“After this manner therefore pray ye:

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November 2, 2016

Who is like unto Thee O Lord! Who is like unto Thee O Lord, among the gods who is like Thee You are glorious holiness fearful in praises doing Wonder alleluia.// All glory, glory, glory to the Lord 2x, alleluia hosanna, hosanna, hosanna, blessed be thy Name of the Lord Amen! hosanna hosanna, hosanna, blessed be thy Name of the Lord.

Dear heavenly Father, we thank You we praise Your Holy Name. Blessed be Thy Name forever. Thank You for all Your mercies and kindness towards us Your children. Thank You for being a strong tower to us that we run into it and be secured. Glory be to You for You will watch over us and no evil shall befall us.

Thank You because as we pray again today in Your presence, You will answer us and will grant us every of our heart desires in Jesus Name.

Beloved, is prayer time! Thank God for another opportunity to seek Him early this month, blessed His Holy Name forever.

Today we will considering Jesus Model of Prayer. We read in the bible that Jesus either after ministration goes to pray or before any important assignment. The disciple watched Him and on one occasion they asked Him to teach them to pray.

I believe someone who is reading this devotional today will like the disciple of Old will ask Jesus teach me to pray.

In Jesus model of pray though not too lengthy but it compasses all. Ranging from adoration, thanksgiving, forgiveness and expression of needs backup with thanksgiving in faith that your prayers have receive answers.

How do you pray? More often than not many prayer request centered largely on our expression of personal needs than anything. Some forget to appreciate God, talk less of thanking for they have received, even when they do it is few words and nothing more than that, then comes the list of what God must do with deadlines attached to it.

Put yourself in the place of God because somehow God design our relationship with one another to be dependent. We have people who depends on us for one thing or the other, if they approach you in like manner, will you like it?

Another category of people are those who pray only when they have needs or want something done for them, they pray with such a loud voice and always add deadline to it else God is not as power as He claim to be or not as loving as His Name depicts He is. Praise the Lord.

Jesus told his disciple not pray like the hypocrites- those who prayed to seen that they are praying. He also told them to avoid vain repetitions as the heathens do because they think that God hears them because of their many words or semantics. He told them that is not necessary, since our heavenly knows already what we need and will grant it but you must also ask him.

He then taught them to pray. Beloveth why is necessary that you pray? My own answer to this question are as follows firstly, when eventual you receive it you will express thanks to God. Secondly, you place more value on what you want than what you simply receive. Thirdly, you are remain accountable to it forever than when it is otherwise.

Beloved, I know you will have your own reasons why we must pray, will you rather share with us?

Let’s get down to the message of the day and learn more:

“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, etc.” Matthew 6:9

This prayer begins where all true prayer must commence, with the spirit of adoption, “Our Father.” There is no acceptable prayer until we can say, “I will arise, and go unto my Father.” This child-like spirit soon perceives the grandeur of the Father “in heaven,” and ascends to devout adoration, “Hallowed be Thy name.” The child lisping, “Abba, Father,” grows into the cherub crying, “Holy, Holy, Holy.”

There is but a step from rapturous worship to the glowing missionary spirit, which is a sure outgrowth of filial love and reverent adoration—”Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Next follows the heartfelt expression of dependence upon God—”Give us this day our daily bread.” Being further illuminated by the Spirit, he discovers that he is not only dependent, but sinful, hence he entreats for mercy, “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors:” and being pardoned, having the righteousness of Christ imputed, and knowing his acceptance with God, he humbly supplicates for holy perseverance, “Lead us not into temptation.”

The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. “Forgive us our debts,” that is justification; “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” that is sanctification in its negative and positive forms. As the result of all this, there follows a triumphant ascription of praise, “Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen.”

We rejoice that our King reigns in providence and shall reign in grace, from the river even to the ends of the earth, and of His dominion there shall be no end. Thus from a sense of adoption, up to fellowship with our reigning Lord, this short model of prayer conducts the soul. Lord, teach us thus to pray.

Prayer is more having our needs met. It is goes further to open our eyes so that will see things as God see it. Call it name that God will it. We have classical example given to us in the bible, so let’s get down to it:

“But their eyes were holden that they should not know Him.” Luke 24:16

The disciples ought to have known Jesus, they had heard His voice so often, and gazed upon that marred face so frequently, that it is wonderful they did not discover Him. Yet is it not so with you also? You have not seen Jesus lately. You have been to His table, and you have not met Him there.

You are in a dark trouble this evening, and though He plainly says, “It is I, be not afraid,” yet you cannot discern Him. Alas! our eyes are holden. We know His voice; we have looked into His face; we have leaned our head upon His bosom, and yet, though Christ is very near us, we are saying “O that I knew where I might find Him!”

We should know Jesus, for we have the Scriptures to reflect His image, and yet how possible it is for us to open that precious book and have no glimpse of the Wellbeloved! Dear child of God, are you in that state? Jesus feedeth among the lilies of the word, and you walk among those lilies, and yet you behold Him not.

He is accustomed to walk through the glades of Scripture, and to commune with His people, as the Father did with Adam in the cool of the day, and yet you are in the garden of Scripture, but cannot see Him, though He is always there. And why do we not see Him? It must be ascribed in our case, as in the disciples’, to unbelief.

They evidently did not expect to see Jesus, and therefore they did not know Him. To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus. Make it your prayer, “Lord, open Thou mine eyes, that I may see my Saviour present with me.”

It is a blessed thing to want to see Him; but oh! it is better far to gaze upon Him. To those who seek Him He is kind; but to those who find Him, beyond expression is He dear!

Beloved, did you read that? That we see Jesus speaks to us through the scriptures yet we do not see Him. Though we know his voice, like the apostles of old we did not recognize Him.

Now join me to pray this pray “O Lord, open thou mine eyes, that I may see my savior present with me.”

Our prayer answering God, arise today again and touch our eyes and open it to see You. Help us to behold You in the scripture as You have ordained Your Word to be life and Spirit to all who reads it. Remove every unbelief in our heart today and boost our faith in You by wonders You will do through Your Living Word as we read. Answer us as we pray in the Name of Jesus.

Don’t forget to also ask the Spirit of the living God to help you bring to subjection everything that will rebel rather than live a life of self-control in Jesus Name.

Beloved, may the Spirit of God help our infirmities as we pray this day and always in Jesus Name.

Remain blessed in the

Welcome to Your Month of Self-Control that is in Christ Jesus

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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November 1, 2016

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Yes! You are the Lord, Most high. Yes! You are the Lord Most High. Yes! You are the Lord Most High. Yes! You are the Lord Most High.// Yesterday You reign, You regineth in my life; today come and reign and reign forever, Yesterday You reign You reign, today come and reign and reign forever more 2x.

Faithful God, we thank You for Your faithfulness in our life and situations. Thank You for Your guidance and protection, Your love and peace, Father we Thank You for Your provisions and Your healing and deliverances from the beginning of the year up until now. Father, we cannot Thank You enough for all You are doing and will yet do.

A new month is here not without Your knowledge for You created everything and order them into existence. Father, we Thank You, we bless Your Holy Name. Be thou exalted forever in Jesus Name.

