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Sunday 15 October 2023

The Real Grace

MEMORISE:

"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace." - (Romans 6:14)


READ: TITUS 2:11-12 (KJV)


11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,


12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;


MESSAGE:


There are many preachers today who say that once a person is saved, he or she is forever saved, so the fellow would go to heaven even if he or she keeps committing sin. That is a big lie. My own Bible says clearly in Romans 6:15: "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." 


Real grace enables you to live holy rather than permit you to commit sin. What the grace of God does is give you the ability to live above the dictates of your flesh. It is by grace that you are saved (Ephesians 2:4-5). After that, the grace of God that brought you salvation will then teach you to live holy. "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world". This is the true work of grace that the Bible talks about.


Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. - (2 Timothy 1:9)


Please ignore anyone who tells you that the grace of God allows you to commit sin. That is a message from the devil, carefully put together to send many people to hell. The devil knows that no sinner will enter into heaven, so he carefully crafted this message for Christians to ensure that they continue to sin even after responding to the altar call, but he will fail over you, in Jesus' name.


I have had big men of God argue with me over this subject and each time, I tell them, "Let us assume that you are correct, and once I have given my life to Christ before, heaven is sure even if I keep committing sin. That means if rapture takes place or we both die, we will both go to heaven. But if you are wrong, that means if rapture takes place now or we both die, I will go to heaven, and you will go to hell. Either way, I am still correct. I would rather choose the safe path". What about you?


KEY POINT:

Grace is the enablement to live above sin, not permission to commit it.


BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: MARK 8-9


AUTHOR PASTOR E A ADEBOYE 


HYMNAL:  8 - I NEED THEE EVERY HOUR


1. I need Thee every hour,

Most gracious Lord;

No tender voice like Thine

Can peace afford.


REFRAIN: 

I need Thee, Oh, I need Thee;

Ev'ry hour I need Thee!

Oh, bless me now, my Saviour,

I come to Thee! 


2. I need Thee every hour,

Stay Thou nearby;

Temptations lose their power

When Thou art nigh.


3. I need Thee every hour,

In joy or pain;

Come quickly and abide

Or life is vain.


4. I need Thee every hour,

Teach me Thy will;

And Thy rich promises

In me fulfill.


5. I need Thee every hour,

Most Holy one;

Oh, make me Thine indeed,

Thou blessed Son!



Culled from the Redeemed Christian Church of God Open heaven manual. 2023.

Friday 30 June 2017

That Secret Sin in You

I AM WRITING THIS LETTER TO THOSE WHO ARE GENUINELY BORN AGAIN, BUT THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH SOME SECRET SINS... BECAUSE, I WAS THERE!

There is something glorious about your future God will show you, you will not need your pastor to keep preaching holiness message to you daily...

When you see a girl singing in the choir, yet, from the choir, she keeps sexual appointments, check that girl, she has not seen anything yet about her future...

When you see a young boy who dresses to church, to seduce those small girls to bed and his mates will be clapping for him, check that boy, he has a spiritual eye problem...

He hasn't seen anything about his future yet...
If you do it again and again and again, God will forgive you again and again and again...

But, while He is busy forgiving you, angels are busy searching for some one else heaven will use to replace you ...

What separates men before God is not how long they can pray or how much scriptures they know...

The value God places on people is not determined by the position they occupy in the church...
But how much they can bear for His Name sake...

Some times, He allows your salary to be delayed, to know if you will start stealing in your office...

Sometimes, He allows some lose ladies to start suggesting sex with you, to know if you have grown...

But unfortunately, you still fall again ....
Yes, He will forgive....
But, you will still remain in the same class in the school of glory...

Decision separates men...
There is an OIL that comes with separation...
The weight of a man is buried in the decisions he makes when no one is watching him ...

Many times, God allows you to be lonely so that you can be holy...

Forget this public revival messages all of us are preaching...
Many are still behind in the school of glory...

