THE RESURRECTED BODY Preached on 7TH APRIL, 1996 At the Household of God Onitsha By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN Truth has no substitute © BRIDAL FAITH MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE
There is nothing good in Me that can attract the World; a Man of sorrow, a Man that is misunderstood by all—except the Elect. Many shall be offended by Me, but blessed is he or she that will not be offended by Me. The greatest Gift God has given to this generation is the Son of Man. Any spirit you yield to is the spirit that will possess you. Believe it if you can…
–The Son of Man
9th November, 2008.
The rapture is with us. You are all sitting down in your glorified bodies but you do not know. The journey that started thousands and thousands of years ago is about to come to an end.
If there is a Prophet that gave us the impression that the world will not come to an end, we will be doubting it. However, all the Prophets have spoken that the world one day must come to an end and that God must surely judge this world’s unrighteousness.
-SON OF MAN
MINISTERS’ MEETING VOL 1. PP 87. VS 8-9.
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WE ARE IN THE SPOKEN WORD MINISTRY
I have nothing to do with the Devil, he has no part in me for he never created me nor did he form me.
- The hour has come, for all the children of God to hear the Voice of God. We do not need any telephone again. If you are a child of God and I want to see you, I do not need to write you a letter again, I do not need to phone you for you have to obey the Voice.
- Remember, He told us at the beginning of this Ministry saying, “If you want to see the Apostle, you that do not want to believe that God sent Him, you do not need to write or panic, all He has to do is to go to a corner, if you are at peace with God you must link up, He will come.
- If He (the Apostle ) wants to see you, He does not need to write you a note; no, all He has to do is to go to a corner, as long as you are at peace with God He will surely link you up, you will come to Him. No matter how you will like to put on resistance, you must surely come. No matter how you struggle to resist, it will press hard on you that you must leave and nothing will hold you back because no man can resist the Voice of God.
- We are in the last part of the Ministry, and the last part of Ministry which is the prophetic part of the Ministry is the time where you will speak things into existence. It is not when it will tarry.
- This time around, I do not have to pray in the name of Jesus Christ for the hour has come when I will not pray in his name (Jesus’ name) again rather I will declare it.
- When you read it in your Bible where Jesus said, “The hour cometh when you will not pray even in my name,” you think it will happen in another world, no! It is this same Ministry and this is the hour because it is at the end of the Ministry. Just stand upon the Rock and declare it! That is all.
- A time came when Moses needed not to strike the Rock; all he had to do was to speak the word. When he foolishly, instead of speaking the word he struck the Rock; the Rock knew that the man had missed the real action.
- We are in the Spoken Word Ministry. What you saw as a dove was just the breaking of the iceberg. Now is the fullness of the Ministry come. Watch out from now, this is the hour where if you are in this Ministry proper you will tell a man stand there and get dried up and he will dry up. Speak to a living tree say, “This tree, I am placing a curse upon you in the Name of Christ our Lord, you will not bear fruit from now and you will wither.” Watch that tree, it must surely wither.
- The same way, if you are for rapture, nobody will tell you about it for it will be real. You will see enough evidence that you are the rapture yourself. You will see enough evidence.
- I thank God for everything, so Brother Obadiah you are welcome in the Name of Christ our Lord. You are my joy in this Church because your face is before Me, I can now declare the counsel.
- Brethren, actually for sometime now, things have been going the way they have been going and we are watching the way we are watching. I came to fellowship this morning, a Brother saw Me and said, “Brother, did anything happen to your face?”
- I said, “My friend, go your way. Why are you looking at my face? Why should you look at my face? Have you any business with my face? If something happened to my face, is it your business? Does it concern you? Is it your face? Mind your own business.” That is what I said: “Go your way!” Moreover, the voice was not friendly.
- How will you feel if you were the Brother? You met your fellow Brother, looked at his face and said, “Brother, your face is not well, did anything happen to your face?” Instead of replying in a friendly way, he said, “My friend go your way.” Can you take it lightly? Maybe that will stumble you. Yet it happened this morning.
- I am very much at home with my God. If God will come to this Church to reveal Himself, He will come in any mood He wants to come. If God is partly happy and partly sad, it will reflect in the badger skin. If there be any badger skin that harbours such a Spirit, he will be partly happy, he will be partly sad.
- I thank God the interaction went forth before the praises. I really thank God for what He is doing now. You do not need to ask any further question. I equally thank God who has already decided to obey His Voice.
- If you know that when you heard the Voice, you heard the explanation, the same Spirit explained it and you did not want to be stiff-necked; you left the Church and you parked yourself outside the little hut there; please nobody asked you to come back.
- A structure wanted to disturb me during worship service, I felt somebody was standing before Me for I could feel the breathe of that person around and I knew it was another spirit, it was not God. I could not open my eyes for I remained where I was until the prayer line was over. Lo and behold, I saw somebody lying flat. In fact because of the breathe that was coming to me, and the attack I was receiving I had to draw back and I drew back. I gave a little distance away from that structure. It is difficult to believe that some were sent expressly to come to the Church and destroy the Apostle.
- There is no way you can destroy the Church until you destroy the overseer of that Church. Get rid of the Apostle you have gotten rid of all the ministers, you have gotten rid of the Church.
- If Satan wants to kill you, he will kill you through the Apostle. He will anoint him falsely to inject poison into your hearts and all of you will perish. In addition, there is no way to get all of you defiled except through the Apostle. That is why every effort Satan has been making individually has been failing. If Satan gets an individual, the Apostle will spot it out, fish him out, cast out the anointing and bring him back.
- However, what if the Apostle is anointed, who has the anointing that will take away that false anointing? Who among you in this Faith will detect it and say, “Kneel down let me cast the Devil out of you”? That is why it requires the Almighty God to preserve His own Vessel because He has placed His Name on Him.
- Many, many forces are in our midst, for that reason I could not announce the deliverance service. If I had announced it earlier, I would have died before now. They are not stopping in the fellowship; they are trailing Me even in the highways. You heard my testimonies how the spirit started attacking Me from the fellowship. Some trailed me down to my own family yet they are in the fellowship. We eat together and fellowship together. I know them one after the other. Thus, I looked beyond the vessel and saw what was in the vessel.
- I thank God for what He is doing especially in these last days. I never purposed to come and tell you, “Leave this church, leave this church,” but I know very well that if the Lord will help Me to speak this day, I will come to a level where somebody will carry his bag and leave the Church without receiving any marching order. Something will keep on happening in him until he feels like committing suicide.
- My friend by the window, anytime I look at you I remember Linus. Did you see him? You do not know the man Linus? After service ask your brethren about the man called Linus.
- I really thank God for what He is doing and I will keep on thanking Him and praising Him. An event took place in my family recently and I told my wife something. You know there is a reason why I do not normally call my wife to come and help me bear witness because it is not acceptable in the law court.
- In the national law court, your wife can never be accepted as a good witness in any matter concerning you. For that reason, I try to avoid her because your wife cannot speak against you for she will only testify in your favour. As a result, I try to fish out other people that will come and bear witness.
I AM IN THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST OUR LORD
- You know Satan is very tricky. He can anoint you, instead of believing the truth, you will say, “Well, if I were in her shoes I will equally support my husband’s ministry. Maybe she is supporting her husband’s Ministry so that the whole world will know it.”
- I have no Ministry but I am in the Ministry of Christ our Lord. I do not have any Ministry but there are people that have ministries. You can hear them even in the radio. Have you not heard about Kenneth Hagen’s Ministry? Kenneth Copeland’s ministries, Billy Graham’s Ministry, Oral Robert’s Ministry, Paul Nweke’s Ministry, Kumuyi’s Ministry, Zoe’s Ministry. They are all there.
- I do not have any Ministry but I am in the Ministry of Christ our Lord; I am called into the Ministry. Hence, I do not sponsor any Ministry, I do not have one and I do not intend to have one. God never ordained Me to start up a movement or to run a Ministry. If God ordained Me that way, He bestowed enough gifts in Me that will make the whole world follow Me. I am telling you the truth. You are yet to see the fullness. It is a question of yielding to Satan and then start using those things in the wrong way. The whole world will follow it and nobody will hear the voice of Kumuyi, Paul Nweke and all other people for they will all sink.
- Like I told you during my school days, a young boy that was making a hell of noise in the school because they appointed him the captain in one way or the other in football field. They could not allow us to have rest in the dormitories. Every time football, football, football and I was there very speechless and quiet until one day I was tempted beyond measure.
- I told the captain something, I said, “My friend, allow us to read; we have come here to study and not to show our pride in the football field.” I am saying that he became arrogant and stubborn until I opened my mouth. I said, “Panza, any day I will lace up my football boot in this school, nobody will recognize you again.”
