MORNING ALTAR MESSAGE PREACHED ON SATURDAY, 11TH APRIL 2020 AT THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY PASTOR WISDOM ODOEMENA MODERATED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN (THE EVER-LIVING GOD)
Enough is enough. Idolaters in the Camp, this is the hour of manifestation of sons and daughters of God. Do you not know I have not come to bring peace but separation? Do you not know that our God, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God of separation? The author of separation.
ACTION TIME PART 1 (HUSBANDS AND WIVES) CAMP MEETING; preached on Tuesday, 30th December, 1997;
Pg. 64 vs. 5
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GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD [1]
We thank God for His goodness and mercies upon our lives. God said any day we see ourselves alive, we ought to use all we have for the service of God.
It is a great thing for us to find ourselves in this family. We are thanking Him for his goodness and mercies now and forever more; through Christ our lord. Amen.
We thank God for the Message of yesterday. We thank God for how God moved. There is nobody in this family that will say he was not blessed from the Message of yesterday. God came down to meet us at the point of our needs.
The title of the Message was “BEWARE OF SNAKE BITES AS WE WORSHIP GOD AT HOME; that we should be careful; that the devil will not come out and tell you that he is the devil; that he will use many tricks, he will use many strategies. All to do what? To lure you away. Amen.
I want to read few portions from this Message titled, GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD VOLUME 2 PREACHED ON 26TH JUNE 1995 AT OHUBA MEETING; Page 22 verse 1 – 12. to confirm what we heard yesterday.
CHAPTER ONE; GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD. 1I want you to know that when you are coming to God, you should come in holiness and righteousness. Without it, you cannot come close to God. If you come to God without being holy, you have killed yourself.
2I want you to see why they were cut off. How many of them are holy? How many are righteous? How many of you have pure heart? Many of them became ministers because they heard about the tithe of the fivefold ministry. Heresy. …
3They want to take God’s money. Did they never laboured for it? ….. 5REMEMBER MY TOPIC: “GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD”. God is a righteous judge. God is a Holy God. He that must worship Him ought to be righteous and holy.
7…a bad man thinks every other person is bad. If you are in this faith and you live a life of sin, you will equally feel everyone is doing the same [thing with you]. You are [merely] deceiving yourself. You had better repent. THE DEVIL IS MISLEADING YOU. The devil is busy misleading many now.
Let’s just take note of here. 8There are people that have decided within themselves to carry out that which God demanded. Such a person’s prayer would be: “God if you know that thing which makes me sin before you, show it to me. I have come before you.
9Tell me about it and see what I will do. Since I found out why sin always overwhelms me, I can become holy again. I realized that I support righteousness a little and support sin more”.
I REALIZED THAT I SUPPORT RIGHTEOUSNESS A LITTLE AND SUPPORT SIN MORE Note where we are reading from. We are reading from verse 7 on page 24.
God said that the devil is misleading many now, and that if you are such a person that notices where the devil is holding you or where the devil is facing you, where he is using different strategies to deceive you, God said your prayer should be, “God show me that place where the devil is holding me?
Is this not confirming what we heard yesterday that our prayers should be that God should be, SHOW TO ME, AND SHOW TO YOU, because where the devil is holding us differs individually.
Where the devil is holding me is not the place where he is holding [Bro] Promise. It is not where he is holding Chiemelie, Chukwudi, Chika or Chukwubuikem. He is holding us at different points.
And God is making us to understand that the devil is not going after everybody. The devil is going for only children of God. The devil is only going after those people who are strong spiritually in God.
What is his aim? To make you to be spiritually weak. The moment he succeeds in making you weak, he [the devil] has gotten you.
I do not know whether many of us went back to rehearse our jotter on the Message of yesterday. Since we know that we record this Messages, the best thing for us is after receiving this Message, we should go home to our different rooms, play this Message back to have a proper understanding (deeper understanding).
When you replay the Message again, you begin understand things the more, even the things you heard but you did not catch because you were jotting while the Message was going on.
God said that the first thing the devil will do to a child of God is that he will make you to lose your prayer life. That is the first. God said that after losing your prayer life, (2) he (the devil) will make you feel that you are a repository of all knowledge.
At that point, the individual will not have the time or desire to study the Word of God. For every Message, he distorts it and gives it another meaning. So let us watch these two things.
If we watch these two things, we will come to the understanding and agree that what God said is truth. The moment he [the devil] weakens your prayer life, the desire to worship God will no longer be in the individual. Even to sing praises during the family altar becomes a problem. Watch the way the person praises God haphazardly because the spirit of God is no longer in him.
Whenever the Word of God goes forth, he will be complaining and asking whether he is the only one that is guilty. There is no Word of God that will make any impact in the life of that person again.
And God said, “The person will remain boiling within. And until he puts to practice that desire in him, he can never rest”.
The desire to do evil will be very high in that person. The thought that fills his heart wherever he is the thought of the next [evil] thing he will do. He can never think about God.
These are the antics of the devil. These are all the antics the devil is using in these last days. And if the person understands, he will see it that he is passing through his own squeeze.
Remember we were told that we are passing through squeeze. We were told that the devil is going to squeeze us. But since that person fails to have that revelation, he will continue battling with the same evil, regardless of the corrections reminders and rebuke. The more you talk, the worse it becomes.
God is saying here that your prayer should be, “God, show me that place where the devil is holding me.” This is because when you recognize where the devil is holding you, it is half the victory. Fighting it becomes very easy.
But the moment you have not yet understood the symphony of the Message and it is not yet clear to you; you are still seeing it that you are being falsely accused. Such a person can never wriggle out it.
9Tell me about this, Lord, and see what I will do. Since I have found out why sin always overwhelms me, I have become whole again. I have realized that I support righteousness a little and support sin more. At a point in time, I am against sin. At another time, I am for sin. I do not know what is going on in me.
10Hence, I have realized all these that have been going on in me, and I have made a decision to be on one side; On the side of righteousness. I gathered my arsenal of weapons against sin. The war against sin is what I am waging now. Finish!
Can we see what our prayers should be now? The Lord said that all these years these things have been going on in us.
There is one short Message God gave us titled, CIVIL WAR IN THE HEART OF A MAN. The worst thing that can happen to you is that your brother cannot talk or help you because it is a spiritual affair. The war will be raging in you and the person next to you may not know what is going on in you.
If it were physical, your brother can save you. Your mother can save you. Your father can save you. But this war is going on spiritually in you.
And when this thing is going on, it will stand boldly before you. This is pure truth! You can deny everything, but you cannot deny that this thing is not standing before you. Your conscience will continue to bear witness to the fact.
