EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 42 – Sunday 25th October, 2020
(Ps.40:)
IT IS NOT OVER EVEN WHEN IT IS OVER

Sound conviction would have failed me if I find any soul still living who has witnessed and experienced a year like year 2020. It has been a year of turbulence to say the least. In fact, will anyone be wrong to say that if the only success that one has eventually made this year is the success of remaining alive, and that that is certainly enough for the year?
Stratum of tragedy have culminated in diluge of disasters. Catastrophies at some points graduated to the echelon of cataclysms. And the deaths of men was an abnormality which became a normal thing and in the end emerged as a mere norm. Business failures, church desertification, forced holidays, retrenchments, compulsory downsizing, job losses and many more have been the characteristics of the outgoing year.
But through it all is the evidence of divine kindness. It was the same year in the midst of the tidal storm that some people got increases in salaries. Employment letters greeted the doorsteps of many. Long awaited fruit of the womb became a reality. And yet, it was the same year that many renewed their covenants with God and had fresh experiences with the God of heaven.
So then, it is truly not over even when it is over. But would a statement of this mean? It is not over even when it is over! Really! Yes! It is not over even when it is over because only the Almighty who has the final say will determine and tell when it is truly over.
Situations, circumstances and even man does not have the final say but God. Hear the way one intelligent man aptly captured it. John Burroughs opined, ‘A man can fail many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else’.
Going down the lane of exchanging or shifting blame is not incidental but accidental. To conclude that someone else is responsible is to consider God the least able to resolve that problem. It is the same as apportioning blame against the Almighty. To hold grudge against God because of that miracle which is yet to happen is simply to be bitter.
To be bitter because of any problem is to consciously create a blurred vision and blocked perception for oneself. The end-result is always the case that solution is nearest but cannot be seen. The hands of the clock of year 2020 may be winding down but remember that ‘He that changes time and seasons’ (Dan.2:21) Is yet alive.
Those bitter thoughts, the pains and the bitter conclusions of your heart are simply all that you know. But Tammy has an all-time admonision for me and you. Tammy L. Kubsko noted ‘let go of what you think you know. Something amazing happens when you let God and trust Him’.

Therefore, as turbulent year 2020 winds down remember the following:

• God is going no where. Neither can His days wind down.
• Because God is yet alive means and you are alive too and this means that it is not over even when it is over.
• God does not fail like men do. If He does then He has become like men. Remember that His track record cannot change and it cannot be altered.
• The fact that God is alive means that your breakthroughs and celebrations are still ahead.
• Since satan is known for bad news and God is known for good news. Therefore, God and satan are never the same. If God is different from satan, then His mercy is bound to succor you. It is only getting late for you because it will become the later and greater glory in the end. Did you get that?
• It is the small things that cause miracles spurned by laughter. The big ones and the real ones cause tears of joy. That is your portion you know!
• It is not over even when it is over. For the endpoint of and for man is always the startpoint of the Almighty.
• Be sure that God is never happy with the sufferings, struggles and the failures of man.

IN THE END, THE BEST EXPECTATION OF HUMANITY IS ALWAYS THE LEAST THAT DIVINITY CAN OFFER. WAIT FOR DIVINITY’S BEST. IT WILL COME. FOR ALTHOUGH MAN MAY EXPERIENCE FAILURE. HEY! NOT THE ALMIGHTY.

Question and Answer Section
Question: The great questions again! When was the last time that you preached to any soul? Do you serve God with joyful heart or with reluctance? How much hurt is in your soul against that fellow? Won’t rather forgive them and forget their mischief so that you can rightly serve your loving Father? When was the last time you smiled genuinely and truly from your heart about yourself bearing in mind the bright days to come? when was the last time you heard a force praying within your belly without your consciousness? When was the last time you gave some thing to support God’s work apart from your tithes and offerings? When was the last time you supported any man to fulfill a divine or a personal agenda? When was the last time you put smile on the face of someone?
Answer: Hmmm!.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suit 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com
The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages. Our website is: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: Stand-up, Stand-up For Jesus
PRAY NOW:
1. Read Is.40:1-2, Forces that have held me down, your woe has come. Collide against and be ended.
2. Read Is.14:4, Hands siphoning my breakthroughs, wither as the Hands of Jeroboam withered.
3. By the Lord’s force, fire and power, I recover my stolen gold.
4. All my blessings stored up in year 2020, be released to me now.
5. Present your personal petitions.

