Return to God

July 13, 2016

Baba eeee, Baba eeee, Baba eeee, baba eeee. Yesterday You reign, You regineth in my life. Today come and reign and reign forever more. Yesterday You reign, You reigneth in my life. Today come and reign and reign forever more. Baba eeee, Baba eeee, Baba eeee, Baba eeee,

O God You are faithful, Faithful, Faithful, Faithful; faithful, Faithful Faithful, faithful is the Lord. O God, You are faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful; Faithful, Faithful, Faithful, faithful is the Lord.

Father in heaven O God, how can we thank You enough for all You are doing for us, You gave us life, You gave us joy, You gave us salvation, You gave healings, You wrought deliverance in many facets of our lives. Father, You are too much, O Lord You have done so very much for us, glory be to You for ever and ever and ever in Jesus Name.

Beloved, behold we come before a Living God, the One Who was, Who is and Who will be forever more. Thank You Father, Thank You Lord. Let us lift up our voices and praise Him forever,; let us lift up our voices and honour Him Who is worthy forever more.

Beloved, where have you left God? Where did you abandoned Him? Where did you forsake your first love? You may be wondering why is ‘evangelist’ asking all this question. Well is important because it will help your way back home.

If you are able to figure out at what point you miss your way. It will be easier to trace your way back home. It will also be easier for you to know how to seek for help and forestalls future occurrence, glory be to God.

Have now recollected how it all started and how you came to the point where you are today? Have you remembered how your life which was on fire for Jesus suddenly went down and out? What happen to all those long hours spent on your knees crying unto God your Maker on your behalf and on behalf of other sinners to turn back to God?

Beloved, what happen to all those period you spent searching the scripture and mediating therein. What happen to all those times you spend receiving instruction and revelation from Your Father? O beloveth, where those happy moments spent in the court of the Lord singing, worship, praying the Lord of lords and the King of kings. Beloveth is important you spend some moment thinking on these thinks so as to know how it all started and played out.

Because it is then and only then will you be able to know how to turn away from that path that lead you astray unto the path of righteousness. Praise the Lord.

Someone is saying, O I remembered that it was when I got my job, with little time to study the Word again or go for prayer meetings again. Another voice is saying it is the arrival of my second baby with such chores at home and work demand I can no longer meet up on prayer meetings days, and gradually I stop.

And yet another voice is whispering, mine was the time I got my new appointment with unending meetings and work load with little or no time for myself, I hardly read the bible again. Another voice is weeping softly and confessing that since things became rosy she stop attending all those prayer meetings and vigil in some cases.

Many voices I am hearing in my spirit making different excuses and I am sensing so many with a repented heart, crying with their hands up, asking how would they come out of these.

And the word of the Lord says “if my people, who are called by my Name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2Chr 7:14

Beloveth, the Lord is willing to welcome you back, He made you and He knows you. He searches the heart and He knows them that are calling Him genuinely. He knows your heart even when you are seeking for His help that you fail once you are out of the wood but He still blessed you to let you know how weak you are outside Him.

Repent from those path that takes you further away from Him. Those relationships that left you with little or no time for Christ. Repent and come back to Him, He is waiting to welcome you back home back into the fold again. God bless you as you do so now in Jesus Name.

If you have resolve to come home, let get into today’s teaching:

“So tell the people: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to Me”—[this is] the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts.”—Zechariah 1:3

God places much of the burden of what we will become on our response to Him. If we have drifted from God, His call is to return to Him. God promises that if we will return, He will immediately renew His relationship with us. James 4:8 promises that if we draw near to God, He will draw near to us. Matthew 7:7 guarantees that if we seek Christ, we will find Him. Much of the Christian life rests upon our response and our desire to experience God to the fullest.

Why is it that some Christians seem to go so much deeper in their walk with God than others? Why have some had such powerful intercessory prayer ministries that have changed the courses of nations? Why has God chosen to anoint the words of some so that, when they speak or pray or preach, it is obvious that their words are consecrated by God? It is because these individuals have committed themselves to pursue God until His presence is powerfully real in their lives. They have decided to settle for nothing less than a vibrant relationship with God, and He has honored their desire.

Have you become complacent with your relationship with God, or are you hungering for more? Don’t become satisfied with a relationship with God that is broken by sin and void of the power of the Holy Spirit. You have just as much of God’s powerful presence available to you as the greatest saint in Christian history! Return to God.

There is so much more in store for you if you will return to Him. He awaits your response. Let keep going:

“The illfavoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven wellfavoured and fat kine.” Genesis 41:4

Pharaoh’s dream has too often been my waking experience. My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry; my seasons of coldness have frozen all the genial glow of my periods of fervency and enthusiasm; and my fits of worldliness have thrown me back from my advances in the divine life.

I had need to beware of lean prayers, lean praises, lean duties, and lean experiences, for these will eat up the fat of my comfort and peace. If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained; if I draw no fresh supplies from heaven, the old corn in my granary is soon consumed by the famine which rages in my soul.

When the caterpillars of indifference, the cankerworms of worldliness, and the palmerworms of self-indulgence, lay my heart completely desolate, and make my soul to languish, all my former fruitfulness and growth in grace avails me nothing whatever.

How anxious should I be to have no lean-fleshed days, no ill-favoured hours! If every day I journeyed towards the goal of my desires I should soon reach it, but backsliding leaves me still far off from the prize of my high calling, and robs me of the advances which I had so laboriously made.

The only way in which all my days can be as the “fat kine,” is to feed them in the right meadow, to spend them with the Lord, in His service, in His company, in His fear, and in His way. Why should not every year be richer than the past, in love, and usefulness, and joy?—I am nearer the celestial hills, I have had more experience of my Lord, and should be more like Him.

O Lord, keep far from me the curse of leanness of soul; let me not have to cry, “My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!” but may I be well-fed and nourished in Thy house, that I may praise Thy name.

The message said it all. Turn to God in prayer and seek genuine help from Him. He will help you. The Holy Spirit will begin to show you what to do to get back to your feet again. You can start with five minutes each for praise, the Word, and prayer, That will be fifteen minutes in all and before you know it you will move up to thirty minutes, way up to an hour and you will be yearning for more but you need to start again by five minutes for each and when You gain momentum you will fly away in the Spirit.

Don’t wait for a convenient time to start, start as you are reading that is how to overcome satan, he will steal this moment from you if you don’t start right now as you read. He will keep you busier than you were before now. Cry to the Lord for help.

I see help coming your way. You cannot afford to be without prayer. You cannot afford to be without the Word Beloved, seek the Lord now!!!!!!!!!!

And you will find Him. He is closer than the breath in your nostrils. He is closer than the flesh that covers your body. Surprise! Never. God resides in your heart, do not push Him away with wishful thinking and unproductive activities in Jesus Name. I will hear your testimony before long.