So, God is saying that since I have recognized this, what do I do? I HAVE MADE A DECISION TO BE ON ONE SIDE. God said that this is not the situation where you stand in the middle. You must take sides on this matter.
If not, you are the one supplying the devil with the weapons of warfare with which he will use to wage war against you.
10Hence, once I realized that this was going on in me I made a decision to be on one side; On the side of righteousness. I have gathered my arsenal of weapons against sin. The war against sin is all I am waging now. Finish!
That should be our prayer: that the war against sin is what we will be waging now.
11I now give righteousness a weapon to fight against sin. That was when I began to have boldness before God.
Note it. It is when you start doing this that you will begin to have boldness before God.
Sin makes a man timid because it debases a man.
You have to, first of all, find out your sin and how you are aiding and abating it.
That means helping sin and putting it into practice.
This Message was preached on 26th June, 1995 at Ohuba meeting.
What? Which Message is that?
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD VOL. 2 & NO SECON CHANCE.
This is confirming what God said.
If you do not find out where the devil is having a stronghold in you, fighting it will be very, very difficult. So, we must recognize it. God said, “This is the time for final restoration”. God is doing everything to make sure that He must save somebody. Amen.
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GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD [2]
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD/NO SECOND CHANCE; Preached on 25 June 1995 at Ohuba Meeting; Page 26 verse 12 – 16. 12That war that seems unending in you, was initiated by you.
I am the one who introduced into myself that thing that has been happening in me, and which I have been striving to remove. And if I want that war to come to an end, I will also make it to come to an end.
12That war that has been unending was initiated by a human being. And, that human being is you.
YOU ARE THE ARCHITECT OF YOUR OWN WOES. MAN IS THE ARCHITECT OF HIS OWN WOES. THE GREATEST ENEMY OF MAN IS HIMSELF.
MY GREATEST ENEMY IS MYSELF. YOUR GREATEST ENEMY IS YOURSELF. YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE IT.
THIS IS BECAUSE A SINNER HATES HIMSELF. A DISOBEDIENT FELLOW HATES HIMSELF. HE DOES NOT WANT TO LEAVE IT. AND HE DOES NOT WANT TO CONFESS IT.
12This war that seems unending was initiated by a human being. And that human being is you. Once you find out what that war is, victory is yours.
So, no matter how we preach, if you have not recognized and accepted that there is something going on in your life or in my life which I have to change, God said, “You can never have victory”.
THIS IS WHAT IS HOLDING ALL NGWA PEOPLE CAPTIVE. AND THIS IS WHAT IS HOLDING ALL MBAISE PEOPLE CAPTIVE.
If IK Ezindu recognizes it, he will come out. As soon as his wife recognizes it, she will come out. All of them! Both Joe, Chinedu, and as many of them as possible, including Obinna that went to hell.
ONCE YOU FIND OUT WHAT THAT WAR IS, VICTORY IS YOURS. THAT WILL BE THE END OF THE WAR IN YOU.
Brother Ben, will this war end today? He replied, “It must end today.” God bless you for that. That is the type of decision God wants. That is what? The type of decision God is looking for.
13There was a sermon I preached in my house at about 11pm. everybody got up and started putting it in practice.
At about 11pm. In My house. At about 11pm, has Promise notgone to heaven and come back. At 11pm, I was preaching a sermon. Was I preaching it to ghosts?
You can imagine how old my children were in 1995 when I was preaching a sermon at 11pm in the night. And they were all awake, listening.
…everybody got up and started putting it into practice. [They] started obeying [immediately], both young and old.
The level of your spiritual maturity in you tells you the level of commitment you have with God. I hope I am making sense?
“A man’s level of maturity in Christ is determined by the level of commitment he has with Christ. If you have less commitment, that is how your growth will be.
The success of every student is determined by the effort he puts. Is it not true? If you do not put much effort, you will not have a good result.
So, that is the reason why people are not putting any effort in serving the LORD, in obeying this truth and living right is very difficult for them is because they have become habitual wrong doers.
Measure your spiritual strength (your spiritual maturity). It will equate with your commitment to Christ. IT MUST! There is no other miracle anybody can perform.
…everybody got up and started putting it into practice. [They] started obeying it [immediately],…
By then, how old were these children?
[They] started obeying it [immediately], both young and old. That is how you know the children of GoD. That is how you know the true seed of God.
He does not delay. Immediately! He obeys.
Immediately God says it, they will start putting it into practice it, immediately. Most of have already forgotten the Message of yesterday, thereby postponing the practice till tomorrow, “The day after tomorrow, I will obey it. Next week, I will obey it.” But God’s Word requires instant obedience.
Some will say, “Take it easy. Later, I will gradually look into it.” Bro Eli, are you listening and hearing what is being said? Are you hearing it? This is because you are one of the people that will say, “Let us take gradually. Gradually, I will look into it.”
And that is the spirit of Enugu people, “Let us break the instruction down.” You are breaking down a plain Gospel. A plain statement! A plain language. “it will be gradually looked into. Wait, so that we can gradually look into it.”
Do you live a righteous life gradually? Do you speak the truth gradually? Justice delayed is justice denied. Truth that is delayed to obey is truth that is completely denied.
The next time you will remember to put it into practice is only when the disobedience to that truth has landed you into trouble.
Then with rebuke, you will be reminded of that which you should have done. And that will be the time you will hastily go to discharge your responsibility, because you had already denied it completely. Only when the disobedience had landed you into trouble that you now run back to doing it.
This is because the truth we have resisted has been proven to be the one that is capable of setting us free from all our troubles.
Check all the truths that unsettles and makes you uncomfortable; all that you are told gets you discomforted; you are angry and at the same time demonstrating; and which you are demonstrating against, instead of seeing it as something that will free you from captivity and bring you out from the pit of death, for a sinner is in the pit of death.
A song writer sang, “God, deliver me from the pit of death.” A sinner is in the pit of death, but God gave him a ladder to come, but he refused.
That is how you know a true seed of God. 14All a child of God need is, “Tell me the truth. I will obey.” All that a child of God needs is what? Tell me the truth and watch my life from now.
He became the author of salvation unto them that obeyed him. [Hebrews 5:9] You can never have eternal salvation until you begin to obey. Sure!
15If you are the type that mingles with the heathen in your community in everything they do; You live the way they live; do things the way they do; if you come out tomorrow and tell them to repent, do you think they will listen to you?
Nobody!
16Come out from among them so that you will fight the evil in you. 21 You have to, first and foremost, separate from evil.
You have to, first and foremost, separate from evil before fighting evil. So, if you have not separated that evil in your heart, there is no way you can fight it.
God said, “Any evil you take desire in doing, you can never stop it. As far as the desire is there, you are gaining, you are enjoying it, there is no way you can stop it. Amen.
