PREACHED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA ON 19TH JULY, 1998.
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THE GRACE OF GOD
1. You see, atonement was made for my sake before the world began. So I have been in the mind of God even from creation.
2. How can I be divorced from His mind now? When I was not useful, I was in his mind. Will it be now I can say I am useful that I will be divorced?
3. I am now a human vessel which He can use to spread His Good News.
4. You know from the beginning the word of God is called good news. But from the time God came, it became bad news. Amen!
5. So, I really thank God because in the beginning, any time somebody sees God’s angel, he will rejoice that good news has come but from the time the situation changed, each time you see a prophet, you feel bad because you know he cannot appear until he comes with bad news.
6. There are hardly prophets with good news. Even if he has good news, he will hide it and he will start telling you how you have departed from God.
7. Check your bible; The good news will come out when they have finished with bad news. I don’t know whether there is any day somebody is not rolling on the ground.
8. The lord will always rejoice when he sees us rolling on the ground.
9. Then the lord will rejoice. Let me tell you, both the man who made the law and the law, they are all sadists
10. These people that will take pleasure when they see others in sorrow. That person that rejoices when he sees others in sorrowful condition, is he a good person?
11. He will always subject a man to the point where he will say, ‘I am sorry’, please pardon, please pardon. That is the work of the law. Amen!
12. I really thank God.
13. Do you know that grace made it impossible for my brother to sin against me? There is no way I can raise my leg and hit my brother.
14. Even if I try to harm him by the law, grace says, “If he sins seven times seventy a day.” Even if he has no other job, even if he doesn’t think of another thing except me. I don’t think he will commit sin against me seven times seventy a day. Four hundred and ninety times a day!
15. There is something in grace. Under the law, there is no such provision, it is commit and die. That was why Moses killed them without mercy.
16. One single offence, God sanctioned Moses to kill; no single intervention would take place because they showed no compassion. They showed no compassion. So, nobody interceded for Moses.
17. There was no intercessor for Moses. The man died. Even for Aaron; Nobody pleaded the case of Aaron because they were given the law without mercy.
18. Nadab and Abihu, nobody interceded, Korah, Dathan and Abiram, they were numbered among the seventy elders who were judges.
19. The same measure they used in judging others, the same measure was used for them. The land opened. Nobody said, “The Lord holds your peace….” There was nothing like that.
20. It is what you use to measure to others that will be used to measure to you.
21. But to the meek that are merciful and show compassion, God will override his judgment concerning them because blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
22. Our brother Vin was telling me what it takes to be under the law because he placed his faith in Sabbath, yet he knew they were hypocrites also. I said, in spite of the way he kept the law and everything, how many people did he save today?
23. Even if he never enforced the hopeless law without causing somebody to die. Do you know, if you reply your father angrily; you are worthy of death?
24. You tell him, “Foolish, foolish,” he will bring you out; you are worthy of death. But today, you can slap your mother and slap your father and end it by tendering apology. “Mummy forgive me; I didn’t mean to hurt you. That ends the matter.
25. If you like forgive, if you like don’t forgive. I have said “Forgive me” and if you don’t forgive, God will never, never forgive you. That settles the matter.
26. I am sorry, please forgive. You go your way. If she doesn’t want to forgive, it is her business.It is not my business. Amen! This is so because in the grace, there is truth.
27. No matter how they say they want the truth from inward heart, the only man that practiced it was King David.
28. David told God from his inward heart, that is why God counted him worthy to be a saint in his day.
29. The same thing is applicable to Job. Job examined himself very well. He couldn’t help the situation. He called himself mere maggot. Mere dust! Innocent or guilty, God must destroy. Do you take him to court? You can’t take God to court.
30. The highest thing you can do is to stay in your house and make noise. In your parlor you can slap God. You can arrest God in your parlor, but talk of coming out and say, “God, let us wrestle, you can’t try it.” Amen!
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THE NEW AGREEMENT
1. We thank God that we are alive till today. In life or in death he will still be our God because we have proved him to be the Almighty.
2. Let me tell you, we are trailing on the impossible path.
3. It is a simple message; do you know that? No wonder William Branham saw the whole matter.
4. He said, the voice of the seven thunder message is not going to be a mighty thing like you may be tempted to think.
5. It may be a simple message like repent and believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, “It is going to be a very simple message.” Looking at the message, do you know it is simple but it is not easy to believe.
6. Looking at this message, it is a simple message. So simple but it is not easy to believe. It is easier to practice the law than to practice grace.
7. It is easier to practice the law than grace. Why? The law is more popular because law has lasted as long as the world has lasted.
8. People keep on renewing the law, carrying it over but there has to be a man who will come on the scene and say, “This thing must stop and can never cross this road.”
9. That will show you that we have come to the end of the meeting. I will look at the environment and say “God thank you I am saved.”
10. If you like set the world ablaze; I don’t care. I am now saved because I have recognized my family and I have come back. Although I came back mad, I came back paralyzed but at last I have come back. Amen!
11. When they are coming back, the bible said, “Both the lame, the crippled, the infants, the nursing mothers, the pregnant mothers; all of them are coming back. Nobody will be left behind.
12. This is our Jubilee year. However; I am celebrating my own today. Finish!
13. I am not looking at you. God is not watching what you are saying.
14. He has already concluded the matter before He set you free. He knows as many as will believe my message. He knows them that will not believe. If He sent me, He must give me those that will believe. Let me tell you, He knew them that did not believe.
15. God cannot send a man to a people without sending the people for which the message was meant. It is not meant for everybody. Not all has this faith. Amen!
16. We are looking unto God for a new agreement. We are not working in the old agreement made with Moses.
17. The old agreement made with Moses will stop when Christ appears. Immediately Christ appears that one will not be carried over again.
18. Anybody carrying that ruling over again is carrying expired ruling
19. Do you know that any rule you have from God has expiry date? If he says seven years, after seven years, the man is still alive, he will make another one.
20. If one is old and it is in your hand; the man makes a new one, maybe the man dies after making a new one or maybe the day it is going to be opened you come forward with the old one, maybe your name was in the old one, and in the new one, your name was removed because of iniquity.
21. You don’t know and you are carrying the old one, you are going to God with the old one. God will laugh at you.
22. Maybe you were carrying the old one when your mother was faithful but when your mother strayed away, He removed the name of your mother, all your brethren and all that matter.
23. Look at the new agreement, your name is not there and you begin to demonstrate, “I will kill all of them.” That is your business, kill all of them; your name is not there. Amen!
24. It was a new agreement Moses made before them. I said, “It was a new agreement Moses made before them” Let me tell you, “It happened in the wilderness.”
25. God told them clearly, “A new agreement I am making with you, not the one I made with your fathers in the wilderness wherein they died”.
26. A day is coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, the lord will raise up from among you one whose voice you must hear and it shall come to pass, if any does not hearken unto him, he shall be cut off from among his brethren. Amen!
27. He said, “The lord your God will raise up a prophet like unto me from among you.”
28. If Moses’ prophecy should continue, why is God sending another one? But since that agreement will not be like the one he made with the man he raised up from among you like he raised Moses.
29. But the agreement I will make with that one shall be different from the one I made with Moses. In that of Moses they died, in that of their man, they will live.
30. Because of their hard heartedness, He gave them laws that could not give life. They were carrying death with them since they were given laws that could not give them life. Amen!
31. We thank God. I don’t want to minister to you this night. I want us to listen to tapes. But there is no way somebody can come here without saying something, because I know there is inspiration in the pulpit. As long as the lord is living, there must be inspiration. Amen!
32. This morning, we listened to a very nice message that said, “Surely, the law cannot save us”; Surely, the law can never save us. There is no way the law can save us, no way!
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THE POWER OF GOD
1. Brother Joe, the pastor of the church at Jos is here. We saw him yesterday morning and we rejoiced. And I told you earlier that I would never travel to the North until the battle line was drawn.
2. On Sunday, we read encouraging letters from Jos and Dadinkuwa. That notwithstanding, come out and say shalom to the church and share some of your experiences from Dadinkuwa.
3. From Jos, we heard that something smoked you up when you were about to say something. I don’t know how far that could be true.
4. The same way we heard that rain had not fallen for sometimes in Dadinkuwa almost throughout this year and all their crops were perishing…
5. I greet you brethren in the name of the Lord Christ. I bring you greetings from the brethren in Jos and Dadinkuwa.
6. We thank God so much for the message has gone on well. You see, it is a very wonderful message. I cannot see why some call it another name.
7. But I will call it a message of deliverance because the Lord, who sent forth his direct message from heaven, can never send it forth to destroy us.
8. It has broken a lot of poisonous things among the people and it has made us harmless. Now, we are very much controlled by the power of God.
9. We thank God because we find out that this message is taking us somewhere. It is taking us to a height no man can ever take us again.
10. I will say this message is a new wine. So, there is much power in a new wine and we cannot take it with the old vessel. That is why we must throw away everything to accept this new wine. So that it will lead us to that very place God has destined for us.
11. You see, I know that the voice of God, no man can blame. When I was here, I had no opportunity to be with you in service at that time.
12. I was asked to return with a very strict instruction that whatever I have heard and notes that were made, that I shouldn’t at all try to say anything about them. But all I was given permission to say was to make few testimonies around them.
13. So, you see, a little while, maybe sympathetically I wanted to say one or few things. I wanted to say one or two things to express how much it was in me.
14. You know, if something is bubbling in you, you just want to say one thing. But when I did that, I felt the presence of a being, a very powerful force and that very powerful force took me away from the chair I was staying and threw me down.
15. Immediately, the force threw me down, I realized what I did. So, I said, “Lord, have mercy upon me because I know I have disobeyed your voice. I will never do it again.”
16. The same period, our sister was at work. She just went in to say prayers that morning. Clear audible voice came to her saying, “Tell your pastor that if he had continued that way, he would have been a dead man.”
17. Then when our brother came again from Dadinkuwa! He said, “There was a prophecy that said if the pastor had continued that way’, I will destroy him.” That goes to show God was behind him, God is going places with him.
18. I really thank God. It is a very great eye opener. Let us know that it is not the voice of a man. And we must be very, very careful to abide by the voice. Also in Dadinkuwa, it has been the marvelous hand of God that has been with our brethren.
19. Wait a minute, is there any prophecy from Dadinkuwa fulfilling now?
20. Yes, Sir. That is true Sir. There was a prophecy that came from Dadinkuwa. And this prophecy said, “The center rolling stone had cleared from the way and allowed a negative pointing star in the north.”
21. Then, he said, “My servantuse your four eyes to get this thing”. A wife and a husband have now ganged up to fight against my voice. He went ahead to say, “You, that are building a house, you are building your doom, a double minded man.” However; this thing came in March.
22. Was there anybody here in March? 6th March! Sitting down in the church very quietly! But they had already conspired in their heart to label this message false. We singled them out by their action. But watch… The center stone has given way. A negative star! Brother Ebenezer, can you see that vehicle now? Yes! I think it is a luxury bus. God cannot be waiting. God must halt it.
23. So, when it actually came to pass, he drew our attention to that very prophecy. Then we glorified God because there is nothing that will come to pass without our God letting us know. In Dadinkuwa also, it has been the marvelous hand of God.
