EXALT TRUTH AND BURY FALSEHOOD

PREACHED ON THE 26TH DAY  UNE 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA. BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA (THE SON OF MAN) THE SUPREME DEITY

 “….THERE’S ONE LITTLE SHEEP OUT YONDER SOMEWHERE, and He will not be satisfied till that one comes in the fold. By the help of God, and by a vision, and THUS SAITH THE LORD, I’m returning across the sea. THAT LAST LITTLE SHEEP MAY EVEN BE A BLACK ONE DOWN THERE, for all I know, where they don’t even think they got a soul, but God knows different……”

 The Easter Seal by William M. Branham; Preached on 10th April 1965, at the Ramada Inn in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. Page 40 Paragraph 3

¹“There is the Supreme God; and He is a Being that took His origin from Black Africa. God is not found outside Africa. The influence of God is felt everywhere, but God is living in Africa. Believe it if you can…”           

-THE SON OF MAN-

MARRIAGE—THE OLDEST INSTITUTION ORDAINED BY GOD,” Vol. 2; Preached on  7th November, 1993, at Abagana, Anambra State, Nigeria; Pg. 3

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THE SPIRIT OF IMPERIALISM IS STILL ALIVE [1]

Habakkuk 2, verse 3, Living Bible, But these things I plan,… Is He not the Master Planner? He is. …But these things I plan won’t happen right away.

  Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day.

Every true wise elect of God is not in a hurry. He is always patient with God. Why is he patient? and why is he so sure?

He knows the God he is worshipping. He knows that what God has said, whether he dies, that thing must come to pass.

When Saint Paul was talking about translation, if you read it, it was as if that translation would happen in his day.

It was because saint Paul was sure and certain of what he was saying. He slept in that assurance and he will wake up in that assurance because he knew that it is a reality.

This is what happens to every true seed of God. He is sure and certain that whatever God is saying is happening.

So, no matter what happens to him, he knows it will come to pass. Sure!  ‘Elijah spoke concerning Ahab and…’

God’s Word will never fail. Heaven and earth shall pass away; it will never pass away without fulfilling.

That is the assurance we have in Christ that the Word that goeth out of the Mouth of God is backed up by God. It can never come back to Him void until the purpose for which that word went forth is fulfilled.

It may not fulfill in the days of the person, the human being God used to proclaim it. It may be many, many years after. Then that word will come to pass.

For example, God used Isaiah to prophesy that a virgin will conceive and give birth to a child that will be named Emmanuel, meaning, ‘God is with us.’

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign ; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14 KJV).

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. [Matthew 1:23 KJV]

The Prophet Isaiah died, after many years, hundreds of years; if you go through the scriptures, from the time the prophecy went forth to the time of its fulfillment, it took 348 years.

After 348 years, after the death of Isaiah, then the prophecy came to pass. People that lived to hear that prophecy, never lived to see the fulfillment, but those who hooked up with the records of the prophecies, for in those days, there were books kept in the temple called BOOKS OF PROPHECIES.

 That was why all that were recorded in the days of Moses in the Books were kept in the Temple.

A day came when a foolish priest, during his tenure, messed up himself and those books were lost. When the Book of the Law was lost, the people of God started behaving anyhow.

They were living without a teaching priest. They were living their lives without guidance because the Book was lost. There was nothing they could lay hand on to pattern after godliness. Every man started worshipping God as he chose.

Is it not documented in the scriptures? But one day, one day after many years, that Book of the Law that was lost was found.

And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. (2 Kings 22:8 KJV).

And when it was read publicly in the temple, the Bible said all the people of Israel fell down flat and wept bitterly, for through the revelation of the Book of Law which was lost and found, they saw the extent they have strayed away from the truth.

[10]And Shaphan the scribe showed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. [11]And Shaphan read it before the king. And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. [2 Kings 22:10 – 11 KJV]

They saw the way they have strayed away from God. Because where the record of what God said was not kept, surely people’s lives are in danger.

You see why every true Man of God has always been longing for one thing; that God could record whatever; that God will raise a man, one or two who will record what will proceed out of their mouth and put them down in writing so that after his departure, those that will come after will lay hand on it and know how to pattern their lives.

The Bible said the people of Israel repented in ashes. They repented in ashes. Those that married foreign wives contrary to the writings of the law started sending them back to their parents.

Those that went astray reconciled and restored themselves back to the truth. Then worshipping of God resumed again in earnest, in truth, and in righteousness.

[1]And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. [2]And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. [3]And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant. [2 Kings 23:1 – 3 KJV]

Just like in our own day. Please take note of what I am saying. Remember that immediately after the last Apostle died, he was beheaded, and that was St. Paul.

He was beheaded in AD 70. The worshipping of God stopped because the Roman Centurion, Titus, led his army to fulfill the prophecies of God because he was acting, thinking he was strong.

Rome was dominating, thinking they were dominating and strong. They did not know that the Lord Jesus Christ had already prophesied that a day is coming when invasion from Rome will besiege Jerusalem and they will leave no stone unturned.

They will devastate both temple and human beings; violate everybody and carry temple treasures away from Jerusalem to Rome. The Lord Jesus prophesied it before he gave way.

[41]And as He approached, He saw the city, and He wept [audibly] over it, [42]Exclaiming, Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace (for freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace–your security, safety, prosperity, and happiness–depends)! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

[43]For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up a bank [with pointed stakes] about you and surround you and shut you in on every side.

[44]And they will dash you down to the ground, you [Jerusalem] and your children within you; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, [all] because you did not come progressively to recognize and know and understand [from observation and experience] the time of your visitation [that is, when God was visiting you, the time in which God showed Himself gracious toward you and offered you salvation through Christ]. [Luke 19:41 – 44 AMP]

Many years after his departure, it came to pass. When it came to pass, in the process, saint Paul was beheaded in Rome.

Now, worshipping of God stopped. Idolatry took over, for Rome was in control. Rome took over everything about religion and everything about governance, just like here in Nigeria.

 Remember, we were existing before the British colonized us. There were people here. What was the name of this place? What were we called?

We are Igbos and we have been Igbos from creation. Is it not true? We found ourselves in this place, placed by Almighty God.

But because we were poor and we were not enlightened, the whites were struggling to possess kingdoms for themselves.

So, there was a very big struggle between the British and the French. If you watch, almost all the countries in the world are divided into two blocs, except those that refused colonization.

The French had their French Colonies [La Francophonie]. Then the British had their British Colonies [Commonwealth of nations] which Nigeria was one of them.

So, any country that colonized any group of people or a community, they will name them.

They will colonize their religion. They will colonize their tradition and colonize their culture because through your dressing and your food and your social activities, we will know exactly your descent.

If your language, your dressing which is a part of culture. Is it not true? Get Me right, your food which you eat is equally a part of culture. Your worship is a part of the colonization bid.

That is why, today, hear Me very well, I am laying a foundation for something.

So, recognize who you are and accept yourself. Are you hearing Me? begin to balance your equations in life now and stop feeling inferior. Are you hearing Me? Address the truth. When you address the truth, you divorce religion and culture, for God’s teaching cuts across all cultural and religious barriers. I am not here holding My religious and cultural identity. No! I am only in possession of God’s identity; A man representing God. Finish! – That’s My identity.

GENDER DISCRIMINATION / CULTURE AND RELIGION / TORMENT OF CHOICE; Preached in the year 2006; Pg. 36 vs. 7 – 8.

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THE SPIRIT OF IMPERIALISM IS STILL ALIVE [2]

If you watch the Igbos, in the whole of Africa, check, the people that wear suit and take pleasure in dressing like the Europeans are the countries colonized by the British. True or false? Take note of it.

 And the people that use English to replace their native language remain countries that were colonized by the British.

That I am speaking English now is because of British colonization which we inherited, and it does not want to vanish.

But there were people that the British found very difficult to colonize when they colonized Nigeria. To get the Yoruba and Hausas became extremely difficult.

They said, “We have noticed that the Igbos are intelligent; because the Southern part of the Niger Region are very intelligent; very much understanding;” [not that the Hausas, the Northerners, the Yoruba are not intelligent]

They said, “Look at what we are going to do. If we dare educate the Northerners because they are in the greater majority, we will not colonize Nigeria again.

If we educate the Yoruba, we are in danger; we will run into difficulties with the economy. Let us go and educate the Southern part of the community.

If we educate them, we will educate them in English language. We will educate them in management so that we will use them in the offices.

Then we can get rid of the Northerners because what we are looking for is not in the West. It is not in the North but is in the South.”

What were they looking for? Our natural endowment which they succeeded in getting. They paid the Igbos money and used the resources in the Igbo region to develop their countries without the interference from the Yoruba, West and the North.

Rather, they created disaffection between the Yoruba, the North and the South so that they will not encroach.

This was done by creating the Northern Protectorate as an independent nation away from what is happening here; the Southern Protectorate and then they made Lagos a colony; Lagos Colony.

Then they decided to be in Lagos partly, there in Lagos Island area, and then dominated the whole of the South with their base in Port Harcourt. That is why the real people from River State answer foreign names. Did you get the Message?

