WE ARE IN A STRICT BUSINESS WITH GOD

WE ARE IN A STRICT BUSINESS WITH GOD Preached On 30^th April 2023 By Apostle Timothy Ukpong Household of God at Akwa Ibom/Cross Rivers State Nigeria.

HAVE YOU ACCEPTED AND ATTAINED THE HIGHEST SPIRITUAL STANDARD WHICH GOD HIMSELF HAS SET FOR ALL THE TRUE ELECT?

Preached On 18^th June 2023. BY Apostle Ayuba Abu

Essen Household of God Kaduna State Nigeria.

APPROVED AND AUTHORIZED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN

³⁴BUT WHEN YOU OBEY AND SERVE GOD ACCORDING TO THE DICTATES HE LAID DOWN, DEFINITELY, YOU WILL COLLECT YOUR RIGHT WHICH IS IMMORTAL BODY.

THE SON OF MAN

IF YOU DO NOT SERVE GOD RIGHTLY, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CLAIM ETERNAL LIFE VOL. 2 PRECHED ON Sunday 18^th September 2022 PG 137:75

WHAT FORMS YOUR DESIRE IN SERVING THE LORD

Remain Blessed Saints of the Most High God. We give God the praise for another privilege to share His Word. Worship is our way of life.

Every noble man or woman living today is living, having one or two aspirations that form the essence of his daily struggles. However, the highest of all aspirations should be the desire to be in right relationship with God at all times and in all things as well as to maintain this relationship.
Any action or desire of a man that does not allow him to maintain right relationship with God is acting against his best interest. God forms the central control system of human existence.
Many of the things we desire and hold in high esteem today, are things that merely promise earthly pleasures. Almost all the time they end up eluding us despite all our efforts to grasp them. They fail us because we realize a little too late that we have been wasting honest effort and time pursuing elusive dreams at the expense of our soul.
I still honestly insist from deep reflections and meditations that if luxury, affluence and sensual pleasures are the essence of human existence, it would be achievable by majority of the human populace not just a few. Thereby showing that it is available to all who honestly strive after it. But since only a handpicked minority ever get there, it cannot be the core benchmark to define our existence and journey as humans.
The core focus and essence of human existence; the real benchmark must be something that is realistically achievable by all if the individual does not constitute his own problem.
The only thing we can find as an answer to this puzzle which is available to (and achievable by) all men without discrimination is the freedom to worship the only One and True Universal God.
Therefore, real success I believe is the ability of a man to journey through all of the stages of life reserved for him, and still maintain his right relationship with God from the start to the finish. This is the successful man.
Success is attached to value and there is no real impartation of value in an individual that starts outside the Word of God. Hence, the need to place God first in all things cannot be overemphasized.
Without God adding value in a man’s life through His Word, success is still very far. Without God, your thoughts can never be pure and honest, your visions about life must always be myopic.
The greatest problem we have today, is that we want to change our conditions in life for good by doing everything possible apart from working on ourselves. Your condition can never change spiritually and physically without you adding value to your life through the entrance of the Word of God in your heart as it is being presented to us on a daily basis.
Even ‘Everyday-used-commodities’ show that the price and worth of any commodity is determined by the value it adds, it’s utility to the final consumer.
When you do not know the value of the information we are receiving in this faith from Christ, you will not treasure the Words coming from the lips of the Resurrected Body today.
When you do not strive to make it a daily routine to nourish your soul with these edifying sermons we receive daily from the Lord, you can never improve in your relationship with God and humanity.
We pay huge fees to go through the universities and other tertiary institutions, just to obtain the needed information that will impart knowledge in us and distinguish us in a chosen field in the society. Thereby adding value to our lives. How then do you think that paying honest attention to the Words of the Redeemer will not uplift you spiritually to heights you least expect that you could attain?
The problem many of us are having is that, we do not know that serving the Lord is a strict business that demands seriousness, urgency, dedication, devotion and commitment to the cause.
Nothing that demands seriousness can ever be achieved by a lazy mind nor a careless individual. An individual without self determination to succeed cannot achieve success.
It takes a focused individual with a hard-working spirit to succeed on this all-important matter of serving the Lord just as it is in any other sphere of life. What forms your desire in serving the Lord today?
II Timothy 2:20-21, ‘^[20]But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also [utensils] of wood and earthenware, and some for honorable and noble [use] and some for menial and ignoble [use]. ^[21]So whoever cleanses himself [from what is ignoble and unclean, who separates himself from contact with contaminating and corrupting influences] will [then himself] be a vessel set apart and useful for honorable and noble purposes, consecrated and profitable to the Master, fit and ready for any good work. AMP.
So, anybody can present himself or herself as a vessel of honor only if the individual is determined to brace through all the odds. He must personalize God and see himself in a strict covenant with his God. It is not an achievement for the fainthearted.
Prime Movers; Courage as a Tonic preached in 2006. Page 21 paragraph 1, ‘All the messages I have handed down so far, are tried and tested truths containing facts of life but that is not all.
It’s rich benefits come only to those who develop courage to put the messages into action. The messages present ways one can come out of his doldrums and succeed in life.
They remain as knowledge until action is taken. Studying the messages is one thing, implementing the message is another. The fear of implementing it is another. The fear of implementing it stems from lack of courage’.
The Lord said last Sunday that,‘It is our knowledge of the truth and acquaintance with God that has given us a very big edge over other people in the world’.
Courage is the ability, the mental or moral strength to persevere, withstand any tempest and achieve something that is ordinarily difficult to others.
Courage is the attribute of a determined heart, a hard-working spirit, a visionary and a disciplined mindset. If this quality is not there, the message profits you nothing.
And when the messages are not having a positive effect on you, you can never develop for the better. You become unproductive, you become a liability to all who are ready to move forward.
When you are not a reference point for good and you are not an encouragement to the saints in good works, you will become a tool in the hands of the enemy to pose as an obstacle on the pathway of others.
Everything you do and say, will end up pulling the hand of the clock backwards. This will all be happening because you are no longer following the Master spiritually.
This Bridal Movement, a testament of the third exodus of God’s people, is the most dangerous one of all, for we are not making a physical journey but a spiritual one.
We are constantly moving higher and it is picking up pace everyday as we approach the end because we are running behind time. If you are not following strictly and keeping pace with the faith, you are bound to be left behind.
How do you know that you have been left behind? (I) You become unproductive (II) Your honest actions and decisions will be dragging the hand of the clock backwards. Bringing us back to things you should have mastered by now (III) Everything pertaining to the faith will become burdensome to you (IV) You will never have the right decision on any matter.
By the right decision, I mean you can never approach any matter after praying about it with the same course of action the Son of Man will likely take if called upon the scene.
Let us study the scriptures further. Isaiah 52:10-11, ^[10]The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
^[11]Go now, leave your bonds and slavery. Put Babylon and all it represents far behind you—it is unclean to you. You are the holy people of the Lord; purify yourselves, all you who carry home the vessels of the Lord. LB.
‘God has rolled up his sleeves. All the nations can see his holy, muscled arm. Everyone, from one end of the earth to the other, sees him at work, doing his salvation work.
¹¹Out of here! Out of here! Leave this place! Don’t look back. Don’t contaminate yourselves with plunder. Just leave, but leave clean. Purify yourselves in the process of worship, carrying the holy vessels of God’ MSG.
The whole world has seen the salvation of the Lord and are appreciating God for His mercies to this generation. If you are lost tomorrow the whole world will know that it is not because of the Lord but because of your very own unfaithfulness.
Hence if you know the value of what you have and the privilege of your calling, purify yourself today that there might be hope tomorrow.
For God has declared a state of emergency in the Bride. In other words, all is not well with those that say they belong to the Bridal Faith and time is no more on our side.
The cleansing agent is the Word God has given us capable of developing us from the natural to the supernatural. But only if it is taken in.
Remember that a natural man is a rational man. This means that he only does what he feels is to his benefit. He does not see beyond the gains of the flesh.
But a supernatural man is one who walks by faith, leaning in total dependence on what the word of God says and not on how he sees it. By revelation, he has come to see that he is incapable of discerning what is right without the help of God.
To attain this height, you must be one with God.
I Corinthians 6:17, ‘^[17]But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. AMP.
^[17]But if you give yourself to the Lord, you and Christ are joined together as one person. LB.
‘But whoever is united with the Lord is one with Him in spirit’. NIV.
If I am of one spirit with the Lord, it then means my actions will be in agreement with the will of the Son of Man on every matter. For His spirit now governs me.
But where the reverse is the case, I should question my faith for something is wrong somewhere. It shows that I am yet to come to terms with His Word as my absolute.
John 6:63-64, ‘^[63]What gives life is God’s Spirit; human power is of no use at all. The words I have spoken to you bring God’s life-giving Spirit. ^[64]Yet some of you do not believe.” (Jesus knew from the very beginning who were the ones that would not believe and which one would betray him.) GNB.
’⁶³The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don’t make anything happen. Every word I’ve spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making. ⁶⁴But some of you are resisting, refusing to have any part in this.” (Jesus knew from the start that some weren’t going to risk themselves with him. He knew also who would betray him. MSG.
The word can only work in the one who has a receptive mind. The Lord said, ‘Anybody who has given himself to the devil can never listen to the word of God’. So, we do not need to ask why many are playing with the Word. It is because the devil is still in control of their lives.

