Sober reflection part 1

Sober reflection part 1 Preached ON Sunday 27^th November 2022 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO The Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN

Transcribed by Deacon David Mbah Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State

“Verily, I am Allah. There is no god but I: So serve thou Me (only), and establish regular prayer for celebrating My praise. ¹⁵“Verily the Hour is coming – My design is to keep it hidden – for every soul to receive its reward by the measure of its Endeavour. ¹⁶“Therefore, let not such as believe not therein but follow their own lusts, divert thee therefrom, lest thou perish!”.

The Holy Qur’an – Surah 20:14-16

Abdullah Yusuf Ali Translation

If God is dwelling in Me, I am God to you. If God decided to use Me as the only Badger skin He will put on and I minister Life to you, in other words, I am now God to you. You are My people. I do not want to put you in the dark for time has run out on us. We do not have much time to be chatting and playing. This time around, pay attention.

THE son of man

BEHOLD YOUR GOD COMETH; preached on Sunday 8^th June, 1997 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 43 vs. 15 – 16

INTRODUCTION

Hour of DEEP MEDITATION

Be reverent and begin to talk to God in your heart the same way Hannah petitioned to God in the temple in Shiloh because of the burden of her heart. Her husband Elkanah never heard what she was saying. The High Priest Eli never heard what she was saying.

In the same manner, I want you to bow your heads with quiet submission to the will of God this hour and talk to God from the bottom of your hearts.
The Bible said we should be found in Him, not holding our own righteousness, but standing on the existing righteousness which is in Christ. That has been the existing protocol. Stand there and make your request this hour.
Consider the afflictions of others while you pray. Consider the fate of the destitutes and physically challenged persons while you pray.
The LORD is in His own Sanctuary. He is touched by our infirmities. He is here to bless us and not to destroy us. Reverence Him the more. A good opportunity is given to you. Speak to Him. He is a Spirit Being. He heareth the voice of your spirit, for He is interested in your welfare. He is praying you will succeed where others failed.
Make intercessions for all the families that are adopted to this Great Family where he is standing now.
Father, we say Welcome to You this day, for this is the day You have made for us. We pray that You cause us to rejoice exceedingly, having the privilege of receiving Your visitation this hour. Listen to our plea, as we [O God] pour our hearts out before You.
This is a moment of prayer and also a moment of deep meditation. Consider your ways all this while and pour out your hearts before Him in prayer and in supplication. Plead with Him for mercy and for compassion.
If you have erred, plead with Him for pardon, peradventure there will be hope of full and complete salvation for all of us in the end.
Remember, it is not the will of God that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, and serve the LORD in spirit and in truth; and maintain a good relationship with Him, standing in right relationship with Him and with one another.
And the devil is not happy to see people like you trying to break loose from his prison yard this hour. So, do not relent. Do not be weak. Do not sleep. If you sleep, you do yourself more harm than good.
Do not think. I say, pray! Cry out your heart to God. Let me see the pursing of your lips and not the voice from your mouth. Carry your burdens to Him this hour. The greatest burden is the burden of hypocrisy. The burden of unbelief. Lay down that burden at his feet this hour.
Re-consecrate your service to God. A good opportunity is given to all of us this hour. I do not know when we had it this way before. Abuse not this privilege, for you may not have it again with THE SON OF MAN.
We are in His presence and we are permitted by Him to pour out our hearts before Him now. Search yourselves while I search Myself, and allow the Holy Spirit that is at work in all the sons and daughters of God to search you the more.
Pray that the Holy Spirit will search out anything that is profane and is unacceptable in the sight of God, that is hidden anywhere in your body system spiritually and physically.
May the Almighty God hear our prayer and supplications for His Name’s sake, Amen.

prayer

Our Heavenly Father, Your ears are always attentive to the prayers and supplications of your children and to the cries of their hearts.
Thank you LORd for giving us this opportunity to pour our hearts before You this first day of the week, marking the end of the month of November 2022.
Too many have passed on. Too many are lying critically bad in many hospitals. Too many committed heinous crimes that landed them in prison custodies. Even prominent men and women are involved.
Too many are neck-deep in corruption, but You have severed us from the corruption that is in this world through lust. You have taught us this new and living Way by which O God we will enter Paradise through Christ our LORD.
Father, we have believed in Him to the saving of our souls. And in Him, O God, we have found solace. In Him, we have found forgiveness of our sins; we have received our sanctification, the baptism [Father] You recommended. Baptism by fire, not by ordinary water.
Father, we have received baptism by the Holy Ghost which is the promise of the hour, for which cause [O God], we are here praising and adoring You, extolling Your good qualities, praying [O God] earnestly with all our hearts that You break us into pieces, melt us, remold us.
Remake us O God. Fill us with the earnest of Thy Holy Spirit and showcase us to the entire world as brand-new individuals. Let there be no trace of the old stock that will be traceable to us.
Let all those dirty, sinful, provocative ways we have lived our lives in time past due to stupidity and ignorance that dominated our hearts, and the blindness of hearts from recognizing the dangers inherent even in venturing into such unacceptable habits never be found in us anymore.
Now, we have turned over to a new leaf; we have turned to You, the Rock of our salvation. We have turned to You, the only Way of escape, our only Refuge, our indestructible Asylum, at a time like this.
Cast us not away from Your presence. Restore, restructure and reconcile us to Yourself. Count not our iniquities against us.
We have made series of intercessions in our hearts, for our fellow Brethren who are equally on this race with us.
We have made intercession globally for all the Elect of God scattered all over the world that You reach out to all of them and bring them to this Fold where we are right now with one Shepherd shepherding one Flock, that we may remain that one unique Family of the Most High God whom You have bestowed with absolute authority in heaven and on earth to be heirs and possessors of eternal life in Paradise.
Let there be no one that will be left behind. Search them out from the four corners of the earth. No matter their physical conditions; no matter their moral estate, search all of them out and bring them into this Fold O God.
Thy Word has gone forth throughout the whole world in search of them. Monitor Your Word that You have sent forth. Take it to that Elect there in the wilderness, on the mountain top, on the high sea.
No matter where that person is, Father, search that person out. Lead them back home, for they wandered away. They are in the deserts.
If You do not fetch them the same way You fetched our mother Haggai and her son Ishmael, and brought them back to their owner, our Father Abraham, they will be lost.
In the same manner O God, go to the highways – I am not commanding – direct Your Words to the highways, to the streets, to the dungeons, to the market places, to the gutters, to the mechanic workshops and to the dustbins O God. Go there with Thy Word.
Blow the alarm O God throughout the whole earth. Let the heaven and the earth testify of Your goodness and mercy, of Your loving-forgiveness, of Your loving-kindness when You must have reached out for them and fetched them wherever they have run to.
Father, we say, THANK YOU. We that are here standing in Your presence, given the opportunity to supplicate for our fellow mankind. Ignore not the supplications we have made for ourselves, for we are equally involved. Do not permit us to be a castaway after helping others into Your kingdom. Rather, may we be numbered among the first fruits that will be seated there.
We remember O God, those that are sleeping in Christ. They have gone ahead of us. Father, we make only but one solemn request on their behalf.
Remember Your eternal promise that we that are alive will not hinder them from coming back to life. Instead, the trumpet of God shall go forth. And all of them that slept in Christ [Father] will resurrect incorruptible, putting on immortality – their Theophany bodies.
We that are alive shall be translated [Father] in one second, within the twinkling of an eye, and we put on the garment they are putting on, and together, we meet with You in the air, never to part again.
This solemn promise, we upheld even this hour. Though it tarries, we believe You will bring it to pass the same way [O God] You have shown us Your Original Body, the Godhead, the Cloud and all Your attributes.
We have seen the thick darkness. We have seen the thick red covering signifying [O God] Your judgment upon the whole mankind. We have seen [O God] lilies growing from Your altar.
What have we not seen? We have seen with human eyes [Father] the brightness of Your presence. The illumination of Your brightness covered the Assembly of Your Saints.
We have seen You O God, operating by day and by night. And we cannot deny it anymore. We are no longer worshipping You as an imaginary God. You are as real as real can be to us. Though others may feign ignorance, but we are no longer ignorant. We are sure and certain of Whom we have believed in, that we are not being deceived.
We are the most favoured in the whole world. Since the world began, no group of people, a splinter group like us, in the minority, unknown to the entire world has ever been privileged [Father] to see Your Original Body. No group has ever been privileged to see the Godhead.
Although some were able to see You in the Form of a Rainbow or the Pillar of Cloud, but not even one, except the chosen few namely O God, Father Abraham. Noah never saw You, but he heard your voice. The next person that saw You live was Father Moses. Down the line O God, You appeared as a Centurion before Father Joshua.
From there O God, the journey continued till this day. You became a human being fully, and then the Apostles beheld You as a human being, but it profited them nothing, for they did not believe in You. Overfamiliarity [O God] became their greatest undoing.
You migrated to the Gentiles where idolaters dominated. And through mighty signs and wonders, You have caused the Gentiles to believe in You. They have seen the same thing the Jews saw.
And now that You are through with the Gentiles, You are on Your way home to reunite with Your people that the remnants of Israel that call upon the Name of the Most High God might be saved.
Cause us O God to make use of this last minute opportunity. May we never allow it to slip away. Use it O God [Father] in a way and manner that will bring honour, glory, praise, adoration and thanksgiving to Your Most Holy Name.
We are here, not by our power and not by our might. We are here because You chose us before the world began. And You just decided to do all that You are doing in our lives after the counsel of Your own will.
And that is exactly why we are rejoicing in Your presence, that we are not the one doing the works in our lives. You are the One. We return the credit, the glory, and the honour to You and to You alone, for Your glory, You will never share with any man.
This good work You are doing, remain doing it until O God we are seated comfortably in Paradise. Until then, keep us praying. Keep us watching. Keep us believing. Keep us obeying.
Father, we bow our heads down in reverence and in adoration saying, “THANK YOU LORD” for hearing and answering our prayers. For Your Name’s sake LORD, we pray. Amen.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy that you can generate and it manifests your desire according to the degree of your faith. When you pray, you take on a new mode of thinking, for you are thinking in harmony with the harmonious thoughts of God – all that is good. Your views and dispositions are transformed as you apply the truths of God to your daily life. In other words, the dynamic force that transforms knowledge into power is prayer.