Don’t let these moment of reconciliation go. Complacence can lead to death. Awake your prayer life again. Return dear beloved even as your Heavenly Father bids you.

Remain blessed in the Lord

Slaves of Righteousness

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 12, 2016

I praise You, I praise You O Lord, in my life, I see what You one more time Lord, I lift up my voice to You.// You are the Pillar that holds my life. Master Jesus, You are the pillar that holds my life.

Father, we Thank You, we blessed Your Holy Name we worship You, we give You praise, we give You adoration in the name of Jesus. Thank You for making it possible for us to be among the living. Thank You O Lord for upholding us O Lord, in spite of entice of the devil to pull us down. To make us lose our testimony in Christ. Glory be to You Lord. Continue O Lord to teach us Thy way (Ps 27:11).

Merciful Jesus Thank You for being our Light Jn 1:4. Shine through us, we pray thee that we may be true ambassadors of yours, doers of Your Word and not forgetful hearers in Jesus Name.

Dear beloved hope you said amen to the prayer above. Why, someone wants to know. Kindness can come in various form. Sometime you may be directly involve, at other times it might be your concurrence that will actualize the act of kindness. So be careful not to misjudge any situation (Heb 4:14)

You may see yourself in a situation where the devil has sorely afflicted and you are left with nothing than to turn your back to such an individual in a critical situation. Beloved, if you have been following our teachings here, we have pointed out on many occasion who your real enemy is.

Beloveth, though the attacked might be through an individual or a group but is important for you to know the ‘person’ behind the mask – the devil.

The situation I am painting here is a real life situation. You may be a manager in an office or a messenger either in the office or home, it cuts across. As a manager, before you is an appraisal of this individual who have allowed the devil to use him against you and sincerely you will want use the big stick because it is in your custody.

The same enemy is at work, telling you why this is an opportune time for you. Beloveth it might be more than that, it might be more than appraisal issue. It might be a situation to save a life or a family member from ejection but because you are sorely bitter, your refusal might cost a life which will lead to blaspheming the Name of Lord.

I pray for you that God will help you at such trying times (Ps 119:173). When you will look beyond who you are, the hurting on your personality or otherwise. You must remember that Christ was also sorely waxed, denied by one of His disciple and was betrayed by another one. But He forgave all.

Again you are Christ ambassador, you must do exactly what Jesus would do in such a situation. It takes God to look beyond pains and insults inflicted on you and humbly surrender to Jesus, Who though was chastise but He responded not but humbled himself to the point of death on the cross.

Slave to righteousness is a message you keep in view to constantly remind yourself who you are in Christ Jesus. My prayer for you is that you will not fail God. You must stand up for righteousness at all times and you see God fighting all your battle and putting the devil under your feet forever in Jesus’s Name.

Again, having reminded ourselves that there is nothing too difficult for God to do yesterday, it does not matter what is happening around you or what you are passing through. What is important is that you have a Father who can do all things; of whom everything is possible and stand in awe of Who He is. Praise God (Ps 62:5-8). I want you to know also that if you suffer for Christ sake now, you will also reign with Him hereafter.

Come along with me as we dig further on this:

And having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.—Romans 6:18

Before you were a Christian you were a slave, in bondage to sin. Even when you did not want to sin, you were unable to do otherwise (Rom. 7:15–24). When God saved you, He freed you from sin, but you remained a slave. Now, rather than being bound to sin, you are bound to righteousness. In every area of your life you are obligated to do what honors God.

There are some who believe that when Christ sets them free, they are free to do whatever they want. That is not so. The apostle Paul realized that when he began following Christ he became a “bondservant” of Christ, and his life was no longer his own (Rom. 1:1). Now, rather than being enslaved to sin, he was enslaved to God and His righteousness.

When people mistreated him, he had forfeited the right to respond from his natural feelings but was compelled to offer a righteous response. When he was tempted, he was no longer free to succumb to his feelings. Paul could not enter the workplace and act selfishly. He understood that, as a slave of righteousness, he was obligated to live a holy life, honoring his Master.

Righteous living is not an option for a Christian. Nor is it something we must try to do over time. It is an obligation, mandatory for every child of God. Our freedom in Christ is not freedom to do what we want. It is freedom to live righteously, something we could not do when we were in bondage to sin. Now that we are free to live righteously, we must allow the Holy Spirit to produce in us a holy, sanctified life (1 John 3:7).

May God be your help at such a time in Jesus Name (Job 35:9-11). Your God is more than able if you can ask Him to give you wisdom you need to run the race and the grace to be humble.

Let’s keep going:

“If we suffer, we shall also reign with Him.” 2Timothy 2:12

We must not imagine that we are suffering for Christ, and with Christ, if we are not in Christ. Beloved friend, are you trusting to Jesus only? If not, whatever you may have to mourn over on earth, you are not “suffering with Christ,” land have no hope of reigning with Him in heaven. Neither are we to conclude that all a Christian’s sufferings are sufferings with Christ, for it is essential that he be called by God to suffer.

If we are rash and imprudent, and run into positions for which neither providence nor grace has fitted us, we ought to question whether we are not rather sinning than communing with Jesus. If we let passion take the place of judgment, and self-will reign instead of Scriptural authority, we shall fight the Lord’s battles with the devil’s weapons, and if we cut our own fingers we must not be surprised.

Again, in troubles which come upon us as the result of sin, we must not dream that we are suffering with Christ. When Miriam spoke evil of Moses, and the leprosy polluted her, she was not suffering for God. Moreover, suffering which God accepts must have God’s glory as its end. If I suffer that I may earn a name, or win applause, I shall get no other reward than that of the Pharisee.

It is requisite also that love to Jesus, and love to His elect, be ever the mainspring of all our patience. We must manifest the Spirit of Christ in meekness, gentleness, and forgiveness. Let us search and see if we truly suffer with Jesus. And if we do thus suffer, what is our “light affliction” compared with reigning with Him?

Oh it is so blessed to be in the furnace with Christ, and such an honour to stand in the pillory with Him, that if there were no future reward, we might count ourselves happy in present honour; but when the recompense is so eternal, so infinitely more than we had any right to expect, shall we not take up the cross with alacrity, and go on our way rejoicing?

In Phil 4:13, the bible says “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Tell God to help you to go in the strength of the Lord for you cannot help yourself aside Him (Ps 71:16; 1Jn 1:3).

Finally, I pray that an Abigail be sent your way so that you will not avenge your hurt (! Sam 25:32; Ps 119:173). Beloved read Rom 12:10 – 21- the Christian Sword I call it and one of tenets in this ministry and you will be richly blessed.

Remain blessed in the Lord.