24. You find out that there has not been rain for a very long period. But the greatest thing is that God is received in every age by his children.
25. You find out that a lot of people have seen it clearly that these men, it must be the mighty hand of God guiding them. Because every other farmer you know they all planted corn.
26. They are farmers. Many found out that a lot of these corns had already come up, with the little rain that fell initially. So, when the rain ceased, all other ones started drying up.
27. But all the farms of our brethren, every day you see their corns growing and it came to the point of almost getting to harvesting. the leaves were very green and they were hoping to harvest very soon without rainfall again yet all other corns in the whole city had withered.
28. Is it scripture? God blessed Isaac in the time of drought. God knows what He is doing. We were told that the villagers were even demonstrating against it instead of glorifying God. You see the angle God is now punishing the people. He is holding rain for the land and only blessing Andrew and his brethren. Amen!
29. Actually, there was an epidemic. It was like boils that were coming out of the little children but you find out that there was nothing wrong with even one child among the brethren.
30. So, the rest of the people saw it as if it were a taboo on them whereas there was something protecting these other ones. Actually, it has been the mighty hand of God that has been keeping the brethren back here in the north. And we give God the glory.
31. In the house of Sister Thomas, one morning, she came out very early to pick her bible and go back to the room to pray. When she came out to the parlour, she saw a thick cloud. It was hanging there very clear and visible hence it was just hanging not that there was no light.
32. The light was on but the cloud was just hanging there. Immediately she stepped to the door of the room, coming to the parlour, she noticed it. There was a kind of chill, fear from her head to the toe. She just stood still there watching it for awhile.
33. Did the husband get up? Yes! The husband who was excommunicated got up and saw it. Fear gripped him.
34. He ran took his bible and ran back to the room he came out from and the sister couldn’t go further but returned back to the room.
35. The cloud followed her into the room. When the cloud followed her into the room, it stood over the little baby’s bed! It remained there till the morning hour.
36. She couldn’t sleep and she couldn’t pray but remained by the side. The husband saw all these things. So, that was why in the morning when it was getting to day break, it started moving out of the house.
37. Amen! Glory be to God! Was there any request that anytime something, something like Bee…?
38. Yes! Actually, in the same house, she was always having the experience of bees and flies that used to come in before now. So, there was a request she made in her prayer that God should help her because it was a very wrong thing to find those things.
39. That every time she saw bees coming in, that there might be death in the family.
40. That is, bees will come and form something like bee-hive and spend days hence they brought the matter here.
41. It was after the matter was brought here that she had this wonderful experience.
42. The bee’s experience vanished and the cloud experience appeared. Let me tell you we are worshiping a living God whether you like or not. We were sharing testimonies somehow this afternoon.
43. When I look at somebody, I would share one experience with you but you should better hear that person very well. Today, He must lead you home safely that is why I love God. Amen! God bless you my brother. You can sit down. Today again, our brother Umezulike visited us with the wife. He said he came to see a child that was born to us and was very happy…
44. While we were there, Bishop Nnachor came in and we formed a very nice church. We were comparing our experiences and so on. Our brother in his usual way; told us a lot of things.
45. He was very, very happy. He was still rejoicing till today, rejoicing exceedingly, and expressing his faith every day. You know action is faith expressed. He was expressing his faith daily, carrying his bible boldly now, not hiding his bible. I thank God for what He is doing.
46. We were really blessed. He told us his own experience. He said, “Brother, I had an experience on my way to Lagos last night.” I said, “Brother, share your experience. To God be the glory” He said, “Brother, when we were going to Lagos, I was there in the vehicle with my relation and my driver,
47. Along Ore, that place there was thick bush! We were running at a very top speed because my driver moves very fast. All of a sudden, an old man came out from the bush. Just all of a sudden and what we saw was that he just jumped out.
48. The driver wanted to put his vehicle on the run.” I said, “God.” While we passed, the man pointed and then made like this. The driver said, “He is a mad man.” I said, “No.” And so, the man vanished.
49. He said, “The driver parked after some distance. May be, there could be some armed robbers because the way he turned means we were heading to danger. So, the driver parked. We came out.
50. The driver looked sideways. Lo and behold, one of the front tyres was already off, the bolt gone, the Ball bearing broke into pieces. The tyre was off yet it wasn’t noticed in the steering.” That is, they would have rolled off like that on the ground. No sign! But who was the man that rushed out that time? Amen!
51. You know our brother very well. You know him very well. And you know his age, any sensation there? No sir! That is why the driver continued to tell me,
52. “I said Oga, you have known me. Who drives your madam? We have been sharing testimonies. You say you de fear me. Don’t fear me. Come closer. Oga I will tell you.
53. Any time you say, “I will come to your house and eat and do this thing”. I fear you well, well because since I know this Oga, this myOga is kneeling down before his presence; I know he is not an ordinary man.
54. You know your church here. I don’t go to that church but I stay in my house and hear what they say. Oga let me tell you. Anytime you want to give me anything, give it to me on the ground. I don’t want to be stubborn.”
55. Let me tell you, I used to plead with the man to come up. Even the police man, they would refuse. Even if brother would come and meet them, they would say, “No, we are hungry, we want to eat but bring it down.” Tell me, who was this old man?
56. How are you surprised, can God lead you half way? God who sanctioned your journey said, “Any time you are going, I am going with you? When you get to that house also, relax. I, myself will come to consecrate it. I will make it impossible for you to think anything evil.
57. Just do your work without compromise and government will bless you by giving you two brand new cars, one Honda and one station Wagon worth four point something billion.” Government has blessed him actually. Brethren you can trust me now.
58. After the whole thing, I put on my jacket and said, “Sir listen to me very well. I love your gifts, I love your wine. You know, in the society, at least, you have come up in essence.
59. You are now recognized. If you know that if I tell you the whole truth, I will become your enemy stop coming to my house from now. Don’t come to my house again from now. Go away with your gift away with it! Everything bye-bye!
60. If you know that this friendship which you have established with me, you don’t want us to be friend here and remain like this till eternity. Please, stop coming. Don’t come again.
61. But if you love the way we are moving now and you want us to retain it and remain like this forever. I will tell you all it will take you to be there.” He said, “Brother, tell me.” The wife said, “Don’t withhold one. That is why we want to die with you.” You see revelation.
62. I said, “Remember what I told you last time we met. If you know that you are above God and above telling the truth, after today, don’t come again.” Friendship must be in the word. Outside the word, no friendship! It is applicable to all of you.
63. If I will enjoy my company with you, your company with your brethren and you want us to remain as friends wherever we go till eternity, definitely only one thing must be valued and that thing is truth. I won’t withhold it from you. You won’t withhold it from me.
64. So, while criticizing me as your enemy or foe, you must speak truth in Love. Speak the truth in love. No Jews or Gentiles will be a partaker until he/she believes the faith that is in me so that he will be sanctified by my faith.
65. We were locked up in prison custody until this faith came. So, if you want to be blessed with me and my father, Abraham, surely; you must believe Abraham’s faith.
66. This is my faith and it is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. But when you have Moses’ faith and you don’t want to drop it. You are ending it here with every other person in the world.
67. Our friendship with each other is in the word. Our association is in the word. We will fear you. I say, “We will fear you.” We will suspect you. Any step you take; we will suspect to see whether you have got some law.
68. I have told you that for a plastic to be magnetized by a magnet, it should be placed between two irons. The plastic should hold tightly to the two irons if it wants to be magnetized.
69. There was a little story they were telling us in those days. Little birds gathered to go for a very wonderful wedding ceremony.
70. The tortoise said that he would be there. And people thought of how to carry tortoise to that place and there was no way. Two eagles volunteered to bring suggestions that they would bring dual sticks.
71. The tortoise would use mouth to hold the sticks. Then the two eagles would hold the sticks and then fly away. That was the only way they could take the tortoise to the party. So, the thing worked but on their way.
72. All the birds that were in the air, they were praising the eagles for bringing out such a wonderful idea. While they were praising the birds, you know that idea was brought about by the tortoise executed by the eagles.
73. So, it should have been the tortoise to take the glory. So, while other animals were praising the eagles for formulating such a wonderful idea to carry the tortoise to the party. So, the tortoise got offended. So, in his anger, he wanted to open his mouth, the sticks fell and the tortoise screamed. They didn’t know that he opened his mouth.
74. So, our sister did you get the message? Hold tightly to that iron even if you are the one that brought out that idea that they should continue to hide you so that the magnet would carry you and you would be under while hiding.
75. So, if we are praising the magnet, remain calm until you get to the wedding place. Any day you say, “I brought the stool, I formulated the choir” you are losing the grip.
76. That is why when you hear me talk, don’t doubt me. Whatever that will tell you to look outside will draw your attention away and your mind will be ruminating on what you have seen and what you left in the house.
77. I met your husband briefly and I interacted with him somewhere. Amen!
78. The man would have been in this faith if not for one thing. But we cannot fill the much to enable the man come into this faith.
79. If he cannot conquer his mother and come into this place, he is not yet a man. Take away the mother today, the man will baptize in this place. Somebody said, Almighty, is it true?” Yes! You know yourselves. Amen!
80. So, brethren, we really thank God. God is going to places doing exploits. Many, many testimonies here and there! Mighty deliverance, mighty things, this same God is doing just to confirm His ever presence in the bride.
81. Will you be happy to see somebody after hearing this message, he will shake his head. You want to sympathize, God said, “Do not sympathize, carry him Piaa, Waa.” …
82. Don’t sympathize with any Jew but tell them the whole truth. That Jewish idea cannot help any man. Are you getting what I am saying? Maybe I will read scriptures from here to help the Jews again.
83. Do we still have Jews in this camp? God forced that lady to fall on Sunday to settle her differences. Is it still there? They don’t want to discard it. Pastor, have you abandoned your own? Amen.
84. You know, we were talking last time. I said, “Brethren, your pastor’s problem is that he requires prayer because the voice told him something before all of you.”
85. Sympathize with him! The voice said, “I doubt whether the pastor of Onitsha church can still pastor this church any time I finish making this tape because by the time I will complete my work on the tapes, I will lift up the church to such a very high-land, that for him to pastor them, he will go higher.”
86. In other words, if he wants to survive it, if I use three scriptures to talk to the church, he will use twenty scriptures to balance it. Pastor, you see the remedy now.
87. The son of man has used three scriptures and you will use fifteen scriptures to support it. Amen!
88. Because I have started to do something that is strange! Do you know that no law checks me? I can even marry a Midianite.
89. The highest Aaron and Miriam will do is to murmur. After murmuring, there it ends. You cannot do otherwise. If I see you there, I will call on God to bear witness of the whole thing. What you will hear is, “Who told you? Is he your servant? Does it concern you? If it is my will that he should marry such a wife, what is your concern there?
90. I thank God for what He is doing in this church. God is tracking a revelation somewhere. This is the hour William Branham saw and prophesied. He said “Wait until the bride will recognize who they are – sons and daughters of God that are not under the law.” As free as air!
91. They that know their God must do exploit. If God is with us, who can be against us? Don’t provoke Him. So, as I try to do something that is strange to you, any day I spot out a Jewess here, she must become a preacher before me. I will place you on the pulpit and you stand here and then give us your doctrine. I will fire you with questions.
