PREACHED ON 19 JANUARY 2020 @ HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ENUGU BY PASTOR WISDOM ODOEMENA
Today is another day of Sober Reflection. God wants us to be sober and to reflect on the mistakes of the past so that tomorrow may be better for us. The messages we have forgotten, God inspired me to bring them back again so that we re-examine our characters in line with the messages we have received so far. To work with God entails a lot: You must be sober. You must be wise.
You must be vigilant. You must be a visionary. You must not use human perception. Finally, there should not be any trace of familiarity talk less of over familiarity.
A day of sober reflection preached on 5th April, 2009, pg. 37:47 and Be careful lest your Advocate Becomes your Judge preached on 21st October 2018
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BE ON THE ALERT
Pray at all times, in every season, on every occasion, in the spirit, with all manner of prayer and entreaty. To that end, keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance. Be on the red alert.
2. If God does not believe that temptation must come your way after prayer, He will not tell you to be on that alert. He will tell you that after praying, go and rejoice. Did He say it? But He now said that after that prayer, then do what? Be on the alert because the devil will no
3. We come with different strategies, because you prayed against this. He will say “since you have locked me against this one, let me use this one to come.”
4. He must always find a way. On the first day of the year when we gathered, God told us that morning that He can never permit temptation that is bigger than you to come your way. Because God knows how He has sealed up Job, He permitted devil, saying “apart from his soul, I give you, go and try anything you want to try.”
5. Because He was sure and certain that Job must surmount that temptation. Why not put your hands together for God, brethren? For every temptation that comes your way, He has fully permitted, He has reasoned within Himself and He knows that Pastor Ugoo can overcome this. And He will send it to him, so God does not want me to fail Him.
6. That is why He said we should be on the alert. The Igbos say that being careful does not mean fear. To that end, keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding on behalf of all the saints God’s consecrated people. Interceding for what? All the saints.
7. Pray all the time, ask God for anything in line with the Holy Spirit’s wishes. Plead with Him, reminding Him of your needs, and keep praying earnestly for all Christians everywhere. And do what? Keep praying earnestly.
8. God did not tell you that if it comes to your brother, you should reduce the tempo. You should do what? If you know the way you pray for your immediate family, also do what? Pray for your brethren that way. Pray for all the brethren here every day.
9. There was one day I was talking with God, the day I had a problem while coming down, I had an accident as I was travelling down to Onitsha. He said “why did you not tell Me while coming? You think your prayer is enough to save you?”
10. That you do not know the prayer that is sustaining your life, it might not be the one you prayed on your behalf, it might be one a brother in Jos prayed on your behalf.
11. I want you to have this revelation, that you, no matter how Holy Ghost filled you are, you can never make the highest prayer that can save your soul.
12. It can be the prayer of your sister or the prayer of your daughter that she made in her school, that is what is saving you in your office. It might be the prayer of a brother in a distant land, far away, that is not even in Nigeria. That is what will save your life.
13. He might have mentioned it saying, “God please, when brother so, so, and so will do this, be with him and save him.” And you forgot, I said “Daddy, it escaped my memory, I had wanted to call you but then I forgot.”
14. And I now met accident on the road. So, what if it was another story that was told? That is why God is saying that if you are making prayer, make that intercession for all your brethren.
15. You do not know if God will use you as a channel of blessing, as an instrument of blessing to your brother.
BE LIBERAL IN YOUR PRAYERS
16. It might be that prayer you made, “God, if there be any sick person among us…” You did not call his name and nobody told you that there is any sick person in the camp. Just that prayer will go far to the North and locate that brother there.
17. That we should not be, if we should read the signs of the end, that people will be given to self, and self-centered. “I know my own, I do not know that of another person.”
18. That this is the sign, they will preach love, love yourself and if you should check, that is what is trending on social media today. The need for you to love yourself above every other thing. Self-love first, love yourself above anything, not knowing that they are indirectly fulfilling the signs of the end.
19. That is why God gave us regulations, be careful of how you follow all these things, from WhatsApp, Instagram, whatever it is. Be careful, because if you are not spiritually alert and if you are not standing very solidly in this faith, your heart must be shaken by what you read and what you see in the internet.