Many of you are looking at the world, but you are not looking at the Word. The world is influencing you, but the Word is not influencing you. That is why many stories are being told now. The Word is not your influencer but the world is your influencer.

PASTOR Daniel Attah

FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMAND, O YOUTH! PREACHED ON Sunday 17^th October, 2021 PG 38: 71-72

THE WORD IS THE ABSOLUTE

What is the essence of the word and why we should never play with it?

Ephesians 5:25-27, ‘^[25]Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it. ^[26]He did this to dedicate the church to God by his word, after making it clean by washing it in water, ^[27]in order to present the church to himself in all its beauty — pure and faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other imperfection. GNB. ’
²⁵Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church – a love marked by giving, not getting. ²⁶ Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, ²⁷dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. MSG.
So the word is the absolute. Every other reason for following Christ is secondary.
In academic education at various levels in all institutions, there are extracurricular activities. These activities only serve as an aid to learning.
No matter how good and popular a student becomes as a result of his or her participation in these activities, it cannot guarantee him passage through the institution thereby obtaining the needed degree. Hence a wise student pays less attention to those areas and loves to focus more on his academics which forms the basis of his studies.
This is a type of the faith. Your activities or sacrifices do not determine your fate but your obedience to the word. The essence of the faith is that we will reflect the word in our lives and be saved as a result of our continuous and steady growth in the spirit.
Ephesians 4:22-23, ‘^[22]Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; ^[23]And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], AMP.
’²²Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything – and I do mean everything – connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life – a God-fashioned life, ²³ a life renewed from the inside. MSG.
God measures our development by our spiritual growth and by our change in attitude for the better. God is not measuring your height, bank account nor the size of your family. When you are not paying attention to the Word, you become spiritually retarded.
Ephesians 2:21, ‘^[21]We who believe are carefully joined together with Christ as parts of a beautiful, constantly growing temple for God. LB.
I want you to mark the word ‘constantly’. If you are not keeping pace with the faith, then you are not a part of the family of God (the Son of Man) no matter how long you have been in the church.
We cannot become retarded in development nor stunted in growth, we must constantly be growing in the truth.
A director at my station of work once said that he will rather employ a secondary school certificate holder who is constantly learning new skills to improve himself or herself everyday than to employ a graduate whose learning stopped after exiting the higher institution; one who has done nothing more to improve on what he has learnt in school; one who has no achievements to show for his efforts through the years after his studies.
To this Director of mine, this stance he is taking is because the world is constantly evolving. Where we were two (2) years ago is not a reflection of where we are currently. So, we do not stop growing and improving on ourselves spiritually as the day goes by as well.
It is true that the Son of Man has taken us to the highest height of the faith. We are expecting nothing more than the translation of our mortal bodies. However, as individuals, we must honestly assess ourselves to be sure that we have indeed attained that much needed height. You must continue to aspire till you get there.
The faith is the highest on the earth that God has ever gone with a people, sadly, not everybody in the faith has gotten to the peak. I don’t see myself as one who is there until I am there in Eternity with Christ.
You can be rejoicing that the faith has come of age, yet your attitude and character is nothing to write home about; it does not show that you as a part of the faith has come of age. That is why we have to answer the question, ‘Has God recognized your faith?’
Remember that the faith has been committed into your hands and my hands for safe keeping. This is why the scriptures enjoins us to contend for the faith earnestly.
How faithfully then, dependable and trustworthy are you with that which has been committed into your hands?
Get Ready For The Final Call preached on 12^th March 2022. Page 120:35, ‘^35.THIS IS WHY HEAVEN IS NARROWING DOWN EVERY MINUTE. [Sure!!!] GOD IS LOOKING FOR ONE PERSON, TWO OR THREE WHO WILL TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY, [Sure!!!] purify their hearts by the entrance of the word of God, vow a vow that they will live a transparent life before God and before man just like all the Apostles who were so transparent that they appeared before all men and said, “Who can accuse us of sin?” Sure!!!
Anybody can fall into the category of the one- or two-persons God is talking about. No name was mentioned there. Your character will name you among the one or two persons.
It starts with having the vision, desire and then applying a disciplined approach, coupled with hard work. But a lazy fellow is always seeking pleasure at the expense of his soul. He hates taking up responsibility.
Watch such individuals, even in their personal lives, they do not improve because they do not accept challenges and brace up against all odds.
It is not a mistake that God gave us a message titled ‘Get rid of lazy habits’. The number one lazy habit you must strive to get rid of is the habit of a lack of desire and zeal in the things of God. A lack of desire to worship God rightly is a lazy habit.
Being passive in the things of God but very active in worldly pursuits is a lazy habit. Once something is not economically beneficial and profitable or it does not provide sensual pleasures there would be no eagerness and seriousness to participate in it wholeheartedly.
This is the attitude of a heathen not a child of God. What has lasting value does not provide sensual pleasures, it is mostly abused. Things that provide sensual pleasures do not last and they are mostly the cause of a man’s downfall.
We are lazy to pray, lazy to listen to messages, lazy to study, lazy even in worship. Many do not even know how to place God first. They do not even carry God in their plans. Mere Offerings are a pain for them to give.
What do we say about welfare and contributions towards the course of the ministry? No way! Why? There is a lack of interest. Secondly, the heart is stuffed with many destructive information.
Many can burn their data on social media but cannot afford to download the messages. When they download it, they do not give it attention. What then will help that individual? Words are spirit and wherever a man’s heart is leaning towards, will to a large extent dictate his actions.
When you see the lifestyle and actions of many, you will not need Jupiter to tell you that the individual has been brainwashed by the social media; the present god of the 21^st century.
And watch one funny thing about the social media, whichever angle that the socialites are tilting to on any trending subject-matter becomes the standard for judgement which everybody will adopt whether it contains truth or not, just to belong and gain popularity as well.
For when you try to go contrary to popular opinion you lose relevance in the social space.
Another very dangerous spirit affecting us today majorly the youths, is that they pursue money more than their parents who have greater responsibilities, even our students are not left out. They do not sit in one place again, they do not meditate about their lives nor try to add value to themselves. Hustle is now the new watch word.
Despite the powerful gadgets they brandish, it is never employed in the things of God. We do not see nor benefit from their research in the Word. Whether in school or during their breaks, they are busy chasing money.
Even outside the faith of Christ, you hardly see youths that study articles, correspondences and documentaries again to gain knowledge and understanding of life and happenings and improve their value and awareness. Everything starts and ends on social media.
The Grail message said that if you are to engage in a conversation with random individuals during their leisure periods when they are not thinking about their jobs or family or educational pursuit, you will be so shocked to discover that most human beings are empty and have nothing to talk about.
There is nothing of value that they will have to converse about. You will discover how empty many human beings are. In other words, human beings are very very shallow minded today.
There is nothing with Eternal value that attracts our attention anymore. It is a defeat now that such a spirit can be traced among us.
I have examined certain things and I want us to ponder on these questions: why is evil much more pleasurable and easier to emulate than good? Why do people get tired of right living and then begin to live wrong? Why do people hardly get tired of living wrong?
It is easier to say, ‘we are always listening to messages, morning till night every day, is that all we will do with our lives?’ Another one your heart will deceive you to say is, ‘These are the same things we have been hearing, we don’t need to spend time rehearsing what we already know, it is tiring’.
To such an individual, worshipping God has become burdensome and eventually most of such individuals resign along the way.
But examine the other side, you can hardly query yourself when you do not see the evidence of the message you feel you have understood manifesting in your daily life and that is why you do not appreciate the value of receiving it constantly.
One who smokes will always cherish the one or the place where he can get his wraps of cigar but to a non smoker, it is valueless to him. When closely examined, ask yourself why you do not get tired in your daily repetitive actions in other spheres of life. You only get tired when it comes to the Word.
You go to the night clubs, lounges and other night life activities to entertain yourself with the same food, company and music but you can never complain and get tired doing it week in, week out even when it is consuming your resources. However, to the things of God, you are tired. You are tired because you lack the interest and know not the value.
Facing The Facts of Our Faith preached on 09^th October 2005. Page 29:1-3, ‘We are in the mountain of the Lord. This is the time everybody must be serious with this faith, both young and old.
If you go by the scriptures, when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, he never spared any child. When He destroyed Jericho, He spared no child. In the days of Noah, God destroyed the world, He spared no child. When Emperor Titus invaded Jerusalem in AD 70, no child was spared; both old women and old men not even one was spared.
Thus, we are in the mountain of the Lord. If you know what the mountain of the Lord is all about, the mountain of the Lord is nothing but God’s dwelling place. There is no papa or mama in the kingdom of God.
Nobody has ever been begged to worship the Lord. If you want to worship God, you worship God. If you do not want to worship God, you go away. If we are not careful, we will pull down all we have been building all these years ignorantly and the Lord will destroy all of us. Nobody is more important than God. To worship the Lord is a strict business’.
Worship is a strict business. It is a way of life and not a weekly church ceremony. It is what should form the core of a man’s living because thereunto he is born.
We are the only group on earth who can talk about worshipping the Lord because we have His personal guidance. That is, for as many of us who are sincerely following. We have Him in person as our teacher and guide.
But if we do not take it as a serious learning process, we are bound to fail.
If God can so much value and take the youth seriously even to the point of surrounding Himself with them, why then do we not try to understand this to be a privilege and then reciprocating this gesture by being zealous for the truth and sincere in its practice?
How many of us see living the life of this word as our primary responsibility? A man that shies away from responsibility cannot grow and cannot walk with God.
Another thing killing the youth today is that we value money more than God, even more than our very own personal development. Even while under parental guidance, many have become busier than their parents in chasing money through what they term ‘hustle’ hence they do not have time for any other productive venture. Yet they can hardly present anything as the gains for their running up and down.
Parents as well are no more encouraging. Many have relaxed on their responsibilities. They are now expecting from people they ought to be looking after and monitoring their development. They mount immense pressure on these young minds from a tender age thereby allowing the cares of life to swallow up many of them.
At a time when youths should be vibrating in their youthful strength for godly purposes, you see ineptitude towards the things of God.
I strongly believe that the youthful stage of a man’s life is not for money chasing or pleasure seeking, it is a period to build capacity through personal development spiritually, morally, academically, socially and otherwise. This is what will enable you to withstand the storms of life and make a mark as a prime Mover wielding strength in Christ.
How many spend time to equip themselves spiritually today by studying the scriptures, studying the word to know how God laid the foundation of this faith we are enjoying today? How many study to understand the doctrines and teachings of the faith? Not just merely answering ‘Bride of Christ Ministry’. How many study to grow deeper in the knowledge of God and his ways?
How many invest their time, energy, sound, mind and body, their intuitive alertness to make honest research in the word, transcribe the word adding value to themselves in the process and growing in wisdom and understanding?

