Prayer Extinguishers.

By Pastor E A Adeboye.

MEMORISE: Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.  Micah 3:4

READ: Isaiah 59:1-2

1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear:

2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

MESSAGE.

When you spray a fire extinguisher over fire, it dies off. In the same vein, certain things act as prayer extinguishers. If such things exist in our lives, we will not get answers to our prayers because the prayers will die off before they get to God.

Sin is the first thing that extinguishes our prayers the moment they leave our lips. David said in Psalm 66:18: If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

If sin is in your heart, it will extinguish your prayer, and God will not hear it, even if you scream aloud while praying. In Isaiah 59:1-2, the Bible says that sin creates such a huge distance between God and us that He cannot hear us, nor can His hand reach us.

Even when a genuine man of God prays for a sinner, the prayer will be extinguished by the sins of that sinner unless he or she repents. Many years ago, when the congregation was not as large as it is now, and I could lay hands on everyone, a woman came to one of our Holy Ghost Services. She had been married for many years without a child and had been told that I have a special anointing for making the barren fruitful. I laid hands on her during the service, and she fell under the anointing. However, months after that, she still did not conceive. She came back complaining, “They told me that when you lay hands on me, I will fall, and then I will become fruitful, but up to now, there is still no child”. I thought she needed an extra dose of the anointing and was about to pray for her again when God told me, “Son, ask her how many boyfriends she has.” It was hard to ask her the question, but I managed to mumble the words. She replied that she had six boyfriends. I exclaimed, “Ah! And you expect my God to answer your prayer?” Yes, I prayed for her and laid hands on her, but her sin extinguished the prayers.

Check yourself before you pray to be sure that you don’t have any sin in your heart because if sin is present, your prayers will go to waste. Repent of the sin first, then you can be sure that God will answer your prayers. The only prayer that God will hear from a sinner is the prayer of repentance from sin because as long as sin exists in his or her life, God will not hear him or her (Isaiah 59:1-2).

KEY POINT

Sin extinguishes prayers.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 37-39

AUTHOR: PASTOR E. A ADEBOYE.

HYMN 23: TAKE MY LIFE AND LET IT BE.

1.  Take my life, and let it be

Consecrated, Lord, to Thee;

Take my moments and my days,

Let them flow in ceaseless praise,

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

2.  Take my hands, and let them move

At the impulse of Thy love;

Take my feet and let them be

Swift and beautiful for Thee,

Swift and beautiful for Thee.

3.  Take my voice, and let me sing

Always, only, for my King;

Take my lips, and let them be

Filled with messages from Thee,

Filled with messages from Thee.

4.  Take my silver and my gold;

Not a mite would I withhold;

Take my intellect, and use

Every power as Thou shalt choose,

Every power as Thou shalt choose.

5.  Take my will, and make it Thine;

It shall be no longer mine.

Take my heart; it is Thine own;

It shall be Thy royal throne,

It shall be Thy royal throne.

6.  Take my love; my Lord, I pour

At Thy feet its treasure-store.

Take myself, and I will be

Ever, only, all for Thee,

Ever, only, all for Thee.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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Midnight Prayers. (12am till your spirit asks you to stop)

Confession Before You Pray:

Psalms 32:7

You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance.

Isaiah 54:17

 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.

Praise and worship (15 minutes)

Midnight Prayers.

1. I take authority over every strongman waging war against my life, in the name of Jesus.

2. Night attack, assigned to kill me in my sleep, fire of God, burn you to ashes, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

3. I cancel and scatter every demonic activities in my life, in the name of Jesus.

4. I reverse any damages done to my life from birth, in the name of Jesus.

5. I shut down every doors the devil uses to gain entrance into my life, in the name of Jesus.

6. By the power of the Holy Ghost, my wasted years are restored back in the name of Jesus.

7. I take back every single territory held by the enemy in my life, in the name of Jesus.

8. I break out and deliver myself from any evil prison, in the name of Jesus.

9. Every foundational infirmity, depart from my life, in the name of Jesus.

10. I reign as king over every circumstances, in the name of Jesus.

11. Let every evil family curse be destroyed in my life, in the name of Jesus.

12. Help me O Lord, to recognise Your voice in the name of Jesus.

13. I decree that the eyes of my understanding is opened in the name of Jesus.

14. I throw off every burden of worry, in the name of Jesus.

15. I refuse to be entangled with evil thoughts, in the name of Jesus.

16. I cast down every road block hiding my progress, in the name of Jesus.

17. Let my spiritual climate send terror to the camp of the enemy, in the name of Jesus.

18. I break loose from every evil words and evil sentences in the name of Jesus.

19. Every witchcraft power assigned against my life and marriage, receive the thunder and lightning of God, in the name of Jesus.

20. I release myself from any inherited bondage, in the name of Jesus.

21. Thank you Jesus for answering my prayers.

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Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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Hope in Difficult Times.

Preacher: Pst. Abiodun Akinyemi

 

 

          Heavenly Father, we worship You; King of kings, we honor You; our Redeemer, we lift Your holy name this morning, because we know that You are Sovereign over all things and what You cannot do does not exist; there is nothing broken that You cannot fix, blessed be Your name Father in Jesus name.

                                                                                                  

Lord, we have come this morning, first and foremost to thank You for Your preservation, thank You for all that You have done, thank You for what You are still going to do in our lives in the name of Jesus.

 

          Father, we have brought our brokenness unto You this morning, in every sphere of life that we are broken that we need to be refixed, You are the great Fixer, the heavenly Fixer, Father fix us this morning in the name of Jesus.

                                                   

Whatever may be the challenge or the trouble or the worry that came with us here this morning, we shall release them and dump them at Your feet and we shall go back with joy in the name of Jesus.

            

Father, this morning we ask that You will speak to us Yourself, You will give strength to the weak, You will make the hopeless to become hopeful, You’ll give us courage and strength on every side and Your name alone shall be glorified, thank You everlasting Father, in Jesus mighty name we prayed.

 

          Good morning church; daddy, good morning, sir, thank you so much for the privilege once again, sir, may the grace of God in you increase in Jesus name, praise the living Jesus!

Our text this morning is taken from the Book of Ruth 1: 1 – 6, “Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. ² And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

³ And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons. ⁴ And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

⁵ And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband. ⁶ Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread”. Praise the living Jesus!

          The title this morning is Hope in Difficult Times; I don’t know what difficulty you are facing now, I don’t know what challenge troubles you, I don’t know what gives you anxiety, but I stand here to assure you in the name of the Lord that this morning, your fear will turn to joy, because God will give you hope that will enable you to overcome them in the name of Jesus.

God works in a way that only He is the Director of our lives and the Author of all things, He’s a super Arranger. This morning at the workers’ meeting, we discussed about the cost of living and we said so many things about the challenge that we face now in the country and how to survive, and as the Lord will have it, now we are talking about the hope in difficult times, somebody will receive hope this morning in the name of Jesus.

Hope is a feeling of expectation and desire that something good will happen. It means to be optimistic or have a positive mind that that which you are looking forward to will happen, and if you have a negative experience, hope is expectation that that negative experience will turn to a good one, praise the living Jesus!

There is no time that you need hope more than in times of difficulties, challenges, we need hope throughout our lives, indeed, hope is the oxygen for life for believers. Just as faith is the currency of believers, faith is the currency we spend in the kingdom of God because the Bible says the just shall live by faith, Romans 1: 17.  Hope is the oxygen, it’s what we breathe, what gives us life as believers, that’s why Ecclesiastes 9: 4 says that as long as there is life, there is hope; there is hope for a dog that is alive than for a lion that is dead.