92. If you must abide under Moses, you go by Moses. You use your bible to tell us and support your doctrine. Any day you mention grace or New Testament, I will deal with you. Then when you finish with your scriptures, you will bring out somebody who is a Christian to challenge you.
93. Because I know that once you are Moses’ disciple, it is just like somebody will defend tithe in a Pentecostal! He doesn’t know beyond Abraham paid tithe, Isaac paid tithe. If you say, “Abraham paid tithe.” You will mention how he paid tithe. But if he jams a Christian, he will draw back.
94. Brother Umezulike was telling us of the experience of one man from Igbariam who heard my message at Enugu the day he wedded. When we left, the man troubled Umezulike and said, “I have to be sincere.
95. Watch this man, I fear him. See the way he is handling the Bible, using scriptures upon scriptures, turning pages as if he is the writer of the bible.
96. The way he handles the word, he started turning pages, entertaining all the questions. Infact, he is the writer of the bible.” Let me tell you, you know we read the bible.
97. Why do you listen to carnal interpretation from somebody when you are the writer of the Bible? I said, “Sir, please, we are not numbered among them that make noise on the matter for which they are ignorant of.
98. We are well informed. We are not fanatics.” Amen
99. Maybe we will listen to a little small voice not by-passing the tape. Let me just leave off the interpretation. You know the interpretation I mean- opening of the bible.
100. We use your own bible. What is it by your time? Ten minutes to five. Surely, the law cannot save us. Surely, the law can never save us. Amen.
101. Let me see whether I can scratch something. Go to the book of Saint Luke, chapter nineteen, from verse one through ten.
102. And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
103. And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
104. And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
105. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for today I must abide at thy house.
106. And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
107. And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, that he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
108. And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
109. And Jesus said unto him, this day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. (KJV)
SECTION 2
TESTIMONIES OF PROPHECIES
FULFILLED TESTIMONIES
OF PROPHECIES FULFILLED
PREACHED BY
APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA
THE SON OF MAN
THE INFALLIBLE ONE
AT THEHOUSEHOLD OF GOD,ONITSHA
ON 21ST FEBRUARY 1999
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IT IS UNFORTUNATE TO DIE WITHOUT CHRIST
If God is in you, you are God’s Sanctuary. That is why we now sing LORD prepare me a sanctuary pure holy tried and true with thanksgiving. I will be a living sanctuary for you.Lord prepare me a sanctuary, pure, holy, true and faithful, dwell in me, Make me your holy sanctuary. So you are God’s holy sanctuary wherever you are today.
2 It is my pleasure to welcome in our midst, little Brother…… Well let me hold my peace until they come with their names. Let me hold my peace.
3 Bro Simeon! I hope you came with a name with your family. So let me withhold my own. Let me withhold my own. I will hear your own first. That will not stop me from naming the child. As long as God Lives, I will name the child here.
4 You have right as parents to name the child in your house and I have a right as the Man of God here to name the child according to the direction of the Holy Spirit.
5 So, whatever that the LORD puts in my mouth that time, I will declare. Amen. God bless you all.
6 There are many testimonies before me here Many notes; really, they are wonderful. I will start with number 1 and that is the overseer of the Church, brother NnamdiOgbogu. Let us hear your testimony.
7 This is the only Church of God. We do not have rules and regulations here as per worship service. I can start with testimonies and end up with prayers.
8 I can start with prayers and end up with testimonies. All of them to God’s glory. So Pastor, let us hear your testimony.
9 Amen, Shalom! It has pleased the LORD that I am alive and in your midst today. This is because what the devil had in stock for me within the week that just ended is not just one or two or even three but I thank the Almighty God who saved me from all these things.
10 My testimony is in three parts but I will start with one and go to the rest in few words.
11 There is something that is happening in our office which started about one month ago. Struggle for position. when it was coming up, rumors were also coming.
12 People were coming to me to tell me, I told them that I do not know anything but I know who I worship. So I went to Him and told Him what was happening in my office. He inquired from me about how the whole thing started and I explained everything to Him. He said to me “RELAX YOUR MIND GO AND STAY IN YOUR OFFICE.” I said, “Amen!” I left Benjamin and went home and relaxed my mind.
13 On Friday, all our heads of departments including the DGM [Deputy General Manager] Operations, Area Manager, Territorial Manger in fact all of them that are heads of the different sections came down to our office because of what was happening in our office then I was not in my office.
14 Why I was absent from my office, at about 9 o’clock in the morning, I decided to dash off to Ogidi to see my relations and also buy some fuel for we scheduled to go to Awka on Saturday
15 On my way back, around Isiokwe by St. Stephen’s I had an accident there, the whole front of my vehicle was shattered.
16 As the accident happened, the person who was involved in that accident with me brought me to the police station here.
17 I remained in the Police station from 11a.m till 5p.m in the evening. I stood one place there but what I did was that I remembered The Son of Man.
18 So I wrote a note, gave it to Okada operator directing him to deliver it at Benjamin. I instructed the Okada operator to give the note to The Son of Man.
19 I did not know anything about all that were happening in my office. They were looking for me everywhere but I was not in the office.
20 That was the day they were to take a decision of the position that was being contested for but God Himself knew the person he wanted to occupy that office. In my absence he still placed me there. My fellow staff in the office could not exhaust the story of their experiences that day.
21 They were all telling the story of how they looked for me everywhere all to no avail. They were even looking for me in Benjamin because they know that I always come to Benjamin. They looked for me everywhere.That’s truth!
22 You see, this would have been the opportunity that would have made them to decide on who should occupy the position since I was not around, but the Word that went forth first, telling me to relax my mind that nothing was going to happen, thus I anchored on it.
23 The other one is that God started revealing many, many things to me that I raised my hands and said, “Thank you.” For I do not have any other person but Him.
24 He told me that if I had stepped my feet into that house in my home town, I would have been a dead man.
25 That if I had driven that car and stepped into Ogidi, that I would have been a dead man today. So, in order to prevent it God now used that accident to prevent it.
26 Since that Friday till now, I really do not know how to thank God and as soon as He was given my note which I gave the okada man, He rushed immediately because He had already seen the plans they had for me there. He rushed immediately and started running up and down.
27 He kept running up and down to secure my release because they planned to abandon me there till Monday. Praise the LORD.
28 There is another testimony from Mama Ikebude as she is coming up let us praise God whether you know the song or not we will praise God by the song. You are good O God. He that made it possible for me to be alive is good. LORD, we are saying that you are good.
29 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD! My heart is filled with joy that I am able to stand before you to testify of the goodness of the LORD to me. God loves me so much any time I kneel down and call upon His Name, He answers me beyond my expectations.
30 Why is it so? If God had not been answering my prayer, I do not know how I would have been coping with all the challenges that confront me in life. This testimony is about my sister that died.
31 What is your testimony? What is that thing God did for you? So the totality of all I have been saying is that I prayed to God that she should not die in my absence. God bless you. God bless you.
32 I am alsograteful to the members of the Church that run to my rescue at any time anything happens.
33 God bless you. Let there be no emergencies again. We will be coming for weddings. We will not be coming for the sake of the dead. This issue of death and burial is enough. Now, go and sit down. Let there be no emergencies again.
34 What we are expecting from now on are weddings, presentation of new born babies and marrying of wives. For burials we will not talk about it again. That one should stop.
35 If I am to say, I will say “May God not allow any living being to die again until the day of the final destruction of the world so that we will die once and we will have our rest”. We are tired of digging graves. We are also tired of crying.
36 The greatest abomination is the case of one who is your carnal friend and you think he will accept the Gospel as you give it to him/her when you finish giving the Message, he/she will give you a stern warning. You will be wondering when the enmity started.
37 He will tell you to remain on your own from today if that is the situation, it shows that you are the one upholding the relationship but if he is the one upholding the relationship he will not give that type of strict warning “If you are joking stop it from now.”
38 You may inquire, “My friend what is the problem?” The reply will be, “Whenever you are talking about this your Jesus thing, go outside and talk about it. I have heard enough. I am comfortable where I am.”
39 That is the most unfortunate thing that is happening. Somebody staying here for one thousand years, dying without Christ. It is a horrible thing. You better stay here one day and die in Christ than to stay one million years on earth and die without Christ. The person is lost eternally. Amen.
40 Too many testimonies here. Even the name of those we have not seen for some time and even those we read about in correspondences they are all here.
41 There is a face I knew long ago that I have seen here. “The face of an old knife.” Did you hear what I called it? “The face of an old knife.”
42 Just like the relation of Brother Joshua who comes from Otuocha. Who knows what he has heard and then ran out again? My friend, what did you hear?
43 Maybe you have heard that the world will be destroyed tomorrow and you decided to run away today. The world will not be destroyed tomorrow.
44 So, you can go back to where you have been. We do not beg anybody to strive that he may be saved with his family. If you do not want, lie down where you were.
45 There is no problem. What will raise you from your lying position is coming. Do you know that one day, sleep will varnish from people’s eyes? You will look for bed but you will not see bed.
46 If anybody should tell you to sleep, you will curse such a person. If someone should tell you to sleep, you will declare that person your personal enemy.
47 So, while there is day, let us walk, for the night cometh when no man shall walk.
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TESTIMONIES OF PROPHECIES FULFILLED
Testimony, testimony, testimony! Sister Simeon; this testimony and the dedication will come together, bear with us here. Brother Simeon, Dedication of new baby to Almighty God Fine! Your testimony and that of your wife will come together.
2 We must see the person for whose sake we are giving the testimony. This is because some of us have not seen the person.
3 Dedication of my motorcycle. Fine! We will dedicate it when we are about to dismiss from Fellowship. Remind us about it again.
4 Testimony. Brother Basil. Come forward. I call you Brother, because these things are filed. When you write it on this type of piece of paper, we do not know what you are talking about. We do not tear dreams. We file them in the Church file.
5 So, whoever that wrote this one, please, after service today take it back and recopy it in a better piece of paper and bring it back to us. Go ahead.
6 I will speak in Igbo. ……. God bless you Brethren. Amen. God bless you.
7 A child of God is a child of God. Take him to Babylon, he will worship Jehovah there. Take him to Egypt. Single-handedly he will worship Jehovah in Egypt. He can never compromise his calling but if you are not a child of God, maybe you have a dual nature partly Jew, partly Gentile surely, if you get to Lagos you will join with Lagos group.
8 If you come back here, you will become member of the Bride Church. That is how you know them. They do not have a base at all.I thank God for Bro Basil. Bro Christian from Aguleri, there is no testimony here, but very soon I will call you.
9 If I do not call you, another person will call you to tell us why you allowed your wife to be coming to the Church and you became the chief of Aguleri to put things in order in the village.
10 You see, God hates that type of habit or membership in this Church. We do not know who and who that belongs to this Church. We do not have a register where your name is written but we trust God for one thing that he knows his own members. As many as are regular to Church activities, they attend meetings on Fellowship days, they are regular in every Church activity, they support what the Church is doing in every way. They are members of the Church.
11 For that reason, we do not have any register where we put your name but when we look for you and we do not see you, we know you have gone back to your fathers.
12 We can publish your obituary after sometime and declare you missing but once we publish that your seat is vacant, somebody can fly in and occupy your seat. God bless you Church.