-THE SON OF MAN-

SEVEN STEPS TO REALIZING THE PROMISES OF GOD HENCEFORTH; Preached from 6^th January to 3^rd February 2008 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 151

PRAYER GIVES YOU THE INNER STRENGTH

To God be the glory. Great things He has done. You can be seated. To all that will listen to this tape this day, I pray that you will have your own personal revelation that this day is not an ordinary day in this Bridal Studio today.

It is a special day. A day the LORD has made. And the reason why He permitted us to see it is quite obvious. We are here to make sure that we are not found wanting. And there is only one place where we can anchor our faith at a time like this.
It is only in the Spoken Word of God. That is where we should anchor out faith and our volition. Otherwise, we may stand disappointed at the end.
Do not carry the Bible and miss eternal life. What will give you eternal life is already in your midst and He is the One talking to you.
Refuse to obey Him and count yourself unworthy of eternal life. Refuse to walk according to His precepts, carry your Bible about, and see yourself with the devil holding the Bible in hellfire.
Many do not know that the devil is holding the Bible in hell. When you get to hell, you will see Bible carriers. You will see Holy Qur’an carriers. You will see all kinds of religious books and their carriers in hell.
Why? They were looking for trees, but they refused to go in search of trees in the forest. And they missed it. So, if you carry the Bible, you miss the Way.
Reference; John 5:39-40. ³⁹You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me! ⁴⁰And still you are not willing [but refuse] to come to Me, so that you might have life. AMP
[2] The Holy Qur’an – Surah 3:64-65.⁶⁴Say (O Muhammad¹): “O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians): Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but God, and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides God. Then, if they turn away, say: “Bear witness that we are Muslims.” ⁶⁵O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Why do you dispute about Ibrahim (Abraham), while the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) were not revealed till after him? Have you then no sense? Hilali-Khan Translation.
I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man will ever see God; will ever see the Father if not through Me; if not by Me. When the LORD Jesus Christ made that statement, they laughed Him to scorn.
He is here again. He has remained here. And he will remain here till the consummation of this generation, for this generation will not pass away until all that he foretold will come to pass.
Because of unbelief and overfamiliarity, He stopped midway and promised to come back in another way to rig away human intellect. And that He has fulfilled at last.
So, you can carry your Bible and go to hell because eternal life has come to Your doorstep. He that is the Way, the Truth and the Life is not an impersonator, for in Him, the Father has been revealed.
In your own day, has the Father not been revealed through Him Who is still in that same Office? It is a continuum. He is continuing.
The work is incomplete until human beings, mortal men become immortal. Until mortality is swallowed by immortality, the work is still incomplete.
That is why You should not rest on your oars. You should not feel at ease in Zion, enjoying your goodly house, your goodly bed and your goodly food, which will only cause you to be lazying about and sleeping instead of praying.
THE HOUR WE ARE IN CALLS FOR REGULAR PRAYERS. I REMEMBER I HAVE ENJOINED YOU TO OBSERVE REGULAR PRAYERS. YOU HAVE STUDIED ENOUGH, BUT YOU HAVE NEVER PRAYED FOR ONE DAY. YOU HAVE NEVER FOR ONE DAY GIVEN OUT TIME FOR PRAYERS.
This morning, as many as will listen to this tape, please I enjoin you wherever you may be, in the same manner we observed it, observe it quietly in your own private homes. Whether you are standing or bowing down or sitting down, observe that hour, joining us in the prayers privately.
Do not speak out. Pray in your hearts. Pray in the spirit. You may not know what to pray for. The Holy Ghost will help you to pray. If you pray, you are helping yourself. You are not helping God. If you observe it, you are helping yourself and not God.
It was an anxious moment. And when you want to pray or you want to join us, switch off your radio sets. Switch off your handsets. Switch off all distractions because prayer is the strictest business anybody can indulge in. Prayer hates distraction. Concentrate and remain praying. Pray more than we prayed here.
William Branham showed us a typical example of one who remained praying until the sweat that was coming from his skin was like blood. He discovered the secrets and then emulated it.
All the Prophets of old including Prophet Muhammad Raheem [pbuh] lived the life of prayers. The LORD Jesus never joked with prayers. The Apostles prayed, although some of them were hypocrites like we have too many today who may claim they are praying when they are sleeping. Some claim to be praying when they are thinking. Their minds are wallowing throughout the whole world, wandering everywhere.
God decided to give us this day to mark the end of this month. And I know that we presented ourselves preparatory for next month which you do not know what it holds.
I believe that God never subjected us to this spiritual prayer in vain. As the days unfold, you begin to realize – you begin to see why God subjected us to this spiritual prayer and permitted us as individuals. He did not say THE SON OF MAN should pray for you.
This is because we have come to a point where many do not know how to pray again. It is a matter of looking up and down looking for the preacher to pray, and they will say Amen. No!
THE MOST EFFECTIVE PRAYER IS THE ONE YOU PRAYED FOR YOURSELF, NOT THE ONE SOMEBODY IS CONVERING YOU. IT MAKES YOU TO BE WEAK IN PRAYERS, ALWAYS DEPENDING ON SOMEBODY TO PRAY FOR YOU.
Did God say that somebody should be praying for you? If you have trials and temptations, troubles everywhere, go to God in prayer.
He said, “Be careful for nothing, but through prayers and supplications, let your needs be known to God.” [Philippians 4:6-7] Did he say, let your needs be known to your Pastor so that he will pray for you?
What happened to your mouth? What happened to your own heart? Are you not a living soul?
If you see all manifestations of weakness around you, it is because you do not pray. You only have head knowledge of the Scriptures, but there is no inner strength to implement it.
Prayer gives you the inner strength. Prayer combines with your knowledge of the truth to give you inner power – latent power.
That is why, if you are real Seed of God, there are certain conditions you find yourself and then separate unto prayers. By the time you stand up again from your prayer zone, you become a new individual.
Courage will come. Fears will vanish away. You become stronger than ever because nothing strengthens the soul more than prayers. Refuse to pray and remain a victim in the hand of the devil. Refuse to pray, you will remain a victim till eternity.
If you are always in deep meditations, you discover amazing truths about your life and where you are heading to.
I know many that heard the audio Message I sent out – My encounter and My experience – I know they marveled. I have been receiving calls upon calls from those that listened to it. And actually, I have to be sincere to the core.
It is true I never demonstrated against God’s verdict, but still, it is still painful on Me. My experience was a horrifying one. It made me even to be afraid of entering My bedroom. Of course, you know I have always been there alone. I never for one day packed away from My bedroom.
From My wife’s sickness down to her death and burial, and till today, in spite of all the suggestions from My children that I should pack away from that room and go to another room and stay for some time, I said no! No! I do not have reasons for that.
Just like some who come here – her relations and friends, and even some Brethren, “Daddy, do You want to die. Why not remove Mummy’s pictures from Your eyes”, but I say, “That is impossible. Till eternity, her pictures will be before My eyes.”
I am even printing more pictures. I am even making more enlargements. And if it is possible, her kitchen will carry the enlargements. I have already prepared two for the kitchen.
I know people will call me a mad fellow. I am not mad. I am with My senses. I will customize even more T-shirts because I believe she is still alive and she is still living with Me. I will keep on decorating her until finally, I will rejoin her. That is where My joy will be complete again.