Father in heaven O God! You have brought us into a new month and new experience. Father help us I pray Thee to go through this month again not in our power nor our strength but to lean on You to carry us through. Help us Lord we pray Thee. For we cannot do it on our own without errors and falling but with You Lord we can leap over the wall and skip the mountains alleluia, alleluia!

Beloved, happy new month! Did you observed the praise day as was suggested to us yesterday? I did and I was richly blessed. God did something wonderful for me as result. And I believe that so many also did because the Spirit of God is bearing me to witness.

However, if you did not, another opportunity is here again for you to praise God. You paid nothing to God to be part of this month. He graciously gave you a privilege to be among the living. He still gave you another opportunity to occupy till He comes. Therefore, I enjoin you this moment to sing praises to the Only Wise God.

Beloved, we are glad that we are privilege to serve God though this ministry again this month. To bring to you the undiluted Word of God as the Holy Spirit will enable and direct us. I believe you also pray that God will always meet your needs through His written Word as we are enable as ministry to do as at now.

How fast we are going though this year, beloveth we are already in the eleventh month of the year. Wow! Can you offer a shout offering to the Lord? God has brought us thus far beloveth, He will yet see us through the remaining days of this year in Jesus Name. Amen!

What is the Spirit of God saying to us as a ministry in this wonderful and glorious month He has made us to be part? Praise be to Jesus, Who has not left us an orphan but has through the Holy Spirit reveal to us the mind and the will of His Father for us in this part of eternity.

Our gracious Father is saying to us that His workings will not in any way be less than what we have been experiencing before now, He will move like never before in our midst and visit us again in an unusual way that will only leave you with wow! come the last day of this month.

So ensure that you fellow us all the way and ripe the full blessing as the Spirit of God will be releasing to us.

By the grace of God this month of November will do us good and usher us into the crowning month of the year by the special grace of God. Our theme for this month as revealed to us by the Spirit of God is “Having dominion though the Self-Control that is in Christ Jesus (Isa 53:7; 2Cor 3:1-6).”

Can you give a shout offering to the Lord? Beloveth, you having dominion whether the devil likes it or not. By the help of the Holy Spirit beloveth, we will become like Jesus by the end of this month. We will not fall short to the likeness of Jesus as you see from the text of the theme.

Are you ready to live as Jesus did? If you are, then be ready to go all the way because the Holy Spirit is here to help you if you are willing and obedient the Spirit of God will see you through.

Are you ready to walk in this virtue of “Self-Control”? Then you must be willing to live a life of surrender. And if you ready to do that then you are in right place.

So let’s get going :

“I am the Lord, I change not.” Malachi 3:6

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows. All things else have changed—all things are changing.

The sun itself grows dim with age; the world is waxing old; the folding up of the worn-out vesture has commenced; the heavens and earth must soon pass away; they shall perish, they shall wax old as doth a garment; but there is One who only hath immortality, of whose years there is no end, and in whose person there is no change.

The delight which the mariner feels, when, after having been tossed about for many a day, he steps again upon the solid shore, is the satisfaction of a Christian when, amidst all the changes of this troublous life, he rests the foot of his faith upon this truth—”I am the Lord, I change not.”

The stability which the anchor gives the ship when it has at last obtained a hold-fast, is like that which the Christian’s hope affords him when it fixes itself upon this glorious truth. With God “is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” What ever His attributes were of old, they are now; His power, His wisdom, His justice, His truth, are alike unchanged.

He has ever been the refuge of His people, their stronghold in the day of trouble, and He is their sure Helper still. He is unchanged in His love. He has loved His people with “an everlasting love”; He loves them now as much as ever He did, and when all earthly things shall have melted in the last conflagration, His love will still wear the dew of its youth. Precious is the assurance that He changes not! The wheel of providence revolves, but its axle is eternal love.

“Death and change are busy ever,

Man decays, and ages move;

But His mercy waneth never;

God is wisdom, God is love.”

Yes,! Our God changeth not. His Word will not fall to the ground concerning you. He will surely perfect all that concerns you. He will help you say the Spirit of the Most High God! His love is unfathomable. He standeth sure. He is the Rock of Ages.

Beloveth, we are epistle of Christ and we must not afford to live carelessly else we will dishonor the Lord Name as we could also see in the theme of the month.

If you want to live as Jesus did. If you must have dominion in your world then you must have this wonderful virtue added to your life. The virtue of self-control. Beloved, you must live a life of surrendering.

Difficult? Not all if you have walk in the liberty that was in the theme of last month- Meekness, this will surely be a walk over by the help of the Holy Spirit- come alone at we discovery more from the message below:

The Key To The Christian Life Is Surrender

Are you fearful about the future? Apprehensive that the bottom might fall out? Concerned at the prospect of some future calamity? The only answer to quelling such fears is SURRENDERING to our wise, all-knowing sovereign Father.

“Those who listen to Me will be secure and will live at ease, without dread of disaster.” (Proverbs 1:33b) (See Proverbs 31:25; Jeremiah 17:7, 8)

Are you experiencing a difficult relationship in the family or at work? Perhaps you are perplexed by an association in which you feel misunderstood or mistreated. Again, the answer to inner peace lies in SURRENDER.

“Therefore, as God‘s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” (Colossians 3:12, 13)

Are you fearful that you might not be able to maintain control over your finances? Concerned that they could slip away, or be diminished by a bad investment, or by an economic crisis beyond your control? Again, SURRENDER is the only hope for inner peace.

“Riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations… Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.” (Proverbs 27:24; 23:5) (See Psalm 25:12, 13)

Are you worried about your health? Of getting cancer? Or growing old? Are you fearful that a family member might be stricken or die prematurely? This side of eternity there certainly are no guarantees of a sublime, pain-free life. So again, the answer lies in SURRENDER to our wise and loving Shepherd.

“Those who hope in me will not be disappointed.” (Isaiah 49:23b)

But SURRENDERING our will to His does not come easily. The reason? “We seek what one might call a relative omnipotence: The power to have everything we want, to enjoy every thing we desire, to demand that all our wishes be satisfied and that our will should never be frustrated or opposed. It is the need to have everyone to bow to our judgment and accept our declarations as law. It is the insatiable thirst for recognition of the excellence we so desperately need to find in ourselves to avoid despair… ” (Thomas Merton)

Humanly, it would seem that achieving inner peace would be dependent upon our ability to consummate and maintain control over our lives in every area. His condition for our peace, however, is based on our categorical, unconditional SURRENDER to Him and His sovereign will. Jesus demonstrated His SURRENDER to the Father in praying, “Not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39b) Do you choose to do the same?

Beloved, this month is promising to be like no other. Through the help of the Holy Spirit, the Lord will take us through another adventure to discover what He want of us.

So once again we welcome you in your month of self-control that is in Christ Jesus.

Mediate on these things as we go on. You can also sing the popular song of ‘I surrender”

Remain blessed in the Lord.

“I will praise Thee, O Lord.”

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 31, 2016

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October 31

I praise You, I praise You O Lord in my life Lord. I see what You are doing one more time Lord I lift my voice in praise of Your Name O Lord I lift up my voice in praise of Your Name.//You are worthy Lord, You are worthy Lord, You are worthy Lord Mighty God 2x You are worthy Lord, You are worthy Lord, You are worthy Lord Mighty El=Shhaddi.

