Month: August 2021

1 JOHN 5:14-1514. This is the confidence we have in approaching God that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.15. And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him.ROMANS 8:26-2726. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.27. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.(NIV). Many people wonder why God wants His children to pray to Him for their needs when, being Omniscient God, He knows the needs of the children. Why not just give to them their needs without even asking, these set of people wonder. There are other sets of people who do not believe that God concerns Himself with our prayers. This group believes that God is resting and Man is on his own to make or to mar; that praying is futile and only for the ignorant. It is painful seeing the hopelessness in another group of people who wonder between whether God is deaf or whether their own shortcomings are so repugnant to God that He would not have mercy enough to hear and answer their prayers. Unfortunately, there is yet another group that does not even believe that God exists. So, how can they pray to a nonexisting Being, they scoff. I read the story of a father who wanted to carry a table. He could have done it on his own, but asked his five year old son to help him. The father carried 95% while the son carried 5% of the weight. This boy felt really special because he and his father did it together. God can do all we desire all by Himself but He lovingly wants to do it with us, His children.” As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain ” 2Cor.6:1.One major way in which we work with God is through prayer. But, how do we pray effectively ?1. Pray with compassion.2. Pray with boldness3. Pray with perseverance4. Pray with trust, faith5. Pray for the help of the Spirit6. Pray in the name of Jesus Christ always 7. Pray and fast as the Spirit directs. Beloved, it is of paramount importance that we seek first the Kingdom of God and when we pray as children of this Kingdom, we receive because dominion belongs to our God, our father. Anything we ask according to God’s will and in the name of Jesus Christ will be received. ” Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. ” Matthew 7:7-8. This decaying World urgently needs intercessory prayer warriors to salvage the drowning souls from imminent doom. God is calling on you to do the work of the evangelist. Be born again. Remain in God’s presence. Shalom.

MATTHEW 23:13 – 17.13. “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees ! You hypocrites ! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people’s faces, and you yourselves don’t go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter !”15. “How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees ! You hypocrites! You sail the seas and cross whole countries to win one convert; and when you succeed, you make him twice as deserving of going to hell as you yourselves are !16. ” How terrible for you, blind guides ! You teach, “If someone swears by the Temple, he isn’t bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.”17. Blind fools ! Which is more important, the gold or the Temple which makes the gold holy ?(GOOD NEWS BIBLE). The Land is on the verge of witnessing the most horrific spectacle since it’s formation. The Country is on the path to the most horrendous carnage ever witnessed. The forces of evil are in a conspiracy to kill and destroy with impunity leaving in their trails unforgettable trauma and inconsolable remnants of avoidable pogrom. The siege is on and very soon the onslaught will commence with brutal effectiveness. Whatever we are experiencing presently is a mere rehearsal leading to the real act. The merchants of death are deployed. The sky is heavily laden with the cloud of sorrow and the rain of death and wanton destruction is about to fall. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times have I wanted to put my arms round all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me! And so your temple will be abandoned and empty. (Matthew 23:37-38). The Land and God’s people are facing this avoidable calamity because of the failure of the Church. In the quest for accumulation of perishable riches , the Church has abandoned her spirituality. In romancing with the world and its captivating radiance, the Church has lost her voice. In secularization of religion, the Church lost her beauty. The leadership of the Church, entrapped by splendour,has succumbed to the avarice of inimical power and has lost the courage to speak the truth to the forces of anti Christ. Like Judas Iscariot, the Church has preferred the ” pieces of silver” to ruling with Jesus Christ. The Church now plays the ostrich while the hordes from hell’s gates; barbaric invaders with symbol of false god and religion trample upon the land wantonly. Yet, there is still hope to stop this carnage if only the Church will wake up to her spirituality: watch and pray. * Pray for a spirit of courage to lift up and condemn the dross of bloated greed and power madness.* Pray for a spirit of power to speak truths to those who hold power and can use it to silence prophets.*Pray for a spirit of subtlety to understand the ambiguities of righteousness and upholding it*Pray for a spirit of humility to see when our righteousness become false righteousness and our moral certainties turn out to be foolishness.*Pray for a spirit of faith that shows Jesus Christ’s death to be the only saving one and suffering on our part is not cosmically noble, only sad.*Pray for a spirit of hope that contains us when the enemy corrupting our covenant turns out to be our own interests and the institutions that sustain them.*Pray for a spirit of love. Unless, the Church wakes up to her spirituality now, this rain of sorrow will fall and with devastating and consuming effect on the Church herself. It is not too late to stop this impending doom. Deliver us O Lord.

