A person is made right with God through faith

If you’re trying to save yourself—you never know for sure about anything.

If you’ve hurt enough.  Wept enough.  Learned enough.  Those who’re trying to save themselves promote themselves.

Those saved by works display works.

Those saved by suffering unveil scars.

And those saved by doctrine—well—you got it.  They wear their doctrines on their sleeves.

Dare you stand before God and ask him to save you because of your suffering or your sacrifice or your tears or your study?

Neither do I.  Nor did Paul.

Good works, suffering, or study may be the result of salvation, they’re not the cause of it!

How will you escape God’s judgment?  One way:  through faith in God’s sacrifice.

It’s not what you do—it’s what He did!

May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us…

Rapture (Sermon Note) Part 1

Memory Verse: “Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,”1 Corinthians 15:51

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

INTRODUCTION:

The second coming of Christ prophesied by Daniel in Daniel 7:13 is a sound biblical fact. This return shall be in two stages. The first, “being like a thief in the night” to receive unto Himself His church. This is popularly called The Rapture.

May the Holy Spirit Himself guide us into all truth, in Jesus Christ Name, Amen!

WHAT IS THE RAPTURE?

The word, Rapture, is not found anywhere in the Bible although it is used describe this great upcoming and memorable event. The rapture is the sudden catching up or sudden disappearance of holy and…

Rapture (Sermon Note) Part 2

Text:    1 Corinthians 15:50-53

Memory Verse: “In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”John 14:2-3

INTRODUCTION:

Our last meeting revealed the meaning of the word RAPTURE. We also discover events surrounding the rapture as regards timing and other issues. Now, we will look at the reasons, the qualification as well fallacies surrounding the rapture.

May the good LORD teach our hearts and bless our lives with His truth by His Spirit, in Jesus Christ Name, Amen!

If You Feel God Has Wronged You, Please Forgive Him

Memorize: The LORD says:”What accusation did your ancestors bring against me? What made them turn away from me?” (Jeremiah 2:5)

Read: Jeremiah 2:2-5

“But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first” (Revelations 2:4). What was wrong in the church at Ephesus may appear mild to many today, but to the LORD, it is most grievous. The church continued with their works and activities but left behind the only thing capable of giving meaning to their works – Love. According to 1 Corinthians 13:13, any good deed that is done outside of love erodes the goodness of it and renders the deed as unprofitable. Is love the basis of your works? Why are you…

English: The Last Supper of Jesus Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Come Now And Let Us Reason Together Says The LORD

God will wash you clean!

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith The LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool(Isaiah 1:18)

This scripture is undoubtedly one of the most touching statements ever recorded in the Bible. God pleads with His children to allow Him cleanse them of their sins and iniquities. You see, that you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you wouldn’t make any mistakes. You could make mistakes, but what you need to know is that the blood of Jesus is available to wash you from every wrong. It’s available to purify your heart. This is the Gospel

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Homesick for Heaven

Longing For Home

During Christ‘s ministry on earth, He had no home. He once said, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head”(Matthew 8:20). Those who for Christ’s sake had given up houses and lands and loved ones knew little of home life or home joys. It was as if Jesus had said to them: “We have no lasting home here on earth, but my Father’s house is a home where we will be together for all eternity.”

Amid all the changes that sooner or later will come to break up the earthly home, we have the promise of a home where Christ’s followers will remain forever. The Bible teaches, “Here have we no continuing city, but we seek the one to come”(Hebrews

English: The story of a thanksgiving day, as in the offering of first fruits in Deuteronomy 26:1-11, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company between 1896 and 1913 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Thousand may fall dead beside you, ten thousand all round you, but you will not be harmed (Psalm 91:7)

“Let your aim be certain and he dies,” the chief commanded. The Indian warriors took aim and fired at the last remaining officer on horseback. Round after round after round screamed toward him. Twice they shot his horse out from underneath him. Four bullets tore through his coat. Over 700 of his comrades fell around him. They retreated in utter defeat. Yet the 23 year old lieutenant colonel remained unscathed, not a single mark on his skin.
Nine days later he wrote his brother, “…by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected…

Before your burden overcomes you, trust God to put His arms underneath you.

Have you ever been in so much despair that you felt as if you were sinking in deep water? The difficulties of life can be oppressive. God doesn’t promise that we will escape the turbulent seas of life, but He does promise, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews. 13:5).

We can trust our faithful Father to be there in all of our struggles. “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you”(Isaiah. 43:2).

God, give me the faith of a little child!
A faith that will look to Thee—
That never will falter and never fail,
But follow Thee trustingly,

In Jesus Christ Name I pray, Amen!

“For there is One God and One Mediator…

Fearfully And Wonderfully Made (Psalm 139:14)

You are unique.

Psalm 139:15 (NKJV) “My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret and skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.”
Long before you were born, you were already conceived in the Mind of God. Maybe you were unplanned by your parents, but not by God. He gave you your natural talents and your personality. Always remember you are unique and loved by God.

May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us; May the LORD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the Lord lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

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English: Moses Pleading with Israel, as in Deuteronomy 6:1-15, illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Has God brought you to Canaan-your place of blessing?