Faithful Lord we come with thanksgiving into You gate and into Your court with praise. We are thankful for all You have done for us all through the month and with a loud voice we came before Your Throne, we bow and sing praises to Your Holy Name. Thank You and Thank You forever more.

How can we thank You enough for all Your loving kindness towards me, my family, the ministry and career. Blessed be thy Holy Name. Thank You for protection from every foes and enemies of our soul. Thank You for Your sustenance. Father Thank You for diverse healing and deliverances you are God. Glory be to Your Name forever and ever.

Beloved, how was your weekend? Hope you have a nice time in your Worship centers? With joy in our heart we welcome into another glorious moment in God’s presence and am sure your joy will be overflowing at the end.

Remember we said last Friday that we will be dedicating today as praise and thanks-giving day to the King of kings, God the Almighty, He is our helper. Our strength, glory be to God. What has God done for you that deserve your praise? I will praise God as far as there is breathe in me nostril irrespective of what He has done for me, I don’t know about you but for me and my household we will praise the Lord.

Lord with our heart full of thanks before Your Throne we come, accept our praise Father. Let our thanks come before Your Throne as a sweet smelling sacrifice we pray. Father, we cannot Thank You enough for Your goodness in our life, family and ministry, Thank You for being there for us and helping us through every infirmities that question our authority of sonship. Glory be to Your Name.

Thank You for helping us each day to learn from our feet. Thank You for helping us to become better in our relationship with one another and in our discipleship race.

Holy Spirit help us and continue to help us to be more like Jesus. Every virtue that made Christ the Son of the Most High God help us to imbibe in Jesus Name.

Beloved, if you are ready to praise, let go:

“I will praise Thee, O Lord.” Psalm 9:1

Praise should always follow answered prayer; as the mist of earth’s gratitude rises when the sun of heaven’s love warms the ground. Hath the Lord been gracious to thee, and inclined His ear to the voice of thy supplication? Then praise Him as long as thou livest. Let the ripe fruit drop upon the fertile soil from which it drew its life.

Deny not a song to Him who hath answered thy prayer and given thee the desire of thy heart. To be silent over God’s mercies is to incur the guilt of ingratitude; it is to act as basely as the nine lepers, who after they had been cured of their leprosy, returned not to give thanks unto the healing Lord. To forget to praise God is to refuse to benefit ourselves; for praise, like prayer, is one great means of promoting the growth of the spiritual life.

It helps to remove our burdens, to excite our hope, to increase our faith. It is a healthful and invigorating exercise which quickens the pulse of the believer, and nerves him for fresh enterprises in his Master’s service. To bless God for mercies received is also the way to benefit our fellow-men; “the humble shall hear thereof and be glad.”

Others who have been in like circumstances shall take comfort if we can say, “Oh! magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together; this poor man cried, and the Lord heard him.” Weak hearts will be strengthened, and drooping saints will be revived as they listen to our “songs of deliverance.”

Their doubts and fears will be rebuked, as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. They too shall “sing in the ways of the Lord,” when they hear us magnify His holy name. Praise is the most heavenly of Christian duties.

The angels pray not, but they cease not to praise both day and night; and the redeemed, clothed in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands, are never weary of singing the new song, “Worthy is the Lamb.”

I know we will conquer more with praises on lips so let keep praising God. Let’s keep going:

“Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to Thy voice: cause me to hear it.” Song 8:13

My sweet Lord Jesus remembers well the garden of Gethsemane, and although He has left that garden, He now dwells in the garden of His church: there He unbosoms Himself to those who keep His blessed company. That voice of love with which He speaks to His beloved is more musical than the harps of heaven.

There is a depth of melodious love within it which leaves all human music far behind. Ten of thousands on earth, and millions above, are indulged with its harmonious accents. Some whom I well know, and whom I greatly envy, are at this moment hearkening to the beloved voice. O that I were a partaker of their joys! It is true some of these are poor, others bedridden, and some near the gates of death, but O my Lord, I would cheerfully starve with them, pine with them, or die with them, if I might but hear Thy voice.

Once I did hear it often, but I have grieved Thy Spirit. Return unto me in compassion, and once again say unto me, “I am thy salvation.” No other voice can content me; I know Thy voice, and cannot be deceived by another, let me hear it, I pray thee.

I know not what Thou wilt say, neither do I make any condition, O my Beloved, do but let me hear Thee speak, and if it be a rebuke I will bless Thee for it. Perhaps to cleanse my dull ear may need an operation very grievous to the flesh, but let it cost what it may I turn not from the one consuming desire, cause me to hear Thy voice. Bore my ear afresh; pierce my ear with Thy harshest notes, only do not permit me to continue deaf to Thy calls.

To-night, Lord, grant Thine unworthy one his desire, for I am Thine, and Thou hast bought me with Thy blood. Thou hast opened mine eye to see Thee, and the sight has saved me. Lord, open Thou mine ear. I have read Thy heart, now let me hear Thy lips.

Beloved, so much Jesus did for you and I and so much is accept. Atleast let us give thanks in return to the Only Wise God.

Also pray alone with us as we believe God for the new month and His Word for us in season. Father, more than ever before speak to us in accent distinct and clear and Your Name will be praise forever.

Beloved, as you give God hard praise may the remaining blessings of this month be delivered to you in Jesus Name. So Start praising with songs that links you up to heaven and make God happy as this month draw its curtain close.

See You in November by the special grace of God.

Remain blessed in the Lord.

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

Hidden from the Wise

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 28, 2016

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Blessed be the Name of Lord, He is worthy to be and adorn, Lord we lift our Holy hands in one accord blessed be Name of the Lord.// Praise the Lord O my soul; praise the Lord O my soul 2x.

Father, we praise You because You love us with an everlasting love. Thank You for helping us. Thank You Lord for Your guidance and protection. Your healing and provision, Father great are Your works in heaven and earth. Therefore we praise You we worship You we adorn You for You are God.

Wow! The last PCL of the month is here, how the month flew by. So surprising that the month of October is almost gone. Beloved, aren’t grateful that God protected you and preserve you all this month. I am most grateful to God for His faithfulness in my live, family and ministry, am sure you are also. Let reserve the rest on Monday by God’s grace, we rock that day with high praises to the One Who Alone deserve our praise.

This month’s theme “Our month of Dominion through Meekness that is in Christ Jesus, Beloved, how did it go with you? Can you really say of the truth that this topic had an impact in your life? Meekness I learnt from Sunday that is an attribute of being “teachable”. Can I ask you all this important question I have held on to till this day? “Are you teachable?”

The bible recorded that Christ became obedient through the things He learnt. Christ made no reputation of Himself but was very eager to do accomplish the will of His Father thereby reconciling us back to God.

Apostle Paul also said in one of his letter to the Philippians that he count all things loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ. He count as dung all he knew that He may win Christ. Can same be said of you? (Phil 3:8)

Our test for today testify truly that it only in Christ you learn things about the kingdom of God and not in any other thing or through any other means.

This scenario occur where Christ was demolishing the seventy disciples He sent out having heard their report of how devil were subject to them charge them with authority over satan and gave the power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you. However He told them to be humble and teaches them in things to rejoice about.

Beloved, that same power has been given to you also. Christian life is offensive to the kingdom of Satan therefore he fights so we grid our lions and fight also lest we will be mix meat for the devil. God forbids.

