PERSONAL LIFE. WHAT AND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU TO OFFEND GOD. WHAT AND WHAT THAT WILL MAKE YOU TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN CHRIST.
IF THERE BE ANY VIRTUE IN YOU, CONSOLIDATE ON THEM. BUILD THEM UP IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
BUT WHERE YOU KNOW YOU HAVE NO VIRTUE, IT THEN MEANS YOU HAVE NO CHARACTER TO PROTECT, NO INTEGRITY TO PROTECT, NO REPUTATION TO PROTECT.
YOU CAN GO ABOUT AND LIVE ANYHOW. AFTER ALL, YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE.
SOME HAVE MADE UP THEIR MINDS. REMEMBER, WHEN YOU MAKE UP YOUR MIND THE WAY YOU WILL LIVE YOUR LIVE, NOBODY WILL BRING YOU BACK.
UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO MAKE A CHANGE, A U-TURN, THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS OR IN THE LIVE TO COME THAT WILL CHANGE YOU.
I AM SAYING THAT IMPRISONMENT DOES NOT CHANGE A HARDENED CRIMINAL.
HENCE, PEOPLE COME OUT FROM PRISON AND GO BACK TO PRISON, OVER AND OVER UNTIL THEIR NAMES ARE BEING NOISED ABROAD IN THE PRISON.
WHY? A PRISONER WHO HAS BECOME A CUSTOMER TO PRISON YARD HAS LOST ALL FEELINGS OF SHAME. HE HAS NO INTEGRITY TO PROTECT, NO REPUTATION. SO, BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL.
I have spoken to you elaborately now. Let Me say, I am very, very appreciative of your stay with us.
If you had neglected My counsel by staying back at Enugu, we would not have had this wonderful fellowship we had with you.
We have never had it with you together for so long in time, than this time around provided by the Almighty God through Covid-19 lockdown. And to you, I believe it is a blessing.
It helped you also to understudy us more and more especially now we are growing in age, we are growing in everything. We are no longer getting any younger. Is it not true?
It helped you to assess us, that even at old age, we still holding on to the profession of our Faith.
And you being a beginner, what will make you now to die down? What will die down your revival? Because you are still a beginner.
If at our age, in spite of how many years we have spent, holding on to the profession of this truth, and somebody who starts tomorrow will begin to die down. It then means you are sitting down when the master is still standing up.
So, why must you sit down when the Master is still standing up? Your parents are still up in Christ. We are standing up for Christ. We will remain standing till eternity. We can never sit down.
I do not know your own resolve. For as a man resolves to himself, so shall it be unto him.
WHAT IS YOUR OWN RESOLUTION TO YOURSELF? IS IT TO CONTINUE IN THE WAYWARD LIFE YOU ARE LIVING, IF YOU ARE LIVING WAYWARD, HYPOCRITICAL LIFE IF YOU ARE HYPOCRITICAL.
SUPPRESSING YOUR FEELINGS OR GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU ARE GOOD WHEN YOU ARE EVIL?
YOU KNOW HOW YOU ARE LIVING YOUR OWN LIFE. YOU CANNOT SAY YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. I CANNOT SAY I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING.
IT IS THE TIME TO CALL OURSELVES TO ORDER, HARMONIZE AND SYNCHRONIZE OUR LIVES TO BE IN CONSONANCE WITH THE MESSAGES WE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING ALL THESE YEARS AND THEN PORTRAY CHRIST WHEREVER WE ARE.
You are now living in a new yard, where everybody will like to know your believe through your character. True or false?
And now two of you are going to stay together as brothers. If you go there and begin to quarrel, disagree with yourselves, you are portraying a sordid picture of who you are, your Faith and the family where you are coming from. True or false?
ALWAYS HAVE IT AT THE BACK OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU ARE THE IMAGE MAKER OF YOUR FAMILY, YOURSELF AND OF CHRIST.
You know what image maker is? You are the public relations officer. [1] Of yourself because a marketer markets himself first to the customers before he can be considered for his goods.
It is your presentation of who you are that will make people to begin to desire your products. Am I making sense?
Nobody will ask you about your Faith if not your character first of all going forth.
They will like to know the secret behind your Godliness. Whether it is self-righteousness or there is a teaching that is helping you to gather your life the way your life is.
Remember My message, A DECISION THAT SAVES THE FUTURE, A DECISION THAT SAVES LIFE, A DECISION THAT USHERS SOMEBODY INTO PARADISE CAN BE TAKEN IN A SECOND.
Borrow a queue from the robber, the thief that died on the cross who never attended any church, or any revival seminar. Heard no preaching from Christ.
But there was an intuition in him. He got the intuitive knowledge of who the Messiah was and made a plea and the Messiah attended to the plea instantly there.
While the unguided man made an unguided statement that landed him further into hell.
So, I do not know about you. I can make a U-turn. I can take a resolve today on how I will live My life without consulting anybody.