You were sealed long long time ago, but not all of you. what was sealed was in the Book of Life. The record where your names were documented was closed and the testimony sealed. This is the point of our consolation. The Lord has finally sealed us into the Ark. All we have to do now is to rejoice. No more. No less.
I AM THE CONSOLATION OF THE BRIDE; Preached on 31st December 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 98 vs. 69)
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KNOW THE GOD YOU HAVE COME TO WORSHIP
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD; Preached on 26th June, 1995 at Ohuba Meeting. Page 30 verse 5 – 14, Page 33 verse 18.
5Isaiah 54:10. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. (KJV)
6Everything can be removed, but the peace of the lord which lasts forever will stands sure [in the life of a believer, and can never be removed]. Once you have his peace, His covenant will last forever [in you]; that covenant of peace you have with Him.
Once you come to God with all your heart,… [and have the readiness to obey], His covenant will remain for good in you.
7Psalm 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him. and His righteousness unto your children`s children (KJV)
8From everlasting to everlasting, the mercy of God is upon them that fear [and obey] Him.
God is only merciful to as many as fear and obey Him. If you do not have the fear of God and you do not obey Him, how can you pray that God should have mercy upon you? That person is IK Ajondu.
8From everlasting to everlasting, the mercy of God is upon them that fear [and obey] Him. And it will be in their children and children’s children. Do you think God can bypass His Word?
It will be in their children and children’s children. See the way this Message has been going from our hand. Imagine Temi and Harrel [The LORD’s grandchildren] now understand what we are preaching. The need to say “Thank you Lord”. They now understand what it takes to worship God.
Even Evana. They now kneel down and pray. Look at Temi who was less than 1 year, saying, “Thank you LORD!” It is a holy lineage.
9I want you to know the God that you have come to worship. If you obey this God, it will be a benefit to your children and your grandchildren.
Sure!! Sure!!!
The Voice of God as at 1995! But if you are the type that does not fear Him nor obey Him, you must surely get the opposite. Know the God you have come to worship.
10Psalm 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. (KJV)
So, the LORD will only show pity on you when you fear and obey Him. So, there are no two ways about it.
There is God’s pity; God’s sympathy. God will come to your rescue.
11Did you get the Message? There is no man that does not get disturbed when his children get into trouble. The same way it is with the [Almighty] God. God is extremely troubled when His child gets into trouble. Sure!
12Is there any father that will ignore the trouble that his child got into? He knows what you are passing through. God knows what we are passing through.
Even our song says, “Our God knows all about our troubles. He will guide till the day is done. There’s not a friend like the lowly saviour. No not one. No not one. Amen.
13Pastor, are you getting what the Lord is telling us [today]? Do not kill yourself with worry. A child of God does not worry.
As far as your father is alive, you are alive also. Look, you should all tell God so as to increase your faith.
He said so that you shall see tomorrow. He [God] said, “Because I live, you shall see tomorrow. Because He lives, you shall live also”. [John 14:19]
That is the promise. God is not dead. God is alive forevermore. So we, being the children of God, shall remain alive forevermore.
Look, you should all tell God this [so as] to increase your faith. 14Let me tell you, the God of today is also the God of tomorrow. The God that kept you alive today will also keep you alive tomorrow.
Do not kill yourself over worry, God knows your need. His ears are always open to your cry and the pleas of you that are righteous. Therefore, bring your burdens to Him.
18You can take away my land from me. you can take away my car from me, or even my wife, but you can never take away Christ from Me. you can never take away the Word of God from Me.
If you have this resolution: Take my life away from me. Take my car away from me. Take my family away from me, but do not ever take Christ away from me. You can never take away the Word of God from me because the Word of God lives in me.
How many of us can actually say that the Word of God is living in us? God said that we should make this resolution now.
God said yesterday that we should not only unite, have this relationship physically with God or with ourselves, but we should make sure it is spiritual. As a family. Make sure that bond is strong.
If we all can repent and make this resolution, there is no way the devil can use any of us as instrument.
In this family and elsewhere, we shall remain vessels of honour. Vessels of honour in the hand of God.
The devil is looking for that loose fellow. That is the only way he can penetrate.
Loose fellow!
When he sees that I am strong, Chukwudi is strong, Chika I strong, he will leave. But when he sees that somebody is weak among us, he will capitalize on that fellow, and then inject evil in the family.
The devil will use him to destabilize the peace and the harmony. That is why the Bible says “Woe unto him that introduces evil in the family of a man of God.”
If you introduce evil (evil habit) in the house of a man of God, you will suffer a great punishment. A great punishment will follow such a fellow till eternity. While we are casting away evil, the person will be bringing back, using a hook. God forbid! God forbid!
But, why must it be you? Why must it be Me? To be a worthless fellow in the family of God; becomes a mean person who does not fear God, does not honour God, and does not obey God, what is the essence of my living? Will it not be better that the person jumps into River Niger?
The Bible says “It is better the person is not born, who will cause one of these little ones that have believed in me to err.” To be the one who will cause me to stumble.
The Bible said that it is better that that fellow was not born. And that the person who had a milestone tied to his neck and thrown into the ocean is better than such a fellow. [Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2]
Nothing will ever make a child of God to fall into such a trap.
If any Message does not go directly to human nature, how can it effect a change in human nature? It has no power to transform the human nature. That is why, if you have come into contact with Me, The Son of Man, The Smoking firewood, The I AM THAT I AM, I mean The Great Rock of Ages, The Supreme Intelligence that govern the universe, and your life remains the same, two things are there: It is either I am not sent for your salvation or you never proceeded from God. Amen.
DIDN’T OUR HEARTS BURN WITHIN US VOL. 2; Preached on Sunday 30th April 2017, Onitsha; Pg. 106 vs. 54 – 55
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HOLINESS IS REALITY AND IT IS TRUTH
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD/NO SECOND CHANCE; Preached on 26th June 1995; Page 37 verse 1 – 9. 1Exodus 34:5-7. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
Who proclaimed the name of the Lord? “The Lord proclaimed the name of the Lord”. The name of the Lord that time was Moses! The Lord proclaimed it.
2And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, THE LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
3Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that WILL BY NO MEANS CLEAR THE GUILTY… “
WILL BY NO MEANS CLEAR THE GUILTY. The Obstinate, powerful, unrepentant sinner who has hardened up his heart.
…visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (KJV)
4Have you seen the God you have come to worship?
The same way He visits those that obey with the goodness of the Lord unto their children-children. But, those that refuse to obey, it is an extension of evil. You can hardly see a good fruit coming out of a bad tree.