Not because they chose to, but because they still don't want to pay the price of separation...

If it takes a man to be married to be responsible, we will not have many married irresponsible men scattered all over the place who are renting houses for their girlfriends, while their wives are still at home....

When a man is due for marriage, he should get married...

But don't tell me to get married because you want me to escape fornication...
Marriage is not an escape route into a responsible life...

What you cannot control when you are single has the power to control you even when you are married ...

No matter how beautiful your wife will be, you will still see other beautiful ladies....
Teach me how to die to flesh sir...
Teach me that I can live alone in a house alone and yet, I will not think rubbish thoughts...

Joseph was not married before he ran away naked from Portipha's wife bedroom ...
It was not a marital ring on his finger that made him refuse that gesture....

But because he knew the future God has planned for Him will be messed up by a single decision....

I want to raise a generation of young boys and girls that will love God where no one is seeing them ...

I want to raise a breed that doesn't appear holy only when they see their parents or their pastors...

This holiness by dressing is sending people from choir seats to hell fire...
They are dying in secret sins, yet, they have none to cry to, because, once they confess, they will be stigmatized...

Consequently, we are raising a generation that is speaking in tongues on their way to hell...

Sister, singing in choir doesn't confer value on men before God, but decision...
Stop attaching your spiritual growth on night vigils where you go and flog enemies ...

God is waiting for you when no one is there...
If you can succeed there, you will be a commander of the supernatural...

The greatest tool against the end time church is the adulteration of the message of grace...
They teach you that God will forgive...
But they will not teach you that God will not promote you to another class...

No matter how you love your child, you will not give him your car key to use when you know he has not perfected his driving...

As long as that child is finding it hard to drive perfectly, he will keep trekking to school...

There is someone reading this posts now, heaven is saying that you are due for manifestation, but you have not made a decision yet...

You are still afraid of hunger....
You don't want to starve....
You are ashamed of what people will say when you stop sleeping with men for money to pay bills...

They have even told you that there is no young person like you that doesn't have sexual partners...
That human beings were wired by God to fall and rise again...

Several times, you have made moves to delete all those phone numbers that connect you to your vomits...
But you have been afraid of the days of loneliness...

You don't want to miss those cuddles...
You don't know if you can ever look into his eyes and tell him: "No more sex"...

Even if he accepts, you are afraid that you might never cope...

Sister, don't let weekend orgasm rob you of eternal value...

Your enemy is no more that witch in the village....

But any man that is making you comfortable in a place of rebellion with God ...

Don't be in church singing in the choir and God will go to the nearest hotel and catch a prostitute, wash her, clean her and fill her with His power...

I know you have been trying to make amends ...
You have answered altar calls several times, yet, you still fall back, even more deeper ...

Some of us were there not too long ago...
Singing in choir, leading in powerful prayer sections, yet, battling with addictions...

Worse of all we were afraid to tell anyone...
Because, people around would never have understood how much we were trying to be better ...

We bought different anointing oil, from different men of God, yet, we were not free...
We even afflicted ourselves with fastings...
Yet, nothing changed ...

Until we encountered the Word of God.....
When Jesus said that " We are made clean by the Words that I speak unto you..."

We began to read and study the Bible...
Like Job, we began to esteem God's Word above our necessary food...

Gradually, addictions began to lose its grip...
God began to change our appetites...
Until today, the darkness is past, the true Light now shineth ...

Brother, I want to recommend you to the Word of God....
The Word of God will settle that lust issue...
Don't go and rush into marriage if you are not ready, because you want to avoid temptation...

The spirit of lust does not respect wedding ring...

Especially now that our sisters who are still in Babylon even prefer having it with married men ...

There are still single guys who are serving God in spirit and in truth...
5 chapters of the bible every day and 1 hour prayers or more...

You will see that your mind will stop going to those thoughts ...
Jesus did not say it is easy...
But He said that with God all things are possible ...