I am the Son of Man because I am the Truth. I am the Way. I am the Light. No man seeth God or cometh to God or talks of eternal life without Me. I am The only One Sealed and Sent by the Almighty. Standing in His presence, I make all My declarations. I know where I am standing. Of course, you know Me by now. I may not be like somebody, but you know Me because you have been acquainted with Me……..

THE son of man

HOLDING UNTO THE CERTAINTY OF THE FAITH: FOR THERE UNTO I AM BORN VOL 1; Preached on Sunday 9^th April 2017 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 119 vs. 74 – 76

MY HEART IS BLEEDING

I was on My way home. I really applied for that leave. Sure! I never heard any voice telling Me, “Apply for any leave”. I am the One that decided to go on leave. Elders who were with Me can bear witness to this truth.

And the reason why I wanted to go on that leave is obvious. My heart is bleeding. I say, My heart is bleeding. Looking at the way things are going, it is like I have wasted My life in vain, stretching out My hand to save a people that do not know the meaning of salvation – to save a people that do not have regard for God and no regard for the truth.
I have been screaming. I have been shouting. I have been doing everything for 30 good years now. And in return, My Boat is empty. Are you in doubt as to what I am posting to you – the few letters? Excommunication! Excommunication! Troubles, confessions, apologies and things like that. Just a few! The few I decided to post.
If I should be posting what I am receiving, including text Messages, there would not be time for prayers. And there would not be time for studies.
And with what you are reading emanating from your fellow Brethren, Ministers so called, Men of God who people are depending on, have turned out to be the greatest abominations in this Faith. Their families are rotten. Parents are rotten.
I am not trying to say something that is not true. No! I mean, they are testifying against themselves and against their families, telling you what is happening around them.
I told you from the very beginning that in every Local Assembly, mixed multitude are in the majority. And they are greatly found among the Ministers and their families.
Tell Me if there be any Minister from the old stock that is standing now. Not even one is standing behind THE SON OF MAN, except the few notably… I have mentioned their names before. I will keep on mentioning their names. They know themselves, and they know that I know them.
Imagine a situation where a Bishop will tell Me clearly that he knows very well that he is not in the Faith, and that he is sure of when he left the Faith. And that he has been struggling to come back. He said that he is sure that no member of his family is in the Faith.
I thank God. He thought I was alone. My phone was on speak-out. The whole Elders who were with Me heard his voice. Then, what is he doing around us.
Then another Apostle will begin to open up because the burden has become too much for him to conceal, for he has been an expert in concealing the iniquity that is in his home.
Job prayed to God and said, “Please help me never to conceal – to hide – the iniquity that is in my house like Adam did and then he produced the first murderer.”
For Adam knew from the onset that Cain was evil and was planning evil against Abel, his junior brother. Adam concealed it and it produced the first blood bath here on earth. Job prayed against it. And also prayed that God should give him the courage to put his house in order as it should.
Hence, he devoted the rest of his hours and time here on earth, making sacrifices for iniquity for himself and his children. Even when they travel out, he said, “God, receive my sacrifice as an atonement and propitiation for the sins of my children, though they are afar off, peradventure they will sin in strange lands.”
Today, you cannot pray for yourself. How can you pray for your children that are afar off? At the end of the day, God justified Job’s action.
See the horrible reports – horrifying reports emanating from families that say they have Deacons, Elders, Bishops. Tell Me if there be any. Apostles have become a thing of the past. Who then can we look up to?
If the younger ones are misbehaving and the elderly ones are misbehaving, have I not laboured in vain? I say, My heart is bleeding when I see the level of departure from the Faith as is being witnessed in the families of the so called Elders, Ministers and those that have stayed long in the Faith. They have lost every feeling of shame.
Just like when we were coming back from the market yesterday. I was carrying our Brother FearGod in front. One who said he is an Elder, a grandfather openly messing up himself on the street. He lost all feeling of shame.
I did not know he was the one enjoying evil with evil men. FearGod said, “Daddy, that is that brother.” I halted and went back. Lo and behold, he came out from his joint. I did not know what to call Him. I managed to control My temper.
And then in the evening when the Elders gathered, he came and sat down with them. These are the spots we are having everywhere. Watch his family. Nothing to write home about.
Tell Me if there be any family that is commanding good report before God now. Who will the LORD God Almighty regard in our midst now? I say, My heart is bleeding.
If there be any consolation; if there be any praise, I mean, it should be from those who are feeding from the websites, and not because of those whom the LORD decided to visit live. Like parents, like their children.
That is why I am being overburdened. In My honest attempt to see whether somebody can be saved in some of the families, see the type of headache their children are giving me in My own house.
In spite of My love, My concern and everything I am doing, lavishly for them, even handling them better than their own parents, look at what I get in reward. Every day, provocation.
This is simply because it has been in them from childhood. Their parents instilled [I mean] a high level of evil that cannot be erased anyhow in their lives. And the children take delight in growing thereby, showing interest in going to Fellowship, but not in obeying the truth.
If I say My heart is bleeding, I am not exaggerating. I do not sleep well. It is not because of a crime I committed. No! It is not because I am indebted to anybody. No! I do not sleep.
Many hear Daddy is having high blood pressure. Why should I not develop it? Am I developing it because I am thinking much about Myself? No! Your thoughts are haunting Me down.
I am thinking about you, the same way the Almighty God documented in the Holy Scriptures. A time came when the thoughts of Israel, a people He was trying to save wearied Him down.
God said, “Your evils have made Me sick.” Your evil ways have made God sick. Read it in your Bible. The evil of Israel – the evil of God’s people made God sick on a daily basis. He stretched out His hands to save a rebellious people who are stiff-necked, unyielding and unbending. Yet, He continued enduring.
I came and I inherited it in the Gentiles. The same set of people who are unyielding, who are unbending and who are holding on tenaciously to their own opinion about life – holding on to their own philosophies.
To them, truth means a disturbance. All of them are allergic to the truth. Parents are allergic. Children are allergic. Nobody takes delight in believing the truth and living by the truth. Tell them the truth, you become their enemy, but they want to have good days and enjoy life without Christ.
Can anybody enjoy life without Christ or without the truth? You end your life in miserable hell.
Go to their families. Their irate children have turned their families into hellfire here on earth. I said My heart is bleeding. Men and women abandon their God-given duties towards their children. Everybody is showing interest in things that do not have eternal value – men and women alike.
The fashions of this world pass away with time. They are not enduring. The food you should go for which should form your passion should be the one that endureth to everlasting life which THE SON OF MAN is giving you daily, for He alone has the Father sealed and sent.
