OH MAN, OH WOMAN, WHERE ARE YOU? OH BROTHER, OH SISTER WHAT ARE YOU TODAY? PREACHED BY BROTHER JOSEPH MICHEAL FAVOR LAGOS HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ON 19/1/2021 Approved and Authorized By Apostle Peter Odoemena The Son of Man The Righteous Judge
We have finished our own two days; we are now living in God’s own remaining one-day….The time we are living in is in the hand of the Almighty God. He will dictate how everything must go and He will stop the age at the appointed time, which He has kept secret to Himself. He has kept it secret to Himself, no man knows that one. There is no
angel that has grown to that stage. It is a secret, a top secret kept in the Mind of Almighty God.
–Son of MAN
-Excerpted from the Message: DISPUTE AMONG THE BRETHREN, Pages 145 & 146. Verses 37, 41 & 42. (26th September, 2004).
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WHERE ARE YOU; AND WHY ARE YOU THERE?
Remain blessed brethren, we thank the almighty God who in his mercy as kept us all alive till this very moment in peace and not in pieces, for good and not for evil.
2. For we know the thought of God towards us are thought of good and not of evil, aiming to give us an expected end. The prophet said and I quote; that if God is Good to you, worship him and that if you are worshipping a God that is not capable of saving and protecting you or cannot guarantee your safety He said run away from that God.
3. So brethren, the highest thing we can give to God is to say; thank you. That’s truth but, little did we know that thanking God does not mean by the words of the mouth alone that is merely saying thank you God with our mouth alone while with our lives and character we are not.
4. The scripture said it all in Galatians 6 verses 7. Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap. Amp.
5. So brethren let us be very careful with what we are making our lives to be, with what we are sowing while God is still keeping us alive. For God keeping us alive till this very moment there is a purpose he want to achieve in you and in me.
6. I believe that a teacher that is teaching his or her students for 1st, 2nd,3rd terms is not doing that in vain, the purpose of God laboring night and day is to build a reliable, dependable and trustworthy people on earth that we live their lives the way God wanted, that will be able to say as Jesus said in Matthew 26 verse 39…
7. And going a little farther, He threw Himself upon the ground on His face and prayed saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will [not what I desire], but as You will and desire. Amp.
8. So brethren let us make sure that our lives, I mean the kinds of lives we are all living is glorifying, honoring, adoring, praising and thanking God at all times. So that God will be pleased with us and not seeing us as a wasted investment on earth. Amen.
9. So brethren I we like us to consider some of the messages God as been giving to us all this while to make us a better people on earth, I mean a different human being away from them of the world, for we all know that the whole world is under the full control and power of the devil. So by the way of putting us in remembrance let us go to the message titled.
10. INNER VOICE, chapter 1 verse 7 through 14 preach on 25th July 2010 at the household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, blessed be to is most holy name. Amen.
11. Where are you standing? Are you standing on the Solid Rock? Or are you still in doubt? Are you still limping between two opinions as to whether Christ is real or not? A double-minded fellow obtaineth nothing from the Lord.
12. Are your affairs resting steadfastly on Christ Who is the Solid Rock? Outside Christ, there is no other safe ground for any child of God. Outside Christ, there is no other safe ground for any human being.
13. If you are standing on any other ground, if you are expecting help from any other source, surely, you must be disappointed, but Christ will never disappoint you. Hook up with God this very hour. Make sure your anchor is holding him.
14. In times like this, you need an Anchor; you Need a Helper; you need a Saviour. In times like This, you need a Comforter for you cannot make It alone.
15. Till eternity, He (The Almighty) remains the Most High God that reigneth and He reigneth Forever and ever. He will reign and He will Remain as the Most High God.
16. This Faith is the only Place of our rest, the place where we come Face-to-face with God to hear Him speak. The Apostles of old said that they were Privileged to sit down with Him, hear from Him and even shook hands with Him.
17. What is more, they also drank with Him. God does not change. Whatever He was that time, that He is today; and that is what He will remain forever.
18. What He did before, that He is repeating in our day so that history will continue to repeat itself again and again, so that the entire world will stand in awe before the Lord.
19. I thank God that I am not only a witness, but equally a beneficiary. I merge My testimony with that of the Apostles that I have been privileged to see Him with My eyes; touched Him with My hands, ate and drank with Him, and even slept on the same bed with Him. What a wonderful privilege! It is a privilege; it is not a right.
20. It is grace; it is an unmerited favour. He blinded some, yet He opened the eyes of some; and I am numbered among those whose eyes He opened.
21. He called some His enemies, and also called some His friends. But I am numbered among His friends. What else do I need? Firstly, He (God) has given you the greatest gift in this generation.
22. If you do not know what that gift is all about, pity yourself. Anyway, it is not a compulsory gift to everybody.
23. Secondly, you have the right to accept a gift; you also have the right to reject it. It is a gift, we are not paying for it. We did not ask for it. Out of His good pleasure, He offered it to us free. Thus, if you reject it, there is no problem. You accept it; equally, there is no problem. Glory be to God in the highest. Amen.
24. Brethren what am trying to say is this, in time like this when everything is tilting towards the end when what the prophet said in the book of Amos 8 verses 11 through 12. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but [a famine] for hearing the words of the Lord. And [the people] shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord [inquiring for and requiring it as one requires food], but shall not find it. Amp.
25. What shall be our faith then, what shall be our sustainer then, what shall be our hope then, where are we going to anchor our faith then, when what we are manifesting is not what is expected from us to be manifesting, brethren where are we standing at an hour like this, where are you? Oh man, oh woman.
26. What are you today, oh brother, oh sister. If God should call for us, where is he going to meet us, if he should find us, oh man, oh woman, oh brother, oh sister, where is he going to see us.
27. Let us all pause and think, let us all examine and re-examine ourselves to know whether we are still walking with God or we are all walking alone at an hour like this.
28. God said at any point in time it is either we are in Christ or outside Christ, so let us evaluate ourselves to know where we are all standing. Amen.
29. Follow me to the message titled: I HAVE SEEN MY FAULT TODAY chapter 9 verse 32 through 36,Preached on 1st November, 2020
30. WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE AM I? A BIG QUESTION. YOU MUST BE SOMEWHERE. I MUST BE SOMEWHERE. WHEREVER THE SPIRIT OF A MAN IS, THERE HE IS. WHEREVER THE SPIRIT OF A WOMAN IS, THERE SHE IS. WHEREVER THE SPIRIT OF A HUMAN BEING IS, THERE THE PERSON IS. WHERE ARE YOU? AND WHY ARE YOU THERE.
31. They heard the Voice of the Master. They ran away and hid themselves. He asked, “Man, where are you and why are you there? Have you been there all this while? Where are you? What put you there? You want to cover up? That thing you are using as a cover up, does it cover you?”
32. That thing you formed with your hands, knit it together and it is good for you in your eyes, did it give you a covering? Was it enough to put you in right standing with Me?
33. That covering; that excuse, “The devil did this thing”, is it enough to restore you in Fellowship with Me?
34. That Same message vs 39 through 43 I am coming to something. It is not What I am preaching. Man, where are you? Woman, where are you?
35. I am going to give it a topic because I Now want to take off. Man, where are you? Woman, where are you? Are you in Christ Or are you in the devil? If I should look for You, where will I find you?
36. Will I find you in Christ or in the Devil? Where is your heart? Where is your Mind? The spirit that is in you, where is it? Where is it resting even right now? Where is your spirit even right now?