Confident Hope

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 11, 2016

July 11

I have a Father, Almighty Father, He is king of kings, Lord of lords I have a Father. Beloved do you have a Father? Yes, I have a Father, Almighty Father, He is King of kings; Lord of lords, I have a Father.// Praising the Lord always x2 Praising the Lord always, praising the Lord with all my heart, praising the Lord with all my heart always, alleluia.

Heavenly Father, we are here again in Your presence today Thank You for the gift another week, blessed day, You have made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Father, we Thank You, we honour You, we glorify Name forever and ever. O Lord our God, Your children are saying Lord “You are worthy”. Is there anything difficulty for God to do?

My God is everlasting God, His right Hand does might deed in the lives of those that place their hope in Him. He faileth not, He will never fail us; neither will forget His own. Glorious God have Your way again today and do that which only You can do in our lives in Jesus Name.

Beloveth, welcome to another glorious time in the presence of our Father. We will experience Him afresh like never before. Yours is to believe and position yourself for His touch when He passes you by. Bestir yourself as faith cometh by hearing and reading the Word of God. Praise the Lord someone!

Beloved, what engenders Kindness? Every act of kindness I have come across is born out selflessness. Aside God has the ability to do all things, any man who goes out his way to show kindness is inspire by a higher power than Him. Such an individual often times has crucified their flesh that it respond to what God wants and as such will be a great instrument in the hand of His Creator, God Almighty.

God loves us so much that He gave His best to us. therefore the man who will dares to live like God must have the confident that if it God’s command to be kind, even the little he has will be multiplied as he extend his seeming last to someone in dare need of what he possesses. Praise the Lord.

The widow of Zarephath had a little oil and flour when the prophet Elijah came knocking at her door for an act of kindness. She chose to believe the man of God and obey what she was told and that is the breakthrough she must have prayed for but never knew how it will come to pass since there was a drought in the land. But this act, firstly- obedience, seconded by kindness miraculously supplied her flour and oil according the Word of Lord as was spoken by Elijah.

That same miracle is up for grab this time. Your act of kindness this month will open a door unto you that no one, not devil or his cohorts will be able to close in Jesus Name. Be obedient to the Word in season and see heaven taking over your case and making it first on the agenda of God in Jesus Name.

I am believing God that you and I will further secure our dominion by the several acts of kindness God will be bringing our way this month in Jesus Name.

However, the topic of today is to build us up as we steady look upon Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Let us therefore come to Him with the confident hope that can only be secure in Him and not in what we have or have not.

Beloved, there may also be many other areas you are trusting God and my prayer that today’s message will address it in Jesus Name. Come along with me for I can’t any wait any longer to get into this revelation:

Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.—Hebrews 10:23

Hope in the Christian’s life is not wishful thinking. It is confident expectation. Those without Christ may wish things were different and wish they knew someone who could change their situations. The Christian is personally related to the Lord of the universe, who is sovereign not only over all creation but also over every circumstance we experience. We can live with confidence because our hope is in One who is faithful.

When God speaks, He stands by His word to see that it comes to pass (Isa. 55:11). When God speaks a word to you, trust Him completely, for God never deceives His children. If God has indicated to you that He is going to do something, you can be absolutely confident that He will do it.

Do you wonder why unrighteous people seem to prosper while righteous people suffer? Jesus promised that each would eventually receive a just reward (Luke 16:19–31). Do you wonder if all the effort you have put into training your children in God’s ways will bear fruit when they become adults? God promised it would (Prov. 22:6). Do you wonder if the things you renounced when you became a Christian will be replaced by God’s blessings? Jesus assured us we would receive a hundred times as much (Mark 10:29–30). Do you doubt that Jesus will return and join us with those who have already died? Scripture indicates this certainty (1 Thess. 4:13–18).

Our hope is not mere speculation in what God might do. God has given His word on many areas of life regarding things He will do. We can have confident hope in everything that He has promised.

Yes that is our confident that when we have done our part here we will have our Father welcoming us at the other end.

Beloved, the next message before us is a very interesting one. Sometimes, we receive instruction from the Lord that paralyzes our little faith. We want yearn, we jitter, we are afraid to go ahead with the instruction heaven is giving us to do. You don’t need to be afraid, you are not alone in it. Prophet Jeremiah was faced with same.

But we need to discover what he did together:

“Ah Lord God, behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” Jeremiah 32:17

At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword, famine and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to purchase a field, and have the deed of transfer legally sealed and witnessed.

This was a strange purchase for a rational man to make. Prudence could not justify it, for it was buying with scarcely a probability that the person purchasing could ever enjoy the possession. But it was enough for Jeremiah that his God had bidden him, for well he knew that God will be justified of all His children.

He reasoned thus: “Ah, Lord God! Thou canst make this plot of ground of use to me; Thou canst rid this land of these oppressors; Thou canst make me yet sit under my vine and my fig-tree in the heritage which I have bought; for Thou didst make the heavens and the earth, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.”

This gave a majesty to the early saints, that they dared to do at God’s command things which carnal reason would condemn. Whether it be a Noah who is to build a ship on dry land, an Abraham who is to offer up his only son, or a Moses who is to despise the treasures of Egypt, or a Joshua who is to besiege Jericho seven days, using no weapons but the blasts of rams’ horns, they all act upon God’s command, contrary to the dictates of carnal reason; and the Lord gives them a rich reward as the result of their obedient faith.

Would to God we had in the religion of these modern times a more potent infusion of this heroic faith in God. If we would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers.

Let Jeremiah’s place of confidence be ours—nothing is too hard for the God that created the heavens and the earth.

On this note dear beloved, we set the ball rolling this morning. I believe God of heaven and earth will see us through as we obey His command in Jesus Name (1Pet 2:6).

This week is declared blessed in Jesus Name. Go and come back with testimonies by the end of the week in the Name of Jesus.

Remain blessed in Jesus Name.

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

Strongholds

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 8, 2016

Excellent Jehovah, Wonderful Jehovah there is no one greater than Jehovah love divine. My sister, who is greater than Jehovah love divine? There is on one greater than Jehovah love divine. My brother, who is greater than Jehovah love divine? There is no one greater than Jehovah love Divine.// What a wonderful God, what a glorious God, He has done wonderful things for me,,,,

Our Father in heaven, we Thank You most Gracious God for Your presence in our life and for all the battles of life You are fighting for us. Father, as we yet praise Your Holy Name, You will again lay ambush to our detractors in Jesus Name. Thank You for another successful week that we have gone through, blessed be Thy Holy Name forever and ever in Jesus Name.

Beloved, what a rest-fall week we have here, wishing it continues? We need a little work for the hand to be strong. Are you thanking God for watching over you? When the eye of the Almighty is upon you, you can go to bed with you two eyes close. The Lord keep you during the day and preserve you from the errors that flies at noon day. O my God, no pestilence will come near your dwelling.

Beloved also thank God is Friday and by the grace of God we will be bring your way some interesting teachings as it is our PCL day. So don’t be in a hurry to glance through but take your time as you have one or two things to pick along as you read on.