- He said, “What!” I said, “Let me tell you, any day I lace up my football boot and enter the pitch, nobody will ever recognize you in this school again.”
- He thought I was joking until one evening, I was moved to enter the pitch, just ordinarily I made a little demonstration, not knowing that the game master was in the upstairs watching, I never knew the principal was somewhere, somebody that has not for one day practised with the players for one day, nobody has ever heard it from my mouth that I have even for one day laced up with football boot.
- Before we knew it, somebody ran into the field, lo and behold it was the game master, touched me on the shoulder and then halted the little casual playing we were doing. The man became interested; took up the whistle with an assistant who happened to be another senior tutor in the school by the name Nwagbo from Nnewi. Before we knew it, the man started apportioning players say: “This one this way, this one that way. Where is the goalkeeper?” Then he became interested; so the thing started.
- When I saw that man had become interested and I had finished my exams, no other trouble, I had to demonstrate it further. After the whole thing the following morning, we heard another whistle. I was dying in my bed; you know the muscles were paining me, because it had taken a very long time I played football last.
- While I was there, the man just called, “Where is Boniface? Where is Boniface?” They said that I was resting in the dormitory. He said, “Go and call him immediately.”
- The people came and I told them clearly that I came to study and not to play football. They said that the game master wanted to see me now. I said, “Go and tell him I am not coming.” The man came and I said, “Sir, all my muscles are weak. I have never played before.” He said, “No, by the time you run round the field three times, it will clear.”
- I knew he was speaking the truth. I checked myself and said, “Well, the exams are over. We are just waiting for some of the fellows to finish their own so that we will go home.” Thus, I got myself to run round the pitch three times and the muscles and everything stretched again.
- Lo and behold, it was real intensive practice. This time, it was not casually. It was first eleven versus second eleven—real star players including some masters. I beat them hollow in the pitch as I combined everything. Even the game master joined the other side and I beat him up: I just dribbled him to his shame because I was very short and could make rapid movements.
- You know that is a spirit. I was telling my younger brother saying, “I remember those good old days. Let me tell you football is a spirit and many things follow it. If you are a real footballer, note one thing, many things follow it. Many, many gift will accompany it until they get you destroyed.”
- There are a lot of experiences I cannot forget but God helped me. What am I saying? I am trying to type something.
- That time there was a match that was coming up between our school and the National High School, Aba and we knew National High School players to be very rough players. Others were competing for their jersey, I have already settled on one with number nine imprinted on it. I told them that only one practice I would earn a jersey. I practised one evening; before I knew it I got number nine jersey and I pocketed the thing.
- On the day of the match at Aba Stadium, and it was raining heavily, we played that first half and they cancelled the whole thing and rescheduled it.
- Another time we came, I was putting on number nine jersey. For the first time, before the whole students for all eyes were on Boniface, both the girls and everybody. Somebody that was imported. I said I was imported. I made flashing movements in the field; right from the left flank to the middle until I had the opportunity to beat the two back men hollow, then face to face with the goalkeeper, I faked him with my leg pretending I was playing the ball to the right direction and he dived to that direction, not knowing that the ball was still there on my leg. Gently I just pushed the ball into the net.
- There and then nobody recognized who Panza (the school captain) was again throughout my stay. All those star players all sank. Envy and hatred came, as a result of it I was poisoned.
- After winning a trophy at Owerri when we played Arugo, and that time I was playing for “Greater Tomorrow” under East Central State. We played Arugo; we played DMGS (Denis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha) hollow. Played for Greater Tomorrow, far back in 1975. I passed out in 1977.
- What am I saying, I love coming number one in everything. If the Lord wanted me to run a Ministry with the gifts He has bestowed on me, I would have commanded the whole world. By now maybe I won’t be in Nigeria. I will be traveling and coming back with fleets of security men and so on.
- I may be privileged to be the youngest reverend doctor so, so, and so. It is very easy! Just lower down the Message; tell the people what they want and they will follow you. However, I thank God He never ordained Me that way. Rather He ordained Me a special vessel, preserved me somewhere, and sent me in this Laodicea generation to wind up the Church in the Gentiles. Amen.
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THE MINISTRY OF THE HEAVENLY ANGELS
Very soon, the mystery of the Earthly Messenger will be over. We are now entering into another Ministry, that is the Angelic Ministry and that Angelic Ministry is not an Earthly Ministry but a Heavenly Angelic Ministry.
- Heavenly Angels, the Angels that will pour in the wrath of God from the vials,they are angels from Heaven and they are very many. They are innumerable; you cannot count them, one after the other. Some have their ministries for one day, some have their ministries for five hours, and some have for seven hours, that is, at intervals.
- At intervals one angel will come, pour in something, something will happen and he will go. Another one will come, pour in something, all the Lord’s anger and indignation. They are there, reserved for that purpose. They are just angels of punishment; AND THAT IS WHEN THE ANGEL AT THE ALTAR HAS BEEN REMOVED TOGETHER WITH THE CHURCH.
- That is the next Ministry you should expect ministry of the heavenly angels. It is not for the Church, it is for the disobedient. Pray that the Lord will not allow you to roll into it because of unbelief.
- I know many of you have come to fellowship with your cameras, if you are led to flash your camera, feel free and flash but do not allow your attention to be distracted. There is a reason why it is permitted this day. Outside today, you pocket it. Another time it will come again will be if you miss rapture; then you may come in with it, you take photographs of whatever you see on the floor of the Church. I repeat: YOU TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF WHATEVER YOU SEE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CHURCH, YOU THEN GO FROM FAMILY TO FAMILY AND THEN TAKE CERTAIN PHOTOGRAPHS.
- We have some dreams, I will read these dreams; say few things before I make my announcement proper. Let me not fool you, but tell you what it contained therein. This one was on 4th of April not february1996, by our Brother Kinsley.
- It is a vision: he was among the people that went to Awka and right there in the house of our Sister Ike, they were praying in the family altar and he was caught up in the spirit. Lo and behold, he saw a vision of a wall clock that was shining very brightly and the hands of that clock were moving very swiftly. He wondered why the hands of the clock were moving very furiously; so he rushed to the clock at the wall intending to hold the hands but he could not hold the hands.
- He said that the hand became powerful and swifter that no man born of a woman could grip it. He was thinking about it until he heard a voice that said, “Be fast, time is no more,” and the vision left.
- He did not come to me, nobody read it to me, I have not heard it before. You said you shared it here in the Church? Maybe I was not in the fellowship that day. How many have heard it in the Church as it was being read? Brother, are you sure you are not referring to the family altar? Okay, only few hands indicated, maybe it was not on a fellowship day because I cannot remember the number of days I have absented myself from fellowship this year, yet I have not heard it.
- Then how did I get it? The Lord wanted Me to see it. Nobody ever read it to Me, so it entered my hands mysteriously and that was on Friday night. I looked at it and said, “Maybe God wanted Me to lay hands on it and read it.”
- I saw another one also, I dropped it on the pulpit and it was a dream. Our Brother, the same source, had that dream. That is our Brother John the Beloved (John Abazie); He said he dreamt a dream where rapture occurred, it is a lengthy dream. He described the events that were happening before that rapture took place. Note, one frightening feature there is that he made a prayer request after. He said that he saw the entire Church being taken into glory.
- Surprisingly, he said that he saw himself walking in the Jerusalem fellowship hall picking up the dresses of brethren that went to rapture and then was asking himself the question: why brethren left and their dresses were lying down in the fellowship hall. The dream left him. In addition, he said that the Church should pray for him that he should not miss rapture; and for that cause, I decided to bring these dreams to the pulpit so that the pastor will read them clearly to your hearing.
- It is frightening, who will like to be picking dresses after rapture? In other words, you will be going about telling people that rapture has occurred. It is a horrible experience. I say God forbid that it will be so to my Brothers or any of my sisters even. Rather I am looking forward to a day God will close His eyes and wipe away every transgression and take everybody home except those that have decided to come to the Church to trouble this Church and to tempt men of God.
- They do not know where they are. If you know where you are, you will know you cannot get away with it. In this Message, I will tell you what God’s servants are. You know they are flaming fires according to the book of Psalms but they are more than flaming fires in the eyes of God. I will tell you what they are.
- If God has saved you, you must rejoice always. You see there must be joy in your heart because you have been saved. Even when God is rebuking and rebuking and rebuking, you still have your joy because He knows He is rebuking but not in vain. Moreover, to show that you have been rebuked, you will join hands with God to rebuke those people.