But how many pay heed to His Words? To them, He is just a noisy cymbal. All that embraced this Faith with wrong motives are manifesting right now. See what they are manifesting.
I told you that you would not know whether you believe in God or not until the day God will send all of you to continue to worship in your homes where nobody will check you again. Your true nature will come out, for the children have outgrown the disciplinary measures of their parents. The wives are no longer submissive to their husbands. Husbands are no more worthy of respect.
We are faced with the situation where the daughter will stand in the face of the father and challenge Him in his face. And the mother will throw her weight behind all those errant daughters and errant sons.
A situation where the man has no say before his firstborn who opened the womb and on whom he spent the strength of his youth to nurture.
May God help us. I pray that the Almighty God will not permit any of them – man and woman – that came from My loins to follow the pernicious ways of the wicked. I am trusting God Who hears My prayers and Who knows how weak I am. He will never permit any of them to upset My peace, especially at this point in time.
Of course, they know they need Me more than any other, for I fill the gap of their father and their mother at the same time. Moreso, I am their last hope. And so far, I am pleased with them and their performances. I pray that God will sustain them.
To you that are here with Me eating and drinking with Me, if I should ask you to give Me reasons for your misbehaviour, what will you tell Me? Why are you provoking and upsetting Me? Why is My Word not having any effect in your life?
It is because you liken Me to your father who you can slap; who you can beat up. If he raises the cane, you jump the fence so that your father will go after you.
From time to time, you engage your father in a running competition on the highway because he wants to flog you. You will show him that you can sprint, and your father will uselessly be pursuing you on the highway until people will be wondering whether two of you are not mad.
I got a report of one of your fathers who was pursuing his own child, shouting to the people, “Hold him! Hold him! Hold him!”
Passersby that never knew that the man who was pursuing the young boy was the father thought the boy was a criminal, used a very big stick and hit the boy on the neck. He fainted on the highway. I mean, on the street there.
This report is from among us. You will get a comprehensive report of it. And the father now told the son that if anybody should ask him, he should tell them that he had accident – that Okada [commercial motorcycle] hit him down.
But the story has come out to Me. Passersby thought the boy was a criminal because of the way an elderly man was pursuing him with a machete, not knowing that he is the son who committed a crime and the father wanted to beat him, but he engaged the father in a running competition. I said, “How I wish the people killed him on the spot.”
Do you not know that it is an abomination for a child that has committed a heinous crime to run away on seeing a cane instead of kneeling down and pleading with the father and the mother for forgiveness?
The father will then chase him with a machete. As he is speeding ahead of the father, the father will then resort to shouting, “Hold him! Hold him!”
The child that runs away on seeing the cane, all he has told the father or the mother is to run after him. When will such a child repent? That will be Bright. Another Bright who is always ready to fly on seeing cane, but he is not tired of doing evil.
Another Chiemelie Mbah. You are ready to fly over or jump the fence on seeing the appearance of a cane, but you are not willing to repent of that evil.
Well, what we concealed in our families have started producing fruits. When I handled the Message, CATCH THEM YOUNG many years ago, around the year 2002, I made it clear that the first fruits parents must harvest must be the characters of their children.
From 6 years old, parents will begin to see what they have succeeded in planting in their children bearing fruits. And nothing troubles families more than having bad children. Nothing upsets the peace of husband and wife more than bad children. Do you believe that?
Nothing brings humiliation, shame and disgrace to parents more than bad children. A bad child is a curse to the parents and to humanity.
The Bible said that a wise child, a good child brings honour and good reputation to the parents, while a bad child brings dishonour, shame and disgrace to the parents.
From time to time, parents will be invited to the police or invited by the security operatives because of the evil their children committed. From time to time, the neighbourhood will be gathering. All on behalf of the evil child.
Tell Me how the parents can walk with straight faces on the road, unless they are equally criminals and raised criminals after their kinds. This is true.
If your parents are evil and notorious, and you aRe not correcting it in your own life as it affects you, your own will be worse. I say, your Own must be worse.
Do not think you will correct your evil habit at your old age. As you aRe growing, so your evil habit is growing with you. If you know your age, that is the age evil habit has clocked in your life.
So, it is with good habit. As you grow, that which is in you will also be growing. If you grow up with bad habit and you do not want to change. You remain adamant even after you must have been spoken to concerning your evil habit. As you grow, so your evil habit will be growing.
Evil habit will be growing and also be changing to different colours. As you change your clothe, so you change the colour of the evil habit in you. Yet, the name is evil habit. The name is evil habit.
God is saying that you should change your heart and change your mind. Change your life and not your dressing. Not your dressing. Do not show great interest in changing your [physical] dresses to the neglect of the real dress.
THE REAL DRESS IS YOUR CHARACTER. IF ANYONE IS NOT DRESSED WITH GOOD CHARACTER, HE IS NAKED BEFORE GOD. HE IS STINKING. HE IS SMELLING.
A GOOD DRESSING THAT HAS GOOD AROMA IS CHARACTER. GOOD CHARACTER. THAT IS WHY, ONCE IT IS LOST, EVERYTHING IS LOST.
DO NOT BE A GORGEOUS EVIL MAN OR A GORGEOUS EVIL WOMAN. YOU DRESS GORGEOUSLY. YET, YOU ARE EVIL. Do we have such people in our society? They are plenty. Gorgeous evil men and women. Gorgeous evil children.
When you look at their heights, they look fierce. They are giants. They dress gorgeously. Very expensive dresses are meant for them. Expensive handsets are meant for them, but they are evil.
I am appealing to all and sundry who will be properly positioned today to go through this opening service preparatory for next month to give it a serious thought as it affects all of you that will hear Me.
I want to conclude by reading just a chapter of this compilation. Pastor Chizoba, can you please come here.
If marriage makes you weak, you were weak before you married. A good Minister that is called of God is made stronger in his ministry the moment he is married because two are better than one. If one is becoming weak, the other will strengthen him.
Any man that marries and becomes weak spiritually and physically, from the very word go, never repented. He never turned to God before he married, And must lead his family into hell, for he will not go far.
he will now take the backbench and join the band wagon of the disbelievers – the hypocrites who thought that marriage means paradise.
Marriage is not paradise. Marriage is a means for Paradise and also a means for hellfire. Marriage – a condition for hell or for heaven. It depends on how you make your own.
Let us read Chapter 4 of this Message. Forget about the title. Even if you use the title, it is there – THE PERNICIOUS EFFECT OF INDIFFERENCE handled by Apostle Luke Ojiakor for Me to publish.
I will not publish it. I will rather publish his character and that of his family, not the Message, for the Message is not his own. It is the Message I handled.
So, that is why I showed interest here – chapter 4 only.