Our Lord Jesus, however praised God for hiding this things from the wise and the prudent but revealing it to those who are lowly in heart and in the knowledge of God as you can see in our study text. Praise the Lord!

Beloved, the devil is not happy that you are saved. Every day He struggles for the salvation of your soul. It is your dominion power He is struggling with.

But here is the goodnews Jesus has given thee to power to “tread” on everything that represent serpents and scorpions in your life. He has given us power over every enemies surrounding our lives and destinies. And nothing shall by any means hurt us.

Beloved, you are more that conqueror through Christ that loves you. We conquer through prayer, so let’s watch and pray (Matt 26:41).

We are call to “GO’ and go we must. We must preach the Word in season and out of season (2Tim 4:8).

Do you want to have dominion over everything that hitherto dominated you? Beloved, here is another opportunity presenting itself to you, be meek and lowly as our Lord Jesus was and God honoured Him (Phil 2:9-11).

Let’s get more from the message below:

In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.”—Luke 10:21

One hindrance to hearing a word from God may be our own wisdom. Wisdom, like success, can delude us to think we should take the role of teacher rather than student. Our knowledge lulls us into thinking we have sufficient wisdom to meet any challenge. Believing we are wise tempts us to evaluate the shortcomings of others yet be unaware of how much growth is still required in ourselves.

The Pharisees were the religious experts of their day. They possessed much information about God, but they had no personal relationship with Him. Their knowledge clouded their view of their condition before God. Jesus thanked His Father that it was not to these “experts” that the Father had revealed spiritual truth, but rather to those who were humble and who recognized their need for God’s revelation.

When religious leaders experience spiritual failure, their downfall is often met with surprise. It shouldn’t be. Religious people with the most knowledge are sometimes the ones least responsive to God’s Word. Knowledge can easily lead to pride, and pride impedes us from seeking God.

How do you know if you are a “Pharisee”? When you do not have a teachable spirit. When you become defensive if a fellow Christian shares a concern about your spiritual condition. When you do not seek to hear from God, believing you already know what He thinks. When you feel that you are capable of helping others in their spiritual lives, but no one can teach you anything. Don’t allow the limited knowledge you now have to blind you to the great truths God still wants to reveal to you.

This is very important to note as we will soon draw the curtain of this month close by the grace of God. Remain teachable because that is only way to the top. Praise God. Earlier in the week we made a declaration of what we choose to do irrespective of what is happening around us, we said we choose to rejoice even when everything we labored for crumbled before our eyes. The next message have more to say:

Let keep going:

Do You Wonder If You Have What It Takes To Pull It Off… One More Day?

If so, then ponder this: “In all your journey as a believer, you will have two categories of spiritual experiences. One is tender, delightful and loving. The other can be quite obscure, dry, dark, and desolate. God gives us the first one to gain us; he gives us the second to purify us.” (Michael Molinos)

God is using every experience in your life to transform you into Christ’s character:

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son… ” (Romans 8:28, 29a)

Therefore: Choose today to praise Him for every eventuality that comes into your life, viewing them as His ordained agents to make you more like Him.

God has given you the necessary resources to live life exactly as He intends:

“What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:31, 32)

Therefore: Choose today to appropriate from Him whatever resources are necessary to accomplish what He has put before you.

No accusation against you can stand. Imagine: Christ not only died for you but right now is praying for you:

“Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” (Romans 8:33, 34)

Therefore: Choose today to rest in the knowledge that your Sovereign God has declared you righteous in His sight, and has forgiven (and forgotten) past sins. Thus, no accusation against you stands. Draw strength in the knowledge that at this moment Jesus is in the Father’s presence, praying for you.

In all life’s circumstances God promises you total victory as He encompasses you in His love:

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?… No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life… neither the present nor the future… nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35, 37, 38a,c, 39b)

Therefore: Choose today to rest in His ever-present love, as you appropriate Him as your resource in realizing victory over every obstacle or adversary.

What more can I say dear beloved. Jesus loves you. Mediate on this things all though this week and be humble enough to make space in your heart to learn from God about your future; about your destiny. More on how to bring perishing souls to the knowledge of God. Putting on Christ is the HALLMARK of this month teaching, hope you will (Rom 13:14). Because Christ is the light through whom your dominion will be establish (Jn 1:4).

Praise the Name of the Lord. See you next week by the grace and mercies of God.

Remain blessed in the Lord.

Never Alone

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 27, 2016

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There is power mighty in the blood 2x there is power mighty in the blood of Jesus Christ. there is power mighty in the blood.// we come say Thank You, 2x all we have to say is Thank You Lord. Thank You Lord. Thank You Lord, all we have to say is Thank You Lord.

Father, Your children are saying Lord, You are Worthy, worthy to be glorified here on earth and heaven, glorious Redeemer, hallow be Thy Name alone who is heaven and peace to men here on earth. Thank You for another opportunity to be in Your presence O Lord. Help us even as we put our trust in You that You are alone is our God. Mighty and powerful to deliver and to make us whole from every defilement from sin, sickness and sorrow in Jesus Name.

Beloveth, hope 96do you think you are alone? Is your mind telling you that God has forsaken you or will ever forsake You? O faithful one what is that fear and anguished in your heart that is weighing you down and make you fear as if tomorrow will never be.

Have you forgotten that God’s word cannot fall without performing that which it is sent out to do? Have forgotten that God watches over His Word to perform it and those who trust in the Lord can never be confounded (1Pet 2:6)

Hear the goodnews that the Spirit of God is bring your way today, “You are never alone” does that excite you? Are encouraged in the Lord. Sometimes it seems as the whole world is clashing on you and there is no escape but the Spirit of God is standing before you and He is testifying also that you will never be forsaken. He is ever with you to guide and to watch over you. He is saying to you be still and know that I am with you even to the end of time.

He is saying to you that nothing shall by any means hurt you because your life is hidden with Christ in God (Col 3:3).

This is the last faith clinic of this month and we are glad to announce to you that every other thought or voices that you are hearing that is not saying what the Word of God said concerning you are all false thought, and are not permitted to take root therefore they are condemned to death and they are hereby uprooted in the Name of Jesus.

Jesus changeth not, He is Ever Faithful and will remain Ever Faithful. Look up to Jesus, He is the Author and Finisher of your faith. Fear not for He is with you.

Remember that faith without work is dead. And we are more than conqueror through Jesus that loves us (Rom 8:37). Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. So any other thought that is short of the good promises from the Word is hereby root out from your mind and you are set free from every demonic holds in Jesus Name.

Whatever you are trusting God to be before the end of the year, the good Lord will bring it to pass. That is another goodnews to you. Just be patiently waiting on the Lord, be diligently in all your hand founded to do and God will see you through. (Jas 2:22).

Once again always remember that you are not alone neither are you forsaken. Praise the Lord!

Let get into the business of the day and discover more therein:

“Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken.” Isa. 62:4

“Forsaken” is a dreary word. It sounds like a knell. It is the record of sharpest sorrows, and the prophecy of direst ills. An abyss of misery yawns in that word “Forsaken.” Forsaken by one who pledged his honor! Forsaken by a friend so long tried and trusted! Forsaken by a dear relative! Forsaken by father and mother! Forsaken by all! This is woe indeed, and yet it may be patiently borne if the Lord will take us up.