It is very, very difficult for a godly fellow to come out from an ungodly home, unless he is raised outside; unless he is severed from his infancy and brought up outside. He cannot stay in that ungodly family and be godly. It is impossible. I said “It is impossible.”
4Have you seen the God you have come to worship? [He is] the only one that forgives sin, [He is] the only one that shows mercy.
But He is still the same that punishes iniquity. He is the one that said, “Hands must join hands; no sinner shall go unpunished.”
5This is for you to run away from sin. But you may be the one that will say, “Well, it is better to fall into the hands of the Lord so that He will punish you Himself.”
Let me tell you, when David chose to be punished by God instead of going to the warfront, in less than 24 hours, seventy thousand [70,000] persons died.
6When the 70,000 died, David fainted. Then, the Angel of the Lord told him that he had not yet begun the massacre for he was still on his way to Jerusalem.
Yes! The Angel was still coming, but 70,000 had already died. Assuming he went to war with the heathens, do you think 70,000 would have died before the war ended because you think that God is a merciful one.
St. Paul said even told them, “God is a consuming fire. What a fearful thing for you to enter into judgment with God or even receive the fiery indignation of God which is the like to come upon the children of disobedience. And, that is what somebody is attracting to himself and to his generation.
You are attracting to yourself and to his generation. Is this not a wicked fellow. Such a fellow is dead already. What is the legacy you are leaving behind, that your children will never come out of the crime you committed when you were here on earth?
The crime the father committed followed the children, and followed the grandchildren. Have you not seen where this thing is fulfilling? Do you not see happening? Do you not see that there some people in our midst who are victims from what their parents committed?
Just follow me gradually. There is something I want to point out here to confirm what we heard yesterday.
6…It was just within a day and the Lord said the thing would last for three days”. If it had not been that God held the hand of the Angel on the way, he would have wiped out the whole of Jerusalem. God held him back and told him to wait, “It is like David has repented.
7That was how the whole thing stopped. In fact, David declared national mourning. David even asked, “God, I was the one that committed the sin. Why are you now tormenting the whole nation because of me?”
8Note it! There is something I want to say [around] there. How did the sin start? David won a battle against the Philistines. Then the devil decided to tempt him by inspiring him [wrongly] to count the people of Israel. To carry out a census.
So, note what God told us that if the devil will come out plainly and tells you that he is the devil, you must surely flee away him. He will find a way to tempt you by inspiring you wrongly.
SO, KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GETTING YOUR INSPIRATION FROM. WHAT IS INSPIRING YOU AT EVERY POINT IN TIME.
INSPIRATION IS THE POWER OF THE MIND. SO, FIND OUT WHERE THE INSPIRATION THAT IS EMPOWERING YOUR MIND IS COMING FROM.
Find out where the inspiration powering your mind is coming from.
9The Bible said, “Satan inspired David… Can we note it? Who Satan did what? Inspired David.
That ancient serpent.
He [Satan] was the one. So, if Satan can inspire David, is it you that Satan cannot inspire you?
A man after God’s own heart.
So, let us take note where we are getting our inspiration from.
And that is where our mind is drawing its power of operation because the mind will, first of all, lead you astray. The mind, first of all, leads a man astray before calamity will befall that person.
The Bible said, “Satan inspired David to number the children of Israel”, so that he will know the number of people he was ruling. Can you see that the devil inspires people too?
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WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION?
Wait a little. Can we pause a little here? Cast your minds back, everybody, and see whether you can remember some of your previous wrong actions which, from the understanding you have now, from the maturity you have now attained since we started gathering here at home, worshipping God in our own way because every family is worshipping in their own way; We are worshipping in our own way in the family of THE SON OF MAN.
From the maturity you have attained, the knowledge you have gained by your new Faith right now where you are standing; your present stand point in the Faith of Christ, can you cast your mind back and see too many decisions you took, wrong things you did under wrong inspiration thinking you were doing right, thinking you were acting out of pure motive, and but you never knew that the inspiration that moved you to do those things never came from God. But you are just discovering them right now.
LET ME TELL YOU. I APPRECIATE THIS FAMILY WORSHIP FOR ONE THING. IT IS REVEALING TO ALL AND SUNDRY HOW FAR WE ENSTRANGED OURSELVES FROM GOD. IT IS REVEALING TO US HOW FAR WE HAVE BEEN EVEN FROM THE GATE OF PARADISE.
WE WERE JUST HAVING EUPHORIA. A GOOD NUMBER OF US NEVER CAME NEAR THE ARK OF SALVATION, BUT THEY WERE BUSY ROMANCING WITH THE CHURCH, DANCING AND MAKING MERRIMENT. THEY WERE BEING GUIDED BY THEIR FEELINGS, INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF GOD.
WHEN A MAN IS BEEN GUIDED BY HIS FEELINGS, HE IS BOUND TO ERR, BECAUSE IT IS NOT THE WAY YOU THINK BUT THE WAY GOD WANTS IT. TRUE OR FALSE?
IT IS NOW THAT OUR EYES ARE BEGINNING TO SEE CLEARER. WE CAN SEE SALVATION IN A CLEARER VIEW. AM I MAKING SENSE AT ALL?
ANYBODY WHO IS NOT SEEING PARADISE FROM HERE CAN NEVER ENTER IT. TRULY SPEAKING, EVERY MORNING, I SEE PARADISE, SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE IS NO OBSTACLE AGAIN.
WHATEVER THAT WAS BECLOUDING OUR MINDS AND EYES HAS BEEN REMOVED. WE ARE MUCH MORE FOCUSED NOW THAN EVER.
IF ANYBODY IS STILL BEING BUFFETED ABOUT NOW BY THE DEVIL, HE IS BEING BUFFETED BECAUSE HE HAS REFUSED TO CONFESS AND FORSAKE HIS SINS.
FOR THAT REASON, THE DEVIL WILL STILL BE CHARGING HIM. THE DEVIL IS STILL ASKING YOU, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE MIDST OF THESE PEOPLE?” THE DEVIL KNOWS WHO WE ARE.
The devil knew Jesus Christ. The devil knew saint Paul. Seven sons of Sceva came to impersonate. They needed no introduction to the devil. The devil asked them, “Who are you? I know Jesus. I know Paul. I say, who are you?” This is because they were powerless. [Acts 19:14 – 15]
WHEN CHRIST IS NOT THE SOURCE OF YOUR STRENGTH, YOU ARE POWERLESS. EVERYBODY IS POWERLESS WITHOUT CHRIST.
THAT IS WHY WE READ IT LAST NIGHT THAT JEHOVAH IS THE STRENGTH OF HIS PEOPLE. HE IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF HIS PEOPLE AND POWER OF HIS PEOPLE.