You see, these things happened that you might believe that I am He and besides Me there is no other. I know who I am. Your unbelief cannot alter what I am – It does not add, and it does not remove. But I am persuading you that you might be saved, for if you do not believe, there is no way you can be saved. Thus, your salvation is tied to your belief in the Son of Man, that God has sent Him.

-THE son of man-

ARE YOU CONVINCED? Preached on Sunday 15^th April, 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 27 vs. 26

WHAT TIME ARE WE IN NOW? Moderated by THE SON OF MAN

THE PERNICIOUS EFFECT OF INDIFFERENCE COMPLIED BY Apostle Ojiakor on 2^nd December 2021; Chapter 4: WHAT TIME ARE WE IN NOW?

THE TWO FOUNDATIONS OF OUR EXISTENCE AS WE APPROACH THE END VOLUME 2.
Take note of it. You know when I handled that Message. Fine! You are either having God as your foundation or devil as your foundation.
At this time of harvest, all of them have manifested. And they are ripened. Whatever you are manifesting now is following you to hell or to heaven. No U-turn.
That is why many are trying to change their minds and change their attitudes. They cry. They weep. But they remain the same. Why? They missed the day of their own salvation. They missed the hour of their visitation. You cannot use another man’s hour.
There is nobody who has never been given the opportunity at least to have a day assigned to him or her. And that is the day God highlighted everything that is wrong in your life, and told you what you must do to get rid of it so that you get along with God.
If you ignore it, demonstrate against it and push it aside, it will never come your way again. This is because, the moment you do not believe, the Prophet said, “The devil will mark you with the spirit of unbelief.”
And whenever Messages are coming, though they touch on your own lifestyles, you will be shifting the Message to other people and not to you again.
Preached by The Son of Man on 30^th July 2000 at Onitsha;… How many years now? 22 years plus. 30^th July 2000. FearGod, you are not up to 20. Okwuchukwu, you are not up to 20. So, this Message is older than you.
Page 34:1-8, 11-13. Now that we know that it is 1000 years that we are going to reign with Christ here on Earth before Satan will be let loose again and that is the millennial reign; it is that one complete day of Sabbath rest as promised by God to His people.
When are we expecting this Sabbath? The prophets have been helping us to understand that it is going to be at the end time. Let us go back to the Gentile Prophet who saw the time the whole thing will come to an end.
Hosea chapter 6 verse 1 – 2: “Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight”. KJV.
Two days means 2000 years. In that same place where it was said: “They are not my people,” that same place, they shall be called the people of the Most High God.
Remember, in time past we were aliens to this Faith – completely cut off from God. We had no hope of eternal life. We were not called God’s own people, [No!]but He did something; He blinded His people to enable Him cut them off that we might be grafted in. [Yes!]
If cutting off of the Jews means grafting in of the Gentiles, what do you think bringing back the Jews will be to the Gentiles? Resurrection from the dead.Will the two trees stand upon a particular tree? Impossible!
One must be detached for the other to be fixed. And they must detach for us to be fixed. When we were boasting, He told us, “Do not boast, for you are not the root. The root is sustaining you. You are not sustaining the root.” Never!
I am saying that the Gentiles are about to be detached, for the Gentiles and the Jews cannot be attached at the same time. For He has succeeded in using the Gentiles to provoke the Jews to jealousy.Only one will stand at a particular time.
What is about to take place is an indicator that we are about to be detached. In other words, our time will soon be over and the original olive tree (the Jews) will be grafted back which is easier.
That is why I have looked into the Scriptures and I did not see any prophet prophesying any salvation message for the Jews but they have only but one message: “Men and brethren, look at my hands, look at my legs, see my sides,” full stop. That’s all! Then, all of them will be saved. Check your Bible.
However, here He has to be subjected to signs and wonders and mighty works and miracles so as to bring us to obedience because, by nature, we are idolaters. We do not even have the life of God nor the nature of God. I am saying that our time will soon be over.
You can never hear “Repent or you perish” in the land of Israel.
We are now counting in days since the Bible said, “After two days He will revive us. Then, in the third day, He will raise us up.”
If a day means 1000 years, then within the period of complete 2000 years will be nothing but revival. Your revival can never go beyond 2000 years.
The Bible called the next 1000 years “resurrection and life.” Where? In His sight. If this is true, are we not nearing the end? If the Egyptian calendar is correct, Roman calendar is correct, historians are correct, are we not winding up our 2000 years? It is finished.
The third day, He will raise us up, and we shall live in His Presence forever. No more dying. No more sickness. No more complaining. No more war. No imitation.
This is why I am telling you that there has never been a generation that has lived closest to the fulfillment of this promise than our generation.
Since it is clear we are in the generation that will wind up everything, should we be complacent? What we should be doing, is it not asking the LORD what we have to do every day and doing it as we are asked to? That should be our focus.
HOUR OF LAST MINUTE CORRECTION. Vol. 1. By The Son of Man: 18^th December 2016 at Onitsha; Page 23:25.
GET READY ALL OF YOU THAT ARE HERE HEARING MY VOICE. GO BACK TO ALL THE MESSAGES SO FAR RECEIVED, FOR THEREIN YOU WILL DISCOVER YOUR MISTAKES. CORRECT THEM IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO SO [Sure!!!] FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. Amen!!! LOOK AWAY FROM ME. LOOK UP TO YOUR MESSAGES. Amen.
AS WE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING. By the Son of Man: 03/04/2020 at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Page 71:32-33.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Consider your ways, and set your mind on what has come to you. Set your minds on what? What has come to you?
Let our minds be on what has come to us. Something has come to us. Sure!!! That is where our eyes should be focused. What do we do that we may escape the wrath of God?
As we see the days approaching, we turn to the Lord. We seek His face through prayer, through waiting and watching, gather ourselves together, gather our thoughts together, peradventure we shall escape at the end. The Lord will hide us away.