A man can lose all things but when he loses hope, he’s lost everything; a hopeless man is as good as a dead man, and so it’s important for us to appreciate the essence of hope in a time like this when we have problems, challenges all over; we have difficulty in our society that affects everyone; we have personal difficulties that come in various shapes, it could be health challenges, it could be marital, it could be about our careers, it could be about our academics, finances, businesses failing, disappointments, betrayals, all manner of disloyalties, all manner of things that will challenge even the most righteous person; no matter how well you are doing, no matter what you put into life, one thing we do not have is that nobody has immunity against trouble, what God has promised us is not immunity against trouble, but victory over trouble.

Jesus said in John 16: 33, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” In other words, troubles will come; if you live long enough, troubles will come, challenges will come, we have no control over what life will throw at us but we have control over our own response. You can’t determine what life will throw at you; you wake up on a beautiful morning with high expectations of a brilliant day, suddenly, life begins to throw you all manner of lemons, so it depends on what you make with the lemons that life throws at you – you can kick it away, you can make it into a lemonade, you can do whatever you want with it.

So what matters really is our response to what life throws at us, and most times it’s our response that makes the difference. A lot of people are destroyed, not by the problems they face but by their own response to the problems.

That’s why it is important for us in a time like this to watch our response, and in our text that we have read this morning, there are so many lessons that we can learn from the story of the family of Naomi, but we just want to take one aspect of it this morning, to learn lessons about how we can respond with hope in troubling times, in difficult times, and God will help us in the name of Jesus.

Psalm 34: 19 says that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all”, in other words, when trouble comes, nobody is immune, even the righteous, even the saints, it’s not always about sin, hallelujah! In the Bible you’ll find people like Abraham, Joseph, who had challenges, even Apostle Paul, the Apostles of Jesus Christ, challenges will always come, but the question is how do you respond to challenges?

Now let’s quickly look at this story and see what we can learn from the trouble – this was a time when there was trouble in Israel, difficulties, economic challenges, famine, just as we have now in our generation, what is happening today in this nation is not peculiar, every generation has its challenges.

Famine at this time when Ruth lived was an economic challenge, was an economic difficulty, and then look at the way they responded: Elimelech was the head of the family, what did he do? Immediately the problem came, he packed up together his family and he ran away from Israel to Moab, hallelujah! And let’s see what Moab represents, he ran to Moab which was an accursed land; the ancestor of the nation of Moab was Moab, the son that Lot had through incest with his first daughter.

In Genesis 37: 7 – 11, after Lot had ran away from Sodom and Gomorrah and his daughters made him drunk and then they made him to sleep with his first daughter, Moab was the fruit of the incestuous relationship, so that son (Moab) was the founder of the nation of Moab, and Moab was reputed and notorious to be the enemies of Israel. If you look at Numbers 22 – 23, it was the king if Moab, Balak, who tried to use Balaam to curse the Israelites, and God helped them and He ended up cursing Balak and his people, so it was an accursed nation and that was where Mr. Elimelech ran to when there was trouble – from frying pan to fire as they say.

You will recall that Lot himself, the father of Moab, when there was trouble, there was a challenge, difficulty between him and his uncle, Abraham, that out of greed, he chose the land that became Sodom and Gomorrah and what happened to him there, he lost everything that he took to Sodom and Gomorrah except his own life and his daughters, everything he took to the land that was accursed was destroyed.

The same thing that Elimelech did here; because trouble came, he ran away to a land that was accursed, God did not lead him, he did what other people were doing and then he met with destruction, everything he took to that land, he lost; he lost his own life, he lost his two sons and everything that he had because God did not lead him.

Compare the case of Elimelech to that of Isaac in Genesis 26; when there was also economic trouble in the land and Isaac also wanted to run away because initially, the first thing that comes to our mind when there is trouble is either we run away out of hopelessness – you run away because even if you have faith in God, you do not see hope in that place anymore, and that place may not just be your nation, it may be your marriage, it may be your career, it may be your business, it may be your relationship, it may be just anything, whatever gives you trouble or challenges is your own Israel, and then when challenges come, you have a choice of either running away as Elimelech did, running away in hopelessness because you believe that it cannot get better or you stay and let God lead you and be part of the solution, and that was what Isaac did.

Isaac was going to obey his natural instinct also and to run away to Egypt as his father did but he heard from God; God speaks to His children during difficult times, God never forsakes His children, in fact, it is in difficulties like these that God always speaks, but it depends on whether you hear Him or not, it depends on whether you take your challenges to Him and you ask Him or not, because in difficult times, the devil is also at alert trying to divert people from the trouble they think they have into worse problems.

So you have two choices to make in a time of trouble; it could be in your marriage, it could be in your business, either of two responses, how do you respond? It could be a medical situation, how do you respond? And doctors just tell you, oh there’s nothing we can do anymore, how do you respond? You can either respond in hope in God that it will get better.

Hope is the mother of faith; faith is to believe that God will do what He will do, but hope is to expect that God will do what He will do. When hope is lost, when you have no expectation, faith is dead. Like in the nation today, we have believers who have faith in God but we have lost hope in our nation, so we are living in hopelessness and so we are looking for situations, whatever happens we just get out or whatever we need to do in whatever comes our way, but we look at the example of this man who had a challenge, who did not hear from God, who just wanted to get the next bus to get out of the place; he may be a believer, he may believe in God but the man had no hope that things were going to change, but I pray for you this morning that whatever you are facing in your personal life, in your career, in your business, whatever it is where you have challenges, that God will restore hope in you in the name of Jesus.

The hope that would enable you to stay, Romans 15: 13, it tells us that God is the source of hope, hallelujah! “Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost”. What we need more, we need faith but we also need hope; faith enables you to stand but hope keeps you standing even when faith becomes weak.

In John 11, when he was sick and they came to call Jesus and He was going to their house and suddenly He had something to do and then Lazarus died, when He got to the home of Mary and Martha, Martha said to Him, Lord, if You had been here, my brother wouldn’t have died, but in any case, I know that God will do whatever I ask.

Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again. Martha believed Jesus but she had lost hope, she said yes, I know, but on the resurrection. So she had no hope, at that point she still had faith in Christ but she had no hope, she had lost hope of her brother rising physically, she thought oh yes, he’s going to rise on the resurrection.

So you can still have faith – be a man of faith, be a woman of faith, but if you allow hope to die, then the faith becomes nothing else, thank God for Christ that He is Christ, that Christ can do anything, that His mercy can overcome even our faith and our hopelessness. And I pray that this morning, wherever your faith is weak or your hope is dwindling, the mercy of God will overcome and prevail in the mighty name of Jesus.

Now let’s look at the case of this man, Elimelech, again in a deeper way and see how it reflects, how it affects us in the challenges we face today in our own personal lives because I know we are going through a lot of things; a few months ago, I woke up on a beautiful morning with my wife and I was at work when I got a call that was totally devastating, so it’s possible for something to just happen but how do you respond – do you respond in despair?

A sudden loss of job, the loss of a loved one, these things will happen; you just went for a walk into a hospital casually for a normal routine check and you have a terrible result from the lab, what do you do? If you give up on your marriage easily rather than staying there in hope looking for a dilution, you are following Elimelech‘s example.

If you give up in the challenge that faces you in your business or your career, because there is problem in that business, in your career, whatever it is, you are being victimized, things are not working the way you expect them to work and you give up, and because you are saying to yourself that I have no hope here, I still believe in God, I have faith in God, but I don’t think there’s going to be a change, because once you continue to have hope, hope (as I said) is the oxygen that keeps us alive.