SO, THE POWER PROPELLING MY ACTIONS MUST BE GOD OR NEVER. IT IS WHEN I HAVE SURRENDERED FULLY TO GOD’S LEADERSHIP.
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD/NO SECOND CHANCE; Page 42 verse 15. 15The Bible says “Satan inspired David to number the children of Israel so that he will know the number of people he was leading…
The same way Satan inspires you to tell lies, inspires you to steal, inspires you to sleep when it is not convenient, and inspires you to hiding away from your responsibilities.
Satan can inspire you to do too many wrongs. You might be saying that your heart is pure, but you are wrong with the purity of your heart.
The devil is the one giving you the impression that your heart is purified, when your heart is full of evil. If your heart is purified, why are you always in the wrong?
Why are you always in the wrong? Why are you unable to see danger ahead and avoid it? Why are you unable to have a good judgment of what is good and what is bad? Why are you unable to have a good judgment of what is pleasing to God and what will displease God?
Who has a good judgment? It is one that is wrapped in Christ. He has a good judgment of every situation and every occasion.
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD/NO SECOND CHANCE; Page 43 verse 19. 19I want you to know the God you are worshipping. If you ever stray away from this revealed path, you are in trouble. I say, “You are in trouble.” You will then bring what I call a national stain. A what? A NATIONAL STAIN! It will clear the whole congregation; clear your whole family and still wait for your grandchildren.
20It was just one fellow who brought in the sin that caused the children of Israel to go into captivity. When they were being taken away, the children, the aged, the Prophets, everybody trudged along. They were all speechless [because] sin is transgression of the law…
AND, A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP. [1 Corinthians 5:6 – 7, Galatians 5:7 – 9]
And, that is the target of the devil, to introduce sin where it does not exist so that the anger of the Lord will be kindled against those people. That is why the Lord declared “Woe unto that person who will attempt to do it.”
IF GOD SAYS WOE TO THAT PERSON, CAN THE DEVIL CHANGE IT? THE DEVIL WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO, BUT WILL NEVER TELL YOU THE CONSEQUENCES.
THE DEVIL CAN INSPIRE YOU INTO WRONG ACTION, BUT WILL NOT DEFEND YOU WHEN YOU ARE SUFFERING THE REPERCUSSIONS.
THE DEVIL INSPIRES PEOPLE INTO WRONG ACTIONS, BUT WILL NEVER COME TO THEIR DEFENSE WHEN THE PUNISHMENT FOR WRONG ACTIONS BEGINS TO BE UNLEASHED.
That is why I have always told you to be very careful, search yourself, watch your back that people, that put their fellow human beings into trouble do not help them out.
Those people that you listen to and mingle with, they are experts in pushing you into a pit, but will never help you out of the pit. I hope you are hearing me?
I have a case. A family confessed to Me in this Faith from Aba, of how the husband and wife pushed their first son into stealing and kidnapping, and they belong to the Lord’s Chosen Church.
They forced their first son out of the school. They had the money to pay for the fees, but because in the neighbourhood, there were some boys that were doing Yahoo and kidnapping, and they were making money in Aba.
They now pushed that boy to go and join them so as to alleviate the hardship and sufferings of the family. This boy resisted.
The father stopped paying his school fees and said he would not like to raise a boy who would not be behaving like lion and like others.
So, this boy now agreed, followed them, and they took him to Lagos. The first kidnapping they did, they did it in the Lord’s Chosen Church by kidnapping a little girl (a child of a member of their church).
They kidnapped her and started demanding for a ransom of fifteen million naira [₦15,000,000]. From fifteen million naira, they narrowed it to five million naira. While they were going to collect the ransom, they were arrested.
The boy has been in jail at the Kiri-Kiri [maximum security] Prison in Lagos. How many years now? 15 good years. Which means he was numbered among the first set of kidnappers in Nigeria at a very tender age.
What was his age when they pushed him into it? He was 15 years old. Now, he is 30 years old because he was imprisoned for life. He was handed a sentence of life imprisonment.
That is the fair complexioned Brother who fell down from an upstairs. That is the one. They wrote Me. I read it here. And then, they came openly confessing that they were responsible for whatever the boy is passing through. They said I should intervene so that the boy will come out.
Can you imagine? They have succeeded in putting him into hell, but they will not help him out. Have they not shattered the future of that boy? The boy is doomed till eternity!
Life in Christ? No! Life in world? No! Enjoyment? No! How are we sure that he is still alive? Are we sure? This is because they have been merely counting that he has been there, but they have not visited him.
I asked them to know the last time they visited him, but they said, “About 5 years ago.” Has he been calling? They said no! Have you sent people? He stammered that they do not allow people in again. Are you sure he is still alive? This is because if he dies, nobody will tell them. He is government’s property.
So, let us be very careful about what we are listening to, what we are seeing, the people we are trying to be like. Influence!
Wrong influence inspired by the devil. If it is not your nature, the first day you will try it, you will be the number one victim.
Then, you will repent in the prison or repent in the grave. Those who will lure you into it will escape. And they will never do anything to bring you out, even your own parents.
Sometimes, the condition of our parents can compel us to begin to do wrong, and to think wrong as if we can change their condition overnight.
LET ME TELL YOU. IF GOD DOES NOT COME TO THE RESCUE OF ANY MAN, NO HUMAN BEING CAN CHANGE THE CONDITION OF A FELLOW HUMAN BEING.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE IT? HAS DANGOTE CHANGED THE CONDITION OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLE? HAS HE CHANGED THE CONDITION OF HIS OWN FAMILY?
DID EKENE DILI CHUKWU CHANGE THE CONDITION OF HIS FAMILY OR NNEWI? DON’T YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS LIVING? WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT MIC-MERAH? IS HE NOT STILL THERE?
GO AND CHECK ALL. I WOULD NOT MENTION NAMES. YOU KNOW ALL OF THEM. WHO HAS EVER SUCCEEDED IN DOING IT?
WHAT CAN WE SAY ABOUT PETER E-VENTURES? DID HE MAKE MATTERS BETTER IN HIS FAMILY? BUT HE THOUGHT HE WILL TURN THE WORLD UP-SIDE-DOWN. WHERE IS HE TODAY? WHERE IS HIS FAMILY? ALL IN SHAMBLES. DO WE HAVE A LESSON TO LEARN? GOOD!
SO, BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE GETTING YOUR INSPIRATION THAT IS PUSHING YOU INTO WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING.
IF THE INSPIRATION IS NOT COMING FROM GOD, LET IT BE KNOWN TO YOU THAT THE DEVIL IS HAVING A FIRM GRIP OVER YOU. I SAY, THE DEVIL IS HAVING WHAT? “THE DEVIL IS HAVING A FIRM GRIP OVER YOU, AND HE DOES NOT WANT YOU TO ESCAPE.