- In a family, if your own brother in the flesh does something that is wrong and he is being flogged by your parents, you take side with your parents to bring the child back and then rebuke the child, tell him, “My friend, are you a goat? Every time you are the talk of the day. Don’t you see what you have done? Is it good?” Then you still commend your parents that they have done very well.
- That is why when you come to His Presence in the fellowship, you rejoice; it is a family. There is no way rebuke will not go out to erring Brethren. God must surely rebuke every error in the Camp. It will come to a point where you are asked to leave this family: “I do not want to see your face again,” because their faces will always be provoking God.
- Any child that commits iniquity will get to a point where his presence before you disgusts you, making you angry each time you see him. The only way you can stay without anger is to cast him out for a while: “Get away from my face, I do not want to see you now!. A sinner provokes God to anger continually every day. As it is naturally, so it is spiritually.
- I thank God who has delivered many of us from every unclean spirit. I am sure many had total deliverance while some had partial deliverance because of something which I will tell them now.
- You know there are many things that are hard to say, God decided to reveal those ones they could not even say. Discernment was not on all of them. God discerned those hearts and revealed those things that if they were allowed to say, they will hide them. God brought them up. Yet there are some, God decided to place before them and leave it there. Even till this hour, it is still there.
- Who is to regret, is it God? I know some people might be weak, maybe we were among the people because we came and we were not even praying the second time. You were given your opportunities; you only confessed the ones you wanted to confess and then went back with the rest. Some could not even come out because of fear and you know if you have love for Christ, that love will drive away all fears. When sin enters into a man, the result is fear.
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
- I do not want to accuse anybody. I heard the same Holy Ghost’s Voice you heard. I will share some testimonies as I continue gradually. There is one Scripture that flashed across my eyes and flashed across a Sister’s eyes. What is more, that Scripture changed my mood. All that slept in my house can bear witness that they could not see my face—since morning from A to Z. Even my own wife could not see my face; my face was hidden from all and I decided to open up. I opened up a little and then closed the chapter, then went my way.
- In fact, they saw a different being altogether, it was unbelievable. Some even started thinking whether Brother will not be going to fellowship. It was very unusual and I told my wife that there is trouble; right from the house I said that there is trouble. She said, “Darling,” and I replied that there is trouble.
- As I was continuing in my testimony, I wanted to see Brother Ojiakor for specific reason, that was, immediately we left here at about 10:30am precisely in the morning. I wanted to see him by all means, so I decided to give myself over to prayer. I said, “If he is still with us, the same spirit, now go there, get him arrested, bring him here, I want to see him.”
- I continued bearing the thing and watching. My wife went out, came back and I called her saying, “I am praying that God will bring Brother Ojiakor here;” so we continued.
- In the afternoon, between two to three pm, I saw somebody that quietly breezed in, very unusual, it was not the time. He said, “Sister, God bless you.” Even the whole children quietly come in and they breezed in.
- I just saw him from the curtain, then I said, “Brother Ojiakor, come in.” He wanted to say “Brother shalom” but I gave him a sign and he sat down. Our Sister was there, Brother Maduabuchi was there, so we talked a little.
- I dismissed Brother Christian and Brother Maduabuchi because he wanted to talk and talk I said, “Wait, I do not want to have any discussion with you.”
- I asked Brother Nathaniel to stay at Npor because he will trouble Me. I want to stay alone before and I have dismissed Brother Christian and Brother Maduabuchi because I wanted to stay alone. Yet, I continued being troubled.
- I opened my mouth the second time and said, “Did you hear anything about Brother …? He says Brother … should have been here with you. In fact Brother Ifeanyi told me that he will come and I have been praying, expecting that he will be here—unless Brother Ifeanyi never told him what has happened and what I was saying concerning him and his wife. I said, “I wonder why they decided to take him off at these closing hours. Okay, let me keep my fingers crossed!”
- We were waiting outside praying, discussing and sharing testimonies. We were very much in the spirit because many things were transpiring before that time. Almost after eight o’clock, lo and behold we saw something like a ghost and nepa took light that time. I called Brother Ojiakor and said, “Look at Brother Ifeanyi,” he said, “Look at Brother Ifeanyi, as if he heard that still small voice.”
- He was coming very fearfully, he was very much afraid. He gave us a little distance and stood before us speechless, we were all so speechless. Brother looked at me, I looked at him and we maintained calmness. Nobody said, “Brother how are you?” Or “Brother you are welcome!” We were just speechless for over five minutes.
- He could not open his mouth, nobody said, “Brother welcome,” there was nothing until after a while, I told Brother, “This is Brother Ifeanyi. It is not his ghost.”
- I said, “Brother Ifeanyi,” and he answered Sir. “Is it Brother Ifeanyi or his ghost?” I said again and he said it is Brother Ifeanyi and not his ghost.
- “Why are you fearfully coming and standing speechless? No ambition, no want? Is it well with you?” I asked and he became speechless. A little while I asked, “Why coming late?”
- He said, “Sir, I have decided not to come late again.” “When did you decide?” I asked. “This night because we had a bad experience on the way”. He replied. “That is why you have decided this night? Your last visit, what did I tell you? Did I not warn you seriously about it? Yet you decided to offend God again. Tell us what was that experience you had?”
- He said, “Armed robbers!” I said, “Yes! That is what you deserved. Moreover, it was between Umune and Ogbunike.” He said yes!
- “Tell me, what if they succeeded, you that have no money?” They just saw them; people were running helter-skelter by foot, abandoning their vehicles where they parked, ran into the village and from the village they found their way here. What if the vehicle spoiled in the bush? To God be the glory.
- Many things happened, that was my last discussion with him until now. He did not see my face again. We never sat down even to say “how was this one or that.” I vanished, nobody ever saw Me.
- I was inside hearing them praying in the parlour last night, nobody saw me. Until the time I came out with my bag, intending to come to fellowship not even one person in their midst said he saw my face. If you see me transfigured, take it that way. That is how Almighty God has decided to do it. Maybe that might be the reason why you are asked to come with your camera. I said maybe so that you will see a different face.
- I thank God for everything, by and by we have brightened up. As I continue, I will keep on telling you certain things. I gave our Pastor a note but he delayed me here. I discovered that he was operating in a very high realm. I told him to share testimonies and collect offerings, and then let me go.
- Another note came saying, “I have informed so, so and so and we are in a great temptation now.” I folded it and threw it away for I am not in the fellowship to come and exchange notes, if I wanted to exchange note I would have started it long ago.
- Many might be wondering why I did that. I threw it away angrily. Somebody might be thinking Brother was provoked by his family. Let me tell you, nobody born of a woman can provoke Me!
- This morning I saw our Brother the Apostle in a dream, why I saw him I do not know because it was on the road and that road was very narrow. He stopped, greeted me and told me to go through this place to his house but is not at 20 Benjamin with my child Chisom in my hand.
- Coming to fellowship this morning, I saw what happened to us as a Church and I have to put it down to Sister Elizabeth. Sister Elizabeth did you see me yesterday? Did you come to my house yesterday? She said no.
- The woman you said you saw when you watched yourself carrying a bucket, was the same woman you saw also the time the Voice rebuked you. The time you saw a woman, and you could not recognise that woman. Do you remember? It was your testimony. I think we have it here in tape here also? It was the same woman also that you saw but this time you did not see her alone, there are many witnesses. I will tell you the woman also.
- I saw that same woman on Friday night, I was having some discussions with her; I blamed her, I said, “Do you know why I picked two of you before the Church and announced it?” Yet there are others I am still handling quietly. I pray that this spirit will just warn the two of you because I will not talk to you again. It is this same spirit that will be talking to you; and I know if I speak to you in the same way the same spirit that has been speaking to you in dream, in vision, directly, audibly, you would have hated Me to the core. Now, this spirit is your destroyer. It will destroy you if you are not careful because it will not show you mercy.
- If I come to this sister and I want to pray a little while the mind will say, “I do not know why I am not led to pray for you,” and I prayed for another people there, do you think that sister will be happy? No! Nevertheless, if it happens in a vision accompanied by a voice, I think that is the best way.
- Now if I will tell you, “I know why I did not visit you, I will visit other brethren but not in your house. I will not come to your house, will you be happy with me? However, when you hear it in a vision or a voice speaks to you or somebody had it in a dream and tell you that so, so and so happened, that he saw Apostle visiting so many people, when He came to you, He said, “No go and tell your mother I am not coming to her house, and will never tried it, look at the reason; then whatever you want to do, do.”
- You are certain that the Apostle was not in your house, the congregation was not with you and Apostle, if you come to the Church and hear it naturally coming out, you will know what happened before. Then the problem has shifted, not between you and Apostle again.
- I told that same woman saying, “Hear me, you are perishing. Look at the woman that has the same problem with you at the same time, gradually she is rolling into the Ark,” and I mentioned Sister Elizabeth. I thank God that woman is in this Church this day.
