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WE MUST NEVER COMPROMISE THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD ; YET WE MUST CORRECT OUR BROTHERS & SISTERS IN LOVE. EDUCATIVE, INFORMATIVE,INSPIRING AND THOUGHT PROVOKING ! THIS EDITION IS MEANT AS AN EYE OPENER !
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NOVEMBER EDITION OF THE SHEPHERDS WITHOUT BORDERS LIGHTHOUSE BUGLE MAGAZINE
SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH. THY WORD IS TRUTH AND FOR THEIR SAKE I Sanctify
MYSELF THAT THEY ALSO MAY BE SANCTIFIED THROUGH THE TRUTH. (John17:17)
Rev Vitalis Ikechukwu Nwaiwu & the Boanerges Evangelistic Ministries inc. (AKA) Church of Bethlehem in Dakar Senegal celebrates their seventh anniversary !
Apostle Dr. Chris O. Agagbo of Christian Ministers Partnership Network World-Wide visit Dakar to enlighten Ministries about their aims & objectijectives!
BEWARE OF PREACHERS &SO-CALLED MIRACLE WORKERS WHO CLAIM THE GLORY FOR THEMSELVES , USE THE PULPIT AS A PODIUM AND PREACH THEMSELVES MORE THAN GOD.
THEIR FINAL OBJECTIVE IS YOUR MONEY ! WOW! not everyone that claims to do miracles workers are actually workers of the light. Test their spirits for our own Spirit of God is unique and when it appears there is a difference. How can you claim to be a miracle worker & claim the glory for yourself & not God. How can you claim to be a servant of God for almost four decades and do not know the ethics of God servants. How can you claim to live in the light and boast, & applause darkness. Beware for you have fooled no one for the fruit you bore told the true story….
We welcome a new set of audience in the West African Republic of Gambia. They bring to 62 countries in which we are sharing the word of God through the Shepherds Magazine!
THIS MONTH EDITION IS FULL OF MANY EXCITING ARTICLES; INSPIRING, EDUCATIONAL, AND INFORMATIVE. IT SHOULD KEEP YOU OCUPY AND BLESS. IT COULD BE A BLESSING TO MANY MORE PERSONS IF YOU JUST REMEMBER THAT IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK TO GET THE FIRE GOING. BE THAT SPARK AND PASS IT ON!
YOU ARE WELCOME TO THE CORRIDORS OF THE SHEPHERDS WITHOUT
BORDERS LIGHTHOUSE BUGLE MAGAZINE: VENUE: THE VINEYARD OF THE
KINGDOM OF GOD
The Shepherds Bugle is the voice of Shepherds Without Borders Lighthouse
Ministries; which comes out once monthly to highlight messages, news,
visions, projects, strength & weakness of the United Body of the Kingdom of
God. Inspired Shepherds come together monthly to write message etc for the
community of God chosen.
Every shepherd chosen, charged, and called by God (YHWH) to care for His
flocks is officially a member. Shepherds serve as an ambassadors of the
Kingdom of God , advocates for petitioning God for mankind, administrators
for the handling and distributing the truth of God's Word and they need a
watch tower on the hilltop to help them not to crash against the stones of
temptations placed in their path by the Devil.
This magazine is the shepherds’ consultant for wisdom and direction when it
comes to how the work of the Kingdom of God is being carried out in different
places around the world. It is also a confronter of the evil practices that are
carried out in the name of the kingdom of God. It is no respecter of any
particular doctrine, tradition, color, language, social status, or geographical
locations. It is the voice for the united kingdom of God's body of workers in
the vineyard here on earth.
This magazine is the discussion leader of any topic concerning the kingdom of
God and the warfare of God's people. Here you will see and post the work you
do for the kingdom; however it should be clear that every work you see here
is the responsibility/views of the writer who placed it there and not always
necessarily the views of everyone. It is a medium to serve as an encourager
for the shepherds around the world who are striving to get the truth of God's
Word out even at a risk to their own families and lives. As a spotlight, we
intend to also serve as a ground inspector of the work of every ministry we
can and highlight their strengths and weaknesses.
Shepherds, we say a big welcome to you and your flocks. Let this place be a
companion and knowledge dispenser, a place where you can rest and discover
your God given talents, your historian where you can view the past and log
the present, the nurturer of your visions, your opportunities spotter, and
critic. I know many times when you are in the wrong and we speak about it,
you might be hurt, go home and pray about it, and please come for a second
look. Partake and make this place a home away from home. Make this place
a secret corner for airing your views and questions that have been bothering
you for a long time. Please allow Shepherds Bugle to help you develop your
ministries and broken lives or tell your side of the story to the world. To date
we are reaching audience in sixty two (62) countries.
Bishop Steven Liberty Sr. CEO:
ON BEHALF OF THE CHIEF SHEPHERD
IN THIS NOVEMBER EDITION OF THE SHEPHERDS WITHOUT BORDERS LIGHTHOUSE BUGLE MAGZINE
My Spirit is Called to Be Your Teacher" ADDED BY SUSAN CLARK :"
OH NO YOU DIDN'T! {THE SPIRIT OF OFFENSE}.... PLEASE READ BECAUSE WE ALL NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THIS: Written By Minister LaTanya Scott / Added By Debra Lynn Lake Roberts
We Can Be Delivered From the Slave Master of Religion, I Am Not A Religious Servant, I Am A Kingdom: By Dr. Leonard Robinson
The Purpose of the Church: BY BISHOP DERRICK DAY
Exposed Be Careful Who you Hang Around JEFF GOODALL;
“exPOsed ii” PulPit PredatOrs
IN THIS NOVEMBER EDITION OF THE SHEPHERDS WITHOUT BORDERS LIGHTHOUSE BUGLE MAGZINE
WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH 57 CENTS: BY BABSIE VAN DER BERG
The Source of Faith: By David M. McNabb
THE LEADER & FAMILY: BY Dr Wole Gbogboade
The Power Of Our God And A Reminder Of His Power: BY TIM BENITEZ
The True and Holy Church: KENNETH WHITE
Praise fOr the lOrd’s Mercies: By catheriN sKiNNer
IN THIS NOVEMBER EDITION OF THE SHEPHERDS WITHOUT BORDERS LIGHTHOUSE BUGLE
MAGZINE The Sin of Unbelief: BY ZENA McNabb
"whatever is the will Of gOd, sO shall it Be dONe”!
VICTORY IS YOURS!!!! : BY JOSEPH KING
THY KINGDOM COME ON EARTH: BY JOEL McNabb
ARE YOU JESUS? II IDENTIFIED BY FRUITS BY PASTOR EMMANUEL BABA ISIAKA
THE AFFAIR IS ADVANCING YOU INTO A GLORIOUS MARRIAGE: BY MAGARET MULLINGS
IN THIS NOVEMBER EDITION OF THE SHEPHERDS WITHOUT BORDERS LIGHTHOUSE BUGLE MAGZINE
HEALTHY ADVICE: DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH: ADDED BY EVANGELIST FAVOR LIBERTY & MARIAMA TURAY
MIRACLE WORKERS PREACHING IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST ARE NOT ABOVE THE ETHICS LAID DOWN BY GOD 1
"NOT WORTHWHILE": BY JOHN GRACE
MARIMA TURAY : INFORMATION Officer
“My Spirit is Called to Be Your Teacher" ADDED BY SUSAN CLARK
The following corporate prophetic word was given by Eileen Fisher on
October 11, 2011 during her weekly Prophetic School of the Holy Spirit
meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado:
The Lord would say, "In My Word, have I not said I have commanded angels
to be in charge over thee lest you hit your foot against a stone? I know the
stone you are hitting with your foot. I know those things in your life that you
are tripping over. I know those people in your life that seem to block the path
where you desire, where you want your heart to walk.
"Remember there was a stone that tried to hold Me in the grave. But I came
forth. Remember, the same Spirit that raised Me from the dead will quicken
life into your mortal bodies. Be aware of My Spirit. Be aware of My angels. Be
aware you too are called to minister grace, hope, healing and love. Man may
call, but God equips, God calls, God anoints.
"I am pouring oil upon you right now – the oil to anoint you. I was anointed
for burial; I anoint you to rise up. Place your hands in front. Surrender,
submit. Let My oil come into your hands. Let My oil come into your
understanding to where those things that have been causing you to toss to and
fro in torment can slip away because of the oil of My anointing. Let those
things in your hands that have brought torment slip out of your hands because
I am anointing them with the presence of My Spirit.
"My Spirit is Called to Be Your Teacher"
"Let your mouth be anointed with the sweetness of worship and praise so you
can come before the throne of grace in time of trouble and I will answer you.
Learn to minister with My angels, but above all, learn to minister with My
Holy Spirit. He will teach you. He will lead you. He will guide you. He will
confirm. He will direct. He will assign. Do not let the favor of man determine
the call. Let the anointing of the Spirit of God complete the call. I have bid you
to come into My Spirit, to be filled with My Spirit, to raise you up and to train
you by My Spirit.
"My Spirit teaches the simple and the great. My Spirit is called to be your
Teacher. As He teaches you, He will train you. He will equip you to listen to
the way that He will direct you to go. He will train you to stand strong and to
rest when He says, 'Come aside.' He will equip you to recognize where He is
going, for I am raising up a militant army – one of radical love that loves the
brokenhearted, that casts down judgment, but comes forth with mercy and
goodness but with truth," says the Lord your God.
"The world is crying for a Savior. Know that the Savior of the Lord your God
is about to visit fresh His people once again," says the Lord.
Eileen FisherEileen Fisher Ministries Email: [email protected]
OH NO YOU DIDN'T! {THE SPIRIT OF OFFENSE}.... PLEASE READ BECAUSE
WE ALL NEED TO BE REMINDED OF THIS: BY Minister LaTanya Scott
ADDED BY DEBRA LYNN-LAKE ROBERTS
The Lord placed this message upon my heart not only due to my own personal
experiences, but those of many others! This is a message that many of us
need to hear and take heed to! What is this message about? THE SPIRIT OF
OFFENSE! This 'spirit' is running rampant not only among believers, but
unbelievers alike! This 'demon' of satan's knows well that through division
and discord, there is no power. The Spirit of God cannot move FREELY through
us (believers) where this is strife! This lack of power in our lives, renders us
ineffective witnesses for Jesus Christ!
OFFENSE is the main reason why many people are leaving their churches,
many marriages are torn apart, why children run away from home; it is the
main reason why people leave their jobs, friendships are ruined, murders are
committed, etc. etc. etc....
OFFENSE... Oh how the enemy knows exactly what is needed to set us off! He
and his 'imps' have studied us long enough to know our target areas, or areas
of weakness and then comes in for the kill! Let's look at some things that may
offend us (now of course some of these things can really hurt us and rightfully
so, but it's how we deal with the offense that makes all the difference):
Someone looks at you the 'wrong' way...
Someone says something to you that you don't like (angers you or hurts your
feelings)...
Someone forgets your birthday....
Someone forgets to or just doesn't call you.....
Someone cancels a 'date' with you.....
Someone forgets to thank you for something or are just being inconsiderate...
You feel someone is ignoring you (when in essence they may be going through
some things themselves!)......
You are overlooked for a raise or other opportunity and someone you feel is
'less deserving' gets it instead...
Gossip...affairs...insecurities...etc...These all stem from offenses or can be
caused by offenses...
But today the Spirit is taking us deeper. He is showing us the ROOT cause of
offense: PRIDE!
{Proverbs 16:18} (Amplified Bible)
8Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride ALWAYS causes us to focus on SELF! I don't care how we may try to
justify it! Pride causes us to dwell on how someone had the 'nerve' to say this
or that to ME....They did this or that to ME...It causes us to ask, "Who do they
think they are to treat ME this way?" "How could they have done this to ME?"
"I'M tired of putting up with this mess from people!" "Maybe I did something
wrong?!" (Still a focus on SELF).... (Romans 12:3, Galatians 6:4, Proverbs
3:5,7, 1 Peter 5:6)
NO OFFENSE, BUT WHO ARE YOU?!!!! I'm talking to ME too now... I often
have to remind myself of all that Christ suffered, and He certainly did
NOTHING to deserve it! He in fact, took what I deserved, and what you
deserved (hell), and gave us instead that which we did NOT deserve(eternal
life and freedom from sin NOW)! Thank Him for His grace and mercy!
Now I'm not saying that every wrong done to us is something that we
'deserved' or brought upon ourselves! No way! But what I am saying is there
are times when we give others power over us by not letting go of an offense.
There are times when someone may not even be aware that they have
offended us! They go on about their lives, but we are being poisoned from the
inside out due to un-forgiveness, hurt and anger! We have to learn to, like
Jesus, be merciful and forgive those who done us wrong! (Before you say,
they don't deserve it... Remember we didn't deserve what JESUS gave us
either! Matthew 5:14-15) Sometimes being merciful to others may involve
going to the person who offended us to speak to them about the issue
(Matthew 5:23-24); and other times, it may be best to just let it go IF we can
move past it with no lingering negative effects...and if we know deep down
the person didn't MEAN to hurt us! But we should always go to God FIRST, to
see how and where He leads!