For as long as you see hope in that marriage, something will keep you there; for as long as you see hope in that career, something will keep you there; for as long as you see hope in that relationship, something will keep you there; for as long as you see hope in that business, you will keep trying but the moment you lose hope and you didn’t ask God, you just look for a way to just escape immediately, then you are following Elimelech‘s example. Praise the living Jesus!

If you give up hope on that child who is proving difficult, who is challenged, oh I’ve tried my best, I can’t kill myself, you give up hope, you are following Elimelech‘s example. Whatever you give up hope on, you give up hope upon your nation, today, most of us have given up hope and we are looking for all manners of escapes, we are following Elimelech‘s example.

We need to believe God, the only thing that we have is hope in this world, as Apostle Paul said, he said we have all men miserable. As believers, coupled with faith in Christ, we must never allow hope to die, when hope dies, a man will enter into any bus; when hope dies, a man will take any kind of action; when hope dies, everything else dies in a man.

If you have a terrifying health challenge, rather than turn to God no matter what the doctors have said… there’s a recent case of somebody very close to us, you could see her looking very healthy, she just went to the hospital and came out with the result that she had stage 4 cancer. She went to one of the doctors abroad, he said look, we can’t do anything for you, she said I have hope in my God. Today, she’s alive and kicking, several months, over a year after, hallelujah!

God never disappoints the hope of His children, just like a parent, no matter what happens, a little child always has hope that my father will show up, my mother will show up; he doesn’t know how they are going to do it but that they are going to do something. As long as you have hope, no matter how little it is, you remain a candidate of God’s miracles, but when you lose hope, you are far from the miracle of God, and as a matter of fact, it is in challenging times like these that God is looking for people that have hope.

When Jesus was approached by the Samarian woman, you know that normally Jews do not have relationship with them, she said oh, my daughter is sick, come and heal her. Jesus said I have nothing to do with you; He said well, you can’t give the meat of the child to the dog and the woman said, even dogs eat from the crumbs, and Jesus Christ said wow, not even in Israel did I find such faith. The woman not only showed faith, she showed hope, she refused to go, because when Jesus abused them, even though she had faith in Him, she could have walked on and say look, there’s no room there.

So faith must be coupled with hope; for an unbeliever who doesn’t trust God, he doesn’t have faith in God, his hope is only upon the things of this world which can disappear, and so when those things are removed, he goes with them; but for us as believers, knowing that we are only in this world and we are not of this world, and that in spite of what we see or what we have here, we still have the hope of a better tomorrow, nothing should make us hopeless, not what we see, not what we expect, not what is around us; if what is around us, the physical evidence of what we see is what we have hope in, they can be taken away from us anytime.

If your hope is in your properties, your accumulation, that’s why those whose strength lie in their accumulations, they are to be pitied. If your strength, your hope is oh, let me accumulate everything, what belongs to a whole city, a whole nation, you grabbed it alone out of greed, and you look at your property like the rich man in the Bible who looked at his full barn and said oh, I did this, okay so my future is secure, let me bring it down and build it again.

His hope was in his own ability, his hope was in the things he saw, the things he could do but if your hope is beyond all that, it doesn’t matter what goes on around you, it doesn’t matter what you experience in that marriage, it doesn’t matter what you are experiencing in your business, it doesn’t matter what you are experiencing in your career, unless God speaks to you, as long as you believe you were there originally not by your own leading but by the leading that God put you there and troubles come, the fact that God puts you does not mean that problems will not come.

Oh, but I prayed before I got into this marriage; oh, I prayed before I got this job, the fact that you prayed and God led you to it does not mean that challenges will not come, but He has promised you that He will enable you to prevail, just as we heard in that song, there is no situation that God cannot fix; there is no marriage that God cannot fix, there’s no business God cannot fix, there is nothing that is taken away from you that God cannot restore.

People can gang up against you, they can delay your promotion, they can do all manner of things and bypass you, it is just because your due season has not come, when your due season comes, no man can stop you. But if you run away and say oh, they are blocking me here, oh, they are delaying me here and you just take your own decision on your own and you move out, the result may not be palatable. Praise the living Jesus!

By going to Moab, Elimelech missed the chance of experiencing God’s miraculous turnaround. Apart from losing all that he took to Moab, because he acted out of instinct, because he allowed his flesh to lead him, because he allowed his difficulty that he saw to speak to him and to motivate him to action, he lost all that he took to the wrong place, number one; secondly, he missed the opportunity to experience God’s miracle, hallelujah!

Every time you run away from trouble and challenge, you miss the opportunity to have a testimony. The mountain that God wants to remove so you can have a testimony; other people are giving testimonies and you don’t know when your own will come, when will your testimony come, because the mountain God wants to remove to give you a testimony, you have managed to evade it; the Red Sea that God wants to open for you to pass so that you can have a testimony, you have managed to go another route. The Goliath God wants you to confront so that you can beat him down, overcome and have a testimony, you have run away from the Goliath.

Those who run away from challenges because of hopelessness never have testimonies, hallelujah! You need to stand and face your Goliath with the help of God, with God leading you.  You need to stand and confront your Red Sea with God leading you.

And if you look at all these examples, each time the people that did this miracle didn’t do it by their own power, it was God that showed Moses because he knew that by his own power he could do nothing. They could have said oh look at this Red Sea, let’s run away to another place, because the Bible tells us there was actually another route they could have taken to the Promised Land but God knew why He led them that path.

God knows why He has allowed that challenge in your life, and when it’s the due season when He has done His miracle, He will make you a conqueror, hallelujah! In God’s kingdom if you look at the lives of all the men of God that we refer to in the scriptures, they all were promoted through challenges, they all rose to the position of prominence by overcoming challenges, they didn’t run away from troubles, they didn’t look for the easiest way out but they were led.

Moses was led to part the Red Sea; David was led to kill Goliath; Joseph was led in remaining righteous despite all the troubles he had, and because he saw the hand of God in the trouble he was going through and when eventually he met with his brothers, rather than revenging, he said no, I don’t have to revenge, you thought you were doing evil but I knew what God was doing, hallelujah!

Eventually a turnaround came to the land of Judah after many years that this man who ran away rather than face the situation with hope in God, with God leading him to survive, because not everybody ran away, other people stayed there in that same trouble.

After a few years, he had lost everything, Naomi now came back; now look at Naomi, the wife, after she had lost her husband and her two sons and she heard that things were turning around in Israel, you know she could have said I can’t go back out of shame, because everything that she took to Moab she had lost; some of us would say I would rather die than go back in shame, people will laugh at me, all manner of things.

Look, no matter how far you travel in a wrong vehicle, unless you disembark and turn round, you won’t get to your destination. Many of us are traveling in vehicles today that are wrong and we need to get out of. So she said look, I will rather face the shame than continuing here in this suffering; I hear that things have changed in my land, so she responded by discarding shame and then she went back.

Her husband missed that testimony, when she went back, things became better, eventually, a woman who had no more children, no more grandchildren, at the end of the day, when she went back, because God was actually doing something in that land in spite of that famine, God turned that land that was in famine (that was the land of Israel) into a land that became prosperous.

And when they got back, if you read the rest of the story, Ruth, who went with her met with a kinsman called Boaz and then had a child called Obed. Obed became the father of Jesse, the father of David, and then Ruth became an ancestor to our Lord Jesus Christ, and Naomi who had lost everything when she went to Moab was fully restored and also became a great-great-grandmother of our Lord Jesus Christ.