But what must it be to feel forsaken of God? Think of that bitterest of cries, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Have we ever in any degree tasted the wormwood and the gall of “Forsaken,” in that sense? If so, let us beseech our Lord to save us from any repetition of so unspeakable a sorrow.

Oh, that such darkness may never return! Men in malice said of a saint, “God hath forsaken him; persecute and take him.” But it was always false. The Lord’s loving favor shall compel our cruel foes to eat their own words, or, at least, to hold their tongues.

The reverse of all this is that superlative word, Hephzibah — “the Lord delighteth in thee.” This turns weeping into dancing. Let those who dreamed that they were forsaken hear the Lord say, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.”

Beloved, did you heard that? You are called Hephzibah. Beloved you are called the delight of the Lord! Can someone shout alleluia! Yes, you are the delight of the Lord! Some many has forsaken the Lord due to lies that the devil told their spirit. Sickness that bore than down. Errors that they committed. Death of beloved ones but hear yea the Word of the Lord this day. You are not forsaken, you are never alone but you are delight of the Lord, you are Hephzibah.

Beloved, will you go away from your Father because of the liars from the pit of hell? Come and hear what Jesus has to say concerning you:

“Will ye also go away?” John 6:67

Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with Him; but what reason have YOU to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved Himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning—”Have I been a wilderness unto you?” When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded?

Have you not up till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend to you, and has not simple faith in Him given you all the peace your spirit could desire? Can you so much as dream of a better friend than He has been to you? Then change not the old and tried for new and false.

As for the present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When we are hard beset with this world, or with the severer trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our Saviour. This is the joy we have today that we are saved in Him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore should we think of changing?

Who barters gold for dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover shall appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold Him with a grasp immortal, and bind His name as a seal upon our arm. As for the future, can you suggest anything which can arise that shall render it necessary for you to mutiny, or desert the old flag to serve under another captain?

We think not. If life be long—He changes not. If we are poor, what better than to have Christ who can make us rich? When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written that “neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!” We say with Peter, “Lord, to whom shall we go?”

If you saying same with Peter today, the Lord bid you come. Come and learn more from your master- Your Lord Jesus Christ. Don’t go away! Stay with Jesus because He loves you (1Jn 4:9)

Awake from your sleep as we were enjoined yesterday because you are the time of His coming is nearer than when we first believe (Rom 13:11).

I leave you with what Apostle Peter wrote in 1 Pet 3:8-17 and 2 Pet 1:4. Beloved dwell in these promises and you will be glad.

Remain ever blessed in the Lord.

Harvest of Light, Gladness

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 26, 2016

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Sweet Jesus, sweet Jesus, how Wonderful You are, You are precious than the morning star. You are precious, more precious than the lily that grow by side. You are precious, more precious than gold.// Glory be to the Lord in the highest Amen! For His mercies endureth forever Amen! 2x.

Father, we Thank You for another beautiful day You have made and said we should be glad and rejoice in it. blessed be Your Holy Name. Thank You for another opportunity to worship and to praise Your Holy Name. Thank You for You are indeed God. You save Your anointed and never allowed Your children to be confounded. Glory be to Your Holy Name Amen!

Beloved, we are again gathered to worship and to reverence our maker. The one who is the lifter of our head. The only wise God. His Name is Alpha and Omega. He is the Beginning and the End. Our El-Shaddia, the Great I AM. The Adonai. Glory and adoration belong to Him alone in Jesus Name.

A different tune of prayer topic I must say. It is both an encouragement and a warning package together. It is so important we take heed least we fall by the wayside either out discouragement or out excitement.

The need for us to continue in our daily devotion and prayer is so important so that we will never fall into temptation no matter what the tempest might be we must hold on to God, Who promised never to leave us nor to fail us.

You must hold on to God He is author and finisher of our faith. Do you that even when you think He is seeing your labour of love, God is noting everything you are doing for the kingdom and when the need arises, when the enemy comes in like a flood, beloved, the Spirit of God will raise a standard against it.

Truly faithful is our God. though not of works but on His mercy and kindness we rest. Beloved, always ensure that you are engage in good works. Keeping on sowing righteousness at the due time your reap gladness here on earth and in heaven also.

Awake o yea slumber lest your field is over taken by weeds. Work diligently, and pray earnestly so that the Lord Himself will manifest His power and glory in all that we do.

Beloved, sow so that at the due time You will also reap. Let get more from the message below:

“Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.” Ps. 97:11

Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses, and return an infinite profit. A holy life is like sowing seed: much is going out, and apparently it is buried in the soil, never to be gathered up again. We are mistaken when we look for an immediate harvest’; but the error is very natural, for it seems impossible to bury light. Yet light is “sown,” says the text. It lies latent: none can see it, it is sown. We are quite sure that it must one day manifest itself.

Full sure are we that the Lord has set a harvest for the sowers of light, and they shall reap it, each man for himself. Then shall come their gladness. Sheaves of joy for seeds of light. Their heart was upright before the Lord, though men gave them no credit for it, but even censured them: they were righteous, though those about them denounced them as censorious. They had to wait, as husbandmen wait for the precious fruits of the earth: but the light was sown for them, and gladness was being prepared on their behalf by the Lord of the harvest.

Courage, brothers! we need not be in a hurry. Let us in patience possess our souls, for soon shall our souls possess light and gladness.

We are called to sow in prayer so that when we cannot pray due circumstances of life we can as well harvest what we have sown at some other time.

Never neglect a prayerful life style, is as important as your secular life style. Arise and pray; glory be to God in the Highest:

“Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.” Luke 22:46

When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Another dangerous time is when all goes pleasantly in spiritual matters. Christian went not to sleep when lions were in the way, or when he was wading through the river, or when fighting with Apollyon, but when he had climbed half way up the Hill Difficulty, and came to a delightful arbour, he sat down, and forthwith fell asleep, to his great sorrow and loss.

The enchanted ground is a place of balmy breezes, laden with fragrant odours and soft influences, all tending to lull pilgrims to sleep. Remember Bunyan’s description: “Then they came to an arbour, warm, and promising much refreshing to the weary pilgrims; for it was finely wrought above head, beautified with greens, and furnished with benches and settles. It had also in it a soft couch, where the weary might lean.” “The arbour was called the Slothful’s Friend, and was made on purpose to allure, if it might be, some of the pilgrims to take up their rest there when weary.”

Depend upon it, it is in easy places that men shut their eyes and wander into the dreamy land of forgetfulness. Old Erskine wisely remarked, “I like a roaring devil better than a sleeping devil.” There is no temptation half so dangerous as not being tempted. The distressed soul does not sleep; it is after we enter into peaceful confidence and full assurance that we are in danger of slumbering. The disciples fell asleep after they had seen Jesus transfigured on the mountain top.

Take heed, joyous Christian, good frames are near neighbours to temptations: be as happy as you will, only be watchful.

Beloved, I believe you are encouraged. Sometimes it will look as if God is not hearing or answers are not coming, hold on. That you are not seeing physical manifestation of the things prayed for does not mean that God is not working, it is only that those things will not fail at the due time.

If you have fail in the place of prayer, beloved, just a fresh commitment will help you state again as the Holy spirit help your infirmities in Jesus Name. Invite the Holy Spirit to pour on you afresh fire of prayer as you pray today.