Bottom line: We have to learn just who we are in Christ, and to look to Him to
fulfill us, not man! "Man" can and will let us down at times, whether
intentionally or not, but God never will! Once we become so grounded and
deeply rooted in Christ, nothing else will move us! Be blessed!
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (Amplified Bible)
4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils
over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself
haughtily.
5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude
(unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not
insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy
or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no
attention to a suffered wrong].
6It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right
and truth prevail.
7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to
believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all
circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Leviticus 19:17 (NLT), Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your
relatives [brothers and sisters and Christ]. CONFRONT YOUR NEIGHBORS
DIRECTLY so you will not be held guilty for their crimes.
Luke 17:3-4 (NLT), I am warning you! If another believer sins, rebuke him;
then if he repents, forgive him. Even if he wrongs you seven times a day and
each time turns again and asks forgiveness, forgive him."
Proverbs 27:5-6 (NKJV), Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
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"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!"
Much Love in Christ,
Minister LaTanya Scott
Copyright © 2010
We Can Be Delivered From the Slave Master of Religion, I Am Not A
Religious Servant, I Am A Kingdom Citizen: BY DR LEONARD ROBINSON
The Kingdom is a country, not a religion, not any religion, not even
Christianity. How were you trained to be a Christian? What was your
cultural upbringing when it comes to learning God and knowing God?
Could you be a victim of religion?
Culture is so powerful that you actually become the culture that you associate
yourself with. Whatever group you become a part of is what you will have the
tendency to become. What denominational or non-denominational, or even
inter-denominational group are you a part of? When you gave your life to
Jesus did you join a Baptist or Methodist Church, a Presbyterian or Assembly
of God Church?
Did you become a part of a Pentecostal or Fundamental group? Whatever
religious group you aligned yourself with is what you became. Your belief
system is in large part impacted by how you learned God from the group you
joined yourself to.
There is no escaping it. There is nothing as powerful as culture. In large part
who you are, the way you think, how you act and what you do even spiritually,
has been greatly impacted by the dominate influences in your life.
Are you COGIC, PAW or Assemblies of God? Maybe you are Evangelical,
Conservative or Liberal. Whatever you are, in large part your theology is the
result of the religious culture to which you've aligned yourself and your
theology is the result of that culture.
Your belief system and experiences with God are directly impacted by your
commitment to the group that you've aligned yourself with. You may never
consider yourself religious but take a moment to reconsider.
I know you will say "God led me here" and you no doubt have probably had
great experiences with God and the people to whom you've aligned yourself
while in pursuit of God and spiritual growth. No one will ever be able to tell
you that you don't know God, and I totally agree.
But here is the challenge. While almost every group if they are truely
Christian at all will lay hold to the belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
He died on the cross for our sins and whosoever believes in Him will not
perish but have everlasting life, we must realize that having a fundamental
belief about Jesus and having the experience of being Born Again does not me
that we have really comprehended what God wants us to understand the most.
Tragically we become what we believe God is looking for, maybe have even
ordained, but sadly many are discovering that they could not be further from
the truth.
Let's talk about the Kingdom of God now. The Kingdom is a country. It is not
a religion, not even Christianity as we've known it. The Kingdom is God's
government here on earth among men. The Kingdom is God's will, His
dominion, authority and power that rules over all who submit themselves to
Him in all things.
COGIC, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian...doesn't really matter which group,
the question becomes, "are we being who God called us to be and do we really
understand the difference between Kingdom and religion.
Jesus said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness...." He
did not say seek a religion, not even Christianity. Now I know that by now you
think that we are just talking semantics here. That in reality Christianity is
just a term that identifies you as a follower of Jesus. Well here is the heart of
the matter.
To be a true follower of Jesus on His terms is to be totally removed from the
religious concepts that man has manufactured in his limited understanding.
So, now we come to God's concept of the Church. If you will admit it even you
have had enough of religion or perhaps not. In any case everyone of us should
want what Jesus wanted for us and requires of us regardless to the joys and/or
sorrows we may experience within whatever religious group to which we have
aligned ourselves.
Somebody say Kingdom! Jesus brought you a Kingdom, a country, a territory.
He brought you a government to which you were to yield and with that
government He came with a message, a message we have never been trained
to preach and therefore what religion became the Kingdom is not.
The Kingdom of God is God's sovereign, royal rule, dominion, authority and
the rule of God in your life moment to moment, day to day. The Kingdom of
God is God's action, His control in the life of the follower of Jesus. The
Kingdom of God is His will expressed through those who submit themselves to
Him. If we will admit it we would not do half of the things we do in the name
of God if we were to truly do what God has called for.
Religious culture is not Kingdom culture. Jesus came against the religious
system of the day and yet since the 2nd half of the second century until now
man has only rebuilt the very religious system Jesus came to do away with.
We think religious, act religious, and the greatest evidence of this fact is our
unwillingness, or perhaps even inability to change, even in the face of truth.
The Pharisees knew that what Jesus was saying was correct but it was easier
for them to oppose His right to say it than to repent and believe what He said.
Jesus said that His doctrine was not His own but the Father's. Our doctrines
about Jesus are our own in many respects, but not the Father's.
We have developed an unhealthy mix of mysticism, old testament realities and
in so many ways outright Catholic practices that even God I believe is no
longer winking at our foolishness but is command all men (religious
mankind) to repent.
Jesus came with a Kingdom not a religion. Today's Apostles, Prophets,
Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers we want to believe mean well, but in this
hour everyone of us that name the name of the Lord are going to have to
rethink and repent of what we've become and purpose to be like a child in
matters concerning the King and the Kingdom of God if we ever have hope of
truly living according to God's plan and purpose according to the scriptures.
Study the Kingdom of God. Study God's Word again with new eyes. Just go to
the Father like a child and ask Him to teach you the Kingdom. Religion
taught you about Jesus and used scripture to do it. Let the Holy Spirit teach
you the Kingdom. You see God is not obligated to tell you what you don't want
to know.
Let the power of the Holy Spirit transform you from being a religious servant
to being the son/daughter He has called you to be. You are a nation of Kings
and Priests. You are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, citizens of the Kingdom
who are called to represent God's government to the nations of the world as a
witness. Rethink your purpose, rediscover your divine destiny, by
rediscovering the Kingdom the devil almost successfully hid from the Church.
Yes its going to be a struggle. You are in the fight of your life. The
battleground is your mind and the devil is putting up stiff opposition. He
knows that if you ever understand the Kingdom of God on God's terms, then
the enemy will have been rendered powerless to manipulate you again,
especially not through religion.
Study these words and don't operate in self deception. Don't make pretend you
know these truths if you haven't taken the time to study them on God's terms.
Apply yourself to this study. Search these words from the scriptures.
Seek (Matt. 6:33)
First (Micah 4:8)
Kingdom (Matt. 3-24)
Dominion (Genesis 1:26-28; Daniel 2-7)
Rule
Reign (1 Peter 2:9)
Authority (Matt. 28; Luke 10)
Royal (James 2:8)
Law
Commandment
Government (Isaiah 9)
Righteousness (Rom. 14:17)
Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9)
King
These words when studied in the context of the verses that contain them, will
suddenly open up to you a whole new understanding of what Jesus came to do
in the earth. You may even identify words and verses not identified here. Go
for it! God's Holy Spirit is waiting to lead you and guide you into all truth.
When a government comes to take over a people in a territory the first thing
that invading governmment will do is strip you of your old identity and culture
and will then seek to work within you a new culture and identity.
The Kingdom of God is not a democracy. It is not a government of individual
thoughts and ideas. The Kingdom of God is the manifestation of God's
thoughts, His ideas expressed throughout history as to His plan and purpose
for man.
When God issues a commandment it becomes law. You may have free will but
your will is to be freely expressed in choosing God's ways over your own. So
do this fascinating word stiudy and approach it as a child. If you approach
this study academically you are going to miss the whole point. When Jesus
said seek first the Kingdom of God He didn't want you to throw your brain
away...however, you cannot successfully seek first the Kingdom of God on
Jesus terms unless you do it as a child. Have great fun with your study. You
will be amazed at the life transformation that takes place.
Friend, the religion we became is not the citizen He (God) has called us to
become. Its going to take some serious effort to undo what the slave master of
religion has done but God is faithful. You prayed for direction. You asked God
to give you understanding. You praised and worshipped God and fasted and
even shut in wanting to get into the presence of God and know Him the way
He wants to be known.
Don't miss your visitation bound by self-deception. Now is the time to press
into the revelation of the Kingdom. Its been here for more than 2,000 years.
Jesus did not bring you a religion, not even Christianity. Jesus brought to you
a Kingdom, a government and restored to you your personal dominion. Read
the Bible for yourself. Don't side with those bound by religion. Many times
your worse instructors are the professors and their commentaries. Get to know
Jesus again. God took the greatest message in the world and made it so that
you would have to learn from the greatest messenger in the world, Jesus. So
allow the Holy Spirit to give you understanding in these matters. Kingdom
First!
Dr. Leonard N. Robinson, Kingdom Vision Ministries International, 267-357-
9816
The Purpose of the Church: BY BISHOP DERRICK DAY
The reason why many "churches” do not have the nature of The Church is
because there is a widespread lack of understanding of what The Church
really is.
First of all, The Church is not a building, a charter, or a gathering of folks.
The Church is a living, spiritual and natural being comprised of many
members that carry out vital functions.
Contrary to popular belief and contemporary manifestation, The Church is
not a "country club” for the saints or the museum of the "frozen chosen.”
When you become a member of The Church, you are not simply a number,
you are grafted in, as a finger to a hand. You are part of a glorious body. This
body nourishes each member and the Head, Jesus, gives each member
instructions for the work to be performed.
While I’m here, let me hang my hat for a minute…Each member has a
UNIQUE function. All of us are not called to preach, just like every cell in the
body is not called to be the eye. Imagine a body full of eyes…that is a freak of
nature! Speaking of the ministry, not everyone is called to preach the same
message or even to preach in the same manner. Each of us are fearfully and
wonderfully designed — individually and expressly — by the Hand of God
with a unique purpose to carry out equally unique assignments.
The Greek word for "Church” in Matthew 16:18 is "ekklesia.” It is a word
meaning "called out assembly.” More to the point, it is a GOVERNMENTAL,
not a RELIGIOUS word! Many folks dont know this, but the Government of
Rome at the time of Jesus’ earthly ministry called their upper legislative
assembly the Ekklesia. Furthermore, the ancient city-state of Athens called its
legislative body Ekklesia.
Now put this in context…When Jesus said, "upon this rock (the truth spoken
by Peter) I will build my Ekklesia; and the gates of hell will not prevail against
it, He was saying that upon the truth that He is the Christ, the Son of the
Living God, He will establish His everlasting government. This is what was
prophesied in Isaiah 9:6.
Jesus did not come to establish another religion; the world had (and has)
enough of them. What He came to re-establish was the governmental order
that was ordained from the foundation of time!
That said, The Church is not about religion. The Church is the point where
God connects with man through Christ. It is God’s earthly government, duly
deputized and empowered to have dominion over the earth!
Church should be an ER for the wounded, a kitchen for the hungry, and a
sanctuary for the besieged. It should be the point where God’s Heavenly
Government is dispensed on the earth. It should be the place where the lost
can come to catch the revelation of a loving Father, who wants to reconcile
them to Himself and loved them so much that He gave His very best in the
Person of His Only Begotten Son!
I feel like preaching, but I’ll take my seat now…
© 2011 – Derrick Day (www.derrickday.com)
Founding Bishop at Kingdom Covenant InternationalStudied at Old Dominion
UniversityLives in Phoenix, ArizonaMarried to Angela DayFrom Detroit,
MichiganBorn on August 16
Exposed Be Careful Who you Hang Around JEFF GOODALL
Have you ever had someone whom you trusted in the church
say to you, be careful who you hang with? I did, and while the conversation
was going on, I felt angry with a bad taste in my mouth. Here is the
conversation, minus the names of the others involved:
(1st party); Hey brother im not gona tell u who to hang around,but im not so
sure (2nd party) best interest is the body of Christ, maybe you see diff,but god
gave me a word, he says he knows theres things wrong with his church but
just show love.If you came into church showing Gods love it would break
more than u think, (2nd party) never called me back because he knows i see
through things,you can do as u like your older than me,but time is now to
worship and show Gods love,Even if people hate me if i show love im more
like jesus is it easy no,I care for your soul brother, love what ever u do
(My response); I was helping (2nd party) move his freezer, I wasn't aware
that just helping someone constituted hanging out with them
(1st party); Dont take me wrong,i wasnt saying that just a friend that cares for
you i dont assume things,love ya brother jeff
(my response); I do worship God, but I don't need to be in church to do that
and I do love, I'm not picky fussy who I love, I love all and if not jumping
through hoops is not showing love, then people really need to get an
understanding of what God says love is and if being in service is some
prerequisite, is it more noble to obey God or man? I'm doing what I'm
supposed to be doing, if people don't like that, no skin off my teeth as long as
God is pleased with me
(1st party); I guess if theres love you, will know them by their fruit,well we are
there if u need us,
This conversation like I said previously angered me with a bad taste in my
mouth, I am the first to beat myself up with things I don’t understand, and in
this case, I didn’t understand my anger. I went to the Lord and asked Him to
remove this anger from me, I didn’t want it, when the anger didn’t leave, I
asked God for understanding, this is what He spoke and showed to me. Jesus
was accused of hanging out with sinners and whores, they virtually asked Him
if He knew who He was hanging out with. I will not say this is what we refer
to as a righteous anger, but at the same time, I will not deny it. The following
is taken from the first comment of the (1st party);and highlighted differently:
he says he knows theres things wrong with his church but just show love.If
you came into church showing Gods love it would break more than u think,
This statement also added to my anger, generally speaking, people reflect
those who influence them and with me having a knowledge of the leadership,
this is how this came across to me. This is God’s church and though there are
frailties and failings in this church, this is the only right church. The Apostle
Paul said; be like me as I am like Christ, to many today who are in the pulpit
are under some misguided understanding as to the meaning of this statement.