THERE IS A JUDGE FOR THE ONE WHO REJECTS ME AND DOES NOT ACCEPT MY WORDS; THAT VERY WORD WHICH I SPOKE WILL CONDEMN HIM AT THE LAST DAY. ⁴⁹FOR I DID NOT SPEAK OF MY OWN ACCORD, BUT THE FATHER WHO SENT ME COMMANDED ME WHAT TO SAY AND HOW TO SAY IT. ⁵⁰I KNOW THAT HIS COMMAND LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE. SO WHATEVER I SAY IS JUST WHAT THE FATHER HAS TOLD ME TO SAY.”

JOHN 12: 48-50 NIV

BE STRONG IN THE LORD; LAY HOLD ON WHAT IS ETERNAL

II Timothy 2:1&15, ‘^[1]SO YOU, my son, be strong (strengthened inwardly) in the grace (spiritual blessing) that is [to be found only] in Christ Jesus. ^[15]Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth’ AMP.

‘So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. ¹⁵ Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won’t be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple’ MSG.
This is a message to every one of us today. You have to do your best for God. I strongly believe that the youth can still do better and participate better in the faith today if only they can set their priorities right.
If you are not studying and paying attention to these messages, you cannot grow. Your faith can never be recognized. Do not allow today’s lazy society to deceive you.
If you want to develop into a solid formidable figure tomorrow, there are so many things you must discipline your mind, bend down and learn through personal studies using your youthful strength and alert mind and strong retentive memory as an advantage.
I am not talking about academics alone. As it affects your relationship with God, so it is in other aspects of your living. Your relationship with God affects your entire life trajectory either for good or bad. The pattern you have adopted with God is what will lead your entire life.
Many are not adding value to themselves, they only stop at chasing money. Once they can count #50,000 they have arrived. They do not know that the secret to attracting income lies in value creation.
Value, relationship and character should be the core attention any visionary youth will pay attention to. You can never achieve these three without God. If you do not take God seriously, you will indirectly never take your own life serious.
You are not blessed because of how much you hustle and pursue this life that is likened to an ocean, ready to swallow you up entirely at any given point in time. You are blessed because God has prepared you and has desired of His own will to open your pathway to success.
I Chronicles 29:10-12, ‘^[10]While still in the presence of the whole assembly, David expressed his praises to the Lord: “O Lord God of our father Israel, praise your name for ever and ever! ^[11]Yours is the mighty power and glory and victory and majesty.
Everything in the heavens and earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as being in control of everything.
^[12]Riches and honor come from you alone, and you are the ruler of all mankind; your hand controls power and might, and it is at your discretion that men are made great and given strength’ LVB.
So, know this and know peace lest you spend all your days chasing the world that can never be caught. Surrender yourself into the hand of God and allow Him to take the lead. Let your honest good works be seen by all, that our Father in heaven might reward you.
Facing The Facts Of Our Faith page 54:38, ‘That you are successful does not mean that you are the greatest in wisdom.
You are rich does not mean that you struggle more than others. Whatever you are which you can take the glory thereof, will disappoint you. You will only take glory for what God has done. Finish!
So lay hold on what is eternal. Do not lay hold on what is temporal. Anything God is involved in is Eternal. Anything He has pulled out from does not have any eternal reward. It is temporary and it will end here.
All personal boasts and triumphs will end one day but he whom the Lord has recommended and established, he is eternally secured.
Page 59:52, ‘You can never walk rightly until you think rightly. As long as you are thinking wrongly, negatively, you can never walk rightly’.
Page 98:65, ‘Do you know where we are? The scriptures said that God has placed us in a heavenly dignity. Yet some are not happy. They are not happy. Note, you can remove yourself from your position carelessly’.
Do not be over ambitious for this evil world. For when you become overambitious chasing this world, you will become careless with your calling in Christ and the enemy will take advantage to ruin you.
The Lord said, ‘No matter how you know the message, if your life is not dovetailing with the message, you must make it very weak’. What is upsetting you from serving the Lord and maintaining right relationship with God are the cares of this present life you have given your wholesome attention to.
Remember that this world is under the power and control of the devil. Hence when you give your whole attention to the affairs of this life at the expense of walking with Christ, you have indirectly surrendered to the devil.
Facing The Facts of Our Faith page 142:33-38, ‘Now, if you cannot serve God, let it be known to you that you cannot serve the devil because it is more difficult to serve the devil than to serve God.
The same way, it is more expensive to serve the devil than to serve God. If you cannot serve God acceptably, you cannot serve Satan. Then, what will you serve? See, people wrestle against themselves. You are fighting against yourselves. No zeal, no commitment, no strong devotion. It is unfortunate.
Brethren, we had better face the real facts of our faith. Young men, we do not come to fellowship to organize dancing for you. I am not discouraging you from clapping your hands, no. These things are very good but do not neglect the weightier matter. As youths, you are the pillars that are sustaining the whole building.
The strength of a community is in their youth. Do you believe that? It is the quality of the youth that determines the extent the community will go. It is also applicable to development. The development of a community is determined by the capacity of their youth. The youth is regarded as the nation builders.
The strength of the family has always been in the strength of their youth’.
‘Youths are the pillars of the nation’ is a statement made and believed worldwide but it is only in the Bride of Christ movement worldwide that I have seen respect and participation given to the youth more than they deserve.
Nigeria, just like most other African Nations are only playing a cosmetic approach to the issue. It happens even in the organizations where we work. You clearly see the youth being denied participatory opportunities because they are being looked down on as inexperienced.
This truth is a two-edged sword because when I look at it the other way around, I do not solely blame society for the predicament of the youths today. The present-day youths despite the age they attain, are mostly full of foolishness. So, it becomes very difficult to put reliance on such people who are primarily supposed to be pillars. It affects us all.
My former boss once told me that if he had had a shot at my interview, he would not have hired me for the role I was given because he felt I was too young for it. But upon my exit from the company, he confessed of how he found me to be one who met the challenges of the job role contrary to his expectations, which made him to lead me into higher responsibilities.
My current employer said that he believes Auditors are supposed to be hard and difficult people, not young simple easy-going handsome men as myself who everyone is comfortable with. You see? It now behooves upon me to prove him wrong and give him a reorientation. A new perception of my personality.
What am I driving at by this? The youth is not looked upon whenever serious matters arise, being despised on the basis of their youth but the Son of Man has been so insistent of an inclusive participation of the youth in the things of the Lord; entrusting critical and dare roles to the hands of those many would call infants.
It behooves on you and I to prove that this vote of confidence is not a misplaced one. It is your character, attitude and sincerity in the things of God that will prove if you are fruitful in your ways, worthy to be mentioned among the youths regarded as pillars of this great family of God.
The Lord has given the youths so much attention and relevance than we deserve and it is high time we begin to justify His confidence in us. Those the world relegates, are those the Lord has cherished so much.
At times, I wonder why God never invited mature minds to dwell with Him in His Holy habitation, neither do they have the opportunity the youth has had during this period of our family worship to worship in His Holy sanctuary but this privilege has been enjoyed by the youths alone. You should stop and ask yourself ‘why me?’
This picture reminds me of a dream once had in time past in this faith where adults were finding it difficult to cross over a stream or so, to be where the Son of Man was standing, but little children where crossing over with much ease.
Find out why you are privileged to be with the Son of Man, or why you are privileged to walk with the Son of Man when many can hardly even hear His voice again. If you do not find out why, you will end up destroying yourself instead of grabbing this opportunity.
Go back to the scriptures and you will notice that all God has sent in time past have always delighted in the company of the youth. Moses surrounded himself with young minds like Joshua and Caleb.
How old was David when He became God’s delight? Same for his son Solomon. What about the Prophet Samuel? Daniel, Meshach and Abednego? During the days of Christ when the ancient men all slept, it took the young minds who were with Christ such as St Luke to keep the fire aflame.
What can we say about the days of Paul, his company of Ministers who never disappointed him fell in the category of the youth; Timothy, Titus, Silas, etcetera? So, take advantage of it in your day for it is a blessing.
The reason why youths find it difficult to fit into the system of the world is because there are no leaders. The youths have the potential to deliver whatever is needed but because they lack the needed experience, they need somebody who knows the way, who has been there, who maintained a perfect record, who can show them what to do. One whose footsteps they can emulate as their Icon, leader and guide.
But because we lack such Icons as societal leaders, the potential of the youth is wasted at the expense of the gluttonous selfish desires of some sycophants. But God is the only true leader.
Watch this most holy faith, we have the only One True Leader of our faith and calling in Christ; the Main Man and that is why every well faring youth is a testimony wherever he or she is. They are prime movers because they are well guided. But foolish ones are misusing the privilege to their own detriment.
Let us go back and further encourage ourselves by the word. Facing The Facts of Our Faith page 146:43, ‘See all our youth, there is not even one that can organize his fellow youth, ginger them into spiritual action. It will take one to motivate the others’.
This is where I give kudos to Pastor Wisdom Odoemena for he is a leader in good works. He stands as one who the Almighty has recognized his love and desire to surround himself with the brotherhood, thereby encouraging them in the faith unto good works.
If your life and testimonies are not encouraging the brethren, they would be discouraging them. You become a stumbling block to those who are desiring godliness.
Page 149:49-52, ‘We have too many spiritual imbeciles in this faith, growing in stature but not growing in reasoning. When you are growing in stature and you are not growing in reasoning, you are spiritually imbecile.
See the youth, male and female alike, there is no spiritual strength in any of them. What is their problem? Have you not been given enough spiritual food even more than all these groups we are seeing?
Maybe you do not know what Anglican youth are holding. They are holding John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world…. The next thing is bring the lame, bring the cripple, bring the blind and people will go there and go back the same.
Every other group, there is no other thing they hold but you are holding something more precious than gold, you are holding a time-tested message that has won the whole world.
All of you cannot be preachers anyway but you must be zealous in one thing or the other for the furtherance of the gospel of Christ.
You are developing yourselves. When you develop yourself very well, you preserve your future. However, where you do not want to develop yourself, your future must be bleak and you cannot realize your objectives because you do not develop yourself.
Develop yourself and then preserve your future’. Remember this message came in 2005.
God never changes. Is it not the same standard and energy today? This is how you know that we are worshipping a living God. I am talking to the youths today placing myself as the first to listen to this message from God, I am as well talking to every saint of God. For I believe we have only but one standard.
Let us face the facts of our faith and be zealous and serious with our callings in Christ for time is no more on our side.