Beloveth, what are strongholds? What are things that can be a stronghold in an individual’s life or family or community lives? Can it be hereditary? Are you operating under a stronghold? Can there be known or unknown strongholds?

So many things come ready in mind when you see topics like this or come across section where it is been discuss. However, in our teaching’s today, you will be reading about the causes and the remedial. How best to it can be prevented from happening in your life and generations to come if Christ tarries.

Strongholds can come in different dimension. Have you ever come across a word like siege? When an individual is experience such as that, such a person is under a stronghold. Strongholds are enemies of one’s progress both in personal life and in relationship with God.

Beloveth, have you come across the word Cynical? How does it make you feel? All these are things you will be bringing your way today to help your Christian walk.

Knowledge is power. What you don’t know, you may not be able to handle. So come along as you learn more in the package of today.

Let get more in the message below:

“You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a trap to you.”—Judges 2:2–3

God gave the Israelites specific instructions: Drive the Canaanites out of every corner of the land, and obliterate any vestige of their abominable idol worship. This assignment was challenging! Their enemies had formidable chariots. The Canaanites had seemingly impregnable fortresses that were dangerous and difficult to overcome.

The Israelites failed to drive all the Canaanites from the land. Much about the Canaanite lifestyle and religion appealed to the Israelites’ sinful nature. Rather than destroying them and their idolatry, Israel compromised. The Canaanites would prove to be a troublesome distraction to the Israelites. Their idol worship would present a constant temptation.

When you became a Christian, God declared war on sin’s strongholds in your life. Sinful behaviors and attitudes were firmly entrenched in your character, but God commanded you to tear them down. The Holy Spirit pointed out areas of your life that were resistant to God’s will.

Were you tempted to merely establish a truce rather than obliterating every sin? Is anger one of sin’s strongholds? If so, it will rise up against you in moments of weakness. Is there a stronghold of lust in your life? If so, you will succumb to it when caught off guard. In careless moments, these strongholds will still tempt you to continue your past sinful behaviors.

Do not underestimate the destructive power of sin. If there are strongholds in your life that you have never defeated, the Holy Spirit is still prepared to bring you complete victory.

Every reader of this devotional that is under any form of strong hold I decree in the name of Jesus you are set free and you are made whole in Jesus Name. Any power that be that make your life uncomfortable today is their end in your life in the Name of Jesus. Do not open that door again beloved, make progress in your Christian walk and you will be free forever.

Beloveth, have you come across the word Cynical? How does it make you feel? Beloved, like a cancer, this hurtful word operate and paralysis it victims.

When you got born again, you are thought among other things to be good and kind, offer help to those in need and so on and so forth. And here you are doing just that but suddenly some happened and you became withdrawn and vow never to be involve again neither we will you available.

As hurting as this may be. As sad as you may also feel, God is bring healing your way today. You are not only going to be healed, you will also be made whole. If you are the person that heaven is visiting today, please make a joyful noise to the Lord. Lift up your hand and worship Him for He is worthy of your praise.

Come let’s run along as the Holy Spirit is here to help us. The son of man is here with healing in His wings and He is going to touch you now if you will be willing and obedient to what you are going to read hereafter:

Cynicism

My friend, my guess is that you have every reason to be cynical about life! After all, haven’t you been short-changed, not given due respect… exploited, and shunted aside?

Of course you have! But isn’t that how most of us have been treated from time to time?

Sadly, cynicism brings with it the seeds of spiritual paralysis and ineffectiveness in ministering to others…

After all, who wants to be around a bitter, brittle fud who expends his energy decrying life’s injustices?

So how can we avoid this cancer of the soul? Here are a few suggestions:

Stop grousing over the way it was… Especially if you were right.
Accept the fact that in time your influence will probably diminish, and you will receive increasingly fewer accolades.
Focus on what is right, not on what is wrong.
Stay active in ministering personally to others. Getting “down and dirty“ into people‘s lives will help keep you fresh and on your knees, and too busy to bother with pampering yourself in cynicism.
Affect what you can and should, and then commit the rest to God, keeping in mind that He probably has not yet designated you to be “The Chancellor of the Universe.“
Instead of being a critic of the next generation, be a source of encouragement, and their champion.
Don‘t let unresolved conflicts remain.

Jesus’ response to His unjust treatment should serve as our model:

“When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats. Instead, He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.” (1 Peter 2:23)

In observing older people around us, it is apparent that many have become sullen over their situation in life.

QUESTION: Do you plan to be one of them, or one of those rare, joyful, senior citizens around whom young people love to collect?

Given your present mind-set, into which camp do you think you are heading?

Beloved leaving you to give answers to the above question. Have a beautiful weekend. See you next week to the glory of God. don’t forget that obedient to the Word of God is what will bring deliverance from every stronghold no matter how long or how strong they prove to be.

Read Prov 4:18-27, 1:19

Remain blessed in the Lord.

“Called to be saints.”

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 7, 2016

Everlasting father, everlasting Son, Immortal Holy Ghost be thou glorify 2x.// Jehovah, Jehovah, we praise Your Name 2x.

O Father in heaven we praise Your Name we worship we adore You for Your love and peace in our lives. Blessed be Thy Holy Name. Thank You Father Sun, moon and the stars You have made. Thank You Lord for the wind and rain You have given us. O Lord! We glorified Your Name forever and ever.

Beloved, is good to be good? Our God is good- all the time is a saying that we say either unconsciously or without much thought. While do people say it? Because, God is in His nature is good. Goodness is Who God is. God is not good because you are sinless. He is not good to you because you are righteous. God is not good because you worship Him neither can He be any less because that is His very nature. This also means that God is unchangeable and Reliable too. He is ever faithful and loving (1Jn 4:8).

Therefore looking at God’s Goodness, we can say that God is compassionate. He is Kind too. His kindness made His only Son a sacrificial Lamb for our redemption (1 Jn 4:9; Col 1:22). His kindness made us co-heirs of His Kingdom and made us seat with Jesus in the heavenly places.

Beloved, won’t you desire to be like your Creator to show kindness to Him by evangelizing. Can you show kindness to that man, that woman around you? Can you be reliable enough for God to entrust His wealth to extend to those lacking and hurting around you?

The truth is that you cannot out-give God and whatever you do in His Name and glory has a reward (Matt 6:1-4; 1Cor 15:58; Col 3:17). Don’t forget we are having dominion through our act of kindness. By developing the kindness virtue in you. Beloved, you are to give away poverty by your kindness (Prov 3:28; Deut 15:1).

Beloved, God’s kindness made the saints of old and same kindness is making you a saint today if you will be willing and obedient to His command.

Build up your faith today. Believe God, that flour and oil will not run out till your next rain will come.