They changed our religion, they changed our mode of worship, changed our dressing, changed our food; changed our language.

 That is why in the whole Nigeria, there is no group that speaks English, replaces their native language with English more than the Igbos.

There is no group that replaces their native dressing with foreign dressing more than the Igbos. Am I making sense?

The Yoruba still go by their dressing. No matter the education of a Yoruba man, he speaks his Yoruba fluently without mixing it.

No matter the training of the Hausa man in the North, he prefers speaking Hausa, even with his PhD. When they come together in the office, they dare not speak English.

I have served in Nigeria because I served in the Federal Republic of Nigeria for 27 years, serving this Federal Government where My wife is still serving in different capacities.

I mingled with them in every respect. Whenever they want to communicate with their relations, they use their native language.

And if anybody comes into the office, even if you are twenty Igbos and the Yoruba man comes, a Yoruba director will be speaking to him in Yoruba. A Hausa director will be speaking in Hausa, but an Igbo man will speak to an Igbo man in English.

If you do not speak English in Igbo land you have committed a crime. Is it not true? Look at what is happening.

The only region that first inculcated the speaking of English and writing of English in their examination to test their own people remains the Igbo Region.

Writing English as a test, as a proof that you are educated started in the Southern Region. Instead of using their own native culture and language, they replaced it by English.

Even till today, English is made compulsory. You must write it and you must speak it. If you do not write and speak English language, it is a crime against your fellow Igbo man. Look at our low mentality.

Even some went as far as banning the speaking of Igbo among their children, even when we are no longer being colonized.

You see, the spirit of colonization is still at work. Somebody will have children and restrict them from speaking Igbo.

A Yoruba man can never try it.  Even if a Yoruba man is in Igbo land, married in Igbo land, all his children will speak Yoruba. An Hausa man, the same thing, but an Igbo man in Igbo land will ban the children from speaking Igbo.

Schools will now borrow a cue. If you speak Igbo, you pay a fine. Yet, they have an association that promotes Igbo language and culture. [SPILC: Society for the Promotion of Igbo Language and Culture] Rubbish!

 Watch! If you tune your television to Yoruba, all their drama, everything including dressing will be Yoruba. You tune it to Hausa, everything Hausa.

But tune in to Igbo station, it will be Igbo by nomenclature, but dressing – foreign [British]. Language – British.

For every Igbo statement, there must be one hundred or one thousand English language, for without English language, an Igbo man does not believe he is communicating. Is it not true?

The same is applicable to all the countries colonized by the French to the point that their presidents do not even speak English.

They speak French. Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, though he is a young man, a PhD holder, does not know how to say, ‘come here’ in English.

To him, English is a foreign language which he is not interested in. Anywhere he goes, he will go with an interpreter.

Watch people that were colonized by the Spanish (Spain – Espana – pronounced as Panya in Igbo language). They speak Spanish language. Their president does not know how to say, ‘sit down’ in English. Is it not true?

 Watch all the countries that colonized their fellow countries. Watch what happened there. They first introduced their language for clearer understanding, so that they can have effective governance.

Effective governance begins by helping people to know the language you are using to communicate with them, so that governance will be made easy.

From there, when you gain advantage through the introduction of the new language which you will make compulsory for everybody, you can now begin to use your language to introduce many things contrary to their God-ordained way.

 THAT IS WHY, TO CONVERT AN IGBO MAN TO WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD HAS BECOME VERY DIFFICULT FOR HE HAS BEEN INDOCTRINATED.

HIS BLOOD IS EQUALLY INDOCTRINATED. WATER IN HIS BODY IS INDOCTRINATED. BRAIN IS INDOCTRINATED NEVER TO BELIEVE IN HIMSELF. NEVER TO BELIEVE IN HIMSELF FIRST.

IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE IN GOD. True or false?

That is why an Igbo man does not believe he will succeed without somebody coming to help him.

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THE SPIRIT OF IMPERIALISM IS STILL ALIVE [3]

F

rom the beginning, he was given the orientation that he should shift his responsibility which belongs to him to somebody outside himself, if he must succeed.

That is why he remains a beggar even in his own country. Today, in his own country, the Igbos are beggars.

They can never get anything from the Federal Government without kneeling down holding cap in hand, for that was their orientation.

That is the way they decided to go because they agreed with the British, for they were begging from the British.

Whatever they got from the British Colony was as a result of begging. That was why the people that spearheaded independence in this nation, our Republic never fired a gunshot.

Nigeria was given independence without firing a gunshot. There was no battle fought. Check! Was it so with other nations?

This is because Nigeria went beggarly, cap in hand and accepted all conditions. All!

This is why we are perpetual slaves in our own country. Those who spearheaded the ground of independence went beggarly. They went with cap in hand.

Foreigners gave them conditions for dwelling in their own God-allotted country or nation or geographical description of an area.

That is why till today, what is left? When they said they have left us. Have they actually left us? 

Nothing will ever make the British to leave Nigeria. They left us physically. They left us in many ways, but they never left us politically. They are still controlling our plitics and controlling our economy. Is it not true?

They are still in charge of our mineral resources. Then what are we controlling? We are controlling mere human beings. That is why all our wealth is siphoned to UK (United Kingdom).

 UK is harboring Nigeria’s wealth, especially the wealth of the people from Southern Nigeria. Southern Nigeria means, divide Nigeria into two: The Northern Protectorate, the Southern Protectorate.

If you watch all the people from the Southern Protectorate, I do not know how many states they are right now.

When Nigeria was only but two nations, then Lagos Colony was an island; an exclusive area meant for the whites.

If you check, all that said that they went to university in London did not go to London, for we were all under the British Jack. They were in Nigeria.

They were here with us, studying here with us with correspondence and they were awarded degrees B.Sc. (London); M.Sc. (London); B.A (London). 

Nobody ever crossed River Niger. Even till today, as long as you are here, you can stay here and obtain degrees from there, even up to PhD. Is it not true?

If you are a young person and you obtain it, you go for youth service because the university is recognized by the Nigerian University Commission (NUC). So, you go for service. You study there and come back, you go for service. Is it not true?

Why not accept that we are still being held strongly by the spirit of British imperialism? British colonialism is still at work in all of us.

That I am addressing you now using English, what is responsible? The same thing. No more. No less.

THEN, DO THEY BELIEVE IN GOD? NO! THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD, FOR THEY HAVE THEIR OWN GOD WHICH IS WEALTH.

They colonized America. America fought war to liberate herself from the British. Then looked at America, the wealthiest country in the world for their God is money, popularity, divide and rule. That is why British mentality is still at work in us.

 Go to the offices, you will see people who feel that they will die in the service, doing civil service work (white collar work). That is why we coined it, “the white man’s work” not our native enterprise.

Whatever people were doing, they never believed they were doing it for themselves. They were doing it for white man. And that spirit of doing white man’s work brought about corruption [grab it quick].

Whatever you can grab from white man’s business, grab. So, people do not know the difference between their own work and the white man’s work even in governance.

That is the essence of looting, corruption, grabbing, fast life. They think they are duping the white man. They carried the mentality into their own system and began to dupe their fellow Nigerian citizens in the same spirit of duping the white man.

In whatever they are doing, a civil servant feels he is doing the white man’s work not the Igbo man’s or native or national work. It is not seen as the Nigerian work.

So, when he carries money, he asks you whether the money belongs to you, “Is not money meant for white man’s work? Is not foreign money? Let me go and do the white man’s work and get the white man’s money.”

Are you not hearing it? “Let me go and do the white man’s work so that I will get the white man’s money. I do not want to suffer cultivating my farm. I do not want to suffer trading. Let me go and get the white man’s money. I will go for the white man’s work.”

Till today, they are doing the white man’s work. All of you are in the white man’s school and in the white man’s work. We have not even departed from that spirit of the whites, whom we are slaves to.

Up till today, our mentalities are in slavery until we change the mentality that we are doing whatever we are doing for the white man’s work, or for the white man’s money or that you go to the white man’s school to get certificate for money, not to train yourself. “I do the white man’s work. I carry the white man’s money.”

UNTIL YOU NOW CHANGE IT FROM THE WHITE MAN’S WORK TO GOD’S WORK; WHITE MAN’S MENTALITY TO GOD’S MENTALITY; WHITE MAN’S REASONING TO REASONING ALONGSIDE WITH GOD, NOTHING WILL FUNCTION PROPERLY, FOR THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF COLONIAL SPIRIT IS BY TAKING GOD’S SPIRIT.

It will take God’s Spirit in you to stop you from being corrupt.             God’s Spirit will stop you from doing those things people who think that they are serving white people are doing.

It will save you from shame because if you are doing the white man’s work, you are not ashamed of going to prison, for you know you are a rogue, a criminal who can be caught and imprisoned.

The language you will hear is, “Am I the only one? Let me go where others are.”

’But when you are serving God, you will never follow the majority when they are wrong. You know they are wrong. The fear of God will never allow you to loot, to be corrupt or to do anything that is indecent, for you know that you are accountable to God.