Paul spent much time in the presence of the Lord in order to gain a true and
greater understanding of what God wanted expressed to man. Paul was not
saying, be a disciple of me, but rather, spend time with God, be His disciple,
learn from Him through His Holy Spirit, who will teach you truth and no lie.
The (2nd party) that I was helping, when going into the church, was very
poorly received by the Pastor of the church, as if to say to the (2nd party) you
are a traitor. The (2nd party) had left the church, he like myself got fed up
with teachings of God being constantly and consistantly laced with untruths
and self understandings. The (2nd party), like myself, has been judged
unrighteously, and the above conversation shows the truth of this.
Though it is true, we do need to be careful who we hang with, we are to
consider what God said; preach the gospel to every living creature and restore
those who have walked away. The (2nd party) never walked away from God,
just went where truth is taught. How quick we judge and all for what we don’t
understand. Leadership and man judged the (2nd party) for leaving the fold
for truth, while me they judge for being some form of trouble maker, because I
choose to obey God and not man.
Let us all learn not to be so quick to accuse or judge, God does not have to
inform anyone else of what He tells other individuals to do, nor does He have
to ask anyone’s permission. As long as He has the authority to bypass human
thinking, then we don’t know what God is doing with or in someone else’s life,
and we for doggone sure don’t have a right to accuse or judge. Like Paul
implied with his words, be a God seeker and pleaser, rather than leaning to
your understanding and watch what the Lord will do. As far as watch who
you hang with, let God be your guide. God bless you!
WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH 57 CENTS: BY BABSIE VAN DER BERG
A little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away
because it was 'too crowded.'
'I can't go to Sunday School,' she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing
her shabby, unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and, taking
her by the hand, took her inside and found a place for her in the Sunday
school class. The child was so happy that they found room for her, and she
went to bed that night thinking of the children who have no place to worship
Jesus. Some two years later, this child lay dead in one of the poor tenement
buildings. Her parents called for the kindhearted pastor who had befriended
their daughter to handle the final arrangements. As her poor little body was
being moved, a worn and crumpled red purse was found which seemed to have
been rummaged from some trash dump. Inside was found 57 cents and a note,
scribbled in childish handwriting, which read: 'This is to help build the little
church bigger so more children can go to Sunday School.' For two years she
had saved for this offering of love. When the pastor tearfully read that note, he
knew instantly what he would do. Carrying this note and the cracked, red
pocketbook to the pulpit, he told the story of her unselfish love and devotion.
He challenged his deacons to get busy and raise enough money for the larger
building. But the story does not end t here.... A newspaper learned of the story
and published It. It was read by a wealthy realtor who offered them a parcel of
land worth many thousands. When told that the church could not pay so
much, he offered to sell it to the little church for 57 cents. Church members
made large donations. Checks came from far and wide.. Within five years the
little girl's gift had increased to $250,000.00--a huge sum for that time (near
the turn of the century). Her unselfish love had paid large dividends.
When you are in the city of Philadelphia, look up Temple Baptist Church,
with a seating capacity of 3,300. And be sure to visit Temple University, where
thousands of students are educated.
Have a look, too, at the Good Samaritan Hospital and at a Sunday School
building which houses hundreds of beautiful children, built so that no child in
the area will ever need to be left outside during Sunday school time. In one of
the rooms of this building may be seen the picture of the sweet face of the little
girl whose 57 cents, so sacrificially saved, made such remarkable history.
Alongside of it is a portrait of her kind pastor, Dr. Russell H. Conwell, author
of the book, 'Acres of Diamonds'. This is a true story, which goes to show
WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH 57 CENTS.
Sailorlove Maria Read this very carefully.
...Unconditional Love........
A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having
fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.
"Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd
like to bring home with me"
..."Sure,"they replied,"we'd love to meet him.""There's something you should
know the son continued, "he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped
on a land mine and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I
want him to come live with us."
"I'm sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live."
"No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.""Son,"said the father,"you
don't know what you're asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a
terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can't let
something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home
and forget about this guy. He'll find a way to live his own."
At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more
from him. A few a days later, however, they received a call from the San
Francisco police.
Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police
believed it was suicide.
The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city
morgue to identify the body of their son.
They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they
didn't know.
Their son had only one hand and one leg♥
The Source of Faith: By David M. McNabb
It has been said that "Seeing is believing." Another common attitude is:
"Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see." Long
before modern computer enhanced imaging, sorcerers, wizards and magicians
were proving that your eyes are easily deceived.
In The Meaning of Faith, we saw that faith - true faith - is in the faithful God
alone, and in His Son Jesus Christ. All other religions, with their false gods
and false doctrines, are inherently faithless: empty belief systems with no
hope.
What, then, is the source of the faith that is in God through Christ Jesus? Is it
sight? Certainly, there are many people who saw the Lord during the course of
His brief ministry. In addition to the disciples who followed Him faithfully,
multitudes beheld Him, and were healed, fed, and liberated from demonic
bondage. Even after His death, we are given eye-witness accounts of many
who saw the resurrected Lord; the twelve apostles, Saul of Tarsus, hundreds
of other men and women all testified that they saw Him with their own two
eyes.
How many times have you heard (or possibly even said), "If only I had lived in
the days of Jesus! I know I would have believed on Him. How wonderful
would that have been!"? Would you have believed? There were many who did
not. Why did some believe, while others rejected Him? The miracles of Jesus
were seen by all. Jesus said, "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of
the world" (John 9:5). He told His disciples, "Ye are the light of the world.
A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. ... Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in
heaven" (Mt 5:14-16). Jesus, our great example, did not merely give
instructions to proclaim the Lord and His goodness openly, He lived it. As
with Paul, "These things were not done in a corner."
Yet, many did not believe. How is it possible that they would see the great
things done by God, through our Lord, and deny Him? Apparently, seeing
does NOT equal believing.
Have some believed because they saw? Certainly, but sight is not the source of
faith. Thomas gets all of the bad press for his failure to believe prior to seeing
the risen Lord. The term "Doubting Thomas" has become a byword. But what
of the other apostles? The Scripture says, that when the women returned from
the empty tomb and told the apostles what had happened, "their words seemed
to them as idle tales, and they believed them not. Then arose Peter, and ran
unto the sepulcher; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by
themselves, and departed wondering in himself at that which was come to
pass" (Luke 24:10-12). Even when Jesus appeared unto the eleven, "they
were affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit" (vss. 36-37). He
showed them His nail-scarred hands and feet, and "they yet believed not for
joy, and wondered" (vss. 40-41). Finally He ate before them, "and he said
unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with
you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses,
and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their
understanding, that they might understand the scriptures" (Luke 24:44-45).
It was not only Thomas, but all of the followers of Jesus that had trouble
believing that day. Even when they saw with their own eyes, they could not
believe. What caused them to believe? When did their faith appear? It was at
the word of the Lord! When they heard the words of Jesus, and the Scriptures,
then, and only then, was their faith established.
Jesus asked the disciples, "Whom say ye that I am?" Peter declared his faith,
saying, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered
and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 16:13-17).
Where did Peter and the other believers acquire this faith?
Surely they saw many signs and wonders performed before their eyes. Was
that enough to sustain them? Was that enough to prove that Jesus was truly
Christ?
Peter refers to that which his eyes beheld in 1 Peter 1:16-18. Speaking
particularly about the transfiguration of the Lord, Peter said, "For we have
not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his
majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there
came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
when we were with him in the holy mount" (2 Pet. 1:16-18). Peter, James and
John saw this wonderful event with their own natural eyes, but Peter did not
end there. He went on to say, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this
first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the
prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God
spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Pet. 1:19-21).
The written word of God is more sure than any experience, any feeling, any
dream, any thought. The word of God is more sure, because those men who
penned it did so under the guidance of the Holy Ghost, writing what the Lord
said, not what they thought He meant. Because of its infallibility, the
Scriptures engender faith in the hearer. As Paul said in Romans 10:17, "So
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Therefore, we
walk by faith, not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7).
Many modern translations have gone beyond simply rendering the text into
the more contemporary vernacular. They have altered the text, omitting some
phrases and completely changing the intended meaning of others. One in
particular has the alternate context of various verses at the bottom of nearly
every printed page. This effort in fact causes doubt rather than faith, because
if it could say this, or possibly that, then it is unreliable. The Lord our God is
one Lord! He does not change, for He is the same yesterday, and today, and
forever.
Paul found no evidence of any discrepancy in the Scriptures. Like its Author,
it has not even the shadow of turning! He said, "Let us labour therefore to
enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For
the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, andis a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart"
(Heb. 4:11-12). There should be no place for unbelief, for the word of God is
sure!
All throughout the Scriptures are examples of the faithfulness of Jehovah.
When Solomon blessed the congregation of Israel at the dedication of the
Temple, he said, "Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people
Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all
his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant" (1
Kings 8:56).
Thus it is with all Scripture. Jesus said confidently, "Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my words shall not pass away" (Matt. 24:35). And again, "For
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in
no wise pass from the law [the Old Testament], till all be fulfilled" (Matt.
5:18).
In Hebrews 11, we read of the great faith of the people of God throughout
history. God inspired the writers to record their faith, that we, too, might have
faith in God. As Paul said to the Romans, "For whatsoever things were
written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).
Paul commended the saints at Colosse, and referred to the moment they
received their faith. "We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus,
and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up
for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the
gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth
fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of
God in truth" (Col 1:3-6).
The word of God is the only source of faith. God entrusted His word to the
children of Israel, because He knew that they would preserve it faithfully
throughout their generations. Even today, the scribes meticulously copy the
scrolls, checking and re-checking that every word, every letter, even every jot
and tittle are accounted for. This trait was one reason God chose Abraham.
"For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that
the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him" (Gen.
18:19).
The word of the Lord is THE source of faith, and the source of salvation. As
James said, "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your
souls" (James 1:21). For this reason, the Lord does not tolerate its alteration.
Severe punishment is proclaimed in Rev. 22:18-19, "For I testify unto every
man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add
unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this
book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this
prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the
holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
Why such dire consequences? It is because God's word is the unique
instrument by which God has chosen to instill faith in the heart of all them
that will believe the report of the Lord.
Let us, therefore, hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for
He is faithful that promised;) being born again by the word of God which
liveth and abideth for ever, and having the hope of eternal life, which God,
that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Amen.
THE LEADER & FAMILY : BY Dr Wole Gbogboade
TEXT: 1Timothy 3:1-5
The high the position a leader assumes, the more exposed he is to dangers.
The spiritual leader especially is exposed to 3 main dangers in his/her ministry
work:
1. TIME: The pressure of work makes time very inadequate. He/She has a lot of
things, places and ministrations to make such that he needs God’s wisdom to be
able to do exactly what God wants him/her to do and to be able to fulfill his/her
ministry. He/She often works for long hours, with irregular closing time. Even,
a circular leader faces similar time temptation. He/She has to attend to
seminars, assignments, meetings and day-today office and business related
activities. Without proper management of time, he cannot achieve his goal
both in business and family life. In the books of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 time is
mentioned 29 times. No doubt, time management is essential to success in life
and ministry even in business. 1 Tim. 3:2 you must be careful not to develop
Messiah Complex. Ex. 18:13-18. You need to delegate responsibilities.
Otherwise, you and your family may suffer for it. 1 King 19:1-18.
2. TEMPERAMENT: This has to do with the nature of the leader. Any leader who
fails to control his temperament may develop bad temper as a result of time
and work pressure. Prov. 22:24-25, pro. 14:17.
3. TEMPTER: The devil surely is after the precious soul. He often tempts leaders
more with money, women and pride Matt. 4:1-11. The leader needs to work on
these avenues through which the enemy usually befalls mighty men.