20. I said your heart will be moved by what you see and what you read in the internet because too many things are happening.
21. These are some of the things and strategies the devil has narrowed down to your phone. You now carry it about. You do not need to go to any cyber cafe or anything. You are with the devil right in your palms.
22. And after reading it, your heart will be set ablaze, you will start boiling, that war will be happening. And the worst is that nobody knows when these things will be happening.
23. Watch that individual, the moment that spirit starts working, he recoils himself, his appetite will snap, he is boiling. If everywhere is cold, he is very hot because something is going on in him.
24. That is why as a parent, if you see your son or daughter recoiling himself, being cold and he has not always been like that, there is every need to call that child. God said you should not shout, do not preach, do not flog.
25. First of all, call him and be diligent to find out what is happening around him. Hallelujah.
26. Pray all the time, ask God for anything in line with the Holy Spirit’s wishes. Plead with Him, remind Him of your wishes and keep praying earnestly for all Christians everywhere.
27. Pray very earnestly for all Christians everywhere. Read it in NIV or Good News. NIV says: And pray in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. verse 18.
28. With peace in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Pray also for me, that wherever I open my mouth, words will be feeding me so that I will fearlessly make known the history of the gospel.
29. Also do what? Remember your ministers in prayers because the more we are preaching this, the more it is going out from us.
30. That is why most of the time, we prefer sitting down to hear from God than preaching, because the moment you preach, you are preaching out virtue.
31. That is why God said, be careful of how you preach so that you do not preach out the God you worship. Do not preach your revelation.
32. There is every need, that instrument God is using in your day, He said, “God remember the Man on your right side, even the Son of Man, so that we can worship Him rightly.”
33. If there is no need for that, David would not have prayed that kind of prayer. So when you pray, also remember the Almighty God, that vessel. He is a man, yet He is God.
34. Put Him into the Hands of God, commit Him, that He that has called Him will be able to see Him through.
35. For which I am an ambassador in the chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly as I should.
What is your name before God? Or do you not know yourself. What is your name before us? Before the Almighty God, what is your name? Give yourself a name. What do you want God to call you? What do you want us to call you? What do you want God to call you? What do you want the Brethren to call you? A good man before the Brethren, a good Sister, but evil in the sight of God? Having good commendations among the heathens, but being the worst in the sight of God. What do you want us to call you, as Brethren? And what do you want God to call you? What Brethren see you to be and what they call you, does it harmonize, is it in agreement with what God says you are.
What do you want God to call you? Vol. 1 preached on 6th October, 2019 pg 86:3-5
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FIND OUT WHAT GOD HAS BEEN SAYING CONCERNING YOU
Okay, let us continue with the message, SPIRITUAL MATURITY VOLUME 1. I am reading from page 103, from verse 16 through 17. It is the five-fold that will bring the church into perfection through the word of God. It is what? The five-fold. Did God say it is the Pastor? What are we having today? One-man show or two-man show, the Pastor and the Bishop.
2. Other ministers have rendered themselves redundant, they have declared themselves retired. There is a message God said we should read before I came down to Enugu: FIND OUT THE VOICE THAT HAS ROARED ON YOU. We have that message, find out the Voice that has roared on you.
3. You should check if the Voice that has roared on you from the very beginning is still lingering, and why it is still there. And find out if you have remedied it so that you can also tell your brother that has this same problem with you.
4. Find out what God has been saying concerning you, concerning Enugu household. What has God been saying? Has He changed today? If God should ask the Pastor, “Pastor can you say this thing has been changed?” Can we say yes? That is what God is asking us.
5. And it is the individuals, God said “the strength of a family, the strength of a fellowship is not measured by the strength of the house but the strength of the individuals in that family or in that household.
6. That Enugu is bad is because people inside Enugu are bad. That Enugu is good is because brethren in Enugu are good. There is no reference that is made to this building. This message you are preaching is not meant for the building or fan, it is for individuals.
7. Let us find out what God said about Enugu and let us see if we have changed what God said about us one bit. Follow me to the message, GOD HAS FINISHED WITH YOU. Page 29 verse 21. This message was preached on Wednesday, 1st March, 2017 at late Bishop Moses’ family altar, Nsukka.