You can see how God can turn things around depending on how you respond to difficulties, you must always respond with hope alive, when we lose hope we lose everything.

So what can we do when we face difficulties?

• Let us surrender to God in that difficult situation in your marriage, in your

career, in your health, in your business, in your finances, even in the economy situation in the country today, even with all the policies that government is bringing out every day, it looks like the more policies that are being brought out, the worst the problems are. That shows you that is when God is in control that He can fix it, and God will fix our nation in the mighty name of Jesus.

Surrender your life, first and foremost, because it’s about relationship, and times like this when there are problems in the nation, God picks His own; He picked Isaac and transformed his life in famine; when there was famine also in Zarephath, God located the widow of Zarephath.

In times of troubles and challenges, God makes poster boys and girls of His own children, but it depends on the faith that you show and the hope that you have. If you have no hope, that is the greatest act of vote of no confidence in God, because you are saying that you don’t expect anything from God. Even when your faith is dwindling, God can help you with your faith, You can help my unbelief, but when you say I’ve lost hope, there’s nothing to fuel your faith, hope is what fuels faith, and without faith, God can hardly act. Faith is what moves the hand of God but hope is the mother of faith.

What am I saying? No matter how tough the situation is, hand it over to God and have hope, you don’t know how it’s going to happen, it is God who is the source of hope, knowing that in spite of everything, you can imagine like a child who is in trouble and then maybe some people want to take him and he says don’t worry, my daddy will come, and then the father knows that my son is out there and then people will say we saw your son, he said we should leave him that his daddy will come. Even if there’s trouble, you think the man will stay at home? He will go out and take him because he’s heard that his son is saying you people can go, my daddy will come and pick me.

When we keep up hope alive in God no matter what we see, God will go out of His way to rescue us. No matter how far deep you have gone in trouble today, with your hope restored, God will lift you out of that miry clay in the name of the Lord Jesus.

That was why, when the three Hebrew boys – Shedrach, Meschach and Abednego were going into the fiery furnace of fire, it wasn’t just faith, it was also hope. They had faith in God and then they said you can throw us in, our God will help us out and if not…but they had expectation. The Bible says in Proverbs that the expectations of the righteous shall never be cut off; expectation means hope, as long as you have hope in God no matter how tiny that hope is, it will not be cut off because the Bible says that God never forsakes His own, He never forsakes the righteous.

No matter what you go through, even in the thick of sickness, no matter the result you receive, have hope, expect that God will do something. In your marital travail, have hope; in your business, have hope, and God will not disappoint your hope in the name of Jesus.

• So no matter the gravity of the situation, make sure you receive the leading

of God before you take a step. If God will actually ask you to leave or to have a change to have this solution, of course no problem, when God is the One behind you, He will take care of you.

So apart from giving your hope alive and having a relationship and that’s why you are here this morning you haven’t given your life to Jesus, that’s your first solution, your first pathway out of trouble; after that, ensure that before you take a step in that your difficulty, don’t just copy other people, don’t do what others are doing, don’t listen to all manner of advise, listen to God first, do what God asks you to do which was what Isaac did, which was made a difference between him and Elimelech, God will honor your faith in the name of Jesus.

• Finally, never give up hope. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 9:4 (as we said

before) that a living dog, you know how weak a dog is compared to a lion, how powerless it is but it says as long as there is life and there is hope, God will do something, hallelujah!

Let’s rise to our feet this morning; the greatest hope that we have as believers, our greatest blessing as believers apart from salvation is that we have the hope that is beyond this world, all the things that we are going through now are temporary and they will end one day, hallelujah!

No matter the challenges, no matter the trouble, everybody will one day, whether rich or poor leave everything here, and those whose hope is only in this world will have been losers, but as believers in Christ, in spite of what we go through, we have an eternal hope of heaven, hallelujah!

So our journey here is temporary, our challenges are temporary, our losses are temporary, but for those who don’t have hope in God, whose hope is only in this world, their loss is permanent, but I pray this morning that your loss will not be permanent, as a matter of fact, your loss shall be restored into profit in the name of Jesus.

Let’s bow our heads for a minute and as you bow your heads I want you to talk to God, no matter what you are going through, just talk to God, Father help me this morning, help my faith help my hope, I surrender everything to You Lord, Father help me this morning.

[Altar call]

Commit that challenge that is tasking your faith and hope into the hands of God, say Lord help me, I cannot do it alone, my hope is ebbing out, Lord help me, strengthen me, never let hope go.

Beloved, the man is as good as dead in whom hope is lost; the man/woman is as good as dead in whom hope is no more. It doesn’t matter how long you have waited, don’t give up hope, when you give up hope, you forsake the opportunity for a testimony for a miracle.

The man is as good as dead in whom hope is lost; no matter how small that hope is, is what draws the attention of God to you, God wants to see your hope this morning, (raise up your right hand) say Father, I raise my hand to You this morning signifying my hope in You, Father please, let my hope not be disappointed in the name of Jesus.

Lord I raise my hand to signify my hope in spite of my troubles in my health, in my marriage, in my career, in my business, this is the hand of hope saying You can do it, I know You will do it, Father honor my hope this morning, honor my hope oh God, honor my expectation according to Your word, You said my hope will never be cut off, honor my hope of God, thank You precious Father, in Jesus name we prayed.

Heavenly Father we thank You, You are the source of our hope, that’s why no matter what we face here we will still stand, looking only unto You the Author and Finisher of our faith, because men may fail us, government may fail us, family may fail us but You will never fail us, thank You Father for being the Father of our hope, King of glory we worship You, we honor You, we adore You, in Jesus mighty name we prayed.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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The Last Days. The Rapture.

Text:

I Thessalonians 4v13-18

1 Cor: 15v51-52

INTRODUCTION:

The first time Jesus Christ appeared on earth; He came to reconcile man to God. He died on the cross and shed His blood, to take away our sins and rose again.

When He was about to leave, He promised that He will come back again, John 14 v 3 and Acts 1v10-11. His ascension was bodily and visible. The second coming will be during The Rapture. The time is not known by any man. Matt 24 v 42 only God knows, and Matt 24 v 36. We should note that, the Bible reveals that, some things must happen first before He returns, Matt 24 v 1-14. There shall be wars, and rumours of war, pestilence, earthquakes and famine. Many false prophets will come, and iniquities shall abound, and the love of many shall wax cold. Most, if not all of these have happened. We are therefore in the LAST DAYS, and He may come back anytime from now.

In this study we are looking at The Rapture, but there are many other series of events that will follow The Rapture, examples are “The Great Tribulation, The Anti-Christ, The Battle of Armageddon, The Millennial Reign, to mention just a few. We will take a close look at The Rapture event.

OUTLINE I:

What is The Rapture?

I. The word Rapture is derived from a Latin Word (Raptus), which means to carry off or to seize, it can also mean intense excitement. Believers/ Saints will be carried off from this world, suddenly. 1 Thes: 4v16-17.

ii. It is expected to precede The Great Tribulation i.e. the period of the Antichrist reign. 1 Thes: 1v10, Rom 5:9.

iii. Examples of such in the Bible are Enoch and Elijah. Hebrews 11v5 and 2

Kings 2v11.