- After today’s service, go and see Sister Ike, she will tell you what I told her. I said gradually she is rolling into the Ark and gradually you are stepping your feet into a place where you will be finally destroyed. Where angels fly millions and millions miles away from is where you are stepping your feet into. You know there is a place you will step your feet into and you get destroyed at an instant, no mercy will be shown.
- I love the testimony of the Brother that left this Ministry because he finds it very difficult that time. He wrote letter to his Pastor, “I am sorry that I happened to find myself in this type of Holy Ghost Ministry and I do not want to reproach it in any way”. Then he withdrew from fellowship. He thought he will make money in the world, he got there, God arrested him and tormented him.
- The Police carried him and placed him in the cell. The sickness God healed came back. His family wanted to say he was destabilised, running everywhere until the Lord ministered to him why he was suffering. He wept sore and he was running up and down until he eventually travelled all the way from Eha-Amufu to my house one afternoon. Brother Kelechi saw him too.
- We came back from Mbaise that day…his testimony now is edifying. Is his brother in the Church or his in-law? His in-law came to my house yesterday, is he in the Church? He is in the Church. I will talk to you maybe from this pulpit.
- In this Church, we do not ask you to close your mouth, criticize us for it is your right. As long as you are not part of us, or you have come to witness what we are saying or what we are doing, it is your right. Sit down and witness, draw your own conclusion for it is your right. If we are not certain of where we are, we will be pleading with you to cover us. We do not hide our identity.
- A manufacturer that trusts his goods does not go about looking for distributors. However, when he places his form, he tells you, “Pay none refundable fee of five hundred thousand Naira.”. People that know the worth of the goods will place five hundred thousand Naira or more and say, “Even if I do not get it, I can forfeit it because of you, I will not regret, I will try again.”
- If a man knows the quality of his goods, there is a ready-made market for it. Moreover, he can fix any price. Before we know where we are, we can make laws, regulate how people can enter into this Body, and magnify it to our taste in order to decree out all unbelief and get a people preserved unto holiness.
- The Scripture permits me to raise up a standard. I said the Holy Scriptures you are holding permits me to raise up a standard. From the Old Testament, all men of God were commanded to raise up a standard of Holiness among God’s people.
- If you are a part and parcel of this most holy Faith, you won’t be afraid by day or by night, you will not be afraid of any terror. You are not amazed because you are the Ministry yourself. However, watch observers: if the players keep on playing and playing, and the game came to a point where they cannot score any goal and you see that the referee hands are up, you will see them gradually leaving. They feel disappointed that they paid the gate fee in vain.
- However, if they are a part and parcel of the match, they are looking for a winner, if we do not get a winner today and they say that tomorrow or next tomorrow they are repeating the match, they will pay another money, sit down quietly until they see the cup being carried.
- You know the people that enjoy the match are not the players. There are people that have no hand in the trophy. They will give the whole money they have to transport players there. Somebody can be supporting Rangers football club of Enugu, and be transporting himself there. Whether they will win or not he will keep on paying fare for that. Before you know it he will say, “It is my team.” Yet he has never played there one day. Management of Rangers football club do not know him.
- I do not want to be their supporter; I want to be in the team fully. Then everybody will know that I am a part and parcel of the team. When they put on their uniform, I put on the same uniform.
REJOICE ALWAYS
- Our God is good. The children of God must surely rejoice, those the Lord has redeemed. You that have been redeemed, that is my joy for I cannot perish. When you come to the altar in the morning, he said come with gladness of heart, come with a new song come with praises. And then we never know the people that were here, that they were quenching the fire and now they have left. The camp is cleansed once again, we will meet them beyond the Camp.
- Remember no sympathy for Esau. If you have sympathy for Esau, you make God a wicked God. Do not try to show sympathy for God is God. Whatever seemeth right in His eyes He will do.
- God is good, is it not wonderful brethren? It is! Church of Christ is a noise making Church. Yes sir! That is why Stephen was arrested in Rome. He shook the hour. Brethren, we are holding the power that is shaking the hour. The moment evil depart from the camp, the camp is cleansed. The Holy Ghost will have His way, then the people of God will rejoice.
- The Bible said, “Rejoice” and I say rejoice, never be sad or sorrowful. You are a redeemed people, a peculiar people. Brethren rejoice for we are in the world of our own. The world are in their own; we are in our own world. Somebody asked, “Why are you always rejoicing and cheerful?” I said, “My friend leave me alone for you cannot understand!” You can see why I am happy, is it the song? Because my face is bright, we are happy.
- When you have a masquerade, the masquerade will demonstrate in the spirit of the flute. The masquerade will not rejoice more than the person putting on the masquerade. What is inside the masquerade shows the attitude and behaviour through the mask. If the masquerade beats somebody, what beats that person was not the mask, it was something that was inside the mask.
- Whatever the masquerade does, that is what, what is inside does. Whatever the masquerade utters is what whatever that is inside utters. In other words, whatever that is inside the masquerade must know the masquerade. Moreover, the masquerade cannot speak, unless what is inside speaks. Is that the message?
- If you want to see what is inside, look at the masquerade. If you cannot recognize the mask, you cannot recognise what is inside. The works the masquerade is doing is not the masquerade but what is in the mask because whatever that is in the masquerade is greater than the masquerade. That is why the masquerade will dance to the tune of what is inside. Is that not the message of the hour? Yes sir! That is the revelation of the hour.
- If you want to know Him, you will know Him. I will show you something because I will place a sign that will stumble all. Except He that is in Him from the foundation of the world and then you will know that, that day that I am He. Glory be to God because He is just winding up His program and He cannot do it without Himself.
- Anytime what is inside the mask put his hand on the ground and put his leg upwards, you will see the masquerade demonstrate underground. If what is inside somersaults, you will see the masquerade somersaulting. The people there will be saying “this is wonderful, this is wonderful!” What is wonderful is inside.
- I am sure it is in the Scripture but will you understand? A Sister came bothered with the problem of her relations; she was praying. While she was praying, something woke her up and God spoke to her ear saying, “Go and read Jeremiah 7 verse 16.” She was shocked and quickly ran in and told me that.
- I said, “Hold it to yourself, go back to the Church,” and that was exactly the Scripture.
- The same Voice that roared on them, Brother saw me outside. Because I never knew I could sit inside today. I never knew I could stay in the Fellowship and worship God today. I thought I would be outside this place. No matter how I try to adjust, no way. But the voice was just scaring me the more. Then I halted again because when He speaks I will know.
- If you have read it keep it to yourself for it is not what I am going to preach on if I will preach. All of you are coming to the Church with ears wide open, eyes wide open, with some new jotters and new pen. Some came with cassette. Today is today. The Apostle announced it and the Pastor confirmed it. They came to the Church but the Lord went in another way, and from the way it was going, there is only but one person here that is not surprised and that is why the spirit is nearer to her.
- Our Brother Ojiakor has witnessed something. He started misbehaving. If it were ordinarily somewhere, I would have slapped him out of my office. Because if you are privileged to come very close to a man of God whom you are watching closely, even by day or by night, the whole Church must hold you responsible. Any day they look for him and they did not see him, and they have not obtained the last word from him, they will come to you. If you disappoint them that time, they can stone you to death and God will close His eyes and put you in the bottomless pit.
- Because a man of God must utter his last word someday. Whatever he has uttered and nobody sees him again, that is his last word. Then if you come out and then, maybe in ministration they were asking you to say what he said and you bent down, is that not a disappointment? There was even one Sister that will not even utter one word and that is Sister Ojiakor. The discussion that will last for over one hour thirty minutes she could not remember even a little from what was uttered out. That is an empty barrel and it will end today. Stupid empty barrel. Thank God the barrel came down to the faith.
EVIL SPIRITS ARE VERY DANGEROUS
- I will talk to the Church. I am not talking to people outside, I am talking to the Church. There is anointing in every man’s face. That is why it is not good to be a witch; they could not lift up their eyes. You know at my command they were going to the front, because they have seen supernatural powers being displayed.
- Brethren I would have started another thing. Since we cannot respond in this place let us act this way and the Lord hindered it. I was completely there. I knew what was going out here last night.
- If not Almighty God driving them away, by now you would have recorded nothing less than four cases of excommunication this day. Dangerous spirits leaving from these doors, but the Lord made a way of exit. “Let us tear him I know you are coming, let us tear him,” this are spirits they are going out because you are just new in the Faith, we that have been in the faith, we are witnesses at Amazu Oil.
