Welcome us to this Palm Sunday; as we remember Palm Sunday, the significance of that is to always remember the love of Christ, to meditate upon it and see how we can reciprocate it back to Him and also how we can also exemplify that sacrifice ourselves to our fellow men.
This morning we want to look at one of the factors that make us entitled to the blessings of the Calvary. We are looking at the message titled “Faith in the Time of Trouble”. Mark 4: 35 – 41. Ephesians 2: 8, unless you have faith in what Jesus went to do at Calvary, you cannot appropriate the blessings of His sacrifice; so yes, we are saved by grace, but that grace will not become yours unless you have faith.
Let’s look at the lives of these Disciples of Christ who were with Him and then trouble still came and see what lessons we can learn:
You can be with God and trouble will still come.
Your safest anchor as a believer (in time of trouble) is to ensure that Jesus is with you.
When trouble comes to a believer and you are in the center of God’s will or you’re obeying His instruction, you are going to survive.
When trouble comes for a believer, what determines whether we survive or not is who we run to.
When trouble comes, God uses it as an opportunity to further bring us closer to Himself.
Jesus is never too far away.
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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Preacher: Pastor Julius Olalekan (SATGO, Personnel)
Praise the Lord! You know today is your day, praise the Lord! You know the devil has lost battle over you, praise the Lord! You know your season of joy has arrived, praise the Lord!
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Psalms 100:1-5; “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations”. Hallelujah!
We are talking about the door of joy; now everything in life has its own door; there is a door to joy; there must be an entrance to somewhere. You want to enter into the season of joy, there is a door and when that door opens, you enter.
In Revelation 3: 7, Jesus Christ said I’m the one that has the key of David, when I open nobody can shut, when I shut no one can open. He said behold, I set before you an open door which no man can ever shut and that door will remain open in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus.
So there are doors but there is this door that is called the ‘door of joy’ and my desire and my prayer for you is that that door will open to you today. I was glad when I heard the choir singing that song and I could say that you are prepared for joy, and that is the glory of God in our lives. There is no substitute for joy, where joy is lacking everything dries up; the Bible says the fig tree, the pomegranate and everything dried up because joy is dried off from the life of men.
When you lose joy you lose everything; when you don’t have it you don’t have anything; what adds value to your life is joy; what makes you look beautiful is joy. If you go to the studio and the photographer wants to snap you, he’d tell you to smile; when you frown he won’t take it and he’d tell you to say ‘cheese’ and then you would fake the smile, you will do everything and he’d smile and say beautiful. Your beauty comes when you smile, but devil does not want you to smile in life, but he has lost the battle; from today, you will continue to smile in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This door of joy, what happens when God opens this door for you? Number one that happens when God opens the door for you is that from today, this very Sunday, sorrow shall disappear.
Isaiah 35: 10, the Bible says “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, (what will happen?) and sorrow and sighing shall flee away”.In the name of Jesus, sorrow will flee away from here today.
There are things in our lives that give us sorrow; when we dress up and look elegant, but in different departments of our lives there are things that are looking like Pharaoh; go, it said I’m not going; but God is saying today, the Egyptians that followed you here you will never see them anymore in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says you will return, sorrow will flee away; sighing will flee away in the mighty name of the Lord.
You look at the example of Hannah in the scriptures; the Bible says she was a woman of sorrow because they were provoking her every day. There was another woman that was just mocking her, just provoking her because she didn’t have a child, but what happened eventually? God fought for her. God will fight for you.
The Bible says in 1st Samuel 1: 10; one particular day she entered into the temple, she prayed at Shiloh and the word came and said your prayers have been answered; and the Bible says she left and her countenance was no more sad. From that day she never know sorrow again; from that particular day sorrow disappeared from her life, meaning what? If it has happened before, it can happen again.
It can happen to anybody, there are people who have gone through it and that is why I’m praying today, you will never know it, you will never ever know it.
Somebody was coming to where we were having a meeting, praying, (weekly prayer meeting), and when she was coming, she saw a woman sitting down at the center of the road weeping and crying and this woman went to her, ‘woman, you are close to the road, won’t you be afraid of accidents’? She said which accidents? Anyone that wants to kill me should kill me, when I didn’t die what am I living for? What is the problem? And then the woman explained to her that she got married without any child and then her husband and the family came to her just last night (and that was in October), they told her this year is the end, by January 1st, they must not meet her in the house, she should begin to pack her load and know where she is going.
They held the meeting, the husband was there and they left; after they had left, she turned to her husband and said didn’t you hear what your parents said? He said yes, they have spoken well. Ha, is that what you would say?
She lost anything called joy, she was no more herself, she just went out not knowing where she was going, and then she just sat down in the middle of the road, and the other one said I’m going to church, I’m going to pray and God that answers prayer, His name is Jesus, you can follow me and she followed her. They came to the meeting, did the prayers; came for the second one, did the prayers, and then these people came first of January and they told her what are you still doing in this house? We have asked you to pack, move now; and she asked them what the agreement was; you gave me ultimatum till January, have you asked for the results? They asked what the result is, and she went in and brought the result that showed that she was two months pregnant. I’m not telling story; the day she was sharing the testimony, she was shedding tears of joy.
Listen to me brethren; if there is any tear you will still shed, it will be tears of joy. A day is coming, you will stand here, you will sing a song, ‘I never knew you will answer me this way…’ and that day will come very very soon in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus.
For that fellow saying amen, I said from today, sorrow disappears from your house, disappears from your home, disappears from your career, and disappears from every area of your life.
You just mentioned FUTA and I remember the case in FUTA when we were there, there was a boy that gained an admission and got into FUTA and the father celebrated him in Lagos, (they were living in Lagos); they celebrated him, he called the whole house and everyone, they even killed a goat to say that he was going to the university.
On getting there, the first year he was on probation, and the second year, if he got the second one, he would be advised to withdraw; when he got that, he had concluded that he was on his way home early in the morning full of sorrow, he left for the fish pond to go and commit suicide, and then one of my friends was on his way to the field to go and pray early in the morning and saw someone going to the fish pond early in the morning when it was still dark; the Holy Spirit told him follow him and he followed him, and he got him and said brother, where are you going? He said what is your problem? He said there is there is a problem, where are you going? Holy Spirit said I should follow you and then he broke down in tears and told him they celebrated me to come here, what will it be for me to go back withdrawn from school, its better I die than to go and face such a shame, and the brother said don’t worry yourself, there is a solution.
He brought him to the fellowship in the evening, gave his life to Jesus, and started serving God; by the time the same boy graduated, they gave him an award during the convocation as the best improving student from probation to 2.1.
I’m praying for someone here, you will succeed, you will never know failure again in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The God that we serve is a God of joy, He gives joy; go to the scripture, there was nowhere He got to and there was sorrow, and He left there and He left sorrow there, nowhere, check the scriptures. He’s against sorrow, and when I’m talking about sorrow, we are even talking about the foundation of sorrow which happens to be sickness, affliction, failure, shame, trouble, because there is somewhere that this sorrow is coming from.
Somebody is of a marriageable age, she hasn’t gotten husband; you don’t have children, you don’t have job, the parents are saying when will you begin to take care of us, you are still writing letter and say please send me money. The Bible says some people will wake up in the morning and sleep late in the night (like people in Lagos), and at the end of the month they will eat the bread of sorrow, nothing to show for it, but God is telling someone here, you will never labor in vain.
Because you are in this service, every step you take from today will yield glorious results in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So when God opens the door of joy, sorrow will flee. Number two; the door of sorrow will be permanently shut, it will never open again in the mighty name of Jesus.
In 1st Chronicles 4: 9& 10, there was a man that is called Jabez; the Bible says this man was called sorrow by name, he was sorrow in person, personified, but the Bible says this man prayed and cried unto the Lord and the Lord changed his sorrow, and God is about to do something here today.
Look at verse 10; “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! (What happened?) And God granted him that which he requested”.The last thing he asked for was that Lord, take away this sorrow but then don’t let me ever know it again, shut the door permanently, don’t let me ever see evil – anything called evil; poverty is evil, shame is evil, sickness is evil, affliction is evil, they are not your portion. After today that you will pray here, you will never see them anymore; God Himself will say to you here in the mighty name of Jesus.
Look at Zephaniah 3: 15, the Bible says “The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more”. How? You will never see it anymore; you will never see evil anymore; you will never see failure anymore; you will never see reproach anymore; you will never see trouble anymore. If it’s waiting for you, before you get there, fire will clear it in the mighty name of God, because God is always by His own, He’s ever faithful and you will never know evil again.
Number three, what will happen? Happenings of joy will begin in your house, in your life, marriage will start, wedding upon wedding, children dedication, house dedication, promotions, elevation, celebration, testimonies, peace all around, all you need is for Him to open this door unto you, let Him open this door of joy and one after the other, things will begin to happen.
Like Hannah that I told you, as soon as the almighty God opened the door of joy, the Bible says she didn’t have a child, she had Samuel; God opened another door she had another one; opened another one, had another one; opened another one, had another one; and she had another five; from joy to joy to joy to joy. I’m praying for someone here today again, the door of joy that God will open to you will be permanent; things of joy will begin to happen and you will never know sorrow again, and God can do it in such a way that you will look around and say where is this sorrow that I’ve been carrying for years that looks as if it can never go.
There was a man in Lagos here when I was in Lagos, he came to a service and he had an encounter, but the story was a very bad one; he was a very big man, working, well known in Nigeria, and suddenly this problem came and they froze his account, took everything that he had – his house, his cars, everything he ever had was taken away from him. He could not feed his family again, a woman and four children; the man ran to Ghana thinking that things would be better, he got to Ghana, spent five years in Ghana and nothing worked; he came back home to locate the family, getting to where they rented there was nobody there and they said your wife is no more here, so he started searching and discovered that the wife had gone to Abuja to meet with her parents with the children.
So he decided to go to Abuja to go and see them, he went there, as soon as the father-in-law sighted him, he told him if you don’t want to die, don’t enter this house; and because he didn’t want to die, he didn’t enter, he ran back to Lagos, he was in depression, stayed in a friend’s house and then he came for a service like this and he had an encounter with God.
You see, this God answers prayers; when you go to church brethren, He answers prayers. My house shall be called the house of prayer; when I ask you to pray today please pray, this God is real, He’s alive, He’s on your side, you don’t have any reason to doubt Him.