Your heart is beating faster now as you are reading this...
You are wondering if you will ever get free from the things you are struggling with...

Friend, that God that did it for us, He will show up on your case...

Receive grace to feast on the Word from now....
In Jesus Name...

Pls share 2 save someone

Shalom

Wednesday 21 June 2017

Today's Minister and Babylon

Bombshell from Bro. Gbile Akanni, read with an open heart and the Lord shall ignite a fire of discontentment in you.

*MESSAGE TO MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL*

*IF WE ARE DEPENDING ON THIS BABYLONIAN TRANSACTIONS GOING ON ON  OUR PULPITS TODAY, IT MEANS THAT BEFORE OUR EYES , WE WILL LOSE AFRICA TO ISLAM IN OUR TIME...*

In one of the Assemblies of God churches, in Aba District, where my late dad pastored in the 1980s, I remember when  a young man came very early in the morning and told my father:

"Pastor, what did I do to you? Why do you hate me so much? I have been born again for almost 1 year and I have won many people to Christ, but why have you not recommended me to join others to go for missions work in the northern States of the country... "

His singlet was torn... And with his zeal, he was crying profusely...

My father did not know what to say...
The young man kept crying:" Pastor, why are you doing this to me... Why are you doing this to me? "

My father told him: "Nna, I know very well that you want to serve God... But you are the only son of your mother and your father is late... If anything happens to you, who will look after your mother and younger ones?...

The boy started crying the more...
"Pastor, I am the only son and yet I was an armed robber... I am the only son, yet, I was attending meetings in the midnight with native doctors, where many of my friends could not wake up alive after diabolically fortifying ourselves against police bullets... "

" Pastor, what would have happened to my mother if I had died in one of those armed robbery attacks? Who would have taken care of her? If I risked my life when I was serving Satan, why will I not risk it now that I am serving Jesus Christ? "

My father was speechless for almost 30minutes... And it was not long, we saw tears rolling down his eyes...
He held the young man and both of them were crying together...
How can I forget such scenes that God allowed to play out before my eyes? ...

My father recommended him to join some missionaries that came in the area for missions work...
The day he was leaving with them, the mother and his younger ones were crying... Knowing that they might not see him again, both live or dead... But I can still remember that excitement on his face...

Lord, how can I forget?

Brother, let us go to our Bible schools and listen to the conversations of those young men and women who have joined ministry and you will know that many of them have no single passion for the lost...

They are just getting ready to rent halls in the city where they will be rolling out posters and handbills, laying greedy hands on people, collecting offering and tithes..
That's all in their hearts...

Congratulations for your big auditorium...
I am happy for your 10th time services...
But if heaven cannot find such men in your church,... 

Young men and women who will say: "Lets go to that village and tell them that Jesus is no more in the grave... Even If we don't have to come back alive... Let it be so..."

If you don't have such calibre of members among your congregation, then, sir, with due respect, it's a big shame! .. This end time agenda has no need of you and your kind!

A Muslim suicide bomber doesn't need tithe and offering to carry out a bloody assignment, in defence of his faith  ...
They don't need adverts or media stunts..

But here, we have young men who are in the pulpit, being driven by tithe, offering and honorarium.... If there is no 5star hotel reservation, they will not honour the invitation to preach ...

And yet, they are General Overseers...
Overseeing passionless men and women who are like them...

Whereas, their mates in Islam have burnt their school certificates, refused juicy contracts, abandoned wonderful jobs and everyday they are sleeping in the bush and starving for months, receiving trainings, how to carry out terrorist attacks, all in defence of their belief...

And we are here looking for churches where they will use convoy to come and pick us up from the airport...
And you wonder why people feel like vomiting when they hear them calling you a voice in the land...

A voice because you went to a program and stole committed members from your host church and you came back and gave them positions in the choir, sowing different uniforms for them every Sunday...