37. While you are hearing Me, you may be hearing with your ears when your spirit is far. They were hearing from Moses, but their spirits were in Egypt.
38. Where is your mind? Where is your spirit? Is it in Christ or in the world? Is it in your school while I am talking? Is it in your proposed trip while I am talking? Is it in your business?
39. Is it in your plans which you have already outlined for yourself of which you do not know whether you will live, stay alive and enjoy them or not?
40. Brethren what will it profit a man when he gain the whole world and then lose is soul, why are we now killing ourselves with this world vain riches upon which king Solomon observed, evaluated, scrutinized and came into conclusion that all is vain, Vanity upon vanity.
41. Why not strive for the kingdom of heaven that you, oh man, oh women, oh brother, oh sister may enter.
42. St Matthew chapter 6 from verses 19 through 21 says….Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.
43. But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where by neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal; For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also Amen. Amp
44. Matthew 6 verse 33 said, But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
45. God is saying today to all of us that there is nothing we can say we want to achieve in the world again rather we should all strive all day, all night to enter the kingdom of heaven for we all are in the kingdom of God where we are taking lectures from God almighty himself, trying to see if we can be savable through is messages of life to them that believe in him.
46. Not knowing that those he is trying to give a helping hand are nothing to be called and compared with than hypocrites, for the MANIFESTATION IS THE INTERPRETATION of the whole thing as seen so far in some individuals called the Bride.
THE WORD OF GOD REVEALS OUR CONDITION. THE WORD OF GOD IS MIRROR THROUGH WHICH WE SEE OURSELVES, ASSESS OUR PERFORMANCES. HOWEVER, THE WORD OF GOD WILL NOT REMOVE ANY. WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WILL EFFECT A CHANGE IN OUR CONDITIONS. IF I SAY CHANGE YOUR MIND, IT REQUIRES DECISION. IF I SAY RELOCATE FROM WHERE YOU ARE LIVING, IT REQUIRES DECISION. AMEN.
FROM THE MESSAGE DECISION PREACHED ON 30TH DEC 2007 PAGE 135 VS 22
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THE WORD OF GOD IS ONLY MEANINGFUL TO HIS CHILDREN
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HE GREAT SERMON, EPISTLE 12 CHAPTER 1 VERSES 1 THROUGH 12. THE reaction of some people each time a message is Preached has prompted this little exposition from the Holy scriptures. We preach the word of God, expecting all the hearers to understand, believe and be transformed, little did we realize that the word of God is only meaningful to His children
2. Verses 7 to 12. A seed of God has God’s spirit from birth and all His attributes, and that is why he or she recognize the things of God, while the rest of the world, who are destined to perdition cannot but call the things of God accursed.
3. Every seed of God is likened to a sheep, whether alive or dead, wool is all over it’s body. He does not struggle to produce wool. A pig is not taught how to be dirty; it can only be clean when it is put in a protective custody or bondage.
4. Once it is let out of the custody, it must go back to the garbage, because it is it’s nature from creation, let it wear coat and be perfumed, surely it must go to the garbage.
5. In the same token nobody teaches a duck how to swim. Just expose it to the water and go away there is no fear of the duck getting drowned.
6. A true seed of God is not caged with the law or policed about, so as to obey God. Simply give him the word of God and go away, there is no fear of death.
7. All I am trying to say is that God who knows the end from the beginning, knows what will become of every man that comes to him A to Z. Amen. Oh man, oh woman can’t we see where we are now?
8. Let consider something in the message titled God’s nature is our ticket to paradise preached on 27th December, 2016 & 30th December, 2016 respectively at the son of man’s family altar, Nsugbe by Apostle peter Odoemena the son of man Chapter 3 verses 1 through 52EXAMINE YOURSELF IN LIGHT OF THE FAITH OF CHRIST
9. God warned even scripturally, 2nd Corinthians 13, that we should from time to time re-examine our lives, re-examine our faith and know, find out whether we are progressively holding on to the faith which we are professing.
10. We should scrutinize; evaluate; it says, don’t we know by continuing experiences whether we are in him or not, whether the spirit of Christ is in us or the spirit has left us and we do not know.
11. For the message said on Sunday we are in a delicate ministry where we can backslide without knowing; where the spirit of God can vacate, the foolishness and ignorance in us will not permit us to notice the exit of the spirit of Christ in our lives
12. Unimaginable things contrary to sound doctrine, contrary to the truth will be manifesting, using us as tools. The worst thing that will happen to a man is to yield to a destructive spirit where the Devil will be using him as tool. Be very careful.
13. That’s why any spirit you submit yourself to is the spirit that will govern your life. If it is the spirit of Christ, Christ will govern you and people will see the reflection of Christ in your daily character. Everywhere you go you will obtain favour from men, you will obtain favour from God.
14. For the Lord Jesus Christ who was the initiator of whatever we are holding here today went about doing good and obtained favour from God and from humanity. So be very very careful everybody.
15. He went further to warn, that if we are not careful, if we are not conscious of ourselves, of our surroundings, of the people we are having dealings with, in agreement with our faith; use your faith; use your belief to scrutinize everything.
16. If we are not conscious, we might be shocked in the end to see heathens, people coming from the East, West, North, South to occupy the kingdom of heaven with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We that are meant to be there, children of the kingdom shall be locked out. Is it scriptural? Is it in the scripture?
17. The Lord was warning his apostles, his disciples in the upper room. Where lies that belief, that because I have become his disciple; I have become an apostle, I am now following Christ; for that reason I can behave anyhow. I am not a material for eternal destruction. Who told you?
18. The Bible made it clear that God saved his people from the land of Egypt; brought them out; took them across the red sea, he led them across the red sea; He fed them with manna from heaven; protected them in the night; healed them of the serpent bites; did all forms of miracles; scared their enemies away as they progressed, they lacked nothing good in the night and in the day; the Lord stood there as their Defense; as their Provider; as their Healer; as everything but at the end of it all, He destroyed all that believed not.
19. For God said, with many of them He was not pleased; their characters were very noxious in the sight of God. God could not stand their wicked behaviours because it is still an act of wickedness to pay back evil for good.
20. In spite of all that God did for them, He expected them to praise Him the more, to walk right, to walk with Him, but He saw another thing all together. He numbered them without their knowledge.
21. The Bible said He brought them out from the land of Egypt across the Red Sea, did everything to make them feel comfortable but at the end He destroyed all that believed Him not yet, they were Jews.
22. He saved them from destruction in Egypt; he saved them from destruction in the Red Sea; saved them from destruction by their enemies but He never allowed them to enter Canaan. They could not enjoy paradise and the Bible said He destroyed all.
23. What is more, the Bible said it is written in the Bible for our learning; preserved there in the scriptures for our admonition that we should not pattern after evil, that we should learn our lessons from what befell them.
24. For we were not the first people that served this God and he has not changed even, his method of doing things and he will never change because of me.
25. Thus, whatever you are believing be very careful, you are believing the truth that proceeds out of the mouth of God not your own interpreted truth, not the truth you coined out after your evil interpretation, truth you coined out that will give you liberty to do whatever you want whether they be good or evil in the sight of God, you don’t care.
26. You are bound to lose your ticket straight away if you had at all obtained a ticket. It can be canceled. Another name can be used to replace you even without your knowledge. So, be very very careful everybody.
27. He went further to give them another illustration. In the Upper Room He said, “Look at what the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven is likened to be.”