ECCLESIASTES 5:8Don’t be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by the one over him, and both are protected by still higher officials.ECCLESIASTES 4:1Then I looked again at all the injustice that goes on in this world. The oppressed were weeping, and no one would help them. No one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side.(GOOD NEWS BIBLE) This world is temporary. The life you have is God’s gift and it’s not permanent. Everything we have here is transient. We came into the world with nothing and no matter our acquisitions here, we will leave without anything. We were made from dust and the breathe of God and at the end, to dust we must return but the breathe, the soul, returns to God to account for his stewardship as sojourner on earth.” Then the LORD God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live.” Genesis 2:7″ You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again ” Genesis 3:19 Death is not the end of this earthly pilgrimage. At the end of times, we shall all be brought before the God Almighty to be judged and rewarded, with paradise or hell. How you live your life here determines where you go in the hereafter. You cannot live a life pleasing to God without Jesus Christ being in control. You cannot live right unless you operate through the Holy Spirit and you cannot have the Holy Spirit unless you belong to Jesus Christ. You use the opportunity God has given you to molest and trample on others just because you don’t have Jesus Christ in your life. You live your life as if you own it just because you don’t have the Holy Spirit working in you. You turn yourself into a god, killing and maiming as dictated by your whims because you have rejected God. Your stinking opulence, amassed through corruption and shedding of blood of the innocent, will only lead you to eternal damnation. The power you use so oppressively to perpetuate so much pain, so much anguish and so much destruction of lives and properties, cannot stop the grim reaper, death, from destroying you when your time is up. It is time to look into the Mirror. It is time for self-examination. It is time to remember that life here is not permanent. It is time to reflect on where we end up on the day of judgement. It is time to stop injustice and our grievous lives of corruption. It is time to love one another. It is time to stand up for Jesus Christ and be numbered among the children of God. Having looked into the Mirror , what do you see ? Are you ready to meet your Creator if death should come now ? If yes, watch and pray that you remain so. If not, it is not too late to make amends:Surrender your life to Jesus Christ now. There are no other names through whom you can be saved. There are no other religious organizations, prophets, creeds or doctrines that can save you from hellfire. Only through Jesus Christ can we receive eternal rest. Look into the Mirror now and take a positive decision: choose Jesus Christ; choose everlasting life with God Almighty. Shalom.

JOHN 16 : 33.I’ve told you this so that my peace will be with you. In the world you’ll have trouble. But cheer up ! I have overcome the world. “PSALM 55 : 22Turn your burdens over to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will never let the righteous person stumble .EXODUS 3 : 13-14 13. Then Moses replied to God, suppose I go to the people of Israel and say to them, “The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘what is his name ?’ What should I tell them ?”14. God answered Moses, “I Am Who I Am. This is what you must say to the people of Israel: ‘I Am has sent me to you.’ (GOD’S WORD). This message is to that soul who has been struggling to meet God’s Standard in lifestyle and has not been successful. The message is to that soul who has lost faith in redemption because of his inability to rise above his miserable state. This message is to the discouraged. What exactly is that challenge that has dispirited you; that has taken away your peace ? ; that has enslaved you? : Arrogance ?, Addiction?, Anger ?, Hatred ?, Anxiety ?, Impatience ?, Revenge ?, Gossip ?, Guilt ?, Fear ?, Envy ?, Lying ?, Loneliness ?, Laziness ?, Sexual sin ?, Low self esteem ?, Temptation to sin ?. The I Am that I Am has sent me to you.The message is simple : Fear not; be not discouraged; you’re not alone; your situation is not insurmountable; come to Jesus Christ with your situation, your fears: your heavy heart, your lack of peace, your bondage and you will have peace. “Listen ! Whoever is thirsty, come to the water ! Whoever has no money can come, buy, and eat !Come, buy wine and milk . You don’t have to pay; it’s free !” ( Isaiah 55 : 1) Come to Jesus Christ, the King of Peace. Jesus Christ understands your predicament and He’s not judging you now. He wants to deliver you from this bondage and all He demands is that you will come to Him. Redemption is free. Jesus Christ already paid the price. As you reaffirm your faith in God today and encourage yourself in the faithfulness of God, may you experience an uplifting, in the precious name of Jesus Christ.

