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BEHIND THE SCENES John 5:17   Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.” -------------------------------------------- Somehow we are have inclined to think that God stopped working the time he finished creation. We think that He does nothing but to view all that He created. There are battles that go on in the spiritual realm. We are at times think that the devil fought with Micheal at once in heaven and that that was the end of heavenly wars. The mere fact that Daniel's Angel was captivated by demons and rescued at a later time, is the fact the heavenly wars still go on. The devil never stopped accusing. He didn't stop at it in heaven before he was thrown to earth. He accused Job. He still accuses many of us. Perhaps he accused you in heaven yesterday but one. Anyway, all this goes on yet we on earth sleep , wake up and go around doing our daily jobs. We pray in the morning seriously and in the evening seriously.

  ALPHA AND OMEGA Revelation 21:6   He said to me: “It is done. I am the alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life . -------------------------------------------- There are many times, we assume the responsibility of ends. We need it all and think by "we", that shall come to its accomplishment. There are even at times where many people want to assume the shoes of God. They take 100 percent responsibility of what they think their destiny deserves. There is a fact to learn today. The mere fact that you never knew yourself before you were formed in your mother's womb is the fact that there is less you know about yourself. There is someone who knew you well before you were formed in your mother's womb. He knew when you were there. He also knew you after.  Have you ever asked yourself a question as what content that person knew even before you were formed in your m

HEIGHTS OF ABUNDANCE Genesis 41:49   Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure. -------------------------------------------- There was a moment Joseph was suffering in the hands of those who hated him. At times , they would deny him food just because of the hatred that they had against him. He was thrown away and tossed like nothing. But in all these, he hoped in the Lord.  He was taken up to Egypt and suffered his turn. The turn was done. The patience was now to pay off. Joseph was given responsibility of taking care the king's house. He was promoted to heights of a minister in a foreign land. Because of his skills; that had been accumulated through his troublesome experience, he was entrusted the responsibility of collecting food in preparation for the coming 7 years of famine. His cumulative skills enabled him to collect enough of grain and money throughout the cou

DON'T BE SHY! Isaiah 1:18   Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool . -------------------------------------------- Did you realize, that whenever you go astray before the Lord, you tend to shrink away from His presence.  When Adam and Eve sinned against God, they were filled with guilt. God came to fellowship with them as usual in the cool of the evenings. When He called upon them, they were afraid to reply.  There is fear that grips a soul when there is sin found within. Yet at the end, it is not God who sends you away from His presence unforgivably; but the spirit of sin. It is the thing that is in you that makes you shy. We have found good hope within scripture! The Lord calls us to come to Him. Though our sins are stinky, He will wash. The Lord is ready to renew our relationship with Him. The best part you play when you fall in the pr

ONE LOAD Proverbs 16:4   The Lord works out everything for his own ends -------------------------------------------- Because of life that seems so much divided, we are inclined to think that there are different routes that serve different purpose. Of course, that would be the obvious thought for a human being. And also it may seem so. When the devil approached God on account of Mr Job, wouldn't someone here think God should have chased him from afar? Obviously. We feel God should have nothing to do with the devil.  But in as much as God let the devil carry on his mission, there is one load. The soul of Job was tried by God and yet tempted by the devil; yet in the end it was to be stronger for God. Job faced the happiness of wealth and family, yet he also faced the sorrow of sickness and deaths of loved ones. We would definitely rule out that there was a different route that Job had taken when he was stricken with sickness. Even his people thought that he had sinned an u

PERENNIAL CHAMPION 1 Corinthians 1:7  Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8 He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. -------------------------------------------- There is a great battle that is going on between the world of light and the dark world. There is a lot of work that is going on in the satanic empire. Satan works day and night. I mean he is not human being that will sleep off. He is not built up with systems that slumber. He keeps watch over his work day and night. He thinks all around - day and night. And to make matters worse, someone who has existed before the earth was formed and the sun was built; he posses enormous knowledge and greater understanding. It is obvious that Lucifer is more knowledgeable and more cunning than you do. He uses his vast plane of experience to go against the will of God. You cannot single handedly compe

ALL IS POSSIBLE . Matthew 19:26   Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” -------------------------------------------- There are things, as human beings that we put limit to. There are parameters that we have set to define a definite real end. Though there are some parameters that in nature, we have still gone on to make them definite and no other way. For example in nature, we know that the deaf will not hear sound waves and that they will definitely not hear that by any means. We know that the blind will not see anything that is physical, and we definitely rule out that. Yet , there is a super power that is beyond natural rules and makings of human civilization. There is a person that is not subject to such laws . There is a realm that is not driven by human natural laws. And that when we speak of deaf not being able to hear, it is not understood by beings from a higher dimension of living. The law in our world w

MANAGER Genesis 2:4  _When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens— 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground_ -------------------------------------------- The Lord made the earth. Yet there was no shrub that had grown; there was no plant and vegetation that had sprung... because there no man to take care and there was no rain for it. We see how God withholds growth just because there was no suitable person to take care of the growth. This clearly indicates that God let's growth be in place when there is a manager. God lets rains fall when there is a manager. God lets the economy grow when there is a manager. On thing that God surely knows is that growth will come to your life if there is a manger. If you can become a good manager, then growth will come. We have, at many times lost many things just because we lack good management.