OUTLINE 2:

When And How It Would Happen?

i. The exact time is not known, Matt 24 v 42 and Matt 24 v 36.

ii. The Trumpet of God will sound. 1 Cor 15v52, 1 Thes: 4v16.

iii. The dead in Christ will rise first- John 5v25.

iv. The Saints that are alive will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. I Thes: 4v17.

v. The Saints shall be transformed and put on immortal bodies, Phil 3v20- 21

vi. There shall be extraordinary chaos on earth, after rapture- Matt 24v40- 42, Luke 17v35-36.

OUTLINE 3:

Who Will Be Raptured?

i. Those that are in Christ at His coming- John 1 v12, John 3v16

ii. Those who love the Lord and keep His commandments – John 14 v 15.

iii. Those who are living Holy. I Peter 1v15-16

OUTLINE 4.

What Will Happen To Those Who Are Left Behind?

i. Those left behind will face the Tribulation period which means trouble, hardship and distress all over the world.

ii. It begins after The Rapture. 2 Thes: 2v8-9

iii. The believer that will not cooperate with the Anti-Christ will be killed. Matt 10v21.

CONCLUSION

We must be prepared to go with the Saints at Rapture. Those believers who are not ready will face untold hardships that have not been experienced before.

May God help us to be ready, in Jesus Name, Amen!

PRAISE THE LORD.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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Divine Promotion.

PSALM 75:6 KJV.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

I BELIEVE.

I believe that the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, to make me what God wants me to be in this year of my enlargement, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

– ISAIAH 54:2 KJV

DAILY PROPHETIC CONFESSION.

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, will go into the lower parts of the earth. They will fall by the sword and they will be portions for foxes, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

– PSALM 63:9-10 KJV.

PROPHETIC EXHORTATION AND DECLARATIONS.

Beloved, before the end of this year, expect a sudden promotion; expect a sudden elevation; expect a sudden lifting; expect a sudden turnaround; expect a sudden divine visitation by the DIVINE FAVOUR of GOD, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

God rules and reigns over the affairs of men to watch over those that are HIS own. He cannot afford to allow the wicked to dominate you. He has always intervened to order the course of things in the world through DIVINE PROMOTION.

Mordecai was promoted when he did not expect it. Esther was preferred as the Queen over Queen Vasti when she did not expect it. Joseph was taken from the prison and made a Prime Minister when he did not expect it.

Friends, believe it or not, divine promotion is possible. You will receive your own, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I prophesy, single ladies, single women, single parents, and expectant couples, receive divine promotion to your next level of marital breakthroughs. Whatever is holding you captive will release you today. Whether it is hatred, bad habits, anger, jealousy, family pattern, or strange powers saying no to your marriage next level, I release you today. Go and fulfil your destiny, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I prophesy, before the end of this year, expect a financial miracle; expect a financial lifting; expect a financial breakthrough; expect a financial blessing ; expect a financial gift, in the name of Jesus Christ .

I decree, your career will experience a boast; your career will experience a lifting; your career will experience a sudden turnaround; that next promotion exam and interview will end in success. Any man-made policy that is meant to stagnate your career will be set aside  for your favour; whoever is overdue for retirement for you to be lifted will go and you will receive your overdue promotion, in the name of Jesus Christ.

In the name of Jesus Christ, your business will receive national recognition; global recognition; your business will flourish; your business will blossom; your business will bloom, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I prophesy, God will qualify you for that job and that contract; you will not experience a meltdown; you will not experience a financial meltdown; no business meltdown; no career meltdown; no marital meltdown, in the name of Jesus Christ.

I decree, the government of the day in your country at the national, state, and local level will favour you; governmental policies will favour your career, favour your business, favour your work, favour your spouse, favour your children, and favour your children’s children, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Prophesy divine promotion upon yourself and your family as led by the Holy Spirit.

Join us via https://meet.google.com/tni-byxw-rzu for 45 minutes in the HOUR OF RESTORATION as we conclude 40 days of the prayer challenge for Divine Restoration. Prepare Holy Communion and set apart a bottle of oil for your anointing. TIME will be: 8PM WAT! 10PM EAT! 9PM SAT!, 7PM CAT! 7PM GMT! 3PM EST!, 9PM EURO TIME!, 8PM NIGERIA & UK TIME!.

HEALING CAPSULE FOR TODAY.

Pray with Exodus 15:26 KJV

WORDS OF INSPIRATION.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

-Albert Einstein

PRAYER POINTS FOR TODAY.

1. Father Lord, arise and announce my promotion, in the name of Jesus Christ.

2. Any power standing between me and my next level, I crush you to powder, in the name of Jesus Christ.

3. I reject confusion and mind blackness in that promotion exam, promotion interview, and job interview, in the name of Jesus Christ.

4. I receive unusual wisdom, knowledge, and understanding for promotion success, in the name of Jesus Christ.

5. Thou power of the Highest for divine promotion, overshadow my life, in the name of Jesus Christ.

6. I receive financial promotion, in the name of Jesus Christ.

7. O God, by your mercy, remember MORNING DEW and her followers for divine promotion, in the name of Jesus Christ.

ACTION POINT.

GIVE a special seed for your divine promotion to an orphanage or old people’s home, or a church, or a Pastor, or a charity organisation, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

FINAL DECLARATIONS

In the name of Jesus Christ, I command your divine promotion to manifest speedily, in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen. Good Morning.

SEED FOR TODAY: 1 SAMUEL 2:8 KJV

DAILY INSPIRATION STUDIES.

Isaiah 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

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Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

Sin has consequences.

My son and I needed to go to the bank to sort out some things, but then Mrs. Alder decided to tag along. She needed to get some things from the supermarket.

I soon found myself at Waitrose, gazing longingly at banned substances – ice cream, popsicles, chocolate bars, and decadent cakes. They were winking at me. I watched helplessly as Mrs Alder picked seaweed snacks instead. Who in his right mind eats seaweed instead of chocolate?! Shouldn’t the word “weed” be a warning?

I was asked to weigh in on choice of Basmati rice. She had two types in her hands. As I looked at the two packets, I surmised one would weigh more than the other, but the one that weighed more may not necessarily contain more grains of rice.

Reminds me of the difference between weight and mass in physics. Mass is the number of grains of rice in each packet. Weight is the downward push of each packet in her hands. In other words, weight is determined by gravity. Because gravity is weaker on the moon, for example, everything weighs less than on earth, but mass doesn’t change. The number of rice grains remains the same no matter the location.

That is an analogy of the difference between morality and righteousness. Righteousness is the amount of God stuff in you. It doesn’t change no matter what. It is constant.

Moral quotient, on the other hand, is variable. It is determined by the weight of sin in each life. Salvation is not based on morality. No one can meet the sinless standard. It’s by grace.

Don’t confuse morality with righteousness. If you sin, simply ask God for forgiveness and move on. Your righteousness doesn’t change. In the New Testament, righteousness is not earned. It’s imputed. That doesn’t mean you abuse grace. Sin has consequences.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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Led By God.

Genesis 31: 1-23(NKJV)

31:1. Now [Jacob] heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this wealth.”

31:2. And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and indeed it [was] not [favorable] toward him as before.

31:3. Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”

31:4. So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,

31:5. and said to them, “I see your father’s countenance, that it [is] not [favorable] toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

31:6. “And you know that with all my might I have served your father.

31:7. “Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

31:8. “If he said thus: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked.

31:9. “So God has taken away the livestock of your father and given [them] to me.

31:10.  “And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks [were] streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted.

31:11. “Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’

31:12.  “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks [are] streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

31:13. ‘I [am] the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar [and] where you made a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’ “

31:14. Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there still any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

31:15. “Are we not considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.