REMEMBER, THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN ERASE DIRTY RECORDS IS BY CONTINUALLY LIVING RIGHT. THE ONLY WAY TO ERASE OLD RECORDS THAT ARE DIRTY LIES IN CONTINUALLY LIVING RIGHT.
When you have changed from evil to good, continue to live good. Sooner than you think, the old dirty records will be forgotten, set aside.
It will no longer be credited to you. You become a sample of all, as a criminal that turned to God in righteousness. As a bad fellow everybody was wishing sudden destruction that has survived and become a figure to recon with.
So it is. If you have been practicing Godliness, living right, commanding good respects and influence, one day, the devil will lure you into error through your wants and desires.
The moment that record is created, it can be in one day. It does not take a millennium to create a record that lingers till eternity. True or false?
It does not take a millennium to destroy your old good records in the hands of people that know you. For once that bad impression is created, to wipe it off is not easy.
Even if you have changed, how many people will notice it? Did you get the message?
That is why if you want to erase it, let the evil man stop evil. Let the unrighteous fellow stop unrighteousness.
Stop thinking evil. Stop manipulations and then resolve to live right. Having that notion, “Wherever I am, God is with me there.”
Song: [He is with me always. He is with me all the time. He is my loving friend, my Saviour all the time. He is with me always. He is with me all time. He is my loving friend, my Saviour all the time.]
Is it not our song? He is with Me always. He is with Me all the time. He is My loving friend, My Saviour all the time.
What about you? What is your own song? What is your own story? What is your own record? What is your own revelation about Him?
Is He with you today and tomorrow He is not with you? Is He with you in the morning, in the afternoon, you have your independence?
Is He with you in the night, in the morning, you have your independence? Is He with you always? Is He with you at all times? Is He your loving friend and your Saviour?
Job said “I am meeting Him at the end of my life, not as an enemy but as a friend”.
26 And I know that after this body has decayed, this body shall see God! 27 Then he will be on my side! Yes, I shall see him, not as a stranger, but as a friend! What a glorious hope! [Job 19:26-27 LB]
HOW DO YOU WANT TO MEET WITH GOD AT THE END? WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT, WE ARE MEETING WITH GOD AT THE END.
OUR JOURNEY STARTED WITH GOD AND OUR JOURNEY WILL END MEETING GOD.
WHEN WE MEET HIM AT THE END OF OUR LIFE, ARE WE MEETING HIM AS A FRIEND OR AS AN ENEMY?
Life teaches us lessons. Bitter lessons sometimes. Sweet lessons sometimes. But whether bitter or sweet, there is lesson to learn. Any truth there?
Life is not always sweet. Life can be bitter. Whether bitter or sweet, they are teaching us lessons.
Hence, we say, “The world is a class room, offers us too many opportunities, teaches us lessons – good or bad.” It depends on the one you want to learn from.
LIFE OFFERS US TWO PATHWAYS. [1] PATHWAY TO DESTRUCTION AND DEATH. [2] PATHWAY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ETERNAL LIFE. Pathway to real success. Pathway to real failure. The choice depends on us.
SO, A MAN’S LIFE IS DETERMINED BY THE CHOICE OF LIFE HE WANTS TO LIVE. AND THAT DETERMINES DESTINY.
When a man has chosen the way he wants to live his life, a woman the same way, a child the same way, for anybody can die at any age.
ANYBODY CAN MEET GOD AT ANY AGE. IN THE END, YOUNG AND OLD MUST COME BEFORE THE LORD IN JUDGMENT. True or false? Scriptural or not?
SO, I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR AGE. YOU ARE MEETING GOD IN JUDGMENT. WHAT WILL YOU SAY AT THE END?
Will you say you do not know the truth? Will you say you were not taught? Will you say you were not guided and counseled? Will you say you were not corrected when you went wrong?
Will you say you were left to have your way and that is the reason why you brought shame and disgrace to yourself, your family and Christ whose interest you are representing? All in our hands.
With these few words, I say farewell to all of you as you travel back to your stations at Enugu. And I am wishing you the best which I believe that is what you are wishing yourself.
And with these words of admonition, I have also encouraged all of us who are still at home and will remain at home when you leave this morning to be of good behavior. Be of good cheer. Christ has overcome the world.
Be an overcomer. Remain more than conquerors through Christ that has strengthened you this morning and will remain ever strengthening you now and in all your future endeavors. That is My wish.
I have enjoyed your company, and I will enjoy it more. I enjoyed your ministries, I will enjoy it more. Let not your ministries die down but let it remain growing daily.
Stay there, preach and record and forward to Me. Preach, write, forward to Me. They will be published.
The world will know that you are still in the Ministry not because you were with your parents but wherever you are, you are with your calling. You are there with your ministry aimed at making full proof of your ministry.
I now rest my case here to the glory and honour of God, the Father of us all. Amen!