13 I do not have too many testimonies, but dedication, dedication, dedication. One dream. Bishop Okechukwu please come and read the dream.
14 Brother Peter Odoemena has a testimony, I am the happiest person here today. God is good to me and my family. I need to share the testimony.
15 Dream (19 – 02 – 99): I was in a dream where I was living in the same yard with Bishop Okechukwu Paul. And it was during farming season. Then, one old man whose hairs were white as snow came and he visited us and he was telling our landlord that he is not the landlord of the people living in his yard but I and Bishop Okechukwu.
16 Then this old man had three big swords. He gave me one, one to Bishop Okechukwu. The other one he said was his own and he said to us, “This is farming time. Take it for your farming.” And I fell down at his feet and worshipped him, thanking him for such help which he helped us.
17 While Bishop Okechukwu Paul was watching us with his hands folded with a smile to his face the old man said to me “Brother Kelechi, you will first take the sword.” I said “Sir, I have received it but would you not receive my thanks for what you have done for us?” He said, “I have received it.” he put his hand into his bag and brought out a file and gave it to me and said it is for the sharpening of the sword. And I have not seen such file in my life and it seemed as if the old man will go with us into the farm.
18 Then I woke up. (Bro kelechi).
19 Glory be to God for there are many things we cannot understand. Sister Vincent,can we please hear your Songs of praise. God bless you Church. “My song is dedicated to the Shepherd of my soul, my Kinsman Redeemer, The Son of Man’’.
20 That is the much we will take. God bless you. Today is a very nice day. The enlargement in the Church is very nice. How I wish I am to play that tape today as I promised.
21 How I wish the day I will bring the tape, I will witness a very nice atmosphere like this. How I just wish and desire that God will give me an atmosphere like this on that day. Amen.
22 We really thank God for what he is doing. There is one number I would like to sing. It goes thus ‘’I have one, The One that wages war, Jehovah Nissi, He is the One that wages war. I have one. The One that wages war.
23 The Living God, He is the One that wages war. My strength is from thee Father. All my strength. My whole strength. My strength is from thee Father. My strength is from Thee. Hallelujah!
24 Amen. Our God is good. “Oluwa, Modupe.” I am very happy, very very happy. Even the happiest man. I say, “Kabiyesi Christi. Jesu Oluwa. Jesus kabiyesi.”
25 Truly speaking, most times we over look a lot of things. There was a stressful condition I found myself. I put all my trust in God and believed that He is capable of all things as He has promised. Some women here can testify that what I am saying is the truth.
26 You remember the day I was in the children’s Sunday school class. I now invited some of the mothers in our midst to come that was the day Sister Umezulike came with her little baby, after meeting with her she entered the vehicle again left and the fellowship continued. I asked some of your wives some questions before her. So that was how it went that day.
27 This is because there is no woman who has a very cordial relationship with the husband who will declare the day she will cease from having children. It is left for God to decide; I do not know whether you understand what I mean? And this is because pregnancy is something you cannot predict when it will come.
28 Sometimes, it comes when you least expected it. And you know that in this FaithGod does not know what safety period is called. All the people that are in this Faith who have been involved in family planning will find out that family planning has disappointed them in this Faith.
29 It is in this Faith that a woman gets pregnant contrary to medical science. There is nothing we have not seen in this Faith. God is doing it so that everybody will have the fear of God in them. So, our Sister got pregnant when she had already decided with the husband that they will not have babies anymore and that they do not want to have any other child again.
30 When she came I asked her whether she remembered the Voice that went forth the day she had this baby that she is nursing presently.
31 We were talking, before your husband and you were talking as if you are the ones that give yourself children, telling us what the Doctor said and what the nurse said.
32 Whatever they like, let them say concerning your womb, keep it to yourself and do not bring it up before Me. I do not have any need of it.
33 Because of the way she was presenting the matter as if doctors are God, the Voice went forth from me and I told her, “I tell you the truth, you must have another child.” She said, “What?” I told her, “Go and write it down.
34 In the next seven months, you are going to be pregnant again and you will have another son.” She enquired to know the womb that will bear the child. Whether it will be in life or in death.
35 I challenged her to keep watch with Me. Exactly seven months later, she became pregnant, the husband shook his head and declared himself doomed and confessed that the doctor called him privately and told him everything concerning the state of his wife.
36 Really, all that the doctors told him were truth, for our Sister has had a lot of children both those that are alive and the ones that died. Many of them.
37 Her womb is just rag according to the doctor’s reports. When a woman keeps having children until a time when she does not have contraction during child birth, the experienced ones and experts in our midst will understand what I am saying.
38 So, no matter the level of labor in her, there is nothing like contraction. There is no way for that. Six doctors from Park-lane gathered and wrote a report and told her husband “No more!” But they kept it to themselves because they were not sure of what I will say if they should consult me.
39 At the appointed time, she became pregnant again that the Word of God may be fulfilled. So the pregnancy troubled the husband and the woman greatly, including some of us who knew about it.
40 It got to a point, we went to Enugu, and Brother now tabled the matter. He said that as long as he lives that nothing will ever make him to take his wife to Park lane again.
41 Park-lane Hospital is one of the best hospitals available with many qualified hands, due to the experiences they had the last time, there was no need going there, the matron in charge of the Obstetrics and Gynecological Department in Park-lane even came to our Sister at home and warned her strictly never to make the mistake of getting pregnant again.
42 That if she does, the child cannot be born and now she is pregnant again by the time we finished deliberating on how to go about the whole thing I was moved with compassion and told the Brother what to do.
43 I have seen what you are thinking and what your wife is thinking all of you should relax from now. Hand over this pregnancy into my hands. If your wife dies, resign from this Faith. He echoed, Amen.
44 I said it three times. If she does not deliver this baby and you carry the baby alive, resign from this Faith. God is not in our midst. He also echoed, Amen. And we continued.
45 I told him that I will show him a sign that all the sickness that normally afflict her during pregnancy will never be experienced. If there is any sickness, she will experience the type she had not experienced before. He equally echoed, Amen.
46 We continued from the first day our Sister got pregnant again until the day the pregnancy clocked nine months, she never had fever for one day and she never had headache.
47 When she went to Lagos and came back,the husband was testifying that if his wife becomes pregnant and travels from Enugu to Awgu she must end up in the hospital for one week. He said that there was a time she was pregnant and she travelled to Ibadan to see him. She ended up spending two weeks in the University College Teaching Hospital, Ibadan.
48 So, for that, once she becomes pregnant her movement would be highly restricted not to talk of travelling all the way to Lagos. He confessed that he was shocked that his wife travelled to Lagos and spent some time before going back to Enugu without any fever or headache.
49 But when she was just on her own, she started bleeding. Something she had never experienced since she started having children. She testified that in all her experiences in the pregnancies of all her children, she had never for once experienced bleeding. It never happened before, but it started in this pregnancy.
50 She now wrote a note which a Brother delivered here in Onitsha. We prayed about it and I told the Brother to go. I now went in thecompany of one of our Brothers I think it was Bro Kelechi. We got there and she gave a testimony in the Church that same day. We also prayed that same day for God to stop the bleeding.
51 She never went to any hospital for it. She never took any drugs and she never went for any check-up.
52 So, this was the way it continued and she was coming for ante-natal services here in Onitsha.
53 Whenever the midwives give her appointments she will come for ante-natal from Enugu, after which she will go back again.
54 Every instruction, she obeyed. The husband obeyed. They predicted the day she will have her baby but I said that the date of her delivery is in the hand of God.
55 I insisted that whatever that will happen that period must happen before me. I did not travel. I insisted I must see the end of it all.
56 I asked God to remember His promise for I have boasted with God. Truly speaking, I boasted with God. Am I a doctor? Am I capable of doing anything? But I boasted with God. So, when the time came for her delivery, I phoned our Brother. That was on Tuesday that I phoned him. I phoned him through NITEL on Tuesday and we had our discussions and I told him the latest and informed him that she may come any time from now and that I want her to stay with us here for at least two days.
57 It now turned out that Bro Anayo overheard our discussion. He went to Enugu and told our Brother to move that what he heard was the Spoken Word. So, when our Sister finally came down, I looked at her and I did not like the way she was looking the Voice went forth, “Ah ah! If this is truly your condition, the nurses will use pump on you today.” She started laughing.
58 After she has had some little rest I told her that she should go and see the midwives for some examinations. When she got there, it got to a level when the midwives told her that they will use pump on her.
59 when she came back to the house and was narrating her experiences to us, I asked her “What was my welcome salutation to you?” She started laughing.
60 She said she was going to Nkpor to see Sister Simeon, I said, “With all pleasure, go but be very careful any sign of labor, hire a vehicle.
61 Do not ever say you will manage until I come over. I will not come to Nkpor.So she left with my wife for Nkpor, they went there and over stayed and I got very worried, but I trusted God that there would not be any problem.
62 When I was worried that they were still at Nkpor, little did I know that they had already come back and went to the Bishop’s House I kept looking out for them, by Wednesday we were still trusting God. We monitored the way things went that day and then on Thursday, I just trusted God that there would not be any problem.
63 Frankly speaking, there was no sign of contraction, but all the signs that will confirm the arrival of the baby had already been seen. I now instructed her to go again and also tell them that I am coming over. She got there and she was instructed to go and get her delivery bag.
64 I got there and was asking them for the sign that should warrant her going to get her delivery bag.
65 They asked me to be patient and that I should not interfere and that this is their work to do. I had to put my trust in God, encouraged our Sister to go along with them that I am close to her, she was now taken into the ward while she kept having her own personal experiences. I kept on working tirelessly with my wife till night that day.
66 We got there around half past nine in the night. We saw nothing but danger signs.
67 Before then, there was a dream I had which I had told my wife and some people around me.
68 What surprised me most in that dream was that I saw our Sister’s corpse where they had robbed her powder and covered her with a big gown what surprised me again was one of the persons that brought out a casket that was opened and we saw the corpse of our sister, and the person that opened the casket was Ernest Chukwubuikem.
69 I immediately queried his relationship with our Sister to the extent of being among the people that are preparing her corpse. I said, “No.” My mind told me about Ernest’s experience. I said, “God forbid.”
70 A little while again, I remembered the prophecy that went forth in Enugu from the second daughter of Umezulike.
71 After family altar, nobody knew how the Holy Spirit led the little girl and she called her mother and told her mother that she will have her baby safely and the name of her baby will be Benjamin when they came here, she told me what the daughter said. I confirmed the prophecy and told her that she will have a boy and his name shall be Benjamin, but there is something behind the name Benjamin.
72 She now went back to Enugu, gathered her children and started preaching to them concerning Rachael, and how Benjamin was born and Rachael died. She was now consoling her children.
73 So I place this dream together with the prophecy that went forth in her house, the two speaking the same thing. And when she sees her condition, tears were rolling down from her eyes.
74 No matter how much I tried to console her, her mind kept telling her that there is danger, but I kept trusting God.
75 That night, we never rested. We kept on praying all through Friday at about 2 o’clock in the morning, I called up my wife and said, “Glory be to God for what He has been doing for us.
76 I hope you know that no medical doctor can manage the delivery of this baby. If not God, there is no human being that can be a part of the delivery of this baby. Anyway, I trust God that we will hear the cry of a baby.”