31:16. “For all these riches which God has taken from our father are [really] ours and our children’s; now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.”

31:17. Then Jacob rose and set his sons and his wives on camels.

31:18.  And he carried away all his livestock and all his possessions which he had gained, his acquired livestock which he had gained in Padan Aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

31:19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father’s.

31:20. And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

31:21. So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gilead.

31:22. And Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

31:23. Then he took his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days’ journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilead.

In our time, there is an increase in the degree to which news that is intended to make us panic flood our ears without our permission. From Genesis 31:1-23, we discover that Jacob’s case may not be different from ours, as he was overhearing a greed-filled communication by his uncle’s children over his progress. His life was in danger because greed can lead to murder. But the most compelling part of the story was what governed Jacob’s decision to flee from Laban. Carefully note from the passage Genesis 31: 1-3, vv11-13 that it was never what he heard Laban’s sons discussing that led to his running away from Laban; it was the voice and the dream he had from God. Jacob’s story teaches us the need to get direction from God even when we are already aware of the enemy’s conspiracy. Our God is an all-knowing God who knows the best action we should take over every challenge. Inquire from Him for everything you intend to do. He can direct you through His word or by a dream. Now, to continually get direction from God, we must be acquainted with Him through prayer and studying His word. Do you have a personal relationship with God?.

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Salvation Prayers

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Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

HEAVEN. Prayer Points.

TEXT:

John. 14:1-3. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 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 to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself: that where I am, there ye may be also.

INTRODUCTION:

Heaven is the throne of God, the dwelling place of God, a holy place, a place of intense worship, a place of loud noise of worship, the final home of all believers. A place of eternity where there is no death, no hunger, no thirst and no sorrow. Rev.7:9-17.

TEXT: PS.136:1-8.

INTRODUCTION:

Thanksgiving is the art of appreciating God for what he has done, for what he is doing and for what he will still do.

PRAYER GUIDE.

1. Father, thank you for your grace and mercy that I enjoy every day in Jesus name.Lam.3:22-23.

2. Father, thank you for creating me in your image and after your likeness inJesusname.Gen.1;26.

3. Father, thank you for forgiven me all my sins and iniquities in Jesus name. Ps. 103:3

4. Father, thank you for saving my life by your grace in Jesus name. Eph. 2:8.

5. Father, thank you for redeeming my life from every curse of the law by shedding your blood at the cross of Calvary in Jesus name. Gal.3:13-14.

6. Father, thank you for all the past Ministers conferences in Jesus name.

7. Father, thank you for this year’s Minister’s conference in Jesus name.

8. Father, thank you for our father in the Lord the general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Jesus name.

9. Father, thank you for your Ministers in the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Jesus name.

10. Father, thank you for all the souls you have saved during the past Ministers conferences in Jesus name.

11. Father, thank you for the souls you will save during this year Ministers conference in Jesus name.

12. Father, thank you for we know you will make the weather conducive and favourable throughout this year Ministers conference and convention in Jesus name. Dan.2:21.

13. Father, thank you for taking charge of the highways in Jesus name.

14. Father, thank you for taking charge of all the gadgets, instruments, electronics and electricians that we shall be using throughout the Ministers conference and the convention in Jesus name.

15. Father, thank you because throughout the Ministers conference and the convention, heavens shall be opened unto us in Jesus name. Rev. 19:11.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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Please make your donation to this account,

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Account Number,0139438409,

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To help us continue in the spreading of The GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to every corner of this world,

Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

Day 9. Friday 9^th of August 2024. 2024 RCCG Annual Convention Marathon Prayer And Fasting Prayer Guide. 2024 Redeemed Christian Church Of God Annual Convention Marathon Prayer And Fasting Prayer Guide. THEME: HEAVEN.

TEXT:

1 kings. 18:38. Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

1. Father, thank you for your grace and mercy that we enjoy every day since Monday in Jesus name. Lam.3:22-23.

2. Father, thank you for the presence of the Holy Spirit since Monday in Jesus name.Exo.33:14.

3. Father, thank you for renewing the strength of your son Pastor E A Adeboye since Monday in Jesus name. Isai.40:31.

4. Father, tonight is the night of the Holy Ghost, let there be outpouring of your Holy Spirit throughout the service in Jesus name. Isai. 61:1.

5. Father, let your wind of fire blow and let fire fall tonight in Jesus name. 2kings. 1:10.

6. Father, we cover your son Pastor E A Adeboye and the entire camp ground with the blood of Jesus in Jesus name. Rev. 12:11.

7. Father, in the name of Jesus, we engage all the ministering Angels to take over the entire camp ground tonight in Jesus name. Heb. 1:13-14.

8. Father, your people are willing and expectant, let tonight be the night of the demonstration of your power through miracles, signs and wonders in Jesus name. Ps.110:3.

9. Father, let the heavens open tonight and let your glory come down in Jesus name.

10. Father, more than ever before, empower your son Pastor E A Adeboye and all other officiating ministers for greater work tonight in Jesus name. John. 14:12.

11. Father, tonight turn every word from the mouth of your son Pastor E A Adeboye to fire and turn all the oppressors of your people to dry wood and let the fire consume them in Jesus name. Jer. 5:14.

12. Father, every power that says your people will not experience their joy unspeakable, appear unto them and consume them with your fire tonight in Jesus name. Heb. 12:29.

13. Father, by the reason of the anointing, let every yoke be destroyed tonight in Jesus name. Isai. 10:27.

14. Father, by the reason of the anointing, let your people begin to experience the abundance of good things in Jesus name. John. 10:10.

15. Father, tonight, let the anointing bring joy and gladness to your people in Jesus name. Heb. 1;9.

16. Father, let there be divine restoration of lost opportunities, lost positions in Jesus name. Joel. 2:25.

17. Father, let your flesh and your blood release the stamina to make progress above other sin in Jesus name. 1kings. 19:6-7.

18. Father, let your blood flush out whatever you have not planted in your people in Jesus name. Math. 15:13.

19. Father, tonight, let your anointing make us to become untouchable to the kingdom of darkness in Jesus name. Ps. 105:15, 19.

20. Father, tonight, put an end to this hardship and give us the new Nigeria of our dream in Jesus name. Isai. 43:18-19.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Support Our Ministry,

Good Morning Dear,

It cost a lot of money to maintain a website, Nonetheless a non-profit Christian website,

Please if you have been blessed by this ministry and you are led to support and bless this ministry in return,

Please make your donation to this account,

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo,

Account Number,0139438409,

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Nigeria,

To help us continue in the spreading of The GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to every corner of this world,

Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

TONGUES OF FIRE. Prayer Points.

TEXT: Jer. 5:14. Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts. Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire and these people wood, and it shall devour them.

PRAYER GUIDE.

1. Father, thank you for helping me to know my identity as flaming fire believer in Jesus name. Heb. 1:7.

2. Father, fill me afresh with the fire of the holy spirit in Jesus name. Acts. 4:31.

3. Father, let every unbroken area in my life be broken by the fire of the holy spirit in Jesus name. Isai.57:15, 66:2

4. Father, terminate all activities of fire extinguishers in my life and in your church RCCG in Jesus name. Gal.5:19-21. Col. 3:5-8.

5. Father, let your inner fire make me a restless soul winner and miracle worker in Jesus name. Luke. 4:14, 31-37

6. Father, by your fire, let all the strangers occupying my spirit, soul and body run out now and perish in Jesus name. Ps. 18:44-45, Mic. 7:17.