8. Enugu, God accused them of having intellectual faith. The instrument which they use in measuring God’s dealings with them is when one is faring well, progressing physically, academic attainment. As long as all their children are in the University, they feel that God is good to them.
9. So, the person who could not send his own child to the University because of one thing or the other, it then means they are not doing well. This is what Enugu is known for. They are known for competition for academic attainment. What is more? Their children have borrowed a cue from them while they are spiritually zero.
10. While they are what? Spiritually zero, and I stand to affirm this to be true. Today, even the girls among the children are now worse than the boys among them. I do not want to call names; I do not want to go there.
11. If the youth forum we had, we do not see the fruits and we point out to the Pastor those that are causing this problem in the household, and we will do well to spot them and put them away, because if God called us youths, and we went, the Pastor was not there.
12. God ministered to us using different speakers, there is every need that the Pastor should see changes in the lives of all the youths in this household. If the ministers want to see changes, are they doing a wrong thing? That, “brother, the way you are faring is not in any way encouraging. Upon all this meeting you went to, there is nothing to show that you went to the meeting.”
13. Is the Pastor saying a wrong thing? God said what? That your life should bear witness of what you claim to believe. That once you find yourself in Christ, you are a brand new individual.
14. He said that if that thing that we still know you for, last year, after all these teachings, after the whole youth forum, we are still seeing that thing in you, it goes to show that there is problem somewhere.
MONITOR THE SPIRITUAL START OF YOUR FAMILY
15. What is more? Their children have borrowed cue from them while they are all spiritually zero. If you tell them to monitor the performances around their children in their schools and colleges, in the universities where they are, they will start monitoring their academic performances.
16. That is where God is still holding us guilty till today. Evangelist Anayo for example, take note. It is not sending your children to the university that matters.
17. If you are sent to monitor the development around your children, you start monitoring, asking them “what is your CGPA? Did you have any reference?” Ignoring the weightier matter.
18. We heard it today that the separating line is character. And God’s nature remains our ticket to paradise, and not your academic certificate. It can never be our ticket to paradise.
19. This is where most of us are missing it, and as the years go by, we are raising more children that want to be undergraduates and they are still patterning after the older ones.
20. When one comes, he will follow the path that has been there already. Nobody can try to be the person that will change that record in Enugu. Even if Enugu is known with that bad record, if it is changed, is it an abomination?
21. And this is the truth, if there is a fellowship that has the greatest number of undergraduates, it is Enugu household. It is not Pastor that wrote it, I am not the one that wrote it.
22. If they are told to monitor the development around their children in their schools and colleges, in the universities where they are, they will monitor their academic performances.
23. Instead of doing what? Monitoring their spiritual aspect, which is that weightier matter.
24. This voice went forth in 2017, and I am still standing today to affirm it to you that it is still holding, they are still building on it till today. When do we now want to change, and we are singing, “we are going home, we are going home.” Going where? Are you going to hell fire or heaven?
25. They do not monitor their spiritual lives at all because that is where God met them. Have you seen it? And all these things they are trying to make important are all temporary things and at the end, they will be seeing their children disappoint them.
26. They will end up doing what? Seeing their children disappoint them because where they invested their efforts is in the academic angle. If that person comes out tomorrow, he will be a brilliant fool.
27. We heard it as a message, that your academics must match with your character, if not you become an academic or a brilliant criminal.
28. They do not have anything to do with eternal life. Can you imagine? You end up raising children that have nothing to do, even from their languages, from the way they dress, the way they speak, you will see someone that calls himself a material for heaven, the person has no sign of godliness, even in their homes.
YOUR CHARACTER IS YOUR PERSONALITY
29. Because I do not have need to live with you for me to know who you are. Take for example, the WhatsApp group that we opened, the Bridal WhatsApp group, they made me one of the admins, I have not made one statement in that group. But from what has been going on in that group, I have been seeing what families are raising as children.
30. Because God said that the best way to know people very well is to make them to be at liberty. Do not put any rules or regulations, then their true colour will come out. If you want to see another character, put rules and regulations, put laws, put threats, suppression of feelings will be there.