28. He gave them the parable of the ten virgins. The virgins, were they virgins? Yes! Undefiled! Were they elect according to God’s fore-knowledge? Yes! Did they defile themselves with any denomination? No! Were they accused of sin? No! They were perfect. They were all perfect. They were all righteous but there was something wrong.
29. The Master gave them instruction to stay at the gate there, be there, keep on remaining there until the Bridegroom will come and take you in. Everybody said Amen.
30. Wise ones filled their lanterns with oil and carried also extra oil in case the Bridegroom would delay his coming, to make sure their graves will not begin to make noise before the bridegroom would appear. They have enough fuel.
31. If you have enough fuel in your tank that can go to Lagos and come back whether there is fuel scarcity or not, it doesn’t concern you. Your vehicle will be moving because you are carrying enough and even carrying reserve. That was what they did.
32. When we were told to take the food, eat the word as food for the journey is still too far so that we can get the strength that will carry us and the strength of every child of God is the level of the word of God that is settled in his heart that is, the level of revelation you will have. So take note of what I am saying.
33. He said these are the ten virgins. Look at what the kingdom of heaven is likened to. When they were asked to stay, their lanterns were all burning, everybody was jubilating; as the bridegroom tarried beyond their expectation some of them who didn’t come with extra oil, their lanterns began to die.
34. In order to keep the lanterns burning before the bridegroom would appear, they went out to get oil. Were they perfect? Yes! Were they elected? Yes! Were they chosen? Yes! Were they righteous? Yes! Any defilement? No! Were they billed to be in the kingdom of heaven? Yes! They went away to buy the oil.
35. Immediately they left, the bridegroom appeared; behold the bridegroom cometh! Those that had their lanterns with oil they trimmed their lanterns and the Master had no choice but to usher in those he met with their lanterns burning. They entered peacefully.
36. Immediately they entered and the Master entered, what happened? The people that went to get extra oil arrived and the door had already been closed.
37. The Master gave further interpretation that they knocked and knocked and said Master open. They introduced themselves that they were not foreigners they began to mention their names one after the other. The Master said no, I know you not.
38. The scripture said the door remained closed against them. Who do we blame in this situation: the Master or the foolish ones? What made them foolish? They didn’t walk with the light that was given to them; they could not keep pace with the message.
39. If they had kept pace with the message, there would have been a uniform approach to that instruction. They would have collectively obeyed.
40. Then where lies the claim that once saved always saved; because you are chosen you are elected, you are billed to be in paradise, whether you like it or not you will be there, whether you obey or not you will be there. Who preached that one? Tell me who preached that one? Who has ever preached it? Is it our message?
41. That is why whenever a message goes forth your duty is to pause and wait for the interpretation thereof. The Master said, ”So shall the kingdom of heaven be – future continuous tense. So shall the kingdom of heaven be.
42. Some elect will go in because they are wise, they are keeping pace with the message while some will be locked out. The Bible said further they were given their places among the heathens, the unbelievers.
43. That act of drawing back because they wanted to go and then get the message so that they can be up to date burning became their destruction, their doom.
44. Can you imagine somebody who has labored to the extent of coming to the gate of paradise but could not stay faithfully there until the Master will open the gate for them; immediately the person went away, it is a spiritual affair, immediately your spirit draws back the Lord will no longer be pleased with you for every character is a manifestation of what the spirit is all about. Is it not true?
45. Whatever is your character tells the whole world the spirit that is controlling you for behind every character there is a spirit. That is why you have to, as an individual, do what the scripture said, it says scrutinize, investigate, examine, evaluate do not say, “God examine me”. That’s what the Bible said, do not say “God examine me” it says, “examine yourself.”
46. Don’t you know by your ever progressing experience whether the spirit of Christ is in you or not? Or else you will be a reprobate a counterfeit who must be disapproved disallowed disqualified in the end.
47. So many will perish not because of what they have done but because of what they have refused to do.
48. Nothing is as destructive as private interpretation of the word of God. For the word of God according to the scriptures is of no private interpretation. God is the perfect interpreter of his word.
49. Anybody that has that notion, that conclusion in his or her mind, that as elect, he could behave anyhow and get saved in the end can never honour and fear the Lord. The word of God can never be of any effect in the person’s life. For the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom but fools despise wise counsel.
50. Be very careful, when the word of God goes forth, be patient, don’t behave like the early apostles who heard go ye, immediately they heard go ye into the world and preach to all nations, foolish ones ran ahead of time but wise ones stood behind waiting to be guided.
51. Immediately they stood behind many went. “Go ye,” that’s what they heard and ran, another statement followed: “But tarry ye in Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high then, you will begin to be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria then to the utmost part of the world,” which people that ran because they heard “go ye” – men and women – they never received this guide and they went amiss. They preached amiss. They did everything amiss.
52. That’s why even when the message came forth – the message of Grace – there were interludes. God said you don’t have any right to preach it in your pulpit or act until I have come down; until I have finished and when I finished I documented all, labeled it the Great Sermon in my own hand and placed my seal there; the Almighty came and vindicated it.
53. That’s why God said even in that message – you are excluded from the laws of Moses, you are now under the laws of the Son of Man. We have left Egypt long ago, we are not talking about god in mountain Sinai, in Egypt, we are talking about God in the present Jerusalem, in the present Mount Zion, City of the Most High God which culminated into this family; so that you are in this family is not your ticket to paradise; your ticket to paradise is God’s nature.
54. Absalom was the first son of David, but a rebellious son. Did he earn a ticket to paradise? He earned condemnation for being rebellious. So it happened to many.
55. You can be the children of a priest and you perish. Hophni and Phinehas were sons of the high priest Eli and the Bible says they were sons; they were children of Belial that is children of the Devil. For they allowed the Devil to use them as tools, they became children of the Devil.
56. Any spirit you yield yourself to is the spirit that will govern you – either the spirit of Christ for your salvation or the spirit of the Devil for your destruction.
57. For that reason, at any point in time, you must pause. For that cause God gave us a message “Stop and Think. Stop and think, find out why things are happening the way they are happening: whether you are the one attracting those things; whether you are the one that should be blamed or God. But in all you go back to the message titled, “Blame Yourself and not God”.
58. Why must you blame yourself? He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness that by obeying them we will be able to attain his divine nature. For that, we are inexcusable.
59. Tell me the excuse you can give? Tell me the excuse I can give for not attaining his nature. If God said we are inexcusable, he said thou art inexcusable oh man. Tell me the excuse you’ll begin to give. Any excuse you want to adduce will surely turn out to be a part of your problem.
60. Thus, do not try to rake up excuses, it will turn out to be a part of your problem because, men, human beings, are guilty of trying to excuse themselves out, even out of their foolishness which they manifest. It is wisdom to obey God. It is foolishness to disobey godly counsel.
61. This is why God warned us even in the book of Proverbs saying, “My son, take my counsels for they will preserve your life, they will make you live long here on earth and have prosperity.
62. Steer clear from the counsels of the wicked, steer clear from ungodly people, scoffers, mockers; steer clear from proud and haughty men and women for they have nothing to offer you than foolishness.
63. They will lure you out and then begin to inject poison into your hearts, bias your minds, begin to tell you it is pleasurable to continue in iniquity because iniquity is pleasure to one that is destitute of truth. Amen
64. Brethren we can see where we are now. God is saying to us today that we are inexcusable before him, where are you standing today, oh man, oh woman, oh brother, oh sister at an our like this, Are you still standing in the word of God which is able to save us from this on toward punishments coming swiftly upon this generation.