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 40 – Sunday 11th October, 2020
(Is.10:27, Matt.11:28-30)
SATANIC YOKES LIMIT MEN BUT THE ADVOCATE OF MEN IS WITHOUT LIMIT

Genesis chapter 1:26-30 informingly states that
’26 Then God said, let us make man in our image, according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
29 And God said, see, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
30 Also to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food; and it was so’.

By all intents and purposes, the kindness and extreme generousity of God to man is unusually unusual. Without doubt, the latitude of human boundaries, as far as God is concerned, is without limit. By creation, by the right to own property and do business, man was created to enjoy boundless freedom, limitless rights, control and expand freely without any set frontiers.
But the words and the writing of Jean Jacque Rousseau has taken the toll of reality on both the modern and the premodern man. Rouseau opined, ‘man was born free; and everywhere, he is in chains’.
What a statement of unusual contrast! It is nothing else but a paradox that on the one hand, man finds himself in freedom. The next minute he finds himself and his freedom fully curtailed. Speaking by the Spirit of the living God, Prophet Isaiah informs in Isaiah chapter 10:27 that ‘and it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing’.
Understand that the ability to found limitation and to give limitations their force and power is the foremost job describtion of all yokes. Understand also that yokes are not part of divine design. Going back to Isaiah chapter 10:27, there is a point of worthy reference.
It states that ‘his burden’ and then ‘his yoke’. The questions then are: whose burden? And whose yoke? The simple answer is: it is the burden and the yoke flowing from dark powers. Yokes are spiritual loads deliberately and forcefully laid on man consciously or unconsciously. The question is how do they succeed in laying this evil load on man?
Dark powers take their time to study man, his likes and dislikes, the things he has affection for and his disaffections. Why? It is always in order to find those things that man cannot do without. This why certain colours can be yoked against one. A particular kind of food can be yoked against a man. Indeed, wife can be yoked against husband and vice versa. Does this surprise you?
Have you never heard a husband complaining that each time he shares testimony with his wife, such testimony never materializes eventually? Is it because that wife is a witch? Hmmm! Yes it may be. But in most instances, the simple truth is that the wife has been yoked/jinxed against her husband. The enemy/dark powers are aware that the heart of both the husband and the wife are so knit together that they will always share everything.
The enemy is aware of the strong bond between the two. The enemy is aware of the power of unity and the bond of peace needed for two people to ‘chase ten thousand’. This is why he has yoked one against the other. Despite his wickedness in yoking one against the other, do you know that the enemy still goes ahead to subtly let the husband observe the yoke on the wife so that that husband can be angry against the innocent wife?
Ah! What a wicked world! His ultimate aim is always to scatter Christian homes, quality relationships among friends, create suspicion and deceit. But hear O man, is quarreling the solution? No! instead, reporting the matter to God in fervent prayers and anointing that relationship is the key.
Therefore, with apostolic anointing, I break every yoke in the life of the readers of this edition of The Message Now, in Jesus name. Amen. Why is it that there is a particular evil pattern running through a particular family? The original wife of father Abraham in the Bible was barren. Rebecca, Isaac’s original and only wife was barren for forty years. Rachel, Jacob’s original wife and foremost delight was barren.
This was a continuing yoke down the generational line. Far back in 1997, God told me that there was a yoke of impossibility to get into university on my family. Looking back then, I discovered no one has been able to complete secondary school education in my family and that I was the first. Now, I had just written my qualifying exams in order to gain admission into the university. So, what was God saying?
The need to break the yoke was now ripe. With divine intervention, I have not only completed that university education at the time, God has acquired more degrees for me afterwards. O dearest brother and sister, what is holding your progress down? It is a yoke that must be broken today. Please do not take yokes lightly. Confront them with fervent fiery prayer and serious fasting.
Yokes do not hinder man in any particular area of life except such area of life is vitally important. I decree in the name of the Lord Jesus, let every yoke standing as clogs in the wheel of your progress be broken and consumed by divine fire now, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Yokes are spiritual entities. They can see and they can speak.
Do you know that the negative advice convincingly given to you which led to change and divertion of your destiny was not the fault of the giver of that advice? A yoke spoke through that fellow. No wonder the Bible instructs that we should test all spirits. Learn the habit of always clapping your hands when you praise God. Yokes hate clapping to God. The spirit behind yokes is idol power of evil foundations and household wickedness.