God answer us when we call. Do not be silent as only you is able to do above all we can ever imagine or think about. Glory be to your Holy Name in the Highest.

Praise the Name of the Lord! Somebody!

Prayer does not change God but it brings you into God’s will remember. May the meekness in Christ be made available to us to walk as Jesus walked. Praise the Lord!

Remain blessed in the Lord.

God First, Then Extras

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 25, 2016

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What shall render, what shall I render, what shall I render to You O God! for all miracles You have done me what shall I render to You O God! I will render praises, I will render praises, I will render praises to You O Lord or the miracles You have done for me what shall I render to You O Lord!// who is wonderful is Jesus, who is powerful is Jesus, who is precious is Jesus, who is marvelous is Jesus, shout alleluia, alleluia, shout alleluia.

Father, there is none as powerful as You, gracious as You are, wonderful as You, miraculous as You. Indeed You are so faithful and so good. let Your Name alone be praised forever and ever. Thank You for another day in Your presence because You will watch over us to protect and defend us from evil. glory be to Your Name alone in Jesus Name.

Beloveth, how are you doing this morning? Wonderful, I trust God for Your strength and dependent on Him. Glory be to God Most High. I believe you are still choosing to rejoice over ever other thing the enemy is presenting before you. Faithful is our God.

By the grace of God today we will considering again another interesting topic “God first, then Extras”. What does it mean to have God first and every other things comes as extra if God allows it.

To some people this is a very difficult topic or thing to do or ever consider. You better not go there at all else you will have a problem with them.

Beloved, can it be said that you have put God in the first place in your life or do I rather ask where do you place God in your life. Do you say prayers when you wake up every morning? Do you mediates on the word or do a little study as well? or you say prayers as you are rushing out of the house because you must catch your bus else you go to work late?

Beloved, the cares of life are such that it clouded our mind and thoughts and most often effects our relationship with God. So many have God placed after their career, family and so on.

However as we go through this message, may the Holy Spirit help us to get our priorities right going forward:

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matt. 6:33

See how the Bible opens: “In the beginning God.” Let your life open in the same way. Seek with your whole soul, first and foremost, the kingdom of God, as the place of your citizenship, and His righteousness as the character of your life. As for the rest, it will come from the Lord Himself without your being anxious concerning it. All that is needful for this life and godliness “shall be added unto you.

What a promise this is! Food, raiment, home, and so forth, God undertakes to add to you while you seek Him. You mind His business, and He will mind yours. If you want paper and string, you get them given in when you buy more important goods; and just so all that we need of earthly things we shall have thrown in with the kingdom.

He who is an heir of salvation shall not die of starvation; and he who clothes his soul with the righteousness of God cannot be left of the Lord with a naked body. Away with carking care. Set all your mind upon seeking the Lord. Covetousness is poverty, and anxiety is misery: trust in God is an estate, and likeness to God is a heavenly inheritance. Lord, I seek thee, be found of me.

Beloved, a new way to look at your priorities going forward:

A New Way To Look At Priorities

In most of the seminars I’ve attended on priorities we were given the traditional list:

GOD

Marriage

Family

Work

Etc.

For some reason that prioritized list never quite set right with me, as it seemed to separate God from the other important areas of our lives (marriage, etc.). Perhaps a better way of looking at priorities would be:

GOD

GOD in my marriage

GOD in my family

GOD in my work

Etc.

Chuck Swindoll comments, “Too often we give GOD a few minutes in the morning, put Him back on top of the shelf, then work our way down the bookcase of priorities without taking Him into account.

“Seeking God alone in our quiet time each day should be the thing that encourages us to seek Him in every other area of our lives. He should take priority in every thought we think, in every word we speak, in every relationship, in everything. Period.”

To determine what your real priorities are, take a moment to write them out. Now ask which is the most difficult area to give to God priority-wise.

As you ponder the answer to that question, consider, Matthew 6:19-21, 1 John 2:15-17, Philippians 3:7-8, Hebrews 12:1, 2.

“It is easy to say we’re putting Christ first, but do our lives really reflect this commitment? Write out a priority list based on how you spend your time. Next, write out one based on how you spend your money. Now write one based on what you feel most strongly about.” Write one out on what you think about the most. “Finally, write one based on what you talk about most.

“If these different lists were given to a court for evidence in determining your true priorities, how do you think the court would rule? Write out the list that you think an impartial jury might come up with.”

No person was ever great for God who failed to discipline himself to live by Biblical priorities. How would you categorize yourself? Disciplined? Focused? Or mucking around in mediocrity?

Beloved, check out your priorities and make sure that God is in your plan else He will order your priorities for you.

Have you reordered your priorities? Or you want the Omnipotent to do so for you?

So watch out!

Remain ever blessed in the Lord.

I Will Rejoice!

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 24, 2016

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All Power, all Glory, Adoration to You 2x Holy Father, we welcome You, Blessed Jesus, Holy Spirit welcome You(2) for power . // Blessed be the Name of the Lord He is Worthy to be Praise and adorn Lord we lift our Holy hands in one accord, singing blessed be Thy Name, Blessed be Thy Name, Blessed be The Name of the Lord… I will sing, I will dance, I will rejoice in Lord my God! 2x.

Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it’s in heaven. Give us this daily our daily bread and forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespasses against us and lead us not into temptation and delivery us from all evil. Thank You Lord for Your love and care unto us You have made and said we should rejoice and be glad in all that You have made. Glory be Thy Holy Name.

Thank you for another new week and the last of it in this blessed month you have by Your grace and glory persevered us through it. Lord, You are great and all that You made are saying that You are great. I don’t know how to Thank You for all battles fought and own on our behalf. Thank You for silencing the forces of darkness all round the World so that Your children will dwell in peace and safety. Indeed safety is of the Lord.

Beloved, how are you doing? We are moving forward, we are forging ahead. No going back I tell you, no going back. I want to ask you a simply question as we open the day.

Do you know what it means according to the book of John 15:5 “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing”.

The truth remaineth that we are nothing outside of God and His Son Jesus Christ. Great mysteries I tell you. You think you are succeeding in your endeavours but the truth is that it is the back of the Holy Spirit that is keeping and leading you. I have a testimony which in due time I will share with you.

Beloved, the year is far spent, and I believe you are asking questions and probably have not gotten any answer, as so many others are also asking questions due to persistent crisis that are arising daily in our individually lives, and society at large and the body of Christ are not left out.

However, we come with the goodnews that Habakkuk share with his people at the time they were going through crisis and it seems as if all the promises made by God is fading away. You look up and the more you are strategize, the more it is looking as if the world is tiring apart or even going to collapse on you.

What a time to witness the economy looking moving farther-way from anything good. Investment going down and many company shutting down and laying off. Beloved, what shall we to do as God’s children? Fold our hands and watch things go wrong. Or join others to lament?

I decide to join Habakkuk to do exactly what He did and gain victory over the crisis. I have to encourage myself as did David of Old and am here to encourage You to do same with me now as we start the week and run through it so that the glory of God will once again run through the whole nations of the world and together with joy will see the hand of God going through our dead situations and bring back to life everything we have labored for that are collapsing before our very eyes.

We also have pray to God to help us distinguished between what is needful and what is not and that will go a long way to ease our pains, disappoints and guide us into all that will lead joy and gladness all the remaining days of our lives.