31. But if you leave them open, do not warn anybody. Like we never wrote any description in that group, God opened it. It was converted from the youth forum to the general bridal group. Yet the person will be exhibiting their foolishness in a group where all, not only Onitsha, the whole brethren, are.
32. And tomorrow you think that the Brethren do not know you. Because I do not need to save your phone number, I will put it in True Caller, I will know your name. Can you imagine what this family is raising? That is to show you that what God is saying is true.
33. I am not mentioning names; I am just giving you an instance, that I have not said a word but I am in that group. But for the few, that group is not up to one month, it is not up to one month, the group is not up to one month, and yet their true colours are already manifesting.
34. Even people that will leave what the group chat is meant for, and be looking for the number of a brother or sister they will collect and be chatting nonsense.
35. They are all happening here among us, yet your children are in the universities.
36. These are the things you are supposed to monitor, to check. You now put your attention on academic angle. Enugu, that is what we are known for. They have nothing to do with eternal life, they have nothing to do with the life that Christ gives.
37. If you go further in this message, Nsukka was mentioned, Aba, Owerri, all the households were mentioned in this message. But we are only reading the portion that affects us. So since we have repeated this thing, this is the Voice that roared on you, on us as a household.
38. There may be Voices that roared on you as individuals sitting down here in this fellowship. I said, at one time or the other, God must have called you or mentioned your name on the pulpit. He said, “brother so, so, and so do this, sister so, so and so do this.”
39. You only know that Voice. Pastor Ejike might not know what the Voice has said about me, but he knows what the Voice has said about him. So, God wants us to go home, remedy it as families and then come back together, we will now produce a wonderful fellowship.
40. So, if we are rejoicing that we are coming on Saturday, let us not rejoice because you are coming to see your brother, hug him and do this and that. Know the basis of your joy. I said, know the basis of your joy because some people, their testimony might be, at the end they embraced all the brethren, knew this brother from the North, knew this brother from another fellowship.
41. That should not be our testimony. We are not coming to that fellowship for social affairs. It is to weigh our lives, to talk to ourselves. We will use Igbo to talk to ourselves as it affects us as families. We call a spade a spade.
42. If anyone has something to say, it is not a fellowship, it is like a meeting where the whole fellowship will gather together. Then at the end of the day, the word of God will be presented. Whatever you are saying that has no link to the word of God, there is no truth in it.
43. That is why we do not stand here to talk, whatever we say that is not linked to the word of God, I say do not believe it.
44. If your father should mount the pulpit and start quoting a message or a scripture for you about what he said, do not believe whatever he is saying. That is why God said we should follow His example, watch the Almighty God.
45. I read a message dated 1992, it said, with every statement God makes, He backs it up with more than four scriptures just to show you that He is not saying of His own, and He is not saying it just to win your favour. We do not preach it to win your commendation or to say pastor thank you.
46. No, we preach it because eternal life is involved. Seeing the terror of God, we persuade all men, do you know what is persuade, to beg, bring the message down to his level, say “brother please.”
47. Because the terror of God is not what a human being should experiment, “let me test it, let me make a practice of this, a practice of sin, let me test and see if it will happen.”
48. Find out for yourself very well, from your daily experiences, prove for yourself if, from your daily experiences, if you are still a member of this faith or not. God said that you might be hiding in your families, that no matter, if you go to New Year Message, he said that no matter where you hide, no matter where you are that God must shoot you up.
49. It was not hard, that brother living in our house, the son of Elder Ben Mbah, Ugochukwu. You all know about it, and what happened? The position of his father was stripped. The position of Elder was stripped from him.
50. That should be a lesson to you children, not to live in sin that will strip your parents of the position they occupy in Christ. Just for the sin of one person, this is just a physical position.
51. God has put you as a Deacon, as a Pastor, your son now did something and it will be said that you are not supposed to be a Deacon, and it will be collected from you.
52. What then do you have to say before your creator? Have you seen the need for us to be diligent to know the state of our family? You are professing this faith, believing the Son of Man, are you sure that your wife is professing this faith?
53. The same way you see this God, are you sure your wife is seeing God this way? Because the closest person to your children remains their mother. That is why if a child spoils, the blame goes to the mother first.
54. They are the ones, that is why God said, first of all, as a brother, train your wife first if you want your family to have peace. Train your wife first so that your wife can train your children. You first enforce the training as a father.