65. God is found in his word and it is the word that is capable of saving us because the word is our garment, are you still putting it on, are we still standing in the word of God at this moment? Remember, God can bless us in everything but not in unbelief and not in disobedience, what God is going to rapture is his word in us. Is the character, behavior, attitude we are manifesting at this very moment is in line with the word of God? Remember, God’s nature is our ticket to paradise.
66. Are you sure you are still waiting at the gate of paradise or you have wandered way? Check yourself and give yourself a name.
WE NEED WHAT I CALL “THE INNER STRENGHT” AT AN HOUR LIKE THIS. AND THAT INNER STRENGTH COMES FROM CHRIST AND CHRIST ALONE. BUT HOW DEPENDABLE ARE WE ALL ON THAT INNER STRENGTH? NO MAN OR WOMAN CAN REALLY SURVIVE WITH HIS OR HER PHYSICAL STRENGTH AT THIS HOUR WE ARE LIVING IN. YOUR STRENGTH MUST FAIL YOU AT AN HOUR LIKE THIS. WE ALL HAVE TO LEAN ON CHRIST AND CHRIST ALONE.
FROM THE MESSAGE “IT IS EASIER TO DISCONNECT FROM GOD THAN TO CONNECT BACK” PAGE 63 VS 63-64. PREACHED ON 28TH 0CT 2020
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GIVE YOURSELF A NAME
From the same message chapter 4 verses 1 through 10 GIVE YOURSELF A NAME. Sin is pleasure to a wicked man fellow.
2. A foolish person calls evil guy, there is nothing like guy; you guy yourself into hell fire. It is wisdom to walk with God; it is wisdom to obey God.
3. Do not stand in the way of scoffers and mockers. Do not stand in the way of haughty and proud men, violent and disobedient people. Before you know it, you will be imbibing their characters.
4. Move with evil people today and become evil tomorrow.
5. Tell me who you associate with and I will tell you who you are. Not manner of person, I will tell you exactly who you are. For that reason God gave us a message saying “Give Yourself a Name.”
6. That your name is Innocent doesn’t mean you are innocent. Your name is Innocent, does it mean that you are not guilty? If you like answer righteous.
7. Give yourself a name. What is your name? Your character! Character maketh a personality. For that reason once it is lost everything is lost. He has given us His Word so that we can trace ourselves back. That is the essence of the word of God going out in righteousness, to enable one that is erring to find him or herself in the word.
8. Remember last week I was hammering on “The Necessity for All of Us to Strive to Find Ourselves in the Message Whenever Any Message Is Going Forth.”
9. Do not look for somebody else in that message, look for yourself. If you look for yourself you must find yourself. If you are looking for your brother you will find your brother, you will omit yourself. Forget about your brother look for yourself. Find out where the message has addressed your problem which you have not been able to address; a problem that is making you to pass restless nights. Only you know where that problem lies.
10. There is nobody here who cannot identify where the Devil is holding him or her captive and until you are liberated from that shackle, your life is still in danger; you can never walk right.
11. That’s why the hour is saying, put yourselves together, make every wrong right, every crooked path must be made straight.
12. For the God of righteousness is about to walk here with you: to institute a reign of righteousness with his sons and daughters that walked and talked with him not with any other person.
13. Thus, do not suppress your feelings, do not begin to look for excuses you will give, for there is no reasonable excuse before God. There is no reasonable excuse before God: Amen.
14. Remember the message titled THREE KINDS OF RIGHTHOUSENESS, God stated CHURCH RIGHTEOUSNESS, SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND GOD’S OWN RIGHTHOUSENESS.
15. WHICH ONE ARE YOU STILL HOLDING UNTO AT AN HOUR LIKE THIS? To you that based on church RIGHTHOUSENESS then, what is your faith, what is my faith now that God has remove church RIGHTHOUSENESS by sending everybody back to his or her home, saying go back to your home, your family and Begin to feed them with what you have gather so far from him.
16. What if you had not learn and gather from him what would be your faith at an our like this? is it self-righteousness which we all know that it saves nobody.
17. Among all the three righteousness stated above it is but only one that is genuine, perfect, reliable, dependable and is able to save us and that is God’s OWN RIGHTHOUSENESS.
18. For the scripture said in Jeremiah 23 verses 5 through 6 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord Our Righteousness. KJV
19. Then, we began to look into the Books of the Prophets, notably Prophet Enoch. The Book of Enoch Volumes 1 and 2 [The Ethiopic Book of Enoch and The Slavonic Book of Enoch].
20. Vs 14 And the angel came to me and greeted me with his voice, and said to me ‘This is the Son of Man who is born to righteousness, and righteousness abides over him, and the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.’
21. Vs 15 And he said to me: ‘He proclaims to you peace in the name of the world to come; for from there peace has proceeded since the creation of the world, and it shall be with you forever and for ever and ever. [Ethiopic Book of Enoch 71:14 – 15]
22. Follow me to the GREAT SERMON EPISTLE 16 VERES 11-12, 16, 21-22. I have tried my best to make you understand that God alone is holy and righteous.
23. When the only God comes into a family, mountain, church, etc. That place becomes holy. Just like a man that is blessed of God whatever it touches is blessed, but a man that is cursed of God whatever he touches is cursed.
24. It is in this forthcoming branch that all God’s people must put their trust and faith if they really want to be righteous in God’s sight.
25. Verses 16 This branch will sit on the throne of David and will rule with wisdom and justice and will make sure that righteousness prevails everywhere and He will be called the Righteous branch in him is our righteousness Amen.
26. Verse 21- 22 The branch that is to come is going to be a man as we can see from the scriptures. He will grew up from himself and build the true temple of the Lord and he will fill the office of the King David and that of the priest.
27. In other words the government must be upon His shoulder too. It is important to note that He will grow up from himself He will not have anybody as his teacher or counselor. He will have no need of Bible school or human theology. He is the self- existing one. One that existed alone with his faith, doctoring and so on. Amen
28. Brethren, do we have that man in our midst? Yes! We have a man that can turn-on the light .
29. And in every dispensation, it has always been one person. God had always presented one envoy in every dispensation; One bearing His Name. And He sends Him to the people He wants to reveal Himself to and to confirm His truth.
30. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him. 19 If anyone does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to account. [Deuteronomy 18:18 – 19] NIV
31. And We sent not a Messenger except with the language of his people, in order that he might make (the Message) clear for them. Then God misleads whom He wills and guides whom He wills. And He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise. [Surah 14:4]
32. Brethren did we not have A MAN that is greater than all the prophets in our midst today? Amen. The same way let us go to the message titled INNER VOICE CHAPTER 1 VERSES 24
ONCE YOU TAKE IN THE WORD OF GOD, LIVE BY THE WORD OF GOD, YOUR LIFE WILL BEAR WITNESS THAT YOU ARE OF GOD BECAUSE, ALL THE THINGS GOD CONDEMNED, YOU MUST CONDEMN. ALL THAT GOD DELIGHTS IN, YOU MUST LOVE.
NUGGETS FROM THE CHRONICLES OF THE BRIDAL FAITH; THE JOURNEY SO FAR PAGE 150.
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LET THE WORD DRESS YOU
Who Is In Control of Your Family?” Is the Title of our new publication. Do you know Why God preserved His Word in print? This is Done so that we will not forget the Word of God And perish because, once you forget the Word of God, you are likely to err and when you err, Death will strike.