There are negative result of success as we can see in the life of Elijah called
burn-out. He became so confused as a result of this phenomenon. Samson fell
by a woman while Demas fell because of love for this present world symbolizing
money and what money can buy. Finally, the bible says, be angry but sin not,
let not sun go down with your wrath. Eph. 4:26. All these may result in neglect
of self, family, and God through sin of pride. Eli was so busy; he could not
communicate with his spouse or children 1 Sam. 2:22-25.
"Let he who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall” 1 COR. 10:12.
DEVELOP YOUR FAMILY BASE
Leaders must develop their family base for the following reasons:
1. MANAGE – 1 Tim. 3:5 If any man does not know how to rule his own
house, how shall he take care of the church of God”.
First and foremost, you are the priest at home before ministry. Gen. 18:19, 1
Tim. 3:4.
2. CARE – 1 Tim. 5:8 If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for
his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
The leader must be a channel of blessing to his family first and foremost.
There are 4 different kinds of homes/family characterized by expectations of
the children and wife compared with support from the husband:
1. Apathetic family
2. Stressful family
3. Pampered family
4. Balanced family.
1. APATHETIC HOME
The children have low expectations, needs and low support from the husband in
form of care or commitment to the family’s needs as well as children
upbringing. The family members are indifferent and uncaring.
2. STRESSFUL HOME
This is characterized by high expectation and low support. The home becomes
tensed up as well as suicidal. The result is that children in such homes become
distressed, fearful and oppressed. They can result to running errand for
neighbours for food. Furthermore, it may have negative effect on their mental
faculty or reasoning.
3. PAMPERED HOME
Low expectation with high support. The children receive far more than they
need. They become petty and indulgent with the result that they are spoilt.
There is overwhelming leaning on the part of the children to their parents
without whom they may find it difficult to find their feet or fend for themselves.
4. BALANCED HOME
This home is characterized by high expectation and high support. The children
are confident and affirmed. The result is that their intelligence quotients
become high. They are blessed children with high moral value.
God’s will is the balanced home. To build a balanced home therefore, the
biblical principles must be followed tenaciously.
EPHESIANS 5:21-6:4
Since we cannot expect without supporting, and vice versa, it becomes
imperative that spouses’ relationship should be reciprocal.
(a) Husband: Love his wife vs. 25, 28, 33
Lead his family vs. 23.
(b) Wife: Submit to her husband vs. 22, 24
Respect her husband vs. 33.
(c) Both: To submit to God v. 21.
i. The greatest need of a woman is love from her husband while that of a man
from the wife is respect.
ii. Men need to understand their wife.
iii. Women love to give detail account. The woman also appreciates gifts no matter
how small it is, from her husband. 1 Pet. 3:7.
iv. Women are quite emotional being while men are logical beings. It is important
to be patient with each other to be able to agree. Amos 3:3.
(d) Husband, wife & children relationship Eph. 6:1-4
Children: To obey their parents vs. 1
To honour them vs. 2
Parents: Not to provoke their children to wrath vs 4 (a)
They are suppose to nurture the children in God’s way vs. 4 (b) Deut. 6:6-7.
e. SPOKEN WORD: Gen. 48:15-16, Eph. 4:29, pro. 18:21
It is important that parents speak words of blessings into the life of their
children. Usually, when a man is getting married to his wife, he shows care and
love. It is imperative that such love be bestowed on the wife always.
f. LAY HANDS: Parents should always pray for their children. You can lay hands on
the children to bless them. Matt. 19:14-15.
g. SPECIAL FUTURE: God is not only interested in the present of your family. He is
also interested in the future more so, future generations. As far as God is
concerned trans-generational blessings are for His people. Therefore, Parents
should be mindful of this fact. And pray for their children’s children even now. II
Tim. 1:5-6, Gen. 13:14 – 15, Gen. 49:28.
h. ACTIVE COMMITMENT to the family. Husband and wife are supposed to show
much commitment to their marriage especially children in order to raise
successful children with godly character. Success without a successor is a
failure. If Abraham failed to bring up Isaac properly, how can he explain that to
God? The ministry of Eli couldn’t continue after his death because of his
children. Therefore, success in ministry or business may be limited, impeded or
destroyed through carelessness in family commitment.
It will yield eternal dividend if we give adequate attention, love and care to our
family.
Unity: Unity in family brings blessings Isa.8:18, Gen. 18:19 b, Matt. 19:4-6.
Unity makes you fulfill God’s command of monogamy. Terrible problems come
when we deviate from God’s word. Every Ishmael will dent your Isaac while
every Hagar will mock your Sarah. Therefore, cast out the bondwoman and her
child now, repent and follow God’s blessed word. Let us lay a good foundation
for our children and our generations yet unborn to build on. God’s trans-
generational blessings are yours. Amen.
Training: Train or disciple both your wife and children. Even if she’s not called,
she’ll be able to effectively help you in ministry.
Self Control: Our Lord Jesus in His ministry on earth was always with the
disciples particularly John, Peter and James. This helped Him against
temptations. He Himself was tempted in all areas, but never fell Heb. 4:15. If
Samson had gone to Gaza with somebody else, he would not fall Eccl. 4:9-10.
Dr Wole Gbogboade
Word of Salvation Publication
P.O.Box 7572,
Ikeja (100001)
Nigeria
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +2348033250375, +234-18940823.
Jesus loves you and so do I. JESUS IS THE ANSWER!!
The Power Of Our God And A Reminder Of His Power: BY TIM BENITEZ
2 Samuel 22
22:1 And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that
the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the
hand of Saul:
22:2 And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of
my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from
violence.
22:4 I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved
from mine enemies.
22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made
me afraid;
22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented
me;
22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did
hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
22:8 Then the earth shook (8691) and trembled; the foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth.
22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it.
22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under
his feet.
22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the
wings of the wind.
22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and
thick clouds of the skies.
22:13 Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his
voice.
22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited
them.
22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were
discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his
nostrils.
22:17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me:
for they were too strong for me.
22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my
stay.
22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because
he delighted in me.
22:21 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to
the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
22:22 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God.
22:23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not
depart from them.
22:24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my
righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight *.
22:26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright
man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
22:27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou
wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
22:28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the
haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.
22:29 For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my
darkness.
22:30 For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a
wall.
22:31 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a
buckler to all them that trust in him.
22:32 For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?
22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
22:34 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
22:35 He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms.
22:36 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness
(8800) hath made me great.
22:37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not sli
22:38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not
again until I had consumed them.
22:39 And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not
arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.
22:40 For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up
against me hast thou subdued under me.
22:41 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy
them that hate me.
22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he
answered them not.
22:43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them
as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
22:44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast
kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
22:45 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear *, they
shall be obedient unto me.
22:46 Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close
places.
22:47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of
the rock of my salvation.
22:48 It is God that avengeth * me, and that bringeth down the people under
me,
22:49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me
up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from
the violent man.
22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen,
and I will sing praises unto thy name. 22:51 He is the tower * of salvation for
his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for
evermore.
The True and Holy Church: KENNETH WHITE
Just as the ten tribes of Israel became lost to the eyes of the world after their
Babylonian captivity, so it is also with the true church which has largely
become lost to human view since the captivity began in the days of
Constantine.
God still knows what has become of the teln lost tribes of Israel, and God still
knows the members of His true and holy church.This pearl of great price,
though remaining hidden and buried from the prying, curious eyes of an
unbelieving world, stands far beyond the comprehension of a church system
that has worshipped and honored the works of it`s own hands. It is still known
and loved of God as a treasure hid in a field.
Century after century, year after year, day after day, and hours on end it is the
object of His continual care as He strengthens, establishes, and keeps each
precious member. In His love He causes them to grow in stature by secretely
feeding them the milk of the Word, the bread of Life, the strong meat of
Revelation, and the rich corn and wine of His coming Kingdom. With loving
paternal care He unerringly brings them to sonship. The chastening of the
rod falls upon them until they suffer such dire loss in all things of the world
that their sinking souls seem to be beyond hope and recovery.
But in the greatness of their distress they learn to sing with the joy of the Lord
in their hearts,"The Lord has given and the Lord has taken away; blessed be
the name of the Lord."Beneath the rod of His correction they learn to know
true values. They see them rise like a green bay tree, which, after it is grown,
has no known value. They see them grow like the grass which today is gree
and tomorrow is withered. They see all earthly things as the flower of the field
which blooms today but tomorrow is cast into an oven to wilt and die.
He makes their gold and silver canker and lose it`s value that men may see
that only in Christ are true values to be found. Men of earth have no
understanding of true value.They are much like Jonah who was very angry
that God had destroyed the gourd, which grew up in one night and upon
which he bestowed no labor, but was unable to see the value of 120,000 souls
whom God had spared from judgment by his preaching.Such is the
understanding of carnal men...
Breaking free
from Mystery Babylon: what a great day is at hand!
Praise for the Lord’s Mercies : BY CATHERIN SKINNER
Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name!
Psalms 103:1, 8-14 NKJV
The Lord is merciful and gracious; slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.
He knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
Let us not forget all his benefit; for his mercies are for everlasting to
everlasting on those who fear Him. You say what are the Lords benefits? His
are forgiveness for all our iniquities, healing for all our diseases, and
redemption for our lives from destructions. He crowns us with loving-kindness
and tender mercies, so that our youth in renewed like the eagles.
JEHOVAH-JIREH MEANS "THE LORD WILL SEE." Genesis 22:12-14.
Jehovah-jireh tells us that the Lord will see our great need. God constantly
sees the needs of his children and provides for them.
Jehovah-Rapha - "The Lord That Healeth Thee" Exodus 15:25-26
JEHOVAH-RAPHA IS THE HEALER OF ALL OUR TROUBLES. Though
our days on this earth are few, they are full of trouble. He heals all our
sicknesses. And he heals our souls. "If you diligently heed the voice of the
Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His
commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on
you which I have brought on the Egyptians.
For I am the Lord who heals you." "Surely He has borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God and
afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes
we are healed." Isaiah 53:4-5
Jehovah Nissi: The Lord Is My Banner. When your battle is over you will
have the right to replace your enemy's flag with your own. Set it on high for
all to see that Jehovah Nissi is your God who has secured your victory. God is
saying there will always be war; don't be surprised by it. He is also saying he
is always the winner.
Jehovah-Shalom - the Lord our Peace. Judges 6:12-16 "Peace be with you; do
not fear, you shall not die." And then Gideon built an alter in that place and
called it THE-LORD-IS-PEACE: Jehovah-Shalom.
In the spiritual realm however, weakness is our greatest asset. You see here
God mercies takes control of our weaknesses in this world over all our
troubles and battles.
"My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 -10b "For when I am weak, then I am strong.” Roman
8:31 tells us "if God is for us who can be against us?”
Jehovah - Rohi - "Jehovah, my Shepherd" Psalm 23:1 "The Lord is my
shepherd; I shall not want.” The Lord knows what we long for because he
created us and understands our nature better than we understand ourselves.
Recognizing our deep need, he calls us to see him as the
Jehovah-M'Kaddesh - the Lord our Sanctifier. The Lord says: "Consecrate
yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. Keep my decrees and
follow them. I am the Lord, who makes you holy." (Leviticus 20:7-8) God
wraps us in the cloak of his own holiness until we are totally transformed into
something we could not be except for him and his great grace. He shares his
own character and nature with us through Jesus Christ. The scripture tells us
that through God's divine power and our knowledge of him, "he has given us
his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may
participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused
by evil desires." (2 Peter 1:4) That's being sanctified; that's being holy. That is
the transformation that Jehovah-M'Kaddesh provides.
Jehovah-Shammah - The Lord is There Ezekiel 48:35; God is always all
around us no matter what we may endure. His presence is there for us to call
upon reach out to. Praise Him for as the heavens are high above the earth, so
great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; and as far as the east is from
the west which there is no measurement! Praise Him Beloved’s for what He
has done for you.
Inspired Word of God
Shared by Catherin Skinner
The Sin of Unbelief: BY ZENA McNabb
Hebrews 11:6, tells us that without faith it is impossible to
please God. In fact, the eleventh chapter is called the FAITH chapter because
it gives us many examples of the great faith and sacrifices of the elders of old
who obtained a good report because of their faith.
Then we are given an admonition in Hebrews 12:1. "Wherefore, seeing we
also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with
patience the race that is set before us.” Simply, since these witnesses show us
how they found favor with God, we must follow their example and finish our
race by faith.
The "sin that doth so easily beset us” is described in Hebrews 3:12. "Take
heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
departing from the living God.” This was another admonition written to the
people of God. We must shield our hearts from unbelief by putting on the
breastplate of faith and love. (1 Thess. 5:5-8) Also Ephesians 6:11-17 says,
"Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the
devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor
of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all,
to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having
on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation
of the gospel of peace; Above all, tak-ing the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of
salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
Jesus said in the last part of Luke 18:8, "Nevertheless, when the Son of man
cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” We are living in perilous times and
the love and faith of many has waxed cold. Saints of God, we have been given
great and precious promises by God. We must hold fast the profession of our
faith without wavering; (for He is faithful that promised). (Hebrews 10:23,35)
"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of
reward.” (1 John 5:4) "For whosoever is born of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.”