He came for the first time, he prayed; the following week he received a call that they had been looking for him at Abuja that they have discovered that the case five years ago was false and that now, they have reversed everything – his house has been returned, his account has been released, his money has been released, everything they took from him was returned within one week, within seven days, that God is still alive.
He went to Abuja, got everything back and everything, you know what he did? He went into a car stand, bought a brand new car; went to boutique, bought good clothes, dressed well and got sunshades, good shoes and everything. I entered into the car, tear rubber, and went again into the same house of his father-in-law; he parked outside, it was a tinted glass and they all came out and said who is this, where is he coming from?
Everybody came out and said which visitor is visiting us; then he brought out the first leg, they were waiting for him to show his face; the first leg that he brought out, his shoe was shining, you could look at yourself and they were still waiting for who the person was; he brought out the other hand with the wristwatch, and then came out with the glasses, removed the glasses and the father-in-law said my son, my son, I know that one day God will do it, I know, I just know because you carry destiny.
They took him in and then he took his wife and went back again.
I’m praying for someone here, there will be a turnaround, total turn around in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus.
What do you do? Before we pray, because this door must open today and it will open now. The first thing is have faith in God, do what Hannah did. She had faith in God that was why she went to Shiloh, she believed God would answer her prayers. Be it unto you according to your faith.
Jesus Christ said if I come back will I find faith on earth? Not everybody that goes to church has faith; some people just feel that look, I must go there, but look brethren, have faith in God. Mark 11: 22, have faith in God for with Him nothing is impossible; demonstrate your faith, let your faith come alive, Hallelujah! God will honor that faith today in the mighty name of Jesus.
Number two, do what Hannah did, ignore your mockers, don’t concentrate on them, they are not your problems, when God changes your situation they will change. Some of us concentrate on them; he said this he said this; they abused me, they insulted me, they reproached me, they did this one and you are fighting them, they are not the problem, when God settles you, by force they will come and celebrate, praise the Lord!
Imagine the day Samuel was born and Hannah wore her cloth and her headgear was a very big one and then people gathered together for naming and she was going around, you know the way women do at parties, going around and thanking everybody for coming and Peninah was the one that was carrying plates and washing plates with her children. I’m praying for you today, on the day of your joy your enemies will be in shame in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. He has done it before, He will do it again. Ignore them.
Isaiah 45: 23, it says “I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear”. The wordhas gone out, it will not return in the mighty name of Jesus.
Number three, use the key of prayers. There’s what they call ‘operation push’, pray until something happen; don’t stop praying, there is no option to your joy, your joy must be full.
In John 16: 24, it says Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.He gives fullness of joy, that is the interest of the Lord – pray until something happens, and it will happen today in the mighty name of Jesus.
Number four; be planted in the house of the Lord. Psalms 92: 13, “Those that be planted in the house of God…” not people that are planted online, praise God! I celebrate the people online but be planted in the house of God, there is no substitute to the house of God, it doesn’t happen; it’s in Christianity that we are beginning to migrate to online, mosque don’t go online, the unbelievers don’t go online.
We were coming one day on a Friday, even on the express road (in Bauchi), they were all along the road; they would block the road for you on Friday, they don’t go online. You go to churches, cathedrals will be empty because some people decide to go online; He said those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish, not those who are planted online, you don’t belong to anybody. Online people are prostitutes, before they watch this one they have watched another one, they will watch this and watch that one and watch this one and then they will switch to this and say oh choir is the one singing, let me hear this one; and then they’ll go to this one. Prostitutes, they will be moving, different fathers, and daddy GO said that when you have many fathers you must be a bastard; ajumobi, they gather together to give birth; this one is your father, this one is your father, you go to all the ministries, everywhere, you just sit down and be going all around and then towards the end of the service you click to this service and say I have attended, you have not attended.
They that are planted in the house of the Lord… how do you think that this same God is a rewarder of them that diligently… Some people were here 6am, you lie down on the bed and think the same God will reward you the same way, it cannot happen and it can never happen. He’s a God that is just, be planted in the house of God.
He said ‘My house’, which means He has a house. There are things that don’t happen until you get to Zion; upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance and holiness and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
Hannah had prayed for life until she entered into the temple and prayed, and the man of God made the prophecy, just one prophecy brought her out of sorrow and took her to an everlasting joy. Be planted in the house of the Lord, don’t be deceived by social media, that is not the house of the Lord, you know the house of the Lord, be there.
The Bible says when you are there you will flourish and the word of God is ever settled, may I pray for every one of you here, you will flourish and everyone online who have repented will flourish also; if you have not, then God will touch your hearts, praise the Lord!
And then the last thing is that keep sowing joy, meaning what, the best gift you can give to any man is joy and what is that gift? Jesus Christ. Anywhere you go talk about Jesus, because when you give anybody Jesus you are giving the fellow fullness of joy, because by the name of Jesus he will be able to assess joy himself.
Members of your families that have not known God, deliberately and intentionally preach to them, talk to them, you may not have money, you may not have to give them anything, give them joy, give them Jesus. Those people that you are sending money to every time and they are not born again, you are wasting your resources, give them Jesus, let them be saved, that’s the best gift you can give to them.
If you have built house for them, you have done this for them and they don’t have Jesus, you have lost them, there is no joy over them. The Bible says there is joy in heaven over one soul that repents and turns to the Lord; when you go out, when you go anywhere, give people joy, give them Jesus, take flyers, invite people, don’t come to church alone, make God happy, let the heaven rejoice because of what you have done.
Those people in your places of work, they are your colleagues, they need Jesus, bring them here; if you don’t know how to preach to them, you invite them, they will encounter the God that you serve here, He will settle them; be an evangelist for the Lord in your spheres of influence, don’t just talk about money and politics, talk about Jesus and you will see the heaven responding to you in a very serious manner.
Look at Hannah, she said give me a child and I will make him to be Your priest; she touched the heart of God; when you do the work of God, you touch the heart of God and He can do anything for you, praise the Lord! That will happen, anybody you talk to will receive the Lord; from today, you will be joy givers.
Before we pray, there is one door that even nobody can open, and it will surprise you that even Jesus Christ cannot open it, the only person that can open it is you and until that door is opened, Jesus cannot open any other door for you, it is very clear.
Let’s look at Revelation 3: 20, it says “Behold, I stand at the door (of your heart), and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me”. I will come in and celebration starts; I will come in and jubilation starts; I will come in and happiness begins. He said but I can’t open, I can only knock, that is where it is amazing; salvation can never be by force, there must be a day you make up your mind and say Jesus come into my heart, be my Lord and be my Savior, that day that you open your door and He comes in, every other door of joy will begin to open unto you, the grace to do that may God give it to you this morning.
Shall we bow down our heads in prayers; before we go and pray for this God to open this door for us today, He’s knocking at the door of your heart now, you want to open that door, you want to see Jesus come into my heart so that every other door will begin to open, you want Him to come into your life you want Him to rule in your life, you want Him to be your Lord, you want Him to be your Savior, you want Him to be everything to you either here or online, you have made up your mind, put your left hand on your chest and lift up your right hand for Jesus still coming to your life, for Him to enter, I want to pray with you; just open that door, you are the only one that has the authority to open that door, not even God can force you to do it but until you do it, no other door can open by the authority of heaven.
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[Prayer]
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You are going to pray as if you have never prayed before, whatever is called the foundation of sorrow, the One who is called the Consuming Fire will visit it by fire in the mighty name of Jesus. It can be sickness, it can be barrenness, it can be shame, it can be lack, it can be failure, whatever, before you finish this prayer it shall flee away in the mighty name of the Lord.
Raise your voice violently, say Father, arise in Your power as the consuming fire, every foundation of sorrow in my life, in my family, my Father my Father, visit it with Your fire now.
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Visit every foundation of sorrow; be it sickness, be it affliction, be it disease, be it failure, be it trouble, be it retrogression, visit it with Your fire.
Visit the foundation, the foundation of sorrow; everything called sickness, everything called affliction, everything called barrenness, everything called loneliness, everything called delay, anything that is generating sorrow, Lord God of heaven, visit with Your power.
Brethren pray a little more, you have the power to set yourself free; life and death are in the power of tongue, visit the foundation, whatever does not allow your joy to be full, Father visit every foundation. Thank You Father, thank You Lord in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
I don’t know the fellow here but listen to me, I’m declaring now to you and hear it well, there’s a good news coming your way, be expectant, check out for it; there’s a good news coming that will cause you to jump for joy.
I don’t know the fellow here also, that stubborn source of shame has just been converted to source of glory and testimony. Thank you my Father; what a great God I serve, we celebrate You Lord.
You are going to pray this one prayer before I pray for you and please pray with all your strength; you can open the door with keys, you can force the door open, you can scatter but all it matters is that your door must open now; the door of joy must open now.
Pray violently and say Father in the mighty name of Jesus, I declare and I command every door leading to my joy, what are you waiting for, open now!
I command you to open!!! Open now in the name of Jesus, thank You precious Father, in Jesus name we have prayed.
Stretch forth your hand as if you are receiving something, can you ask for three things that’s very specifically, just mention them before I pray for you and you will return with testimonies. Go ahead and just ask, heaven is delivering them into your hands, today is a day you’ll collect your blessings.
What is it that must happen to your business for your joy to be full? What is it that must happen in your family for your joy to be full? What is it that must happen in your life for your joy to be full? What is it that must happen to your loved ones, for your children, for your joy to be full? This hour, pray the way Hannah prayed; her lips were moving but nobody understood what she was saying, she was pouring out her heart but God listened to her; pour them out, mention them in His ears, He that created ear, shall He not hear?
He said before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear; this is God who answers before He hears; thank You Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Father in the mighty name of Jesus, I stand with the authority of heaven, pray for all these Your children wherever you are and you are connected to this meeting; every one of you, the door of sorrow is permanently shut in the mighty name of Jesus.
I command the fire of God to visit every foundation of sorrow and burn them in the mighty name of Jesus. From now on, the door of joy is open to you; the door of joy is open to your family; the door of joy is open to your home. As you are saying that amen, shame disappears; as you are saying that amen, delay comes to an end; as you are saying that amen, failure is turned to success; as you are saying that amen, breakthrough comes your way; as you are saying that amen, very soon you will shed tears of joy; whatever you have requested from the Lord in this house today, receive in abundance in the mighty way receiving abundance in the mighty name of Jesus!!! It is done, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
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.