[5]Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; [6]not with eye service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

[7]with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: [8]knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. [Ephesians 6:5 – 8 KJV]

[22]Servants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you as pleasers of men, but in simplicity of purpose [with all your heart] because of your reverence for the Lord and as a sincere expression of your devotion to Him.

[23]Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men, [24]Knowing [with all certainty] that it is from the Lord [and not from men] that you will receive the inheritance which is your [real] reward. [The One Whom] you are actually serving [is] the Lord Christ (the Messiah).

[25]For he who deals wrongfully will [reap the fruit of his folly and] be punished for his wrongdoing. And [with God] there is no partiality [no matter what a person’s position may be, whether he is the slave or the master]. [Colossians 3:22 – 25 AMP]

The civil service man is accountable to his director in the office. He is afraid of President Buhari. He is afraid of EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission). He is afraid of ICPC (Independent Corrupt Practices Commission). He is afraid of Code of Conduct Bureau. Is it not true?

But a true seed of God is not afraid of those things. He is afraid of God. The fear of God restrains him from doing what others are doing. He does not see it as civil service or the white man’s work.

He sees it as God’s work for he does everything as unto the Lord and that is pure truth. Whether you are a white man or whether you are Igbo, you all belong to one God. You must be accountable to God.

The white man will come to God in the end to give account. The Igbo man is coming whether you were colonized or not colonized.

Then who is that person that has declared former things and they came to pass and has told you things that will come in the future and they came to pass also? It must be God. Who is the person that will tell you the thoughts of your heart? God! Who is that silent listener to every conversation, even in the bedroom? God!

MYSTERY OF THE ANGELS VOL 1; Preached on 29th December 1996 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 49 vs. 50 – 54

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GO BACK TO NATURE [1]

What am I trying to say this morning? Please, let us all allow God to colonize our hearts and colonize our mentalities. That is the only way you can drop the white man’s mentality.

Anybody that is not colonized by Christ is colonized by the devil. Did you get the message?

Allow God to change your language. Allow God to change your reasoning. Allow God to change your dressing. Allow God to change your mode of talking.

Allow God to change your mode of seeing things. Allow God to check your appetite, and also check everything that is in you.

Do not allow colonial mentality to dictate your appetite, to dictate your delight and dictate your passion. Is it not true? Colonial mentality colonizes your appetite.

You have strong appetite for foreign goods even when you do not have the money to buy them. Anything produced in Nigeria is nonsense.

I want foreign – foreign rice, foreign Garri, foreign this and foreign that. If it is possible, we will package foreign vegetable. Already we have packaged them.

Nobody eats garden eggs. Rather, you go for lettuce. You go for cabbage. You go for this and that because they are coming from Egypt.

It was only recently that we started cultivating them in Jos, Bauchi, Abuja and other places. Yet, people still differentiate between Abuja melon and the Egyptian melon. I am telling you the whole truth.

People go for green pepper because it is in the Bible. Secondly they think when you eat what is in the Bible, you will have life. That is not true. They eat it because it is from Egypt. They eat it because it is from foreign land across the Mediterranean.

People now begin to develop strong passion for salad which is not even named among our native foods. True or false?

Some of them contain nothing. They have nothing to offer. Hear me very well. Rather, they destroy our immunity. They destroy our body immunity.

The same way we neglect the herbs, the roots God gave us to enrich Africa and to enrich Egypt. Did you get the Message?

Remember, they were taken to captivity into Egypt; in Egypt they sojourned for 430 years. Is Egypt not in Africa?

And while they were going through the Suez Canal, they were trying to look for their way back to the Mediterranean lands, what God gave them to use for medicine was herbs and roots.

 All the herbs and roots that are used to formulate your drugs are collected from Africa. Is it not true? They are purely African leaves.

And God gave them to His people while they were in Egypt. He said that the herbs and the leaves are for the healing of the nations.

[2]In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. [Revelation 22:2 KJV]

The fruits should be used as your food. Eat the fruits of the tree as many as you will like to eat but do not despise the roots and the herbs. They are for the healing of the nations. Is it not scriptural? It is in Exodus, Numbers and Revelation.

Today, the whites came and colonized us. If we touch the leaves, they say it is fetish. You touch the roots, it is fetish. It will come to a point where we will no longer eat pawpaw. We will not eat mango.

They will be telling you the adverse effects of eating those fruits, but they will carry them to their own land, process them, put them in packages and bottles, bring them back to us, and label them fruit juice.

Look at the so-called Five Alive®. What do you see there? You see pawpaw; you see coconut; you see pineapple; you see orange; and you see grape.

All these things they label and draw their pictures, did they collect them from their country? That is why people that are in export business, they delight in exporting food items, fruits and so on. And they make a hell of money.

 Look at your yam. They [Nigerians] will export yam, only for the people [Europeans] to process it, package it and bring it back to you.

Then it will be Yam vita, Rice vita, everything Vita, Vita, as if it will give you vitality. What did they add? Preservatives.  No more, no less. So that it will not decay.

Preservatives will enter and then stay in your body without digesting, only to poison your system, so that you will be patronizing their hospitals which were established according to their own rule. Then you will be exploited every day in the hospital.

I am taking Paracetamol; I am taking this. Nobody knows the leaf he will take and calm down his nerves. Nobody knows the roots and herbs he will combine and take care of malaria.

We do not even know again that malaria is a tropical sickness. Did you get the message? Typhoid is a tropical sickness that is borne out of drinking impure water.

There is no mosquito in Europe but now, your mosquito flit will be manufactured in Europe using herbs that they collected from Africa to formulate it.

I remember when we were coming up. During the rainy season, there must be influx of mosquitoes, and people will be suffering from malaria.

Our people use to collect leaves and put them on fire. I have many of them. I know many of them [the herbs].

You put it on fire and all of us will go outside. They will burn it on a small fire inside the rooms. Then after some time, they will remove it and open the windows without mosquito nets.

No mosquito will come in. You will stay in your room for one week without mosquito bites. I know the one they normally put on fire to scare snakes away. You place it outside.

I know the one they will just place to scare soldier ants away, which you know that it is a favourite wherever you do crushing of palm kernels to extract palm oil. Before morning, they will flood that place.

So, after doing it, there are some leaves we normally gather and then place them on fire outside. You will never see any of the ants coming closer.

I know the one we use to scare snakes away, to scare the ants away and then the one that will not only scare mosquitoes away but will kill mosquito instantly.

I know the one they use for rodents [rat poison]. Can you now see how our people formulate it here and use it to produce rat poison? Do you not hear about the popular liquid insecticide drops? [Tusa-tusa]

Did it come from the white man’s country? These are the things. Have you not heard about peppermint leaf? Is Peppermint leaf not here with us? Is tangerine, it not here?

Mango is here; Guava is here; All these things are here, but you can never see them in Europe, in Germany and so on. All of them.

Let me tell you. A good number of them [Europeans] have never seen anything called orange live, if not on television or in the pictures.

They only see packaged orange fruits, but we are privileged to be harvesting it from our farms. Am I making sense?

Anywhere trees cannot grow, fruits cannot be there because the nature of their soil does not support the growing of trees and there are certain trees that their climate cannot support.

Some are meant for the rain forest areas; the rain forest zones. As we are now, we are in the rain forest zone. You cannot use it to place in the Sahel Region or in the desert area.

Every area has what God assigned to it. Even animals that thrive in the desert cannot thrive here. Desert animals cannot be here. Sahel animals cannot be here.

Since you have been going about within this our area, have you ever seen guinea fowl? I mean, in our neighborhood?

Guinea fowl can never be found here. And you can never domesticate it as poultry. But up North from Benue, you will see Guinea fowls on the main road.

From Idah [Middle Belt, Kogi State] you will see Guinea fowls. So, every dry season, they will be going hunting for the eggs for marketing because it is produced by the wild bird (guinea fowl). You can see bush fowl here, but not Guinea fowl.

Guinea fowl does not hurt anybody but produces eggs in hundreds. It is almost the season for the eggs of guinea fowls. Is it a lie? That is why you cannot have domesticated Guinea fowls because it comes out in seasons.

Anything that comes out in seasons cannot be bred at home. You cannot make agricultural farm for Guinea fowls because no matter the food you give it, it can never produce even one egg until the season comes.

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GO BACK TO NATURE [2]

 The reason people have this domesticated fish or fishes in a fish pond is because fish has no season. Fish has no season for producing. It can produce provided water is there. Water is all that fish needs.

So, you can have hybrid fish which will be very big in appearance because the genetics has been tampered with. Put it inside your soup you will know it is not fish. It can never taste like fish. You are cooking nothing.

But let me say, it turns out to be like overcooked yam. It becomes soup thickener and releases chemical that you will see on top of your soup.

You may think it is fish oil, but you are taking chemical that was used to grow the fish in three months, namely dexamethasone and promethazine.

And the one you take which causes headache [prednisolone] and then all anti-rheumatoids: All drugs used to cure rheumatism and arthritis which make people fat.