Let go for more discovery:

“Called to be saints.” Romans 1:7

We are very apt to regard the apostolic saints as if they were “saints” in a more especial manner than the other children of God. All are “saints” whom God has called by His grace, and sanctified by His Spirit; but we are apt to look upon the apostles as extraordinary beings, scarcely subject to the same weaknesses and temptations as ourselves.

Yet in so doing we are forgetful of this truth, that the nearer a man lives to God the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart; and the more his Master honours him in His service, the more also doth the evil of the flesh vex and tease him day by day.

The fact is, if we had seen the apostle Paul, we should have thought him remarkably like the rest of the chosen family: and if we had talked with him, we should have said, “We find that his experience and ours are much the same. He is more faithful, more holy, and more deeply taught than we are, but he has the selfsame trials to endure.

Nay, in some respects he is more sorely tried than ourselves.” Do not, then, look upon the ancient saints as being exempt either from infirmities or sins; and do not regard them with that mystic reverence which will almost make us idolators.

Their holiness is attainable even by us. We are “called to be saints” by that same voice which constrained them to their high vocation. It is a Christian’s duty to force his way into the inner circle of saintship; and if these saints were superior to us in their attainments, as they certainly were, let us follow them; let us emulate their ardour and holiness.

We have the same light that they had, the same grace is accessible to us, and why should we rest satisfied until we have equalled them in heavenly character? They lived with Jesus, they lived for Jesus, therefore they grew like Jesus. Let us live by the same Spirit as they did, “looking unto Jesus,” and our saintship will soon be apparent.

You read that? Let us also be like Jesus, His compassion for the sick made Him to go about healing all manner of diseases (Matt 8:1- 4, 5-13; Mk 5:1- 19). His compassion made Him to teach until it was late in the night and He was exhausted. The same compassion made Him to feed thousands on different occasion by only giving Thank and God multiplied what He was in His hand (Mk 6:36).

Do you dare trust that same God? As He was in the beginning so He is even now! Our God is good and we must learn to trust Him in every circumstances. Praise the Name of the Lord.

“Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.” Isaiah 26:4

Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon Him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust.

A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who never will. It were well if doubting were banished from the household of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble nowadays as when the psalmist asked, “Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Will He be favourable no more?”

David had not made any very lengthy trial of the mighty sword of the giant Goliath, and yet he said, “There is none like it.” He had tried it once in the hour of his youthful victory, and it had proved itself to be of the right metal, and therefore he praised it ever afterwards; even so should we speak well of our God, there is none like unto Him in the heaven above or the earth beneath;

“To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.” There is no rock like unto the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves being judges. So far from suffering doubts to live in our hearts, we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and slay them over the brook; and for a stream to kill them at, we will select the sacred torrent which wells forth from our Saviour’s wounded side.

We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been cast where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Let us then be encouraged to trust in the Lord for ever, assured that His ever lasting strength will be, as it has been, our succour and stay.

Beloved the Lord is good! And the just shall live by faith. Hold on to Jesus the author and finisher of your Faith. Trust God and You live above Your pain and trials for His our everlasting joy and strength.

Hold on to what Apostle Paul wrote in Eph 1:17- 22. Let it be your guiding principal. “… having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, and what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of His power towards us who believe…”

Remain blessed in the Lord.

“Get thee up into the high mountain.”

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 6, 2016

Thank You, my God. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, my Saviour. Thank You my dear Lord, Alleluia! // Jesus what a Wonder You Are, You Are so gentle, so good and so Kind…, You Who Shine like a bright morning Star, Jesus what a wonder You Are!!!

Father, in heaven O God! Thank You for yet another day You have made and we shall rejoice in it and be glad. Thank You for Your faithfulness and love toward us Your children. Thank You Lord for your abiding Presence that will never fail. Blessed be Thy Holy Name for ever and ever.

Arise O God! let Your enemies be scatter. In You is our strength and hope. Father, without Your help O Lord we can do nothing. We need You afresh today. Father, we reject every familiar spirit that make us too comfortable in Your presence Lord. We want to feel Your Awesomeness today as it were when we first come to You.

Come in Your power, come with blessings even as we call on You today O God of heaven and earth.

Beloved, this is a day that we must see God anew. Therefore, we contend with every familiar spirit that held us captive in our relationship with God. Father today, contend with them, we pray in Jesus Name. Help us to climb higher today in our experience of You as we pray.

Rebuke every spirit of doubt that has accompanied thus far. Help us today to fall in awe of You Lord for You are a God to be feared and reverence in Jesus Name! (Jas 1:6; 1 Cor16:13)

Beloveth, “are you ready to get thee higher on the mountain of prayer?” Come with me as we climb through prayer the mountain before us to see more of Jesus:

“Get thee up into the high mountain.” Isaiah 40:9

Our knowledge of Christ is somewhat like climbing one of our Welsh mountains. When you are at the base you see but little: the mountain itself appears to be but one-half as high as it really is. Confined in a little valley, you discover scarcely anything but the rippling brooks as they descend into the stream at the foot of the mountain.

Climb the first rising knoll, and the valley lengthens and widens beneath your feet. Go higher, and you see the country for four or five miles round, and you are delighted with the widening prospect. Mount still, and the scene enlarges; till at last, when you are on the summit, and look east, west, north, and south, you see almost all England lying before you.

Yonder is a forest in some distant county, perhaps two hundred miles away, and here the sea, and there a shining river and the smoking chimneys of a manufacturing town, or the masts of the ships in a busy port. All these things please and delight you, and you say, “I could not have imagined that so much could be seen at this elevation.”

Now, the Christian life is of the same order. When we first believe in Christ we see but little of Him. The higher we climb the more we discover of His beauties. But who has ever gained the summit? Who has known all the heights and depths of the love of Christ which passes knowledge?

Paul, when grown old, sitting grey-haired, shivering in a dungeon in Rome, could say with greater emphasis than we can, “I know whom I have believed,” for each experience had been like the climbing of a hill, each trial had been like ascending another summit, and his death seemed like gaining the top of the mountain, from which he could see the whole of the faithfulness and the love of Him to whom he had committed his soul.

Get thee up, dear friend, into the high mountain.

Beloved, did you hear that? Get up to the summit today, don’t play around, don’t be cold in your place of prayer, arise and get to the summit today. Remember our Father is ever ready to answer whenever you call on Him, therefore, arise from where you are now, away with slothfulness in the place of prayer, away with familiarity, find no rest except in Christ Jesus:

“The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.” Genesis 8:9

Reader, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe unto you. If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

If your soul can stretch herself at rest, and find the bed long enough, and the coverlet broad enough to cover her in the chambers of sin, then you are a hypocrite, and far enough from any right thoughts of Christ or perception of His preciousness. But if, on the other hand, you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God—your God—is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God.