7. Father, let all the multiple strong men operating against the break out of revival in my life, and in RCCG be destroyed by fire in Jesus name. 1kings. 18:40. Deut. 13:5.

8. Father, from today, I become fire carrier, fire igniter and fire transmitter inJesusname.Acts.10:44-46, 19:1-7.

9. Father, anytime your Church RCCG is confronted with satanic hosts, thou God of Elijah answer your Church by fire in Jesus name. 2kings. 1:10-12, Exo. 9:23-25, Rev. 20:9.

10. Father, I decree and declare that evil shall not prevail over good in my life, family and RCCG and Nigeria in Jesus name. John. 1:5, Duet. 20:4.

11. Father, let your mantle of fire, mantle of power and mantle of glory fall upon your Church RCCG for aggressive soul winning and evangelism in Jesus name. 2kings.2:12-14, Acts. 2:1-4, 4:31.

12. Father, I receive divine ability and capacity to obtain, contain and retain divine fire perpetually in Jesus name. John. 14:16, Isai.44:3, Acts. 2:4.

13. Father, in your wrath, let the ground open up and swallow every attacker of your son Pastor E A Adeboye now in Jesus name. Num.16:32.

14. Father, in your wrath, let the beast of the field devour every mocker of your son Pastor E A Adeboye now in Jesus name. 2kings. 2:23-24.

15.Father, let your fire go ahead of your Church RCCG and consume every giant standing against the preaching of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ I all the nations of the world in Jesus name. Deut. 9:3.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Support Our Ministry,

Good Morning Dear,

It cost a lot of money to maintain a website, Nonetheless a non-profit Christian website,

Please if you have been blessed by this ministry and you are led to support and bless this ministry in return,

Please make your donation to this account,

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo,

Account Number,0139438409,

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Nigeria,

To help us continue in the spreading of The GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to every corner of this world,

Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

Day 8. 8th August 2024. 2024 RCCG Annual Convention Marathon Prayer And Fasting Prayer Guide. 2024 Redeemed Christian Church Of God Annual Convention Marathon Prayer And Fasting Prayer Guide. THEME: HEAVEN.

TEXT:

Ps. 24:7-10. Lift up your heads O ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in, who is this King of glory The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD Mighty in battle, lift up your heads O ye gates, even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory, the LORD of hosts he is the King of glory.

1. Father, thank you for your grace and mercy over our lives in Jesus name. Lam.3:22-23.2. Father, thank you for the manifestation of your power since Monday in Jesus name.

3. Father, thank you for your fresh anointing upon your son Pastor E A Adeboye in Jesus name. Ps. 92:10.

4. Father, thank you because tonight all captives shall be set free in Jesus name. Isai. 49:24-26.

5. Father, more than ever before, release your fresh anointing upon your son Pastor E A Adeboye and set people free from all forms of captivities in Jesus name. Acts. 10:38.

6. Father, no matter the years the people have been held down with sickness, tonight, let them receive their healings in Jesus name. John. 5:8-9.

7. Father, in your own supernatural way, let every stubborn Pharaoh perish in the red sea during ministration tonight in Jesus name. Exo. 14:28.

8. Father, tonight, deliver your people out of the wilderness of uncertainty in Jesus name. Ps. 82:5

9. Father, tonight, deliver your people out of the wilderness of sorrow, misfortune and calamity in Jesus name. Job. 17:7.

10. Father, tonight, deliver your people from the spirit of failure in career, businesses and jobs in Jesus name. Luke. 5:5-7.

11. Father, tonight, deliver every family out of generational curse of barrenness, poverty and premature death in Jesus name. Exo. 23:26.

12. Father, visit every generational altar that is speaking against the progress of your people and destroy by fire in Jesus name. Judges. 6:25-26.

13. Father, tonight, whatever that is representing your people at the demonic altar, rain your coal of fire upon them in Jesus name. Gen. 19:24.

14. Father, tonight, let your angel of death visit every satanic priest servicing the evil altar of affliction against your people and slaughter them all tonight in Jesus name. 1kings. 18:40.

15. Father, tonight, break in pieces every yoke, every staff, every rod of the oppressors and the oppressors of your people in Jesus name. Isai. 9:4.

16. Father, tonight, through the ministration of your son Pastor E A Adeboye, let the power to make progress in life be released upon your people in Jesus name. Deut. 2:24-25.

17. Father, tonight, let there be restoration in double whatever the devil has stolen in the lives of your people in Jesus name. Job. 42:10-12.

18. Father, cause everyone to jubilate tonight in Jesus name. Ps. 126:1-2.

19. Father, let the barren go home rejoicing as a happy mother of children in Jesus name. Isai.54:1

20. Father, tonight, deliver our nation from the hands of the oppressors in Jesus name. Isai.49:26

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Support Our Ministry,

Good Morning Dear,

It cost a lot of money to maintain a website, Nonetheless a non-profit Christian website,

Please if you have been blessed by this ministry and you are led to support and bless this ministry in return,

Please make your donation to this account,

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo,

Account Number,0139438409,

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Nigeria,

To help us continue in the spreading of The GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to every corner of this world,

Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

Day 7. 7^th August 2024. 2024 RCCG Annual Convention Marathon Prayer And Fasting Prayer Guide. 2024 Redeemed Christian Church Of God Annual Convention Marathon Prayer And Fasting Prayer Guide. THEME: HEAVEN.

TEXT: Exodus 19:11.

‘’And be ready against the third day, for the third day, the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai’’.

1. Father, thank you for your grace and mercy that we enjoy every day in Jesus name. Lam.3:22-23.

2. Father, thank you for what you did on Monday and yesterday in Jesus name.

3. Father, thank you for what you will do today the third day of this annual convention in Jesus name.

4. Father, thank you because tonight your glory will come down mightily in Jesus name. Exo.19:16.

5. Father, tonight, release fresh anointing upon your son Pastor E A Adeboye and other officiating ministers in Jesus name. Ps. 92:10.

6. Father, tonight, let your fire fall afresh in Jesus name. Acts. 2:1-4.

7. Father, tonight, visit everyone all over the world that is connected with this program for signs and for wonders in Jesus name. Heb. 4:12.

8. Father, tonight, take all the participants to their place of destiny in Jesus name. Gen.22:4.

9. Father, let your glory come down mightily in Jesus name. Exo. 19:16.

10. Father, tonight let us experience your divine visitation in all areas of our lives in Jesus name. Exo. 19:11.

11. Father, let all powers that have swallowed the glory of your people, vomit them now in Jesus name. Job. 20:15, Jonah. 1:17, 2:10.

12. Father, tonight turn our shame to glory in Jesus name. John. 2:9-10.

13. Father, tonight turn our lack to abundance in Jesus name. John. 2:10, 1kings. 17:12-16.

14. Father, tonight, let the glory of your people come out of the grave inJesusname.Eze.37:12, Math.16:21.

15. Father, let there be restoration of lost destinies, lost opportunities, lost positions in Jesus name.

16. Father, let your wind of fire blow and let there be healings tonight in Jesus name. Ps.107:20.

17. Father, tonight, let the high and the might acknowledge you as the only true God in Jesus name. Dan. 4:28-29.

18. Father, tonight, release power to fly higher and higher upon us in Jesus name. Isai. 40:31.

19. Father, let there be good networks for effective online global participation tonight in Jesus name. Dan. 2:21.

20. Father, let this year annual convention be more glorious than the previous ones in Jesus name. Haggai. 2:9.

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Support Our Ministry,

Good Morning Dear,

It cost a lot of money to maintain a website, Nonetheless a non-profit Christian website,

Please if you have been blessed by this ministry and you are led to support and bless this ministry in return,

Please make your donation to this account,

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo,

Account Number,0139438409,

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Nigeria,

To help us continue in the spreading of The GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to every corner of this world,

Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

Joy In Resting In Christ Jesus.