JOHN 5: 1-9.1. After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.2. Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool with five porches; in Hebrew, it is called Bethzatha.3. A large crowd of sick people were lying in the porches — the blind, the lame, and the paralysed.5. A man was there who had been I’ll for 38 years.6. Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been I’ll for such a long time; so he asked him, “Do you want to get well ?”7. The sick man answered, “Sir, I have no one here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first.8. Jesus said to him, ” Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.”9. Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started walking.(GOOD NEWS BIBLE) In summary, Jesus healed a man whose case was really and seemingly hopeless. Jesus brought succour to a man who had resigned to fate. Jesus became Someone to this man who had no one. Jesus helped this man who could not be party to the festivities around him because of his discomfiting immobility. This man who could not have an encounter with the miracle performing angel had an unexpected and unsolicited encounter with the Lord of Angels, Jesus Christ. This man who had been written off, even by himself, became a celebrity. A hopeless case became the reference point for Divine intervention in sordid situations. The name of the man in the narrative in the Bible was never mentioned. This story is not just about a disabled man in Jerusalem. This story is not just about a pool in Jerusalem either. This story is not just about the past events only. This story is more than meets the eyes. Looking deeper into the mirror, one sees that the man actually has a name — yours. The man really has a face — mine. The man has a problem — just like ours. Though Jesus Christ was in Jerusalem for the festival, He did not go there to feast; to draw crowd around Him; to teach disciples or to frolic with dignitaries. No, Jesus Christ was aware of the endless waves of groans coming from the camps of the destitute. Jesus Christ saw beyond the festival and into the world of the societal dregs; into the lives of the ostracized and hopeless living in tattered penury. Jesus Christ recognised the ignored. Jesus Christ felt the hurt of these ones who probably already felt abandoned by God ! And Jesus Christ brought succour. Jesus Christ is with the sick to heal. Jesus Christ is walking slowly and carefully among the beggars and the blind. Jesus Christ suffers when we suffer. Jesus Christ cares for us more than any one cares. Jesus Christ lived and lives forever. Jesus Christ is Compassion. The Bible makes it clear that anyone whose life is not holy will never see God. Hebrews 12:14. That’s our predicament. Only the holy will see God. Only the perfect will make heaven. But, our righteousness is filthiness before God. Now, you see why we are like the paralysed man. We’re the invalid and we’re trapped – no one around to assist us. We have no solution for our situation. We’re the wounded and weary. We’re the one lying on the ground, hopelessly. We don’t have what it takes to be healed. Our only hope is that God will do for us what He did for the man at Bethesda; that He steps into our ward of hurt and helplessness; into our world of insecurity and trepidation. We need Jesus Christ in our lives. We need the righteousness of Jesus Christ to make eternity in bliss; and we need Jesus Christ as the Solution to our situations. We need to surrender to His Lordship. Jesus Christ is standing by the door. He wants to come in and give His peace NOW. Jesus Christ is the Hope of the Hopeless. Whatever your predicament may be now, may the King of kings; the Lord of lords; the Unchanging Changer , Jesus Christ, visit you NOW to wipe away your tears of sorrow and turn your gloom to bloom.Amen.