Who are the people He is referring to? The meek, the humble, the righteous of the earth. These are the people that obey God’s command. True or false? You that obey the Lord’s command, you are the one that is being commanded to do this. Not the disobedient.
Almighty says our eyes should be focused on what has come to us. What we should do to escape God’s wrath; that we should turn to the Lord, seek His face through (1) prayers (2) through waiting and watching (3) gather ourselves together (4) gather our thoughts together.
Doing this will help us to escape at the end and the Lord will hide us away. Look at the people God is referring to: (1) the meek (2) the humble (3) the righteous of the earth.
How many of us have heard this concern from God and are consciously watching ourselves, being meticulous to follow these directives to observe them as God has instructed us?
How many are consciously checking our lives in the light of the Word, the teachings Almighty has given to us so that we would not be overwhelmed by so many things that might obviate this noble goal?
How many of us are not seeing this as one of those gimmicks to get people? To such people, the Lord will not do good nor evil. They are postponing the evil day if at all they ever consider God’s warnings.
We must rise up from our indifference, our nonchalant attitude to these warnings, these godly counsels; these instructions in righteousness.
AS WE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING by the Son of Man: 3^rd April 2020 at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Page 73:36-40.
‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: consider your ways.’ Do what? consider your ways. Sit down. ‘(Your previous and present conduct), your previous and present conduct, ‘and how you have fared.’
And how you have fared. Consider your ways as we see the day approaching, both present and previous conducts and where they landed you. What you earned from them, both the civil servant, the farmer, the businessman and the students.
Everybody should consider his own. Sure!!! If you know what you do for a living, that is where your own sin will come from. What? If you know what you do for a living, that is where your own sin will come from. Sure!!! Whatever vocation one is into; one’s occupation is where one’s sin comes from. Is it a lie?
We better face the facts because there is something that has come to us. Sure!!! There is something that has come to us. Which we cannot avoid. True or false? Is there not something that has come upon the world? There is something that has come upon the world.
Are we not living in the world? Did not God tell us that we shall get our own fair share? We are getting our own fair share. What do we do that we do not get the larger share?
Something has come upon us; something has come upon the world. How many of us check what we do on daily basis? He says we should be mindful and be on the red alert, be watchful that whatever that will constitute sin to us will come from what we do for a living. How mindful are we to such a great revelation?
If we are complacent and unconcerned regarding these things, we would not know when we are swept off our feet. Yes! The attitude of “It does not concern me.”
These things are not coming to us for nothing. Why should we ignore them and keep behaving as if they will not come to pass? Unbelief!
AS WE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING by the Son of Man: 3^rd April 2020 at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Page 79:10-24.
Why can’t man consider his ways? Yet these are the things that engender pride in people, making people to disobey the word of God
God is always looking for the humble and meek of the earth – the humble and the meek. If you are not meek and humble you can hardly obey the word of God. For the way up is down. For God exalts the humble and then debases the proud. Yes! Is it a lie?
God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. Whoever humbles himself, God will exalt him. Whoever exalts himself, God will debase.
What do you think is the reason why the devil could not humble himself? Is it not pride? Anybody that tells you that he will not obey the word of God, watch him. Nothing causes it more than pride – pride of life. He is not ready to humble himself in the spirit, humble himself in the flesh. And God can never regard that person. Cannon fodder!
God can never look up to you. You can never be worthy of God’s confidence. God can never rely on you. Job was worthy of God’s confidence, true or false?
Noah was worthy of God’s confidence. Abraham was worthy of God’s confidence. Even Lot was worthy of God’s confidence; even the apostles and the prophets.
Are you worthy of God’s confidence? Can God look at you? Can God regard you? If God sees you, what do you think will be His attitude towards you? What will be the reaction of God concerning you?
You see why God said, ‘As we see the days approaching, let us gather ourselves together,’ not gathering on a bench, ‘let us sit down’. No.
He is not talking about gathering in the compound. No! He said, gather your thoughts, gather your experiences, gather your senses, stop being foolish like a mule which is always being guided by a whip.
Stop being a foolish fellow that will only live right when spoken to and when the speaker keeps mute you go back to your old ways.
Look at the opportunity God is giving us. It is running away. It is running fast, that is, time for repentance because we have not seen the full wrath of God.
Somebody who is serious can equally make it now. A student that is serious with his studies can level up even with one semester. He will level up. Is it a lie?
I am telling you that even tonight somebody can make a vow binding his life to level up tonight. Enough is enough. You can say it to yourself and you will make it with the help of God because once you desire it and work towards it, God will give you a helping Hand.
But when you are full of yourself, pride, hypocrisy, craftiness and subtlety cannot allow you to address the truth.
These are the things that disorganize an individual: the things you have in your heart and what you are racking up in your brain. Is it a lie? That is pure truth!
And check all those things you are indulging in, since you started with them, what have you gained in them? Nothing!
Where have they landed you? Both the drinking, the eating, the craftiness where did it all land you? Reject your past experiences. Check your present, check your past experiences and then consider your ways.
Why should we be indifferent to the above exhortation from the Almighty? The Scripture says, Today, if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