Beloved, do know that God knoweth the way of the righteous atleast that should gladden your heart (Ps 1:6). He who asked us to “wait” on Him is ABLE to do exceeding above all what we can ever imagine or ever think off.

Join me dearly beloved as we choose rejoicing over complaining, over anxiety, over worrying, over murmuring as we watch and see God honour His Name above all:

Though the fig tree does not bud

and there is no fruit on the vines,

though the olive crop fails

and the fields produce no food,

though there are no sheep in the pen

and no cattle in the stalls,

yet I will triumph in the Lord;

I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!—Habakkuk 3:17–18

At times it seems that everything around you is collapsing. Endeavors you invested in may fail. People to whom you minister may disappoint you. The business or career you worked hard to build may crumble. These times, as difficult as they are, are opportunities to stop and examine what is truly important to you.

Habakkuk witnessed the collapse of most of what mattered to him. Yet through the loss, failure, and disappointment, he was able to distinguish between what was precious to him and what was transitory and empty. He came to the point where he could sincerely say that even if everything around him failed, he still would rejoice in God.

If the fig tree bore no fruit; if the vine produced no grapes; if the flocks and herds stopped reproducing; he would still praise God. His praise might not come easily, as he watched everything fall short of his expectations, but he would praise God nonetheless. Habakkuk could not make fig trees produce figs. He could not control the productivity of the flocks and herds, but he could control his own response to God. He chose to praise the Lord.

Do things seem to be falling apart around you? You can still praise God. Your praise for Him does not depend on the success of your endeavors but on God’s nature and His love and faithfulness to you. Ask God to help you look past worldly concerns to understand the reasons you have to praise Him.

Beloved, rejoice before God Your maker who giveth songs in the night. Let keep going:

“God, my Maker, who giveth songs in the night.” Job 35:10

Any man can sing in the day. When the cup is full, man draws inspiration from it. When wealth rolls in abundance around him, any man can praise the God who gives a plenteous harvest or sends home a loaded argosy. It is easy enough for an Aeolian harp to whisper music when the winds blow—the difficulty is for music to swell forth when no wind is stirring.

It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is skilful who sings when there is not a ray of light to read by—who sings from his heart. No man can make a song in the night of himself; he may attempt it, but he will find that a song in the night must be divinely inspired.

Let all things go well, I can weave songs, fashioning them wherever I go out of the flowers that grow upon my path; but put me in a desert, where no green thing grows, and wherewith shall I frame a hymn of praise to God? How shall a mortal man make a crown for the Lord where no jewels are? Let but this voice be clear, and this body full of health, and I can sing God’s praise: silence my tongue, lay me upon the bed of languishing, and how shall I then chant God’s high praises, unless He Himself give me the song?

No, it is not in man’s power to sing when all is adverse, unless an altar-coal shall touch his lip. It was a divine song, which Habakkuk sang, when in the night he said, “Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”

Then, since our Maker gives songs in the night, let us wait upon Him for the music. O Thou chief musician, let us not remain songless because affliction is upon us, but tune Thou our lips to the melody of thanksgiving.

May God give us songs in our time of distress and help us to know that we are nothing aside Him in Jesus Name. Don’t you ever give up on God for He will work it out for you and He receive glory at the end. Always remember “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God (Phil 4:6).”

Jesus is our banner; Jesus is above all. Praise the Lord.

Beloved, this week is declared blessed and prosperous for you in the Name of God the Father, and of His Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen!

Remain blessed in the Lord.

“Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?”

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Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 21, 2016

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What a Mighty God we serve, alleluia, what a Mighty God we serve alleluia. Heaven and earth adorn Thee angels bow before Him what a mighty God we serve. // He is the Lord, he is the Lord Amen He has risen from the dead He is Lord every knee shall bow every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord.

Indeed Father You are the Lord. The owner of all that we are and ever will be. Thank You precious Jesus for who You are. Thank You for the death on the cross that we might live. Thank You for Your love and care. Thank You for upholding us even in the most darkness moment of our life blessed be thy Holy Name forever and ever.

Beloved, how fast the week went by. Friday is starring at us and we bring to our Friday tonic where we consider so much of what we should be doing as children of God.

It had been a wonderful week for me working though some challenging that I have to depend not on my strength but on the power and strength of the Almighty God. Wow! Faithful is our God I tell you.

However, today’s ministration is coming your well to announce to you again the Jesus is beautify in all situation. I am a witness and am sure you have some testimonies too.

I may not to be able to point at what the situation is at the moment in your life but Jesus knows it all and today’s message is coming your way to help You get over any situation You are facing right way.

Beloved, is possible the Lord is saying again to you to wait on Him. We have come across this many times this year and I believe it is coming again for a reason.

We pledge our allegiance to God alone this week because He alone is Our God and can do all things. Can you dare believe that there nothing is impossible for Him to do or to see you through? Faithful is our God and faithful He will remain forever in Jesus Name.

Perhaps, you want to hear from the Master’s mouth that He cares for you? Then come with me and you will blessed:

“Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?” Luke 24:38

“Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?” The Lord cares for all things, and the meanest creatures share in His universal providence, but His particular providence is over His saints. “The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him.”

“Precious shall their blood be in His sight.” “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose.” Let the fact that, while He is the Saviour of all men, He is specially the Saviour of them that believe, cheer and comfort you.

You are His peculiar care; His regal treasure which He guards as the apple of His eye; His vineyard over which He watches day and night. “The very hairs of your head are all numbered.” Let the thought of His special love to you be a spiritual pain-killer, a dear quietus to your woe: “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

God says that as much to you as to any saint of old. “Fear not, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves. Believer, grasp the divine word with a personal, appropriating faith.

Think that you hear Jesus say, “I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not.” Think you see Him walking on the waters of thy trouble, for He is there, and He is saying, “Fear not, it is I; be not afraid.” Oh, those sweet words of Christ!

May the Holy Ghost make you feel them as spoken to you; forget others for awhile—accept the voice of Jesus as addressed to you, and say, “Jesus whispers consolation; I cannot refuse it; I will sit under His shadow with great delight.”

Wait? Wait again, Lord? but ….:

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Learning To “Wait” On The Lord

“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.” (Psalm 130:5, 6) (See Psalm 5:3; 130:5-7; 17:14; 37:7, 34; 38:15; 119:84)

“WAIT” (Author Unknown)

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried: Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied. I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate, and the Master who gently said, “Child, you must wait.”

“Wait?” You say, wait!,” my indignant reply. “Lord, I need answers, I need to know why! Is you hand shortened? Or have you not heard? By faith, I have asked, and am claiming your Word.

“My future and all to which I can relate hangs in the balance, and You tell me to wait? I’m needing a ‘yes’ a go-ahead sign, or even a ‘no’ to which I can resign.

“And Lord, You promised that if we believe we need but to ask, and we shall receive. Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry: I’m weary of asking! I need a reply!”

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate, as my Master replied once again, “You must wait.” So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut, and grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting… for what?”

He seemed, then, to kneel, and His eyes wept with mine, and He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign. I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun. I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.

“All you ask me I could give, and pleased you would be. You would have what you want – but, you wouldn’t know Me. You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint: You’d not know the power that I give to the faint.