55. Are you sure they believe what you believe? Are you sure their lives speak the same thing? Because if you do not have the same aim, the same objective, there is no way you can achieve success in an organization.
56. I am studying Management, there is one principle they have in management that you cannot have superiority of personal interest over occupational interest.
57. Because you are tired, you want the company to close by 3pm. It is not possible. So everybody in the office must work together.
58. No matter how tired you are, you must put in your hard effort, just to make sure the company will continue going on. So, if that person sees that you are tired and about to sleep, he says wake up.
59. That is why in the fellowship, you do what? Wake people up because all of us, we only have one aim. Amen.
OBEDIENCE TRANSFORMS YOUR LIFE NOT COMPLIANCE
60. Follow me to this message, GOD HAS FINISHED WITH YOU. Page 68 verse 34-37. Watch, a good number of our brethren here are only complying with my word and not obeying. A good number of the brethren here are only complying with the word of the Son of Man and not obeying.
61. If pastor gives threat, once you are threatened, you obey. Once you have problem, that is when you will know how to pray. There are such persons in this faith. They do not pray until they have problems.
62. The moment their wife is in labour pains or they have an accident that is not good, that is the moment they will kneel down and pray. The moment it becomes good and easy they go back to their normal way of life.
63. Obedience takes place in the heart. Obedience to the truth transforms your life, the moment you obey, you must have a permanent nature of the truth which is the Son of Man. The Son of Man is the link to the truth. That the moment you obey, you must have a permanent nature, have something you are known for.
64. Do not be like the raging sea. Jacob called his children and was talking to them.
65. He was telling his first son that he should be very careful. He was telling the others that they should not pattern after him, that he is like the raging sea, he is always boiling. He is not stable, erratic.
66. God does not want us to be erratic. Today, you are this, tomorrow you are that. Pastor cannot even say what you are known for, if he is asked he will say he does not know, there is nothing he is known for. It is not a good record. God is saying that the moment you obey this truth, that you must have the permanent nature of the truth.
67. The truth will redeem you, renew your life, renew your strength, renew your heart, renew your spirit, renew everything in you till you become a brand new individual. Amen.
AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT COVERED BY THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY GOD, YOU ARE WALKING NAKED. YOU ARE POOR. YOU ARE MISERABLE. AND YET, YOU KNOW IT NOT. WHAT A PITIABLE CONDITION? Let your hair grow from head to toe, wear Maxi and even wear Bubu, but as long as you do not have the Spirit of Christ as your covering, you are naked. That is why you must go to the T-shirt you are wearing and see the virtues. If the virtues are not in you, you are barren. You are unfruitful in all things. So you are unprofitable.
The impact of the Word of God in Our Hearts preached on 1st Jan. 2020 pg. 25:30-32
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TRUTH TRANSFORMS
The truth will continue to transform, before you know it the person’s language will change, the way he barbs his hair will change, the way he dresses will change, the way he walks will change. Everything about the person will keep on changing and changing till you will be surprised and ask the brother, “is this really you?” Brethren, is it not true?
2. It does not happen at a glance; it does not happen immediately. You will know the brother has put in much effort, much prayer, much hard work, much devotion to God for him to sustain that kind of life. But watch, for that brother to change, even if it is not for one day, you see that building a good character takes time, but breaking it needs a second.
3. You just need a voice for you to break that character, that is the only thing you need. On the day God was preaching, He told Brother Paschal, “is this not Enugu, is this not Enugu’s language? God will save us anyhow, let us be doing anyhow as we are going. No shaken, no shaken. I know more than that.” That God said, Bro Paschal, is this not Enugu’s language, he said “yes sir, it is Enugu’s language.”
4. He confirmed it to be true. Even Apostle Okey confirmed it to be true, that it is Enugu’s language.
5. If you know that thing Enugu is known for, go and check very well to see if that thing is not in your family. They will be telling you no shaken, that there is no problem, we will still do it, there is no problem. Are you sure it is not in your family?
6. Have you now seen that what we are attacking are spirits? We are not attacking individuals. Brethren, we that have confirmed it to be truth, let us make sure that when we go home, let us fight this spirit. It does not end in confirming this message or shouting Amen to the message.