2. St Matthew 4 verse 4 said; But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
3. Brethren, let us make the word of God our dress. Wherever we see or found ourselves, let the word of God stand before us at all times.
4. Please follow God spiritually this moment, for God is talking to us. Let us continue, Follow me to the same message INNER VOICE CHAPTER 1 VERSES 35 – 36
5. Remember, the Devil comes in the form of A spirit; the Devil comes in the form of Anointing. Once you are clothed with the Spirit Of God, which is the Message of the hour, the Word for the hour, false anointing will never Perch on you. If the Word is not for the hour, it Is not from God. Once you are clothed within, your choices are made easy. But as long as you are barren inside, it will reflect outside.
6. So brethren, In everything let us place God first and God alone; for God is nothing but is word, for his word has he lifted up above every other things in heaven and on earth, so Let us make it as our watch word at all time that, in everything GOD FIRST, For God said whatever you put first before God, I mean whatever you place first in your heart before God turns out to be your treasure, where your heart will always be and it automatically becomes your God.
7. Brethren God is saying to us today that we should exalt, extol the word of God above any other thing, for the SCRIPTURES said in Matthew 4 verse 4. That man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceed out of the mouth of the living God.
8. Let’s read from the message titled RESIST THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE EVIL vol 1 chp 1, pg 27 vs 34 through 42
9. When He appeared, He said, “I know the king and ruler of this world is coming, but he has no part in Me.”
10. I will not talk with you much more, for the prince (evil genius, ruler) of the world is coming. And he has no claim on Me. [He has nothing in common with Me; there is nothing in Me that belongs to him, and he has no power over Me.] [John 14:30 AMP]
11. He told us never to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.
12. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. [1 John 2:15 – 16 KJV]
13. Does it mean we will not live in the world? When we were praying, God said, “Do not pray that I should take you away from this world.” No!
14. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth. [John 17:15 – 17 NIV]
15. Rather, pray that I should create enmity in your hearts against the traditions and customs of this world so that you do not copy their behaviors, traditions or customs and begin to act like them. You are a pilgrim and you are a stranger passing through this world of sin. Is it not true?
16. In this your pilgrim’s journey, you need a Helper. While you are dwelling in this world and in this part of the world, you need a deliverer. You need a deliverer.
17. Brethren, at a time like this didn’t we need a deliverer, a comforter?? You see why that, from time to time we need to re- examine and re-evaluate ourselves in the light of the truth, to make sure that we are walking we God and not walking alone, to be sure with are following the cloud and not the crowd. Amen.
18. Let us go to the message titled I HAVE FOUND MY FAULT TODAY vol 1 chapter 5 verse 1 down .St John chapter 4 verses 16 through 17. THE ESSENCE OF MY TOILING. We know how much God loves us Because we have felt his love and Because we believe Him…
19. Do you feel the love of God? What Are we enjoying all this while? Brethren, is It not the love of God? He is opening our eyes because we are in Him and blinding People who are outside.
20. Am I making Sense? Is there any love greater than this? Do not allow what you are seeing With your eyes to deceive you. Sooner than you think, they will pass away.
21. The world is passing away together with all these things we are seeing, but anybody that is found in Christ will live forever. Amen.
22. Do not allow anything to distress you. We know how much God loves us because we have felt his love and because we believe Him when he tells us that he loves us dearly.
23. GOD IS LOVE, AND ANYONE WHO LIVES IN LOVE IS LIVING WITH GOD AND GOD IS LIVING IN HIM. And as we live with Christ, our love grows more perfect and complete; SO WE WILL NOT BE ASHAMED AND EMBARRASSED AT THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, BUT CAN FACE HIM WITH CONFIDENCE AND JOY BECAUSE HE LOVES US AND WE LOVE HIM TOO.
24. If you love Me, keep My Word. If you love Me, do what? Keep My Word. King James Version.
25. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Sure!
26. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. Amplified version.
27. And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious Of, by observation and by Experience)… By conscious observation And personal experience.
28. …and believe (ADHERE TO and PUT FAITH IN and RELY ON) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells And continues in love dwells and Continues in God, and God dwells and Continues in him.
29. In this [union and communion With Him] LOVE IS BROUGHT TO COMPLETION AND ATTAINS PERFECTION WITH US, THAT WE MAY behave like others; their eyes of understanding opened, and they discovered that they had strayed away. 17. What happened? They covered their faces in shame. Fear gripped them.
30. There is no fear in love. We are no longer afraid whether God will destroy us or not. After all, we are in love with Him and He is in love with us because we abide in His Faith. We have believed in Him.
31. We have no other place to go. And we are not paying lip service to our Faith and to our belief in Him. We are grounded, rooted, immovable and unshakable. Amen. If the world will be destroyed now, so be it.
32. Yes! LOVE IS BROUGHT TO COMPLETION AND ATTAINS PERFECTION WITH US, THAT WE MAY HAVE CONFIDENCE FOR THE DAY OF JUDGMENT [WITH ASSURANCE AND BOLDNESS TO FACE HIM] BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. Amen.
33. AS HE IS, SO WE ARE IN THIS WORLD. IF HE IS WITHOUT FAULT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD, WE MUST BE PRESENTED WITHOUT FAULT.
34. IF HE IS WITHOUT BLAME, IT MEANS HE IS LIVING A BLAMELESS LIFE IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. THOUGH THE WORLD WILL BE BLAMING HIM AND FINDING FAULT WITH HIM, BUT GOD IS NOT SEEING HIM THAT WAY.
35. HE IS THE ONE DOING THE WILL OF GOD. YOUR DUTY IS TO LOOK UP TO HIM. DO NOT LOOK AT ANYBODY. LOOK AT CHRIST. HE IS YOUR LEADER, INSTRUCTOR, GUIDE, TEACHER AND EVERYTHING.
36. DO IT THE SAME WAY HE IS DOING IT. DO IT THE SAME WAY HE IS INSTRUCTING YOU TO DO IT, AND STOP REASONING. STOP TRYING TO HAVE YOUR WAY. CANCEL YOUR SELF WILL, AND LET THE WILL OF GOD BE DONE.
37. The problem we are having is that our own will is clashing with the will of God. Our own will gives us joy more than the will of God. Everything from God is perfect. I am striving.
38. It is past 12 noon. I think I am right. Good. So there is still much time, though we will not overstay. Can we overstay in the presence of God? I am watching the time, and about the same time we terminated the teaching last Sunday, I will terminate it again.
39. I am summarizing. Now, let us go to the Book of Jude verse 24 through 25. [24-25] And now—all glory to him who alone is God, who saves us through Jesus Christ our Lord; …yes, splendor and majesty, all power and authority are His from the beginning; His they are from the beginning; His they are and his they evermore shall be. AND HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM SLIPPING AND FALLING AWAY,…
40. Remember the Bible said, “Some are on the brink of slipping away.” They are on the brink of falling away. They are on the brink of being deceived or recaptured by the devil.
41. And God has stepped in to save the situation. He that is able to keep you from slipping or from falling away, from denying your faith, from walking contrary, that is the person you will depend on and his they evermore shall be.
42. AND HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM SLIPPING AND FALLING AWAY,… Remember the Bible said, “Some are on the brink of slipping away.” They are on the brink of falling away.
43. They are on the brink of being deceived or recaptured by the devil. And God has stepped in to save the situation. He that is able to keep you from slipping or from falling away, from denying your faith, from walking contrary, that is the person you will depend on.