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD VOLUME 2; Page 44 verse 21. 21Psalms 48:14 For this God is our God forever and ever: Amen!! he will be our guide even unto death. Amen!! (KJV)
22You see what these people were saying? That this God will be their God and their guide forever and ever. Can Ohuba Church say this today?
Can we in this family say this today?
It is our resolve.
23If it had been that you took this God to be your God and your guide forever and ever, I tell you, we will not be in the church speaking for hours on end. The whole world would have seen what children of God are.
24It is because we do not know this fact. That is why we gather with our right hand and scatter with our left hand.
Then we look like a blind man who was placed before an elephant and was told to identify it. When he touched the horn, he said he had a tree before him. On touching the tongue, he said it was a pavement. We should not begin to do wrong.
Neglect the Voice of THE SON OF MAN, you must land yourself in trouble; And at the end, you must come back to the same Voice. The highest favour God will show us, He said, “Is to remind us of His Voice we have not obeyed.”
CAMP RULES; Preached on Sunday 25th December 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 104 vs. 30
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CHRIST IS THE VINE AND WE ARE HIS BRANCHES
GOD IS REVEALED BY HIS WORD VOLUME 2 PREACHED ON 26TH JUNE 1995 AT OHUBA MEETING; Page 48 verse 34.
34Christ is the original Vine and we are His branches. If Christ is holy and perfect, we must be holy and perfect.
Do not believe anyone that tells you, you cannot be perfect. So far as Christ is perfect, we that believe Christ must be perfect.
Sure!! A servant ought to be as perfect as the master. [Luke 6:40]
Let me tell you. every true child born in a family should be a replica of that family because you are a continuation of that SAME family. true or false?
You see why you must make sure you know what your family stands for. You must know what your family stands for, because you are an inseparable member of that family.
If your family is standing for evil, and you are born and brought up in that evil way, you are a continuation of that evil. Do you believe that?
If your family stands for righteousness, right living with God, you were born there, raised there, and you grew up there, do you have any excuse to stray away?
Even if you want to stray away, there will be something in you that will ask you. “Why? Are you trying to build another family? Are you trying to change the history of your home? Do not you know that it is an extension?” It is a lineage.
That is why God said that He [God] loves Abraham so much for he is able to raise not only a godly family, but godly descendants. Is it not scripture? For he will raise godly descendants. [Genesis 18:19]
When you say you are a descendant of Abraham, God will accept you on the basis of your dealings and your character, for you must be a replica of Abraham your father who was God’s friend because of his commitment, his devotion, his allegiance to the cause of God. Godly descendants! You must have godly children. Aim at raising a godly generation.
35If Christ is holy and perfect, we must be holy and perfect. The Bible says that Christ was holy and perfect. Christ makes Himself perfect and became the author of eternal salvation unto them that obeyed…. Hence, look at the clause, “unto them that obeyed.”
36Ohuba church, holiness is real. Without it, no man will see God. IS A LIAR HOLY? IS A THIEF HOLY? IS A HOT-TEMPERED MAN HOLY? IS AN IMPATIENT FELLOW HOLY? IS ONE THAT CANNOT TOLERATE HIS FELLOW MAN HOLY? IS ONE WITHOUT FAITH HOLY? IS ONE WITHOUT [GOD’S] LOVE HOLY?
I want you to begin to understand what God demands from you.
Holiness unto the LORD.
38Deuteronomy 28:9 The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself,… What?
The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself,…
We are going to read it in another translation because I handled this Message while I was establishing Ohuba Church. I revealed to them the God the Bible revealed so that they will know whether they will worship that God or not.
There is no Local Assembly I established without, first of all, revealing to them the type of God I was bringing to them; the type of God I was introducing to them, even Onitsha. THE GOD YOUR BIBLE REVEALS.
Then after which, I sent them home for two weeks. Every family should go home, reason together with your family to know whether you will worship Him or not.
That was what they did in the days of Joshua. When they came out, Joshua now made a proclamation, “Chose for yourselves this day the God you are going to worship. As for me and my family, we have made our choice and it is final. We will worship the Great Jehovah, the Creator of the whole universe. That is the only God we will worship.” [Joshua 24:15]
So, he never knew about other families. I only know about my family. And they are those that are believing my report.
Deuteronomy 28:9 The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. (AMP)
Deuteronomy 28:9 He will change you into a holy people dedicated to himself;… Dedicated to God alone. ….this he has promised to do if you will only obey him and walk in his ways. (LB) Amen!
This is as God has promised to do if we will only obey and walk in God’s own ways. Then abandon our ways, for our ways are wicked ways.
Can a man who is full of evil do right? So, we better abandon those our foolish ways of thinking, reasoning, and seeing things. Abandon all those foolish ways of doing things. Let us walk in the ways of the Lord.
It is better we choose obedience and walking in God’s ways to making money. [Psalms 119:35 – 36 LB]
For every way that seemeth right in the eyes of a man, the end thereof is death, destruction and disappointment. [Proverbs 14:12]
No matter how flowery the devil will paint it before you, try it, and you will see where you will land.
Deuteronomy 28:9-10 If you obey the Lord your God and do everything he commands, he will make you his own people, as he has promised. (GNB)
38Deuteronomy 28:9 The Lord shall establish thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. (KJV)
39It then means, if you disobey His Words, He can [never] establish you so as to make you a Holy people…
And you can never belong to God. When you do not belong to God, where will you belong to? To Satan.
This then means, if you disobey His Words, He can never establish you so as to make you a Holy people unto Himself. Ohuba church, can you hear what I am saying? That is what Holy Ghost told Me to tell you….
Who makes a people holy? God. We read it in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 4 in the Living Bible translation.
4Long ago, even before he made the world, God chose us to be His very own through what Christ would do for us; He decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault–we who stand before Him covered with His LOVE. [LB]
God has decided to make us holy in His own eyes. Is it not true? We that obey Him, stand in His presence without a single fault. Is it not scripture?
So, it takes God to make a man holy. It also takes God to make a woman holy. Can you make yourself holy? God must have investigated your life, scrutinized your life, evaluated you and then counts you worthy.