IN THE END, GIVE YOKES THEIR POISONS AND THEY WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE. NOTHING POISONS THEM MORE THAN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, THE FIRE OF THE HOLY GHOST, THE CLAPPING OF HANDS, WORTHY PRAISES, SPIRIT-FILLED ANOINTING OIL, FERVENT PRAYERS, GIVING, SERIOUS FASTING THE REMEMBERING OF THE NEGLECTED AND, EVANGELISM AND CONTRIBUTING RICHLY TO THE WORK OF OUR MASTER AND THE CAPTIN OF OUR SALVATION HERE ON EARTH.

Question and Answer Section
Question: The great questions again! When was the last time that you preached to any soul? Do you serve God with joyful heart or with reluctance? How much hurt is in your soul against that fellow? Won’t rather forgive them and forget their mischief so that you can rightly serve your loving Father? When was the last time you smiled genuinely and truly from your heart about yourself bearing in mind the bright days to come? when was the last time you heard a force praying within your belly without your consciousness? When was the last time you gave some thing to support God’s work apart from your tithes and offerings? When was the last time you supported any man to fulfill a divine or a personal agenda? When was the last time you put smile on the face of someone?
Answer: Hmmm!.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suit 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com
The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages. Our website is: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: The Great Physician
PRAY NOW:
1. O ancient yokes that have plagued my family until now, I break free from you today.
2. You yokes that stopped others in my family and still holding others up, I stop you concerning my life, and I set you on fire.
3. Read Zech.9:11-12: I call onto the east, the west, the north and the south, you my blessings and breakthroughs held up by yokes, I release you now. Therefore, return to me now.
4. Whosoever and whatsoever has been yoked against me, receive deliverance now, in the name of Jesus .
5. Demons and wicked spirits strengthening yokes and jinxes against my life and destiny, I bind you, I cast you out into the bottomless pit and I command you to remain there till Christ appears in His second coming.
6. Present your personal petitions.

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EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 39 – Sunday 4th October, 2020
(Lk.22:42, 2 Kings.20:1-20)
THE PERFECT PRAYER FROM A PERFECT HEART

No matter how fervent, perfect prayer from an imperfect heart will not be granted. Likewise, regardless of the most soothing words expressed, imperfect prayer from a perfect heart will at best be heard but not answered. A perfect prayer from a perfect heart but which is contrary to the will of God will suffer delay, and may most probably be unanswered. The result of an imperfect prayer from an imperfect heart is already determined ever from before the start.
For sin is the decider of all the offered prayers from inperfect hearts. And an answer to all prayers offered from an imperfect heart against the will of God will certainly spill doom and disaster over time and through time.
Dear brother, dear sister, have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are struggling to pray through over a matter? Did you carefully observe that that struggle is not as a consequence of satanic attack? The truth of the matter is obvious; that prayer is not in line with the will of God. For the Blessed Holy Spirit always stirs up the spirit of man to pray most fervently or with soothing peace and faith when that prayer is in line with the will of God.
The Spirit of God and the spirit of man are the judges of the rightness or wrongness of any prayer. Do you know that the answer to prayers can be confirmed by the Spirit of God through our spirit even before the practical testimonies to those prayers manifest?
I am correct to say that when we talk about perfect prayer from a most perfect heart, no one knows it and does it better than the Blessed Son of the Living God. But as He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. He realised that greater rewards always herald submitting to the will of God.