Let us be strong in faith and righteousness so that we may enter into the joys
the Lord has prepared for those that love Him.
Zena McNabb
"WHATEVER IS THE WILL OF GOD, SO SHALL IT BE DONE”!
WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO
REAP! THAT'S THE WORD OF GOD AND THERE'S NO
GETTING AROUND IT, FOLKS. SO, WE MUST TRUST IN
THE LORD GOD AND LEAN NOT ON OUR OWN
UNDERSTANDING. BUT, IN ALL YOUR WAYS
ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATH.
I PROCLAIIM TO THE HOUSETOPS AND ADMONISH YOU,
THE PEOPLE OF GOD, TO KNOW THAT GOD'S WILL SHALL
BE DONE! THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH, NOR
VALLEY LOW ENOUGH TO GET OVER NOR UNDER HIS
WILL BEING DONE! YOU CAN'T GO AROUND IT EITHER.
OH, HE HAS GREAT MERCY AND WILL , SHOULD HE
CHOOSE, ALLOW YOU TO DO THINGS YOUR WAY FOR A
WHILE, BUT REST ASSURED THAT YOU SHALL HAVE TO
COME BACK TO DOING IT GOD'S WAY! HE'S SOVEREIGN
LORD AND HE RULES! HE REIGNS! HE'S IN CONTROL!
HE'S EL SHADDAI AND HE HAS ALLL POWER IN HEAVEN
AND IN EARTH IN HIS HANDS. HE SAID HE SHALL HAVE
MERCY ON WHOM HE WILLS TO HAVE MERCY ON. NOW,
IF YOU SHOW NO MERCY, YOU CAN REST ASSURED THAT
NO MERCY WILL BE SHOWN TO YOU IN RETURN
BECAUSE THE WORD SAYS, YOU REAP JUST WHAT YOU
SOW.
NOW, I BELIEVE THAT GOD'S PERFECT WILL HAS NO
FLAWS NOR MISTAKES. GOD CANNOT MAKE MISTAKES.
HE IS PERFECT AND HE IS THE SAME TODAY,
YESTERDAY, AND SHALL BE TOMORROW THE SAME GOD
THAT HE IS ON TODAY! HE IS ETERNAL AND
EVERLASTING. NO MAN CAN SAY WHEN GOD WAS BORN
OR FIRST EXISTED. NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD, EXCEPT
THROUGH HIS SON WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH. THAT'S
WHY JESUS HAD TO COME TO EARTH , TO GIVE US A
REPLICA OF HIS FATHER. HE HAD TO COME IN FLESHLY
FORM, HOWEVER, OR WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE
TO SEE HIM WITH NATURAL EYES. BUT, GOD IS A
SPIRIT. THAT'S WHY HE CAN BE IN THE NORTH, SOUTH,
EAST AND WEST, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. HE'S OMNI-
PRESENT. HE'S A GOD OF VISION, ALSO. (EL ROI) HE
SITS HIGH AND HE LOOKS DOWN LOW, BEHOLDING THE
EVIL AND THE HOLY IN EVERY PLACE. SO, JUST KNOW,
THERE IS NO HIDING PLACE. FOR NO MATTER WHERE
YOU ARE ON EARTH, GOD IS THERE. YOU CAN'T SEE HIM,
BUT HE SEES YOU.
SO WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MEN WHO THINK THEY
CAN GET AWAY WITH "MURDER"? WHY ARE THERE SO
MANY THEIVES WHO STEAL AND ROB PEOPLE AND
THINK THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH EVEN ROBBING A
BANK? AND WORSE YET, WHY DO SOME PASTORS THINK
THEY CAN "FLEECE" THE SHEEP OF GOD?
HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY THINK THAT THEY CAN
PREACH TO OTHERS WHAT THUS SAYS THE LORD, BUT
THEY DON'T HAVE TO LIVE BY THE SAME GOSPEL THEY
PREACH? WHY DO THEY THINK THEY CAN PUT ON AN
"ACT" ON SUNDAY MORNING AND TOSS THE WORD OUT
TO OTHERS , BUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS THEY TREAT
THEIR WIFE AND PERHAPS CHILDREN WRONG? THEY
ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE USED OF THE DECEITFUL
ONE. BUT, DON'T THEY KNOW THAT GOD SEES BEHIND
CLOSED DOORS? HE CAN EVEN WALK RIGHT THROUGH
THAT BEDROOM DOOR AND SEE THAT A HUSBAND IS
ABUSING HIS WIFE. HE MAY NOT STOP HIS HAND RIGHT
AWAY, BUT IF THAT WIFE IS A PRAYING WOMAN , GOD
WILL MOVE SWIFTLY AND STOP THE HAND OF THE EVIL
ONE FROM USING HER HUSBAND. ASK ME, I KNOW FROM
EXPERIENCE. GOD STOPPED THE HAND OF MY EX-
HUSBAND , WHO WAS ABOUT TO USE HIS FIST TO GIVE
ME A BLACK EYE...BUT GOD'S WAR ANGEL WAS RIGHT
THERE TO STOP HIM FROM KNOCKING MY EYE OUT OF
ITS SOCKET. THAT'S JUST HOW FIERCE HE WAS COMING
AT ME. I SAID NOTHING OUT LOUD , BUT GOD KNEW
WHAT I WAS CRYING OUT FROM MY HEART AND HE
TOLD SATAN , "TOUCH NOT MY ANOINTED ONE AND DO
MY PROPHETESS NO HARM!"
SAINTS OF GOD , EACH ONE OF US MUST CRUCIFY OUR
FLESH DAILY SO THAT OUR FLESHLY DESIRES DON'T
WIN OUT OVER WHAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD WOULD HAVE
US DO. THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S A DAY TO DAY THING
BECAUSE THE TEMPTER IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO TRY
AND LURE US AWAY FROM WHAT THE FATHER WANTS US
TO DO AND THAT IS TO LET OUR LIGHT SO SHINE
BEFORE MEN THAT THEY MAY SEE OUR GOOD WORKS
AND GLORIFY THE FATHER, WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. GOD
IS A SPIRIT , AND THEY THAT WORSHIP, MUST
WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. DON'T EVEN
TRY TO TEMPT GOD, FOR THERE NO WAY YOU CAN. AND
HE TEMPTS NO MAN! IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T THINK
YOU CAN SIN AND THEN RUN AND HIDE BECAUSE THERE
IS NO HIDING PLACE FROM GOD. EVEN IF YOU WIND UP
IN HELL, WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR EYES...HE'S THERE.
HE IS THE GREAT I AM! HE IS THE RULER OF THE
UNIVERSE. HE IS THE GREAT SHEPHERD. AND IF WE
WOULD BUT FOLLOW HIM AND ALLOW HIM TO
SHEPHERD US, IT WOULDN'T MATTER IF THAT ONE WHO
YOU THOUGHT WAS YOUR SPIRITUAL LEADER FALLS
BECAUSE HE FAILS TO FOLLOW THE LEADERSHIP OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEREFORE LOSES FOCUS....YOU CAN
STAY FOCUSED ON HOW THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS
LEADING YOU. AND YOU MUST PRAY FOR THE PASTOR
OR WHOEVER THE ENEMY MAY BE USING TO LURE YOU
ASTRAY FROM THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. IT COULD
BE YOUR BOSS AT WORK AND YOU MAY LOVE YOUR JOB,
BUT THE BOSS MAY BE A SLAVE DRIVER AND VERY
MEAN......YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE WHO THE BOSS OF
BOSSES IS; THE LEADER OF ALL LEADERS IS; JESUS IS!
THAT'S RIGHT, JESUS IS THE ONE WHO OPENED THAT
DOOR THAT NO MAN CAN CLOSE. AND HE'S THE ONLY
ONE WHO ALSO CAN CLOSE THE DOOR OF YOUR PAST
FAULTS, SINS AND FAILURES. AND NO MAN CAN OPEN
IT.
COME ON SAINTS OF GOD, IT'S SIMPLY TIME TO
RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS AND THAT
HE IS THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD. WE
ALL HAVE TO ANSWER TO HIM ONE DAY. SO, WE NEED
TO START NOW BY GETTING INTO HIS PERFECT WILL
AND NOT EXPECT HIM TO BE PERMISSIVE ALWAYS AND
ALLOW US TO THINK WE CAN HAVE IT OUR WAY. OH, HE
MAY ALLOW YOU TO MAKE MISTAKES AND TRY TO FLY
YOUR OWN WINGS WITHOUT HIS INSTRUCTIONS IN
THE RIGHT WAY . HE SAID THE STEPS OF THE
RIGHTEOUS ARE ORDERED BY THE LORD. SO, WHY NOT
ASK HIM TO SHOW YOU THE WAY AND THEN WALK
THEREIN. IN THAT WAY YOU WILL ALWAYS KNOW THAT
YOU ARE IN THE PERFECT WILL OF THE FATHER AND
THAT HE IS SMILING HIS FAVOR UPON YOUR ENTIRE
LIFE.
JUST SAY OUT LOUD NOW, "LORD, WHATEVER IS YOUR
WILL FOR MY LIFE, LET IT SO BE DONE." AMEN.
GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU IN HIS HOLY WILL,
IN JESUS NAME,
AMEN.
PROPHETESS SISTER MARY
“Exposed II” Pulpit Predators
Sounds like something horrible and in this case you’re correct. Apostles,
Prophets, Evangelists, Preachers, and Teachers, each of these has something
in common with the rest of the body. Each are seceptable to demonic
influence, oppression, depression, and or possession.
Apostles, a greek word, actually meant in the Hebrew language a sent one
who is an emmisary, one who is supposed to be the exact likeness of Jesus
Christ, authorized to act in His stead with the same power and influence.
Apostles are supposed to show forth the very same love, charater, and nature
of God, but in this new Apostolic movement, pride has entered in and they
think their titles, entitle them to be something they were never meant to be.
They walk around in pride, a pride that crept up on them so slow, they never
saw it and they still don’t. They want to be served and recognised as the
ultimate authority in today’s church, and what they say goes and anyone who
disagrees with them is their enemy. Discernemnt generally shows you, they
have been overtaken by the Jezebel or Leviathon spirit, inflicting this same
self-serving spirit on their fold. These particular Apostles have a tendency to
mix truth with falicy, the food they feed their flock is poisoned. They are true
Judus’s, leading their flock straight to the gates of hell for the slaughter and
their disciples are more the servant of hell than they are.
Prophets, one who was intended to speak God’s words and God’s truth, in
it’s fullness. No where in God’s Word does it say a prophet has the right to
charge for a word from God. In fact, Gehazi, Elish’a understudy was fully
repremanded for taking goods that Elisha turned down for a word from God
that he gave. Prophets are also called to give blessings and warnings, but they
don’t, for reasons I can’t begin to fathom. Being a prophet and hearing God
and what a prophet says to individuals, I noticed they would give them the
good news or upcoming blessings, but witheld the warnings.
When I asked these prophets why they weren’t telling them the whole thing, I
was told that it was discretionary wisdom, as the person wasn’t ready to
receive the warning. My question with that, was am I hearing everything you
are, yet you choose not to telling the whole truth? Could it be their interests
are the need to be liked and the possible financial blessings that come from
that. That in and of itself is wrong as it shows a denial of trust for God to
supply all their needs, whether financial or fulfilling the empty voids.
Evangelists, these are those who God sends out to remind us of the simples
truths of God’s good news of redemption. They for the most part, re-establish
the excitement of our salvation in reminding us of the preciousness of God’s
gift of His love through His son’s atonement. At the same time, they are to
bring the congregation back to a sober mind, reminding them, each has a call
on their lives to go and preach the gospel of the good news to the world and
every living creature in it. They unfortunately drive or fly great distances,
sometimes at their own expense, leaving them with a need for financial
renumeration. They try to get everyone so excited with portions of the good
news that when it comes time for the offering, people are blindly giving,
instead of seeking God. This effect is true all the way around, they forget to
point us in the right direction, with all things, seek God. They play on people
emotions for the greater offerings, while leaving weightier measures out of the
message. This also shows a lack of trust in God to supply their needs, some
have even been known to spend at much as 15 minutes on a message and 30 +
minutes on the asking for the offering.
Preachers, these are called to teach truth and even bring forth revelations
of God’s Word for the better understanding, in accordance with God’s design
for that particular flock. Preachers have a saying, if it’s spoken of or pointed
out 2 or more times in the Bible, then it’s a preach or sermon. The problem
with this, to many have for years leaned to their own understanding about
God’s Word, this understanding has led to much misinterpretation and
presentation of God’s Word. This leaning to an understanding void of God’s
wisdom, truth, and revelation, leads to a corrupt and amoral teaching. God’s
Word say that the preachers are more responsible for truth and held
accountable for just that. This is a statement worth remembering, because
there is more to it that will be presented later in this note.