We must obey the Words we are hearing, if we must get the rewards. Remember, there is always a reward for obedience. At the same time there is always a reward for disobedience. When you disobey, well, you have disappointed yourself. But when you obey, you have done yourself more good than harm.

THE SON OF MAN

TAKE MY YOKE PREACHED ON SUNDAY, 9^TH SEPTEMBER, 2007 PG. 9:3-4

WHAT WILL YOU BE REMEMBERED FOR?

Page 159:74-78, ‘What God is saying concerning me is what counts. We are not in this faith to please any man. We are in this faith to make sure that God is pleased. It should be my duty to please Him always. What is your own duty?

You have to resolve within yourself whether your duty is to please God or to displease Him. The choice you make will determine your attitude.
The choice you make concerning this fellowship with God, fellowship with the saints, the choice you make will determine your attitude.
Nobody is being forced to be in the fellowship. Nobody is being compelled to be in the fellowship. It is better that you will tell yourself the truth and stay away, have your rest, stay in your house than to come to fellowship to declare your allegiance and later turn around to say you did not mean it.
The same way I tell people wherever I go, we do not compel you to believe what we preach. If you know you do not believe what we preach, it profits you nothing fellowshipping with us for you must fellowship with people who believe what you believe so that when they say Amen, you say Amen.
Your conscience will be free. You will be in one accord with them. We are in one accord because we believe the same thing, behave the same way, have the same attitude towards one another, so we are united. We are one entity for the church is one. God is one.
However, when you have another spirit and you are managing to be in the faith or you are trying to squeeze yourself into this most holy faith for one reason or the other, I say no. You are wounding yourself. You are wounding your conscience. You won’t feel free with us.
The best thing you do is to leave us. Just like somebody telling me that from the beginning, he never believed and he tarried with us for over thirty years, preaching and stamping authority, enjoying the whole thing, only to tell me that he never believed from the beginning. That he knew we were wrong from the beginning; can you believe the person?
You knew we were wrong and you continued to be in that wrong and was preaching a wrong message, stamping authority, enjoying it, do you believe that nonsense? That is why we must face the real facts of our faith. Amen!
God knows everyone of us and our attitudes and contributions towards this faith. That is why we have a message titled, ‘What have you invested in this faith?’ If you are not building up by living according to the standard of the faith, you will be pulling down by giving the faith a wrong interpretation through your life; through your character.
Whatever contributions you are making in this faith and you are calling it a little one, whether it be good or it be bad, might be great in the sight of God either for your justification or for your condemnation. It is only when the Lord will come your way that you will know that He knows everyone of us in this faith and what we are doing.
Page 15:16, ‘Every good work has a reward. Every bad work also has a reward. There is always a reward for everything.
On the day the Almighty will remember you and then try to think about your reward, what will you be remembered for? What will the Almighty remember you for?
I love God for one thing, God does not lay wreath on a man’s grave.’ What you and I will be remembered for are our deeds. Amen.
Page 34:13, ‘Why have we survived in this faith all these years? It is because we have remained true to our commission.
Once rebellion raised its head in this faith, all true soldiers of Christ will pull out their swords no matter who is involved. It started in the wilderness with our fathers.’ This sword is not a physical one. This sword is the Word of God as we can see it in Hebrews chapter 4:12.
Please if you want to help your brother and your sister at this closing hour of the faith, learn to draw up your sword.
If rebellion means going against the word of God which you know is the only true and living way; if it means going against the authority of God which is living in accordance with His word, then begin to see the extent to which rebellion has filled our homes.
Unfortunately, the true soldiers of Christ who are supposed to draw up their swords in our various families have all slumbered.
If we are brethren beyond the flesh but in the spirit, you owe it as a duty to me to encourage and guide me by the word, and I owe it as a duty to you to do the very same. This is the only way we can survive at this hour.
When I was exchanging greetings with my Pastor Chizoba on the WhatsApp platform of recent, his encouragement to me when congratulating me for what the Lord was doing in my life was to ensure that I do not allow it to swallow up the work of the Lord. I should not allow my ministry to go silent.
This candid advice and message can only come from a genuine brother. But many will only use their contact and interactions for worldly discussions without dropping any nugget that can cause his or her brother or sister to pause and think deeply reflecting on the Words of wisdom that was calmly dropped for him by a brother while engaging in casual discussions.
Indeed, I know those brethren who will always stir up such godly conversations whenever we interact. It ends up forming the weightier matter in our interactions. Notable of such good brethren to me is my brother Wisdom Gambo and Sister Anulika at Asaba, to mention but a few among others. They will never fail in such.
It encourages love among brotherhood and helps to guard against weakness. In a war front, when a soldier looks by his side and sees his friend flanking him, still smiling and throwing encouraging words at him despite the thick battle especially when they are not sure of making it out alive, it keeps the individual going, knowing that he is dying for a noble cause. But if his friends are turning back or have all fallen in battle, it takes a lot of courage for him to still carry on.
At the beginning of the year, the Lord said it is a time for us to cluster as a community not desired by this world. It is not clustering for entertainment but rather clustering in the word. The only thing that binds us as a community is the Word.
When truth is lifted up, God will be pleased with us because wherever truth is, God is there. God is worshipped only where there is truth.
Wherever lies abide, wherever brethren shy away from truth and are only enjoying the exchange of pleasantries, God is not there.
So, let us not be a bunch of unbelievers, paying much attention to carnal matters as the point of our unity and consoling ourselves in hypocrisy especially now we are clustered as families.
Many families have all sunk because of this. No one wants to be an enemy in the family by calling everybody to order lest he loses the love and affection and benefits that go with it in the family.
Let us take our spiritual journey very serious please for we have wound up to the end of all things and we are heading somewhere. It can never be a fiction or an imagined story.
Eternity is a reality that must unfold one of these days.
Page 88:36-38, ‘…underline it that the Son of Man said it is truth. Beyond the curtain of time, I will see you, you will see me and that is where we are afraid of. Beyond the curtain of time, which we must go.
Thus, life does not end in the grave otherwise we just go away, eat, drink, and then die. Do you think the entire world is worshipping Jehovah in vain?
Where we are, astronauts cannot get there. We are operating beyond the astronauts. We are even operating beyond the internet. Internet is still within human conception or perception.
I repeat, where we are and where we are heading to is beyond human conception and beyond human perception.’
Of recent, God said that we can tell what is happening in the world but the world cannot tell what is happening around us. And this is why they do not know that God’s true faith is on the land and has encompassed the entire globe, having great spiritual impact on the recipients and yet we are not making a noise.
When they hear Bride of Christ Movement, just because we do not have strategic buildings across the nation, they think we are a mushroom church clamoring for membership and recognition, they do not know it is a global movement.
Check the activities on the websites as you receive them on a weekly basis on your devices, are you not marveling at the response? Compare it week to week and ask yourself why these people of all races continue to keenly follow the messages and the faith around the globe.
Wherever truth is, it must attract all truth seekers and lovers. Why is the website response not fading away? Why is it not on a decline? Why is it gathering momentum every week?
A heathen once said to our Lord, ‘This your message is difficult to believe ooh, you can hardly make a convert. But if at all you make one convert, it will be extremely impossible for anything to pull him or her away’. And this is what is taking place in the web today.
Blessed are those who have not seen but have anchored their faith in Christ through the messages they have read on the web. But to you and I, we have been privileged to be with the Master. We have beheld all the wondrous works He has wrought in our midst. We not only read, we have all sat under His feet, shook his hands, watched His life and His family.
We have a firsthand experience of it all. Where then does our fate lie now that we have come to the end of all things? Will it be well and God will be declaring a state of emergency in the bride?
With what is happening in the websites, is it a surprise anymore why many will come from east, west, north and south to sit with the Master, yet those who where even born in the faith will be cast away?
Think my brethren, for the anger of the Lord is about to be unleashed on this wicked and adulterous world. Pray that you do not fall a victim as well.