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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!
The theme for this year’s evangelism weekend is Repositioned for Evangelism and our text is taken from Acts 8: 5 – 8. Our main responsibility as a child of God is to go and win souls. 2nd Corinthians 5: 19.
Some of the reasons why we must win souls:
God loves the world, John 3: 16
Wickedness is on the increase, Isaiah 60: 2
There is no repentance in hell, there is no repentance after the last breath,
Time is short, John 15: 16.
Swimming against the tide, our Bible text is Genesis 41: 14 – 34. We all know what swimming is; tide is a current in the sea that is caused by the regular and continuous movement of the sea waves. It goes up and down, then you say you have a tide in the sea. To swim against the tide therefore could be another way of saying to not follow everyone else.
So bringing it to our message, to swim against the tide comes in two ways: it may mean what every other person is doing, you don’t want to do because it is not necessarily the right way everybody else is going; secondly, it could be that there are difficult times, but to survive, you need to come against the tide so that the difficult times does not wash you away and that’s more like what we are going to talk about this morning.
Some few lessons to take from it:
The economies of the world are cyclical, Genesis 26: 1.
No famine, no economic disaster will last forever, 2nd Kings 7.
People respond to famine, to difficult times, to economic challenges differently, let’s keep getting at doing something, Genesis 26.
The impact of famine on people differ, Genesis 26.
It does not matter how bad any economy is, God has a solution.
What are the things that we are supposed to do?
Make effort to improve your lot or make effort to survive this situation.
Make the best use of the time that we have.
Try to expand your sources of income.
We must maintain good discipline.
Avoid taking nick-check decisions.
Don’t be wasteful, Genesis 41: 53 – 54.
Delay gratification.
Avoid borrowing where it is not necessary.
Protect what you have.
Keep your ears to the ground.
Seek professional advice.
Stay out of trouble.
Obey the rules of the land.
Help those who are in need.
Trust God for divine direction.
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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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!
When I was 3 years old, I knew all I wanted to do in life was to sing, dance and act plays and movies.
When I was 5 years old I discovered I was a stammerer, that was why they couldn’t cast me for all the 4 roles I painstakingly prepared and audition for.
In our study of Ephesians 2: 13 -22 last week, we learnt that even though the natural man is dead in his sins and thus separated from Christ, there are two ‘buts’ – the mercy of God and the blood of Jesus Christ, with which we can now have access to God. We are brought near by the blood of Christ, having become born again, received eternal life and are saved by His Grace.
Today, we are looking closely at the church – what is the church and the core truths of a church going by scriptures.
From our text, seven different truths are revealed:
• The mystery of the church
• The meaning of the church
• The membership of the church
• The mission of the church
• The Ministers of the church
• The marks of the church
• The might of the church.
1. The Mystery of the church: Ephesians 3: 3, 6, 9; 1 Corinthians 2: 7 -12; Romans 10:12-13; 1
Corinthians 15:51; Ephesians 3: 3-4, Ephesians 6:19; 1Timothy 3:16. Church is not a mystery.
The mystery is that through the gospel, Gentiles and Jews are joint heirs and sharers in the promise of Jesus Christ.
2. Church Defined (the meaning of the church): Ephesians 3: 6, 10.
a. Body of Christ: Ephesians 3: 6; Ephesians 4:12; John 3:16; Ephesians 5:25
b. Jesus Christ is the head of the church: Ephesians 4: 15; Colossians 1:18
3. Church Membership: Ephesians 3: 6
a. The church comprises both believing Jews and Gentiles. Acts 15:13-14
b. Membership of the church consists only of born-again children of God who are washed in the precious blood of Jesus Christ.
c. Membership is formed when both Jews and Gentiles preach the gospel, people are convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit and become part of the body of Christ.1 Corinthians 12:13
4. The Purpose of the church (the mission of the church): Ephesians 3: 8, 10.
a. To preach the gospel through programs, evangelism etc: Ephesians 3:8; Matthew 28:19; 2 Timothy 1: 8
b. For God’s manifold wisdom to be made known to the rulers and authorities in heavenly places (angelic hosts, good and bad) through the church, so they (the rulers and powers) may understand God’s eternal plan for the redemption of mankind (through the salvation of Jew and Gentile in one body which is a hidden mystery to them): Ephesians 3:10
5. The Ministers of the church: Ephesians 3: 7; Ephesians 4:11. All true members of the church are ministers of the church and should participate in the sharing of the gospel.
6. The Characteristics of the church (the marks of the church): The bible speaks of some qualities that distinguish men and women who make up the church:
a. BOND SLAVES OF JESUS – Ephesians 3:1, 2Timothy 1:8. Those who are prisoners of Christ Jesus.
b. FELLOWSHIP: Jews and Gentiles who are united in one body and are partakers of the promise of in Christ Jesus through the gospel – Ephesians 3:6.
c. THE HUMBLE: Ephesians 3:8; James 4:6.
d. TESTIFIERS: Ephesians 3: 8.
e. ACCEPTED: Ephesians 3: 11-12. We are accepted by God and can approach Him with freedom and confidence through our faith in Jesus Christ.
7. The Might of the church (the power of the church): Ephesians 3: 7; Matthew 16:18; 1
Corinthians 3:11. The church is so mighty in power because Jesus Christ is the Founder and builder. Hence, neither death nor evil will permanently destroy it.
CONCLUSION
The church is the body of Christ. The head of the church is Jesus Christ. The body of the church is made up of both believing Jews and Gentiles. True members of the church have been empowered by grace to preach the gospel. Everything we do in church should have behind it the underlying passion to see sinners saved and the saved grow up to the full measure of Christ.
Ephesians 4:12 states that the ministry gifts were given to equip people for service and build up the body of Christ.
If you are here today, physically, or virtually, and are yet to surrender your life to Jesus Christ, today offers another opportunity for you to do so. Tomorrow may be too late.
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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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!
Hallelujah! What You cannot do does not exist, when the melody is gone, we look to You oh Lord; when life is not helping, we look to You oh Lord; when sorrow comes, we look to You oh Lord; when there is no joy, we look to You oh Lord, You are a great Rewarder.
Father we thank You; we thank You for the gift of life, we thank You for 70 days of 2024, it’s been a wonderful year yet, oh Lord we thank You. What You cannot do does not exist, awesome God, we adore Your name, we worship Your name; we return glory, we return praise, we return honor to Your excellent name.
Thank You for the blessing of life, thank You for coming down this morning to put life in us, thank You because we are on Your side that’s why we are alive today, if it has not been the Lord on our side, we would be dead; if it has not been the Lord on our side, enemies would have gotten us; if it has not been the Lord on our side, Nigeria would have been in war; if it has not been the Lord on our side, we will not be here singing this morning.
Thank You for being on our side, thank You for being a wonderful Father that You are, oh Lord, glory, honor, praise, dominion belong to Your name oh Lord.
As we share Your word this morning, speak to us Yourself, let it be Your word from You, not from any man; let Your children hear You directly, and Father by the end of the message, let all of us be blessed richly in the mighty name of Jesus.
Thank You eternal Father; once again, thank You for the gift of life, it’s only the living that can praise You, blessed be Your name, Jehovah, in Jesus name we prayed.
Welcome to church this morning! I want to appreciate our father in the Lord, the Pastor in charge of province, for this opportunity; I want to thank members of the Board of Pastors and Pastorate for giving me the opportunity to bring the message this morning.
In the RCCG, we have a set of beliefs, the same way I believe they have in other missions, so periodically, the church sends elders to come and remind us (old members) or teach us (new members) about the belief of the church, our doctrines. So today in this church is meant for doctrinal teaching, we are going to be having one of our elders to come and teach us in the afternoon (second service), but during the first service, I was advised to speak on something along that area too, something to do with doctrine.
So this morning, I will be speaking on what I consider to be our major belief that there is a God who made everything, our Creator. Because I don’t want it to look like a classroom setting – oh, we believe in God, we believe in His trinity, I’m going to try to make it a bit more interesting, so I’ll be talking about the “Goodness of God” , and that’s a very wide topic that cannot be treated in 30 – 40 minutes that we have here.
I will be talking about the goodness of God in the life of a popular Bible character, David and that’s also a wide topic, so I’ll try and restrict it to part of God’s goodness in the life of David, and it’s not going to be about David, it’s going to be about God, I’m just using David as a case study, so let’s bear in mind that it is about the goodness of God, not about David.
And what I want us to get from this message is the goodness of God in your life, in my life, David is just a case study, so at the end of the message, the idea is for you to be able to realize or come to a better knowledge of God’s goodness in your life, in my life.
Our God is a good God, a good Creator, the Savior, the Redeemer, our Father. The Bible says when we were yet sinners He died for us, Romans 5: 8; even when we were yet to be saved from our sins, He died for us.
That song says ‘I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy (His) power throughout the world displayed; then sings my soul, the Savior Lord to thee, how great Thou art, how great Thou art’, you know the song very well.
We had in December 2023 as our theme ‘Divine Goodness of God’; like I said before, if we are to discuss the goodness of God in the Bible, we’ll begin from Genesis 1 and we will not stop until we get to Revelation 22. Genesis 1 where He chose to form man in His own image and gave him authority over all things; He saw that man needed a companion like himself and He gave man a partner, Genesis 2:18. He made man fruitful and gave him command to multiply and replenish the earth, Genesis 1: 28.
So like I said, we’ll continue to talk about the goodness of God until we get to Revelation and see the cosmic battle that the good God is fighting for us behind the scenes in every facet of life.
There’s a story in Revelation 12 that talks about what we see on earth with the corresponding equivalent in heaven; those of us who know that story very well, Revelation 12 is the story of Cosmos as it actually happened in heaven – the dragon fighting with the woman over this child, trying to kill Jesus, so it’s always God at work doing something or the other for us.
Like I said, we are going to put ourselves into part of David’s life, so we’ll go to the story about David and our Bible text is from Psalm 65: 9-13, a Psalm of David, so I’ll just go through quickly, it’s talking about David talking about God; “Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing”, praise the Lord.