That is what all these slim girls use in blowing their buttocks and breasts. Somebody that is slim today, if you see her tomorrow, she becomes fatty. That is also what the people who have HIV have resorted to right now.

While using their antiretroviral drugs, they include it so that they will look good. They will never look lean. You can hardly notice that they are carriers.

They will beautify themselves and look more plump. That is what they use to enrich their bodies and empower their systems with vegetables and fruits always. When you look at them, you can hardly believe they are carriers. Did you get the Message right now?

That is why if you walk by sight, the disease will capture you. If you say, she is looking good, she is looking beautiful, this and that, both man and woman, it will capture you straight away. Are you getting what I am saying?

If you go to the villages, thousand and one of them are carrying HIV, but it is not noticeable in their appearances.

Why? Because they are eating local foods and their bodies are strongly immunized. They eat their food raw. They eat pawpaw; they eat orange; they eat everything raw.

They cook the food in the morning and they finish it before night. They do not pasteurize any food. Any food that is stored in the freezer has been tampered with.

We are refrigerating because, in the township, we have too many hazards. It is affecting our heath. The nutrients are gone.

And automatically, the longer it stays in the fridge, it becomes carcinogenic. It becomes poisonous to your system because of the ice made up of Argon and Neon which you use because these are cooling chemicals.

There is no way the chemical can do cooling without penetrating that thing that is there. Can you use chemical to store something without the chemical penetrating the system?

That is what happens in the use of formalin to preserve corpses, to preserve ice fish, to preserve fowls and turkeys for which cause the federal government banned it because it causes cancer; The companies are using formalin to preserve food.

Even right now, there is a reason why Federal Government allowed nitric acid. Nitric acid is used to preserve fruits; nitric acid is used to preserve vegetables because you can wash them off. They end at the surface.

That is why when you want to know a fruit that is preserved with nitric acid, leave it overnight; you will see something like powder on top of it. That powder is that nitric acid because it is no longer in the refrigerator.

Now, it is not in the carton and air has acted on it. Because oxygen has oxidized it, you will now see it as something like powder on the surface. All you have to do is rinse it in water.

Use sodium chloride, that is cooking salt, to wash it off. It becomes neat for consumption. It is not poisonous. That is why Federal government allows it.

If it has anything poisonous, that is when it is contaminated before it is packaged.

For example, a contaminated guava cannot be seen with your eyes. It maybe yellow, looking good, but when you open it to eat, you will see something black inside.

What made it black is not the preservative. It is the germ that entered inside it before it is preserved. Did you get the Message?

Sometimes you get mango that is very attractive and looking greenish. You will feel like eating it. But the moment you open it, you see it is black. Have you seen it?

It is because there are some dangerous ants that penetrated it in the form of maggots using a little opening to penetrate. You did not see it for there is no way it could have entered without perforating that thing a little in form of a small maggot.

When you open your garden egg, what do you see? Do you see fly? You see small maggots. You open the mango, you see small maggot; you open the guava, you see small maggots.

Now because that maggot is prevalent in the South, rain forest zone and thrives mainly during the rainy season, like we are now in the rainy season, this is the season for that maggot.

That is why science that originated from the white man’s area labelled it Bernicia nigeriensis. That is, a maggot that originated from Nigeria.

The same thing they labeled flies. The flies that destroy fluted pumpkin; that causes the root to rot. They labeled it also Bernicia nigeriensis

This is because whatever that is evil is credited to Nigeria and Africa, but whatever that is good in the eyes, it is good in the eyes but dangerous to health, is made in England and made in china.

So, be very careful. Check your passion for those foreign foreign things. I said check your passion for foreign foods, for they endanger your health. They endanger your health.

And that is why we do not live long anymore, for our passion for foreign food that has nothing to give us than to destroy our system is greater than our passion for local food.

Thank God for our President Muhammadu Buhari, who has banned foreign rice outrightly. Yet, Nigerians who have great penchant for foreign foods still import them, and still patronize that rubbish which is ordinary chaff.

Rubber! Did you get it? Synthetic rubber that was manufactured in the factory and given the shape of rice.

The same way you go and buy macaroni. If you do not know what macaroni is, I will tell you what macaroni is, for I worked in the factory.

The reason why I cannot say “Do not eat it” is because I know what it is made up of. It is ordinary wheat and barley that is baked. I said that it is what? Baked. Baked means it passed through oven and oven made it to be very hard.

There is no way you can eat it without cooking it. You must boil it so as to melt it. The intensity of the heat determines the hardness of that combined wheat and barley.

Sometimes, some will improve their own with oat. Did you get the Message? Some will improve their own with oat. You get barley and you get oat. They blend them together with wheat and then corn. All of them are grains.

That is why if you are having health hazards that avoids eating of grain, do not ever eat macaroni or Indomie and all noodles regularly, for what you are taking in is nothing but grain food that passed through oven.

That is why it does not have any odour. It contains no preservatives. What makes it dangerous is that they now decided to package it with their own chemical spices, and then labeled it Indomie.

What spoils that thing you are eating is not the flour or the oat or the barley, or the corn or wheat. No! What spoils it is the chemical spice you used to cook it.

Watch our parents who used natural spices; foods that are prepared with natural spices have better taste. They have better nourishment than chemical spices. Are you getting what I am saying?

As I am talking to you now, our people living abroad spend huge sums of money importing local spices: ụziza, ụda, okpei and ogiri [boiled and fermented melon or castor oil seeds used as seasoning]; all these things, nchuanwu [Scent leaf], curry.

This curry leaf now, it is the same curry leaf and seed they collected from Africa that they will go and process, package it and send it back to you as curry powder.

They take your melon (egusi), and went to process it, adding too many chemicals that will make it sweet. They will bring it back as Maggi cubes. Maggi cubes! If you do not know, when you are eating Maggi cube, it is egusi [melon seed] plus chemical.

During the war we were using fluted pumpkin pod that contain seeds. We cut it open, cook and eat. Cut it open, cook it a little and use local twine to hang it outside. When it looks as if it putrefies a little, you cover it with plantain or cocoyam leaves and Keep it outside.

After four days, when you want to make soup, take a little portion out and grind it in a mortar, after which, it would look like ground egusi (melon).

Then it would be scooped out and put in the soup. It tastes good. It became ogiri (local seasoning). We used it during the war, and it helped everybody.

It tastes fine and good. It immunizes your system because it is hundred percent natural. No preservatives.

Let Me tell you. Anything that is hundred percent natural gives you natural life and natural strength.

I say, it promotes natural life. It promotes natural strength. Take away nature, you have synthetic strength. Synthetic strength and synthetic life. A life that is being promoted by chemicals in the name of drugs. Did you get the Message?

Whatever we are taking as food supplement is derived from whatever they collected from Africa.

That which we refused to eat because we have gone scientific, or because we have gone European, they now help us to eat it as supplements by giving us drugs they formulated by using those things raw. And they call it food supplements. Did you get the message?

These things are packaged with preservatives also, for there is no way they can stay long without using preservatives of all sorts.

Even till today, do you know that people esteem a white man higher than a black man? Let God veil Himself in a white man now, bring Him down to Onitsha here, the whole world will be here because he is a white man. Is God a white man? Is God a black man? God can assume any colour. People do not know that the colour of the skin is a matter of the pigment [coloration]. That is why you see a white woman delivering a black child. A black woman delivering albino, have you seen it. it is a matter of pigment. Amen.

GENDER DISCRIMINATION / CULTURE AND RELIGION / TORMENT OF CHOICE; Preached in the year 2006; Pg. 76 vs. 11 – 12

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WHERE IS THE VIRTUE IN MAN?

So, let us enrich ourselves by going back to nature. If you do not know what to title this admonition, call it BACK TO NATURE.

And when you go back to nature, you stay as long as God wants you to stay. Our fore fathers went back to nature. “Back to nature” does not mean going to idols. No!

Nature started with God. The first Bible God wrote is nature – ZOE. Through nature, you will know that God exists. Through nature, you will know that God loves mankind. Is it not true? God is made visible and evident through nature. What am I saying?

Let us get rid of European mentality [colonial mentality] and now imbibe God’s mentality which will check that unbridled desire for materialism and that winner-takes-all spirit. The Spirit of God will check it.

Covetousness started with the expatriates. They colonized us as a result of covetousness. True or false?

Then they instilled that covetous spirit in us. The winner-takes-all spirit; the colonize-and-take-all spirit; the suppress-and-get-all spirit; the kill-and-get-all spirit.

If anybody makes any noise, they will clamp him into that prison. Sometimes, they will kill them.

Some of us became slaves in the hands of the Spanish Governors. Nigerians were carried into slavery into Europe. Do you not know that? We served in their plantations, cocoa plantation; banana plantation; plantain plantation and others, enriching them.

Some were used as rituals because no people practiced rituals more than the expatriates. They do not worship God. They worship their own god which is money. Anything that is propelled by money, check it, the root is the foreign world. The foreign world!

And you see their competitions in inventions of all sorts. Why are they inventing different kinds of phones, different kinds of aeroplanes, ships and everything?