MAKE A PETITION Matthew 7:7  “ Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. -------------------------------------------- Because of the thoughts that some otherworldly being is behind your downfall, many of us tend to complain than to do what would help . Many times, we have wasted lots of times in complains and heaping of blames.  On the side of blames, we blame our parents for the poverty we have encountered...; We blame our friends for the wrong direction that they told you to take; you blame your partner for not doing the best in what you had undertaken. You even reach a point of blaming God for not doing enough to solve all these. There is just but one way to encroach on heavenly doors; it is making a petition.  It has been rightly assured to us in the above scripture that whoever asks , receives; and that whoever knocks, rece

EXAMINATION . Psalms 26:2   Test me, O Lord, and try me,examine my heart and my mind -------------------------------------------- When we were in class and there was a test that we are doing, we normally kept quiet. Simply because it was a rule for us to stay silent while the examination was going on. And the teacher would also keep quiet as he or she moves around the classroom. The teacher would of course not talk to a student or ask them how they have been, whether or not they understand the questions; no , it would be silent for all of us In the same, when you think you have called onto God in difficult times and you think there is no answer to your call, know that it is time for examination. The silence of God means that He is testing you and he only needs answers from you. Yet however much God needs answers from us, we normally want to hear answers from Him. Have you, by any means rised a hand during examination in your school in a class and you requested the teacher f

OUR SALVATION . Isaiah 12:2   Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid.The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation .” --------------------------------------------  It is not for nothing that there is weakness found within you. There is a downfall, there is an imperfection. Where we are weak, God is strong. God wouldn't have been God to us if we were strong throughout and that there is no weakness found within us.  The above clearly means that when you feel you are down, it is the point at which God has to work. The wisest of man's wisdom is the foolishness of God. Where man's greatest intelligence ends is where God's foolishness begins. It means when you work your way out and feel you have reached the climax and yet there is still gap, it is the start of God. Many times, we try to step in the space that God is supposed to take. We try to wear the shoes that God is supposed to wear. We try to solve challenges t

  PERSECUTION . Romans 8:36. As it is written: “ For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” --------------------------------------------  Daily , Jesus carried a cross. He was looked for by the evil gangs. Yet he watched daily. Being Christlike , doesn't just mean doing the good that Christ did and thereby have luxuries daily. Being Christlike means wearing the type of shoes that Christ used to wear. The shoes of persecution. Many Christians think that when we confess Christ as our Lord and savior, that is ends of trouble. Trouble in itself is not an end. Trials and persecution are a means to an end. We don't suffer in this world and that that is our destiny. We suffer in this world to achieve the glories to come.  It is therefore a Christian rule that there should be persecution every day. And such persecution is for the sake of Christ. When the above verse says that it is for the sake of Christ, it means that just bec

THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL Romans 1:16  I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. --------------------------------------------  One of the powerful tools that God has given us is the power in His word. Many people say that they don't want to hear anything to do with the gospel. It is not their making, the devil clearly knows that faith comes by hearing. And he knows that they will be saved from his traps if they listen. When you give someone time to listen to the gospel, there will be a time when the spirit in them yields salvation unto them. It is not in your power to save yourself; it is not in your power to save a soul. It is the power of God through the gospel. It is therefore a role that you should play; to listen to the gospel. Salvation is like a seed that needs watering for it to grow and do the work. For salvation to become salvation, there should be a wateri

JEHOVAH'S COLONY Deuteronomy 31:8 The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” --------------------------------------------  Whenever we choose corridors of anxiety, we poke our nose into a domain that is controlled by a different power. Anxiety makes you seem as though you were the one in control; you alone and no one else. Anxieties limit God's power to execute what it is meant to execute. When you don't believe that the Spirit is able and will do this, God's arm seems short in your own world. We at times want to step in the shoes of God and never let Him to breath His way. The Israelites cried out to the Lord when they saw the Egyptians coming. They thought that it was them in control. And that whatever their power was, they were finished that day; because they were of no match to the Egyptians'. Nevertheless, Moses knew it was not him who was driving the flo

SUNDAY SERVICE  SERMON:                 DON'T BE OVERWHELMED.   INTRO : There are many things that we grow up imagining about our lives. And there are also many things that we grow up imagining about others. We imagine our environment and imagine ourselves. Whenever we don't fit in the "good" environment that we tend to imagine, we feel overwhelmed. And at times we feel depressed.   PROB : We let our state of being overwhelmed dictate our life.   PURP : To reassure us that whatever life seems to hold for us , God still thinks good about us.    >>> Joseph was a God fearing person. He was faithful in the eyes of God. Little did Joseph know that he was hated by all of his brothers. Regardless of him being good, he was not liked by his people. When he got his dream about him being a ruler, no one including his father believed him. He was hated to the extent of being sold into slavery. Imagine, he went into slavery at just 17 years of age. He suffe