Someone asked him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?” He said to them, ²⁴“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. ²⁵Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, `Sir, open the door for us.’ “But he will answer, `I don’t know you or where you come from.’

LUKE 13:23-25

NIV

GOD HAS ROUNDED UP HIS PROGRAMME

Page 105:87-88, ‘Note, so that the world will be cleansed from the pressure off our guilt. Have I not told you that the wicked must be removed here? God must surely wipe off the wicked. It is just around the corner.

Let me tell you the day the whole thing finished, you do not know that we are on our waiting period. We are still on our waiting period. God rounded up the programme in the year 2000.
It was in the year 2000 for the first time that the moon and the star met. Heaven and earth joined together. The Muslims and the Christians, they met. The same day their moon appeared, the same day the star appeared. Christmas and their so-called Salah celebration met. Amen.’
So, we are only waiting for the final blast of the whistle. Everything else God has promised us has come to fulfillment. It remaineth this last one; the immortal body and it is almost here. But how ready are you?
And how much emphasis are you laying on your preparation against that day? It is a time for deep sober reflection. Let us purify ourselves this one last time, for we are about to see the fulfillment of this great prophecy any moment from now.
Therefore, in concluding this message, I will read the scriptures once again for you to understand that where we are calls for seriousness.
A spiritually weak or careless mind cannot inherit the promise. It takes only one who is determined and serious with his calling to make it in the end.
Luke 13:23-30, ^‘[23]And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them, ^[24]Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it], for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
^[25]When once the Master of the house gets up and closes the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door [again and again], saying, Lord, open to us! He will answer you, I do not know where [what household–certainly not Mine] you come from.
^[26]Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets. ^[27]But He will say, I tell you, I do not know where [what household–certainly not Mine] you come from; depart from Me, all you wrongdoers!
^[28]There will be weeping and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being cast forth (banished, driven away). ^[29]And [people] will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit down (feast at table) in the kingdom of God.
^[30]And behold, there are some [now] last who will be first [then], and there are some [now] first who will be last [then]’.AMP
‘²³A bystander said, “Master, will only a few be saved?” ²⁴“Whether few or many is none of your business. Put your mind on your life with God. The way to life – to God! – is vigorous and requires your total attention.
A lot of you are going to assume that you’ll sit down to God’s salvation banquet just because you’ve been hanging around the neighborhood all your lives. ²⁵Well, one day you’re going to be banging on the door, wanting to get in, but you’ll find the door locked and the Master saying, ‘Sorry, you’re not on my guest list.’
²⁶“You’ll protest, ‘But we’ve known you all our lives!’ 27 only to be interrupted with his abrupt, ‘Your kind of knowing can hardly be called knowing. You don’t know the first thing about me.’ ²⁸“That’s when you’ll find yourselves out in the cold, strangers to grace. You’ll watch Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets march into God’s kingdom!
²⁹You’ll watch outsiders stream in from east, west, north, and south and sit down at the table of God’s kingdom. And all the time you’ll be outside looking in – and wondering what happened. ³⁰This is the Great Reversal: the last in line put at the head of the line, and the so-called first ending up last. MSG.’
The narrow gate is Christ who is standing on two feet in our midst. He said and I quote, ‘Has He who came down with this faith from heaven confirmed that the faith is in you?
Has God confirmed your faith?’ Membership of the Bride of Christ is not your guarantee. Your guarantee is inclusion into God’s family. Please do not rest until you can boldly declare your status in the Son of Man.
If you are found in Him, guard your position jealously in this remaining few days for the devil is not happy with you.
When a team is winning in the dying minutes of a match, they guard their win by causing their opponents to engage in tactical fouls due to their desperation to equalize at all cost. They do this in order to waste time so that the match will come to an end without them further kicking the ball.
The coach begins to make unnecessary substitutions he does not need, all to waste the time and frustrate the loosing team the more. So be wise.
I will leave us with the final Words of the Redeemer when He pitched His Canopy with us at Opi just a few weeks ago. Hear His closing remarks to the brethren on that day and walk in its wisdom.
I quote, ‘All that say they are believers are not all believers. I know we are many. I know we all want to be saved. If I should say, of course you know, the present earthly arrangement was done to accommodate many people but what you are vying for is only for a few. It is in your hands to strive to be in the few.
Will a few be saved in the end? Yes. Will everybody be saved? No.
Who then will be saved? Only those that are qualified. Only those that can challenge themselves, challenge themselves and then go back to the drawing board and know how God puts people right with Himself. If you do not do that, well you are escorting.’
A few is not a specified number. Even if a number is specified, you should know if you are seriously striving to be there or if you are not.
Nobody is given any special ability than the other. It is a matter of your choice and determination. On this note brethren I say to you, take these words as the words of a coach who is giving a final pep talk to his players just before they walk out to engage in a major final tournament. If you do so, you are bound to achieve victory at the end. God bless you all. Remain in your sanctified Estate.

HAVE YOU ACCEPTED AND ATTAINED THE HIGHEST SPIRITUAL STANDARD WHICH GOD HIMSELF HAS SET FOR ALL THE TRUE ELECT?

PREACHED ON 18^TH June 2023 BY Apostle Ayuba Abu Essen Household of God Kaduna State Nigeria.

Change your character immediately and reconcile with God. If you are doing anything in the house of God, do not do it to please a man. Well, you have no reward, so do away with every trace of deceit.”

THE SON OF MAN

HOUR OF FINAL RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS PREACHED ON 20^TH JULY 2014 PG 71:10

COMPLETE RECONCILIATION AND RESTORATION TO MERCY

To God be the glory greatest things He has done for the Bride, the true elect scattered all over the world for His great Name’s Sake. Amen.