A perfect heart is such which is ever humble and ready ever to submit to God’s choice and not man’s own. The only reason many men married wrong can only point in this singular direction. Beauty of the face and not of the heart was the motivation for many men’s marriage decision. This is the reason most men and most women are married to the form and not the substance; the wife or the husband they married is simply the picture, not the original.
Whilst in that agonizing moment of eternal decision, the Lord Jesus filled with burden for lost humanity considered the painful consequence not the estatic pleasure. Contrast this with king Hezekiah who was unmindful of the consequence.
It was the will of God for king Hezekiah to die and inherit eternal peace. It was the will of man for him to live and have children and the pleasures of life. Don’t get me wrong is good so long as it is in line with God’s perfect will of God at that right time.
Since God is willing to answer prayers when it is presented with strong reasons (Is.41:21), He was forced to accept king Hezekiah’s strong reason (Is.38:4-5) Therefore, king Hezekiah got his prayer answered. Nevertheless, it was a permissive will, not God’s perfect will. Thus God gave king Hezekiah extra fifteen years.
Those fifteen years produced Manasseh, the son of King Hezekiah who reigned after him. Manasseh did so much evil in Jerusalem than all the kings that were before him. Manasseh filled Jerusalem with the blood of the innocent. He served idols and completely departed from the the Lord God, the covenant keeping Jehovah. Also, after king Hezekiah’s healing, those fifteen years produced visitation from the king of Assyria. Spurned with the pride of his heart, he showed them all the treasures of his house. His pride triggered divine judgment and prophetic pronouncement against the future of his children and the entire nation of Judah over which he presided as king. As a selfish father, none of those judgmental pronouncements moved him so long as his reign was assured during his own lifetime.
In contrast, the Lord Jesus was not going to lose going back to heaven if His assignment over humanity was incomplete. But He was passionately burdened with the fact that helpless humanity would be instead lost damnably forever. The consequence was too great and so, He surrendered all to Him who is able to keep in perfect peace him whose mind was stayed upon Him (Is.26:3)

Unlike king Hezekiah, the Lord Jesus Christ was only about 33 years of age. Certainly, He needed more years to enjoy life before going back to heaven. But He realised that His mission and ministry on earth did not require longitivity or quantity. Brevity married into quality was a better option. Afterall, life on earth is temporary, not an eternal bliss.
For a moment, please ask yourself the questions: do you ever feel less concerned about other people’s plight? As a minister of God and as a Christian – child of God, do you ever feel burdened to pray about people, their sufferings and sorrows?
Listen, when the Apostle Paul enjoins us in Philippians chapter 2:5 that ‘let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus’, he meant and means the mind of submission. Please seek the Lord today for a heart that is willing to submit to the will, the word and the way of God always.
IN THE END, GOD ANSWERS IN THREE DIMENSIONS: NO, YES AND NOT YET. ACCEPTING HIS RESPONSE AT EVERY GIVEN TIME IS THE CATALYST ANYONE NEEDS FOR EVERY ACCELERATED PROGRESS. FOR OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSINGS EVEN WHEN AN ANSWER IS NO SO LONG IT IS ACCEPTED BY MAN COMING FROM THE MOUTH OF THE ALMIGHTY. IN THEORY AND OFTENTIMES IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF MAN’S ACADEMIC BRAIN,GOD’S RESPONSES ALWAYS APPEARS THE MOST SENSELESS. BUT OBEDIENCE IS THE LONE FUEL THAT LEADS INTO THE UNQUENCHABLE COMBUSTION OF IMMEASURABLE BLESSINGS.

Question and Answer Section
Question: The great questions again! When was the last time that you preached to any soul? Do you serve God with joyful heart or with reluctance? How much hurt is in your soul against that fellow? Won’t rather forgive them and forget their mischief so that you can rightly serve your loving Father? When was the last time you smiled genuinely and truly from your heart about yourself bearing in mind the bright days to come? when was the last time you heard a force praying within your belly without your consciousness? When was the last time you gave some thing to support God’s work apart from your tithes and offerings? When was the last time you supported any man to fulfill a divine or a personal agenda? When was the last time you put smile on the face of someone?
Answer: Hmmm!.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suit 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com
The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages. Our website is: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: All to Jesus I Surrender
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, I repent so genuinely today for disobeying your will, word and way.
2. O God, please give me the grace to submit to your will always.
3. All you my delayed breakthroughs, I claim you back now.
4. Present your personal petitions.

THE MESSAGE NOW

Vol. 4, No. 42 – Monday, 28th October, 2019
(1 Kings.19:5-8, Eph.5:14, 2 Cor.12:9, Gen.28:1016, 31:10-13)
WAKE UP AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE

The above phrase is both in approach and in understanding a phrase performing dual functions. For one, it addresses two separate individuals. The first individual is the Almighty who functions as the giver of the instruction ‘wake up and change your life’.
The second individual is man himself whose responsibility it is to respond to divine instruction. Isn’t it a wonder that God is inviting man into a task He, God could single-handedly deal with?
Undoubtedly, there must be many divine reasons for this. It is true on the one hand that divinity loves to partner with humanity in the course of accomplishing earthly tasks. Much more however, the Psalmist noted in Psalm 144:1 that ‘blessed be the Lord my strength,which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight’.