44. AND HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM SLIPPING AND FALLING AWAY, AND TO BRING YOU, SINLESS AND PERFECT, INTO HIS GLORIOUS PRESENCE WITH MIGHTY SHOUTS OF EVERLASTING JOY. Alleluia!!! Amen.
45. Oooh No! Can you see where THE SON OF MAN is heading to? Can you see His target? Can you see His goal and why He speaks, shouts and preaches under Awful conditions, even carrying death in His body like I am carrying it now?
46. What is My target? To present all of You faultless before the LORD so that you Will have a shout of everlasting joy. Will there be any limit to the joy of one who has entered into eternal life?
47. One who has conquered the world and made it to Paradise in the end will say, “So at last, I have found myself here.”
48. Let Me tell you. There is no amount of thanks that will be enough to give to THE SON OF MAN, if at the end of the day, he ignores all criticisms, all misunderstandings, all scandals, all gossips, all oppositions and then eventually breaks your resistance, your unyielding spirit, your heart of stone and brings you safely in there. Well, I do not know what to say again.
49. Jude 24 – 25 Amplified. Now to Him Who is able to keep you without Stumbling or slipping or falling, and To present [you] unblemished (blameless and faultless) before the Presence of His glory in triumphant Joy and exultation [with unspeakable, Ecstatic delight] To the one only God, our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory (splendor), majesty, Might and dominion, and power and Authority, before all time and now And forever (unto all the ages of Eternity). Amen (so be it). Amen!
50. Shall we all say, Amen!!! Once again. Amen!!! Amen means so be it. If this is not your desire, you need to Be pitied. It then means you are running without a target. Have you seen why I am Not like any other boxer? I do not hit the Air.
51. I am boxing aiming at removing My Opponent from the way, and then get the Crown. For that, I do not box the shadow. I Am not pursuing shadow. I am an athlete. I am running according to the rule of the Game.
52. I am following the right track, Making no mistake and living no stone Unturned, for I do not want to make any Mistake either.
53. Just like Daniel walked and talked And behaved, avoiding all mistakes. Why? He knows that He is not operating alone.
54. Romans 12:1 – 2 Amplified. Anybody Who is found in the same place and Position where THE SON OF MAN is MUST Be wary of this.
55. Will you toy with the Personality you are representing, who saw The whole world and picked you? Will you Compromise it? Marriage is not considered There. There is nothing that reaches there. It is the only ground of no compromise.
56. THEREFORE THEN, since we are Surrounded by so great a cloud of Witnesses [who have borne Testimony to the Truth], LET US STRIP OFF AND THROW ASIDE EVERY ENCUMBRANCE… Intellect, Feeling, Instinct, Imagination, Suspicion, you can name them. Let us do what?
57. LET US STRIP OFF AND THROW ASIDE EVERY ENCUMBRANCE (UNNECESSARY WEIGHT)… A Big Burden! Unbelief is a big burden, A Load.
58. …and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and STEADY AND ACTIVE PERSISTENCE the appointed course of the race that is set before us,
59. Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus,… Looking away from all that will distract our attention to Jesus Christ. …WHO IS THE LEADER AND THE SOURCE OF OUR FAITH [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also it’s Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]
60. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
61. That is the much we want to take there. It is a popular Scripture, but it is necessary that I read it again. I hope you are with Me still. I hope you are with Me. Are you tired? I am about to round off.
62. I want to answer the question. I will answer it, for if I do not answer it, you will find it difficult to answer.
63. I want to show you a group of people and individuals that received commendations before I will answer this question.
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EVERY TRUE SEED OF GOD HAS AN IMPENETRABLE HEDGE
Follow Me as we read 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 from verse 4, Living Bible. I HAVE THE HIGHEST CONFIDENCE IN YOU,…Was He referring to the air?…AND MY PRIDE IN YOU IS GREAT. That is if you are doing the will of God.
2. Can God say this concerning you, that He have great confidence in you, oh man, oh woman, oh brother, oh sister as one that will not disappoint? Can God go about priding Himself using you?
3. God reposed great confidence in the man Job, and was priding Himself before the devil using Job, “You said you have gotten everybody.
4. Have you tried My servant, Job? I know Him. I am confiding in Him. He is faithful in all His ways. Go and try Him.” When the devil tried, did he succeed? He came back and said, “Oh, you built a hedge around him and told me to go and try? Remove the hedge and see whether he will not succumb.
5. Remove that hedge!” EVERY TRUE SEED OF GOD HAS A HEDGE. DID YOU GET WHAT I AM SAYING? HE IS SURROUNDED WITH A HEDGE WHICH THE DEVIL CANNOT PENETRATE. WHAT IS THE HEDGE? THE WORD OF GOD WHICH YOU ARE HEARING BUILDS A STRONG FAITH.
6. UNDENIABLE FAITH! UNSHAKABLE FAITH! IF YOUR FAITH CANNOT BUILD A HEDGE AROUND YOU, IT THEN MEANS YOU HAVE NO FAITH AT ALL. WHAT DOES THE SEPARATION? FAITH! WHAT GIVES THE DEFENSE? FAITH! AMEN! IF YOUR FAITH IS NOT YOUR DEFENSE, YOU ARE DEFENSELESS. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE? ACTION BACKED BY FAITH IS A DEFENDABLE ACTION.
7. ANY ACTION THAT IS NOT BACKED BY FAITH CAN NEVER BE DEFENDED WITH SUCCESS ANYWHERE. You can only defend it before Heathens, for according to the heathens, Anybody who has a better opinion wins their conscience and wins their admiration.
8. He has a better argument, but Faith does not tolerate argument. You have greatly encouraged Me; you have made me so happy in Spite of all my suffering. Alleluia! These were the people that had Implicit Faith in the Word He gave them. He commended them immediately.
9. …I have great Boldness and FREE AND FEARLESS CONFIDENCE and cheerful courage toward you; my pride in you is great. I am filled [brimful] with the comfort [of it]; with all our tribulation and in Spite of it, [I am filled with comfort] I Am overflowing with joy.
10. This is what I am expecting here. This is the reason, why I am shouting and Laboring, to bring you to a level where Whether I am away or at home with you, I will not be shaking in mind as to whether you will be in Paradise with me or not..
11. My aim is that wherever I go, My boast will be your Faith in Me, for it is not easy to believe in somebody you are familiar with.
12. More so; when I am your Father, your Husband, your Master, your Brother, living together with you and having everything in common with you.
13. Was it not the Faith of Daniel? Was it not the Faith of Enoch? Was it not the Faith of all? Was there any that lived in isolation from human beings? Is your own case different?
14. You see, you will be supernatural Believers when I see this persistent Faith Of THE SON OF MAN who is Christ Revealed in your day; who is your Savior And the Savior of all who will hear Him And believe in Him.
15. Wherever I go, you will be My pride. You will be My boast. I will even be challenging the devil, “You said a Prophet Is without honor among His people. Well, No problem. Come and see My people. They honor Me. They honor My Word.
16. That they have not done it is because I Have not said it. Once I make a statement, they scramble to obey. They obey quickly and quietly.” Then, you have become a motivator to others. You will now encourage others to believe in Me more and more. Is it not true?
17. How do you get it? You look up to Me as the One who is the Originator of the Faith; as the One who is Nurturing it to grow; as the One who is also Finishing it. Is there anybody here who can claim he had this Faith before? Did you have it before?