Fellow saints and true elect of God we will ever remain grateful to Almighty God Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man (BBHHN) for helping and making it possible for us to accept Him in this wicked generation. Indeed, He has done so much for us.
This is a balance question to few people and imbalance question to many in our midst. And it needs a practical answer to all individuals. It is just like pardon; some people are bound to accept it, while some are bound to reject it. All by the individual’s actions.
As recorded in the Holy Quran thus; Verily, we have given you (o Muhammad) a manifest victory, that God may forgive you your sins of the past and the future, and complete His favour on you, and guide you on the straight path. And that God may help you with strong help. He it is who sent down AS-Sakinah (calmness and tranquility) into the hearts of the believers, that they may grow more in faith along with their (present) faith.
And to God belong the host of the heavens and the earth, and God is Ever All-Knower, All-Wise that He may admit the believing men and the believing women to Gardens under which rivers flow (i.e paradise), to abide therein forever, and to expiate from them their sins and that is with God, a supreme success. Surah 48: 1-5
See what God has done for us; forgiving our past and future sins with a strong help on men and women even the children that have the believing hearts that we may grow more in faith along with our present faith in the Son of Man and He is helping us into paradise to abide therein forever with Him.
Those that have accepted the pardon are the people that have attained the highest spiritual standard which He God Himself has set for all the true elect and they are now going with Him to paradise any moment from now.
What of those that refused to accept the pardon, will they attain the highest spiritual standard which God Himself has set for the true elect? What will happen to them at the end? I will come to that. Because they are the people God is still shouting on.
To those that have accepted and are truly willing, hear the Almighty God’s instruction to us in this Message, “2023 NEW YEAR MESSAGE COMPLETE PARDON AND RESTORATION TO THE LORD, On Sunday January 1^st 2023 at the Courtyard of the Bridal lodge, Nsugbe Anambra state, Nigeria by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Justifier of the ungodly. Page 42 verse 4-11; All of you who happen to be members of Onitsha fellowship and other fellowship venues throughout the whole earth – you know where you gather – I do not care what your iniquities might be.
I do not care how far you have strayed from the truth. I do not care. I look away from your faults. BOTH YOUNG AND OLD, YOU ARE RESTORED. Amen.
This is the covenant I made with the father of all spirits that as many as will remain pleading their cases, no matter how far they have strayed away, if they will survive and see my face and hear my voice in 2023, they must be restored.
Listen to me. This reconciliation and restoration to mercy is total and complete. The ministers among them are restored to their positions. Listen to me. This restoration is without prejudice. It is a dignified restoration and reconciliation. Remember not the former things.
Pack them into the ocean of forgetfulness from now till we see the exact new face of THE SON OF MAN. The same way, you will see the new face of the Bride of Christ. I repeat. This restoration is a dignified one. It is with respect. It is with honour. It is with integrity. It is with LOVE.
Remember not the former errors. Remember not the former injuries. I do not care how deep the injuries might be. The wounds have been closed, and will remain closed so that the enemy (the devil) will stop accusing the Bride.
Please! Please!! Please!!! Underline these voices from the Almighty God in our midst, the Son of Man Apostle Peter Odoemena (BBHHN). Who and who have accepted this pardon in our midst? Only few! By these voice of God in our midst, has He not brought the Bride, the elect into the HIGHEST SPIRITUAL STANDARD TO HIMSELF?
What are you expecting more than hearing that your past and future sins are forgiven, so that you can completely worship God in spirit and in truth? Something you and I could not do; The Son of Man came and did it for me and you that we may accept it and have eternal life from Him. Is it not worth accepting?
How can you attain the highest spiritual standard which God Himself has set for the true elect, if you refuse to accept what Christ has done for you?
The same Message page 51 verse 28; WHEN THE SPIRIT GOES ASTRAY, IT MANIFESTS IN CHARACTER. IS IT NOT TRUE? GOD IS SERVED AND WORSHIPPED IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
Brethren and saints of God (true elect), we must in that same way walk and live among ourselves in spirit and in truth, that we may attain the spiritual highest standard God Himself has set for us so as to live with Him and with one another – the easy ride to paradise.
In 2019 NEW YEAR MESSAGE the Year of Judgment of the World, Preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man the righteous judge. On 1^st January, 2019 at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe (Family Altar Message), Page 34 verse 1-7; SO, MY APPEAL TO ALL OF YOU IS TO RALLY ROUND, BIND YOUR HEARTS TOGETHER, LOVING AND APPRECIATING ONE ANOTHER, MAKING SURE YOU DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN OBJECT OF PROVOCATION IN ANY FORM OR SHAPE. THIS IS BECAUSE, IF YOU DO IT, YOU HAVE DESTROYED YOURSELF IGNORANTLY.
DO NOT EVER CONSTITUTE AN OBJECT OF PROVOCATION. LIVE THE LIFE OF OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH. BE READY TO ACCEPT INSTRUCTION. BE READY TO ACCEPT COMMANDS AND WITHOUT LOOKING BACK. WITHOUT THINKING, OBEY, BEHAVE LIKE SOLDIERS. EVEN IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, OBEY BEFORE COMPLAIN, NOBODY WILL FIND FAULT WITH YOU.
BUT WHERE YOU DO NOT WANT TO OBEY, INSTEAD OF OBEYING, YOU ARE COMPLAINING, YOU ARE GIVING REASONS WHY IT WILL WORK YOUR OWN WAY, YOU ARE DESTROYING YOUSELF.
This is because there is no command you will not get from God. WHEN I SAY GOD, GOD MEANS THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN ALL OF US DIRECTING. It can be your brother directing. It can be your mother. It can be your sister. It can be anybody. It can be you directing in the spirit of God.
MY DUTY IS TO DO IT WITHOUT HYPOCRISY, WITHOUT MURMURING, WITHOUT COMPLAINING SO THAT I WILL AVOID REBUKE, I WILL AVOID INDICTMENT FOR THIS YEAR IS A YEAR GOD SAID, HE WILL NOT HEAR “I AM SORRY. I FORGOT. I DID NOT MEAN TO DO THAT. SIR, IT WAS A MISTAKE.” GOD SAID, “NOT THIS YEAR.”
THIS IS THE YEAR YOU MUST THINK BEFORE YOU TALK. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT. BY THINKING, I MEAN, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SAY OR DO IN ANY FORM OR SHAPE, WEIGH THE FUTURE CONSEQUENCES AS IT WILL AFFECT YOU. WEIGH THE FUTURE CONSEQUENCES BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN ACT BADLY WITHOUT ATTRACTING THE FUTURE CONSEQUENCES TO YOURSELF.