They are commercializing all, for every country that invents one wants to use it to enrich its own economy. True or false?

Check the expatriates working in Nigeria, the salary of one expatriate can pay one hundred workers in a month. Yet, one man is carting it away.

And they are not paid in naira. They are paid in their own currency, but Nigerians who serve there are paid in their currency and there with the restriction that they [the expartriates] should not take it to their own home.

Let your brother send dollar to you now. Go to bank. They will give you in Naira. He sent dollars, but Nigeria will give you naira.

And they will give you the exchange equivalent and then carry the money to Main Market [black market] and sell it in the black market.

They will not give you the equivalent of the black market price because covetousness is always there.

Why is it that we cannot see any new currency in the bank? Who has ever gone to bank and he is given new currency. But if you go to Main Market today, you will see naira, brand new notes from Central Bank of Nigeria being sold in the market.

Where did they manage to get them? No counterfeit! But customers do not get even twenty thousand naira from any bank as new notes. The new notes are placed there for sale.

These are old notes they took to Central Bank because they could not be in circulation again. They were destroyed and replaced with new notes to serve the general public.

Bank managers will display them through their agents in the Main Market and other markets throughout Nigeria where they will be selling it 50-50.

If you want to buy one wrap of twenty thousand naira [₦20,000.00] new notes, they will tell you it is twenty-two thousand naira [₦22,000.00]. Then you pay twenty-two thousand naira [₦22,000.00] to collect twenty thousand naira.

Fools will be going there. You pay two thousand naira extra. Will it change the value? That you are using new notes will it change the value of that currency? Why? Covetousness which is idolatry has eaten deep into our fabrics.

So, God now wants His word to eat deep into our fabrics. Let the Word of God now enter our brains, our hearts, our blood system, enter our sinews and enter even our spinal cord and from where the blood is produced, if we can allow the work of God to saturate our hearts, saturate our systems.

You see why the Bible said, “Let the Word of God dwell in you richly in all wisdom, for that will restrain you from doing evil things others are doing.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. [Colossians 3:16 KJV]

That will change your passion, change your appetite, change your desire, change your vision, change your dressing, change your talking, change your reasoning and change everything in you.

Allow God to overhaul your system, for that is the only way you can get rid of colonial mentality. Colonial mentality has gotten rid of everything godliness in man.

Colonial mentality makes man something that resembles a human being; a miniature human being. Hence, man has lost his dignity and all feeling of shame. Did you get the Message?

SHOW ME A MAN WHO IS FILLED WITH WISDOM FROM GOD, I WILL SHOW YOU A MAN WHO HAS SHAMEFACEDNESS AND WHO DOES NOT WANT HIS REPUTATION TO BE TAMPERED WITH.

ONE WHO RESPECTS HIS PERSONALITY; HE RESPECTS HIS INTEGRITY. HE WILL NEVER DABBLE INTO SUCH A MESS. HE CAN NEVER FOLLOW OTHERS TO DO WRONG.

He can never use the jargon, “If you cannot beat them, join them.” It has become a norm. He will never use it.

Rather, he will be one in a million. He will be the Antipas of today; one who will live in the city where Satan dwelleth, and remain undefiled and unpolluted.

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. [Revelation 2:13 KJV]

He will never pollute his belief nor his knowledge of who God is. He will never do anything that will dent his image. He will never.

He holds his reputation to a high esteem, which is born of God, for he knows that he is God’s representative, and that all eyes are on him.

Is it so with our clergy today? Our clergy have been carried away, swept off by the current of evil that is pervading the society. They have joined the bandwagon.

They are in politics. They are in everywhere. They have nothing they fear. In short, the fear of God has left the clergy.

And that is why every facet of life is full of vomit because the places where the necessary correction should have been coming from, have been polluted and eroded away. Where is the virtue in man? Where is the virtue in religion? Where is the virtue?

You can only see Christ virtue in the minority who are bound under an oath; who are bound by a covenant they made.

A covenant of life and not of death with the Almighty God, and which is to take side with God and to do everything to please God and not to please themselves. Provided God is pleased, the practitioner will feel relieved on the inside.

WHEN A SEED OF GOD DOES THAT WHICH IS PLEASING TO GOD, HE HAS A RELIEF WITHIN. IF YOU ARE A SEED OF GOD AND YOU WALK CONTRARY, YOU ADD A BURDEN TO YOUR SHOULDER.

YOUR SOUL IS BEING OVERBURDENED EVERY DAY WITH SORROW, WITH PAIN, WITH ANGUISH AND WITH REGRET, FOR YOU HAVE FOUND YOURSELF DOING THAT WHICH YOU SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT, BEING A SEED OF GOD. Am I making sense?

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GOD’S MENTALITY

SHOULD REPLACE COLONIAL MENTALITY [1]

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lease, I love you with the love of God. Get rid of that British colonial mentality because wherever you are, it will be at work and you can never do anything without selfish gain.

Whatever you want to do, you are expecting a selfish gain. What will I gain from it? What will he give me? You must be bribed before you act right. Something must be promised you or a gift will be given to you like they used to do to them.

Every Christmas, they give them Christmas gift. Who established Christmas? The whites. Every Easter, they will give them gifts. Who established it? The whites.

White man’s religion eroded white man’s virtue, eroded white man’s integrity and white man’s mentality because you lost confidence in yourself. You can no longer believe in yourself.

You will not know that the same God who created you created them and all of you are going to give account how you have lived your lives before the same God Almighty. The difference is the colour of the skin. Is it not true? Then the language, the culture, for God gave them and placed them in different countries.

He who placed you here, is he crazy? Do you not know that he has a purpose for placing all of us here in Africa as His representatives in Africa? True or false?

But at the end of the day, we now know that in Africa lieth God’s eternal Word where those that believe God will come from

(William M. Branham, “Hebrews” chapter 7 part 1, 295-47, preached on 15th September 1957 at the Branham Tabernacle in Jeffersonville, Indiana, U.S.A).

A place where they never believed that people could serve God, there God is found; in a despised place.

Now why not use the knowledge you have acquired to enrich your life by saying no to anything that walks contrary to the truth, for you know that the whites came and used falsehood to bribe our people into believing in them to the point that we never believed that the whites could die.

But today, you know they are dying and they are buried. We are dying and we are being buried. What is the difference then?

If we are all equal in death, we are all equal in the grave; whether we are cremated by fire or buried in the ground, the truth is that we are no longer here on earth.

Then the spirit will move back to the owner to give account. The whites will give account. The black will give account. The Red will give account. The Yellow will give account, whether we like it or not.

Where are they giving the account? To One Supreme God, The Great Jehovah who ruleth over the affairs of men.

Why then do you make yourself inferior? By doing that which you are not supposed to do, you make yourself inferior.

A criminal makes himself inferior. An evildoer makes himself inferior. A disobedient child in the family is an outcast and by being an outcast, one that is abhorred by the parents and by the siblings. And because of his bad behavior, he has already debased himself. He has already made himself inferior.

SIN MAKES A MAN INFERIOR. RIGHT LIVING PROMOTES THE INTEGRITY AND THE DIGNITY OF A MAN. RIGHT LIVING PROMOTES THE REPUTATION AND THE WORTH OF A MAN.

UNBELIEF AND DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH MAKES MAN TO BE AN UNWORTHY HUMAN BEING. THEY MAKE MAN UNWORTHY TO LIVE, UNWORTHY TO EAT AND MOVE ABOUT. IT DEBASES A MAN. IT MAKES MAN A NONENTITY AND AN UNPROFITABLE INDIVIDUAL.

 And this is what inundated our politics in Nigeria; People with high crave for materialism even to the detriment of their own fellow human beings. They do not care whose ox is gored. They are always there.

In politics, they are there. In religion they are there. That is why we are having difficulties because the same people that inundated the political terrain are the same people that inundated the traditional and the religious terrains. Is it not true?

 In tradition, they are there. In religion, they are there. In politics they are there. In merchandise, they are there. Even in education, they are there. They are everywhere. They have made themselves omnipresent and omnipotent.

Do not worry. Time will prove Me right, for the Supreme Law Giver has already spoken and He will never draw back, for he must destroy all of them using what they acquired from the earth.

Whatever you are amassing from the earth is earthly. It can never follow you to heaven.  He will use their earthly wealth, earthly fame whatever they collected earthly; God will use it to destroy them.

 Change your mentality from colonial. That is why even a child you brought to live with you in your home, if you are not careful the one you brought is a civil servant with colonial mentality (one who came to do white collar job or white man’s work).

Where he has his eyes are on the things you will do for him. Is not white collar job he has come to do?

Anybody whose eyes are always fixed on what will be done for him, and not on what he will do for the betterment of the family, does such a person believe he is a stakeholder in the family? No!

He came to do white collar job. What he is after is his own. His name is selfishness [self-centredness]. He is a hired labourer who is hired for a pay. He limits himself to his schedule of duty.

At first when he comes, he will ask, “What is my work? Whatsoever you tell me to do, that is what I will do.” He did not mean it.

He knows why he is hired and his eyes are always there, come what may. After attending to his schedule of duty, he pays no attention to any other work.