Teachers, these are the revelators, those who dig deep for that pearl, the gift of
revelation regarding God’s Word that will help the body to have a better and
deeper understanding of God’s character, nature, and ways. Knowledge can
either promote or destroy, dependant on the source. With today’s ability and
availabilty to search the internet and get all kinds of information, it is more
dangerous to do so than search God’s Word, seek God’s heart, and look back
through Jewish history, traditions, and rituals. How easily we can be misled
by something that sounds so good, but in truth ahs no truthful bearing on the
revelation from God’s Word. God’s Word tells us to study to show ourselves
approved unto God and not man, if we’re not seeking God for our
information, for whom do we seek approval and from whom?
The body, there are many facets to a diamond or other such shiny high
priced gems and God called us all to be gems for His use. Who is doing the
polishing on these gems, is it us, leaning to oour understanding or is it God.
If you’ve ever been rubbed raw by a gritty surface, it hurts, but it also heals,
God uses the sandpaper of His choice to smooth the rough edges or polish our
facets. How can we possibly know this unless we study God’s Word, how can
we know when we’re not being taught truth if we don’t study. How can we
know hidden truths without discernment, how can we know God’s wisdom for
our lives if we’re not seeking God and asking for His wisdom? How can we
know truth, God’s truth, if we don’t seek the Holy Spirit, who brings to us the
spirit of truth and none of it will be laced with lies, untruths, or man’s
wromgful interpretations. Going back to the earlier statement about
responsibility, though Pastors, preachers are held in higher accountability and
responsibility for preaching truth, we hold individually, just as much
responsibility to know God’s truth. They’re held in higher accountability
simply because of the number of lives they effect with their words and
teachings.
All in all, everyone in one way or another is suggestive in nature and
potentially open to the influence of the demonic, leaving us in a position of
vulnerability for the lack of trust and obedience to God’s Word, and even
those who wish to speak into our lives, but aren’t hearing or seeing from God.
Matthew 6:33 gives it to us very plainly, seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness and the things of God will be given according to God’s
promises. Matthew 4:4 says; man does not live by bread alone, but by every
Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Matthew 4:7 says, do not tempt
God with foolishness, in other words, our understanding.
Matthew 4:10 tells us worship the Lord thy God and serve Him only, the 4
verses are a strong mainstay and a foundation of discernment.
Please stop letting man’s ideas and ideals rule your lives, you never know their
intent or who’s behind it. Never forget, this is not true of all of God’s
ordained, do not hold all at bay, but seek God, He will let you know, whom He
has entrusted. God bless, seek God!
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VICTORY IS YOURS!!!! : BY JOSEPH KING
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods
are in peace. But when a stronger than he shall come upon
him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor
wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils. Luke 11:21, 22
And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show
of them openly, triumphing over them in it. Colossians 2:15
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VICTORY IS YOURS child of God. It is assured and should never be foreign
to you. From the very beginning when God first had you in mind, He
programmed you for victory. Your end cannot be otherwise: Of necessity, it
must line up with the eternal determination of Almighty God whose purpose
cannot be bent. That is how it has always been, that is how it is, and that is
how it will always be- the victory of God’s people is a foregone conclusion. It
is not just going to happen, it has already happened. You do not need to ask
for it, anticipate it, or work on it, all you have to do is first accept it, celebrate
it, then manifest it. Nothing by any means is unbeatable to the son of God.
Beloved, in CHRIST, you have bound the strong man, rendered him
powerless, taken over the whole game; you are a winner over and above any
challenge. When HE spoiled principalities, you overcame with HIM. HIS
victory was not a personal one peculiar to him but rather a communal one
essential to all who believe in HIM. By this faith, that victory is as much
CHRIST's as it is indeed yours. Oh yes, it is your victory; it has your name on
it; your faith is the currency you employ to take possession of it. VICTORY IS
YOURS!!!!!
So what is it you are facing dear? Is it cancer, HIV/AIDS, arthritis, heart
failure? What is it? Is it death, the grave, is even all the forces of darkness?
Yes, whether it is demons, curses, hoaxes, magics, chants, name it; whatever it
is, whatever name it calls itself, whatever power it claims it has, regardless the
threat it sends; know this and know it well; in CHRIST, you won it over and
above any measure. YOU HAVE VICTORY AND IT IS YOURS in the name
of JESUS!!!!!
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VICTORY BELONGS TO YOU.
THY KINGDOM COME ON EARTH : BY JOEL McNabb
Two thousand years ago two men showed up in Judea with the same
message. Their message was not, repent and miss hell as some would have
us believe. John the baptizer came preaching "Repent for the kingdom of God
is at hand”, and when his time was fulfilled, Jesus began His ministry and
preaching the same message. His Father was ready to begin setting up His
kingdom here on earth as He has it in heaven. To those who believe the
message of the kingdom and become a part of it, they will miss hell, and have
everlasting life.
"Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the
seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of
heaven worshippeth thee” (Neh 9: 6). It is God who has everything, it is His
dominion, this world was made to worship Him and it is His will to have
kingdom here on the just like the one He has in heaven. He devised a plan to
set this in motion from the foundation of the world. God created man in His
image to give man the control and dominion of the earth (Gen. 1:26-28).
How many of us, as believers, have prayed or said what is called the
Lord’s Prayer? These words, which Jesus taught were not necessarily a repeat
after me prayer, but as He said "After this manner therefore pray ye”. He
gave us an outline of how we can reach God. First, we address God as "our
Father Which art in heaven”.
Second, Jesus gives us an example to praise the Father and glorify His name
"Hallowed be Thy name”. Thirdly, to ask God to fulfill His purpose and will
on this earth. "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in
heaven” (Mt 6:9-13).
These three things come first in importance before our needs and requests.
The Kingdom of God on earth is God’s plan since the creation of man. Jesus
didn’t come just to save sinners, though it is a faithful saying. He came and
died for our sins, to enable us to become a part of His kingdom. Jesus even
told Nicodemus, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,
he cannot see the kingdom of God " (Jn 3:3). "But as many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on
his name” (Jn 1:12)”
Jesus’ death and resurrection allows mankind to attain a condition of spiritual
holiness enabling us to be a part the kingdom that God will have here on
earth. When Nicodemus asked Jesus, "How can a man be born when he is
old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born”?
Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water
and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not
that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (Jn 3:4-7).
The point Jesus is making is that to enter the kingdom of God, one has to be
born of woman. When a child is ready to enter the world, his mother’s water
breaks and the child comes forth. One has to be "born again” to see what the
kingdom of God is and enter it.
"The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given
to the children of men” (Ps 115:16). God sent His Son to earth in the form of
man, because the He has given the earth to man. He will also fulfill His
promise to David.
"Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father
that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in
my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me” (2Ch 6:17). The
promises of God the Father are sure, they cannot fail, there will be a man to
sit on the throne of David, even Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
God’s plan after the Lucifer’s rebellion, was to inhabit the earth with man to
worship Him, and to give the angels that remained in God’s heavenly
kingdom a visual lesson of how grievous the insurrection of Lucifer was.
But, while in the Garden of Eden, the first Adam relinquished his dominion of
the earth to Satan by disobeying the commandment and will of God to not to
eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
On the day of Pentecost, when it had fully come, Peter filled with an unction
of the Holy Ghost preached to the crowd, that Jesus was raise from the dead
to immortality, God not leaving his body in hell to see corruption, so that
there would be a man to sit on the throne of David (Acts 2:25-31).
I often hear believers talk of heaven and the desire to go there, how they
can’t wait to go home and be with Jesus. The songs they sing, the books they
write, are all filled with pictures of endless walks on the street of gold, with
family and friends. What happen to the promise to Abraham that he would
be heir of the earth? Or the blessing in Matt. 5:5 that Jesus gave to the meek
that they also would inherit the earth? I hear the words, "Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done in earth”, or it is in heaven. If it is on the earth, then where is
His kingdom on earth?
Jesus said to the Pharisees when they demanded of Him when the kingdom
should come: "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither
shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within
you” (Lk 17;20-21). Many have read these words of Jesus, and have gotten
the idea that once you are born again the kingdom of God is in you.
I would question this doctrine, and ask why was Jesus saying this to some
unsaved Pharisees? He was saying it to them, because God had chosen the
children of Israel to be His kingdom on earth, and even though they had been
under foreign country’s rule from the time of the Babylonian empire, they
were as King David thought, when he fought Goliath, "the armies and
kingdom of the living God” on earth (1Sam 17:26,36).
Jesus also knew the Jews of His day had the kingdom, when He was teaching
in the temple and the chief priest and elders of the people came to Him. He
spoke to them in the parable of the householder who planted a vineyard and
hedged it letting it out to husbandmen. he sent servants to receive the fruit
and the husbandman kill them and sent others and they beat and stoned
them. Then last of all he sent his son, they said among themselves, This is the
heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught
him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Jesus then asked the question, "When the lord therefore of the vineyard
cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will
miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other
husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. Jesus saith
unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders
rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvellous in our eyes? Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God
shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
thereof” (Mt 21:33-46).
Here we see Jesus letting the Jews of His day know they were going to loose
the kingdom of God, and God would give it to another people (nation), who
when He comes will have fruits that kingdom on their tree. By their rejection
of the Son of God and having Him killed on the cross, they sealed their
judgment, and at the death of the testator the covenant, the ten
commandments which God made with Israel, was annulled. As Paul said,
"The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her
husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the
Lord” (1Cor 7:39). At the death of Jesus, God took the kingdom from the Jews,
and in 70 A.D. He took the promised land and scattered the Jews around the
world.
The promise Jesus made, that there will be a nation rise up with the fruits of
the kingdom of God, will come to pass. In Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the
image, (from the head of gold, to the feet mixed with iron and clay), God
reveals He will set up a kingdom in the days of those kings (ten toes), which
shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand
for ever (Dan 2:31-35).
We are living in the days of the ten horns and the beast (the G10 and the
UN). There will be a little stone, (a small nation), which comes out of the
mountain and it will smite the feet of the image. The stone became a great
mountain and filled the whole earth.
"That in the dispensation of the fulness of times He might gather together in
one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth;
even in him” (Eph 1:10). We are living in the fulness of times. Are you
expecting our Lord’s return to rule and reign on this earth? The message is
the same as it was two thousand years ago, we still have time to repent for
the Kingdom of God is at hand, and He is ready to gather His wheat into His
barn. Are you ready, are you bringing forth the fruits of God’s kingdom???
It’s time to hear the trump of God and gather unto Him. Get ready saints, the
Kingdom of God is at hand!
"And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven,
saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and
of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever” (Rev 11:15).
ARE YOU JESUS? II IDENTIFIED BY FRUITS BY PASTOR EMMANUEL BABA
ISIAKA
YOU ARE THE LIVING WORD OF GOD AN EPISTLE NOT WRITTEN
WITH PEN AND INK BUT BY THE SPIRIT AND THE BLOOD. LET
YOUR READERS SEE JESUS IN YOU AND GIVE GLORY TO GOD!
MEMORY VERSE: "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good fruit." (Matt 7:18).
BIBLE READING: Matthew 7:15-20
15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs
of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into
the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Good works are a manifestation of the anointing of God. If you are truly
anointed of God, it will show in the frequency of good deeds emanating from
you. If Matthew 5:14-16 is anything to go by, it gives us a veritable link
between three variables: the shine of a believer, his or her good works, and
glorifying the Father. Anything you do that compels men to offer true praise
to God is a good work. As long as it is done by a believer in Christ, with the
right motives, and in obedience to God's instructions, it will elicit Heaven's
reward. A true mark of a disciple of Christ is the desire for God to be glorified
in all his or her deeds, speech or conduct. Your life is supposed to point people
to your Father. Can they see Christ in you?
It is possible to identify a believer by his or her conduct. A little child ran
home in excitement one Sunday morning telling the mother that he has seen
Jesus. "How do you know its Jesus you saw?" the mother asked. "He saw my
loosed shoes, bent down and laced them for me", he replied. "OK, can you
describe him for me?" she asked. By the time he was through, it was obvious
that it was their pastor. Do you have time to knot the tie, wipe the sweat or take
off the sand on your children? Little things like that could make great
impressions on the minds of these little ones. And adults too! I once travelled
to America; as soon as I arrived at the airport, I was conveyed to the church
where I was to preach. I kept going from one place to another such that I
could not rest except on board a plane. As I took my seat on board the plane, I
found myself sitting next to an old woman who had never travelled by air.