So then, any divine call to man in order to accomplish any task is partly for the purpose of training. The training of man is of serious significance. Man exists in a world of countless troubles and there is always the need for man to go from victory to victory. The trajectory from one victory to another level of victory cannot be possible except spiritual developmental skills are constantly obtained from God.

Those spiritual developmental skills come by way of divine instructions to which man owes the duty of prompt response. The first text of this edition of The Message Now is very revealing in this context.
Twice, the Lord through His angel touched and addressed the prophet Elijah who, at the time, was fallen to despondency. There is a mystery lesson to be learnt here. Ordinarily, prophets function on four diverse planes.
First, whosoever has prophetic insight or calling must be able to see through God. Second, a prophet must be able to hear from God. Third, a prophet must be able to feel/sense through divine antenna. A prophet must be able to accurately profer solutions to the sufficient solving of people’s problems.
Being a prophet, Elijah ought to have seen the angel. Certainly not until the angel touched him. Why then couldn’t he, a great fire prophet not see the angel? The great fire prophet was blinded at this time. Not physically blind but spiritually blind.

Note that the great fire prophet was discouraged at this time. What discouragement does to the spiritual eyes is what physical blindness does to the physical eyes. Discouragement blurs spiritual vision and deafens physical ears from seeing and from hearing God.
As discouragement is the sin of the heart where God and His mighty power are belittled, so is the physical sin of devaluing God by demeaning words of mouth, physical actions or such innate thoughts which berate God and diminish His awesome power.
Understand that the phrase ‘wake up’ is the same as the word ‘arise’ which the Lord Jesus commanded to the sick man which had been bed-ridden for 38 years and confined to the Pool of Bethesda (Jn.5:8).

The phrase ‘wake up’ means the same thing as the pronouncement by the angel to prophet Daniel instructing the prophet to ‘be strengthened’ as contained in Daniel chapter 10:19.
Notice from Biblical accounts that the phrase ‘wake up’, ‘awake’, ‘arise’, be strengthened’ is always pronounced by God shortly before a remarkable breakthrough.
In the case of the sick man at Bethesda’s Pool, it was a call by the Lord to rouse him to receive his miracle. For prophet Elijah, it was a clarion call for the continuation of his ministry/destiny on earth and to journey to the great beyond in a most spectacular fashion which would linger eternally on the pages of history and within the annals of divinity.
For prophet Daniel, it signaled a change for an entirely new experience for his life and for humanity in general. Prophet Daniel in his case was being called because of transformation experience.
Ephesians 5:14 notes: ‘wherefore He saith, awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light’.
In this instance, the Spirit of God is calling both to the sinner, the backslider and the lethargic Christian to ‘awake’ from spiritual sleep. Why? Because Christ has arrived even at this instance in order to give His incomparable light (meaning His presence, favour, glory and changed garment) so that the life of the awakener may never be the same again.

The call to ‘awake’, ‘arise’, ‘be strengthened’ ‘wake up’ all point in the direction of an invitation; an invitation to a new dining table with the Lord.
IN THE END, THE PHRASE WAKE UP AND CHANGE YOUR LIFE IS A CALL TO ACTION; IT IS THE ACTION TO RECEIVE THE SPECTACULAR AND THE EXTRAORDINARY. THE PHRASE REPRESENTS A SHIFT OF POSITION FROM STATICITY TO PROGRESSION. IT IS ALWAYS THE CALL INTO A NEW DAWN, A NEW BEGINNING AND AN ENTIRELY NEW EXPERIENCE.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: In what aspect of your life do you need an awakening or reawakening?
Answer: Hmmm!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suit 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos.

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Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: Nearer My God To Thee
PRAY NOW:
1. Spirit of the living God, baptize me afresh.
2. O divine giant in me, be re-awakened by the finger of God.
3. O God, make Express Image Glory Ministries Worship Centre and its Prayer Room a spiritual ladder where angels ascend and descend.
4. Mighty God, turn Express Image Worship Centre the home of mercy and solution.

5. O right hand of Jehovah, continually release and rain down your presence, your fire, and you undeniable peace into Express Image Worship Centre and the Prayer Room.
6. O God of mercy, please give me my own testimonies from the Conference.
7. O arrow of “almost there but never there”, “promise and fail” and rejection, jump out of me and return no more.