How can you tell him to join in kitchen work? Did you hire him because of kitchen? How can you tell him to sweep the compound? Is that why you hired him?

Or you tell him to keep watch at night. Did you hire him to pass sleepless night? Or you tell him to get something from the farm or that he should wash cloths. Was that why you hired him?

That goes to show he came for colonial civil service (white collar job). A civil servant is only interested in his monthly pay whether he works or not.

That is why, in this COVID-19 lockdown, many of them are praying that the civil service will not re-open again so that through IPPIS arrangement, they will be receiving alert every month and they are not working.

If you say you are reducing their salaries to half, they will protest. Are you working? Do you not know that in a situation like this, the policy of “No work, no pay” should apply?

What are you producing for the Government? You produced nothing but you are expecting salary. Colonial civil service. No man’s work. No man’s property because the white man’s property belongs to nobody.

They will often say, “My friend, will you die for this work. Does it belong to your father? Do you know it is white man’s work? So, because you can lose it at any time, it is the feather that is fixed at the back of cap. If it falls off, you can continue your journey without minding. Did you get it?

You enquire from your boss in the office, “Sir, why are you raising false vouchers?” He will ask you, “How is it your business? Does it concern you? Is it your money? It is the government money which means it does not belong to anybody. Did you get the Message?

That mentality is devilish. It is borne out of exploitation. WHEN YOU HAVE THAT EXPLOITATIVE SPIRIT, YOU WILL ALWAYS EXPLOIT EVERY SITUATION YOU FIND YOURSELF TO YOUR OWN ADVANTAGE, AND NOT TO HELP ANYBODY OR TO BETTER THE SITUATION.

Even if it is something that is spoiling or a situation that is going bad, you will pay no attention because it does concern you. After all, the expenses will be on the boss.

If it is this door, “Let me break it. He will call Brother Philip to come and repair it.” Even if it is the pot, “Let me break it. Daddy will bring money for another one.”

If it is the insecticide, “Let me exhaust one can at once. When He gets to Ochanja market, He will buy another one. After all, He told me to fumigate the house.”

Even if it is the chair, “Let me sit to damage it. Brother John Ekwueme will be called to repair it. The expenses will be on the Master. Is it your money?” If it is the soup, “Let us finish in one meal time.”

If it is meat, “My friend, let everybody eat to his own fill in his own turn. When it is your turn eat to your fill because during my own turn I will show no mercy.”

You will eat corn, eat rice, eat agidi [maize pudding], eat pepper soup, eat garri, eat fruits and wait for African salad because of colonial mentality. Let me get my share and eat all.

This is because when you do not get that your share, you feel cheated. Colonial civil service (white collar job).

You must get rid of that spirit. And that is why the civil service makes people to be gluttons and drunks. Is it not true?

The money they lavish on the streets and the hotels and beer parlours is not money earned with their sweat. It is money that is taken without labouring for it.

Can anybody wisely spend the money he/she did not earn? It is spent anyhow, and the fellow waits for another one that will come tomorrow.

If another one does not come tomorrow, they will go on strike. Why do people go on strike from time to time? It is because it is civil service work.

Do you go on strike concerning the affairs of your own family? Can a man go on strike in his family? Can a woman go on strike in her family?

Okay, all of you are children in this family. Why not go on strike? You know you will not eat if you go on strike. Go on strike!

But you go on strike because you feel you are labouring for somebody; you are not labouring for yourself. You do not have the interest of the masses at heart.

You do not know that you are working in Nigeria for Nigeria. You are Nigerians working in Nigeria for Nigeria; And your own children are involved.

You see, such people do not even care. They may have their wards even in the schools and colleges. They close their eyes and support the strike.

During the strike action, they go for another work, for they have many occupations. Their names are in different payrolls as if they will go away with money, or as if they will die with money and resurrect with money. Check this mentality; Colonial civil service mentality.

If you do not get rid of it by replacing it with God’s mentality, where you will be doing everything as unto God and you will be doing everything as one that will give account to God in the end, then serving your nation will become your right and a responsibility you cannot avoid.

To serve your nation, you check the Scriptures and you see people that served their nations without exploiting them.

I must tell the truth and rebuild the nation. I will tell the truth and rebuild this family, for this family is my first nation.

And for you to thrive well in this family with me, you must get rid of colonial mentality. Get rid of it.

Replace it with Christ’s mentality so that when you are doing anything, rendering any service, you will have it in mind that you are not doing it for Brother or Sister, but you are doing it for God and for yourself.

This is because that place where you find yourself is the very place you will protect and prosper. Is it not where you live you prosper and protect?

If yam is well-cooked, the ants will benefit from the crumbs from the table. If yam is properly roasted and you slap off the scales using a knife, does only one person eat of it?

As you eat it, tiny crumbs fall from it. And then whoever comes will slice off some and eat, while those crumbs that fall to the ground will attract ants, dogs, chickens that will gather too. Did you get the Message?

But when you narrow your mind, Oh! That is why a disobedient fellow is narrow-minded. A selfish man is a man that is narrow-minded.

When you are narrow-minded you are gone. You are completely lost. You can never do anything with liberality so that others can benefit through your labour, through your effort and through your input.

You can never do anything whereby others can benefit. You limit your labour, and also limit your expectation to yourself alone. Once it is well with you, to hell with others.

If you iron your cloth, others can wear theirs rumpled. If you wash your own clothes, that of others can remain dirty. You do not care. If you sweep the room where you are, that is all.

Sometimes, you may not even sweep it because you believe it is the landlord’s room. You can hardly spread bed sheet on the bed you lie on. You can hardly put on the pillow case. You can hardly make the bed you lie on.

You take it be Daddy’s own. If it tears, “Daddy!” Whatever happens, “Call Daddy. Have you shown it to Daddy? Have you shown it to Daddy?”

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GOD’S MENTALITY

 SHOULD REPLACE COLONIAL MENTALITY [2]

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OLONIAL MENTALITY! IS IT NOT WHERE YOU ARE LIVING THAT YOU DEVELOP AND PROTECT?

You are doing it as colonial civil service, “My friend, am I paid salary so as to use it for office expenses? No! Let me go and deposit it in the bank.”

Any day you die, that money will get trapped in the bank. Your children cannot withdraw it because you are narrow-minded. Watch the man that does not think of helping his fellow man or doing everything that will better the lots of his fellow human beings. He does not go far in life, no matter the sphere he finds himself.

If he is a politician or a popular fellow, he will end it in the prison because covetousness has landed many in the prison. Is it a lie?

It has landed many in sudden deaths. He will develop even hypertension while in that office. He will be taking the money, but it will not be reflecting in the outlook.

He will be grabbing Government’s money without knowing that he is grabbing his own money. A man who dupes his nation is duping himself.

You are duping your development. You are saying no to every form of development by stealing the money that should be used for development.

I do not care who that person is; whether the president or the senators or members of the national House of Assemblies or Governors.

Whoever that is duping his nation is frustrating the development of that nation because there is no way you can develop a nation without money.

The money meant for development is carted away and stacked in a man’s bank account and then we are complaining of bad roads, poor health infrastructure, poor education system and poor hospital everywhere.

Do you not know that somebody is holding the wealth? The wealth of the nation can be traced into the hands of few individuals.

In a population of more than 200 million people, you have less than 500,000 persons holding the wealth. It then means that the rest will suffer in abject poverty.

So it is. Once you have that spirit of colonial civil service, “Let me grab all so that it will be well with me”; with such spirit, anywhere you go, you will manifest it.

You carry, you loot, you vandalize and you ignore, “If it will spoil, let it spoil. What is my concern? If it gets spoilt, they will replace it.”

The one you should have put in order, you count as nothing. When you are given one packet of detergent, you will abandon it outside. Then, when water destroys it, you will discard it in the gutter. It does not concern me.

The soup you should have preserved in the freezer, you will carry it and pour into the gutter. It does not concern me. 

The garri you would have wrapped and preserved in the fridge so that it could be warmed and eaten, you throw into the dustbin. It does not concern you.

If you are told to measure out ten cups of rice, you measure out fifteen because you feel ten cups will not satisfy you.

The following day, you will see excess rice everywhere. At the end of the day, it is poured into polythene bag and thrown into the dustbin. “It does not concern you. If the rice gets exhausted, tell Daddy; Tell Mummy.”

Oil that would have been used to prepare food for one week, you pour all into a pot of soup at once. Why is it that you do you not pour salt into the soup in the same way like that?

Why not pour in pepper like that and become lizard that eats pepper?  But you are going in the area that will favour you but disfavour whoever that is financing it.

In other words, you do not realize that you are impoverishing the fellow who you are looking up to for help.

The person you are looking up to for help, is the same person in whose house you are wasting those things that he should have used to help you. Is it a lie?

Can you eat your cake and have it? When you help to conserve and preserve it, you are helping yourself, for it is from that same reserve that you get your share. It is from that reserve that you will be taken good care of.

Can your school fees be paid without money? Can you sew cloths without money? Will you feed yourself without money?