Please bear with Me. I know what I am doing. I am not crazy. I want you to be saved. That is why I appeared. The Son of Man appeared for your salvation, because I am sent for salvation unto the ends of the earth. The Last Hope of mankind is here, for God is the author of salvation and outside God, there is no salvation. That, He will accomplish using a Man. God can never accomplish salvation mission without using a Man. But the lot fell on Me. Despise Me not because I am your Brother.

-THE SON OF MAN-

LOOSE THE COLT VOL. 2; Preached on Sunday 8^th June 2014 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 82 vs. 26 – 27

HAVE WE SUCCEEDED WHERE OUR FATHERS FAILED? [1]

Moderated by THE SON OF MAN

Hebrews 3:5-11, NIV. ⁵“Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house,” bearing witness to what would be spoken by God in the future.

⁶But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we glory.
⁷So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, ⁸do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, ⁹where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. History.
¹⁰That is why I was angry with that generation; History! I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ ¹¹So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’” Period!
And that settled the whole thing. What are you waiting for? Are you waiting to hear, “I have sworn using My Name, as long as God liveth and THE SON OF MAN liveth, you will never smell Paradise. You will never have a glimpse of anything eternal life.”?
Is that what you are waiting for, knowing that you are running the greatest risk, knowing that the Personality you have received, Who is in your midst is the One that is vested with absolute authority in heaven and on earth, given power over all flesh, even to give eternal life to anybody He has adjudged meets the standard.
Are you not running the greatest risk that you are no longer having dealings with your advocate? You are committing all your iniquities before the Supreme Judge Who does not look at your face or consider what you think you are.
Remember that there is nothing that counts before God if not obedience to His Word. No matter youR service; no matter your labour, obedience to God’s Word counts most.
That is why He said, “I prefer obedience to My Word to your services.” Your servicEs to God must be your acts – generous acts born out of your obedience to the truth.
I am saying that service is a product of obedience to the truth. It is not service before obedience but obedience before service. Obedience is better than sacrifice.
If you like, give your life to be burnt or to be set ablaze because you love the son of man, but you are disobedient to His instructions. You have died in vain.
If you love Me, keep My Word. Obey My Word. If you know you love God, and you are disobedient to His Word, do you love Him?
The LORD Jesus said, “If you love Me, keep My Word. Obey My Word.” Disobedience to His Word shows that you hate Him. You regard Him as your known enemy.
Many prefer service to obedience, but God prefers obedience to service. Service should be a product of obedience.
So, whatever you are doing in disobedience, you are doing it outside the will of God. You are wasting the service. You are wasting the sacrifice.
Obedience will remain the benchmark. Obedience to the truth remains our benchmark. You cannot jump it. I cannot jump it.
This is so that when God will ask Me the question, “Why are you labouring the way you are labouring? You are never tired.” My reply will be, “Sir, I am doing it in obedience to Your Word.” What is your compelling factor? “Sir, it is borne out of my implicit obedience to Your Word. I have made up my mind to prefer obedience to Your Word to making money.”
That is why My prayer has always been that God should give me a good heart. It takes a good heart to be meek and to be lowly. It takes a good heart to prefer obedience to God to making money.
Many say they will make money before obeying God, “Let me make money first. I will serve God after.” If you are numbered among such people, you are wasting your time among us. [1] You will not get the money. [2] You will not get eternal life.
For no man can succeed in this life without God giving him a backing, for without God, your labour is in vain. Do you believe that? Without God coming your way, you are labouring in vain. You will die running, working and striving.
This is why our Brother, Shadrach Onah, who is a grandfather can never sit down to mediate. He can never sit down to think, “Why am I suffering? I have been suffering from childhood, labouring every day and up till this day, I cannot sit down and see a figment of anything I can say, “This is the fruit of my labour.””
Not even the children God gave him are being taken care of, when he has not taken care of himself. Yet, he is making the money. He is labouring more than any other person, keeping late at night. He is known to be leaving early in the morning, but coming back late. By the time he will be at home, he is drunk. Every day, drunkenness. Every day, drunkenness.
And the Bible said that a man that lives his life in drunkenness will end his life in poverty and in penury. If you give your life over to drunkenness, in your old age, poverty will knock at your door. Check all those people we have in our homes [hometowns].
What killed Eli-Joe whose family is full of educated and enterprising people? He came here with the teaching that when you drink wine, you have life. And when you eat, you become fat. Is it not his teaching? “Drink wine and have life. Eat and be fat.” That is his slogan.
The Israelites heard the Voice of God speaking to them in the wilderness. They were indifferent to it. They never regarded God’s Voice. They were indifferent and nonchalant. That led to unbelief.
The result was that God took an oath against them [Sure!] – that they would never enter that promised land and they all perished in the wilderness. This is a serious warning to us.
Have we not provoked God more than them? Answer Me! [The Brethren replied, “We have provoked God more than the Israelites.”] We see the provocation from our homes – from all families. Those that say they worship God. Those that are milling around God.
Check our condition. Have we succeeded where they [the Israelites] failed? Are we not even worse than them? Of all God’s benefits, see the type of horrible reports following us. See our manifestations – both parents and children. Why can we not have blush on our faces? Why can we not cover our faces in shame?
In short, what we need is a day for national prayers. That is what we need. A day for national prayers and confessions, to confess our infidelities to God that we have not fared well. Rather, we are worse than our fathers.
And now, time is no longer on our side. Our big Masquerade is on His way Home. No second chance here again. That means we have wasted our time.
Let us keep on reading because I showed interest in that passage.
Should we behave the same way, God’s promised rest will never be for us. God forbid! Sure!!!
Has God changed? Has He changed His salvation plan? He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The same Message we have received is the same Message that was given to them.
Seeing they never believed, they were hindered from smelling Paradise. Do not worry. You are meeting with all of them in hell fire.
Salvation is of the Jews, and that is if they believe and then practice the truth God gave them. You are the Israel of God in the Gentiles because [1] you heard Him, [2] you believed in Him and [3] you are living the life.
So, the time for mechanical worship is completely over. This is the time you must be sober. The time you must be quiet. The time you must reflect on your own personal manifestations.
Consider your ways. Let your condition give you serious thoughts. Let your condition help you to pass sleepless nights, with a view to seeing whether you can at least think yourself out of the carton where you sealed yourself.
Every man is the one that imprisoned himself. By succumbing to the tricks of the devil, you put yourself in a bottle and corked it. A situation where the devil put you inside a carton and tied it up with a rope, and you are inside the carton struggling like a one-day old chick.
How are we taking heed to this making sure we are not victims?
But we have now acknowledged that we are now worse than our fathers. With the words of our mouths, we have condemned ourselves. With the words of our mouth, we justify ourselves.
If when we examine the way they lived their lives in spite of God’s truth that was evidently set out before their eyes, and the various convincing signs and manifestations, there were people that believed to the salvation of their souls. Why? A good number of them could not believe.
If we are wise and understanding, we follow that pattern of those who believed to the saving of their souls.
There is no way somebody will not be saved through this Message – the everlasting Gospel God committed into the hands of THE SON OF MAN, which he has succeeded in taking round the whole world.
If everybody would be condemned, God would not have sent it. Many are already saved. I said, many are already saved, for that which is impossible for you to do, your fellow human being had done it, and has been doing it until it has become his way of life. Wake him up by day or by night, you see no other manifestation than that.
Young and old have been surging into the Kingdom, but you think everybody is like you. That is the problem of a hypocrite. A hypocrite does not believe that there is somebody who is obedient to the Word – to the core. A hypocrite feels that everybody is hypocritical like himself or herself. No! You are deceiving yourself. Everybody cannot be you.
How are we taking heed to this to make sure we are not victims? If we are not careful and mindful, we would forget this, keep moving as usual, instead of watching unto prayer, checking ourselves.
Is it not what we are doing? Who is watching unto prayer? Who is checking himself or herself, even when God said, “Crosscheck and call thyself to order; Watch your back”?
This is actually the bane of many of us in the Bride of Christ Ministry. Sure!!! Many are just at ease, on our beds, complacent and indifferent. Warning would come from Almighty God, we hear it and yet continue as we have been doing.
“It does not concern me.”
There is no action taken to avert that danger, to save the situation. Never!!!
Everybody is looking for unnecessary excuse to give, as if God will accept that excuse.
AS WE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING by the Son of Man; Preached on 3^rd April 2020 at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Page 114:28-30.
This is the time to seek the Lord. This is what? … the time to seek the Lord. This is the time to get rid of everything that is wrong in our lives. This is the time for us to humble ourselves as the meek of the earth and then pray, peradventure, the Lord will hide us away from His anger which is about to be fully revealed upon the planet earth because of willful rejection of the truth; willful rejection of God, simply because man wants to have his own way. True or false?
Nobody wants to follow the way of God. We sing in our song, “Show me Thy way, O Lord that I may follow You. I will walk in Thy truth, for there is life in Thee. Show me Thy way, O Lord, that I may follow You. I will walk in Thy truth, for there is life in Thee.”
That is the song of one who wants to make it at this point in time. You look up to Christ. Christ will look up to you. He said, “God will look up to you and then regard you.” May God regard all of us. That is my prayer.
May we all be worthy of the Lord’s confidence. May we all walk in a way where God will be pleased with all of us by living the life of obedience to the truth, by remaining straight forward.
Get rid of all hypocrisy. Get rid of all evil and sinful habits, subtlety, craftiness, mind wandering. Get rid of all. Our crave for materialism, the desire to be this and the desire to be that, all we have been doing in time past, where did it land us? So, let us consider our ways.
How many of us have taken heed to this Word, as well as to all that God has given us?
Amen! That is My word of exhortation to mark the end of that opening Message or opening prayers.
Now we go over to the Message we started last week. It is entitled, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Handled by Bishop Joe Ukpong on the 23^rd of October 2022.

Obedience to God’s Word is your salvation, depending on the Word of God that has come to you, for the Word of God that has ever come to man for salvation has always been opposed to the man’s desire. This is why you must have your revelation of who is talking to you.

-THE SON OF MAN-

EXAMINE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST VOL. 2; preached on Sunday 22^nd June, 2014 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 64 vs. 52

HAVE WE SUCCEEDED WHERE

OUR FATHERS FAILED? [2]

If you are hearing My Voice, and you are hearing the Messages as they are being read, be serious with what you are hearing because from now henceforth, you can hardly get any publications from the publication ministry.