- I remember one night, it caused the whole Church to sleep except Apostle at Abagana and it was the meeting of ministers, no member was there. I recorded the highest meeting of ministers from all the Local Churches; all slept except the Apostle. The only person that was awake in the anointing was the Apostle. That was Brother Kelechi in the pulpit. For the message that lasted for eight hours, the tape minister could not bear it and the thing spoiled our message.
- At Amazu Oil, we were in the meeting during midnight, casting out devils. We could hear the noise of a devil and people thought a little baby was crying. We looked round, lo and behold we had no little baby and it was far, far deep in the night about 2:00am. A little while, the thing changed and it was making a hell of noise both in the decking and everywhere. Then the Voice told the whole Church to come inside, they continued roaring outside.
- At Eha-Amufu it happened until a wicked spirit broke off the window. There was no wind, nothing. They were all gathered inside. A little while it went to the PA system, destroy all, both the loud speaker and the microphone, everything got destroyed. Yet we were there. The Voice told us, “Nobody will be harmed. It is roaring outside. Until you jump outside it cannot harm you. Remain inside.”
- Spirits are very dangerous. That is why if you are anointed with one, you start behaving like a little baby. You lose your senses. What if you are possessed with seven or eight or twelve evil spirits? There are many dangerous evil spirits, not one.
- Jesus told the man that was delivered of evil spirits, “Do not ever stay alone, pray and be filled otherwise the devil will come back one day to search and know whether there is space. If he discovers that you are empty, he will go out and bring more seven dangerous spirits and they will tabernacle.” In other words, eight dangerous spirits are now living in one man and the condition of that man will be worse. What of Mary Magdalene, how many spirits? Seven wicked spirits at a time.
- Do not be afraid of spirits, God has given you the victory. Recognise what you are. Any moment from now I will open the Word.
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DECISION
Remember the day the Apostle preached and cried and cried and said, “God, no more.” Then another person roared from the pulpit saying, “I have heard it several times from the Apostle’s mouth. Brother Ojiakor has been lingering, he has not decided to obey but God decided to close his mouth.” The two voices are written here.
- Now I want to talk to Brother Ojiakor directly from the pulpit. You are not the first person and you will not be the last that has held the Apostle’s feet and cry to Almighty God. You are not the first you are not the last, that have stood before the saints and said that God has closed your business for your own good. That God knows why, if He will allow the business, that you will not make Heaven. I said you are not the first and you will not be the last but being an ancient man in this Faith, cast your mind back.
- All that said what you said were destroyed before the Church. Look around are they here? What was the later testimony? What killed them? Is it not what is around you now? Do you have eyes to see? Can you see it? Do you have ears to ear? Have you heard the Voice?
- What killed them, what changed their testimony? Then who carried the blame at last? They came to the point that they wept sore before the whole Church, before many brethren at Amazu, at Abagana, even in Jerusalem also. Where are they? Their testimonies changed. Were they called into the Ministry? Yes! Were they preachers? Yes! Do we have their messages in tapes? Yes! What changed their testimony? Thou knowest.
- Are they in this Faith now? No! Check if that is not around you now. Then in all who carried the blame? Do you think it was something that happened in a day? Somebody somewhere was having fellowship with the devil in the absence of Adam when the man was away. Is the message not in the tape? The next door neighbour to Adam; because the two beings were walking side by side. Adam was in the Eden; Satan was also around Eden as next-door neighbour.
- When the man was away, the fellowship started, it never started that same day. The woman started looking at it. A little while she will laugh at it and go back. A little while again, the man will go down and the woman will go there, romance him a little, and go back. It continued and it became a daily fellowship in the absence of Adam.
- Eve had a very powerful preacher, a very powerful Evangelist: “Did He say so? After all, what of this one? What of he himself? What of his wife? What of this? That is why I am suffering, why don’t you consider me today. What of your parent? Look at this man? Look at him, this message is settled!”
- Then Adam came and said, “Darling Eve, darling Eve, what is wrong with you madam? So you are in the house and I shouted two, three times, yet no response!”
- Eve replied, “Don’t you know that I am not well!” “Is it now that you must answer?” Adam said. It will change hand again. Before you know it, Eve will start demonstrating. Demonstration will start until Adam will be disturbed from the tent and then Adam will come round, “I want to have peace in this house. Why beating this maid this way? What did this maid do to you? What is her offence? Is she not grown up? If not for one thing, will she be here? If not for one thing…”
- Before you know it, she will begin to make noise: “Oh, I am sorry darling. It is as a result of daily fellowship,” and it has been going on in the absence of Mr. Adam.
- Imported preacher has indoctrinated Eve, and Eve is now roaring. You say, “Eve, let us go to fellowship,” she will say, “Go I am coming.”
- You say again, “Darling Eve, we are going too late now. Let us go,” “Go I am coming,” will be the reply.
- You say again, “We are going late, we are going late,” “I am coming. Is it not ten o’clock? Please, please that one concern you,” Eve will reply.
- Why? It is as a result of daily fellowship in the absence of Mr. Adam. Is somebody spiritual? Yes sir!
- When the man goes away, the next-door neighbour is always around you. They walked side by side and they resembled one another, they have influences. Before you know it, the man will say, “Okay, let me see that thing briefly. I know what I will do. I think I will buy your idea, your idea is good. Let me just…”
- From there what do you notice? Every evening the man will be coming with one waterproof, black, wrap it with newspaper. You will see the picture of something that resembles a bottle, where did they place it? Somewhere because the man has swallowed the thing and it is gradual. Every evening, “Let us go to Abagana, let me go and buy it and come back.” The woman will go home.
- It is not even malt. Once it is cheap drink, it is now wine and when the woman drank the wine, and was supersaturated, they will come to Church and before you know it, the woman will lie straight on the floor: “Church! Church!” and what was coming out pleased the man because the man has been consoled and consolidated in the name of love.
- God has approved it, then the woman will start dishing out the thing gradually, gradually, and gradually, and the man will be towering higher and higher, higher and higher until he will became Nebuchadnezzar.
- Brethren, I hope you are getting the Message? Yes sir! Let me tell you, anytime the mask opens his mouth, the thing that opened the mouth is inside. Can a lion roar for nothing? Has the Voice come out void? He that knoweth all things knew it, called the man, called the wife, brought them together several times, spoke to them before the whole Church. Then you will see the man at the altar, you will see the woman at the altar crying and crying and weeping and rolling on the ground. Did that solve the problem? No!
- Until the day the Voice says it is crocodile tears. Few days after, it was repeated and the man that cried and wept before Brother Kelechi and Ben Okezue at Aba turned round; we could not believe the report yet it is truth. Brother Ben am I telling lies?
- If you have ears, hear what the Spirit is saying, that you are not the first or the last. Moreover, we know very well from the account of those people, that even before this Ministry started, their so-called business has already spoiled. They failed them woefully and they were living from hand to mouth. They were just running from place to place, and brethren were just helping them.
- Even before Apostle Ojiakor came to the Ministry, it was on record that the business failed and they became taxi drivers. That even the Apostle met them as taxi drivers not even as contractor or anything. That even the Apostle heard about the testimony of being contractor, I marvelled. I think I will cut off there.
- I will talk to you by revelation. I know that you must hear something. Do not worry until I come down. Let Me diagnose a case, it is very important.
- You know preaching is very dangerous, the spirit is still bidding me to talk more.
- A little while Adam decided to be a man. When Adam decided to be a man, he sold off his shame and then stood on his faith and took side with Christ. Because he took side with Christ, Adam’s eyes open.
- Do you think it was well with Eve? For Eve to be flushed, do you think it will be easy? When you want to flush the vessel that was filled, that person must fall sick. Is there anybody that you will collect the one he is holding, that the person will not do his mind? The person will be feeding very well but he will be growing lean carrying big head because they stopped bribery, criminal act and fraud. Gradually, as the person is stopping it, things start changing but he is feeding, still looking lean in appearance. He is feeding very well but he is not growing fat.
- If you are eating very well and you are not adding any weight think twice. If you feed very well and you are not adding in weight there is something that is missing in you and there is something that is collected from you, which you do not want to be redeemed of.
WE ARE IN THE TIME OF THE FALLING OF THE STARS
- Adam took his stand and the environment changed. If this Voice does not go forth ahead of time, something terrible will happen soon. We are in the time of the falling of the stars.
- We have stepped into the period of falling of the stars that the Word of God might come to pass. The question should not be, is it I? The question should be why should it be me? The question should not be, “Now Lord, is it I?” The question should be why should it be me?
- Stars will fall, I know that but why should it be me? Somebody must betray Christ I know but why should it be me? Somebody must blaspheme this Message. Yes, why should it be me? Somebody must deny this truth. Yes, why should it be me? Even one that remained when the Voice roared: “Now it has become clear that you are not one of us. One of these days, you will join your brethren.”