What if through your covetous spirit and colonial civil service mentality you develop slogans like, “It does not concern me). Whether good or bad, I will survive. Whether good or bad, I will survive”, is it a good slogan?

Whoever that uses it is a colonial man. The person is a waster, an unprogressive element and an underdeveloped human being. He does not think good or better about tomorrow. He considers today.

He will always be telling you, “When tomorrow comes, whatever we see, we take. Whatever tomorrow brings, we will take.”

This is because he does not believe that he will live to see another day. He does not believe it. Eat today, drink and die, but tomorrow he will still stay alive.

Colonial mentality should be replaced by God’s mentality. Did you get the message? IT IS HOLDING GRIP OVER ALL FLESH; OVER ALL FLESH.

DO EVERYTHING AS UNTO THE LORD NOT AS UNTO THE WHITE MAN. THERE IS NO WHITE MAN YOU ARE SERVING.

You are serving God. I am serving God. Do everything in the fear of God.

A civil servant protects his job or her job for fear of being dismissed or laid off or declared redundant. Is it not true?

For that reason, they may be absent from work for weeks, for months, but whenever they hear that auditors are coming, the offices will be filled to capacity. Late comers will be early comers. Attendance register will be filled to the brim.

You would not know the number of people [the number of staff] you have in your office until there is a circular or a notice that the minister is paying them a visit next week or that auditors are coming next week without specifying the date. From Monday till Friday, they will come and stay till 4pm.

And everybody will be in his or her table, which means they are anxious to protect their jobs, but they are not anxious to work. What are they looking for? The white man’s money; money they did not suffer to get. Am I making sense?

THE MENTALITY HAS BEEN CARRIED INTO MANY FAMILIES. EVEN SOME OF OUR CHILDREN POSSESS THAT SAME SPIRIT. DID YOU GET WHAT I AM SAYING?

THAT IS WHY A WISE MAN IS ALWAYS THINKING OF WHAT HE WILL DO FOR THE NATION AND NOT WHAT THE NATION WILL DO FOR HIM.

IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY, YOU WILL BE THINKING OF WHAT TO DO TO BETTER THE LOT OF THIS FAMILY, AND NOT WHAT THE FAMILY WILL DO TO BETTER YOUR LOT, FOR THERE IS NO WAY THE FAMILY’S LOT CAN BE BETTERED WITHOUT YOUR CONDITION BEING BETTERED.

SO, THE WAY TO IMPROVE ON YOUR CONDITION MEANS IMPROVING YOUR FAMILY, AND BY DOING SO, YOU ARE IMPROVING YOUR CONDITION.

Is it not when the economic condition of a poor man becomes better that he drinks tea? Does a poor man dream of eating rice?

CAUSE YOUR FAMILY TO EAT RICE, AND YOU WILL EAT WITH THEM. CAUSE YOUR FAMILY TO DRINK TEA, AND YOU WILL DRINK TEA. CAUSE YOUR FAMILY TO SUFFER, AND YOU WILL SUFFER. AM I MAKING SENSE?

So, it is between us and the family where we are.  We are all in God’s Family. We are running God’s economy and not the colonial master’s economy. I said we are running God’s economy, no longer the colonial master’s economy.

The whole economy of God has been embedded and committed into the hands of man with THE SON OF MAN as the Guide, Instructor, Leader and Teacher.

And I am teaching you the best way we can run God’s economy and get the desired result which is eternal life in the end.

WHEN YOU RUN THE ECONOMY OF GOD VERY WELL, THE RESULT IS ETERNAL LIFE IN PARADISE, FOR THE SAME PLACE WHERE YOU LABOURED IS WHERE YOU EXPECT YOUR REWARD.

But if you do it as white man’s work, [I don’t care], well, God will not care for you. I don’t care. laissez faire attitude. No! God hates it.

So, do not employ colonial mentality in doing the work of God. Did you get what I am saying? I am talking about the colonial conditions of service in GOD’s work place.

Do not ALLOW the attitude in your workplace in civil service to continue AS your attitude in the work of God.

Civil service attitude of work cannot work in God’s work. Never!! Develop God’s attitude to work in God’s vineyard. We are all labourers in God’s Vineyard.

We must cultivate the right attitude in the workplace. I said the right attitude in the workplace.

What is the workplace? God’s Vineyard where we are now residing as co-labourers with God with one target, which is to prepare ourselves and help in preparing others for Paradise.

THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY SIGN OF SELFISHNESS OR I DON’T CARE ATTITUDE. THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY LAZINESS OR CLUMSINESS IN DOING SOMETHING. NOBODY SHOULD BE DULL. ALL HANDS SHOULD BE ON DECK.

MY TARGET IS YOUR TARGET. MY DESIRE IS YOUR DESIRE. WHERE I AM HEADING TO IS WHERE YOU ARE HEADING TO. ARE WE NOT HAVING A COMMON GROUND? ARE WE NOT OPERATING ON THE SAME PLATFORM?

IF WE CAN DEVELOP THIS CULTURE AND PRINCIPLE RIGHT NOW, IT WILL BE VERY EASY FOR US TO NOTE A STRANGER IN THIS FAMILY.

A stranger is one who is saying, ‘Amen’ and ‘Yes’ now, but the moment we vacate, he will show his true colour. He will be querying all that he heard, “Does it mean I will not reason? Does it mean I will be a slave? Does it mean I will not have my way?”

THE MOMENT HE BEGINS TO REASON CONTRARY TO THE TRUTH, DANGEROUS SPIRIT WILL POSSESS HIM. HE WILL BE ACTING CONTRARY TO THE TRUTH. WHEN YOU REASON CONTRARY TO THE TRUTH, YOU ACT CONTRARY TO THE TRUTH.

YOU REASON IN AGREEMENT WITH THE TRUTH, YOUR CHARACTER, YOUR LIFESTYLE, YOUR WORD, EVERYTHING WILL WORK IN AGREEMENT WITH THE TRUTH. YOUR LIFE WILL SHOWCASE TRUTH AND OPENNESS. AND THAT IS WHAT GOD IS LOOKING FOR.

I do not know why I brought out a Message for us to read, and upon introduction of the biblical topic, the Spirit veered me off.

And I believe what we are hearing is what God designed for us for today. I mean, this morning.

AND I BELIEVE IT IS HELPING US BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR HABIT WITHOUT CHANGING YOUR ORIENTATION. DID YOU GET WHAT I AM SAYING?

YOU MUST DESTROY THE OLD ORIENTATION THAT WAS BUILT IN COVETOUSNESS AND FALSEHOOD, CRAFTINESS, IDOLATRY, LAZY LIVING, FAULT-FINDING, SELF-SEEKING, SELF-MATERIALISM, AND SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT [Anything that is not ‘self’ first, you will never do it. ‘Self’ first, any other thing can come after] It is a dangerous spirit. It is a dangerous spirit.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow man and his affairs, that has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is among such individuals that all human failures spring up. The world we are living in is full of grabbing, self-seeking individuals, but the very rare transparent seed of God, who unselfishly tries to serve others, has an enormous advantage because he has little or no competitors.

– THE SON OF MAN –

MAINTAINING A HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP IN THE BRIDE OF CHRIST; Preached on 8th January 2006, at Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 18 vs. 18 – 19.

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EXALT THE TRUTH AND BURY FALSEHOOD

There must be a reason why God said I should go this way. And He put these words in My mouth as if I wrote them down to be reading them before you. Heaven is My witness.

I never meditated upon what I am saying to you this morning but I believe that God has come out to crush the dangerous spirit that is in operation in us and in many because this Voice will be noised abroad.

So wherever this spirit operates, God has declared this war and God must win. In my life, God will win. In your life allow God to win because if you support this Message, you will be the victor, but say no to this Message and remain a victim.

This is the spirit that is holding many people captive. Colonial service mentality. We should not apply colonial service attitude to everything we do as if we are doing it for somebody outside ourselves.

Whatever we are doing, we are not doing it for somebody outside ourselves. We are doing it for ourselves for, any seed a man soweth, that he must reap.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. [Galatians 6:7 KJV]

You wish me well, it will come back to you. You wish me evil, it will come back to you. If you do good to me, you will receive the reward thereof. If you defraud me, you are the one to bear the consequences.

If you trick me, you will get the reward because when you are tricking someone everything about you will be trickery.

Watch those people that entered civil service aiming at getting money without labouring for it. They are always retarded. They can hardly secure promotions when others are being promoted, for they have no experience to showcase.

Each time they go for interview they will fail for they gathered no experience. They were aiming at getting the money which they are not labouring for, but they will not sit down to learn the job. They have forsaken the rudiments of the work because of money.

That is why any apprentice that has his eyes on money can never learn the work. If you are sent to go and do business as apprentice and you have your eyes on the money you get from running errands for people, you will never learn that business.

You will never stay long. And your master will settle you with dismissal. You will never finish your tenure before your master will lay you off because you are money-conscious. Whoever that is money-conscious is imbibing a criminal habit.

It is insatiable because the more you get, the more you will be looking for more. Grab, grab, grab!