This is the instruction Almighty God in our midst has set for us to attain the highest spiritual standard for the true Bride (elect). Check for yourself and I should check for myself, have we accepted and attained this height? If no, why?
Most of us have set these godly keywords aside thinking it is a light thing. Do you know the future consequences?
When God gave us godly instructions, it is expected that every true believing elect, man or woman and child, should accept it for his or her own good. But whenever the instruction is given to us, you see ungodly men, women and children turn it down behaving as if they did not hear anything.
Even if you try to remind them of it as a brother or sister, you see them walking out on you. Making you a fool of all fools. Why? They did not accept it in their hearts. Such a person in our midst can never attain the highest spiritual standard which God Himself has set for the true elect in this generation. Instead of loving and appreciating in our midst the Almighty God for pardoning and putting us right to Himself.
The same 2019 New Year Message Page 38 verse 10 & 15: SO, FOR THAT REASON, OUR DUTY IS TO DO THAT WHICH WILL BE PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT. LOVING AND APPREACIATING GOD FOR WHAT HE IS DOING FOR US, LOVING AND APPRECIATING ONE ANOTHER.
“ONE ANOTHER” DOES NOT MEAN MEMBERS OF THIS FAMILY ONLY. YOUR ENTIRE BRETHREN IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH, THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE.
Those that did not accept this standard in our midst have turned now to hate the truth, hating the brethren especially when it comes to the point of correcting them; while trying to correct someone, you will become a known enemy to that person so called a brother or sister. And their children are the worst in our midst, because their ungodly parents who hate corrections from God have also taught their children how to hate correction from God, godly parents and godly youths.
Page 40 verse 15-20; AND GOD SAID, “AS HIS DEAR CHILDREN, IF WE DO HIS WILL, LOVING AND APPRECIATING GOD, HE WILL WITHHOLD US FROM RUSHING TO PLACES WHERE WE SHALL BE DESTROYED. HE WILL WITHHOLD US FROM RUSHING TO DANGER SPOTS.” HE KNOWS HOW TO DO IT.
HE KNOWS WHAT HE WILL DO IN YOUR HEART. HE KNOWS CONDITIONS HE WILL CREATE, ONLY TO SEVERE YOU FROM THAT THING THAT IS THERE WHICH YOU HAVE NOT SEEN.
FOR THAT REASON, THIS YEAR CALLS FOR PRAYERS, DO NOT DO ANYTHING WITHOUT PRAYING, FOR GOD IS GOING TO MEET ALL OF US THROUGH OUR PRAYERS. IF YOUR HEART IS RIGHT AND YOU ARE DOING HIS GOOD WILL, THE BIBLE SAID, “ASK WHATEVER YOU WILL AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU. WHEN YOU CRY, GOD WILL HEAR. WHEN YOU PRAY, HE WILL ANSWER YOU, THAT IS THE PROMISE.
HE EVEN SAID, IF YOUR HEART IS RIGHT WITH GOD AND WITH YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEING, YOU ARE DOING THE WILL OF GOD; HE SAID, “BY THE TIME YOU BEGIN TO KNEEL DOWN, GOD HAS ALREADY ANSWERED YOUR PRAYERS. IS IT NOT SCRIPTURES?
SO, IF YOU HAVE BEEN PLAYING WITH PRAYERS, FOR WHICH CAUSE YOUR LIFE HAS NOT GIVEN YOU JOY, DO NOT EVER JOKE WITH IT, FOR YOUR STRENGTH LIES IN PRAYERS. PRAYERS WILL COMBINE WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORD OF GOD THAT IS IN YOU AND THEN BUILD A LATENT STRENGTH IN YOU, LATENT ENERGY. INSHORT, INSULATE YOU FROM HARM, FROM FEAR, FROM DANGERS AND PERILS OF THIS LIFE, FOR YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOU KNOW YOUR MISSION ON EARTH.
These are keywords from God to us His dear children which if accepted by individuals, you and I must see the positive effect in our life.
2023 New Year Message by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man Page 44 verse 12-13; Now, I urge all of you to close ranks with one another, check on one another, show concern for one another. Show affection.
Avoid anything that will bring disaffection between you and the brotherhood; between you and the sisterhood – Avoid it completely, for it will not be in your best interest.
God wants to see a unique Body devoid of bitterness, rancor, acrimony, division or variance. God wants to see nothing but perfect LOVE. And this LOVE is without hypocrisy. It is from the hearts, so that if there be any mistake, it can be easily address as a mistake common among men, for no man is immune from making mistakes. If one is falling, let another help that one up.
The reasons why God is shouting on some of us is that; we have strayed away from this heavenly instruction from Him. While some that have accepted it have attained the highest spiritual standard He has set for the true elect.
The Same Message Page 56 verse 42- down; Now, shower your love on them. Make them to be confident that they are protected in their family. Begin now to comfort them. Begin now to encourage them. And let all of you walk together in harmony in the same unity of the spirit, maintaining the bond of the Faith and in the bond of peace.
AVOID ALL FORMS OF FAULT FINDING, FOR YOU ARE NOT FAULTLESS. AVOID COMPLETELY ALL FORMS OF FAULT-FINDING. WHY? YOU ARE NOT FAULTLESS. OTHERWISE, YOU MUST COME UNTO JUDGMENT. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO COME TO JUDGMENT, DO NOT FAULT ANY.
Correction does not mean you are faulting, for it is done in love. But fault that is accompanied by criticism, by scandal, by gossip; that is the one God is talking against.
If your brother offends you, go to him with humility and love, express yourself. Say your mind and be ready to wave it away from there. If your sister offends you, the same way, so that the devil accuse you not before the presence of God and that you do not come to the judgment Throne. For what is entering paradise anytime from now, is perfect love, not doctrine, not preaching, not praising, but perfect love. Love without hypocrisy. Love that is ready to exchange its life for his fellow Brother and for his fellow Sister.
LOVE! L-O-V-E. it goes beyond exchange of pleasantries. No! that one is heathenish, though you do not avoid it for you cannot love without giving. But you can give without loving.
God wants you to love. And let love compel, motivate and inspire every other action, for love covers multitudes of iniquities before the eyes of God. If you say you have forgiven, make sure it does not register in the heart and do not remember it again.
Brethren, saints and true elect of the Most Highest God. Believe it with me, the gate of paradise was re-opened on 1^st January, 2023 for all that will accept the condition and they would enter. But due to carelessness, many turned this precious and gracious godly gift down. He that gave us these heavenly keywords is watching us on daily basis through His word. Remember we are a nation in a nation.
The Same Message Page 107 verse 24-25; Remember, you are a nation in a nation. You are a nation of God. A nation of priesthood away from all. HENCE, YOU DO NOT CONFORM TO THE DICTATES OF THIS NATION. YOU ARE COMPLETELY DRAWN AWAY FROM THIS NATION.
If you are patterning after Nigeria, God will disown you. Be yourself. Reflect the life of your own Kingdom for we received an indestructible Kingdom.
Why do some of us now turn to pattern after Nigeria, religion and worldly life contrary to our Kingdom rules and regulations that govern us?