7. Let us go and combat and know that this is not a physical warfare, that it is mere spiritual. It only takes a fool to say that the world will not come to an end.
8. With everything that is happening in this our very own age, I forgot my message, RANDOM COMMENTS VOLUME 3, to remind us what God said. With everything happening, it will take a fool to say that the world will not end.
9. Watch what is happening in Australia, watch what is happening in America, watch the whole world.
10. Imagine that the fire that has been on in Australia, they said that rain fell and the individuals in that community said that it was like fuel that was poured on the ground. A certain community inside Australia has been evacuated completely, nobody is in that community again.
11. And you say it is not God that is doing it, and at each point in time, is it this kind of thing that we are supposed to be telling ourselves? Go back and check your family, talk to them about their spiritual life, I mean is this what we should be saying at this point in time? Let us know that we are wasting our own time.
12. It is now that we are supposed to be encouraging ourselves, reminding ourselves of the prophecies of God and the need to stand together. United we stand, divided we fall.
13. This is the time we should remind ourselves of the goodness of God and to also encourage one another unto good works, because we are not living in our own days again.
14. Anything can happen, carry these messages to your children wherever they are, even in their schools and colleges that anything can happen at any point in time. I am not telling you this so that you obey me as your pastor, I am telling you this because I want to be with you in paradise.
15. But where you do not want to be with me, fine. Do what you want to do. When you came to this world, you came to this world alone.
16. Every day, the Son of Man always tells us something, that He came to this world alone, that we should never be deceived, that He is preaching this message or making us to understand or talking because He wants us to be with Him. No, that He is only saying this because there is every need that we come to paradise.
17. Because, He as God knows that hell is not a place a living being should smell. I said what? Hell is not a place a living being should smell to enter.
18. He said that, “if within you, you think you are now wiser than Me, do what you want to do.” God cannot force you, God cannot bring food and put it into your mouth.
19. When you go to the mirror, the mirror will show you the pimples on your face. If you walk out, the pimples will remain there. If you stand there, the mirror cannot press it for you. Hallelujah.
20. Brethren, I am rounding up. Let us go to MINISTERS’ MEETING VOLUME 4. Page 71, this message was preached at dawn, 27th December, 2015 at the Household of God, Onitsha. I am reading from page 71 verse 22.
21. Remember, the pitiful offense you will commit and be removed is when you cause this ministry to be blamed in your hands. When you begin to give offense in everything and begin to develop faintheartedness, when you begin to draw back, when you begin to lower down the standard, it is a sure sign that you are tired of this ministry. When you begin to see this ministry as a burden you can no longer bear, this is the point God will take you out immediately.
22. And if God did not see this, He would not have been reading the Book of Chronicles for us. Most of us are now seeing this ministry as a burden we cannot bear. Let us continue from verse 35.
WE HANDLE GOD’S WORD
WITHOUT DECEIT
23. By manifestation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience. As ministers of God, we handled the word of God without deceit, giving no offense in anything that this ministry be not blamed. You can never handle the word of God deceitfully without making the heathens to think evil of this message. You can never live contrary to this faith without making your neighbors to speak evil of this truth.
24. William Branham said, do not preach me a sermon, live me a sermon. That the greatest message that makes the highest impact is your character. That is why we tell people that before you mount this pulpit, make sure you are not coming to tell us stories, head knowledge.
25. God said that you will end up being professors of this message. What did I call it? Professors. Those that profess this message are called professors. They only have head knowledge of this message, it can never save you.
26. If you like, know the Book of Enoch, the Quran, Epistle, Compendium verbatim without quoting, without looking at any book, it is nonsense before God. The Bible said that, that which you call your righteousness is filthy rags before God.
27. So if you are tagging on your own personal conviction or your personal revelation of what you think God is, God said that you should drop it now because the way you handle the word of God has evidently shown us how you see God.
28. The way you take the word of God has shown us how you see God, because he that believes that God is a consuming fire, does he joke with the word of God? God said that most of us have sealed our doom with our own lips, with our mouths.