77 When we gathered for morning altar, I said, “God we thank you, for unto us this day, a child is born.” We all echoed Amen.
78 I told my wife to rush to the hospital. “Do not wait to brush your teeth. Go there as soon as she got to the hospital, she saw our Sister carrying a baby boy in her hands.
79 I rushed to the hospital also and reviewed the baby and the other. The nurses then took my wife.
80 You can imagine a situation where two nursing sisters slept there and they were the one in charge of Sister Umezulike.
81 They took my wife inside for over two hours. It got to a point where they ran out and brought other nursing sisters about five of them put their experiences together and all these people have between 25 to 28 years of cognate experience in the field of nursing. They have all passed child bearing. The daughter to one of them is already a trained nurse herself. They brought all their experiences together.
82 The lady in charge of that placed called me and said, “Daddy, do you know that there is no medical doctor in this life that can tolerate this woman who took four infusion bags laced with Oxytocin®. which doctor is that? She said that if the doctor gives her the first, second and third of Oxytocin, he will take her to the theatre for caesarean section immediately.
83 This is because of what she explained saying that if the fetal sac breaks that both the unborn child and mother are in danger and while they were holding the child.
84 a time came when our Sister almost gave up. She was so tired. No strength. And the head of the child had not come out. There was some measure they explained the standard to be one, but our sister had four and it blocked the entrance through which the child is expected and they went and invited another woman from her house, who is one of the oldest matrons in the hospital who has retired.
85 She now came and with her hands, did what she did in the inside of our Sister’s womb and the head of the child came out.
86 In short, our Sister does not know what happened. we really thank God. Before our Sister saw the baby, the baby was very healthy. No problem at all.
87 So, when I came, they repeated all that they had told My wife. That they had never seen such a thing before they now told us that they knew all our Sisters that come to the hospital that they knew that God blesses us, but we should not tempt God.
88 They warned strictly that we should not allow our Sister to get pregnant again for there is no place where a fetus can stay in her womb.I told her that we knew about this matter before she became pregnant.
89 She now queried why we allowed it. I told her that we never knew when the pregnancy came. Pregnancy does not give notice. Should we have chased it back? So, by God’s grace, this is the end.
90 While I was driving to CPS [Central Police Station] yesterday I was flying like the harmattan wind testifying that My God has done it again. What would it look like if we never heard the cry of a baby and the voice of the mother? What would it look like if we had lost one of them? If it happens, don’t you see that God, whom had been my boast, would have disappointed me but I thank God that He never disappointed me. The thing gave me so much joy and then I proceeded to CPS.
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LOOK NOT ANY MAN IN THE FLESH
When we got to Inland Town God also gave us favour. Immediately we presented our case we found out that the person we were having dealings with has a hardened heart. God now brought someone who knew him and also knew our Pastor who spoke on the matter.
2 By the grace granted us by God we dismissed from there with joy but on Friday we were very annoyed, not because there was an accident but because of the mistakes that were made at the scene of the accident which was what brought us to the Police Station.
3 We were not supposed to come to Inland Town. The accident was in short a minor incident. What I called it was just scratching of vehicles but they made a horrible mistake. I had never scolded anybody the way I scolded our Pastor yesterday.
4 I told him that God has saved him. Whatever that blinded Me and prevented Me from going to inspect the level of damage on the vehicles that was what saved him. This is because if I had gone to have a look at his vehicle and also that Mitsubishi® surely our Pastor would have been bailed on Monday.
5 I would have hardened My heart. This is because when our Pastor was giving me the report of the accident he told Me that the front of his car was totally damaged, my major concern was not that the front of the car was totally damaged but that the people who took him to the Police station made solid arrangement that he will not be bailed till Monday for it was already weekend and also preceding an election day.
6 The man made it that the DPO claimed he was sick for that he left for Ose Market and from Ose he went home. The IPO CR reported for duty and excused himself from another officer at the counter that he wants to go and get his child at St Charles and from there he left for Ihiala.
7 Nobody obtained any statement from our Pastor so nobody knew that he was in the cell. There was no record showing that he was detained. His name never entered any record book until the time he was bailed. This means that if he had died there is no record.
8 Even till today there was no statement that was obtained from him. Sir am I telling lies? No entry has been made. So the thing is a horrible thing.
9 Thus it was only yesterday that I got to know the man very well though I took my time to explain Myself to him and told him my experiences so far and he cooperated with Me that day. He also told Me his annoyance. It is just that a man can be popular but not rich. I hope you know that?
10 Our Pastor is popular due to his job but he does not have money. I do not know whether you understand what I am saying.
11 NITEL workers also have bad reputation, the whole Onitsha hates NITEL staff. Once you introduce yourself as a NITEL staff, nobody will talk good of you due to the activities of their colleagues.
12 They are experts in tossing the lines of people who are not indebted to them. You give them money to install a line for you no way they will come to your house and deposit another customer’s bill and embezzle your money. They are indebted to many new subscribers even installing phone for them which does not work.
13 When we started negotiating, the man even accused our Pastor.” I told him that truly speaking if NITEL should be considered in this matter there is going to be a problem”. He said that “NITEL staffs are not supposed to be shown mercy at all”. “That even NEPA staffs are better than they are”
14 The Pastor rose in defense of himself and said that he is not a field man and really he was not a field man. What the man was saying was the truth. Field NITEL staffs are worthless but I thank God for what is happening now.
15 But in all God favoured us we tried in explaining ourselves thoroughly until the station officer started showing interest. He told Me that he cannot prepare a bail bond because there was no entry made in the case of our Pastor, he said he was releasing the Pastor based on My recognition and his recognition.
16 If the Pastor knew the person he was dealing with he would have remained there until he would surrender all that he had. It was only yesterday that I knew that the person you had that accident with drives a Toyota jeep and also drives a NISSAN Patrol and two Mercedes cars.
17 The man is a multimillionaire who is living in his own house in Onitsha. No wonder your friend said that even if it was one million naira that you wanted that he would have given it to you right there and that he was not wicked.
18 If you see this fellow I am telling you about, you would not believe that he eats moving around with his slippers. It was only yesterday that I got to know whom the man actually was. I did not even know that his boys have started telling our Brother Okechukwu that our Pastor does not know who he was talking with and that if at all pastor had known he would have laid prostrate on the floor.
19 Do not look any man in the flesh. This is because anywhere we went to it seemed as if he was the one in charge of the Police. But I thank God that in all, the Heavenly Father came to our rescue. Pastor, learn a lesson. I will visit this matter anytime it would be free from the Police.
20 If you do not bring that car out from the Police station I will not tell you My mind today. There is a place you committed a punishable offence in the Church real punishable offence to crown it all you abandoned your Bible inside the motor and went into Police detention.
21 You got there and you were telling them that you are a NITEL staff when you know that what the Police knew you as your identity was not NITEL instead you should have told them that you are the Pastor there so that the respect will be accorded to you.
22 Nobody owns civil service. If you are a NITEL staff, then I am a Police staff too. But there is something you have which they do not have and every other person is afraid of that.
23 Not until I came there and introduced Myself for them to know that I am an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ in this Church and that the man they are holding in detention was our Pastor and that their office was filled with his letters and that he was very well known by all the Police officers in the station.
24 So, he was not an ordinary man. I called on the man to calm down that we are not trouble makers even if his car somersaulted, we would repair it for him to his taste. We do not make trouble with anybody stop telling Me what happened I don’t want to hear. We are going to repair your vehicle.
25 I have taught you on how to handle disputes. God said that if you have a dispute with someone, do not allow the matter to come to court. Settle it along the way because if it gets there you will be handed over immediately. I have told you also that what messed your case up was claiming right.
26 Do not claim right whether you are right or wrong first of all kneel down. First of all, go on your knees even if you are the one that is right and the other person wrong, remain on your knees until the people around will talk on the matter. Do not just declare yourself right.
27 This was what happened last Friday. The way he drove showed that death was ready for him in his home town, but the LORD said, No! In his senses, he can never try that thing.
28 There is nobody even if you are not driving a motor car but you are walking on your foot, the person walking on foot cannot do it. This board would have been a blessing, do not wipe it because of the students when I speak you will know.
29 Is there anybody that does not know Isi-Okwe? Isi-Okwe bus stop. The one that is along Awka road, is there anyone that does not know it? This is because where it started was at Ugwunabankpa Police post.
30 Whether a car comes in from Awka road or from the Police post, that road is Isi-Okwe road. Ok! Anybody coming from Ogbe-Oye and goes through St. Stephen’s you are still in Isi-Okwe road because Isi-Okwe road did not extend beyond that point.
31 That means that the road was bad so you are meeting a T-junction. At that junction, one stretch is coming from Isi-Okwe, while the other one is coming from St. Stephen’s. They will all terminate here. A Street will terminate on this road. There is no one that goes beyond that point.
32 Whether a car is coming from the right or from the left, the person coming from the street must stop at that same junction. Whether you are going to the left or you are going to the right, you must stop. This is because the person that will allow you to pass is the person driving the car on the road.
33 Even if a car is overtaking in a particular route, and your car which is on the street touches that car that was overtaking, you are wrong. You must repair your car and also repair that of the person you dented. This is because there is nothing that relates your car with that road until you are cleared.
34 So, if you come from this street and hit a car that is on this road, you are supposed to come down from your car drop your keys, kneel down and start pleading with the owner of the car you hit that you were absent-minded. Plea is the antidote prepared for anger. “Sir, please. I was absent-minded and really, I was absent-minded because if I was really conscious of where I was, how would I have driven until I hit your car.”
35 Whether you are going to the left or you are going to the right, your car is not supposed to come into that route in the first place. Even if you put on your trafficator for the right or for the left, surely, you must stop. So that was exactly what happened and to show that he was guilty the more, where the motor hit was the driver’s side in the middle of the length of the car opposite the conductor’s side. He just hit the other car and left a deep dent on it.
36 Even if the man’s car tyre was busted. It is just like my car lamps here that are broken, if anybody hits my car face-to-face and I mandate the person to repair my vehicle for Me, will My car not have new headlamps when he returns the car?
37 Will I tell you that My headlamps were previously broken? Am I crazy? Since you hit the front side of My car, is it possible that you hit the front part of My car and not repair the headlamps? On returning My car, it must come back with new headlamps.
38 Even if the man’s tyre busted in the process, it would be to his advantage when you will repair his car. When the man was thinking how he will replace his tyre, a speed demon came and helped him.
39 immediately you pack well, whether there was a tyre bust or not, first of all, kneel down because you are wrong. Your car tyre was not supposed to come into that road even if the brake system of your car failed you must repair your car and repair that of the other person involved in the accident because your car was not supposed to come into that road at all.
40 This was where the man got infuriated. He said that our Pastor came down and told him that it was a light thing, that they were both affected. He told the man to go and repair his car while he (Pastor) will also go and repair his, after all, his own was more damaged.
41 The man said, “OK. No problem. Let us now invite experts in addressing this type of case so that they will come and take measurements at the incident scene.” When the Police measured according to the law, anybody that is guilty must be detained. That was what happened there.
42 That was why I called his judgment penny wise pound foolish. The people that were around who knew our Pastor now said things against the man that infuriated him more and more.