None of them can quote any scripture...
They have not gone for evangelism for any day, after many years of following you...
All of them were members you stole and now you are using juju to keep them from running away...
And they are calling you a voice in the land! ... What a ridicule! What a noise! 

Brother, if this is the generation that will usher in a move of God in our days, then, those who have not forgotten what they saw in the church in the 80s and 90s must not keep quiet in a time like this...

The greatest hindrance of revival in our time is not Islam...
The pulpit in our time is the greatest enemy of the expected move of God  in our days...

If not for the decline of truth on the pulpits in our time, long ago, we would have seen what we saw in the days of our fathers...
And now we are blaming Muslim fanatics, who are defending with their lives what they believe in...

When else are we going to see young men from our churches, after hearing our messages, getting so angry in the spirit that they make up their minds to convert 10 unbelievers to Christianity every month month?
And the next place you will see them will be in camps or mountains, preparing, praying for Power?

But how can we hear such when the only thing we teach them is about how to be rich and how to suspect detect enemies? 

I am tired of hearing testimonies of miracle jobs some of our ladies slept with company directors to get...
I am tired of seeing car dedications my brothers who used fraudulent businesses to buy...
When are we going to start dedicating converted souls on our Sunday mornings?
Lord, where are all the men that saw what we saw in the days of our fathers?
This is not the time to keep quiet...
This is not the time to care about who likes or hates you...
If there is a time to beg for pulpit, soldier, it is not a time like this!

No pulpit hosted John the Baptist...
They preached against him... That He was old fashioned... And that he was envying them who were running 10 times services...

That because he doesn't get any like or comment on his Facebook wall, that he is jealous of them that have huge online followership...
That because he is not anointed and that is why nobody was hosting him in their churches...

But brother, when his time came and he began to roar from the wilderness, those demonic General Overseers who were using marine powers to run ministry knew that indeed, in every generation, God has a breed He is preparing ...

Yes, they knew that "there was a man sent from God"...

Man of God, if you were sent from God, why are you allowing yourself to be influenced by men who were 'sent from Bible schools' ?

Some of the men you are competing with in ministry were 'sent from demonic covens in some parts of Africa' ... If we came from God, let us look more for God... He will soon show up...

You are almost getting to the time when members of many 'mega'  churches will be secretly and openly coming to you, to hear this gospel from your mouth... Because they would have gotten tired of fake testimonies that leave them powerless and very vulnerable...

Men who have not bowed to baal are very few in our days...
Men who have not sold out their souls for mammon are rare to find now that we are here...
God depends on you for this end time work... Why are you bothered because someone somewhere is calling you names online? ...

Churches are everywhere around us, yet, there is a spiritual famine in Africa...
The power of the gospel is suffering bankruptcy in our time...
This is not the same gospel the apostles preached...
Something has happened to the Word of God in our mouths...

We are only showing the form of godliness, but hell has hijacked the power thereof...
And in our carnality, we are celebrating strange Fire...
Polluted Fire!
Moribund Fire!

But brother, I know that God will never leave Africa this way!
If the pulpit has failed, then,, He will bypass us and go down to the pews...
And raise people for Himself...

If our pews have become so frozen, He will go outside... He will look for drunkards and prostitutes....
He will get hold of witches and wizards...
And those arm robbers on the highways,
He will Clean them up and fill them up with Himself and use them mightily in this end time...

Yes, if those who came out from Bible schools are now using their certificates to raise only funds, God will bypass them and use those who have not gone to Bible schools...

This is the most critical time since the world began...
Islam is preparing to take over nations,...
They are putting funds together which  they will use to buy churches and pay their staff off...

Brother, in few years from now, if there is no genuine revival, many of our members today would have become Muslims...
You will see many pastors who will convert their churches into mosques, for a huge financial reward...

That time is not far...
Has it not even started?
When a pastor is collecting powers to grow his church from a Muslim native doctor, is that not handing over the Fire to the children of the bond woman?