TEXT: PHILIPPIANS 4:1-9

INTRODUCTION

Today’s lesson brings to an end our study of the book of Philippians. You would recall that in chapter 1, we learnt that there is joy in living for Christ [Phil 1:12]. Then we talked about the right attitude in serving Christ in unity; without complaints, or unnecessary arguments [Phil 2:14]. In chapter 3, we went on to discuss the joy in knowing Christ. We were told that our focus should be the finishing line and that means reigning with Christ in eternity [Phil 3:13-14].

For today, we will concern ourselves with the joy in resting in Christ Jesus. To accomplish this, there is need to show contentment, always [Phil 4:11]; our circumstance notwithstanding. There are three [3] outlines as detailed below.

OUTLINE 1: FINDING REST BY RESOLVING CONFLICT. [Phil 4:2-5]

• Euodias and Syntyche [both women] had a dispute/conflict. Apostle Paul urged both to settle their disagreement because they are of the same mind with God. Phil 4:2, Phil 2:2.

• In Phil 4:3, Paul called for the intervention of the brethren in resolving the dispute. He acknowledged that these women worked with him in spreading the good news. He acknowledged that spreading the gospel opens the door for your name to be written in the Book of Life. Rev 20:15.

• In Phil 4:4, Paul urged us to be full of joy no matter the circumstance. Recall that he wrote this letter to the Philippians in captivity; yet he was full of joy knowing that the work of God was progressing. The beauty of being filled with joy always is that, the possibility of conflicts would be obliterated; since there will be no space in your soul for other vices such as found in Gal 5:19-21. 1 Corinthians 6:20.

• In Phil 4:5, he talks about moderation or gentleness. Doing things in a manner that will not distract others from focusing on God. This is a pointer to Jesus Christ in the way He humbled Himself [Phil 2:8]. We should live with the assurance that He will soon return to take us home. Gal 5:22-23.

OUTLINE 2: FINDING REST THROUGH PREVAILING PRAYER. [Phil 4:6-7]

• In verse 6, the Bible says we should be anxious for nothing. It is a command and not an option. Matthew 6:26-28 serves as a guide. Rather in EVERYTHING, we should through [prevailing] prayers present to God. Do not take anything for granted. Our attitude should be to pray about everything and be thankful for anything. Remember, Jesus Christ always gave thanks. John 11:41, Luke 22:19.

• For verse 7, three [3] things stand out: the peace of God, surpasses all understanding and keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Peace is indeed a gift from God. Surpasses all understanding brings to the fore our limitations in comprehending the ways of God [Isaiah 55:8] and keeping our hearts speaks to strengthening our faith in Jesus Christ [Hebrews 11:6].

OUTLINE 3: FINDING REST BY RENEWING YOUR MIND. [Phil 4:8-9]

• Verse 8 tells us the right place to put our minds. Romans 12:2 and 2 Corinthians 10:5 lends credence to where our minds should dwell. No doubt, these virtues in Phil 4:8 are embedded in the fruit of the spirit in Gal 5:22-23.

• Phil 4:9. What is the essence of teaching or learning or receiving or seeing if we are not able to put same into practice? Let us be followers of Christ just as Apostle Paul followed Him. 1 Corinthians 4:17, Psalm 25:4

CONCLUSION.

If we follow and work according to the teachings in the book of Philippians, the result will be as captured in Phil 4:13. Therefore, what do we need to excel in this work? We have the assurance that God will supply all you need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus [Phil 4:19]

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Support Our Ministry,

Good Morning Dear,

It cost a lot of money to maintain a website, Nonetheless a non-profit Christian website,

Please if you have been blessed by this ministry and you are led to support and bless this ministry in return,

Please make your donation to this account,

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo,

Account Number,0139438409,

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc Nigeria,

To help us continue in the spreading of The GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST to every corner of this world,

Thank You Very Much For Your Support,

May GOD, we Serve Bless You A Million Times in return, Amen,

May God Bless Israel, Nigeria, And America And Take Care Of Us; May God 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!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!

Chukwuemeka Obiorah Ogwo.

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Mission Of Discouragement.

By Pastor Peter David Ali.

“And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives” (1 SAMUEL 30 v 18).

Good morning dearly beloveth and welcome to a beautiful morning. Though we are not meeting this morning for fellowship, we will have enough time for an individual fellowship with the ALL-POWERFUL GOD for deeper one -on- one fellowship with Him, an intimacy which He desires from us His bona-fide children in Jesus’ name.

One great lesson any child of destiny should learn from 2 KINGS 6 v 13 -14, is never to be discouraged. After repeated defeats, the king of Syria Still sent his soldiers after Elisha. Some of us give up too soon. The only way you can be assured of victory in any endeavour is by keeping your doors permanently closed on discouragement.

Everyone goes through moments of disappointment or discouragement, but how you handle it, is what determines what you are made of.

David and his men encountered discouragement in a formidable way. They returned home one day and found that their wives and children had become slaves and their city razed down by fire. They did not know where to start (1 SAMUEL 30 v 1 -19).

Leaders must be careful not to express discouragement especially in the midst of their subordinates. As leaders, you should have a Word of hope for the hopeless and stir up faith in the faithless. If the wind of discouragement that sweeps over a congregation also prevails over the leadership, then Satan would have a field day.

Whenever the spirit of discouragement comes, what does it intend to accomplish? It takes your focus from God to the problem contrary to HEBREWS 12 v 2. If you concentrate on the problem at hand, it will be magnified.

Discouragement paints a picture of impossibility-that nothing can be done to remedy the situation contrary to LUKE 1 v 37. No matter how bad your case is, something can be done.

The One who specialises in turning the Impossible to become possible is around you, and if you can call on the ALL-POWERFUL GOD today, He will presently send help.

Also, discouragement makes you lose the tears you should shed for joy to sorrow. Remember, whenever you weep as a result of discouragement, you lose something precious. Discouragement robs you of strength, hope and direction.

Hence you should put all major decisions on hold when discouraged. Discouragement blinds you to the solution to your problem. Hagar was discouraged and feeling hopeless; hence she could not see the well of providence beside her (GENESIS 21 v 9 – 20).

Discouragement finally teams up with the spirit of suicide and tells you there’s nothing to live for, go and commit suicide: Ahithophel a typical example (2 SAMUEL 17 v 21 – 23).  Don’t kill yourself!

Beloved, you have a lot to live for. That end of the road is actually the beginning of your turning point-the beginning of your greatness. You are not alone.

Help is locating you from above. Recount God’s mercies, thank Him, reject the spirit of discouragement and receive God’s guidance. You will recover all you have lost in Jesus’ name.

Dearly beloved, some people are made of steel, some of wood and others of stubble. Your attitude to disappointment and discouragement reveals what you are made of.

Child of God, you’re Christ’s own, go forth and manifest glory in Jesus Christ victorious name Amen. Enjoy your weekend with Christ. SEE YOU AT 11PM, PARENT’S ARISE – PRAYER SESSION FOR OUR CHILDREN. Shalom

Thank You Jesus,

Salvation Prayers

If you don’t Know Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour and would like to accept him into your life as your personal Lord and Saviour, Please say this prayer:

Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from You. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward You. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that Your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

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