43 They started promoting our Pastor because they knew him. They were telling the man that he does not really know the personality he was making trouble with. They even told him that judgment is not for the first to call the Police and that our Pastor will just mesmerize him with his connection using his telephone.
44 The man now said that there was no problem. So he is a NITEL Manager. The man told our Pastor to proceed in this case with the high and might, but that he will move with the lowly personalities. So, the bystanders escalated tempers and worsened the case and the man’s anger was much.
45 One of the bystanders claimed that he knows our Pastor as a gentle man who does not make trouble but if you make trouble with him, you are gone. That our Pastor will just stay in his office, use his phone to make some connections.
46 The man heard all these things and said, “OK, I will use money to make connection.” He got the Police to prepare detention warrant before they brought in the two vehicles.
47 As soon as the vehicles were brought in, our Pastor was nowhere to be found, nobody asked to know who he was. All the Police did was to pass papers and instructed that he should be put behind the counter. Even the man instructed that our Pastor should be put into the cell, but God did not allow that to happen.
48 There was a Police man that saw our Pastor and liked him after our Pastor explained himself the policeman insisted that our Pastor will not enter the cell. Instead, our Pastor should give him ₦400 so that he will not enter the police cell.
49 But all the while the man had already concluded his connection so that our Pastor will not be interrogated and allowed him to keep on struggling. Bondage is bad. I am telling you the truth. Our Pastor had the money to bail himself, but no way.
50 All his friends he met there would hail him and ask him what he came to the Police station to do. I expected them to act, but no way. You then see that bondage is bad. Bondage is bad but I thank God.
51 All of you that drive one type of vehicle or the other be very careful. I have taught you on that if you drive, I also drive. The tongue spoils a lot of things. Be humble, be very polite, and do not quarrel. Do not threaten to slap anybody because you see the person as a nobody.
52 Whenever you are involved in an accident, first of all, be composed. Do not look at your vehicle to start complaining, “My car! My car!” Be a child of God enough. Have it at the back of your mind that there is nobody that drives having the intention of killing somebody or to hit another vehicle. You were not also going out to hit another person’s car.
53 So you are friends. Whatever that happened was an accident. Nobody hits the other person’s car intentionally. It should not make the two of you enemies. The next thing that will be done there will be to take the two cars for repairs since nobody died and nobody was injured. Full stop!
54 Do not threaten to slap anybody or that you will do this and that. No! No! No! Do not ever try it, because you do not know who is backing the person you were involved with. You do not know the personality who has the car.
55 So, I will say that it was tongue and foolishness that has kept your car there up till today. Now, you will spend more than what you would have used to repair both vehicles.
56 Getting the money we would have used to bail our Pastor. He has been bailed now with ₦1000 and we gave the police something for keeping him behind the counter instead of cell. That was the first step.
57 Those two cars that have been there since three days or four days, will they be released for free? Will the Police tow a moving vehicle from Isi-Okwe down to this place for free?
58 If you check the amount we will give the police there, you will notice that it will be enough to repair the two vehicles. This is because when I inspected our Pastor’s vehicle, I did not see anything that damaged it. I did not see anything damaged.
59 Will you consider the little light that got broken as damaged or the body that was dented which Bro Okey will just use something and press it out again? What is there? And the thing will be covered with a small quantity of paint, if you want.
60 Even the dent on your vehicle was not up to one-tenth of the damage in front of this My wagon. As for the man’s car, nothing happened to it. It was just a matter of using wood to gently push or hit the body from the inner side and the dent is gone. Nothing else.
61 If he insists that the portion should be painted, we just brush it with a small quantity of paint and he will take his car away. No sheet of metal is needed for that body work.
62 The highest thing which was in the man’s place to decide was to buy a new tyre for us. This was because our Pastor was saying that it was like the tyre of the man’s car was busted. So he wants to replace his tyre from our own expenses.
63 If he leaves with that vehicle, nobody will paint it. It was just a small panel-beating job that requires hitting the affected body part from the inside and the pan will return to its normal shape. That’s all!
64 So, all drivers and riders of any type of vehicle, be very careful. Whether you are right or wrong, please behave as if you are wrong. Fall prostrate on the floor first so that when the case is adjudged, you will be right.
65 But do not go ahead claiming that you are right where it will turn out at last to prove that you are wrong. That one will be very humiliating.
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BE CAREFUL HOW YOU CONDUCT YOUR LIFE BEFORE THE HEATHENS
Let us read this Scripture before I will come down. Living Bible Translation. 1 Peter 2:11 – 13. I do not know whether I would be coming back here today or not but, for now, let Me read this Scripture
2 “Dear brothers, you are only visitors here….” Please note that word. YOU ARE ONLY VISITORS HERE. “Since your real home is heaven, I beg you to keep away from the evil pleasures of this world. They are not for you….” Keep away from the evil pleasures of this world. They are not for you.
3 “…for they fight against your soul. Be careful how you behave among your unsaved neighbours; for then, even if they are suspicious of you and talk against you…”
4 Be careful how you behave among your unsaved neighbours. God knew from the onset that we can never live alone; that we must live with unsaved neighbours who do not know God. They do not know the way of Salvation and God knows that if we are not careful, we can cause His Name to be blasphemed by such people.
5 So, He is giving us warning. BE CAREFUL HOW YOU CONDUCT YOUR LIVES IN THE PRESENCE OF YOUR UNSAVED NEIGHBOURS.
6 Brother James, take note. I was with you yesterday. When you left, I nearly called you back. I say, “I nearly called you back.” Just pray that God will give you a comfortable room. You need one room to separate. Are you hearing what I am saying?
7 Do not continue to live in that guest house. There is going to be trouble in that guest house very soon and if you do not pack away, you will be involved. I repeat: There is going to be trouble in that Guest house very soon. I nearly called you back but I said the LORD willing, you would be in Fellowship today.
8 There is going to be trouble in that guest room very soon and if you do not pack away before that trouble starts, surely you will be involved. Write it at the back of your mind.
9 Be careful how you behave among your unsaved neighbours; for then, even if they are suspicious of you and talk against you, they will end up praising God for your good works when Christ returns.
10 For the Lord’s sake, obey every law of your government: those of the king as head of the state and those of the king’s officers. For he has sent them to punish all who do wrong and to honour those who do right.”LB Amen.
11 Please, my emphasis is on verses 11 and 12. DEAR BROTHERS, YOU ARE ONLY VISITORS HERE. YOU ARE ONLY VISITORS HERE. SINCE YOUR REAL HOME IS IN HEAVEN, I BEG YOU TO KEEP AWAY FROM THE EVIL PLEASURES OF THIS WORLD. THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU, FOR THEY FIGHT AGAINST YOUR SOULS.
12 BE CAREFUL HOW YOU BEHAVE AMONG YOUR UNSAVED NEIGHBOURS FOR THEN, EVEN IF THEY ARE SUSPICIOUS OF YOU AND TALK AGAINST YOU THEY WILL END UP PRAISING GOD FOR YOUR GOOD WORKS WHEN CHRIST RETURNS.
13 When you are having dealings with unsaved persons, be very careful. First of all, have the vision or revelation that they do not know God. I say, “THEY DO NOT KNOW GOD.” That is number One.
14 Two: THEY HAVE KNOWN YOU AS A CHILD OF GOD. Although they might be suspicious of you because of your character, yet in the end, they will praise God on your behalf. We cannot, because of the unsaved persons fail to exercise our Faith, although they will misunderstand us.
15 But there are certain aspects, certain values in life that are very common to both heathens and the children of God. When you come to such matters, please be wise enough to make sure you do not cause the name of your God to be blasphemed in their eyes. May God bless you.
16 Worldly pleasures are not for us. We are visitors here, heading to our permanent home. LET THERE BE NOTHING THAT WILL DISTRACT OUR ATTENTION UNTIL WE ENTER THAT PARADISE. THE TIME IS FAR SPENT. ETERNITY WILL SOON UNFOLD. SO, IT IS NOT TIME FOR ANYBODY TO GO AHEAD LIVING IN PLEASURE. NO!
17 The Bible saidthat they that live in pleasure can never please God. And if you are living in pleasure, now you are alive, the Bible said you are dead. So let us be very careful that evil pleasures of this world will not carry us away, whereby, many have made shipwreck of their callings. May God bless you.
18 I invite Bishop Okechukwu Paul to the Pulpit. He will handle the dedication of the baby, continue in the worship, collect our offering and invite the Minister. If he is tempted to preach, glory be to God. Let him preach. As for Me bear with Me for today. I will give you a new date, all for your own good. God bless you.
WE ARE A NATION IN
A NATION
BY
BISHOP OKECHUKWU PAUL
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God bless you Church. We know God has never failed us before. The Bible said, “Wait for it, even though it tarries.” There are many teachings that were promised us in this Church. If we are to run out of patience, we almost ran out it.
2 One day, when it came, we saw that it was suitable for that time for it served its purpose. I believe that God knows when the teaching is most conducive for us and when it will be very beneficial. And I trust that the Holy Spirit will provide this type of environment as The Son of Man wished, even a better one, the LORD willing. Amen.
3 This was brought for me to read. I do not know from what publication. It says, “Post Express: Monday, January 18, 1999. OKONZUA PREDICTS DOOM FOR TRANSITION PROGRAMME: A parapsychologist, Professor Gabriel Okonzua had predicted that the May 29th 1999 handover date to a democratically elected civilian administration will be an unfulfilled mission, because it has been destined not to materialize as expected.
4 Major reason adduced for the occurrence, he pointed out included gross incompetence and ineptitude on the part of the military administration which is expected to force them out of power before the said date. The clairvoyant made this and other predictions on the fortunes of Nigeria this year.
5 In the document entitled, 1999 FORECAST FOR NIGERIA WITH MENTAL AD PHILOSOPHY ESSENTIALLY BY A MONTH’S CHRONICLE OF EVENTS AND FORECASTS: The piece describes 1999 as the greatest force ever to surface on the history of Nigeria in 49 years.
6 It stated, ‘1999 marks a change in the life pattern of Nigerians. It is the year in which, for the first time, people will begin to agree with mental ad because its pronouncement will begin to register as reliable and accurate.’
7 Giving a comprehensive run down of the expectation for the year, Okonzua acclaimed that the failure of the military could become more obvious as from February when the country will be forced to split into three factions. He said, Nigeria, having been split into three, by the accepted political parties, becomes condensed so in March and still more so, in June.
8 No one will be gladdened by the turn of events. The former researcher in parapsychology, College of medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL) also noted so importantly this 1999, its virtues had been recognized since 8 years ago in 1991.
9 Recalling the past, Okonzua stated that Nigeria had been destined to carve out a portion out of itself in other to become a world leader in virtually every imaginable category.
10 In addition, he agreed that all politicians who have betrayed the country at one time or another, will not hold office for more than one month in the future. In his assertion, the forecaster hinted that Nigerians can be rest assured that the year will be the very last for military rule, even though the entity Nigeria, as it is known will cease to exist by March.
11 Stressing this point, he said leadership in the present psychic age is what you will call moronic supremacy or one of the highly developed minds, which has taken over rulership of the mental world. For details of expectations for Nigeria, he appoints February, May and August as the most significant during 1999.
12 In February, an expectation of a bountiful harvest of wellness from water is one of the highlights. Water will create a new means of feeding along with cures for at least ten ailments including sickle cell, cancer and the Acquired Immune-Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS.