- He resisted the Voice until one day he came round and the Voice told him again, “Do not make the mistake of going to Church tomorrow, because if you dare go to Church tomorrow being Sunday, you will remain sleeping until the Church is over.”
- He fed himself very well and went home. Decided to have Virgil, prayed and prayed, in the morning he came to the fellowship as number one, swept the fellowship, did everything and was going to the altar also, and was moving about gallantly, fighting the Voice, because before he started fighting the voice he had already concluded the man a man of Devil. Unbelief has already started and that was the day he wanted to conclude it: “Let me fight the instruction and this devil that is speaking to me. I will stay awake come what may. After all it is day.”
- Before we knew it, he went outside and brought the children inside. While he was coming, the spirit cornered him somewhere lo and behold, there was an ease chair. Who placed it there? Almighty God.
- Brother Ernest Chukwubuikem left it there intending to come and carry his chair, God carried it there and placed it there for something to bring His Word to pass for God cornered him. He did not know when he just knelt down there, sat on the chair, off he slept!
- Several times the Apostle went in, saw him, came out, called some Brethren, they saw him and I asked them to come out. We remained there clapping hands, praising God yet he could not wake up until the service was over.
- The Apostle sent for him to be woken up. When he woke up he thought it was just morning but he did not know that the Church has dismissed. Why did it fulfil? It was because the mask uttered what the wearer uttered. Nevertheless, he was looking at the mask: “This small boy that does not have sense.”
- If you belittle the masquerade you die. The most dangerous masquerade is not Ijele. The most dangerous masquerade is not the largest one in size; the largest is even the weakest. People will be falling before him but there is another one that is belittled. You will see that one walking gradually around, that is the one that is carrying the thing. It is that one that is carrying the main thing. He is not fearful in approach, very casual, walking around till you think he is very feeble, but fear that one.
- If any man is coming with a charm, it is the one that will see and start fighting, not the big one. He is the one protecting the giant. Thus, God know what he is doing in this camp.
- When Adam was away, Eve continued in the Message until one day she could not hide it again. She reached her hand and then towed Adam very well. When Adam became an Angel, Eve became a prophetess. Now the stage was ripe. That was for their doom and destruction.
- Once Adam listened, Adam compromised. Adam did not know that it was better for Eve to pay the price. That God will make another helpmate than to retain her. Something continued. You know one thing with God, He protects His powerhouse.
- If my helpmate will bring shame and reproach to God’s powerhouse, do you think God will allow her to stay there? God will place her where she will rest. She will be imprisoned, she will go to where she came from. If my by-product will disturb me, she will be placed where she deserved. She will remain there until the thing is over and I will be courageous enough to bear it.
- Some might be thinking: “What is Brother saying?” I am trying to make you understand yet you are not getting it. It is not meant for everybody. After all I am not preaching to all of you. Is the Voice clearer now? Amen.
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COMPROMISE
Okay, we go the other way round. You know Adam and Eve consolidated their stand but the moment Adam took side with God, there came forth a Redeemer: “Adam, Adam, where are you?” “Master I heard your voice and I hid myself because I am naked.”
- “Who told you that you are naked?” “It is this woman you have given me!” Any reasonable excuse before God? No! The Voice in our day will say, “Didn’t you hear me when I told you that if your wife is not going, my Brother go? If your husband is not going, my sister, go! Then we go the other way round again.”
- Something caused this testimony: Holding the legs, crying Abba Father save me, because we have seen it several times; and we know that somebody will carry the blame at last. Somebody gave room for God to be accused and whosoever gives room for God to be accused, do you think he will get away with it? No! You cannot get away for God must react. Unless the person is not in God’s program.
- Let me tell you plainly, if I am retrenched from work, or if I have no work doing and I know how I am managing to survive, yet my parents do not know what I am suffering, if I go to them and they tell me that I am not doing well myself, I will be courageous enough to narrate to them all these things I am passing through so that they will not blame my Brother, they will not blame my Sister; and they will not suspect me that I have gotten money and I have used it foolishly. I will be privileged to explain myself because I am of age.
- What if I will close my mouth? That means I have created room for them to kill an innocent man. If I want them to be saved, even if there will be poison, the words of my mouth will correct the earlier impression.
- I will tell you, “Somebody must have poisoned your mind against my husband, against my wife, against the Church, against the brethren and so gave you the impression that things are hard because of Church. This hardship started from the beginning. Look at the efforts we have been making yet no result and it is not to us alone, it is everywhere. Go and verify for it is everywhere.
- “I am not the only person experiencing hardship. Hardship is everywhere. The thing started before I embraced this Ministry. It did not start because I am in this Church. It started before I came to this Church and this Church is helping me otherwise, if not this Church, maybe I would have gone away to steal and people will kill me. However, this Church has been comforting me. The Holy Ghost has been comforting me.”
- Let me tell you, if you are not in this Faith, there is no way you can escape this hardship without doing what others are doing. Do not blame the spinsters, something is upholding them. That is why they are doing what others are doing. It is this Faith that will keep you away from what others are doing. You know the one they use: If you cannot beat them you join them. But in this Faith, we do not join them but we bear it because we know we are strangers, we are pilgrims. We came here empty and naked, we will go home empty and naked.
- We did not come here with such things; neither did we come here with records. Any day I am going home, the same way I came is the same way I will go. There are some people like great men, we see them driving expensive cars, and the best vehicle on Earth, when we get to the graveyard, they will carry the corpse into the grave, people that will remain alive will go back with the vehicle. No man has been buried with his vehicle.
- No matter the number of upstairs they have in town, nobody has been buried in upstairs. Therefore, one day that man that does not come down will come down. Any day I see people constructing grave upstairs, I will build one. It is in tape. Even if it is one room on the ground and one up, it is upstairs. Make one step, it is upstairs.
- I thank God I have upstairs already. If I go to Udi, if I have a house to stay I will just raise it up. It is upstairs. That is what I need. When you are planning the thing up, you plan down also. I have built upstairs even if it is one step up and one step down, it is an upstairs—that is my own upstairs, go and build your own for I have built my.
- Brethren, the Voice went to all of us but let somebody be spiritual enough. This particular event, I described it that I heard a voice saying, “Brother Ojiakor, you are now rehearsing, maybe it is too late.” He said, “This word is truth.”
- I preserved the prayer request written on 20th March 1996. I filed it for a reason. There are certain documents I file for a reason. Once beaten twice shy, because I have seen the same thing coming back. That thing that caused somebody to die has started again. You know, the Voice said, “While I was fighting, I brought this one, this one came and you cannot escape it.” Did he escape? No!
- This is what the Holy Ghost called false love among married people. It is when you see your wife spiritually barren and you love her in that condition and went ahead to comfort her, the Bible says she is a weaker vessel. You are a criminal in the Church, and the Holy Ghost went as far as teaching us using science and said, “Watch, this one is the giant now. This is a weaker vessel! This is strong vessel.”
- Now there is a gap here, a semi-permeable membrane! Now you know by nature, this strong one will be passing through this place, because this weak one will be pulling this one until they will come to equal level. Moreover, when you check the strength, you will see that this one will not make it; this one will not make it. As long as nothing is passing through the semi-permeable membrane, both the weaker and the stronger ones will come to the same level and when you check the strength, the strength will not be up to the required strength because the two shared the strength of one person, that is, one vessel.
- In other words, both vessels will weigh below standard. There is no way I will not type this thing until somebody understands this thing.
- Our Prophet Isaiah said, “Make the message simple and low until everybody will understand.”
- I go further. I said that I prayed for somebody to understand this thing. Concerning all that the Lord has spoken to me concerning a particular matter, and I used a word, if you go to your hospital with your patient, maybe your mother and she is admitted in the hospital, if the medical doctor knows his work very well, after looking at the patient he gives the patient bed and then asked you to go. Then you will be resisting, “Let me sleep a night now,” “Okay stay a night,” the doctor will reply.
- The following day you will say, “What if I keep looking after her in the night,” he will say, “Forget about it, I have employed nurses. These things will be part of your bill, go home and relax. It is to enable the medical doctor to perform his best. He does not want any undue interference because anytime you are there, the doctor will come in the morning, do the work and go. Because you are there, conversation will start: “Mama, you know his bill is too much. Mama, the food we are eating here the bill is too much.”
- Mama will say, “My son, the doctor has collected all the money, let us tell him we are going. We will tell him that we will be coming. Hardship, hardship everywhere”—that is another message which the doctor will not hear yet it is going on.