Before I continue, let me just wish our mothers Happy Mother’s Day today, forgive me for not saying that earlier. Congratulations to the mothers in the house; congratulations to those who are born of mothers, I guess I’ve covered everybody there, praise God! God will bless you richly for us and continue to use you to guide and guard and direct us in the way of God in Jesus name, praise the Lord! Many happy returns in Jesus name.
We were introduced to David in 1st Samuel 16 when God sent Prophet Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint one of his sons as a replacement for the reigning King Saul; we know the story of David very well. Jesse was blessed by God with formidable team of young men who can be king; they were kingly in appearance and they were renowned warriors, 1st Samuel 16: 6 – 10 tells us about them.
Let us quickly know about the children of Jesse, “And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord‘s anointed is before him.7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this. 10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these”; so they were all kingly in appearance, their father was proud of them, he brought them before Samuel but God did not choose any of them.
Like all proud fathers, Jesse presented seven sons, all well qualified to the prophet but God did not choose any of them. But there was an eighth boy not apparently reckoned with who was not available to be presented, the prophet had to remind Jesse if anyone had been left out, it was only after the prompting of the prophet that Jesse remembered there was a young child who was keeping the flock in the wilderness.
We know the story very well; David was brought in from the jungle and lo and behold, he was God’s anointed. This was the beginning of God’s goodness in the life of young David; picked from among eight brothers who ordinarily looked more qualified, this reminds me of the story of people – maybe some of you are like that or somebody like me, who were born by grace.
I always tell myself I’m not a Samuel, I’m not a Joseph, I’m not a John the Baptist, I was not a child that was looked for, I’m a sixth of six children, praise God! Two brothers already, three sisters already, so nobody was actually looking for another child, just born by grace, maybe you are like me too.
They looked for Samuel, they looked for John the Baptist, but sixth out of six – that’s my mother’s side, don’t let me tell you about my father’s side, I don’t have any position there, praise God.
So some of us are like that, maybe David was also like that, he forgot him maybe because he had many children, the others were there so he can’t even remember, praise God! They already had boys, they already had girls and someone just came along, he said okay, thank God for him, we can have him as well, so some of us were born by grace unlike those that their parents prayed for fervently, and God bless all those who were born by grace among us in Jesus name.
Like Samuel and Joseph, the grace of God continued in the life of David; while at work in the wilderness looking after the sheep and goats for his father, the devil knowing his potentials sent bears and lions to attack David but Bible tells us David tore the animals to pieces.
Imagine a teenager dealing with a huge bear or ferocious lion; David gave his testimony in 1st Samuel 17: 33 – 37, he actually said he pursued the bear, he pursued the lion, they had taken what they wanted to take, he followed after them – a teenager. For those of us who watch Discovery Chanel, you cannot take a prey from a lion, just let him go with what he has taken and then run for your life, but David pursued it, (he said he) tore it into pieces, that was God’s grace in the life of David, God’s goodness in the life of David and He has that plan for you as well, praise God.
This was no Samson, Samson was heavily built, he was not heavily built physically; we always see the Bible pictures of David, small, normal 16-17 year old tearing lion to pieces, tearing bear to pieces, that is God’s work in the life of David, praise the Lord.
Then Goliath came along; the devil was not satisfied that David tore lion and bear to pieces, he now sent Goliath, a giant, a wall of attrition, a mountain to still stop David from the plan of God from his life. Goliath came along, he was proud, he was arrogant, he was spiteful, he was disdainful, he was a hindrance and mountain of calamity to King Saul and the entire army of Israel which incidentally included some of David’s older brothers, we also know this story very well.
David, by the goodness of God brought this mountain down; we have the assurance of God that (we shall) by the goodness of God we shall overcome our mountains as well in Jesus name. You will overcome your mountain, I will overcome my mountain; you will overcome your Goliath by the goodness of God in Jesus name.
God has many ways to overcome mountains for us, we should not put God in a box. You know we have this idea of saying this is the way God works for Mr. Femi and that’s the way He’s going to work for me, it doesn’t work that way, we should stop putting God in a box.
He defeated Goliath for David in a way; for you, He may take you over the mountain, He may bore a hole through the mountain for you, He may take you round the mountain, that is God for you, He is Sovereign, you cannot put Him in a box, He’s the Adonai God; He can flatten the mountain for you; He can drown the mountain in the sea for you, just allow Him to be God, He’s a good God, praise the Lord!
He can cause us to fly as an eagle over the mountain and soar above it, God has many ways of dealing with mountains in our lives but just allow Him to be God in His own way.
Then another challenge, David became a renowned warrior in the land and was leading the army of Israel on war campaigns against bigger, stronger and more formidable nations – the Amalekites, the Ammonites, all the ‘vites’ of the Bible and David defeated them all through the goodness of this God. Remember it’s not about David, it’s about God and I pray for you today that God will give you victory over more formidable opponents and competitors in business in the name of Jesus Christ. No matter how big they are, the goodness of God will make you outperform them in Jesus name.
Then it was around this period that King Saul turned against David, he became extremely jealous of David’s achievements; the devil pushed him (Saul) to seek David’s elimination, you know it’s always been the devil that sent bear, sent the lion, he sent Goliath, he now sent King Saul. The devil will not relent, he’s an unrelenting fool, so the fact that you just defeated him doesn’t mean he will not fight again, we need to keep standing, he will keep sending additional foes, I’m sure we have that experience of the devil already but we’re not majoring on him today, we’re majoring on God and we shouldn’t major on the devil anyway because they defeated him already, praise the Lord!
King Saul turned against David; he pursued David through the nooks and crannies of Israel to take his life but the goodness of God saved David from King Saul. There was a particular time that he nearly caught David but God intervened at the nick of time, 1st Samuel 23: 25 – 28, it’s very instructive, “Saul also and his men went to seek him (that’s David). And they told David; wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth”.
God will send a message to that person pursuing you; God will distract them; Saul was distracted, he heard news from home that there was problem at home; God will send philistines after those pursuing you, they will distract them and then you can pursue your God-given goal in Jesus name. In peace and quiet, God will send that person that will completely and totally distract them.
So Saul had a negative report from home that made him abandon the pursuit of David and I pray for you this morning that God will make that unrestrained pursuer of your destiny to be distracted. God will cause trouble to multiply for them such that they will not have time or ability to pursue you any longer; they will not have time to pursue your destiny any longer.
God gave victory to David over King Saul as we see in 1st Samuel 24: 12 – 15; when he actually had a chance to kill Saul, the goodness of God in his life prevented him from doing so. I pray for you today that by the goodness of God, you would not have to avenge yourself of your enemies. God will take over your battle and avenge for you.
If you know the story very well, Saul almost met his death immediately after David just left him, it was like God saying leave him for Me, I’ll deal with him, don’t use your hand to kill him, he’s God’s anointed. You will have sweatless and effortless victory in Jesus name. Your victory will be sweatless and effortless in the mighty name of Jesus.
Now David became king despite all the travails; the whole idea was not to let him fulfill destiny but God gave him king and then internal enemies took over; he had defeated the external enemies – the bears, the lions, the Goliath, the King Saul, now internal enemies came.
To be sure all the things we are saying about David, he was a very ineffective father, we know his story about adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of one of his top soldiers. David had problem with lust which is an internal enemy, we all have to contend with internal enemies – some of us it may be anger, some of us, it’s pride, some of us it’s lust of this, lust of that, some of us it’s love of money, these are internal enemies, David had his own internal enemies too, he had become king already but the internal enemy would not leave him alone.
Maybe like David, you had made a mess of your life through internal enemies, God is saying to you today that there’s room for forgiveness. God forgave David, he committed adultery, not only committed adultery, he now committed murder to cover adultery and to who but one of his trusted generals, praise God!
But God forgave him; don’t forget we are talking about the goodness of God , this same God, so good, so merciful forgave David, Psalm 51: 10 – 12, David cried for help when he was confronted by prophet Nathan about what he did wrong, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit”, praise God.
David prayed and God answered him. And like David, maybe you are here too, you thought you have made a mess of your life, thank God for that song from the choir – there’s nothing that God cannot do, nothing that God cannot do does not exist, praise God! God can still turn your life of mess into a message and that’s what God will do for you in Jesus name, but what you need is to come clean like David and the loving goodness of God will save you in Jesus name.
So like we said, David’s first internal enemy was his flesh, and I pray for you today and as I pray for myself that the unregenerated flesh will not get you into trouble. It is the flesh that is not born again, our spirit is born again but your flesh is not born again, that’s why you crave for things and it’s up to you and with the grace of God to suppress the flesh. It wants to eat when you should not eat; it wants to sleep when you should not sleep; it wants to play when you should not play; it wants to be looking at what you shouldn’t be looking at, praise God!
David looked, he did not take his eye away because he was king. In those days, even now, kings are – that’s why the Yorubas call them ‘ka bi o o si’, the one you cannot question, go and get the woman for me and the poor people just went to get the woman for him and the woman too could not question, king is calling you, she had to go and answer, praise God! May God help us against our internal enemies, the flesh.
Some of us use our power, you may not be a king but you are powerful in your place of work, you are powerful at home, you have authority over some people and you lord it over them unnecessarily – internal enemy, watch out for that internal enemy, praise the Lord!
So that was one, God forgave David but there was still more problem for him; Absalom, one of his children, supported by one of his trusted aides, Ahitophel, rebelled against David; they chased David out of the palace, they chased him out of Jerusalem, praise God! But this good God brought David back; this God that we are talking about restored David to the throne, by the special grace of God, Absalom was defeated and David returned to Jerusalem and to the palace. You will be restored from that position where men have dislodged you in Jesus name. You will repossess your lost possession.
Some of us have lost something that we do not even realize we’ve lost; God will give you that thing that you are not even aware that you have lost in Jesus name. You will be restored, you will regain possession I the mighty name of Jesus.
David’s internal trouble did not end there, another son, Adonijah, staged the coup when he saw an opportunity, 1st Kings 1, and he had the support of the strongest general in David’s army, Joab. Joab incidentally was David’s nephew, son of one of David’s sisters; Joab joined hands with one of David’s children to stage a coup against David, they wanted to make Adonijah king while David was still alive, how can two kings be on the same throne? Praise God!