I am closing that particular publication anytime from now because of lack of finance. I do not have any other reason. I believe the LORD has enabled Me to establish it, nurtured and watch it grow, used it, for nearing 27 years now.
And I thank God that I never for one day, summoned anybody or group of people, asking for money to finance it. If there be individuals who showed interest by giving their willful donations, they did it voluntarily. I acknowledged all.
The same is applicable to the website. It is good to know that we do not have any established account that can be credited to any arm of our operations. When you say missionary account, people talk about it as if we established one. We never!
I was the One. I opened it to help Me in My missionary work. I decided personally to allow you whenever you had anything that required collective financing especially the calendar or some other big publications.
And every kobo you kept there was accounted for by Pastor Thomas who is in-charge. I used it to correct the abuse which all of you are aware of, and you know who abused your money when we were under Onitsha household.
I was not in-charge of anything. Even the money I was using for My missionary work, I dumped it into Onitsha account, which they messed up. To return it to Me became a problem.
I then established this particular one, using Pastor Thomas and Apostle Kelechi only, so that whenever I needed money, they will go and get it for the missionary work. And from there, I nurtured it to limelight single-handedly before others started showing interest.
As it has always been My manner from 1993 till date, I have always been in the lead. There is no project I embarked on at the command of the LORD which I did not go midway before I made it public. I never solicited a dime from any human being, and I never complained.
But this time around, I feel it is of no use continuing with the tape ministry [I mean] with the publication which I see ended in establishing libraries in every family to their condemnation – heaping books in their libraries, in their rooms and bedrooms, which they just use to boast before their visitors as if they read any of them.
I know one who beautified his own section so that whenever people will be in his house and ask him, “What is this?”, he will tell them, “These are our Messages.” When they ask further, “So, you read all these.” He will say, “Yes, I read all of them” even when he never opened one, especially those at Enugu.
That of Onitsha, I do not know if there be any that are still showing interest in the publications in Onitsha. If there be, it can be one or two. From the very beginning, Onitsha has always been taking interest in free books. But when I said that I will not be giving it to them freely, they stopped. Only a few can volunteer to buy one.
Now, collectively, you have frustrated to death the publication. Sorry to say that even those that collected Books, shamelessly decided to owe us. We do not have a dime to operate. And we cannot operate because the cost of production is by far greater than our output.
How I wish sensible people can call Pastor Thomas and Pastor Chizoba who are on the spot and know how many Books they produce every week, and also know the amount we spend.
We spend over three hundred thousand weekly only to produce forty or fifty Books, excluding the cost of human labour. The cost quoted is for materials only, excluding maintenance of the equipment.
We spend on the average, three hundred thousand every week to produce forty to fifty Books. And then, Brethren will take it at the rate of one thousand naira per Book.
Who then complements the money? Do we get any subvention from anywhere? Some behave as if we have a financier somewhere. Even to pay that little token is difficult.
Who will continue to buy goods for three hundred thousand naira, only to sell the goods at fifty thousand naira? Who then will supplement the three hundred thousand naira? And the fifty thousand naira worth of books will be taken on credit, for they are not willing to pay. Some are owing us for more than two years now.
I do not want to speak on that matter, lest the enemies of truth will misinterpret Me because I am grossly misunderstood and grossly misinterpreted.
They will interpret it to mean that THE SON OF MAN is turning it to a commercial venture, without recourse to asking themselves the questions, “Who has been supplementing it? Who has been complementing it? Even when you were buying it for five hundred naira per copy, was that the cost?”
Then, we were producing at the cost of one thousand eight hundred naira each, and you were buying at the rate of five hundred naira a copy. Yet, on credit. You refused to pay.
Go and price printing materials in the market. A4 paper [Bond]; price the cover. Price the ink. Then, nobody wants to know how much we spend in making our cover. Often times, we come out with full colour prints, but nobody wants to know how much we spend to buy a full cartridge.
That is why I want all who are sincere to call Pastor Thomas and Pastor Chizoba. They are the people on the spot. I happen to be there live.
I spent My own money to buy eight printers – three colour printers and five black and white printers – wrapped in waterproof material. Up till today, we have never activated any one for one day. True or false?
Nobody asked Me how many millions I used in buying them. I imported them for use in this publication Ministry, but not even one has been activated.
The ones that spoiled are still there, but no money for repairs, for repairs take more than what we use in publishing. The costliest printing you can embark on is computer printing [desktop publishing] using laser jets [printers]. It is not easy. It is very expensive.
No commercial firm ever indulges in it. And if we never indulged in it, we will never be having our publications on a weekly basis. Moreso, we are doing it by direct labour using our Brethren.
I am not talking about the little token we are paying to the Brethren that are working for us there, and at the same time working for themselves. They are really working. Without them, there is no way these things could have come out.
What can we say about those who are transcribing these Messages; proofreading, typesetting? They are excluded in the cost of production as if that area is not playing a key role.
One of our major transcribers and proofreader; his computer has crashed more than two times. That of his wife crashed once. Who cared? Who showed interest? And nobody gives them a dime. Are they not our fellow Brethren?
But some will have the guts even to call Me, “Daddy, This print is this. There was a mistake in the other one.” Why not help us, correct that mistake or come down. Every weekend, you can come down. THE SON OF MAN will feed you very well and transport you back. Come and follow us and work, and know what we are passing through.
Our Pastor who is using his own laptop. His own has crashed several times. Robbers at a time, carried one of them. The ones we purchased directly, some of them crashed. One was stolen, while the other one broke into pieces. Who replaced it?
If you do not know what to do, why not buy one laptop or a desktop computer and give to us. I learnt that the only viable desktop computer we have crashed last week. And the hard disk also crashed.
Now, we priced the hard disk. You heard the amount Pastor Thomas was telling us.
The hard disk containing all our Messages crashed. Maybe this is the backup. This is because there was a time I had a problem and I had to buy about two big hard disks to have backups in case of eventual crash.
Who shows interest? Who does not know the cost of a hard disk of 500 gigabyte or 1 terabyte capacity? Who does not know the cost? But people will be relaxing complacently, feeling indifferent to the work of the Ministry which should be our collective responsibility.
Pernicious effect of indifference does not stop in patterning your life after Christ, but in undertaking the work that is assigned to all of us. Are you not co-labourers with Christ in the same Vineyard?
If you are called to question tomorrow to account for your contribution, what will you say? I relaxed complacently at home, obeying the Word.
Man and woman are all involved. My wife remained working until she gave her last breathe. She remained searching the Scriptures for Me. She remained helping Me in writing She remained helping Me and supporting Me all round.
And the Brethren were coming, carrying her jotters from time to time to update their records. Ministers were rushing to her to carry her books for she was up to date.
How many mothers are willing to work? Everybody is relaxing in their Ivory beds, ivory parlours and ivory kitchens, enjoying their exotic foods.
And then, using the rest of their time to watch television, to browse foolish things in their handsets and then end it sleeping.
Well, I have come to the end of all things. And we are coming to one Man to tell Him or to show Him the fruit of our labour all these years.
Our song says, “Go labour on, for your labour is not in vain.” We came to work. And whoever concludes his work will go and show God the fruit of his labour.
And we vowed that we will continue with this labour till the end. We vowed a vow that we will continue in this labour and that we will never be tired, for it is our collective responsibility. Even if it gets tough, entrust your life into the hands of God, no matter how it turns out.
It pays to be a labourer in God’s Vineyard. There are many ways you can be partakers of our labour. But instead of being partakers, what we are receiving is discouragements everywhere.
So, for that reason, I shut down that publication Ministry. And from last week till now, no publication. Nothing is going on there. At the end of this month which is coming this week, I have volunteered to pay the workers there off with a month’s salary in advance [in lieu of notice]. Let them go and look for another thing they will do. Until further notice.
But does it speak good of the Bride of Christ Ministry? This is the greatest sign of unfaithfulness. So let it go to the Message, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? What are you waiting for?
If you want to remain indifferent to the things of God, go ahead. But I know that every true Seed of God is a part of whatever God is doing in his own day. You cannot be a true Seed of God and separate yourself from what God is doing in your own day.