You will never be satisfied, for if a man’s desire is to amass money, he will never be satisfied with what he has throughout his lifespan here on earth.

Even till eternity, the Almighty God will not satisfy his curiosity BECAUSE his penchant for money is greater than his ambition for honest service. Did you get what I am saying?

If your desire to better your lot and to enrich yourself is higher than your ambition to service, you will end it in dismissal. You will end it in the prison yard.

I had a bosom friend I gave help in 1984 when I did My induction as a Labour Officer in the Federal Ministry of Labour.

I brought him into My room and fed him in the hotel using My own ticket, for I loved him. We were living together.

He was higher than me. He was on Grade Level 9. He entered the service on Grade Level 9 with M.Sc, but I entered on Grade Level 4 as a clerical officer and then, rose through the ranks to level 7 by 1984.

We were inducted together. Some of them were PhD holders. When the examination was conducted, the record is there in My files and everywhere. I came first. I became first.

I beat all in a training that lasted for six months and examination was taken under a free and fair atmosphere with strict supervisors drawn from the University of Nigeria Lagos with Professor Oloto presiding.

I came first. I have been brilliant from the beginning. I never joked with My work. That which I never got from the classroom, I decided to get through exposure in the work place. I developed the right attitude to My work, and it paid off.

Then I removed My eyes from money. They were grabbing money and I was grabbing experience. Today, that young man who was coming up fine, eventually when I left, he continued growing until a provision came for Delta State, and he became the permanent secretary.

He started grabbing money left and right. SURE-P money landed him into 12 years’ imprisonment. That is where he is right now. He was imprisoned last year. 12 years’ imprisonment with hard labour.

All he amassed were confiscated by the government. He lost his money and he lost everything on earth including his residence at Isele-ukwu.

All were taken by the government. All! And he is languishing under intensive custody in the prison and under hard labour.

Go there! He is wearing green. I mean a doctor, a PhD holder, Dr. Clement Illoh. It is on record. He was My colleague who shared My hotel room with me.

And I remember those days. We were abhorring everything evil. And he was making a remark, “Odoemena! Bonny, let me tell you. You are becoming a religious extremist. I believe you will never turn out to be a Muslim tomorrow.’’

He was cajoling Me in the hotel room where we were staying together for six months with Victor Edutieh who was also dismissed. He is from Warri in Delta State. He was dismissed because of his high propensity for evil.

If you love grab-grab-grab and cheat-cheat-cheat, you will end it in hell.

Do not be afraid of human prison yard, but be afraid of God’s own prison yard which is eternal punishment in hell.

What then will it profit a man to gain the whole world and end his life in that eternal prison in the hand of God, under torment? What will it profit us?

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? [Mark 8:36 KJV]

You see why you must think before you act. Think before you talk. Always consider the future. Always carry the welfare of your fellow human beings in your heart.

Do not be too selfish that you will become an island. You will become what? An island. Do not ever try it. Do not ever try it no matter how rich you are. No one man has ever fed the whole world.

It takes only but the Almighty God to feed the whole world at the same time and yet have excess. True or false?

Whatever we are benefiting from now, food, shelter and everything, are they not from God? Who is feeding the whole world? Who is protecting the whole world and still have excess? God.

He has accommodation for everybody in excess. The same way, when he organized a banquet, he said that people should come, and they came.

He went to the streets and brought many. Yet, there was still room for more. He said, “No. Every seat must be filled.”  So, God has everything in excess.

No matter how you grab or you want to exploit or you want to loot, you can never finish God’s treasure. No man has ever finished God’s treasure or impoverished God’s treasure.

You can impoverish your fellow man’s treasure, and that is, if his treasure is stored here on earth.

Every true seed of God should store his treasure in heaven where thieves and looters; exploiters can never get to. Did you get the Message now? For wherever your treasure is, there your heart is.

[19]Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: [20]but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: [21]for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. [Matthew 6:19 – 21 KJV]

If your treasure is in Paradise, everything you are doing in this life will be geared towards prospering Paradise and fostering the goal that will lead to Paradise. Is it not true?

You will strive to be a winner and not a loser. Many are striving to be losers, and not winners because their attentions have been diverted by self-materialism, self-seeking and aggrandizement have diverted their attention away from the reality.

They think life ends in death. If life ends in death, of all men, we shall be the most miserable. Jesus the Christ resurrected and has become the first fruit and we are resurrecting because we are in him.

[16]For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised: [17]and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. [18]Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. [19]If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. [20]But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. [1 Corinthians 15:16 – 20 KJV]

The Resurrected Body is in our midst showcasing Himself that we should not be afraid of death, but that we should always walk towards maintaining a healthy relationship with God and with one another;

Doing honest work for honest living; doing every service as unto the Lord, for unto the Lord we shall proceed, from the Lord we have everything; to the Lord we shall give account whether you be black, yellow, green or whatever you call yourself.

Let us now re-orient our lives. Let us destroy that old ancient orientation we received from our parents that contained no truth, and replace it with the orientation God is giving to us through His Messages from the very beginning; even till now. Even till this morning.

If we can take into our hearts what we have heard, we will be a different people from this morning. We will be brand new people with changed vision. Am I making sense?

Changed vision concerning life; Changed attitudes; Changed characters and changed reasoning.

But where you say, “Away with it”, you are saying, “Away with truth”, “Away with the truth”, and you must embrace falsehood, for I believe that the moment truth is exalted falsehood is buried.

EXALT THE TRUTH AND BURY FALSEHOOD.

Thank you very much for giving Me audience. If you are touched and you believe that God is the One that inspired what went out of My Mouth, bow down and let us pray.

With a brief prayer, commit our activities for today, the keeping of our souls, the knowledge we have acquired into God’s hand and then ask for courage to put the Word that you have heard into practice.

Do not say I did not quote Scriptures. All of them are embedded between the lines of the Scriptures.

If you know Scriptures, you will know that the totality of what THE SON OF MAN said aims at helping you to live right before God and live right before fellow human beings, so that you have no problem entering Paradise.

I want somebody who is touched to lift us up before the Lord in a brief prayer.

EPILOGUE

 PRAYER

Our Most Holy God, we thank You this morning for this wonderful gift of life which You have offered to us. Father, we say thank You to Your Most Holy Name that we are still alive and bouncing in Your presence.

Father, we thank You for this precious gift offering us another brand new day like this, which is different from yesterday. Father, it is a sure sign that You are so strong in our midst.

Father, we thank You for this wonderful privilege which we are enjoying in You, and for even the lives of our Family members wherever they be, oh! Lord.

Father, we thank You for their various lives, oh! Lord. You never allowed any evil to befall us throughout yesterday, oh! Lord.

Father, rather, it was filled with testimonies, oh! Lord. And also ending it with Your Word last night, oh! Lord.

Father, what a wonderful privilege we are enjoying in You proving that Your love, oh! Lord, is mighty and strong within us

Father we thank You for this Word You have used to start our day with us, oh! Lord. Father Lord banishing the colonial mentality from our hearts, oh! Lord, and liberating us and inducing into us God’s own mentality, oh! Lord.

Father, we thank You for the sermon which we have heard this day, oh! Lord. Father, allow it to go deep down into our hearts and sink deed into our lives, oh! Lord.

Father, may it change our orientation about life both spiritually, physically, mentally and psychologically and otherwise, oh! Lord. May all that listened to this Message have a change of heart this morning.

Father, may all of us incline our hearts unto God’s own orientation so that at the end, we shall gain eternal life, oh! Lord.

Father, quench all the spirits that are working in us that are gearing towards materialism, oh! Lord. Father Lord, quench all those spirits, oh! Lord.

May we never yield to anything that will cause us to be brought to question before You, oh! Lord. Father, may our lives continue to ring bell and continue to dovetail to Your Word, oh! Lord. Father, Lord, may the devil never seduce us away from these words, oh! Lord.

 Is there any way he is trying to work on any of us by telling us to forget these words, oh! Lord? Father Lord, may it never come to pass, oh! Lord. Father Lord, may this word continue to ring bell in our hearts, oh! Lord.

May it continue to guide us on our daily activities, oh! Lord, to walk right before you, knowing that this world is not of our home.

Father Lord, continue to keep us in this pathway of truth so that at the end, we all shall glory with You in Paradise.

We lift up all our Family annexes wherever they might be. In Lagos, Bonny, Nsukka or Enugu, Father Lord, be with them, and transmit these Messages into their hearts, oh! Lord. And may they see the truth in it and imbibe the truth, oh! Lord.

In the same way, precious Father, we commit all the families that are integrated into this Family. May they strive to live in line with this truth as they will receive it this morning.

Father, may all families that are called by Your Name, that heed to this truth this morning be blessed both spiritually and physically. May they never lack anything good by paying heed to this truth, oh! Lord.

Father Lord, continue to purify us. Continue to sanctify us, oh! Lord so that nothing of this world will be found of us, oh! Lord.

Father Lord, take all the glory, take all the honour, for we believe you will do more than we have asked of You through the Name of Peter the Christ our Lord. Amen.