Internal enemies – his own child supported by his own nephew to chase him out of the palace but the goodness of God helped David, praise God. The mercies of God helped David to overcome this last challenge and he succeeded in anointing Solomon as king in his stead, that was God’s plan for David, praise God. He was able to eventually make Solomon king in his stead; the goodness of God helped David to hand over to a successor chosen by God; David was able to finish strong and well despite all the vicissitudes of life he faced, he died peacefully and contentedly, the goodness of God kept him, 1st Kings 2: 10 – 12.
“So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. 12 Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly”, praise God. So David was able to finish well; he was able to like Apostle Paul say I’ve run a good race, 2nd Timothy 4: 7 – 8, I have done well, praise the Lord.
But today, like I said earlier, we are talking about the goodness of God in the life of David. I didn’t mention the topic in the first place, it’s the Goodness of God or the Goodness of God in the Life of David, praise God.
We just come into a new year, 2024, and it’s already 70 days of that year, the promise of God for you (and I) is that this year will be better than the previous one in Jesus name. God is rekindling our hope and He has a plan for a turnaround for us as individuals, as families, as church and as a nation.
Here in CTL, we have as our theme for the year, God of Divine Turnaround, praise God! There shall be a turnaround for you; there shall be a turnaround for me; there shall be a turnaround for our nation, for your business, for your family this year 2024 in Jesus name.
As I begin to close, let’s look at Deuteronomy 11: 10 – 12, it talks about God’s plan for our year, “For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: 11 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: 12 A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year”.
God is talking about our 2024; for the Hebrews that He was talking to in Deuteronomy, they were looking at the Promised Land; for us, we are talking about the year ahead, the ten months that is still left for this year, God is saying that I will water the land for you, My eyes will be on it from now till the end of the year; that I will make it a land of fruitfulness for you; that is the promise of God for us, that’s why we are talking about the goodness of this God, the wonderful God, the One that we believe in as a mission, the One that we believe in as a church, the God that’s the Maker of heaven and earth, the only God.
He says from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year. So what this passage is saying is that we will have God’s care and goodness in this year; for you and I, the goodness of God and favor of God is guaranteed in the New Year.
So like I said earlier, we are talking about the goodness of God in the life of David and let’s look at ourselves, let’s situate ourselves in the place of David, how has God been good to you from the beginning of your life till now? Maybe your journey is about 40 years, maybe yours is 45, maybe somebody’s journey is 70 years, how has God helped you? Over the seas, over the waters, over the rail, over everywhere, you’ve travelled, you come back, this good God has been there supporting; some of us have had surgeries, dangerous surgeries that others have not recovered from, praise God!
We have domestic accidents at home, we have accidents on the road and God saves us all the time. I had a ‘small’ domestic accident (well, I call it small now) at home after church last Sunday; I was trying to put the fan on and I stumbled and I hit my rib against the reclining chair, it could have been my head on the floor, praise God! It was very painful, for about 10 minutes I was stunned, I just sat on the floor and I was feeling immense pain; I thought I had cracked one of the ribs, it was a major fall, just last Sunday, praise God!
So these are things we go through with the goodness of God; it was painful, the pain went down a bit after about ten minutes and I went out with my wife for a function, I got there and I couldn’t eat because breathing was a bit difficult and I couldn’t swallow but I can do that right now. It made me remember the goodness of God; at a point, breathing was difficult, you know normally you breathe in you breathe out, you don’t realize you are breathing, but because my rib was aching I was feeling it; each time I tried to breathe in and out, I was feeling the ache, it was like I had a broken rib, just a small domestic accident inside the house, I wasn’t inside the car, I just fell, I just lost my balance, I fell backwards and I just managed to escape the glass table, I could have fallen on the glass with bigger injuries.
These are things we take for granted every day, God is always good, this merciful God, this Creator, this Redeemer, this Sustainer, this Provider, He’s always watching out for us, praise God! Because what if I had fallen on the glass table with cuts maybe in the artery, the only person at home was my wife with me, no driver, nobody to rush anybody to the hospital and God kept me. I’m saying this as a testimony, I’m sure you have testimonies too of God’s goodness in this 70 days of 2024, I’m not talking about previous years, I’m talking about this 2024, how God has saved you, especially those that we did not even realize that we are involved in, our God is a good God, merciful, always abounding in mercy; if He can do that for David, He can do that for you as well as we bow our heads to pray this morning.
Reflect on God’s goodness and choose to be on His side; Psalm 124 says if it had not been the Lord on our side, where will we be? Reflect on God’s goodness, how He has helped you, how He’s helping you, how He will help you, and if you don’t know this God that we are talking about, you don’t know Him sufficiently well enough but you’ve heard about His goodness in the life of David, as we pray this morning, but for some of us our prayer will be thank God for Your goodness in my life as you begin to mention those goodness; for others, the prayer is that God, I want to know Your goodness, I want to start enjoying Your goodness, maybe because you haven’t started enjoying His goodness and it’s because you are not known by Him, can you just wave your hand this morning and let’s pray quickly so that you can begin to enjoy the goodness of this God.
He’s a good God, He’s also a consuming fire, praise God! We have examples also of those in the Bible, I could choose to use today to explain His other side as well because we are talking about God; I can choose to talk maybe next week if I’m asked to do this again on the consuming power of God and I will give you example as well, praise God. So don’t be on His other side…
[Altar call]
Heavenly Father, King of glory, we want to return glory, we want to return praise, we want to return honor to Your name, oh Lord. Thank You for Your goodness, thank You for Your loving kindness, thank You for being our Savior, thank You for being our Redeemer, thank You for being our Daddy, glory be to Your name oh Lord, accept our praises this morning, accept our thanks Jehovah, in Jesus 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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This year, I will open my mouth and tell God exactly how things are with me.
LET US PRAY
2 Kings 2:19 & 22
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
This year, I will open my mouth and tell God exactly how things are with me. I have discovered from experience that many people have become so good at pretending that all is well when all is not, even before God, the One who knows everything.
Ensure that you do not pretend or form before God. Tell Him exactly where the shoe hurts. Ask for His help more than ever before and He will surely answer you (Matthew 21:22).
ACT NOW:
Stop suffering in silence, tell God all your needs this year.
Have A Wonderful Day
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!
INTRODUCTION: We rounded up the study of the book of Galatians last Tuesday. Today, we are starting a new series with the theme: DIVINE GUIDANCE, and it will run till the end of the month.
It is still early in the year; and the sure way to start is to seek divine guidance. Psalm 25:12 says: What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall He teach in the way that he shall choose. Therefore, divine guidance helps us to fulfil destiny. In this year 2024, we shall all fulfil destiny in Jesus name,
Amen!
OUTLINE A: AVENUES FOR DIVINE GUIDANCE
There are several ways through which God can guide those that put their trust in Him.
1. Through the Word of God.
The Lord spoke clearly to Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Samuel, etc. Aside the word of mouth; the Bible represents the Word of God. Numbers 12:4-5, 1 Sam 3:21, Matthew 3:17 & Hebrews 4:12.
2. Through the witness of the Spirit.
The Spirit witnessed through prophet Agabus about Paul’s arrest in Jerusalem. The witness can also be through God’s peace of mind that passes all understanding. Acts 21:10-11, 30-31, Phil 4:6-7 &
Romans 8:14.
3. Through the voice of the Spirit.
The hearing is usually inward and inaudible to others. It can also be in the form of a ‘still small voice’, outward in case of Samuel or it can come in the midst of godly thought. Isaiah 30:21, 1 Kgs 19:12, 1 Sam 3:3-5, Acts 9:3-5 & Acts 10:19.
4. Through Revelations.
These include dreams, visions, trances. Let’s be mindful that dreams can come via your thoughts or even from the devil. Joel 2:28, Eccl 5:3, Jeremiah 23:32, Job 33:14-17, Dan 2:19 & Acts 10:10-11.
5. Through ordained situations/circumstances.
God can use a scenario/situation to minister/reveal things to you. Jeremiah 18:1 6. Daddy GO’s testimony.
6. Through prophetic utterances and confirmations.
We should NOT live at the mercy of prophecy. Hosea 12:10, Jeremiah 7:25 & 1 John 4:1.
7. Through diverse means as deemed fit by God.
Typical is the case of Jonah and to the apostles. Jonah 1:7 & Acts 1:23-26.
OUTLINE B: RECOGNISING DIVINE GUIDANCE
This is very important because you want to be sure that it is from God. The Holy Spirit plays the dual role of a guide and counsellor.
1. Get familiar with the Word of God. His Word is the truth and ultimate source of wisdom on how we should live. Follow the instructions, therefrom. 2 Timothy 3:16.
2. Test your inclinations against the Word. The Holy Spirit will never push us to do anything contrary to God’s Word. If such conflicts with the Word; ignore it. 1 Corinthians 14:33.
3. Pray without ceasing. This keeps us in constant touch with the Spirit of Truth and enables us to follow His leading. 1 Thess 5:17 & Romans 8:26-27.
CONCLUSION
We have identified some of the avenues divine guidance can manifest in our lives. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Comfort. Let us allow Him to guide us for the rest of our lives and we shall never be lost in the wilderness of life.
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!
The Wind Is Blowing For Favourable Climate Change Globally
BIBLE TEXT(S): Job 37:10-13, Lev 26:19, Psa 147:15-20
INTRODUCTION
Why do we need to pray for climate change? Rising global temperatures are caused by climate change and bringing big changes across the world. Changes to weather patterns disrupt harvests and put seasons out of balance, more unpredictable weather including frequent and intense rain, heat of the sun, massive floods and droughts and snow quakes put pressure on life, food supplies, and force people out of their homes and even loss of life.
LET US PRAY
1. Father, we thank you for creating the world, the sun, moon, and other climate elements. Gen. 1:1-3.
2. Father, we thank you for your help in ages past over turbulent climate change in Jesus’ name. 1Thes. 5:18.
3. Father, let your wind blows and help our governments to make laws and regulations that would make the climate favourable in Jesus’ name.
4. Lord, as your wind is blowing, forgive our sins that have led to unfavourable climate and weather conditions, in Jesus’ name. 1 Jn. 1:9.
5. Oh Lord arise in your mercy and restore every damaged done to this world, in
Jesus’ name. Joel 2:25.
6. Father, as your wind is blowing, raise for us generation of leaders that will put in place protective measures against harsh climate change, in Jesus’ name. Jn. 17:12, Ps. 91:1.