Many have had their experiences in a negative way because of their stupidity, arrogance, stubbornness and ignorance, Ignorance means not knowing the consequences of their actions or utterances; not knowing how God is taking their behaviours. It may be light in your eyes, but very great in the eyes of the Almighty. You may be thinking that God has forsaken or forgotten. Wait until the day he will call you to question. He will bring you to remembrance.

THE SON OF MAN

IF YOU DO NOT SERVE GOD RIGHTLY, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CLAIM ETERNAL LIFE VOLUME 2 PRECHED ON SUNDAY 18^TH SEPTEMBER 2022 PG 36:41-42

THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT ACCEPTING GOD’S PARDON

The same 2023 New Year Message Page 66 verse 4, 7-8; This is because when you are completely cut off from the Brotherhood of this Household, you are cut off from their blessings. You are cut off from their help.

When you lose the love of the Brethren, you lose their help. Then, where will you rely? You run to your enemies. The hand shake of an enemy can never be an asylum for peace. Can the enemy offer you the asylum?
You have lost even your immunity, for you are no longer walking with God and God is no longer walking with you. You are no longer under the cover of the blood of Jesus Christ, for the blood can no longer atone and propitiate for your sin because you hate the brotherhood.
When you know the consequences of all this, it will help you to run back to God without delay. TAKE GOD AT HIS WORD (Family Altar Message) Preached on 25^th October, 2014 at the Bridal Lodge Nsugbe by Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man, Page 22 verse 1, 3-8, 11-13; God can save you and can still destroy you. God that offers you salvation can still destroy you. That is why we fear Him.
We fear God because of Who He is. He that could fetch somebody from the land of Egypt, carry that person, feed the person, see him through in the wilderness, and destroy the person at the end, is He not worthy to be feared?
He that can declare pardon, pardon the people of their iniquities and say, “I have heard their prayers, as for pardon, I have pardoned their iniquities but as surely as I live, I must destroy them.”
He was the one that went to Egypt in mercy, brought them out in mercy. He led them along in mercy He alone crossed them in the red sea, brought them into the wilderness. In the night, He protected them, in the day He shielded them then He provided them with good health (sound health). When they were sick, He healed them. When they were hungry, He fed them.
However, a time came when He got dissatisfied with the people He brought out with His mighty hands. He said He was disgusted. He was disgusted with the people because of their inconsistence.
He considered them, weighed them all round, there was nothing He could do than to destroy them.
When they committed iniquities in the wilderness, they pleaded for forgiveness. Moses also pleaded on their behalf, and God said, “I have forgiven them.
They asked for mercy, I have shown them mercy. They asked of pardon, I have pardoned them, as for forgiveness, I have forgiven them. They saw God face to face, they listened to Him speak.
They never knew that God was taking record of their iniquities.
When they got to the wilderness, they thought it was a light thing to continue to disbelieve God. A day came, they got trapped into the web where they could not wriggle out. It was on that day that their eyes opened but it was too late.
God came before them and said, “All these years, you have sinned against Me. As for pardon, I have pardoned, I have pardoned. I have forgiven you but, as surely as I live, you will never never smell paradise. You will never enter into my rest.
Please you can read the book of Psalm 78:1-64 AMP, underline this scripture in your heart. These things happened to them at the tail end of their journey as we are now. He, God, pardoned their iniquities, He forgave their sins, He showed them mercy, He provided them with sound and good health. He covered them with the cloud. He did everything needful even more, yet they turned their back against God.
As many that could not accept the pardon of their iniquities; they could not accept the forgiveness of their sins, even the mercy that was showed to them, what happened to them at the end? Are we not serving the same God? Has God in our midst not done more than He did in the days of Moses and other ages? He is the GREATEST among all and He is the fulness of all.
Look at the way He opened 2023 New Year Message in our midst. I tell you, if you refuse to accept and attain the highest spiritual standard which God Himself has set for the true elect in this generation, you are fulfilling a dangerous scripture and prophecy. And the consequences are great and unbearable.
Please let’s rethink and return to the Lord today. Let’s take God at His word.
Be Silent and Know That the Lord Is God, preached on Friday, 22^nd July 2022 Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man Page 86 verse 19-21; But the heathens among us are blind. They cannot behold His majesty. Those that have beheld His majesty are commanded to keep calm, be still and be silent. Be silent! Even in the Book of Lamentation, it is there.
It is in that period of silence that you can meditate, you can pause and think. ANY PROBLEM THAT ARISES AROUND YOU, AND YOU CANNOT SOLVE IT THROUGH SILENT MEDITATION, YOU CANNOT SOLVE IT AGAIN.
May God help us to think and reason through and then act rightly in an hour like this before it will be too late. Amen.
Give the faithful the answer, Preached on 13^th April, 2014. By the Son of Man, Page 30 verse 9-11, 13 & 16; I WANT TO GIVE YOU A GIFT BECAUSE I HAVE PROMISED IT. FROM NOW STOP CRYING, I SAY FROM THIS VERY MOMENT, STOP CRYING, STOP COMPLAINIG, STOP MURMURING, STOP TROUBLING YOURSELF.
I have a gift for you. And that gift may even be the remedy to all you have been passing through, He said, “cast your cares upon Him for He careth for you.” Cast all your cares upon God for He careth for you. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavily laden and I will give you rest.”
Be careful for nothing but through prayers and supplications, let all your needs be made known unto Him. What is that thing? When you pray according to His will, He heareth you. For the scriptures said, “He that gave us ears, does not He hear? He resisted the proud, He gives grace to the humble.
His ears are always attentive to the prayers of the righteous. Who is the righteous? Those He decided to make Holy and righteous in His own eyes. Those that are standing in His presence covered by His glory.
WHENEVER FEARS AND DOUBTS WILL TRY TO ASSAIL YOU, REMEMBER THE LIVING PROMISE OF GOD, THEREIN YOU STAND! LET HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, THE PROMISES WILL REMAIN THERE. AND GOD WILL REMAIN GUILTY UNTIL HE HAS FULFILLED HIS PROMISES SIMPLY SAY AMEN TO IT.
IN GOD HIS PROMISES ARE YE AND AMEN. THAT SETTLES THE MATTER BECAUSE THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS SPOKEN AND NOTHING SHALL ANNUL IT. NOTHING SHALL CANCEL IT. THOUGH IT TARRIES, WAIT FOR IT FOR THE APPOINTED TIME AND THEY CAN NEVER BE OVER DELAYED BY ONE SECOND.
For that reason, stop using anything at all as your complain. To men, stop using your wife as your complain and excuse. Women stop using your husband as your complain and excuse. To the children, stop using your parents as your excuse and complain because Almighty God in our midst has settled this matter as far as salvation and eternal life is concern, this problem has been removed.
THE SON OF MAN Vol.1 Series of Lectures Presented On 27^th December, 2022 to Mark the 67^th Birthday of Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man Almighty God. Page 109 verse 57; I say, the man who can turn on the light is still in control of the aircraft. So, fear not.
All you have to do is one thing. By day or by night, make sure there is nothing standing between you and God, for the last problem you were having has been removed.
Yes! What is that problem? My wife. My husband. My children. My work. Nobody here should deny it. If your wife, your children, or your work does not hinder you, you are already there. God has now decided to show you that marriage is an earthly arrangement. It has no heavenly undertone, talk less of value. That is why it is a condition for either hell or heaven, depending on how you master it.
What of your children? Do they belong to you? My wife left without any. Yes now! If I preach now, you look at Me and whatever I am telling you.
If my salvation is tied to her, I am already in hell because she left. If she was the one holding my Faith, I would not be talking to you. But while she was in the mortuary, I was ministering, while she was sick, I was ministering, while she is in the grave I am ministering. Today, I am still ministering bearing my own burden. It is my burden; it is not your own.
Address this truth to yourself and to everyone especially in your family, and whosoever that belongs to God in your family must surely take it.
Stop taking side with anybody’s error in your family, speak the truth in love and correction must be done in love. You that hate correction from God, be warned!
God Almighty has referred our youths to 2019 youths conference Message, yet many of them hated this message and they have decided to go the way of the folly of socialization and sophistication of this present world. Like I do warn my children to depart from stubbornness, arrogance, foolishness and to be warry of Essen community spirits with their customs and tradition which are against the word of God.
I will continue to fight that spirit in them until that spirit in them departs and until God gives me victory for His Name’s Sake. I can never support any of their evil habits, because any father or mother that supports the evil habits of the children has succeeded in killing the children ignorantly. And he or she has become a part of their iniquities.
Such ungodly parents in our midst should be careful and let us do the needful and rightful things in the sight of God ourselves.
Always use Galatians 6:1 in correcting yourself and whosoever is overtaken in any misconduct or sin. Let us allow the word of God to lead us so that it may be well with all of us.
Have you accepted and attained the highest spiritual standard which God Himself has set for the true elect? Some have accepted it, while some are refusing, why? Some men have made their ungodly women their god, some women have made their ungodly husband to be their god. Where then is the position of God in our hearts?
Please check yourself while I check myself. Some have turned their back against the door of paradise (the Son of Man) down to the world.
The voice has called us to return to the Lord and amend our ways before it will be too late. Remember there is no place to hide except in Christ.
In conclusion Brethren and Saints of God DON’T EVER JOKE WITH THE PRAYERS ALMIGHTY GOD APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN IS PRAYING FOR US ON DAILY BASIS.

Be silent, all mankind, before the Lord, for He has come to earth from heaven, from his holy home.”

ZECHARIAH 2: 13 LIVING BIBLE

BE SILENT AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD

Be Silent and Know that the Lord is God, Page 99 verse 14-20 & 27; I was emphasizing on the prayers which many of you do not even pay heed to. If you know who is doing that prayer for you, happy are you. Your duty is to say Amen to that prayer, believe in that prayer and it will work for you. That prayer is quite different from the one you make. He prayed for His disciples before He left the scene.

If you are a noise maker, you would not catch it. If you are full of doubt, you have missed it already. If you use your intellect, you throw yourself away from His plan of salvation. All you have to do is to be still. Be silent watch and pray.
So let us be very careful, if you see Him in your midst, begin to clap your hands with joy. If He makes a prayer for you it is done, if you believe it look at the prayer He was making that time.
The Same Message Page 107 verse 37-38; I AM PRAYING FOR THEM. I AM NOT PRAYING (REQUESTING) FOR THE WORLD… I am praying for them, but I am not praying or making my request for the people in the world. You see why you cannot joke with His prayers.
And you do not make the mistake of thinking that your prayer is as effective as His own, for He is praying to the Father who is equally living with Him, and whose Tabernacle He is. He is the Son of His pleasure, always standing in the presence of His majesty, the Almighty God.
Henceforth, know how effective the prayers of Almighty God in our midst Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man the Deity Himself is to whosoever that believes in Him.
Refuse to accept and believe His prayers, it is a sure sign that your sins abided and remain in you. For you are nothing than an unbeliever, yes now! Your sickness, sins and problems will remain in you for not accepting His prayers and wishes by walking in disobedience to His word.
The gate of paradise was opened through prayer, do you know whether immortality, translation will be spoken to effect in prayer? What if you fail to believe His prayer? Don’t you know that His prayers are spoken word into effect?
Please stop your unbelieve and start believing His prayer now and be saved. Except you are destined to be lost.
The Same Message Page 110 verse 44-45 & 58-63; Destined to be lost, that was his destiny, that the scriptures might be fulfilled. I do not know about you. Are you destined to salvation or damnation?
If you are destined to damnation, no matter how we preach, no matter how we scream and explain, it is not for you. You will still manifest everything negative. But if you are destined to salvation, a word is enough for you. one word from God is all you need.
And you are settled. There is nothing you want to know about Him which He has not revealed to us. We are without excuse.
Anybody who omitted himself from this prayer that day lived a life of regret and sorrow, for this is the greatest prayer He made and the greatest revelation, the summary of all His deeds and His relationship with His chosen flock, to whom belongeth the kingdom.
And all of them confirmed that what He disclosed were nothing but the truth. No impersonation. No counterfeiting of anything. They were living eye and ear witness, the beneficiaries and partakers of all those things just as we are in our own day.
Not even one of those infallible proofs and evidences were displayed in the dark – in secret places. They were all displayed openly in the Tabernacle before many witnesses.
Some have died, some have left the faith while some are alive till this day.
What can we say if we get to the end and we are rejected because there is doubt in us? What if we are rejected because we have not taken Him seriously?
You can gaze at the sky and predict that the rain is about to fall, and it will fall. You gaze at the sky and say there is going to be great sunshine, and it will be sunshine. But the hour you are in, you cannot even predict and interpret accurately.
To God be the glory greatest things He has done. May it be well with all of us that put our hope, trust, believed and anchoring our faith in the revealed Christ Apostle Peter Odoemena the Son of Man the Almighty God in our midst. May we all be found in Him at the end in paradise for His greatest Name’s Sake. Amen.
Remain blessed in Him eternally.