18. The height which you are now in this Faith, was it what you were before? Did you get it. But you can see how far you are now. Then who will finish it? The same Person. Look up to Him and look away from all those nonsenses” you are seeing in the world, for they have not been helping you all this while.
19. How can they now help you when we have come closest and nearest to the end of all things? As you can see events are made clearer now through prophecy. True or false? Is anybody expecting to see a better world tomorrow? It is impossible.
20. Are you expecting another Son of Man who will come to guide you to this place where you are now? Never! After Me cometh no other.
21. Brethren we have come to the end of all things for the last sign is with us, so expect nothing good to come out from this rotten world again.
22. Seeing what is happening in the world today we need no prophets to tell us what is expected of us to do at a time like this; when everything is becoming increasingly evil and difficult to live a godly life but the answer lies in Christ.
23. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” – Hebrews 12:1.(KJV)
24. The Holy Scriptures contain accounts of righteous men and women whose unwavering faith and patience as highlighted in Hebrews
25. Chapter eleven earned them a good report by the grace of God. They serve as refreshing examples for us whenever we are faced with opposing circumstances from the devil. In Hebrews 6:12, Apostle Paul encourages us to be “followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” The Apostle further reiterated the need for patience, such that, “after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.” Hebrews 10:35,36 KJV. These references strengthen the importance of patience for all who seek for eternal life. The “sin which doth so easily beset us” as expressed in the quoted scriptures, refers to those errors we are readily inclined to.
26. While the New King James Version renders it “the sin which so easily ensnares us”, the Contemporary English Version conveys it as “the sin that just won’t let go” and the Aramaic Bible In Plain English captions it “the sin which is always ready for us”.
27. The point is, every individual striving for the mastery must pray to acquire the spiritual maturity, restraint and discipline to detach himself from things God hates so as to wholly concentrate on the joy that is set before us.
28. IN A TIME LIKE THIS, AS WE SEE THE DAYS APPROACHING, WE HAVE NEED OF PATIENCE; FOR IT IS ONLY IN RETURNING AND WAITING ON THE PROMISES OF GOD SHALL WE BE SAVE. GOD’S NATURE IS OUR TICKET TO PARADISE SECTION 2 CHAPTER 1 VERSES 1 THROUGH 11
29. AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPETH FOR THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT. We have a message titled, “Awake Thou That Sleepeth For The Night Is Far Spent.” Awake thou that sleepeth for the night is far spent, for our salvation draweth nearer now than when we first believed.
30. Underline it in your heart, that every passing day brings you closest, to either your full accomplished salvation, or your full accomplished destruction. That is pure and certain.
31. Because, now you are getting to the end of everything, one thing is clear: it is either you enter Paradise or you enter hell.
32. This is why the point where we are calls for real, thorough re-examination of oneself in the light of the messages we have received so far.
33. For God can do everything, but He cannot lower down the standard because of any human being. If God has set a standard, that standard is there for all the ages.
34. That’s why, when He warned us in the Book of Hebrews, He said we should repent, What is more, that when God’s own standard is met, we would obtain His mercy. When our obedience to the word is fulfilled, we would now get the promise.
35. Nobody obtains the promise of God until His obedience is fulfilled. Obedience to the truth that is revealed to you in your day.
36. That is why I am still emphasizing that partial obedience is no obedience. Selective obedience is as bad as not obeying at all, for we have some people that select messages they will obey, and those they will not obey.
37. That one you have refused to obey is the one that has condemned your belief, for a believer believeth all things, doubting nothing. Thus, you cannot be selective, you believe the ones you feel that are favorable to you, and then disbelieve those you think are unfavorable to you.
38. At the end you discover that those ones you refused to obey, contain the solution to your problem, they are the ones that were very, very essential, for your entry into Paradise.
39. That is why, even in normal days activities, as students, we normally warn: “Do not allow the subject you want to drop to drop you.” Because you are not interested in that subject, you want to drop it, if you are not careful, that subject may cause you to repeat that class, and when you repeat that class, you must repeat that subject.
40. Before you begin to select subjects, there must be compulsory subjects you must pass. Thus, if that one that is compulsory at that stage, is very hard, or for any reason at all, you hate it or you hate the teacher, automatically, you are going to mark time in that class.
41. You may be there while your mates are moving forward. That is why, for you to succeed as a student, you must give all the subjects equal attention, for you paid for all of them. You are there because of all of them. If you have known them, you wouldn’t be there.
42. The same way it is with the messages we have received, it is not believing one and leaving the other, you must obey all, you must believe all. We are not persuading you, nobody is begging anybody again.
43. This is the point where you can now stand up and say, “I have believed”, or “I have not believed.”
I SAID TEMPTATION COMES IN DIFFERENT FORMS. IT CAN COME IN FROM OF HARDSHIP. IT CAN COME IN FORM OF SICKNESS. THEY ARE ALL TESTINGS. THEY ARE ALL TRIALS SO THAT YOU WILL LEARN TO BE PATIENT DURING TRIALS AND STAND UP DURING TEMPTATIONS. 68WHEN IT BECOMES TOO STRONG, YOU DO WHAT? STAND UP! YOU LIFT UP YOUR HOLY HANDS AND YOU BEGIN TO PRAY. INVOKE THE POWERS CONFERRED ON YOU BY THE ALMIGHTY GOD AS A CHILD OF GOD FOR WHEN HE COMMISSIONED YOU, HE SAID, “LO I GIVE YOU AUTHORITY.”
TEMPTATION [TRIAL OF OUR FAITH]; Preached on 18th May, 2020; Pg. 41 vs. 67 – 68
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PRAYER IS THE PRODUCT OF MEDITATIVE STUDIES
In conclusion let’s read From the message REDEEMING THE TIME FOR THE DAYS ARE EVIL preach on 22nd August 2020 chapter 3.
2. Prayer is a product of meditative study. And An Elect prays according to needs which must be in line with the will of the Almighty as revealed in His Spoken Word.
3. 2019 NEW YEAR MESSAGE – THE YEAR OF JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD; Preached on 1st January 2019 at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria; Page 41 from verse 17 through 20.
4. FOR THAT REASON, THIS YEAR CALLS FOR PRAYERS. DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITHOUT PRAYING, FOR GOD IS GOING TO MEET ALL OF US THROUGH OUR PRAYERS. HE EVEN SAID, “IF YOUR HEART IS RIGHT WITH GOD AND WITH YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEING, YOU ARE DOING THE WILL OF GOD,” HE SAID, “BY THE TIME YOU BEGIN TO KNEEL DOWN, GOD HAD ALREADY ANSWERED YOUR PRAYERS.” IS IT NOT SCRIPTURE?
5. SO, IF YOU HAVE BEEN PLAYING WITH PRAYERS, FOR WHICH CAUSE YOUR LIFE HAS NOT GIVEN YOU JOY, DO NOT EVER JOKE WITH IT, FOR YOUR STRENGTH LIES IN THE PRAYERS.
6. PRAYERS WILL COMBINE WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORD OF GOD THAT IS IN YOU AND THEN BUILD A LATENT STRENGTH IN YOU, LATENT ENERGY. IN SHORT, INSULATE YOU FROM HARM, FROM FEAR, FROM DANGERS AND PERILS OF THIS LIFE, FOR YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. YOU KNOW YOUR MISSION ON EARTH.
7. The unchanging will of God for our salvation remains His Word which when combined with His revealed Name are the components of an already answered prayer.