Since I knew starting a conversation with an old woman would cost me my
rest, I decided not to say a word. When she greeted me, I smiled without a
word. When we were asked to place our luggage in the upper-compartment,
she did not understand what to do, so I helped her. When they announced that
we should fasten our belts, she was also at a loss, so I helped her. She thanked
me and I smiled. When it was time to eat, she did not know how to release her
table from the back of the seat in front of her, so I helped her. She thanked me
and I smiled. Before we landed, I assisted her again and then she said, "You
must be a pastor". I said "Yes, ma" and she screamed, "I knew it". Can you
be identified as a believer without saying a word?
THE FATHER’S BLESSING "I pray for someone reading this message
today, who is getting tired or discouraged in helping people in need. The Lord,
the Great Rewarder of the diligent seekers will not forget your labour of love.
In due season you shall reap the reward. As you encourage yourself in the
Lord. You shall not be discouraged. People shall soon realise your good deeds
and give glory to our Father God. You shall continue to be fruitful in good
works of righteousness. Very soon you shall call for one, and hundreds will
answer you. Your fruits will abide and whatever you ask the Father in His
name shall be done in the mighty name of Jesus Christ our Lord.”(Amen)
PRAYER ACTION POINT FOR TODAY: Pray that believers in your nation
will bear fruits of righteousness that will make unbelievers identify them as
the lights of the world.
THE AFFAIR IS ADVANCING YOU INTO A GLORIOUS MARRIAGE: BY
MAGARET MULLINGS
During the most turbulent times of your life, there has been a significant thing
which seemed to intervene: enabling you to make it through. Surely, you can
recall going through some situations where even now as you are reading these
words. You are not able to explain how you made it through. You and I have
had many affairs.....No ! No ! Not with a man or a woman.....stay focused ! It
is the affairs with the cares of this world. The hurt, pain especially heartache
(many have broken hearts ), and sickness. How long long are you going to
have these affairs with your personal issues ? When are you going to see from
Abba Father's perspective ? The affairs has come to advance you into a
glorious marriage ? With whom ? I am so glad you asked ! For thirty five
years, I have been having an affair with unforgiveness. Unforgiveness had a
stronghold on me ! Yet, I was still praying to Yahweh (God) and had the
audacity to expect Him to answer my prayers. Divinely He
intervened.....snatched me from the burning hell which was closing in on me.
The affair has advanced me into a glorious marriage....reminding me of being
on the brink. On the brink, in the dark night of despair....darkness quickly
over shadowing the day. On the brink of giving up. I discover a new strength
springing up from within.....bringing joy of new found vision, it is blurred yet
getting clearer.....I see it. On the brink, I see You Oh Lord.....I feel Your love
and compassion. Yes, on the brink I experience Your transforming power
lifting me to my place of destiny....On the brink...
Then my heart released forgiveness and received Jehovah's Rapha healing
balm. Now my passion for Him is rekindled.....Spending the whole night upon
my bed, talking with Him and then just before the breaking of dawn arising to
spend hours in His word and in prayer. Lately though, I have not been
keeping my appointments with Him. Slumbering upon my bed, and at intervals
pausing to reach out to Him. Talking with Him, then falling helplessly back to
sleep. Even my rising to go to Him in prayer has not been consistent. There is
a feeling of being disconnected without His warm embracing presence.
Rekindled passion is emerging...For thereis a tugging and a pulling....drawing
me to that place of prayer intensifying my adoration of Him. Rekindled
passion is now unfolded and I am regaining strength and courage....Renewing
my thinking, putting on the mind of Christ. There is a strong thirsting for His
presence, and a hunger for His word. Rekindled passion is drawing me to
arise even at midnight just to get into His presence where there is joy beyond
measure, and pleasures are at His right hand which cannot be compared...
The affair has advanced into a glorious marriage, for I now have renewed my
covenant with Him, who calls me by my name ! What about you ? What are
you having an affair with ? It may not be with unforgiveness....Ask yourself
this question " What are you having an affair with ? Do not allow whatever
you are having an affair with to cause you to go to hell. Instead allow the
affair to advance you into a glorious marriage with your heavenly
Father.....but first, you must repent ! Read these words Jesus spoke from
Revelation 3:19-22 Verse (19) " As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.
Therefore be zealous and repent. " Verse (20) " Behold I stand at the door
and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him
and dine with him, and he with me. " Verse (21) " To him who overcomes I
will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with
My Father on His throne. " Verse (22) " He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the churches. " Make a decision to allow the affair to
advance you into a glorious marriage with Abba Father. Renew your covenant
with Him today !
Critical Adversaries : ADDED BY DEBRA LYNN-LAKE ROBERTS
Based on GSoM Course 129: Critical Adversaries
Preamble
In John chapter 17: 6-18, Jesus made it clear that there are two types of
people in the world: those who are His and those who reject His redemptive
assignment. He prayed to the Father to preserve His own from the evil which
rules the world:
God has ordained that His children will live fulfilled lives on earth with
potentials to affect their communities.
Jeremiah 29:11
King James Version (KJV)
11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts
of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
John 10:10
King James Version (KJV)
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come
that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
As John 10:10 above shows, , Jesus came to take away all constraints that are
contrary to the well being of saints. Back of all the constraints is the great
enemy of man: Satan who in himself and through other agencies and
circumstances engineers situations that seek to steal, kill and destroy what
God ordained for His saints!
At the Cross of Calvary, Jesus completed the work of redemption and
triumphantly declared, as recorded in John 19:30: "It is finished”. The work
of redemption is complete and nothing can be added or subtracted to it! All
who maintain their salvation in Christ Jesus till their last breath are assured
of their state of bliss with God in the future phase of the Kingdom and in
eternity.
However, the blessings procured at Calvary Cross for living the abundant life
in this present phase of the Kingdom can be enjoyed or missed! A saint who
walks in darkness of ignorance concerning who he or she is in Christ will
suffer needlessly. A saint who is too busy to study the Word, meditate on it and
apply it in everyday life will live an empty life filled with the spirit of struggle
and lack. The saint who does not take time to understand the nature of
opposition and constraints to well being on this side of eternity will live an
empty, defeated life.
Hosea 4:6
King James Version (KJV)
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing
thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
On the other hand, the saint who will diligently study the Word, meditate on it
and yield the mind for renewal by the Word; who will apply the Word to real
life situations with full understanding of all the arsenal provided in the Word
for victory in the battles of life will enter eat the good of the earth!
Isaiah 1:19
King James Version (KJV)
19If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Joshua 1:8
King James Version (KJV)
8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt
meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all
that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then
thou shalt have good success.
Psalm 1:1-3
King James Version (KJV)
1Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate
day and night.
3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth
his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper.
4 Critical Adversaries
The four critical adversaries which work independently and cooperatively to
nullify the testimony of Jesus Christ in the life of the redeemed and make life
hard are:
The Self Life the World the Devil and Denominationalism.
Each of these adversaries will be studied in detail to enable participants gain a
real life
understanding which will enhance spiritual insight/discernment, enable us to
pray
more proactively and wage a good warfare. Participants will learn the three
dimensions of man: spirit, soul and body and see how the motions of each
affect spirituality. The impact
of self on true spirituality will be outlined so that the principle of Matthew
16:24 is
properly understood.
Course Synopsis
THE SELF LIFE
What then is the self life?
How can it be defeated?
What are the provisions for a self-free life of true liberty?
THE WORLD
What is the World?
How is it organized?
How has the world become churchier while the church is moving in the
opposite
direction, more worldly? How does this line up with the fact that the last of the
churches Jesus addressed in Revelation 3 is the worldly church at Laodicea?
THE DEVIL
Who is the devil?
What are his main assignments?
How does he operate?
THE DENOMINATIONAL SPIRIT
What is it?
Why is it an enemy of the true gospel
In what ways does it operate contrary to Christ’s express instructions on what
His
Church is?
Usefulness and limits of denominations
The Kingdom gospel and the post-denominational era
Spiritual warfare: an explanation. A Christian will succeed or fail; enjoy the
glorious liberty of son ship or struggle with various constraints to the degree
of understanding of the nature of factors which seek to constrain or even
destroy the blessings which are ours by inheritance. Beyond understanding of
those factors, the saint needs to boldly stand upon the Word of God and
enforce the ordinance of Calvary in what is called spiritual warfare. Spiritual
warfare is not an activity exclusively reserved for a few super stars in the
Kingdom. It is not an activity seeped in secret codes! It is the lifestyle of
spiritual alertness and militancy to stand upon the written and revealed Word
and insisting that Satan and all powers of darkness give way for the purpose
of the King to be fulfilled in all circumstances. In prayer, we call upon God to
do the things we deem needful for our well being. In spiritual warfare, we
decree the stated word and will of God and see its enforcement as sons of God
and co-heirs with Jesus Christ.
America, Wake Up! – North Carolina Now! – is due from Friday, October 21
through Sunday, October 23 in Greensboro. Please uphold the saints as they
congregate to stand in the gap for their State and America. Pray as the Holy
Spirit leads you.
Important note: all teachings and publications on face book of Global School
of Ministry are released from Babylonian copyright restrictions. You are free
to forward them to friends and family or to use to preach, teach in Sunday
Schools, church services, in small groups or family devotions. If you are led to
be part of a global team God has commissioned to prepare the remnant for the
end times and soon return of Jesus(Ephesians 5:27), you are welcome to start
a centre of the Global School of Ministry right where you are. We will send
you the curriculum and full course notes to prayerfully study and use to teach
others according to the principle in 2 Timothy 2:2. Please contact us at
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Faith, But Yet Weary! : BY CATHERIN SKINNER
Though my faith is strong and I believe in what God has spoken to me, I still
get weary from the attacks of the enemy. Although I am under attack, my faith
still hold strong as I wait on the Lord for I know that my Redeemer lives
within me.
2 Peter 1:3 that as we grow in our knowledge of God, through his divine
power he gives us everything we need for life and godliness. Jesus relied on
the Word of God alone to overcome obstacles, including the devil. God's Word
is alive and powerful (Hebrews 4:12), useful for correcting us when we are
wrong and teaching us what is right (2 Timothy 3:16). It is so important that
we carry God's Word in our hearts through memorization, and meditation to
be ready to face any problem, every difficulty, and whatsoever challenge that
life can send our way.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ
Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in
spirit. Psalm 34:18
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace ... 1 Corinthians 14:33We
are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair
... 2 Corinthians 4:8
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of
those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans
8:28
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to
this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be
impossible for you. Matthew 17:20
The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. Proverbs 24:16
For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and
self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no
evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Psalm
23:4
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm
27:14
Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God." Luke 18:27
... but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar
on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not
be faint. Isaiah 40:31
Stand firm on the strong foundation of God’s Word that you have hid within
your heart, and if you have not hidden it, start now because the LORD your
God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy
31:6
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my
burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30
The Word of God,
Shared by Catherin Skinner
HEALTHY ADVICE: DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH: ADDED BY
EVANGELIST FAVOR LIBERTY & MARIAMA TURAY
It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every
morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. We publish
below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious
diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found
successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following
diseases:
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess
fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases,
vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases,
womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.
METHOD OF TREATMENT
1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml
glasses of water
2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute
3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.
4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink
anything for 2 hours
5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the
beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4
glasses per day.
6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others
can enjoy a healthy life.
The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to
cure/control/reduce main diseases:
1. High Blood Pressure (30 days)
2. Gastric (10 days)
3. Diabetes (30 days)
4. Constipation (10 days)
5. Cancer (180 days)
6. TB (90 days)
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the
1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily. This treatment method has no
side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to
urinate a few times.
It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in
our life. Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.
This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals
..not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while
eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain. For those who like to drink cold
water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will
solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the
digestion.
Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by
the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot
soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks:
· Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the
left arm hurting,
· Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
· You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
· Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
· 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake
up.
· Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be
aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they
know, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care about.
http://www.wix.com/im_possible/biodisc
By: Ron Simmons
MIRACLE WORKERS PREACHING IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST ARE
NOT ABOVE THE ETHICS LAID DOWN BY GOD 1
MIRACLE WORKERS PREACHING IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST ARE
NOT ABOVE THE ETHICS LAID DOWN BY GOD FOR ALL OF HIS
AMBASSADORS IN THE HOLY BIBLE :BY BISHOP STEVEN LIBERTY SR.
"THEIR FINAL OBJECTIVE IS YOUR MONEY ! WOW! not everyone that claims to do miracles workers are actually workers of the light. Test their spirits for our own Spirit of God is unique and when it appears there is a difference. How can you claim to be a miracle worker & claim the glory for yourself & not God. How can you claim to be a servant of God for almost four decades and do not know the ethics of God servants. How can you claim to live in the light and boast, & applause darkness. Beware for you have fooled no one for the fruit you bore told the true stOry…." (BishOP steveN liBerty sr.)
By their fruits we shall know them who claim to speak & preach, work wonders in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. There is so much wrong in the world of religion this day; especially with witches, wizards, magicians and all sorts of satanic servants wearing the purple robe and claiming to be carrying the authority of god.