With all thy sins and imperfections, take this to thy comfort: if thy soul has no rest in sin, thou are not as the sinner is! If thou art still crying after and craving after something better, Christ has not forgotten thee, for thou hast not quite forgotten Him. The believer cannot do without his Lord; words are inadequate to express his thoughts of Him. We cannot live on the sands of the wilderness, we want the manna which drops from on high; our skin bottles of creature confidence cannot yield us a drop of moisture, but we drink of the rock which follows us, and that rock is Christ.

When you feed on Him your soul can sing, “He hath satisfied my mouth with good things, so that my youth is renewed like the eagle’s,” but if you have Him not, your bursting wine vat and well-filled barn can give you no sort of satisfaction: rather lament over them in the words of wisdom, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!”

Beloveth, are you ready for a Jericho breaking wall prayer? Now grid thou lion and get going. We must pray today until you see all the wall hold you captive all your treasure come down as you shoot up your request to heaven.

My prayer for you is that whatever you bring before the Lord no matter how knotty must receive answers today in Jesus Name. Remember He faileth not, let that be your confidence as you go before him. (Prov 15:29. 2 Cor 7:1; Phil 4:19; Jas 5:17; 1:6)

Are you filthy? Humble yourself before Him and He will cleanse you and make you whole. My God is able to do all things, so pray and be bless in Jesus Name Amen!!!!! (Heb 7:24-25)

Remain blessed in the Lord.

His Love; His Gift; His Son

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 4, 2016

Glory glory alleluia, glory glory praise the Lord. Glory glory alleluia, glory glory praise the Lord.// You are a Might God, the Great I AM, alleluia, alleluia. You are a Might God, the Great I AM, alleluia, alleluia.

Heavenly Father we are grateful unto You, thank You Good God, Thank You Everlasting Father, Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise. We bow and we worship before Thy Throne. O Lord come and help us today even as we learn at Your feet in Jesus Name.

Beloveth, are you happy to be part of this family of God Thank God for His love endureth forever? Let us appreciate God for the gift of another month, the remaining half of this year.

He was faithful in the first half, He will also be Faithful in the second half. He provided and protected us in the first half He is still able to preserve us in the remaining half of the half of the year. Praise the Name of the Lord.

Just as a remainder, we are call to show kindness to those around us as a way of having dominion over all that has been dominating us hitherto. However, if you are not conversant with this virtue, we are advice to follow Jesus, emulate Him, to observe Him, to be like Him, Praise the Lord.

A life that is not yet dead in Christ will find this instruction very difficult to live out, but for a life that is well disciple in Christ will seek out where to give such a help. He see it as an obligation and will not give it a second a thought to be part of it. Such individual feel honour that it is counted upon him/her to honour God with his/her substance no matter how little it might be. Praise God.

Let us consider the instruction of Apostle Paul to the Corinth’s and likewise do same. For if we believe in the blessings of the bible, likewise we should also believe in it works. Praise the Lord.

In 2 Corinthians 8 verse 15, the Scriptures say, “Those who gathered a lot had nothing left over, and those who gathered only a little had enough.2 Cor 8:15 (NLT)

Beloveth, our topic today has a perfect example for us to help our understanding of this topic. God did not only gave us instruction to give, He also showed us how to give not just anything but how to give our best.

Let us consider the teaching below:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

Of all the stars in the sky the polestar is the most useful to the mariner. This text is a polestar, for it has guided more souls to salvation than any other Scripture. It is among promises what the Great Bear is among constellations.

Several words in it shine with peculiar brilliance. Here we have God’s love, with a “so” to it, which marks its measureless greatness. Then we have God’s gift in all its freeness and greatness. This also is God’s Son, that unique and priceless gift of a love which could never fully show itself till Heaven’s Only-begotten had been sent to live and die for men. These three points are full of light.

Then there is the simple requirement of believing, which graciously points to a way of salvation suitable for guilty men. This is backed by a wide description — “whosoever believeth in him.” Many have found room in “whosoever” who would have felt themselves shut out by a narrower word.

Then comes the great promise, that believers in Jesus shall not perish, but have everlasting life. This is cheering to every man who feels that he is ready to perish, and that he cannot save himself. We believe in the Lord Jesus, and we have eternal life.

Beloved, the gift of our Lord Jesus assured us of eternal life. It implied that the gift of God to us is of inestimable value to every living soul. So we are enjoy to likewise do same with our gift.

Talk about a redeemed of the Lord and the one who is yet to come to the Lord. The next message will help us further so let’s get going:

“And God divided the light from the darkness.” Genesis 1:4

A believer has two principles at work within him. In his natural estate he was subject to one principle only, which was darkness; now light has entered, and the two principles disagree. Mark the apostle Paul’s words in the seventh chapter of Romans: “I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members.”

How is this state of things occasioned? “The Lord divided the light from the darkness.” Darkness, by itself, is quiet and undisturbed, but when the Lord sends in light, there is a conflict, for the one is in opposition to the other: a conflict which will never cease till the believer is altogether light in the Lord. If there be a division within the individual Christian, there is certain to be a division without.

So soon as the Lord gives to any man light, he proceeds to separate himself from the darkness around; he secedes from a merely worldly religion of outward ceremonial, for nothing short of the gospel of Christ will now satisfy him, and he withdraws himself from worldly society and frivolous amusements, and seeks the company of the saints, for “We know we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.” The light gathers to itself, and the darkness to itself.

What God has divided, let us never try to unite, but as Christ went without the camp, bearing His reproach, so let us come out from the ungodly, and be a peculiar people. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners; and, as He was, so we are to be nonconformists to the world, dissenting from all sin, and distinguished from the rest of mankind by our likeness to our Master.

Yes! Let us be distinguished from the world. Let us be selfless, abounding in grace and be ready unto every good works.

Beloveth, this week is declare blessed in the Name of the Lord. The Hand of the Lord will help you to do His will and His good pleasure. I see darkness having no path in your life in Jesus Name. I see you having dominion by our acts of kindness in Jesus Name.

Remain blessed in the Lord.

Welcome to our month of Dominion through kindness that is in Christ Jesus

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

July 1, 2016

Praise the Lord O my soul, Praise the Lord O my soul 2x.// He is alive forever He is alive, my Jesus is alive forever He is alive amen.

Gracious Father we Thank You we bless Your Name, we worship You for You are great. Faithful are You Lord. Greatly to be praise. Thank You Lord for the gift of a new month, a new quarter, the month of perfection. We are grateful and we return to give You worship for all You have done for us in the first half of the year, alleluia to Your Name O Lord.

Father, we cannot Thank You enough for Your goodness and kindness towards us, Your children. O Lord, who is like unto Thee among other gods? Faithful are You Lord. In Your richness, You showed love, care and Your lovingkindness never cease. We bow before the Throne. Be thou exalted Lord forever and ever in Jesus Name.