- What will happen? The patient will put on hypocrisy, anytime the doctor comes back; she will become clever: “Doctor, good morning!” the doctor will reply, “Mama, how are you?” “The sleep I slept this night, Doctor Jesus knows more than that. Thus, for Doctor Jesus to perform his feat, that man that wanted to stay will go. He will come back only when you are needed; and when the doctor needs you he will send for you.
- Now I go further. If that medical doctor actually knows his work, you know a medical doctor is in our midst. Let me tell you, there is no patient that recovers in the bed in the hospital. The real wise doctor will always administer the medicine to a certain extent that he feels is enough to check that body, if he wants the patient to stay in the bed until she recovers fully, that person may stay up to one year because there is something we call “bed spirit.”
- Bed spirit, she is healthy in the morning, in the next hour she is sick again because the bed is always there. Thus, a wise doctor will give the medicine he knows very well that can accomplish the act of sickness and then discharge the patient. Then tell the patient, “Come back in a month’s time.” That is check-up: to know the extent the drug has worked and to know if there is any other development. That is check-up.
- He knows that the medicine he has given is enough and if he detects some problems, he will make some prescriptions by way of packaging some drugs like Paracetamol tablets and say, “Take two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Take two at night after this come.” The doctor believes that all the accumulated drugs in the body; the moment the patient goes home, there is a trouble in the house. You know one of the reasons you give the patient bed is to have rest; in order to allow the doctor to perform his best.
- When the patient goes home, the room will be very uncomfortable, tenants in the yard knocking at the door every minute, cooking, fetching water, children and everything, the person will be moving up and down contrary to even her desire. By such movements, the blood will be circulating the medicine. Before you know it, the patient may not even come for check up again. Okay, let us stop there. Follow me gradually.
- I thought you are my own people. I am partly happy and partly sad for one thing. Because you are my joy, you are my consolation, without you, I have no joy. However, if my joy turns to sadness, what do you think will happen to you? Because I expected something from you, and I come to you I did not see that thing, I got disappointed. However, some people encouraged me. Thus, those people have become my joy, and the people that offended me have now become my sadness.
- Where you do not understand, hold it to yourself. Criticize me for it is your right. Murmur against me for it is your right. Backbite and gossip against me for it is your right. Whatever you want to say about Brother Odoemena, say it, it is your right.
- Nevertheless, I want to remind you the Voice from the very official beginning which says, “Whatever you hear about Brother Odoemena, do not defend Him. It is His commission, it is His Ministry.”
- If those things do not happen, how can the Voice come to pass? Therefore, it is your right. If you want call Him Devil, it is your right. Nevertheless, because He is not accountable to you, and you do not pay Him any wage for He does not charge you a Kobo, if He wastes His time, it does not concern you. Hence, it is enough judgment against you. That is why I say if you want to criticize, criticize for it is your right.
- Our Brother Frank said, “Be very careful because the same Voice will turn out in judgment against you.” The same Voice, he did not say another voice. He said THE SAME VOICE. Though not today, not yesterday but forever the same Voice will keep on roaring. Amen.
5
HOW DO YOU KNOW GOD?
We have come to a point where I should speak to you in another language now. Trusting that if you are wise, no matter how He changed this dress you will recognise Him by His Voice. If you recognize Him only by this dress, any day He wears long sleeve, you will not know Him again.
- For instance, if you recognise me through the masquerade that I used to put on, maybe I used to put on Ulaga, any day I put on Ijele you will not recognise me. However, if you recognise me by something other than the mask, whether Otuiche, Ulaga or Ijele or Otinkpu you must know the voice.
- For example, there is a type of dance we dance and they call it Ekpe and we use something like mask and also call it Agwo. When you talk of Agwo, not everybody has it, that thing this masquerade used to wear in Onitsha with some very fearful and he dances a lot. We call it Otuiche. Our people used it and dance that type of dance. The rule is that if you want to appear and you do not have it, you can hire from somebody.
- I remember in those good old days, I was one of the best dancers there. No matter the type I have put on, if I haven’t one I could borrow from people, by the time I come out before the public to dance, by my steps, they will say, “O bara ‘ne nu.” Did you get the Message?
- Although the mask has changed, it is another one we call ugbo ‘eri ri. Wear the other ones with different names, so I have now acquired another man’s own, and I have put it on. Just one step I will make, everybody will rally round with money and materials and they will say, “o bara ‘ne nu;” and lo and behold, by the time I will disrobe myself, it is the same person. No mistake about it, just one step he makes, he is the one.
- You know we normally cover our legs. That is the way I want you to recognise Almighty God. Do not recognise Him by a particular mask. Are you spiritual? Recognise Him by something and that should be by His Voice. Thus, as long as I am here, He can put a mask bearing Okechukwu, that is the name of the mask and before the mask will make a move, you will say this is Jesus. He turns to another man Emmanuel, that is the mask demonstrating! This is Jesus. Therefore, this man borrowed this mask, it is the same mask. The same man that is demonstrating, I know him by His Voice.
- Nevertheless, a lot of people do not know Him by His Voice that is why they feel disappointed. That is why you are feeble in the Camp. If you know him, what He does with mask A, He will do it with mask B. I am coming nearer now.
- You know today is today, so all that come with your cameras, I will only want to have your camera when I open the Bible. Am very sure I will open a Scripture and read and then I will close it. Then we go to another topic and then I speak to you from another language. I did not promise you that I will speak from the Scripture and close.
- I have a good news for you. I announced it in my family before coming to the Church. I do not want to be guilty of killing you, thus I have decided to reserve the teaching on revelation.
- At the same time also, I want the Elders that are preparing the communion night to feel free. I thank God who has spoken to us from above. What if people were tempted to eat in wickedness? What do you think it would have resulted into? You know what false love is all about.
- Let me tell you something now, men and women, Brothers and Sisters help yourselves, I love you, that is why I want to tell you the truth. I do not want you to labour in vain, I have recognised your toils, your labour, your hardship, your sufferings and by and by, I will not neglect it.
- It is God’s desire to take all of us home, but unfortunately, many of us do not want to go and we do not want others to go. Why? The world is yet very sweet to those people. They have not decided to abandon the world yet; rather they are looking out for some greener, greener, opportunities whether they can still enjoy more of them.
- Such people in your midst are discouragement rather than encouragement. Now I want to help you, if you are in this Ministry, anytime you notice something that is not right in your life, you notice that instead of growing, you are now dwarfing, do not harbour it. You cannot save yourself in that condition, the Holy Ghost said, “Raise alarm. Declare it and say, ‘Oh man of God, there is death in my pot.’”
- There is a message we have titled, “When the Wine Is Finished Invite the Wine Presser.” You are not holding the wine, and you do not have the power to turn water into wine, you do not have that power. Do not close up your mouth. Empty barrels, how long will you remain empty barrels? The worst is that when you come to the fellowship you give the impression that all is well with you. You are lying to your Brethren yet you do not know.
- The Bible said, lie not to your brethren, lie not to one another for you are brethren. In other words, lie not to your brethren. However, when you put on hypocrisy, Satan will help you to consolidate it: “After all, this is my Faith. It is so with every other person.” Who told you it is so? You hypocrite, if somebody opens it, it is inseparable. When you see your wife, you see what the woman is doing to us in this Church, a man of God must come to a point where you will sense the body of your wife, anytime I notice my wife is working carnally, she can never see my face. I will become very hostile, even to the point that she will hate me and be asking some foolish questions. I called it foolish questions.
- Moreover, if you are a man of God and you entertain foolish questions, I pity you. Anytime your wife comes to you and asks you, “Darling, do you still love me?” You know empty barrel, do not ever be slack about it, show them what colour love is that time, because it is Satan’s way of getting you. If he does not love you, why keeping you in the house? Why feeding you?
- She says, “I do not know whether you love me? Maybe you love me only in the bed.” If you dare open your mouth to talk that time, “You want to know whether I love you? Yes I do.” You are mad, you are crazy, you are foolish, you are blind, that is your downfall. Don’t you know that women have killed a lot of men of God? You think they are women outside? No, they are women that men of God marry which killed many of them. It is only one in a million that is encouragement to their husband’s Ministry.
- Brother Ojiakor, you are in the Church for God to fill you and then use you because all along something has been killing you. I thank God that have manifested in these last days. I joined hands with you and ask you a question say, “Sir, you have asked me to pray and to pray, if I will and God will answer, won’t you be offended with me?” You said no. There was a witness that day in my house. You were not alone.