13 The stargazer further declared that money has entered into an agreement with the forces of hardship to make things difficult for the country. The reason is, past rulers in succession have hammered the life out of it. Money is as dead as a doornail in Nigeria today.
14 May 1st the greatest months, would work for peace, justice and equity to change the country and make one of its units, the greatest on earth. In what he described as the greatest news of the year, Okonzua stated that no Nigerian would witness the Nigeria ’99 football fiesta because the arrangements will flop due to the inept and visionless preparatory plans of the government.
15 The month of August is expected to bring worthy gifts, starting with the desired change to practice mental AD. Money will visit the country this month, he noted. As for November, it is going to be the month of wisdom and parapsychologists see its most important role to be linked with supplying the psychic plane that will loosely bind the split factions.
16 Looking back at 1998, he declared it was an indelible experience in Nigeria. It has been a woeful story of how a trusted man misappropriated his subjects, valuable belongings and almost sucked their life blood, leaving them but absolutely dead.” Amen.
17 Brethren, before these things people are trying to pry into, we can declare that we know more than that. The Holy Ghost has told us lots of things in the new year Message concerning this nation and what is ahead of us.
18 God bless you Church. Let me speak a little concerning this note. I do not know the writer. Our brother John brought it from Nsukka. He told me about it, about two weeks after our new year Message here. So, I gave him charge to go and find the paper and photocopy it for us.
19 He was telling me that he read the paper and the man was predicting exactly what we heard here during the meeting. Amen.
20 TODAY, WE ARE VERY CAREFUL CONCERNING SOME UTTERANCES, BECAUSE NIGERIA HAS BECOME A POLICE STATE. WE DO NOT OPEN OUR MOUTHS TOO WIDE AGAIN. BUT WHAT I AM SAYING IS THIS; ANYWHERE YOU FIND YOURSELF, PLEASE BE VERY WISE, WE ARE SITTING ON A TIME BOMB.
21 HOW MANY KNOWS THAT WE ARE NOT NIGERIANS? IF YOU KNOW WE ARE NOT NIGERIANS, SHOW BY RAISING YOUR HANDS. WE ARE NOT IGBOS. WE ARE NOT HAUSAS. WE ARE NOT YORUBAS.
22 IF WE ARE ANY OF THESE, SURELY WE WOULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN WHAT THEY ARE DOING. BUT YOU DISCOVER WE ARE JUST FOREIGNERS TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING. WE DO NOT EVEN PAY ATTENTION. THAT IS TO SHOW YOU THAT WE ARE REALLY FOREIGNERS HERE. WE ARE VISITORS. A VISITOR CANNOT CONTEND FOR ANY POLITICAL POSITION. HE CANNOT EVEN CAMPAIGN FOR ANYBODY, BECAUSE HE IS HEADING TO HIS PERMANENT HOME.
23 REALLY THE SITUATION IS A VERY HOPELESS ONE. I TOLD YOU THAT THERE IS NO HUMAN BEING THAT CAN CONTROL IT EXCEPT THE ALMIGHTY GOD. AND IT IS GOING TO GO FROM WORSE TO WORST. AND I TOLD YOU CLEARLY THAT ANY DAY THERE IS STRIFE IN NIGERIA, THREE REPUBLICS WILL EMERGE.
24 I TOLD YOU THAT AND I SAID THAT IT WILL MARK THE END OF THE NAME NIGERIA. YOU SEE, THE WAY I AM LOOKING AT IT, THERE IS GOING TO BE REAL TROUBLE IN THIS POLITICS. THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DECEIVE EVERYBODY AND NOT HANDING OVER POWER TO ANY BODY.
25 THEY WILL BE THERE. I SAID, THEY WILL BE THERE AND TODAY, WE HAVE SEEN THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING STARTING FROM COUNCILLORSHIP UP TO YESTERDAY’S ELECTION. NOBODY EVER WON ANY POST BY MANDATE. NOBODY! THE WHOLE THING IS FIXED.
26 A situation where somebody who never filed in anywhere, he never campaigned for one day, he was picked from his house twenty-four hours to the voting day and he was declared the winner.
27 He never campaigned for one day. His paper was filed in twenty-four hours and the person that was campaigning was dropped. The following day, he was declared the winner, when nobody saw his poster. It was fixed.
28 If we look at the way things are going, you will agree with Me that we are sitting on a time bomb. I am saying that Nigeria as a nation, has repeated the mistake of 1966. Are you hearing what I am saying?
29 I say they have repeated the mistake of 1996. God please help us. Some of you were not born that time. Some were too young to know what was happening. Some were adults.
30 If you look at the way they are having their primaries, it shows that everything is fixed. If you look into the way these things started, Nigeria started with nine political associations and ended with two political parties.
31 After councillorship, they pruned down the nine associations to three political parties and forced the rest to merge with the three namely AD, APP and PDP. And these three political parties were zoned along the three political or the three major tribes in Nigeria.
32 You know, Nigeria has three major tribes, namely Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo. There are other tribes, but they fall within the minorities.
33 We thank God for what is happening. Truly speaking, the Hausas appreciates to affiliate with the Igbos. The Igbos equally appreciates to affiliates with the Hausas. Nothing will ever make an Igbo man to affiliate with a Yoruba man.
34 The distrust is always there because of Awolowo which was heightened by Abiola. You know the matter very well.
35 We thank God for what is happening. The Hausas have their choice of the president. The Yorubas have their choice. Igbos have their choice. But the soldiers have decided to impose one on the whole nation and the person they have imposed on everybody was hated by the Hausas. He was hated by the Yorubas. He was hated by the Igbos but the soldiers said he must be the one.
36 You know the man? He is more or less a soldier. Who is behind it? General Babangida, TheophilusDanjuma and Domkat Bali.
37 Have you seen where we are heading to? Imposing the head of state on the masses somebody almost the whole tribes said no. Thenwhat is the basis of democracy?
38 Something happened, when they dropped Ekwueme in ADP, the man that was to be the president the Hausa man stepped down for OgbonnayaOnu of Abia State, an Igbo man, just to create room for the Hausas to cast their votes for APP.
39 The soldiers realized it. They now brought unholy alliance between AD and APP and in the end they ratified OluFalae of AD to vie for the two parties. Then APP pulled out of the alliance they said they will never do that. The re-introduced their papers to INEC but INEC said, no.
40 But the question arises. If we have three different political parties, with three presidential aspirants, who is now the presidential aspirant for APP? Give reasons why you are not accepting his candidature. The soldiers said no explanation.
41 What am I saying? Something happened in the month of May 30th 1967. I hope I am correct. May 30th 1967 Something happened that day. Who knows that thing?
42 A Brother answers: The declaration of Biafra.
43 God bless you sir. This is thirty-three years since that day and the political atmosphere is charged. I am trying to say that there was a dream Brother Ebenezer gave us where he saw Nigeria and Igbo land fighting and Igbo land won the victory, He said it was miraculous.
44 I am saying that by the political arrangements, Igbo tribe has been ostracized and completely removed from the political map of Nigeria. And they are saying no.
45 I am trying to bring something out to you. REMEMBER I TOLD YOU THAT THE CATCHING AWAY OF THE SAINTS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLES.
46 GOD HAS PROMISED TO TAKE US AWAY DURING TROUBLOUS TIMES AND THE HOLY GHOST SAID THAT GOD IS GOING TO STIR UP TROUBLE IN THE NATIONS TO DRAW AWAY THE ATTENTION OF EVERYBODY.
47 HE SAID SOMETHING WILL TAKE PLACE THAT WILL DRAW THE ATTENTION EVERYBODY AND WHEN IT HAPPENS IT WILL DOMINATE THE DISCUSSIONS AND IN THE MIDST OF THE TROUBLE RAPTURE WILL TAKE PLACE YET THE WORLD WILL NOT KNOW.
48 THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE REDEEMED, THE HOLY GHOST SAID PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD OH ISRAEL. IF YOU ARE WISE NOW, IF THERE IS ANY TIME YOU SHOULD GET READY IT IS NOW BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE CHURCH WILL NOT BE HERE TO WITNESS THAT NONSENSE.
49 This is because it is something that will be worldwide. When it starts, there would not be ECOMOG again, the head of ECOMOG is Nigeria. If there is trouble in Nigeria, no ECOMOG and almost all West African countries are having problems, where ECOMOG forces were sent to intervene but if the head of ECOMOG is having problem, which ECOMOG will intervene?
50 SO, I AM SAYING BRETHREN THAT IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, THIS IS THE TIME TO GATHER YOURSELF TOGETHER.
51 GO BACK TO THE PROPHECIES DO NOT EVER ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH POLITICS IN NIGERIA OFF YOUR HANDS OFF YOUR EYES AND FACE THE MATTER THAT IS BEFORE YOU.
52 CONTINUE TO BEHAVE AS IF YOU ARE GOING AWAY TOMORROW and surely one of these days we are leaving.
53 God cannot allow this Church to remain in Nigeria and witness that blood bath because there is going to be blood bath.
54 If we should be here and we are conscripted into the army, what shall we do? What will be our role? So God will not allow us to be subjected to that tight corner.
55 I trust God so much that when they are about to conclude the whole thing, we are off.
56 I told you earlier. They are not handing over power to anybody.
57 This is the first time we have witnessed it since the history of the whole world. Somebody won that presidential election many months ago. He is still waiting, Assembly men all that won they are still waiting. Governorship? Waiting. Senate, House of Rep.
58 Everybody is waiting and the head of state will be produced before the end of this month. He will not be sworn in the whole of March, the whole of April, the whole of May. What will he be waiting for?
59 Did you get the Message? If you are the head of state and somebody has won your position, every day he says “Good morning sir” for three months, who has ever heard this before?
60 What will prevent them from swearing them in on that day? In other words, they are waiting for their own choice. The person that turned out is not their choice. Surely, they will say no. Are you hearing what I am saying?
61 This is because it has never happened before. Let us watch where we are heading to. I do not know who will be the head of state and be in his house for three months then on the third month, 29th of the month he will come to State House to be sworn in. Who will bring him? Will he be moving about with escorts? Amen.
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GOD’S PROMISES ARE TIED TO TIME
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ou have heard what the Scriptures said, that we are visitors. Those whose home is heaven. So, let us fix our eyes where God has pointed us to. Amen. I thank God because we are not members of any of the tribes that had been mentioned.
2 If God does not catch us away, what will we do? If you are conscripted into the army and given a gun if you see your Brother from the North what will you do? Will you shoot him or not? God will not allow us to see these events in this flesh. He will surely catch us away.
3 There was a dream which The Son of Man touched on and he left it because of our faith. Truly speaking there is somebody God visited in a very special way and told the person about the month of May, summarized everything and we have seen that it was talking about the same thing.
4 A Brother had a vision and the Holy Spirit was talking to him concerning this month of May. He was typing it with Christ at 33 and Nigeria at 33 and the Christ on two feet has been here for 33 years. He was bringing the whole thing together and still he was telling him that our departure is at hand.