The days we are in is terrible...
God knows and that is why He is raising an army that will stand to defend the gospel that was handed over to us, even if they have to lose everything for it...

That young man came back from the mission field, after a year, and later joined the Bible school... Became a pastor and God used him to win communities for Jesus...

Before my eyes, I saw God using him to sack evil spirits out from villages...
His name became a terror in that area, to the point that deities began to complain about how his presence in the community had rendered them powerless... Halaluya !

Those are the kind of testimonies we were hearing everyday in the days of our fathers that we want to be hearing again in our time...
But alas, here is Ichabod !

Imagine if every church in every community can boast of 10 of such members!
Imagine when many of our followers would have gotten broken enough, by God, that they don't mind what they lose again for God's sake...

Terrorists will no more be bombing our churches.. Because they would have known that already our churches are filled with people who are ready to die, anytime for the gospel ...

You don't have to waste your bomb on a man who is already dead!

But, why they will keep threatening to kill us is because they know that we love our cars and landed properties more than the CHRIST we say that died for us...

Prophet Mohammed was not killed on the Cross shamefully, yet, they can die for him publicly... What would have happened if their prophet Mohammed was crucified on the cross?

But where are the men and women who claim that Jesus died for them?

Oh Sister, it is time to take our Christian life to another level....
It is time to get 'fanatical'  about this Kingdom thing...

Enough of the prayer topics of: "God give me this and do that for me!"
This weekend, take your friends to the next Street and preach the gospel...
Next week, continue with it...

Why are we ashamed to tell people about the Man that conquered the grave?
Why can't we preach about the man that created the heavens and the earth?...

Mohammed did not do any single miracle, but his followers are dying for him...
He did not raise anybody from the dead...
He died and that was his end...
Yet, they can give everything to spread his belief...

How can we be ashamed of Jesus that spoke to the storm and their was peace?
He opened the blind eyes...
He interrupted funerals and raised the dead back to life...

Is He not enough to tell people about?
Did He not do enough to make you let everybody that knows you know that you are not ashamed of the gospel?

When will you be done with hiding from your friends when you want to speak in tongues, so that they will not laugh at you?
Brother, why are you ashamed of identifying with the Man who is the hope of the whole world?
As for me, I am done with religion, till I die..
I cannot stand Christianity by church sticker alone any more ...
Jesus did not die for you to only be attending choir rehearsals and changing uniforms every Sunday....

I hope God is not looking at you from heaven now and regretting why He did not let those people  that died of accident  replace you since you are useless to Him on earth...

Many in the hospital now, with few days to live are begging and crying, if God can give them a little more time, that they will preach this gospel under the rain and sun... And they mean it...

Brother, you that is healthy, what will God be saying about you when He sees that they are begging you to go to church?
The time is early enough to ask God for mercy and for Him to revive His work in your life. ..

God is looking for people that will risk their lives for Him in our time...
Let it not be that He is preparing someone who is at the point of death in the hospital bed to come and replace you....
This is scary... But it is a serious matter!

Have you not played so much with the opportunities God has given you?
How much longer do we have to be in sin for grace to abound?

The Holy Spirit is speaking to you now...
He is reminding you of your distance from God...
Imagine if you had died in your sins yesterday morning...

You would have gone to hell,  and stay there, from now till the next 2billion years... And yet, that will be just the beginning...

Sister, don't be locked out of grace further... Don't postpone any longer the hour of your salvation...

Right now, hearken to the voice of mercy ...
And where you are sitting is good enough to kneel down and ask God for a revival ... I  am very sure that He will clean you up and give you a new....

Lord, let there be revival of true soul winning and genuine christian living In Jesus Mighty Name.

Thursday 7 January 2016

2016 PROPHECIES FOR RCCG

PROPHECIES FOR INDIVIDUALS:

Some families will trace the beginning of their generational blessings to this year.