This is because God is Holy, and that is why He said, “Be ye Holy, for I the Lord thy God I am Holy.” [1 Peter 1:15 – 16]
“I have severed you from among other people that you will be mine”. Is it not scripture? I have severed you; I have called you out from the rest of human race that you will be mine. [Leviticus 20:26]
While I am here, I am the Light of the world; Whoever follows Me can never grope in darkness. Take Me away, you are living in darkness and you must stumble: I say, you must stumble because I am paving the way for you. Did you get what I said? No matter the way you look at it, across the other way, you cannot hear another voice than the One you are hearing now. All that have been privileged to be taken over to the other side, they never heard any other voice than the Voice of the Bridegroom that is speaking in our midst. Are you getting what I am saying?…… – THE SON OF MANNOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 179 vs. 17 – 18
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SIN HALTS A MAN ON THE WAY
THE HEADSTONE; Preached By Pastor Okechukwu Nwamkpa on 11th September 1994; Page 25 verse 10
10I am praying to God that He will just help us in this race because each day, the road is narrowing down. Yes! And as it narrows, it is coming to a point that we must go in a single file.
I saw it last night and I was thinking that it was looking at the road I saw in the television last night in Guinea Bissau. A narrow path. But as I was watching that road, I saw few brethren in a single file. I counted 1-2-3-4. The 5th halted when he saw Me. The rest came, bowed before Me and then passed.
But the 5th halted, but could not come near Me and I could not make a noise. I was just watching. The thing vanished.
I now began to see that the road has now actually become a track road. Single file. And what halted that person, I do not know. He had not the boldness or that heart to come forward.
YOU SEE, SIN HALTS A MAN ON THE WAY. WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL WHILE MATCHING ON A NARROW PATH, THE DEVIL CAN HALT US ON THE WAY.
ONCE INIQUITY IS TRACED TO US, OUR JOURNEY IS HALTED. YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE BOLDNESS TO APPEAR BEFORE THE SON OF MAN AGAIN. NO ENTRY!
SO, MAKE SURE THAT ALL YOU HAVE BEEN BUILDING ALL THIS WHILE, THE DEVIL WILL NOT DESTROY THEM AT THIS DYING MINUTE.
The same way, he that has been walking on the left side can also level up within this period we are at home. Am I making sense? This is because it is like we are doing a very fast revision. A very fast revision.
And, as the Word is filtering into our hearts, so it is displacing iniquity from our hearts, making us better people unto the Lord.
One that is really serious and is struggling, fighting out evil, before that D-day, may level up. I say, “May level up.” This is the truth.
10I am praying to God that He will just help us in this race because each day, the road is narrowing down.
And as it narrows, it is coming to a point that we must go in a single file because if it is too wide, you can go in group like that.
But as it narrows [down], you [just] find out that you cannot just help it but go in a single file.
So, God is now dealing with us individually, and no longer collectively. Single file!
THE HEADSTONE; Page 31 verse 13 – 14; Page 33 verse 18 – 19; Page 34 verse 21 – 22. We have read this over and over. We have heard it over and over… We have read all these things and seen what God is doing.
…that God does not live in a house made with hands. When this ministration was going on in the morning, the Holy Spirit reminded us that there is no other thing that can take away the sinful nature of man [other] than God Himself. Amen!
IF THE WORD OF GOD FAILS TO TAKE AWAY YOUR SINFUL NATURE, YOU DO NOT BELONG TO GOD. AMEN!
14Nothing can remold a man, or renovate a man [and regenerate a man] if not God.
18I want you to get one picture, if Christ did not come and make us perfect, it then means He is taking imperfect people, unholy people to His Palace. But Christ is not taking any unholy man. Amen!
That is why the Word keeps on rebuking me, or [keeps on] rebuking you in order for you to really fit in now.
You see, after preaching the truth, he [Okey Nwankpa] could not abide in the truth. Where is his position today? Hypocrisy has bundled him out. Is he any better outside? Is he any better outside?
Even what he was manifesting bears eloquent witness that the devil captured him really.
The extent God used him is now the extent the devil is using him. You see why it is very dangerous for somebody to backslide. When you backslide, the devil will make sure he grips you firmly that he will not let you lose again, lest you will go back.
That is why God, first of all, removed His Spirit from him, for he must be with him the spirit of the devil. So, he became devil`s incarnate. [1 Samuel 16:14 KJV]
And the people that see him will be wondering, “Is this not the man they were calling Bishop? Was this man not the powerful preacher who was helping people to attain righteousness? Why is he like this?”
And this is exactly what God said will happen to Satan. God said that when Satan shall be exposed, the world will stand in awe, “Is it this man? Was this man not the most beautiful of the Angels? Was this man not the bright and morning star? Was he not referred to as the morning rose? Was he not the apple of God’s eyes? How cometh it that this man is now like this?”
You see what we must avoid? Just like Kerian who cannot come and mingle with people again. The same thing is applicable to all of them.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE DANGERS INHERENT IN BACKSLIDING BECAUSE OF MATERIAL THINGS? WHEN YOU BACKSLIDE, YOU ARE BACKSLIDING IN THE WORLD.
THE MOMENT YOU ABANDON THE WORD, YOU MUST LAND IN THE WORLD. DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE? ABANDON THE WORD, AND LAND IN THE WORLD. RESIST THE WORD, AND HEAD TO THE WORLD.
IF THE WORLD WILL RECEIVE YOU, GOD WILL REJECT YOU. THE WORD AND THE WORLD RUN CONTRARY. THEY RUN IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
THAT IS WHY WHEN THE WORLD IS GRADUALLY FILTERING INTO YOUR HEART, BEFORE YOU KNOW IT THE WORD OF GOD WILL NOT BE THERE AGAIN. YOUR MIND WILL BE WANDERING ON EARTHLY THINGS.
AND THE DEVIL WILL BE PAINTING PICTURES OF DIVERSE THINGS BEFORE YOU, INTENDING TO DRAW YOU AWAY COMPLETELY SO THAT YOU CANNOT FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO GOD.
19The Word of God is coming the way it is coming because it is the Headstone coming to settle in the Body. We are witnesses when a man was ruling the Church. The Bible said that God is not the author of confusion.
21For you to know whether we are a denomination being ruled by man, find out whether there is bunch of confusion in our midst.
Then apply it to yourself as an individual: “In this ministry, is my life full of confusion or is it full of orderliness?”
If your life is disorderly, it then means that the Headstone has not taken its position [in your life]. When I say the “Headstone”, I mean “Christ; the [revealed] “Word of God.”
[This is] 22Because that was all that was prophesied and it fulfilled in our eyes. And we are witnesses that anything that the Bride of Christ wants to do, they will like to find out what God said concerning it? Amen!
What did God say concerning my dressing? What did God say concerning my business? What did God say concerning my marriage? What did God said concerning my house? Before, it was not so.
But this should be our attitude from now. FINDING OUT WHAT GOD IS SAYING CONCERNING WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING.
Find out the mind of God before you begin to do that thing. Not after rolling into error, you begin to ask God, “What is your mind.”