7. Oh Lord arise and take total control of our climate in Jesus name. Ps. 19:1-4.
8. Lord, in your mercy, lead our scientists and engineers to new discovery for a healthy human presence on the earth, in Jesus’ name. Lam.3:22.
9. Lord motivate our Leaders in government to take immediate action that will bring relief from adverse climate change, in Jesus’ name. Prov. 21:1.
10. Father Lord send divine assistance and help to those affected by adverse climate change, in Jesus’ name. Ps. 121:1-2.
11. Lord we bind every demon assigned to scatter the works of creation on climate and weather with the blood of Jesus, in Jesus’ name. Rev.12:11.
12. Lord Jesus, teach us how to make our world worthy of living before your return, in Jesus’ name. Matt.5:1-2, Jn. 14:26.
13. Father grant wisdom to world leaders on climate and weather management, by providing assistance and relief materials to individuals, families and cities adversely affected in Jesus’ name. Jam. 1:5.
14. Father let every spirit of fear of climate change shifting our focus from your kingdom be terminated by fire in Jesus’ name. 2 Tim. 1:7.
15. Father, as your wind is blowing, put an end to all forms of natural disaster against our wellbeing, in Jesus’ name. Isa.14:15.
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!
God bless her wherever she may be now! I was a sickly child growing up, I wasn’t allowed to do almost what my mates were doing that time. So, I found comfort in music. In my Primary 5, GOD graciously placed me in Mrs Akunne’s class and I had fun of my life time.
Mrs Akunne loved to sing and dance and she taught us new songs everyday. Since I had passion for singing and dancing, I became one of her best pupil and I did very well in my studies too.
Trusting GOD blindly for my tomorrow, knowing fully well that HE cares for me. Most times the thought of tomorrow scares me a lot! I need to completely trust GOD the more! Amen!
Alcoholism can be referred to as the act of addiction to alcoholic consumption.
Taking alcohol is against the counsel of God. It is sin against God for anyone to take strong drink or wine.
LET US PRAY
1. Father, we thank You for Your love over my life and my family in the name of Jesus. Psa. 48:1-2
2. Father, please show me your mercy and rescue me from alcoholism in the name of Jesus. Psa. 18:50
3. Father, I break and loose myself from every stronghold of alcoholism in my life in the mighty name of Jesus. Matt.18:18
4. Father, I repent of every sin of alcoholism that is recurring in my life in name of Jesus.
5. Father, cause a divine separation between me and the spirit of alcoholism in
Jesus’ name
6. Father, let every arrow of alcoholism fired into my life go back to sender in the name of Jesus.
7. Father, I cast out every spirit of alcoholism that is still in operation in the life of any member of my family. In the name of Jesus.
8. Father, as many that secretly take in alcoholism in your church, arrest and save their souls in the name of Jesus.
9. Father, every spirit of shame and disgrace programmed against my life be destroyed in the name of Jesus.
10. Father, by your mercy terminate shame in my life in the name of Jesus Christ.
11. Father, as your wind blows, blow away every spirit assigned to empty my life be bound and casted out in the name of Jesus. Nah .2:.10.
12. Father, every curse attracted into my life as a result of alcoholism be broken by the blood of Jesus Rev.12:11, Exo 12:13.
13. Father, as your wind is blowing, in your mercy rescue and restore glories that have been shattered by alcohol consumption in Jesus’ name Col.1:27.
14. Father, every spirit of alcohol assigned to waste my life be blown away in the name of Jesus.
15. Father, as your wind is blowing, let every spirit assigned to waste my resources be arrested by the fire of the Holy Ghost in the name of Jesus.
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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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!
Dream is one of the ways through which God communicates with us. However, it is important to note that Satan also manipulate dreams and can also afflict through it. Therefore, everyone should pray against evil dreams and cancel them using Gods word and declare that it shall not stand neither shall it come to pass.
LET US PRAY
1. Father, we thank you for exposing the kingdom of darkness to us through dreams in Jesus’ name. Ps.75:1.
2. Father, we thank you for directing us through dreams to frustrate the plan of enemy in Jesus’ name. Ps. 105:1.
3. Father show me in dream the secret of continuous success in my life, in Jesus name. Dan.2:22, Deut.29:29.
4. Father frustrate any form of dream manipulation in my life, in Jesus’ name.
Lam.3:37.
5. Father any evil dream in my life will never manifest, in Jesus’ name. Isa.7:7.
6. Father I frustrate any attack in the dream by the blood of Jesus, in Jesus name. Rev.12:11.
7. Father help me to bring my godly dreams to reality, in Jesus’ name. Jn.
14:13-14.
8. Father any power that feed me in the dream to poison me shall be destroyed, in Jesus’ name. Mk.16:18.
9. Father, any arrow of affliction and forgetting dreams fired into my life in the dream is paralyzed and set ablaze in Jesus’ name. Heb.12:29.
10. Father, any dream of death or backwardness is destroyed in Jesus’ name.
Hos.13:14
11. Father deliver me from negative dream that cause me pain and weeping in
Jesus’ name. Joel. 2:32.
12. Holy Spirit empowers us with the gift of interpretation of dream in Jesus name. Gen. 40:8,12.
13. Lord I decree that I will not die before the fulfilment and enthrone of my dream in Jesus’ name. Gen. 41:41-44.
14. Father, as your wind blows, reveal to me the dream of my greatness and give me the grace to be standing in you until the manifestation in Jesus’ name. Gen.37:5-11, Gen. 41:41-44, Gen. 50:18-20.
15. Father, as your wind is blowing, please give me the grace to understand all visions and dreams in Jesus’ name. Dan.1:17.
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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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!
Hallelujah! Day after day, the Lord will hold us with His hands and lead us to do all that we need to do in the name of Jesus; we will live in the righteousness of God; we’ll experience heaven here on earth and all things shall be possible for us in the mighty name of Jesus.
Thank you choir, the choir has preached the message for today, I think if at this point we just share the grace and go home, we will not have been shortchanged; glory be to God, thank You Jesus.
I’m imagining a Sunday that we’ll come here and it will be all praise, I’m just imagining that Sunday. Praise God!
Our God almighty, the God with whom nothing is impossible; honor and adoration oh Lord we give to You; we thank You Lord because we know You are already here with us; we thank You for all that You are about to do, that You have done already and You will continue to do in us and through us; Father Lord we thank You for Your word that You are about to send to us, Lord please give us understanding; give us revelation in the words and let there be performance of the word in the name of Jesus.
Every impossibilities, Father Lord bring an end to them in the mighty name of Jesus. Glorify Your name in us and through us now and forevermore in Jesus wonderful name we prayed.
Praise the Lord! Praise our living Jesus! Please let’s sit down majestically before our Father in heaven. The same message we heard in the morning, I’ll try to preach this session but indeed all things are possible. How many things are possible? All things are possible.
I would like to give thanks to God for the gift of life because only the living can stand and preach, only the living can expect things, can expect possibilities, praise God! And I appreciate the pastor in charge of province, our father in the Lord for this privilege also for me to stand here.
I welcome you all to church this morning and ask that whatsoever has brought you here this day, the Lord Almighty will hear the yearnings of your hearts in the mighty name of Jesus, because the Bible tells us that they came unto him, they looked up to him, their faces were radiant and they were not put to shame, Psalms 34: 5; and also in Proverbs 23: 18, it says surely there is an end; there is an end to impossibilities; there is an end to failure; there is an end to stagnation and the expectation of the righteous will not be cut off in the mighty name of Jesus.
Last week Monday we had a break from prayer chain because of the Easter, but we are back now, by the grace of God we’ll have prayer chain tomorrow and the theme of the prayer chain for tomorrow is “Go forward”, Exodus 14: 10- 15.
Our theme for this month of April is Divine Possibilities, Luke 1:37. But before we go into today’s message, I’d like to appreciate on behalf of our PICP every one of us who came yesterday whether physically or joined online to attend the Economic Summit that we had yesterday, or who supported in one way or the other; prayers, telling people about it, sharing the tracts, taking the tracts, in whatever way or putting money, giving water, he said I should say thank you to all of you, it was a marvelous program, it was a great success, praise the Lord!
Luke 1: 37, “For with God nothing shall be impossible”. So from this text and our theme for this month, I take my topic for today, “Unlimited Possibilities”, praise the Lord!
So we go into it quickly and I make some definitions; when we talk about possibility, to relate with the term possibility, I tried to use some synonyms for it – chance, likelihood, the odds or probability that something may happen or will be true. For example, what is the possibility that Nigeria will be great again? What is the possibility that it will rain in the course of this week? What is the possibility that you’ll be here next week Sunday? You know, likelihood, what is the chance? What are the odds?
Okay, but another way to look at possibility is when you don’t look at it in terms of likelihood but in terms of variety of options available. For example, the example I gave in the morning; I stand there and I say I want to go to the gate of Lekki, what are the options available to me from here to get to the gate? Should I walk? Take a bike? A bus? Take my car? Or fly? Options, praise God!
So in the context of this passage, ‘for with God all things are possible’, I believe that the Bible is not talking to us on possibility in terms of likelihood, and I will explain that soon, the Bible is talking to us on possibilities in terms of options available. Likelihood is for us men; when you just want to stay safe, you don’t want to say yes or no and then you stand on the fence, somewhere in between.
For God, there is only certainty; so for the mathematicians here, if we say what is the possibility that there will be day tomorrow? What’s the likelihood that there will be day tomorrow? The statisticians or mathematicians will say one out of two, because in any day you can have a day or a night, so the likelihood of a day is one out of two, that’s .5, so usually when humans are talking, it’s somewhere between zero and one likelihood, but when God is talking, it’s either zero or one.
So let’s see God’s perspective to that same question, Genesis 8: 22, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest time, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. So it’s saying if tomorrow comes, what is the likelihood that there will be day? One, it’s certain, you shall not cease; so with God is either one or zero, when will it be zero? If there is no tomorrow then there is no day.
With that background, now we’ll look at unlimited; when you say something is unlimited, it means that there is no boundary; it means there are no restrictions whether in number, in quantity, in depth, in volume, no restriction whatsoever, just as much as you can have it.