THE MESSAGE NOW

Vol. 4, No. 41 – Monday, 21st October, 2019
(Jn.21:17-19, Acts.12:3-10)
PROPHECY AS A SPIRITUAL AND IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON

I remember most vividly the experience of that great Man of God, Apostle Billy Graham. On the faithful day in question, the Man of God was air-borne en route a journey. At some point during that journey, the pilot announced that the aircraft was heading for a crash. And what do you expect? There was pandemonium everywhere as the aircraft swaggered up and down in its swerve to crash.
The cacophony went on for quite a while. But in the midst of that turmoil, something strange was going on. There was an annoying man who seemed to be bothered by nothing. The annoying man in question simply went on fiddling with his cigarette, cracking jokes and laughing all the way. The man was probably the most annoying man in the universe at that moment.
After perhaps a long period of very frightening ordeal, the pilot made contact once again with the people on board. His announcement this time around was different from any palpitations. The aircraft was now stable and now on a smooth ride, the Pilot announced.
There was great calm and everyone seemed to return to lucidity again. Then a man who sat close to the somewhat annoying fellow bellowed a question to him. Sir, he said. Whilst everyone feared for his life during the turmoil experience, you simply went on fiddling with your cigarette, cracking jokes, laughing and not bothered. May I know the reason for this?
The annoying man simply replied, pointing to Apostle Billy Graham. ‘why should I be bothered? Don’t you see that God’s friend is sitting right over there? I was so confident that God would not allow the aircraft wherein his friend, Billy is seated to crash’.
Wow! An unbeliever and cigarette smoker used the friend of God, Apostle Billy Graham as his spiritual and irresistible weapon. Hmmm! Are you a friend of God. Can you trust God so much that you can take rest even in the midst of the fiercest storm and the most painful delay?
Note that prophecy as a spiritual weapon comes in two forms. The first is the specific form. The second is the general form.
In the case of Apostle Peter (who is the subject of today’s case study), it is specific. The Lord Jesus informed him in clear pictorial manner how he would eventually die. This is why when Herod arrested him, Apostle Peter was so confident that he could take a restful sleep between four quaternions of soldiers.
Why? Because Apostle Peter knew that by revelational knowledge the manner of death that would convey him to glory was already determined by God. Further, Apostle Peter knew that Herod’s own words cannot alter that of the Almighty. For is not the word of God so sure, certain and unchanging.
My boss (during my NYSC) days was born after his mother had been barren for 29 years. Can you beat that? Yet in the end, she became a mother of two boys: a lawyer and a mass communicator (now a politician today). The truth of the matter is this: that which God has spoken concerning you whether specifically through Him, or through yourself or through men of God by prophetic inspiration of the Holy Spirit or that which God has spoken concerning you in the general form through the Holy Bible, will certainly come to pass at the time set by God or at the time prophesied by your own mouth.
There is no greater word of sure authority over a man’s life other than his own words of prophecy over himself, the pronounced word of authority by an anointed Man of God or the word of the God of heaven Himself over that man.
Guess what! Ask yourself the question; how was the entire universe created? Simply by word of prophecy. And God said, let there be light, and there was light. If God Himself engages prophecy as a spiritual weapon knowing that such weapon is irresistible, why not you?
IN THE END, EVERY LIFE AND DESTINY IS MADE OR MARRED BY EITHER SPOKEN WORD OR IMAGINED THOUGHTS. THE CHOICE OF USING WORDS AND THOUGHTS AS POSITIVE SPIRITUAL WEAPONS OF POSITIVE PROPHECY IS A PERSONAL DETERMINATION.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: Who is the father of the Lord Jesus?
Answer: The Almighty.

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ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: O Victory In Jesus
PRAY NOW:
1. By the saving strength of the Lord, I nullify every evil word and evil thoughts working against me.
2. You forces of deceleration, I sack you today.
3. I put in place from this moment a new management over the affairs of my life.

4. O divine strength of God, put me and my destiny into that divine vehicle of acceleration.
5. O spiritual traffic sponsored by witchcraft slowing or holding down my day of celebration, O heavenly carpenters and divine police officers, scatter them and pave the way for me.
6. Evil words that have constituted chains to my divine feet, be loosened now by divine power.
7. O projects in my hands, I decree divine prosperity into you.
8. O breath of God,come upon me afresh.