29. You come before God, “God I worship you as the King of kings and Lord of lords, Creator of the universe.” He will say to you, “Bro Ugoo stop there, do not do it like this, follow here.” “I should follow here? There is always traffic on this road.” He will now call you in thirty minutes and you are already at home. You do not know that it is disobedience. What you will say is “Daddy does not know that there is usually traffic on this road on Sundays.” But the Voice said, “follow this way.” That is obeying God in minutest way.
30. In that minutest way, do not reason, do not even think it. “Brother Ugoo, this sandal will not fit you.” You do not even need to look at the sandal to check, that is the minutest detail. God now said, “how many of you know that minutest job God will give you?” How many of us know that minutest thing.
31. That minutest thing in the sight of God might be the greatest, biggest problem to you as a brother. “This is a no-go area.” But to God, it is the minutest thing but to you, it is the biggest offence that nobody should even cross. Brethren I am rounding up.
32. 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 verse 4. GNB. In our work together with God, then, we beg you who have received God’s grace not to let it be wasted. We are begging you, we that came today, the ministers God has sent to Enugu household. God said, “spurn not your own day of visitation.”
33. You do not know when you receive your last visitation. This was what happened in the Local Assembly at Mbaise and if Pastor Obinna knew that that day will be his last day, he would have welcomed, he would have opened his heart and received the word of God with joy. But what happened? He never knew that it was an angel of death, the next day he died.
34. Be able to recognize your day and your own day of visitation. Today, God has sent us to Enugu which has not been the norm. Let me tell you, I even argued, I reasoned with God, “Daddy I do not want to go to Enugu, I want to go to Jerusalem.” This was the same thing that Jonah did. He did not want to go to Nineveh, but because God’s word must stand, I bowed down and said Amen.
35. Because there is nobody that would not want to be in Jerusalem where everything is happening. There is something in seeing God speak and hearing God speak over your phones. Seeing Him speak, lifting His Hands, touching you, is enough. If that is the only thing I will get there, let me go and get it and come back.
36. Yet, we ignored this, we forfeited this, for that was the biggest privilege for me. We ignored it and God directed us here. Now, we are begging you. In our work together with God.
37. In our work together with God, we are all doing the same thing, we are all having the same purpose.
38. Then we beg you who have received God’s grace. We beg you because this is the highest grace you have received, because you do not know when God will visit this household again. Maybe expecting Him, many of you will be expecting, maybe one day the Son of Man will come live.
39. You might not know if God has visited you today using another vessel. If one that invited the president of Nigeria for his wedding, and the president of Nigeria in turn sends the governor of your state for that wedding, did the president not grace that occasion?
40. Brethren, are we sure we understand this? You invited the president for a wedding, he now said okay, let the governor of your state represent me. The governor came and you failed to give him the respect and honour you are supposed to give the president; it shows that that person is blind.
41. That now we have come, we are preaching the same message, we have worked together. All of us are having the same faith. This is not evangelism; we are not preaching to people that have not known this truth. We are preaching to you that are familiar, you are constant, you are consistent with this truth. It is not a new message; it is not a new revelation.
42. We are only begging you, that since you have received this truth, we beg you who have received God’s grace not to let it to be wasted. Not to let it to be what? Wasted. May you never allow this day to be a regrettable day for you.
43. Hear what God says. Hear what? What God said. What did God say? When the time came for me to show you favor, I heard you when the day arrived for me to save you, I helped you.” Listen! This is the hour to receive God’s favor.
THIS IS THE HOUR TO RECEIVE GOD’S FAVOUR
44. This is the hour to receive God’s favour. If you really opened your hearts, today will be a turning point in your lives. If you really opened your heart, you will tell yourself, “did my heart not burn within me, from morning when I started hearing this message till now.”
45. We have never had a fellowship like this before. Apostle Okey, did anybody stop you from going to Onitsha, Bro John, did anybody stop you? Did anybody tell you I was going to feature in the pulpit today? (They replied in the negative)
46. Can you see that when God wants to make a move, He knows how to make His own stop. Can we understand something there? Because many will be thinking that I would have told Bro John, nobody knew.
47. Everybody was surprised seeing me today. The same way I was surprised seeing Bro John, seeing Bro Okey Oleri also, because I know these are the two people that frequent Onitsha very well.