Some will receive help from unexpected sources.

Grateful hearts will have more causes to be grateful

For many, the pendulum of life in generally on the upward swing now,

- A chosen few will receive blessings so large they can hardly contain.



FOR NIGERIA,

– THINGS ARE LIKELY TO GET TOUGHER, BEFORE THEY GET BETTER, BUT THINGS WILL DEFINITELY GET BETTER BEFORE THE YEAR ENDS.

– WHAT HE STARTED LAST YEAR, HE WILL FINISH THIS YEAR, PROVIDED WE DON’T REJOICE TOO SOON.



INTERNATIONAL

NATURAL DISASTERS, FLOODS, FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, ARE LIKELY TO GET PROGRESSIVELY WORSE, UNTIL GOVERNMENTS REALIZE THAT THIS ARE PART OF DIVINE JUDGEMENT AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE UNHOLY LAWS. IF GOVERNMENTS WILL REPENT OF DISDAINING CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH, HE WILL HELP THEM WIN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.

– A MAJOR WAR WILL BE AVERTED THIS YEAR

– A NEW SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES WILL SURFACE

Saturday 10 October 2015

New Life in Christ

Introduction
Before the new, there was old. However, the old was not in Christ, as there is no old life in Christ. The old life therefore must definitely be in Satan. But a man can experience a new life in Christ, such person must have first experienced salvation of his soul. What then is salvation? Salvation is freedom from sin which leads to a change of life as a result of repentance and faith in the atoning blood of Jesus Christ. Such person enjoys forgiveness of sins which now reconciles him with God. Ephesians 4;24.


What transpired before the new life
Even though the thought of God towards man at creation was the thought of peace and not evil, however, Adam, the first creature, changed the course of the human race by falling into sin. Satan succeeded in making Adam to believe the following about God;-
a. that God is a liar. Ever since, man's life has been characterized with lusts of his father , Satan , since he is the father of all lies. Man abides not in truth because there is no truth in him. Gen 2: 17; 3:4, John 8:44; 1 John 3:8
b. that God was deceitful and does not have the love of His creatures at heart. Deceit has been the nature of man ever since. Hosea 12:7, Jeremiah 9:6,8.
c. that God is unfair by not giving them that which was their ultimate good. James 4:3; Proverbs 1:28-29.
d. Satan blasphemed God . He spoke irreverently about God and painted God in bad light. Ezekiel 36;20; Romans 2:24.
e. Man has a natural selfish and lustful will. Luke 12:17-20.
f. Jealousy characterizes the nature of a man . Genesis 4: 3-8.
g. Man exhibits unforgiving spirit and often seeks retaliation. Matthew 6;12;18:23-34.

Characteristics of a new life
New birth is a spiritual experience that transforms you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God. it is also the receiving of God's life and righteousness.Therefore, new life in Christ means a true follower of Christ , that is united to Him by faith and that truly derives grace and strength from Him, as the branch does from the vine.
The following are the characteristics of a new life;
a. He is by regeneration made a new man 2 Corinthians 5:17
b. All the faculties of his soul are renewed. Romans 12:1-2
c. The old life is reformed. Ezekiel 11:19.
d. Controlled by the Spirit of God. Romans 8:9
e. Living and working by faith in Christ Jesus. Galatians 5:6; 2 Corinthians 5:7.
f. Absolute dependence on God. John 15: 2-4
g. Thirsty and hungry for the word of God. Matthew 5:6
h. Willingness to fellowship with God and brethren. Psalm 133;1
i. Zealous for the work of God . John 2;17;Galatians 4;18.
j. Desire to live a righteous life and shun worldliness. Genesis 39:6-9; 1 John 2: 15,29.

Finally,  it is expected that a new life in Christ will transform believers into the real image of God which is characterized by purity, holiness and righteousness. Ephesians 4:24.

Contributor: Sunday School department of the The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Plateau state.