Dear beloved, happy new month. You are welcome into this great month of perfection according to divine order. Everything outstanding in your life must be perfected in Jesus Name.

Beloved, we are in the next half of the year, is interesting to know that we are gradually taking dominion according to God’s plan for this year and nothing is permitted to hinder the progress. So sit tight and make sure you are focus. Don’t get distracted so that You can land safely to your desired destination before or by the end of this year in Jesus Name.

We are pleased to welcome you to our month of Dominion through Kindness that is in Christ Jesus (Tit 3:1-7; 2 Sam 9:1-7).

Today is also a special day to us, so we will be combining the message we have to meet up with demand of the day.

Kindness is one virtue that is not common to man except by the grace of God. Man by nature is selfish and will not want part with anything. However in our theme text Tit. 3:1-7, Apostle Paul was encouraging the people to live worthy of their calling and in so doing show kindness to others.

God’s kind of kindness is also exhibited by the saving grace in Christ Jesus. Having save us not of works but according to His mercy through the washing and regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit, making us heir with Christ and the granting us the hope of eternal life.

Also in our theme text in the Old Testament, we saw King David showing kindness to Mephibosheth, the son of his bosom friend, Jonathan.

By the grace of God, we will be expanding this during the course of month.

Beloved, are you driven by fear or faith? We consider this topic fit for today as we want to start off the month on the ground of faith and also in conjunction with our Friday’s teaching on PCL.

Can we get going:

“In summer and in winter shall it be.” Zechariah 14:8

The streams of living water which flow from Jerusalem are not dried up by the parching heats of sultry midsummer any more than they were frozen by the cold winds of blustering winter. Rejoice, O my soul, that thou art spared to testify of the faithfulness of the Lord. The seasons change and thou changest, but thy Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

The heats of business cares and scorching trials make me need the cooling influences of the river of His grace; I may go at once and drink to the full from the inexhaustible fountain, for in summer and in winter it pours forth its flood. The upper springs are never scanty, and blessed be the name of the Lord, the nether springs cannot fail either. Elijah found Cherith dry up, but Jehovah was still the same God of providence. Job said his brethren were like deceitful brooks, but he found his God an overflowing river of consolation.

The Nile is the great confidence of Egypt, but its floods are variable; our Lord is evermore the same. By turning the course of the Euphrates, Cyrus took the city of Babylon, but no power, human or infernal, can divert the current of divine grace. The tracks of ancient rivers have been found all dry and desolate, but the streams which take their rise on the mountains of divine sovereignty and infinite love shall ever be full to the brim.

Generations melt away, but the course of grace is unaltered. The river of God may sing with greater truth than the brook in the poem—-

“Men may come, and men may go,

But I go on for ever.”

How happy art thou, my soul, to be led beside such still waters! never wander to other streams, lest thou hear the Lord’s rebuke, “What hast thou to do in the way of Egypt to drink of the muddy river?”

Let keep going:

How Do You Respond To Seemingly Impossible Circumstances?

With fear or faith?

King Saul and his son Jonathan illustrate both:

SAUL, panics as he sees his troops deserting him while on a military skirmish as they await the priest’s appearance to offer a sacrifice. So Saul steps in and presumptuously assumes the priest’s religious duty.

“I saw that the men were scattering.” – Frazzled by circumstances.

“I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me… ‘” – Ruled by fear.

“I felt compelled to offer burnt offerings.” – Prompted by emotions.

The consequences? Saul is disenfranchised as king, (and dies a premature death):

“Now your kingdom will not endure; the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him leader… because you have not kept the Lord‘s command.” (1 Samuel 13:14)

JONATHAN, by contrast, is vastly out-numbered by the Philistine army, yet chooses to believe God to use him in defeating them.

“Come, let‘s go over to the Philistines” – Scoped out the enemy.

“Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf” – Made himself available to be used of God.

“Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few” – Believed God could use him to destroy the enemy.

The consequences? Jonathan victoriously destroys enemy forces.

SAUL saw challenging circumstances through the eyes of fear and failed.

JONATHAN saw challenging circumstances through the eyes of faith and succeeded. (1 Samuel 13:1-14:23)

QUESTION: When you are faced with difficult circumstances that appear to be overwhelmingly impossible, what do you do? Panic, like Saul and resort to your own solutions? Or do you, like Jonathan trust God, and see Him come through with His solution?

Beloved, have you answered the question above? How have you been reacting or responding to events surrounding your live and situation since the beginning of the year? Is so important that we get it right as we step into the second half of the year so that we will indeed have the desired result come the end of the year.

Beloved, kindness is another virtue we must imbibe if we must have the desired dominion ordained by God for us. Please ensure that you follow us all the month to be better equip as we move on in life.

Once again “welcome to your month of Dominion through kindness that is in Christ Jesus.”

Have a wonderful weekend. See you on next week by the grace of God.

Remain blessed in the Lord.

“Looking unto Jesus.”

Evang. Ifeoma Ohondu

June 30, 2016

He is a miracle working God 2x He is the Alaph and Omega, He is a miracle working God.// Na so so wonder Jesus they do, na so so wonder Jesus dey do, He buttered my bread, He sugared my tea, na so so wonder Jesus dey do. Jesus na You biko oo, oga apata, apata na You biko oga. Beloved I don’t know about You favour is my name, I don’t know about You , favour is my name.

Heavenly Father we Thank You, we bless You hold Name, we worship You, we bow before You, we praise You, we honour You, we glorify You Lord, be Thou be exalted in the Name forever and ever in Jesus Name.

Beloveth, are you dancing? Are you celebrating? Are you clapping? (to the Lord) Are jumping? (unto the Lord?) Are you happy? Are wearing your dancing shoes, okay, I want you to make move for the Lord in honour of this month. God made you see the beginning and today the month is rounding up to the glory of the Lord Who is our father in heaven. Let someone shout a big praise the Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. alleluia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beloveth, praising and dancing is also what you do when you are patiently waiting on the Lord. When you have all what you know how to do and you are now waiting for the Lord appearing and endorsement, I am convince that the best you do is to praise and dance to the Lord.

It will not only attracts God’s attention, it will also hasten Him up. Do you remember the case of Paul and Silas in the prison yard? The last thing to do for God is to praise and worship Him to an average mind in a difficult time or challenging times, but to that man or woman who has been redeemed and sanctified by the blood, he or she knows the power of praise and will lavish it unto the Lord.

Praise the Name of the Lord. I heard a testimony of a sister who has been trusting God for a life partner and there came a time in her life she has done all knew how to do, having attained all manner of seminars and read all the books on how to stay attracted to the opposite sex and nothing happened. This sister after attaining a session on the wonders of praise and dancing unto the Lord decided to give it a trial.

She locked herself up in her apartment and decide to render to God a hundred songs. Beloveth after that encounter, she was settled by the Only Wise God Who answers not only prayers but also listen to the sweet melodies that come from a repented and humble heart.