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 40 – Monday, 14th October, 2019
(2 Sam.12:1-15)
THE ORIGINAL MOCKERS OF GOD

The account contained in verses 1-15 of today’s text is a common account to students of the Bible. Indeed, the preceding chapter from which today’s text is a build-up is equally a common account to Christians.
What is not common is the uncommonality of the mysteries therein contained and the lessons derived therefrom. If only men count the eventual consequences of their action before their involvement, perhaps they would have given audience to a second thought.

As I have argued somewhere in literature ‘there is no better intelligence than hindsight intelligence’. The problem with the laurels of hindsight intelligence is that it is always fraught with pains, regrets and “Had I known”.
So, if only king David thought about the reality of the fact that to every cause there will always be an effect and that to every action or reaction there will be a consequence and that to every positive or negative step there would always eventualize a certain result of some kind, then he would have been more careful.

Leaving all these aside, there is a deep mystery worthy of close examination from our text. Notice that verse 14 of today’s Scripture states: ‘however, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also who is born to thee shall surely die’.
Hmmm! For the sin of king David, the life of an innocent child was taken. But why? Because king David activated mockery against God. How? The first question in unraveling this mystery contained in verse 14 is the question who are the enemies being referred to in this verse.

Understand that all that king David did including sending letter through Uriah, the death of Uriah, the sexual sin with Bathsheba, the pregnancy of Bathsheba and in fact making Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba to become his own wife after Uriah’s death were all done with some guile, deceit and cover-up.
So then, humanly speaking, we cannot but conclude that no enemy knew about it. Who then are the enemies of the Lord being referred to in verse 14. The enemies under reference are Satan, demons, wicked spirits and fallen angels. For every sin that a man commits these forces are immediately aware. And one of the early things they do is to go before God and make a mockery of God about what that child of God has done.

This is an aspect of satanic activity triggered by man’s action which man often forgets to deal with. Oftentimes, man, especially Christians only remember that dark forces go before God to raise accusations. But how many know that for their actions God too is being mocked and accused?
Are you a child of God who causes shame and mockery to God? Do you think you will go scotfree? Each time man commits sins, these forces stir, laugh and scorn the Almighty. They reopen the wounds of Christ on the cross of Calvary afresh.
Think about it! Do demons respect you sir? Can God recommend and commend you as He did to Job? What defines your life when you are left alone in the secret or in the closet of your heart?
When you read messages of this kind, do you agitate and say that message is nothing else but judgmental? Will a message of this kind make you to be more watchful? Will it stir you into serious prayer for holiness?
In the final equation, a fundamental principle of the law of agency states that ‘qui facit per alium facit per se (he who acts by another acts by himself). The Christians who lives in sin is the one who hands over the authority and ensuing right flowing from that authority to the enemies of God to make a mockery of God. So then, such Christian is the one who is mocking God originally and indirectly.
IN THE END, ARE YOU A CHILD OF GOD?THEN I THANK GOD GREATLY FOR YOU. IF YOU ARE NOT YET SAVED, THEN REPENT TODAY AND FORSAKE DARKNESS AND SIN OF EVERY KIND. KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE NO NEGOTIATIONS AFTER DEATH.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: How many daughters had Job after his tribulations?
Answer: 3.

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Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to the Administrator of this Ministry, the Assistive Technology Adviser or the Resident Pastor. The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: Yield Not To Temptation
PRAY NOW:
1. Repent of every known sin and promise the Father a life of purity without sin from henceforth.
2.O you polluters, depart from me and return no more.

CONFERENCE IS THIS MONTH.

THE MESSAGE NOW

Vol. 4, No. 39 – Monday, 7th October, 2019
(John.2:1-11)
THE MYSTERY AND THE MIRACLE OF TIME AND RIGHT TIMING

Indeed, the statements that ‘God works in mysterious ways’ and ‘His ways are past finding out’ are all true. For surely, God cannot be limited by circumstances, by time nor by space. The Almighty noted that in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that He, God makes all things beautiful in His time’.
What could such a profound statement ever mean? In the main, it means that God is the definer and determiner of time. Man’s time has never been God’s time and can it ever be? That is a question of a kind of rhetoric.
Imagine the events which played out at the wedding in Cana of Galilee contained in our text of today. The most important item in any Jewish wedding being wine was expended and there was no leftover. Put more apt, a need for wine arose at a most awkward time when it shouldn’t have arisen.
In other words, need arose at the wrong place, at the wrong time and at the wrong event of life. But mysteriously, the Master of the universe was there. When His mother met Him to plead for a spiritual action that can birth a physical result, His reply was equally a mysterious one. The Master of the universe simply replied that His time was yet to come.