So unlimited possibilities refer to a situation where for every issue of life that we face, with God, there are so many options and there’s no limitation to how far He can go to take care of those issues. That’s what we are going to talk about today literally, but we are going to be telling stories from the Bible, I’m going to be relating it to the issues of life, so I want to implore us, please follow through, one or two will relate to you, hold on to it and run with it, don’t say I’m familiar with this story, there’s something in each of those stories for you to learn, praise the Lord! Praise the living Jesus!
Isaiah 55: 8 & 9, the Bible says “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, (God is saying now); neither are your ways My ways; as the heaven is higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways”. God is saying when you look at this and they say move this, in my head, to move this I only want to lift it but for God, He can just blow His nostrils and it moves, so He’s not seeing things the way we see it, He won’t do things the way we’ll do it but He will get it done.
So let’s look at some of the scenarios and the things that will possibly happen when unlimited possibilities come to play in our lives; the first example, the first story we’ll tell, you’ll have victory without limits. Exodus 12: 31-36, the Bible tells us that they came, after about 400 years, the children of Israel now had the opportunity to leave Egypt eventually for the Promised Land; they were excited, they were happy, they were not just leaving, they were leaving with a lot of resources, so that created a lot of excitement, they were happy to leave, but when they got to a certain point along the journey in Exodus 14, the Red Sea said to them where are you all going? Where are you coming from? Where are you going? Stay there, no more movements.
So there was a limitation in the movement, they couldn’t go forward, they looked back and saw the host of Egypt coming, they could also not go backward. Exodus 14: 10- 13, what did they do? They began to reign abuses and queries and curses upon their leader, Moses; (from 10) why have you brought us here? You would have left us in Egypt let us be servants and slaves in Egypt rather than die in this wilderness; we would have stayed back in Egypt to continue to eat cucumber, Moses you are the one that caused this, take all the gold we don’t want it, we want life.
Why did they say that? They have looked at the situation, they could not go through the Red Sea because of the limitation; they could also not go back, Pharaoh is coming and he will kill them; so they thought it was all over. To man, it will seem as if it’s over, but God had a different plan; verse 13, God said to Moses, why do you stand there looking at me? You have a rod, stretch it over the water and it parted; the first time that would happen and they walked over and they got to the end, they never imagined that there would be way through the sea, praise the living Jesus!
And the Egyptians followed them but God used that same sea that made the way for the children of Israel to drown the Egyptians and gave them victory, permanent victory over their archenemies. There is someone here today, in the battle of life you’ve come to a point where you think there is no way forward, and you do not know how to proceed and you have surrendered and said it’s all over, the God of unlimited possibilities will open way for you in the name of Jesus, and He will give you unusual victory over all those issues in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
Story number two, provision without limit; there can be provision without limits. 1st Kings 17: 8- 16, this is the story of the widow of Zarephath; in the morning I said those who attended digging deep, this will still be very fresh because that was what we talked about last Tuesday; you see the benefit of coming to digging deep, but I’ll try to just paraphrase but digging deep was really deep, so please I invite you to digging deep on Tuesday and don’t miss it again.
There was famine in the land; no water, no food, nothing else, people didn’t have enough energy to even move about, and everything was almost lifeless; so there was this widow in a city called Zarephath, this had taken away their resources to the level where they had only one left for her and her son to eat and after eating it, she said they would wait for death. I wonder and said why would somebody conclude that they would wait for it? People don’t want to talk about their death, but she would have seen people, neighbors, people around, or she would have heard what happened to others after they finished their food because nobody was going to share with another because of famine, that they eventually passed out; so they were going to wait for their own, that is because that’s all she could see – the limitation of man, but unknown to her, God said to Elijah, (he was at the brook waiting there), arise, go to Zarephath, you will see a widow there, do this and do this, dwell in that place and Elijah went.
He got there, he said Madam, I’ve been coming from a journey please I need water; the woman said in this famine, water? Okay, I can share a bit; as she was going to fetch the water, he said please make food for me. She said, are you a stranger in this land? You mean you don’t know what’s happening or you didn’t hear from where you are coming from that there’s no food? I can’t give because I have only one left; but Elijah insisted and said, by the leading and according to the word of God, give me food.
Thank God the woman heeded; I pray for you, at the turning point of your life, may you make the right decisions in the mighty name of Jesus. The woman yielded her last meal, it means that her death sentence was faster but she didn’t mind because it was God now at play, but God ensured that what was supposed to be the last meal became the beginning of meals, and ensured that she, her son, her household, I believe the neighbors would be coming to eat for three years until the famine was over and there was no lack.
May I speak to somebody here; the situation that we are going through, many people, is like famine; there’s no food like we used to have, no water like we used to have, people cannot just go and buy things as they used to do, because everything is now unsteady, you measure and measure and you are thinking when would this be over; in the name that’s above every other name, in the midst of this shortage, in the midst of insufficiency, in the midst of famine, in the midst of lack, the Lord Almighty will open new ways for you in the mighty name of Jesus. Where others are rationing food, you’ll be giving out in the mighty name of Jesus. Where others are waiting for death, you will be renewing lives in the name of Jesus.
The third story; healing without limit. There is this story in the Bible, John 5: 1- 11, the Bible tells us that there’s a pool in a city called Bethesda, and around that place in one of the porches, there are sick people, people with different sicknesses –the lame, the blind, those who could not hear, those who had stomach pain, anything whatsoever they were all there, so they called it impotent folks, he was among these impotent folks.
So this man was there but the people were not there without hope, once in a season the Bible says an angel would come, trouble the water, and whoever would run into that water first would be healed of whatever sickness they had; that was a protocol and they were living with that.
So this man was lame; please tell me, in a congregation like that, a lame man, how could he ever win that race? So it was a no battle, it was a no starter for him but he tried, after some time he realized that there’s no way he was going to win this, he surrendered to fate. John 5: 6; when Jesus saw him lie, what was he doing? He was lying down, he said I cannot come and kill myself, I can’t run anymore, there’s no point because it doesn’t amount to anything for me.
He could not see another way of healing other than running into that pool, but one day Jesus Christ came to him and said do you want to be made whole? Ehn, I want to but there’s nobody to help me; He said do you want to be made whole? Even against his unbelief, God moved. You know some of us will be saying ah, is it true or is it not true? The Lord Almighty will help your unbelief in the mighty name of Jesus.
Before the end of that day, instead of having to run into water, God bypassed that protocol and went to him directly. Somebody will receive divine favor in the name of Jesus. God went to him directly and he packed his bag that day, he walked out of that place that day, people saw him and marveled that same day. In the name that’s above every other name, I do not know what is the sickness, I do not know what is it that people have labeled you through it and said impotent folk or that sick man or that man with that condition, that woman with that; the One who bypassed a protocol at Bethesda will visit you today in the mighty name of Jesus.
The doctors have said there is no way; the doctors have said this womb cannot carry a child; the doctors have said this thing is terminal; the doctors have said this thing cannot be cured, that is the doctor; the Doctor of doctors says I made you; the Doctor of doctors says I know what to do to make it right, and it will come to you in the name of Jesus.
Story number four; abundance without limits. 2nd Kings 4: 1-7; here we have the story of a woman who was married to a son of a prophet but she became widowed, that means her husband died, but when the husband died, the Bible tells us that she had two sons but the husband had used the two sons to borrow money. May you not get to a situation where you will use your children to borrow money in the mighty name of Jesus.
And the husband died and left a huge debt that the generations after him could not finish to pay. When you are going to leave this world, you will not leave debts in the name of Jesus. The Bible says a good man liveth an inheritance for his children’s children, the Lord will bless you so much that you will live good inheritance not debt for your generations to come in the name of Jesus.
So back to the story of this woman; the woman one day, when she heard that the creditors were coming, got up and said I won’t allow them to take my sons; she went to Elisha, help me, and then we know the story, but before I go back to that story, there are a few things I want to point out here; she was the wife of a minister in the church, I assumed that she was a Christian by implication; many of us think that the moment you say you are a Christian or you are a child of God, no more problems, you are living in heaven because it’s only in heaven that there is no more problem, Hallelujah!
Brethren, there will be challenges, there will be troubles, there will be tribulations, there will be persecutions, but the only thing the Bible tells us is that we will overcome, and you will overcome them in the name of Jesus. Psalms 34: 17, the Bible says “The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles”, may you be delivered in the name of Jesus.
Another lesson from that woman is; whenever there is trouble, don’t keep it to yourselves. These jackets, these clothes, that we are all wearing cover a lot of secrets; some people looking fine, beautiful and all that, new shoes and all that, but inside they are crying, crying alone can kill fast. The woman did not go to Elisha immediately her husband died, she must have been crying for some time before she cried openly, don’t wait, seek for help, and number three is that when she asked for help, help came immediately. The help that you need is around you, may the Lord open your eyes to see them in the mighty name of Jesus.
Psalms 46: 1, the Bible says God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble; He’s always there, ever there, all you need to do is cry, you don’t need MTN, you don’t need any line – any communication line, just talk to God and He will answer. Praise the living Jesus!
Now back to the woman; she ran to Elisha, she probably expected Elisha to say thus saith the Lord, by this time tomorrow you shall no longer be indebted, the creditor will die; it’s not true, the creditor did not do anything wrong by giving you money, so please if you are owing, pay back, don’t go and pray prayer that the creditor should die, they will not die because God is a just God.
She probably also expected Elisha to say don’t worry, I’ll talk to them on your behalf, they will leave you, but none of those happened, what did Elisha say? We will pay this debts but I’ll show you how, and God said to her, go and take vessels -empty vessels, the only little oil you have, start spreading it, she said haha, how can this small thing fill… he said just continue, the just shall live by faith, and then she started, one, two, three, four, five, six, twenty, hundred, like that, and then until the last vessel was filled, then he gave her instruction, go and sell.
She sold only a part of it and paid the debt; she said what do I do with the remaining? That is yours, go and live, you are no longer in debt but in abundance. Brethren, she could not find a way out but God who had a thousand ways out of troubles showed the way, may the Lord Almighty open the way for you in the name of Jesus, and in place of lack, He will give you abundance. For those who are in debts, the Lord will pay them miraculously in His own way in the mighty name of Jesus.
But please remember, don’t pray that your creditor should die, please.