48. So, this thing that has never happened before that happened today, God is saying that we should not allow it to be in vain.
49. This is the hour to receive God’s favour. Today is the day to be saved. Did God say tomorrow? If you believe it why not say Amen? Today is the day to be saved. If that thing that has been in you all these years, God said He has put an end to it today.
50. We do not want anyone to find fault with our work. We do not want anyone to do what? Find fault with our work because we have all collectively accepted this to be true. That which you have confirmed and said Amen, and said yes sir, why not go home and put an end to it.
51. We do not want anyone to find fault with our work so we try not to put obstacles in anyone’s way.
52. We try not to do what? Put up obstacles in anyone’s way, for what we are doing is removing the obstacles, noting what that obstacle is and telling our brother, “look at what this obstacle is.”
53. Because God said, it is not that big thing you are not obeying that will drop you. It is the small one, that one you neglected, thinking that it is nothing.
54. Enugu language, let us end it today. “It does not matter.” It matters, if it does not matter, why are we still here? If God is speaking, do not say that you know more than that. If you know more than that, why are you still behaving the way you are behaving?
55. Instead, in everything we do, we show that we are God’s servants by patiently enduring trouble. By doing what? Patiently enduring trouble. No messenger of God has ever painted that on our way to heaven, that it will be a pleasurable ride.
56. There is no prophet that has appeared that ever said that it will be a pleasurable ride. That is why it said that we should patiently do what? Endure.
57. Instead, in everything we do, we show that we are God’s servants by patiently enduring trouble, hardship and difficulties. Did it say that it will be very smooth? That from today it will be very very good? Remember what the scriptures said, that from today, not tomorrow, today, salvation has come to us.
58. That from now, we should be earnestly strong to endure the pressure because if anybody is telling you now that the devil will not try you after receiving this truth, the person is deceiving you. From today, brace up for you will receive the highest temptation from the devil.
59. He will fight through your children, he will fight through your wife, your husband. Whatever it is that needs something to do, your job or anything. But God is believing you are keeping His word because He knows that you can surmount it.
60. We have been beaten, imprisoned and mobbed; we have been overworked and have gone without sleep or food. By our purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God’s servants.
61. By what? Our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness. That is why God said, that which you see me do, pattern after me. That you do not need to struggle, that that message that is hard for you, simply watch the Son of Man. Whatever He does, simply do that.
62. By our purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God’s servants—by the Holy Spirit, by our true love, by our message of truth. By what? Our true love and our message of truth which we all can bear eloquent testimony to.
63. We have shown ourselves to be God’s servants—by the Holy Spirit, by our true love, by our message of truth, and by the power of God. We have righteousness as our weapon.
64. We have righteousness as what? Our weapon. Have we heard it today? Did we hear it today brethren? That you should decorate yourself with the armour of God’s truth. We have righteousness as our weapon, both to attack and defend ourselves. Both to do what? Attack and defend ourselves.
65. So God has given us this truth so that you can use it to go to your homes to attack that devil, to attack that spirit and also use it as a shield to defend yourself.
66. We are honoured and disgraced, we are insulted and praised. We are treated as liars, yet we speak the truth; 9 as unknown, yet we are known by all; as though we were dead, but, as you see, we live on. Although punished, we are not killed; although saddened, we are always glad; we seem poor, but we make many people rich;
67. Can you imagine? We seem poor by the eyes of the world, look at the qualities of all children of God everywhere. Yes. We seem to have nothing, yet we really possess everything.
68. We seem to have nothing, but we possess everything. That is why God said, one with God is greater than majority.
69. Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you; We have done what? Spoken frankly to you. To brethren here in Enugu, we have spoken frankly to you. We have opened our hearts wide. It is not we who have closed our hearts to you. It is you who have closed your hearts to us.
70. So, if you do not see yourself practising this message, it is not that we never opened our hearts to you, but it is you that closed your hearts, shut your hearts against this truth preached today.
71. I speak now as though you were my children: show us the same feelings that we have for you.
72. Do what? Show us the same feeling that we have for you. The same way we profess this truth, go home and profess this truth to your family. So that we come back to this fellowship and present a Godly fellowship. On this note, I say remain blessed in Him eternally.