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?”
Numbers 14:11
Are you at the threshold of your promised land? Has God brought you to Canaan-your place of blessing? Are you secretly longing to return to that old familiar place of Egypt, or will you go forward, trusting God?
God told the children of Israel, “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage” (Deuteronomy

Occupy till I come

And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and
said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Luke 19:13
God does not measure His wealth in silver and gold; God measures
His wealth in Souls. The individual that doesn’t do what God has called
them to do is not pleasing to God. You are not pleasing God if you have
not found the place God has called you to be and doing what He has
called you to do. Only then are you productive. Only then are you
fulfilling His plan for you. He called you for a specific time, to a
specific place and to some specific people in order to do a specific
thing. You do not get rewarded for anything outside of that. The rest
of it is all wood, hay…

Cutting Your Expenses

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down
first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish
it?
Luke 14:28
Another guideline to correctly managing God’s money is to cut your
expenses. If you are in debt because you lusted after things, you are
in sin. First, you need to repent. You violated Scripture. Secondly,
you need to downsize: buy a smaller house and a less expensive car. You
can then take that money you were using before and pay off all your
bills. After a year or two, you will have some money in the bank. God
will cause more abundance to come your way because you obeyed Him, then
you can go buy a bigger house and a better car, with cash. It happens
all the time to people who obey the Word.

Sermon by Pastor E A Adeboye, August 2012 RCCG Holy GhostService 60^th Annual Convention “Come Up Higher”

Come Up Higher

By Pastor E. A. Adeboye

COME UP HIGHER

Let’s lift our voices to the Most high God, and bless His holy name, give Him glory, give Him honor, give Him adoration, there is no one like Him.

Surely He is the Most high God, the miracle working God, the Almighty, the all sufficient God, the great provider, the great physician, the God of all flesh, with whom nothing shall be impossible, bless His holy name.

You are worthy to be praised my father, you are worthy, what a wonderful God you are… in Jesus mighty name we worship.

Lift your voice to the Almighty God and say Father, please pay special attention to me tonight. Speak to me directly…in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Lift your voice…

You should never lack anything because you have a legal document that confers on you the right to all of God’s wealth.

READ: Hebrews 9:17

A testament is a will. Jesus left us a will before He went to heaven. A will is only enforced after the death of the one who made the will. In other words, a testament is of no effect until the death of the testator. If a man writes a will, his will is of no power until the man is dead. Whoever he wills his estate to becomes the one with the legal right to possess it. If the will says everything belongs to the last born child in the family, he or she then becomes the only one with the legal document to possess the entire property.

The peculiarity of the will Jesus left for us is this:…

Any man without self control is as defenceless as a city with broken down walls

READ: 1 Corinthians 9:27

Do you know that many people have missed their time of visitation just because they allowed their bodies dictate to them? I’m talking about those who have little or no control over their senses. Such people find it difficult to fast or pray and they eventually concluded that God will give them whatever they desire whenever He’s ready to give them. How untrue! God doesn’t operate that way.

A lot of times when God wants to reveal deep things to you, He tries to catch your attention so that you can focus on Him. Every now and then, He wakes you up in the middle of the night to pray. If you haven’t learnt to master your body, you’ll continue sleeping and miss out on what…

Our Inheritance With Christ Jesus

Matthew 11:11, “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

MATTHEW 11:2-19, LUKE 7:18-35

Much of the Old Testament deals with future events and the coming Messiah and His Kingdom. Not only was John the Baptist the voice of God to his generation, he was also the fulfilment of Old Testament prophecy. He did not merely prophesy about the coming Messiah and the New Covenant, as the Old Testament prophets did, but he actually prepared the way for the hearts of the people to receive Jesus by bearing witness to the Light.

Although John the Baptist was the greatest of the Old Testament prophets…

Sorrow And Bitterness

Proverbs 15:13 says: “A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken”

Sorrow and bitterness are two things that should never be found in the life of a Christian. They could create an opening for devils to attack your mind and body. There’s something about sorrow, sadness and bitterness that attracts the devil, and he’ll take advantage of every little situation. Whenever someone is bitter or sorrowing about something, be sure of one thing; an evil spirit is waiting to get on the case. Let me expatiate with this illustration.

Put a sweet or sugary substance on the table and leave it there for a while. Before long, ants will begin to gather around and feed on the substance. Ants possess an instinctive propensity to seek out sweet things. Though you can’t tell…

God’s Love

Hosea 3:3

“And I said to her, ‘You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man-so, too, will I be toward you.'”
NKJV

In the book of Hosea, we see a glimpse of God‘s relationship with Israel. Just as Hosea married Gomer and desired to love her and keep her from adultery, so it was that God loved Israel and desired that they be His alone. Unfortunately, Israel chased after other gods which lead to their exile. Instead of grasping the amazing love that God had shown to them, Israel turned their back on their very hope of salvation.

Friend, we all are like Israel. We are born into this world sinful and by our actions, we display hatred towards God. The good news is that God’s love is not…

English: Resurrection of Christ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Always On God’s Mind

He Died For You!

Deuteronomy 7:13 says:

“He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; He will bless your fields, so that you will have corn, wine, and olive oil; and He will bless you by giving you all these blessings in the land that He promised your ancestors He would give to you.”

Notice that when God makes a promise, He makes it not just to the one who hears it, but to all of the future seed. When God said He would send His Son to die for our sins so that we could be blessed because when we have turned from our iniquities, He did it so that we could receive the blessing. Jesus died, not for His sins, but for our sins, and…

There is no higher authority than God

God’s Judicial Authority

“I have been given complete authority in heaven and on earth.” (Matthew 28:18)

A judge, above all else, must have authority. Our government endows judges with authority through the oath they take to execute justice. The law enforcement and prison systems back up the judge’s authority. The robe that he wears, and having everyone in the courtroom stand as he enters, help to emphasize that authority. His gavel and his elevated seat in the courtroom show that he commands the proceedings.
Similarly, God, as the Creator, has the authority to do whatever He deems best with His creation. He is the potter; we are the clay. His throne is high above us in the heavens. His pronouncements are final. There is no higher authority than God.
God will judge every wrong act ever committed, every sinful motive…