Number five; laughter without limits, that’s another story, laughter without limits. In the morning we used the story of Sarah, Genesis 21: 1- 3, but also in this category is Hannah, so Genesis 21; the Bible says “And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. (verse 2), she conceived, bear Abraham a son in his old age, at the time that God has spoken to him.(verse 3) and then bear his son and called the name of the son Isaac”. Isaac means laughter, so it means that she had been crying, she had been sorrowful and God put an end to that sorrow with Isaac, she was already 90 years old.
In Genesis 18, the angels said to her or the messenger said to her, in the season of life by this time next year, you will bear; she said me, at this age, can I still have a child? That is the reason of a man, a man thinks after a certain age you can’t conceive again, but it is not so with God, the One who made the body, you are only counting age, 90 years, what is 90 years before God? The One in whose timeline a thousand years is like a day; 90 years is like this.
So God opened the womb and she had the child and put an end to sorrow, and she became Mama Laughter; in the name that is above every other name, whatever has been causing you to cry, bringing sorrow to your lives, the Lord will put an end to them in the name of Jesus. He will make you to laugh; your name will become laughter from today in Jesus name.
The next story and perhaps the last one, hope without limits. Brethren, there is nothing that brings hopelessness like death; nothing brings hopelessness like death; once something dies or someone dies, hope is over, but that is with man, with God, death is not the end.
One of the days Paul found himself before a king called Agrippa, Acts 26: 8, he said Paul, you have been accused of this of this of that, come and speak for yourself, and instead of Paul making case for himself, he started preaching and started talking to him about how Jesus died and was raised up; so I’m sure Agrippa was like die, when somebody is dead he’s dead now, how can He be raised up? Paul said why should you think it is impossible that God will raise the dead?
But I don’t blame Agrippa; in the calendar of man, once something dies it is over, but God can bring the dead back to life; He did it in John 11; Lazarus was sick, they called Him He said I’m coming, but before He came, Lazarus died. When He came, Martha went to Him and said I’m disappointed in You, I thought we were friends, You couldn’t even come in time until Your friend died; it’s over now, so what are You coming to do now? You can as well go back to where You are coming from. Jesus Christ said calm down, Lazarus will live, she said I know, on the resurrection day; she said you are waiting for resurrection day in 10,000 years when the Resurrection and the Life is with you now, when do you want it? Is it tomorrow or now? And then He went to the tomb of Lazarus and only called his name and gave a command to come out; the dead, grave, heard the voice of Jesus Christ and said Lazarus you don’t belong here, go, go, and the dead came back to life.
So brethren, I’m saying whatever situation you find yourself that appears to be hopeless, if there’s nothing as hopeless as death and God can put a renewal to death, whatsoever it is in your life that is hopeless, today, the Lord Almighty will give a renewed hope in the mighty name of Jesus.
They said the womb cannot carry a baby anymore, not so with God; they said the business is dead, not so with God; they said you cannot graduate, not so with God; they said you have passed the age of marriage, not so with God; whatsoever the world has written off, God will reopen them for you in Jesus mighty name.
But I’d like to add to you that when you begin to operate in this realm of unlimited possibilities, certain things will happen; we can’t take all but we’ll take a few; the first of it is that dreams and destinies are fulfilled. You remember the story of Joseph; he was a dreamer, he dreamed that one day, his family, brother, father, everybody will come and bow down. One day his brother said okay, here comes a dreamer, when we finish with him, let us see how that dream will come to pass, but because Joseph was operating under the shadow of the God of unlimited possibilities, they could not kill him, they sold him.
The people they sold him to sold him forward; in that place they said we’ll punish you, go to prison; in the prison, he met destiny helper who took him to his destiny. The destiny that the brother said let us see how it will be achieved, he achieved it; the bow down that they didn’t want to bow down, not only did they bow down, they prostrated. In the name that’s above every other name, you will fulfill your dreams; you will reach your destinies in life in the mighty name of Jesus.
If there’s anyone here and they have told you they cannot amount to anything, it is a lie from the pit of hell, you will amount to something in the name of Jesus.
When you operate under the realm of unlimited possibilities, your enemies will be at peace with you, Hallelujah! In Genesis 26, brethren, it’s not today that japa syndrome started, in Genesis 26, Isaac realized that things are not moving but they said to him in certain countries it is happening; he said I want to japa and God said no, stay here, it is here that I will bless you, and that’s a message for somebody; before you make that move, hear what God is saying, don’t japa anyhow, hear what God is saying.
So Isaac stayed in obedience to the word of God and then the Philistines frustrated him in many ways, but every time they tried to stop him he grew better, he became stronger, he became mightier. So one day they all had a family meeting and said let us borrow ourselves sense, this guy that we are trying to stop is unstoppable, let us go and beg him and make friends with him.
His enemies came together, Genesis 26: 26-28, and said please, we were being childish before, now we’ve come to our senses, don’t be annoyed, he accepted them and they became friends. Every enemy of your life that speaks against you behind you and when they see you they say good things, they are enemies; every enemy of your life that is digging the pit for you, as you begin to operate under the realm of unlimited possibilities, they will come to make peace with you in the mighty name of Jesus.
We can take one more; you will become an ambassador for Christ. When you operate under this realm, you will become Christ’s ambassador. A very good example of that is Apostle Paul; the Bible tells us that Paul went through a lot of things; shipwreck, he was imprisoned, they beat him, caned him, they abused him, they tore his clothes, they took him to everywhere but guess what, if you look through the whole of the Bible, save Jesus Christ, the one who stood out like a picture of an ambassador for Christ was Paul, because he operated under that realm of unlimited possibilities.
From today, wherever you go, people will see Christ in you; signs and wonders will introduce you; the words you speak shall become laws in the mighty name of Jesus. You will carry the body of Christ. 2nd Corinthians 5: 26, and now we are ambassadors for Christ, and that’s who you are from today in the mighty name of Jesus.
But these are very good things but we have roles to play; to get these things to happen, there are things that we also must do; one of the things we need to do, you must have faith in God. Mark 9: 23, all these things are mind-blowing, you remember that man by the pool of Bethesda, he didn’t have faith; remember Sarah, when they told her that she would give birth, she said at this age, 90? She didn’t believe it; you must have faith to be able to contain what God is about to do.
Mark 9: 23, Jesus said unto him, if thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. All things are possible once you believe God that God can do it.
Number two, you must surrender your life to Jesus Christ. So if you have not at any time surrendered your life to Him, or if you did and you walked back, it’s a good opportunity to go back to Him because the God of unlimited possibilities will give things first to His children, will give His children preferential treatment over any other person, Hallelujah!
So when it is time, when we make the altar call, please run forward; and then still on that, Romans 10: 9& 10 say, if thou will confess with your mouth that the Lord Jesus and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, then thou shall be saved. That’s all you need to do, confession with your mouth, Hallelujah!
Apart from this impossibility that will be broken today that we talked about, there’s also a very more important reason why you must surrender your life to Jesus Christ; last week was Easter Sunday, we all celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but there is a message in that resurrection and the message is that Jesus Christ showed us that we’ll live, we’ll die, and we’ll be raised, that’s the message, and for those who will still be alive when He comes back, they may not die but they will rise up with Him, but that’s going to be that, but if you are not in a position to be raised when He comes back, it should be unfortunate.
So I want to invite as many people here this morning, you have never accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, or you did at a time but with circumstances of life you’ve gone back, you want to come to Him this morning, start with Him anew, salvation is available for you this morning, give your life to Jesus Christ, accept Him, surrender to Him as your Lord and Savior, and then you will enter into the realm of unlimited possibilities, He’ll put an end to failure, put an end to stagnation.
If you are here this morning, just wave your hands because we want to pray quickly. You are here this morning, you want to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please just come. Come and join them because Jesus Christ is coming back as the Bible tells us and He’s coming back for a church without blemish or wrinkle, if there’s sin in your life, you know there is a tarnish in your life, please come and accept Him as Lord and Savior. if you
You are here, you are in between making up your mind, just come forward and the Lord Almighty will accept you in the mighty name of Jesus. While waiting for them to come, please let us rise, so we can take our prayers; brethren let us give thanks to God, our God of our limited possibilities, the One who can make different options available, more than a thousand options for every situation; let us thank Him, brethren, let us thank God; let’s thank God; let’s bless His Holy name; let us give Him thanks for salvation; let us give Him thanks; let us bless His Holy name. Father we thank You; Father we thank You; God of unlimited possibilities we thank You; we give You all the glory; we give You all honor and adoration in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank You blessed Redeemer, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
We heard the song by the choir, it says ‘all things are possible’, and indeed all things are possible because it’s supported by the scripture, Luke 1: 37, so if there is any impossibility in your life right now, you have aspirations, things you want to do but there are barriers, the reasons why they are not happening; God is saying all things are possible, come to God.
So we are going to pray and say Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, please put an end to every impossibility in my life; every barrier, every barrier in my life, every limitation, every restriction over my life, Father please put an end; for with You nothing shall be impossible, please put an end oh Lord, put an end O Lord, to every barrier in my life in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you heavenly Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
We see that everybody in life at a point in time comes to a critical point where you take certain decisions, and decision you take determines if you’ll go up or go down or remain there. We saw it, the widow of Zarephath had a decision to make, last meal, maybe if she ate that meal she would still have two days to live, if she doesn’t eat she’ll die today; but she decided to give it to Jesus, she took the right decision and the story we all know.
We are going to cry to the Lord Almighty; Father, please help me to make the right decisions at all times, in my life, in the name of Jesus. Help me to make that right decision in the mighty name of Jesus. Help me O Lord to make the right decision always; everything that I need to do, Father Lord help me to make the right decisions in the mighty name of Jesus. Help me oh Lord to make that right decision in the name of Jesus. Thank You Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
And finally, for every situation we look at it, we are blinded because we are humans and see only one possibility, but God has many options and He can use any of them, but what happens to us is that most times we are fixated on what we see and we continue to stay there at that roadblock instead of saying God, what are You saying?
Let us cry to the Lord Almighty and say Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, please give me the grace to always look unto You every time I get to a roadblock, every time I get to a crossroad, to look unto You for options; show me the plans that You have for my life. Father please give me the grace oh Lord to always depend on You; to always look up to You every time I get to a point where I can go no further; in every situation that I find myself, help me to always look up to You; help me O Lord in the name of Jesus. Thank You Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Amen. Praise the Lord!
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