Time has not yet come when a miracle is dearly needed? That in itself is a mystery too. Suddenly thereafter, an instruction came from the Master: fill the water pots with water. But Greatest Master, you just told us that your time has not yet come. You mean on the same day your time can yet come? Self-existing God, what a wonder you are! In one day, there was no time; On the same day, time came for a miracle to happen.

Understand dearly beloved, the mystery here is pointing in a particular direction. What direction? It is the direction indicating that man can always do something that will fast-track the eventuality of his miracle. It is a statement of spiritual truth that 24 hours are too many for God to do that thing man is longing for.
What must man do to trigger divine response? That is always a question for man to find an answer. For Esau all he needed to trigger heavenly blessing was to feed his father, Isaac with the meal that his father, Isaac loved the most.
Oh! How I wish that man will come to the revelational understanding that fasting is not meant for praying alone. A day or three days of fasting of praises to God will tear the heavens apart and empty the treasury of heaven upon such a praiser.

What will that man standing over there or sitting nearby do to trigger the reaction of divinity against his oppressors? What is that thing that the reader of this piece needs to do in order to draw down the hand of Jehovah as was supposedly done by the bride or the bridegroom at the wedding in Cana of Galilee?
To obtain Samuel from God, Hannah did something (1 Sam.1:11). To get a divine husband from God, Ruth did something (Ruth.3:8). In order to break the yoke of barrenness, Abraham and the Shunamite woman fed and sheltered servants of God (Gen.18:2-15 and 2 Kings.4:8-37). Joseph ascended the throne of greatness by an action found to be most pleasing to God (Gen.39:12).

As for you, sister Leslie and as for you, brother Lincoln, the question now arrives at your doorstep; what would you do that will fast-track the time of your miracle, command the attention of heaven or that will make God arise and fight?
Amiss they say is as bad as a further mile away to trek. If God were to fast-track the time of your miracle O man, would you still miss the miracle? Just take a look at verse 7 of today’s text. The Master of the universe said ‘go and draw it now’. And when they drew it, it was no longer water but wine with the sweetest taste.
But how did it happen? It happens by nothing else but by instant obedience which is that brings blessings, not a later obedience which is always displeasing.

The Master said ‘go and draw it now’. Now means now. If they had gone to draw it later, they would have drunken water, not wine. ‘Now in that sense is divine time and right timing by divinity’s understanding. Thus it is possible for an action to be in time but not rightly timed.
For instant obedience means strict followership of time and right timing. It is instant obedience which births blessings. Instant obedience means you reverence, cherish and value God profoundly. The act and the art of quality reverence, cherishing and valuing God can turn the hand of divinity in one’s favour.

IN THE END, MEN CONSIDER TIME FROM BOTH CYCLICAL AND LINEAR DIMENSIONS. BUT THE DEFINITION AND THE CONSIDERATION OF THE ALMIGHTY TO THE ISSUE OF TIME IS A DETERMINATION OF THE ALMIGHTY HIMSELF, THE ATTITUDE OF MAN TO TIME AND RIGHT TIMING ALL JUDGED BY MAN’S INTENTIONS AND CONSEQUENT ACTIONS.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: How old was King David when he died?
Answer: 70 years.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com

Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus in this Ministry by paying your hard-earned money to only this one account and no other: Express Image Glory Ministry, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Account number – 0020881228.

Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to the Administrator of this Ministry, the Assistive Technology Adviser or the Resident Pastor. The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

ALTAR CALL:
Backslidden – living in sin – needing fresh recommitment (say):
Christ Jesus, You are the Anointed One of the Most High. I come to you today as I am. In your mercy, help me out of my situation. Heal my soul, my spirit, my body, my life and my destiny. I acknowledge you as the only true lover of my soul. Please, deliver me on every side and save me through and through. I promise from the depth of my soul to be yours from henceforth, in Jesus name. Help me now O God. Be my Lord, my Saviour and my all in all from this day. Thank you Lord (read Ps.54 in closing and pray more).

HYMN: Murmur Not
PRAY NOW:
1. I call back and recover all lost times of my life.
2. O God, let the wine of fresh love permeate through my marriage and home.
3. O God, visit me and visit this Ministry.
4. Holy Spirit, help me not to miss my time.
5. Let the reign and existence of my miracles, appear.