- I said, “Okay. You have come with your wife. Thank God now, go, I will help you in prayer. Now I am not going to pray the way you want. I will pray the way I am led. Say Almighty God, I am praying concerning this man, you have never failed Me before, and you will never fail me now. Look at my Brother, if You still want this hospital to be at Nsugbe, when they get to Nsugbe, let them find a place at Nsugbe, otherwise, may they never find a place. If you want this hospital to go to Kogi State, when they get to Kogi State, show them a place, otherwise, may they never find a place. If you want to prove this hospital completely, because you have been crying against it, if you have been the One that has been shouting against it, but my Brother has been resisting for one reason or the other, now exercise authority over all flesh. No matter his honest endeavour, may he never find a place on this Earth to relocate the hospital.” Then I asked them to go.
- I travelled out, came back and was told that they went to Nsugbe, do this and that and I have been waiting. In all their efforts at Nsugbe, it all failed. They went to Kogi State, all the attempts there failed. Even the man that promised everything failed.
- Then Brother Ifeanyi came to my house, I decided to speak to him because he was Brother Ojiakor’s Pastor for many years. He can remember what I told him at the hospital and Brother Ojiakor and his family. The way I look at the whole thing, I cried and I wept sore in all my missionary trips, at Eha-Amufu when he was there, until I decided to place the matter before God. I lashed them of false love and now I can speak to them while God has decided to bring them into this church. I mean to this everlasting church. All along, they have never sought God, God knows what He is doing now.
- Watch out, let it be known to you that the movement from Umuoji to Eha-Amufu was not as a result of this Message. Brother Ojiakor left Umuoji for Eha-Amufu because there was no work at Umuoji. He went to Eha-Amufu expressly to make money. He did not go there to preach this Gospel; he went there to make money like other medical doctors. When he got there, he made the money because there was no Gospel being preached there. There was no Church.
- Do not be carried away by sentiment whether you are in EFAC or SU or all those nonsense, you are still where you are. All his efforts in ACU, those nonsenses even with his wife, they never departed from Anglican, they were still in Anglican. They are fulltime Anglican. They never resigned from Anglican. In other words, the only movement he made was to leave from Anglican to End Time Message. Thus, until God met him at Eha-Amufu, from the time God met him at Eha-Amufu, the situation changed. End Time Message could not speak to him, because they saw his hospital as a means of making money and they corrupted the man and his entire family.
- They thought hospitality is what it takes to go to Heaven. They mistaken hospitality for salvation to the extent that many of them were writting letters straight away from Ugwumba to Eha-Amufu, Enugu to Eha-Amufu, Aba to Eha-Amufu, Port Harcourt, saying, “Brother, can we be of a help to you? Can we be of a help?”
- They were not going there to help the family. They were going there because of money. Some were going there to borrow money to start business because that was a source of making money. When you just go there, you just say, “Brother, transfer me.” Before you come they have gone to the market to buy meat, rice, from kitchen to this one, malt, mineral. Is that salvation? No sir!
- Though you gave all you have to the poor and even gave your own life to be destroyed yet you do not have the love of God for all those things is nonsense. If you love me, the only sign is keep My Word. That is the only thing you will do and God will approve it.
- When you cannot keep God’s word and you are lavishing your wealth, the whole Church is living in your house and you are catering for them, you are wasting your time. Heathens do more than that. You are just an example of a heathen. You are a commendation letter of heathen’s Ministry.
- Any Ministry that will only end at bringing brethren to a place where they will be eating and drinking, enjoying things, that is, all that he has achieved, that ministry is a ministry of heathens. When you want to know the people that show hospitality, go to Brother Ojiakor’s family. They were very much interested in sponsoring the whole Ministry. The whole Churches, harbouring the whole Church in their house.
- He buys bags of garri, bags of rice, when you are going you carry one bag of rice and plantain, carry thousands of Naira, they will love you that time and yet that was not salvation. I lashed against it; I spoke hard until one day the Spirit that was in me was so hot against them that I vacated from their dining table. I say I will not have any part in this. My Spirit that rejected this dining table tells me there is false love among you.
- How many were with me in that missionary trip? Somebody went with me in that missionary trip for I did not go alone. Brother Okey you were there! Brother Sam was there also. Brother Remi I resented that table, both your meat, your rice and everything.
- I went inside the room; I was eating my little groundnut. I was outside with my groundnut. If you CANNOT hear the word and obey, your food is abomination to me. Your money is abomination to me. Away with your money, away with your wealth, it does not entice me.
- Whosoever calls me can cater for me, that is the test of every meal that is ungodly because money has killed many so-called ministers. You can hardly see a man that sees money without compromising more especially when the money is coming free: “Brother, come and have five thousand Naira,” tell me, is that why we are here? No! We are here for a higher Ministry.
- Brethren, if you are in this Faith for your salvation, if you measure it with your hospitality, you are a pagan. Even if you give me money to start supermarket and this and that, I say you are pagan. Pagans do more than that. If I am lying, businessmen in our midst you can bear me witness that it was on record that some people give people thousands of Naira to start business, pay their house rent and even built houses for them. Is that person a child of God? No! Can that make you a child of God? No.
- Why bragging that you are feeding many mouths this and that. That is why Brother Ojiakor answers very neat. Then when he believed Christ, Christ has to overhaul the whole system.
- That place became very uncomfortable because the Word has been preached. The Word that was sold because of money, the Word was redeemed.
- When the Word was redeemed, there was a problem at Eha-Amufu. The bank dried up. They got offended, there was murmuring and complaining everyday: “Hospital, Brother help us, I do not know,” they started to move.
- I am declaring to you, the move from Eha-Emufu to Enugu-Ezike was not because of the Gospel, but to make money. They never knew that God was hanging in the hospital to make a move at Enugu-Ezike. They did not know that when they moved the hospital, God hid Himself under the hospital.
- In the attempt to carry the hospital to go and make money, they did not know they were carrying God. If God has gone ahead of time to Enugu-Ezike, there will not be hospital there. The people would have said, “No, we do not want your hospital, no house for it.”
- God hid in the hospital and then they carried Him to Enugu-Ezike. They found a place for hospital; they found a place for God. God gave them a moment of rest first.
- Before then, God had earlier told them what they will encounter: “Immediately you come down, they will embrace you as the only hospital. They will rejoice, they will come. You will make money for a few months. Then in that few months you will be making money, your mouth will be closed. Nobody will know God. When you stabilize, God will publish Himself, all of them will run away and the bank will close.”
- God went further to say, “Watch, the people that loved you will become very hostile, and become your greatest enemies. In addition, they will begin to campaign against you everywhere. Then the only thing that will be left there will be skeletal services and if possible life must be lost. When you will be packing away, no matter how much you have saved you must borrow money to pack away. You must borrow money to pack away.”
- When they went to Enugu-Ezike, the Church that was confirmed at Enugu-Ezike, after some months by that time they have already stabilized, money started coming again and then the Voice spoke to them and said, “Now that you are in a goody land in Enugu-Ezike, you will eat, become fat, very much enriched with a lot of women that will greet you. Be very sure you do not forget the God that has delivered you from the hands of Egyptians.”
- When they opened their mouth, people that gave them the house recognized that there is a God. The people brought them to the hospital and said, “No, that there will not be Church in this house again, otherwise pack away.” They ran to another place, before they knew it, one reverend father started campaigning against the hospital. Being a Roman Catholic town, the whole town deserted the hospital.
- Anybody that is passing by will say, “There was hospital there and it is closed because one man there was kicking against our doctrine. He does not know we are Catholics, our reverend father told us not to go there again.”
- Talk of knowing the job, he knows the job very well, but the hospital nobody will go there again. What did God do? God gave them their daily bread and established His Presence.
- Now, God gave him a condition, “If you want to move away from Enugu-Ezike, and a Church is planted there, make sure you are going to their family. Now Brother Gibson will not go with you for you will remain at Enugu-Ezike. In other words, if you are going to get a place, you will get a new lab technician.” The Voice continued, “Now, anywhere you go, before you site your hospital, make sure you preach the Gospel there first. That is to say, the cart will be placed before the horse. Enough is enough. If they accept your God, establish your hospital. If they do not accept your God, forget about it.”
- Now when he went to Kogi State to preach the Gospel, to get a hospital there become a difficult thing. Nsugbe has heard about the Gospel. When they have traced him down to his house, they said they go to the same Church with Mordess vigil’s brother-in-law, from that day they knew it, I know that is the end, no more.
- “Sir, find something better for yourself and do not ask me what is that thing rather ask God.” It was not in this Faith. I remember many years ago, the idea of running a secret business was mounted and the idea of carrying food item from Eha-Amufu with a vehicle and so on, they came up, they were dropped.
- Another idea of running supermarket, I think that was the time Brother Vin almost became a Pastor. I thank God. Let me stop here. Sir I hope you are not offended? If you want to murmur, murmur. If you want to complain, complain. It is your right.
- On this note, I say thank you and remain blessed in Him eternally.