THE HEADSTONE; Page 51 verse 11 – 13. 111 Peter chapter 2 verses 5 through 7. “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (KJV).
12If we are not a spiritual house, if we are not holy priesthood, if we are not offering spiritual sacrifices through the Word of God, then we are merely dead stones.
Stones that are dead. Because there is no life in it, it will decay. Do you not know that stones decay? Any stone that is not alive decays. Any stone that is alive builds up.
Sometimes, I find it hard [to understand] why people feel comfortable when they are outside the Word of God.
Some are living outside the Word of God, and still feeling comfortable and relaxed, taking delight in it. There is nothing querying them nor their actions. Nothing!
This is so because they are out of the way of God and they feel complacent there. A sure sign that, from the beginning, they had no part in the life that Christ gives.
WHOEVER THAT TAKES DELIGHT FEELING COMFORTABLE WHEN HE IS LIVING IN ERROR HAS NO PART IN THE LIFE THAT CHRIST GIVES. HE IS A STRANGER TO THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.
If the Word of God is roaring on you and you feel comfortable, 13…it is a sure sign that you are not a lively stone. You cannot spark off fire. How can somebody be comfortable… For fact that God is still angry at you should make you restless.
THE HEADSTONE; Page 52 verse 17. 17The Lord added you; the Word of God added you [to this Faith]. The same Word of God has the right to push you away. What called us from the beginning was God’s Word.
If you are here and you did not come here because God’s Word pulled you, you must surely leave us along the road. Amen!
How do you know that God’s Word called you? He will be the Headstone. He will dictate every of your action. We will always be willing to follow He that called us. For He has called us to glory and to virtue. [1 Peter 1:3] Amen.
You heard him say, “I have come down because you invited Me. I have heard your plea. I am grateful and I am delighted. I have come down among you again. I am sitting down even here now with you.”…… “…God goes to Church every day. He lives in you. He lives in the Church. You are the Church…”
GOD AND HIS PEOPLE; preached on Sunday 14th August 1994; Pg. 49 vs. 27 & 31
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GOD IS DELIGHTED IN VERY STRONG FAMILY WORSHIP (BY THE SON OF MAN)
That Is the much we will take for this our family altar. I appreciate it. Starting from the praises, I was there in the room dancing. And I believe that was Chika leading that praise. I heard his voice.
And the harmony in the songs, the way he was dishing it out and the way the congregation was responding to the song made Me to start dancing
Because I got my inspiration from there, I joined. One after the other, sweet melody unto the Lord. Spiritual songs! Spiritual songs that were very much edifying. So, My spirit was edified.
How I wish all of us will learn to pray. Pray! Surrender to Christ, so that when you come here, you will know that you are offering a spiritual sacrifice. Yes!
Singing praises means offering our sacrifices of needs unto God, for God Almighty inhabits in the praises of His Saints, His people. [Psalms 22:3]
So, God takes delight in it. And as I was dancing there, enjoying myself there, so I believe the Almighty God in Me is also rejoicing, taking the glory and taking the sacrifices because He is the One that is being honoured early hours of the morning.
That is why the Psalmist said, “Early in the morning will [early hours of the morning] will I rise up from my bed and sing praise to my God and He will accept my sacrifices.” [Psalms 63:1, Psalms 119:147 – 149 NIV] Can you imagine?
Early hours of the morning, when you wake up, what do you do? Do you wake up with anger? Do you wake up with malice? Do you wake up with your mouth full of talking?
Do you wake up with plans of evil you planned in the bed which you want to put into practice? [Micah 2:1]
The Psalmist said early hours I wake up with songs that fills my mouth. When you are joyful with the Lord, sing songs; sing hymns. [James 5:13]
So, I believe Chika woke up early in the morning, full of happiness because of what happened yesterday.
The joy of Message of yesterday took Me to bed. I am telling you the truth because teaching makes us strong. Yes! The Message said that we must be careful this time around about Serpent’s bite.
BEWARE OF SERPENT’S BITE, AS WE WORSHIP GOD NOW IN OUR HOMES. For the serpent will bite more now than before. I said the serpent will bite more now than before.
You will see so many deceitful acts more now. Hypocrisy will be more now. Eye service will be more. Everything will be more and very much pronounced in the homes.
But the homes where these things will be very much pronounced must be homes that have never believed God for one day, but situation is now compelling them to come together to do something that is not their nature, and to do something they have not been doing all these years.
There are some families that find it difficult even to have family altar. They do not gather in the morning on a daily basis to encourage one another. The man will wake up and go his way, while the woman wakes up and goes her way. The children just scatter.
And, now situation has compelled them to come together as a family to worship God in their own way. Begin to visualize what will be happening in that family. Who will be leading? Just have a deep look.
That is why God took the responsibility to save those little, little ones in every family that have vowed that they will serve God. So, God now decided that every family must be receiving food from His presence.
From this family, food is now being distributed just like the President ordered distribution of material foods to every family because of Corona disease that kept them in their homes. You can see relief materials being distributed.
The same way spiritually, God is distributing His own spiritual food to families because they are now in their homes as a result of government order, not that they have given up the idea of worshipping God.
So, we give God the praise. GOD IS DELIGHTED IN VERY STRONG FAMILY WORSHIP. Remember if we are strong in the Faith of Christ and every other family is like us, when we come together; when all of us come together, what do you think will happen? Revival!
I WANT YOU TO NOTE ONE THING THAT GOD IS BUSY MONITORING THE DEVELOPMENTS IN EVERY FAMILY. I SAY GOD IS BUSY MONITORING THE DEVELOPMENTS IN EVERY FAMILY, WHETHER IT BE GOOD OR BAD.
GOD IS MONITORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL THAT MAKES UP THAT FAMILY. Let us pray. Let somebody help us in prayer.
To God be the glory, Amen. You see, this serpent I am discussing, [pay attention] William Braham the Prophet saw the serpent. We read it in the sermon books.
He said he saw the serpent and he struck it with a machete and that he only succeeded in giving it a wound. HE SAID THAT THE SERPENT RAN INTO THE CHURCH. THE SERPENT RAN INTO THE CHURCH WITH THE WOUND.
And you know that when you wound a serpent, it becomes much more violent. Anybody it bites that time, the person’s life will be in danger.
So, do not think that that the serpent has been destroyed. That is why I showed you the book of Revelation where God is going to destroy that ancient dragon called serpent; The devil. [Revelations 20:2]
Do not ever behave as if the devil died. The devil is still alive and is still at work. Where does he work? He worketh among the children of disobedience.
So, if you want to remain disobedient, so that the devil will use you as a tool to wreak havoc, you will bear the consequences with your lineage. Thank you!