5 He was saying that we are departing at thirty-three. Really if you listened to the New Year Message you will see that God gave us the programme ahead of time. So whatever comes, our eyes are fixed on our Maker
6 One of these days, we will keep on praising and that will not be here on earth. Our praises then will continue yonder. I said one of these days, I hope we will have that Fellowship that will have no end where there will be no night. Amen.
7 Always remember that one of these days we are leaving, until then we cannot cease from our Father’s business. We will keep on worshipping God praising Him. The whole Saints of God had always known that this world has always been a troubled world. So it is trouble, trouble all over.
8 Let us be seated Brethren. Trouble, trouble, trouble. If you listen to the news trouble, trouble, trouble, everywhere is troubled but in Christ, there is peace. I say in Christ there is peace.
9 So, that is why we have the everlasting consolation that we have Him among us. God in the midst of His people. Amen. Testimony by Sister Simeon. While you come with your husband and your baby.
10 Bro Simeon, I think what your wife has shown you is that there is something she saw and that there is a place she met with the Holy Spirit. You have heard and you have also seen, it is now time for you to be leading. Do you understand what I am saying? You will now be in front.
11 It is true that the Gospel came into your family through your wife. You are now the one to be leading the family. Did you understand the Message? I am expecting a time when you will be the one that will be using the microphone to praise God in the pulpit.
12 This is because the woman has tried. She has done what she can do. The other thing she can do is to plead with the Holy Spirit to be patient with her so that she can take the Message to her husband, “Will you be back tomorrow so that my husband can behold what I am seeing with his own eyes.” And your wife has shown you this thing. She has done it and you have appeared here. So, we really thank God. Amen.
13 Our Sister wrote a testimony. Brother Simeon, you had given your own last week Sunday. So, let us hear the testimony of our Sister.
14 Testimony by Sister Simeon: “Praise the LORD my Brethren, my heart is filled with joy to stand before you to testify of the goodness of God to me. This is because it is not easy.
15 When I was yet to be pregnant for this baby, I had a dream and in that dream, I saw myself lying down around the door.
16 I was lying down there and as I was sleeping I saw the Son of Man. I could only see His face.
17 We were discussing but I could not really understand everything we discussed. The much I understood was that the discussion was very interesting I kept laughing as we were discussing.
18 What surprised me was that I did not know what came to my mind to just take a look towards my legs in that my lying position. I looked in that direction and I saw a baby that was brought out from me and the baby was wrapped with cloth.
19 I did not see much but all I knew was that it was a new born baby.
20 Even as that thing happened, I was still more interested in my discussion with the Son of Man. My heart was filled with joy and kept on laughing to the extent that I was laughing even when I woke from the sleep.
21 When I woke up, I was wondering the type of dream I just had and when I checked all that I discussed with Him, there was nothing I can lay my hands on as what we really discussed. I just believed it had to do with this my child.
22 When my husband came back, I narrated the dream to him telling him that I did not understand anything I discussed with the Son of Man, but I knew I saw a new born baby that was just laid on my legs, which I could not say was a boy or girl and as I looked at the child in the dream, the one I am carrying now is not different from that one in the dream.
23 I just told my husband that there may be a good thing that is about to come our way. That was how we ended it.
24 So I put my mind to it and within a short time I became pregnant, after the dream, I became pregnant for this baby, though with the initial challenges that follow my pregnancy but God kept me healthy and it never prevented me from anything even to the extent that I dance even more than many other people during Fellowship in this Church.
25 So throughout the period of the pregnancy, I had no problem and I strongly believed in God that one day I will put to bed. I saw some signs on Monday night. Blood started dropping from my body which I told my husband that I have noticed a sign which did not manifest when I had Chukwuebuka.
26 He told me that it was not a problem and that it maybe labour signs. He now went and told Sister Ike what was happening and She confirmed that it was labour that is setting in and then we went to the hospital. We were in the hospital till 9p.m in the night and that contributed to his absence from Fellowship for he felt his presence was needed.
27 We remained there at one maternity near the junction. This was the situation until a few minutes to 9p.m when I delivered my baby.
28 So, it is not easy for a woman to get pregnant, carry the pregnancy for nine months and deliver the baby safely”. Join me and praise God Brethren.
29 We will not waste any time. You will not appreciate what God is doing for us until you hear what is happening in the world.
30 You know when we give testimonies here; it looks as if it is easy.
31 It is always a remarkable thing and a thing of joy when God gives a woman the fruit of her own womb.
32 Both the family and relations are filled with joy. You know that death accompanies child delivery. It is like a trip to the house of death yet you came out from there alive.
33 As we keep on believing God that as many as are in the condition she just passed through, will also deliver their babies in this joyful manner. Amen.
34 DEDICATION OF MY BABY BOY TO ALMIGHTY GOD – BRO SIMEON: we heard a special Message the Holy Spirit gave to us last Sunday, which reminded us of our children and some other things within last week.
35 So we do not have to go back for we know all our doctrines concerning children. And we will do well if we will uphold those doctrines. Amen.
36 I want to read a Scripture and that is the Book of Ruth chapter 4 verse 13 – 15. KJV “13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her “when he went in unto her”. That is the only thing a man can do. Going in.
37 “…and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conceptionand she bare a son. Take note. There are many men that go unto their wives. I want you to always know this fact that IT IS THE LORD THAT GIVES CONCEPTION.
38 The LORD is the One that gives conception. Brethren you may be seated on the seat there lest you stand too much, for I am not spending too much time.
39 I am saying that it is God that makes it possible for a woman to conceive and become pregnant.
40 There is no other miracle. It works by the law of God. That is why anybody that has God does not rely on any other person but God.
41 You may be a man full of life yet, if the LORD does not give you conception you cannot get it. That is why when we get children here, we give God the glory.
42 You know that whatever God is doing has a purpose and the time of its fulfillment. So, in the case of our Brother and our Sister that presented their child, our Brother went unto the wife but many men also went unto their wives like that.
43 There are many doctors who have confirmed that no matter how healthy a man or his wife can be that children are gifts that come from God.
44 You may look at yourself and you feel very healthy man or woman. By and by it is in the power of God to always give us the conception of children.
45 That is why when we get a new born baby, we should not pride ourselves about, for if we are not careful we may end it up in sorrow and sadness. This is because whatsoever God does is tied to time and whenever it is God’s time for that thing, nothing can change it from happening that day.
46 When it was not yet the appointed time for Abraham and Sarah to have a child, you can imagine Abraham was still going unto Sarah like this man who went unto Ruth.
47 While they were still going, they were still meeting each other. Can you imagine a complete hundred years of Abraham and Sarah, ninety years old? You cannot tell me that Abraham was not going unto Sarah. He was going in.
48 They were meeting but until the appointed time that God has allotted to them, that child will not come.
49 If you see our Brother with the child he is carrying in his hands and also see the child before this one, you can see that there was a long space as if they had stopped having children. There was a gap.
50 You cannot tell me that they were not meeting or that our Brother was not going unto our Sister. He was going in, they were meeting.
51 I am talking especially to you young men that are yet to go into marriage to learn a lesson thereof marriage goes with patience.
52 You may look at yourself with a medical report that you are fifty-fifty and everything like that and even for your wife being a child of God, remember that it is the LORD that gives conception. That is why we always rejoice anytime a child arrives in the family of God.
53 This is because; any child that is ordained by God to come into a family must come at the time God appointed for that child to come in. Why God ties it to time nobody knows.
54 It is only God that knows why. It may take ten years, twelve years, eight years or fifteen years.
55 There were cases the Son of Man had told us before. Cases he handled, even before we came into contact with him, some of those cases were up to twelve years old and there was no conception. It almost caused trouble in the family.
56 There are records of them I know very well, even in this Onitsha today, but at God’s appointed time, the LORD gave the woman conception. That is why as children of God, we always give God praise and glory at every given time.
57 That was why the Scriptures said, “and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception and she bare a son”. And the women said unto Naomi, blessed be the Lord which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman that his name may be famous in Israel.”
58 Watch the Church of God, the Israel of old each time a child arrives; they know who takes the glory and honour.
59 You do not work it out based on how healthy you are or how sick you are. No! It comes from God. That is why we are being given case that beats medical sciences.
60 Can you imagine our Sister in Jos a known sickle cell case? Medically they were saying that she should never be allowed to get pregnant for they said that she will constantly be having problems but we know that from the first pregnancy of that Sister she had twins.
61 The second time another twins but medically, they said it was a risk to her life. The wonderful thing about the delivery of these two sets of twins was that she delivered all at home.
62 She never went to the hospital for their delivery. The people of God always praise God each time they are blessed with a new baby. Even with all their neighbours. The Bible recorded here, “And the women said unto Naomi”
63 hey did not exempt themselves. Everybody welcomed it. Everybody was happy that God has given a seed to the nation of Israel.
64 That was why when the child was born, the child was not a child that was born to Bro Simeon rather the child was a child born to the nation of Israel.
65 With joy every one of us welcomes the baby because God added the child to our nation for a reason. Remember we are the people of God. No child can join us in this family if God had not programmed the child to come in at that time.
66 As many as are our children and the one that are yet unborn and all the children that shall be translated with us into immortality, God had already ordained them aforetime. God’s promises are sure.
67 If God has promised us any good thing in this Faith, remember God cannot fail us. He may delay His blessings from us but as long as He has promised it He cannot deny us. Look at the testimony our Sister gave about Angelic visitation.
68 She saw the face of no other person but He that is become flesh in our midst. She beheld His face and they had discussions and he showed her what was by her side and it was a baby.
69 In the fullness of time, we saw it come to pass. We were here. One day in the sanctuary she was called here and prayers were offered for her, giving her that promise. Before long we have seen the evidence today.
70 So, as long as we are a nation of God, we know the Source of our children that is why when we are blessed with children we are only but caretakers.
71 We take care, we are not the landlords. What we are saying is all about taking care of children.
72 All the children that God has given us in this Faith, they were all born to the nation of Israel. That was why the women were saying, “Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.”
73 That His Name may be famous. It is always the will of God to bless our nation from time to time. That is why, if you read down you will see that at a point in time the women became interested carrying the baby around, they were rejoicing with the baby.
74 That is why some of the behaviour I see among our mothers, I begin to wonder whether you want to draw back.
75 A child was born to us and you know the source of that child and that child is presented before God in the sanctuary and you remain seated in your seats as if the denominations are better than we are.
76 It is a thing of joy. Mothers should file behind this child, with joy, for a child was born unto us. It is a thing of joy that should be supported by all of us because we are welcoming the baby. We are wishing the baby, the best in life.
77 So, we should always be happy each time a baby is born unto us. Watch the women. It said “and he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age”
78 So, your own child can even be a restorer of your life. Your own child can also nourish you at your old age. That is why after a child is trained and nourished to maturity a time comes when that child will in turn nourish the patents.
79 That is why we are being encouraged to train our children very well, for we must reap the profit thereof but if we do not train them very well they will profit us nothing. That is why at any point in time, we train our children the way the Holy Ghost has taught us.
80 Children are like seeds that are planted. One day we will be partakers of the harvest of these seeds. It is generally said in an Igbo adage that when you see another man’s fowl scattering excreta necessity is laid on you to drive it away from the excreta because you do not know the person that will eat that chicken’s legs.
81 All these children that are born to us, whether boys or girls, one may be under your care tomorrow. So, our children can nourish our lives. Amen.
82 God bless you all