Are going to do the same today? The situation may not be fine but you have a God, Who is able in all situation to do what you can never imagine and think about.

Beloveth this month teaching will not be complete without us reminding ourselves of the patients and long sufferings of God. The Holy Spirit reminded me this morning as woke up. He said “tell them that the Lord’s demand for patience is not for them alone; behold He, God also exercises a lot of patience in dealing with us.

Last month we dwelt on the grace and peace of the Lord, it is the abundant grace in God that we are not consume by the wrath of the Most High God.

So am here to do exactly that in-addition to what I have considered as the conclusive message for the month.

Let get to second Peter chapter 3 and verse 9 “The Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but the long suffering to us, not counseling’s any to be lost but all to be pass on to reformation (KJV). Praise the Lord. While (ESV) put it this way “The Lord is not slow to fulfill His as some count slowness, but is patient toward you not wishing that any should perish but that all should reach repentance. (ESV)

We saw this demonstrated in the time of Noah. God waited for more than hundred years to save just eight people of that generation as written in first Peter chapter 3 verse 20. Also read verse 15 of this chapter “and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation,…”

So when God said that He want you to have dominion through “patient waiting” He knows exactly what He is saying to you. Because He create you and know when you should on hold for other things to fall in line else you keep struggling without result.

Why am I celebrating this month? The ministry was birthed about four years ago when the Lord revealed some things in my dream having gone through some nasty period and I was also going into apostasy. The Lord appeared in my dream and showed me what He want me to do going forward but I could not just fit in. I have little or no faith to handle what God has put in my hand.

So I started attending bible schools and many other faith building teaching to help me and at graduation as I was celebrating and was inquiring of the Lord what next to do? He said with this instruction “go tell help other the way you have been helped.” And that what I have been on for past for years. Then this month to the glory of God, what the Lord showed to me back four year ago started unfolding. I was not conscious of it, later the Holy Spirit reminded me on the 18th day of this month about my encounter with the Lord four year ago that this is the beginning of the manifestation.

I could not believe what I was hearing. I was in shock and it was done on me that I waited for three years for this promise to be fulfilled. O my God.

Beloveth I don’t know what you are trusting God for. I may not know exactly where you are in life concerning His promises to you, but what I know is that His Word will never fail.

While I was abiding in His instruction for the month, waiting patiently as instructed by Him, He went ahead to help birth a vision that I could not imagine that I will ever achieved through another daughter of His I met recently and another sister to bring it to past. Beloveth, read with me Heb 10:3: “He is now waiting until his enemies are made His footstool.” Talking about Jesus’s second appearing.

Even Jesus is waiting. So why are you fretting when you are instructed to wait? Why are you running out of patient? Can you turn your hair back or white? But the Lord can, so why not be patient and rely on Him to see you through?

My testimony today is that I benefited immensely from the theme of the month and I believe someone else would also have something to share. You can send in your testimony through our email address.

Someone will want to know “Did I fold my hands while waiting, not exactly? I got involved in helping others. I sorted after things that will help me while on the waiting bench. I keep praying and believing God that He will see me through. And mind you, God also know that I was not through prepared for the journey ahead and hear this “for the calling of the Lord is without repentance” now having been called, you must build yourself up to be able to handle God’s Word to you or whatever God is calling you to do. You must be trained to fit in.

All what I was doing all these years was getting prepared for the journey ahead. Thank God with me for helping me thus far. Praise God and in due time and season you will hear all.

Beloved, don’t forget that being patient before the Lord is another way God is dealing with your pride, anger, rebellion, self-pity, complaining, and many other things. You can struggle with these but just know that God will not change His way or bend the rule of purification and sanctification for you. He will prune you to bear more fruit (Gen 1:28; 9:7; Jn 15:8; Heb 12:7; Rev 3:19). He will simply wait until you obey His last instruction to you. God will not endure any argument from you. All He wants to hear, “Yes, Lord, your will be done”

Finally in faith clinic today, we will be considering “looking unto Jesus” and how Aaron’s rod swallow up all their rods. An interesting message if you ask me. A Word in season. Come along as we listen to the Master speak to us.

“Looking unto Jesus.” Hebrews 12:2

It is ever the Holy Spirit’s work to turn our eyes away from self to Jesus; but Satan’s work is just the opposite of this, for he is constantly trying to make us regard ourselves instead of Christ. He insinuates, “Your sins are too great for pardon; you have no faith; you do not repent enough; you will never be able to continue to the end; you have not the joy of His children; you have such a wavering hold of Jesus.”

All these are thoughts about self, and we shall never find comfort or assurance by looking within. But the Holy Spirit turns our eyes entirely away from self: He tells us that we are nothing, but that “Christ is all in all.” Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument—it is Christ’s blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by “looking unto Jesus.”

Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at night look to Him.

Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.

“My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness:

I dare not trust the sweetest frame,

But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.”

Is that your song also? We are nothing aside God, remember? Beloveth, the next message is assured victory that only the hand of God will bring in your life if you will allow Him, come along as we discover more:

“But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.” Exodus 7:12

This incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as sure as ever God is in the work, it will swallow up all its foes.

If God’s grace takes possession of a man, the world’s magicians may throw down all their rods; and every rod may be as cunning and poisonous as a serpent, but Aaron’s rod will swallow up their rods. The sweet attractions of the cross will woo and win the man’s heart, and he who lived only for this deceitful earth will now have an eye for the upper spheres, and a wing to mount into celestial heights. When grace has won the day the worldling seeks the world to come.

The same fact is to be observed in the life of the believer. What multitudes of foes has our faith had to meet! Our old sins—the devil threw them down before us, and they turned to serpents. What hosts of them! Ah, but the cross of Jesus destroys them all. Faith in Christ makes short work of all our sins.

Then the devil has launched forth another host of serpents in the form of worldly trials, temptations, unbelief; but faith in Jesus is more than a match for them, and overcomes them all. The same absorbing principle shines in the faithful service of God! With an enthusiastic love for Jesus difficulties are surmounted, sacrifices become pleasures, sufferings are honours.

But if religion is thus a consuming passion in the heart, then it follows that there are many persons who profess religion but have it not; for what they have will not bear this test.

Examine yourself, my reader, on this point. Aaron’s rod proved its heaven-given power. Is your religion doing so? If Christ be anything He must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

Beloved, if God long- sufferings produce your salvation while not allow Him to finish the good work He started in your life by waiting patiently on Him also. Surely victory will be yours as you have just read. Do not allow all that world have to offer derail you in your race but continually look unto the Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.

I sign off here for the month of June with this verse in first Timothy 6:11- But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness,” and I believe God for that new month will be more glorious. Someone shout alleluia. Please pray along with us as we trust God for His Word in season.

Remain blessed in the Lord.

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