I was opportune to attend and listen to some of these MOderN days’ MONey raisers receNtly whO eNticed the crOwd with fake promises, some sorts of miracles, threat and self praise. I happen to pick up a few unique points from these services and I want you to add them to your watch list of suspicious and need to be carefully scrutinized prophets.
How can you claimed to be a servant of God with a message
from Him and on Sunday morning you climb the pulpit once and
boast about your achievements for about fifteen minutes,
read one short verse, talk about what you observed about
your countrymen weakness to a multilingual congregation
(nepotism) for another hour and close with raising funds;
using different methods of self boast about your powers
over nature? What are the motives of such preachers? You
who are invited as a guest Preacher and do not know what
your congregation does for a living; yet you take envelopes
and claim it is been collected to make them prosper and be
bless in all they do. What if their work is against the ethics
of God and man? Who will prosper them; God or Satan? Some
of them even go as far as threatening the congregation
with death if the envelopes are not return. So what was you
mission all about; the souls of these souls or their money?
The Church of God has detolirated so much that everything
in it has change drastically. The pulpit from which God voice
is to be heard is now a podium for all sorts of evils.
It is a pity what the house of God has turn to these days. One
of the horrors I watch during these last few days which
reawaken my hatred for Servants of God who uses the
pulpit to vent out their hurt feeling , get revenge for
incidents that arose in everyday life or preach about
others in order to make themselves popular in the eyes of
the congregation was the accusation of a woman of an
undefined act publicly which was not proven publicly. If you
are man enough to heard the spirit tell you to accuse
someone publicly ; you should be man enough to back up your
accusations publicly and not leave suspicions and doubts
about someone who will carry a mark of your act for life.
The publicity stunts of over zealots miracle workers (if
they actually are ) is usually immature because they have
no sound background in studying the scriptures and can not
back their actions with the scriptures.. How cowardly and
foolish this act really is and I hate it with a passion. The
pulpit is all about attacking, exposing and trying to remedy
sin in the lives of the people in order that it may bring about
a positive change. There is a big gap/difference between the
pulpit and the podium where social and political speeches
are delivered. if there is aN issue that yOu caN’t deal with iN
door by yourself; call others to help you handle it.
At one of these programs I witness to my horror a Pastor
wife been disgrace in front of not only her congregation but
the combine congregations , Muslims, atheist, of the entire
city.
Before a jammed packed church with people downstairs and
out side watching by television; this woman was called up
aNd asKed if she was a PastOr’s wife. wheN she affirMed that
she was; this fellow begin to accuse her of some nameless
evil. Now is it wrong to expose evil? No it is not but there is a
how, when, where, and sometimes why. This fellow had
earlier visited this woman congregation about four days
before this incident; had interacted with the particular
Pastor in question through out; from the day of his arrival,
had been introduced to this woman before this time. Now tell
me miracles workers if something was wrong in the life of
this PastOr wife why didN’t he called theM iN Private at
their church when he visited, in the office where he
interacted with him daily and enlighten them ; because
after disgracing the woman on the stage he did nothing to
expose the demon or whatever it was, get it out or heal her
of it ;if it was real but benefited by increasing his
popularity with one final goal, which was to raise funds
from a stunned congregation.. What kind of fruits are these
for a servant of God I wondered? Surely they are not listed
among the fruits Servants of God should bear; because we
all knew the end result was increasing their popularity so
that he could raise money.
What really annoyed me was the Pastors around (mostly
birds of the same feathers) really applauded this action. I
cried within me when I heard this fellow say: "Come and take
an envelope and get a miracle from God; for I have sacrifice
for you.
Take the envelope and rub it on my head or put on my coat
for I am sacrificing it for you. "And Pastors who should know
better came and took the envelopes and rub it on the fellow
head after putting a hundred or two hundred dollars into it.
Then I question myself about what these guys or ladies
really preach in the churches if they could accept that a
man sacrifice for them to get breakthroughs or prosper?
They were all carried away by two incidents called
Miracles iN Our days ; yet i caN’t BOldly called it that fOr
the Preacher himself said we should give him the glory and
not God. He could handle that issue with God later.
Therefore it was something else been done by magical or
tricky means and not a miracle of God and for me they were
very questionable. Why use the pulpit of God for such acts?
In fact regardless of how popular one is; from which
geographical location he/she comes from; and by what
contrary spirits he/she uses to draw the public attention;
real ambassadors of Jesus Christ should be really to
expose them with the intention of helping them. For even if
they claim to be super rich; we can punch holes in their
claims from their very statements and actions.
My problem is not how much he gains from these stunts but
how many are following these so-called miracle workers
and losing on earth their substances and the souls to the
devil. These poor dumb sheep souls believe in the signs,
tricks and or miracles that they are out there performing. I
am aware that they are not preaching because they want
to serve God, but because they want to gain materially.
I want them to know that the path they have chosen to gain
popularity is not honorable and it is never too late to study
the ethics of what it takes to preach the Word of God to
others. I am not in any way judging them; neither am I
condemning them as a person ; for in certain cases I even
admired the way they can get the crowd attention, but I
hate that which I see ruining a talented person that could
be honorably use for the glory of God whom they claimed to
represent. Their methods could be refined and they could be
even more popular if they studied the Word of God in order
to know where to apply what and why, when and how to
apply it that one will be able to get even more powerful
results instead & approval from God. Believe it or not if
your aim is material wealth; you will still get it.
There was a statement made by one of these fellows that
blessings is riches and to be bless means to be materially
rich. I can tell you that this is the blackest lie on the face
of mother earth. I personally know interact and pray daily
with many, who do not starve, have a roof over their heads
and are comfortable in the material world but there is a
thorn in their flesh that makes them wish that God could
exchange their lives with even the poorest if it could
correct that situation and bring peace and happiness to
their lives. You could have all the money, cars, popularity,
etc and not a single child or carrying a sickness which seems
incurable and a lot of other things that makes a man feel
incomplete. Do you know that Abraham felt incomplete until
he could boast of a child?
Yet he was one of the most bless man upon the face of the
earth that ever walked its surface. Real blessings from
God come as a complete package and there are no question
asked when it comes because everything God does is unique. I
did not say rich men are not blessed; but that blessing is far
more than material gain.
The Bible cautions us to be wise and test every spirit. Satan is not a weakling but a powerful counterfeiter and he is working more furiously in those places claimed for God. I dON’t KNOw aBOut yOur cOMMuNity But iN My sataN has the upper hand in the lives of those claiming to represent God. 99.9 are working for him with their eyes open 24/7 and are aware that they are serving him; even those they appear to be representatives of the children of light and claim to carry the royal mantle of anointing. There are a lot of people out there who are confuse about the differences between a pulpit and a podium and use both for the same purpose interchangeably. Know today that there is a vast difference between the two and this should be one of your most vital lessons that a servant of God should learn. Lack of knowledge about the differences causes one to do a lot of unnecessary and abominable acts on the pulpit. The pulpit is usually sanctified & consecrated for the use of delivering messages from the highest God to the people and petitions from the people to the Highest God. The podium on the Other haNd dOesN’t have tO Be cONsecrated aNd iN MOst cases 99.9 percent of the time lies, broken promises, deception or methods of exploitation are meant to come from them. Stop using the pulpit to pull popularity stunts, revenge what you think is your hurt feelings, oppress, suppress or depress. Your campaign speeches should be from the podium.
Stop placing your personal agenda above the message of God. Again remember that the podium is use for lies, manipulations, exploitations, personal agendas but the pulpit should be only for the truth and the edification of God Word & Kingdom. So many beautiful well decorated glass podiums are in our Churches today that can only fit in auditoriums for organizations. Know the difference that you may be able to properly note the difference between a pulpit and a podium and that will enable you to invite the right sort of speakers for the type you have within those four walls. Be Bless and remember that Moses did wonders and so did the magicians of Pharaoh; but if you carefully noted the wonder of Moses overcame the wonders of the magicians. Test every Spirit for we serve a unique God and He is only one!
NEWS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE BISHOP: BY EVANGELIST FAVOR P. LIBERTY
During the month of October we at Shepherds
Headquarters in Dakar were host to Apostle Dr. Chris
Agagbo of the Christian Ministers Partnership Network
World-wide from eastern Nigeria. He came to Dakar to try
to acknowledge Churches in these parts about this
organization and encourage them to become members.
According to their vision it is all about bringing revivals
and partnership with interested relevant
ministers/ministries, Christian organizations, individually
rich Christians and Christian’s foundations world-wide. The
group mandate is having seminars, conferences, crusades
workshops and interchangeable visitations. They believe
that no man is call into ministry alone and therefore need
each other as eyes, representatives, anywhere,
everywhere and anytime.
Speaking about the objectives to Bishop Liberty and the
President of His Grace Church International Pastor
Chukwuka Edward Okechukwu ; he explained that the
network will help ministries to get connected, bring out
the best qualities of God out to the open for proper usage,
promote each other at anytime and anywhere, give its
members the opportunity to travel aboard on mission
works and exposure, help instruct its members how to
build a solid financial stability through ministerial
connections and stable financial contributions among
members ; will help the sick and less privileged members
to get assistance from rich Christian partners/foundations
etc.
Every faithful Christian are eligible for membership;
especially Archbishops, Bishops, Apostles, Reverends,
Pastors, Teachers, Evangelist, Prophets, Church
Elders/workers who are willing to keep and obey the
ordinances of the network. Every member is expected to
register as a member and obtain a code and reference
number. Instructions for those wishing to join us will be
send to you by contacting us on the internet or by calling
these numbers: +2348036181536 +2348064684734
+2348185726588 +2348033561757 +2348055073336
+2348037585701
Meanwhile the President of His Grace Church International
Pastor Chukwuka Edward Okechukwu
accepted the offer given him to coordinate
the affairs of the organization in Dakar; while Bishop
Liberty was asked to be the origination Patron. The Bishop
promised to give the entire matter to God in prayers and
discuss with him later; for we have to test every
opportunity given us by the Spirit of God and the mandate
of our calling. The Apostle climaxed his stay here by
preaching at His Grace Church International before
departing for Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry
Sierra Leone and Liberia.
THE BOANERGES EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC, (AKA) CHURCH OF BETHLEHEM IN DAKAR
SENEGAL CELEBRATED ITS SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY. WE HAVE A PHOTO PAGE OF SOME OF THE
EVENTS & DIGNITARIES WHO ATTENDED THE SERVICE. REV. VITALIS IKECHUKWU NWAIWU AND
HIS CHURCH PLAY HOST TO US AT A VERY CHALLENGING PERIOD IN OUR OWN LIFE HISTORY. THEY
ASSISTED US AS BEST AS THEY COULD WHEN THE EVIL WIND OF ENVY, DISUNITY AND DIFFICULTIES
THREATING TO DESTROYED OUR OWN VISION AND ALSO IN PLANTING AND REGISTRATERING THE
AFRICAN VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS INTERNATIONAL. WE ARE PLEASE TO CELEBRATE WITH THEM
AND WISH THEM ALL OF GOD BLESSINGS THAT GRANT WISDOM, KNOWLEDE AND
UNDERSTANDING AS THEY CONTINUE TO GROW. IT WAS A VERY POWERFUL, EDUCATIVE AND IN
MANY WAYS VERY INTERESTING CELEBRATION.
CALLED BY GOD IN A DREAM ON 6TH JANUARY 1988 TO MINISTRY; THIS YOUNG BUISNESSMAN
WHO HAD OPENED A BERBER SHOP WHERE BOTH HE AND HIS WIFE WORKED FOR THEIR LIVING
WITH AMBITIONS TO GO TO EUROPE OR THE AMERICAS RESISTED HIS CALL FOR A PERIOD. YET
WHEN GOD CALLS A MAN TO FULFILL A DESTINY FOR WHICH HE WAS CREATED; THERE IS NO PLACE
TO RUN AND HIDE. AFTER SEEKING THE ADVICE OF SOME RELIGIOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF THOSE
TIMES, HE HEEDED THE CALL AND ENROLLED IN A BIBLE COLLAGE KNOWN AS WORD OF LIVE BIBLE
COLLAGE UNDER REV. WALTER. TO CUT THE LONG STORY SHORT HE TOOK UP THE CHALLENGE
AND ON JANUARY 31ST 2005 AT A PRIMARY SCHOOL IN UNITE 21, PARCELLES ASSAINES DAKAR
SENEGAL WHERE THE CHURCH WAS OFFICIALLY DECLARED OPENED. IN EARLY 2006 THEY MOVED
FROM THERE TO THEIR CURRENT SITE IN DAIAMALAYA 11 NORD FOIRE DAKAR SENEGAL. AT THIS
POINT HE HAD TO RELINQUISH THE BARBING SALOON BUSINESS WITH HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE TO
FULLY CONCENTRATE ON THE DIVINE WORK OF GOD. IN 2008 WITH A CONSTANT HARVEST AND
GROWTH; HE OPENED ANOTHER BRANCH TO THE CHURCH IN OAKAM WHICH IS HEADED BY
PASTOR AFAM MOSES.