“You’d not learn to see through the clouds of despair: You’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there; you’d not know the joy of resting in Me when darkness and silence were all you can see.

“You’d never experience that fullness of love, as the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove; you’d know that I live and I save… (for a start), but you’d not know the depth of the beat of My heart.

“The glow of My comfort late into the night. The faith that I give when you walk without sight. The depth that’s beyond getting just what you asked of an infinite God, who make what you have last.

“You’d never know, should your pain quickly flee, what it means that ‘My grace is sufficient for Thee.’ Yes, your dreams for your loved one overnight would come true. But, Oh, the loss! If I lost what I’m doing in you!

“So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see that the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me. And though oft‘ may My answers seem terribly late. My most precious answer of all is still, ‘wait.‘” (Adapted from FOTM)

Is a situation of someone reading this devotional now? Perhaps, God is speaking to you, will you be silent as you are instructed and see the hand of God working out that situation for you? May His grace be sufficient to wait and be blessed in Jesus Name.

Let this teaching of this month not be in vain in our lives in Jesus name. Even Jesus learnt from the things He suffered but He endured to the end. Father grant us grace to endure to the end. Help us we pray Thee.

Beloved, we see on Monday by God’s grace. Have a wonderful weekend while pondering on these thoughtful message. Don’t forget, He promised never to “leave you nor forsake you.” He also said “free not, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.” Be silent” Even He will lead you in green pasture”

Remain blessed in the Lord.

Never Ashamed

By

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

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October 20, 2016

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For the life You gave to me I came to say Thank You for Your son Jesus Christ who die on the cross I just want to say baba Ooo Ese 2x. Lord You are Faithful Faithful Faithfull Faithful Faithful faithful is the Lord. You are Faithful Faithful Faithful Faithful, Faithful Faithful faithful faithful is the Lord.

Father, Thank You for a glorious morning You made us to be part of this day. Thank You for giving us life in abundance Thank Your for showing forth Your might in our lives. We cannot Thank You enough for all You have done for us. we reverence Your Majesty we bow before Your presence.

If I forget Thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning, if I do not remember Thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not O! God above my chief joy. That is my heartfelt prayer unto You O Lord of mercy. Full of compassion to save and to delivery us from the every trouble at all sides.

Beloved, we never be ashamed to confess Jesus as our Lord and Saviour no matter what the enemies are planning or doing around us. The Word of God said that they shall scatter because their gathering is not unto God, in seven ways they will flew and never to gather again because the Lord will confuse their tongues as at was at the tower of Babel.

Do you remember what happened before the resurrection Lord Jesus? The apostles were afraid and hid in the upper room. And the Jews watch over the tomb to ensure that the disciples do not come and carry His body from the grave. But when the resurrection morning came nothing could hold Him bound. Not even the grave or the stone that was use to cover the tome was strong enough to stop Jesus from resurrecting as forth told in the Word.

Beloved, I may not know the power that feels it is mighty enough to stop Your destiny or to cut it short but I know that there a power that resurrected Jesus from grave and upon the authority of that power I stand this day to declare that Jesus is Lord and He is the Saviour of the Whole world and this same Jesus who having resurrected will come back in glory and take us who have leave according to His commands to us back to regin with Him in glory.

I also declare to you who is reading this devotional that same power that will resurrected Jesus is still alive and therefore anything in your life that is bound or in the grave is experiencing resurrection now in the Name of Jesus.

Beloved, that is only reason Jesus came that His death will bring life and healing to our mortal bodies and make us ready for eternal life at the end in the Name of Jesus.

The resurrection power is real and is able to set free and make whole tap into it now and be delivered in Jesus Name.

The power in the blood is bring judgment upon every enemies of our souls right now in the Name of Jesus. For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to do evil.

Beloved, you shall not be ashamed to profess that Jesus is Lord because He is indeed the Lord of Lord and He will also confess you before His Father in heaven if you persevere to the end.

Let’s get more from the message:

“Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.” Matt. 10:32

Gracious promise! It is a great Joy to me to confess my Lord. Whatever my faults may be, I am not ashamed of Jesus, nor do I fear to declare the doctrines of His cross. O Lord, I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart.

Sweet is the prospect which the text sets before me! Friends forsake and enemies exult, but the Lord does not disown His servant. Doubtless my Lord will own me even here, and give me new tokens of His favorable regard. But there comes a day when I must stand before the great Father. What bliss to think that Jesus will confess me then! He will say, “This man truly trusted me, and was willing to be reproached for my name’s sake; and therefore I acknowledge him as mine.”

The other day a great man was made a knight, and the Queen handed him a jeweled garter; but what of that? It will be an honor beyond all honors for the Lord Jesus to confess us in the presence of the divine Majesty in the Heavens. Never let me be ashamed to own my Lord. Never let me indulge a cowardly silence, or allow a fainthearted compromise.

Shall I blush to own Him who promises to own me?

Thank God to Jesus who will help our work to endure to the end. When our work passes through fire, may it will endure. Beloved, may that be the offering of our sacrifice unto God in Jesus Name.

Beloved, we believe in the sacrifice of the Lamb that saved us from eternal death and grant us grace unto eternal life.

Many could not be humbly enough to accept this great sacrifice that Jesus offered on their behalf but the truth is that our works of righteous is not worthy enough to grant us access into the presence of God.

Therefore come with the meekness that you are being offered by Jesus and be save. That is our faith in Christ Jesus and that faith we are not ashamed to profess before men that Jesus is the Son of God who died and resurrected from death and now seated at the right hand of God interceding for us. Praise the Name of the Lord Jesus:

“But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.” Exodus 34:20

Every firstborn creature must be the Lord’s, but since the ass was unclean, it could not be presented in sacrifice. What then? Should it be allowed to go free from the universal law? By no means. God admits of no exceptions. The ass is His due, but He will not accept it; He will not abate the claim, but yet He cannot be pleased with the victim.

No way of escape remained but redemption—the creature must be saved by the substitution of a lamb in its place; or if not redeemed, it must die. My soul, here is a lesson for thee. That unclean animal is thyself; thou art justly the property of the Lord who made thee and preserves thee, but thou art so sinful that God will not, cannot, accept thee; and it has come to this, the Lamb of God must stand in thy stead, or thou must die eternally.

Let all the world know of thy gratitude to that spotless Lamb who has already bled for thee, and so redeemed thee from the fatal curse of the law. Must it not sometimes have been a question with the Israelite which should die, the ass or the lamb? Would not the good man pause to estimate and compare?

Assuredly there was no comparison between the value of the soul of man and the life of the Lord Jesus, and yet the Lamb dies, and man the ass is spared. My soul, admire the boundless love of God to thee and others of the human race. Worms are bought with the blood of the Son of the Highest! Dust and ashes redeemed with a price far above silver and gold! What a doom had been mine had not plenteous redemption been found!

The breaking of the neck of the ass was but a momentary penalty, but who shall measure the wrath to come to which no limit can be imagined? Inestimably dear is the glorious Lamb who has redeemed us from such a doom.

Glory be to Jesus the Redeemer and Savour of the Whole world. Thank You Jesus for saving my soul and that of the Whole world especially those who confess that Jesus is Lord.

Beloved, if You are yet to confess Jesus as Your Lord and personal Saviour click here now before it will be too late to so.

Glory be to Jesus

Remain blessed in the Lord.