8. The Gospel according to saint John chapter 14 verse 14 said, “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
9. In Matthew chapter 7 verse 7 the Scripture is quoted to have recorded thus: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: [8]for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
10. KNOWING THE WILL OF GOD AND HIS REVEALED NAME, THE ELECT IS HOLDING A BLANK CHECK, WHETHER HE OR SHE REALIZES IT OR NOT. IT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR THE ELECT TO KNOW THE POWER IN HIS OR HER HANDS, WHY AND HOW BEST TO APPLY IT.
11. 7 STEPS TOWARDS REALIZING OF THE PROMISES OF GOD HENCEFORTH: Preached from 6th January to 3rd February 2008 at the Household of God Onitsha; Page 154 verse 3 – 4.
12. Therefore, prayer is very very essential when we pray believing, doubting nothing. Let Me tell you. No matter the knowledge you have acquired, without prayers, the knowledge has no force.
13. THE DYNAMIC FORCE THAT TRANSFORMS KNOWLEDGE INTO POWER IS PRAYER. I repeat; the dynamic force that transforms knowledge into power is prayer. You do not know the power you have acquired through the knowledge you have in this Faith until you see yourself in a troubled condition.
14. Anytime you remember to pray, you go on your knees and pray as an individual, stand up from that place, your heart will be like the heart of a lion. Fear vanishes.
15. When you rise up in “real prayer, sincere prayer”, the fear of disappointment vanishes. The fear of failure vanishes. You are as courageous as courageous can be, because the “latent powers” have been activated through prayers.
16. Prayer is an expression of loyalty and obedience. Prayer is sacrifice, for the person praying has given up trying by using his or her own strength.
17. Prayer shows dependence on a Superior Authority. Prayer is a basic and personal manifestation of total submission to the will of Allah.
18. Therefore, in keeping with the last minute cleansing by THE SON OF MAN in the Message TEMPTATION [TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH] VOLUME 1; Page 93 verse 59, we are encouraged thus:
19. So do not forget prayer. Pray at all times. Remember [1] you must study, [2] you must pray, [3] you must watch. Amen.
20. TEMPTATION Page 118 verse 48. Establish regular prayers as your habit. It is an individual matter. To study is an individual matter.
21. To watch is an individual matter. To pray is an individual matter. If you lose the revelation, Satan will take you to captivity.
22. TEMTATION Page 124 verse 8 – 9. HEAR me very well. Show Me a child of God that is strong spiritually and I will show you one that is fortified with prayers and with the Word of God.
23. Study! Put the mechanics together. And then, with the dynamics which is prayer, you set it aflame; Set it aflame. True or false? AMEN.
24. TEMPTATION Page 126 verse 13 through 14. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A TIME YOU HAVE SET ASIDE FOR PRAYERS AND OBSERVE IT AS A REGULAR PRAYER YOU MUST BE OVERCOME BY TEMPTATION, FOR YOU WILL BE LOSING STRENGTH SPIRITUALLY.
25. The more you nourish the flesh by sleeping, by eating too much, by talking too much and by par ambulating, the more you are weakening your spirit, amen. I hope we are coming home.
26. TEMPTATION Page 142 verse 59 through 61. What should be the attitude of a child of God when he sees himself in such a horrible situation? Kneel down and pray.
27. Let me tell you. The devil will be in trouble anytime he causes a child of God to remember prayers.
28. The devil will be roving and having his way over a child of God until he [the child of God] remembers who he is, and remembers the power and authority conferred on him, and goes on his knees. Amen.
29. TEMPTATION Page 144 verse 65 – 67. Satan is making a noise because a child of God has not remembered prayers. If you want to weaken yourself, stop praying and then, give yourself over to eating, drinking and sleeping [and idle life], watching television when you should be praying. Sitting idle.
30. When you are not meditating about God, you are meditating about the world. You are either gazing at the sky or gazing at the world. You become a gazer and an imaginator. Amen.
31. The main focus of STUDY, MEDITATION and PRAYER is for the purpose of spiritual rediscovery of one’s self, empowerment, growth and then doing exploits according to the revelation from the knowledge so acquired from God.
32. Since the will of God is revealed in the Word of God, STUDY, MEDITATION and PRAYER are essential and tightly interwoven ways of life which produces acceptable sacrifice unto God.
33. There is no sacrifice more acceptable to God than obedience to His Word. Obedience to God is not only made possible, but worshipful and habitual as a result of the revelation of Who God is to the Elect, and also of who the Elect understands himself or herself to be.
34. God takes delight in one who readily abandons his or her own preconceived idea for God’s own recommended way about how to praise, adore, worship, practice and rendering of acceptable service to God. Such a person abandons his or her own idea just to go for WHATEVER GOD SAYS and WHEREVER HE SENDS.
35. Whatever that constitutes the righteousness of an Elect is embedded in the strict followership of the engrafted Word of the Great Jehovah as revealed in our own day by no other but Allah Himself, Apostle Peter Odoemena, (blessed be his most holy name) THE VERY SON OF MAN.
36. If Faith is revelation, the Scripture in Romans 14:23 says that whatsoever is not of faith is sin. So whatsoever that is not done as revealed by the Word of Allah is sin, unbelief and therefore, unacceptable.
37. Avoiding showmanship, hypocrisy and eye-service, everything we do must therefore be considered, determined, approved and controlled by THE Spoken WORD OF THE SON OF MAN as has been revealed in this Bridal age.
38. Let us make a choice of constantly and continually adapting all the activities in our lives according to our personal revelation through the Word.
39. There are many ways one can offer acceptable sacrifice unto Allah. Prayer is one of such ways, for it is also one of the 7 steps towards the realizing of the promises of Allah as was revealed in the year 2008.
40. God loves originality. And this original manifestation of every Elect must be according to the revealed pattern. An Elect does not do a thing because another person had done it.
41. An Elect willingly supports all activities that are geared towards giving Glory to the Almighty Allah.
42. There is a common ground for every Elect. And that common ground is OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH.
43. The greatest Work in the Vineyard remains retaining our sanctified estate. Allah will always say, “REMAIN BLESSED BRETHREN. REMAIN IN YOUR SANCTIFIED ESTATE. REMAIN BLESSED IN HIM ETERNALLY.”
44. His aim had never been that we will stray away. Let not the appetite for rendering service for the sake of recognition be our focus at this dying minute.
45. For all the Elect, there should be an element of “SELF” in all we are doing especially in accordance with carrying out the will of God. One must be self-motivated. Actions should be as a result of a prayerful study and meditation.
46. When you are certain you are in your sanctified estate, you can then extend an arm of fellowship unto others.
47. Let us redeem the time by checking and crosschecking, evaluating and re-evaluating, examining and re-examining our status, stand, position and fate for the days are becoming increasingly evil. But the Mahdi has the final say.
48. WHAT DO YOU WANT GOD TO CALL YOU? VOLUME 2 [GIVE YOURSELF A NAME EXPLAINED] Preached on Sunday, 6th October 2019 at The Household of God, Onitsha; Chapter 6 verse 64.
49. Meditate on the much you heard today and may the Almighty God give you perfect understanding. If you have wandered away, turn around immediately and run back to God, for delay may not be the best thing for you…
50. Let us recognize who we are( a sons and daughters of God) where we are( the hour we are living in) and what the hours calls for( to be sober, vigilant, conscious, watch and pray.
51. On this note I say remain in your Sanctified estate as we see the day approaching, remain blessed in him eternally.