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NOTHING HINDERS TENACITY FROM MEETING ITS TARGET

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRY

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 8 – Sunday, 18th April, 2021
(Jn.20:11-18, Lk.11:5-13, 18:1-8)
NOTHING HINDERS TENACITY FROM MEETING ITS TARGET

The great God has created us all differently. Even our stars differ too. 1 Cor.15:41 informs us that “one star differeth from another star in glory”.
It is a statement of spiritual fact that some stars are swifter in meeting their targets than others. This is why some human beings receive answers to their prayers faster than others. But this spiritual equation can always be changed depending on the owner of the star being asked to fetch a given solution. The question is how?
He who gives up before the finish line is the biggest loser of all time. Men must understand certain facts about certain undeniable realities in the spirit realm. It is a fact known to spiritual reality that all human beings have their own stars; that all stars are living entities; that all stars have the ability to perform one function or the other even such functions such as partaking in warfare on one’s behalf (see Judges 5:20); that sometimes stars need to be propelled for certain actions to occur and for certain events to happen within the time of need; that some stars are faster than others within spiritual space.

He who knows this truth ought to know that stars need help to perform their rightful actions on certain occasions. But this edition is not a discourse about stars. The point is persistence otherwise called tenacity is key to accomplishing any feat of success. Our first text clearly indicates this.
Whilst others had given up and returned home, Mary rather persisted in the search for the Lord. In the end, didn’t her tenacity pay off? Understand dear beloved, men did not see the Lord, but a woman saw Him first by dint of tenacity. Great Apostles quit so easily, and did not see the Lord, but a mere member-disciple saw Him. The vision of the two angels sitting at the head and at the foot of the place where the Lord lay was not seen by the great Apostles but by the woman, Mary, the woman from whom the Lord had driven out seven demons. Tenacity was the difference.

How long have you tarried in your expectation for that miracle, sister? Having prayed so much prayers on that single subject, is it time to give up? Learn the lesson of tenacity from Mary Magdalene.
Know this: that the Longer we tarry before God on any given issue informs us and God how much we trust Him that He is there and that He will show up in the end. Do you know that brother who waited for seven years only to have God fulfill a five minutes vision? What do you call that other than tenacity?
When we give up, it is always a sign to God that we have another God who can do it for us other than the God whom we have been waiting on. Do you have any such alternative God?

IN THE END, HAVING A PLAN B SHOULD GOD FAIL TO TURN UP ON TIME IS THE ATTITUDE OF SATAN AND HIS UNBELIEVING CHILDREN. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT ‘UNTIL A MAN BECOMES AN UNCOMPROMISING NON-CONFORMIST, HE WILL BOW TO ANYTHING AND TO EVERYTHING’. BOW TO GOD ALONE AND NEVER BOW TO “NO” OR “NEVER”. YOU WILL SOON GET TO THE FINISH LINE.

 

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 something 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. Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suite 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos. Or: every Tuesday at Chapel of Christ The Light Alausa, Ikeja from 12 noon for lunch-break fellowship and reenergizing motivation for progress of every kind.
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).

Recommended Bible Scripture For New Converts And The Newly Restored: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN.

HYMN: My Faith Looks Up To Thee

PRAY NOW:
1. O God, I repent most sincerely for every point where I have set alternatives to you.
2. O God, please pour out your grace upon me to tarry to the end.
3. Revisit before God any issue which you have given up on.
4. Present your personal petitions.

 

THE SAVING POWER OF EVIDENCE

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRY
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 7 – Sunday, 11th April, 2021
(Jer. 32:7-14, Gen. 23:3-20)
THE SAVING POWER OF EVIDENCE

The entrances to the two residences of Joy and Jane were crisscrossed one faithful Friday morning by a roll of fierce-looking and heavily armed police officers from the State CID unit of the Federal Capital Territory. Before long, both Joy and Jane were swiftly arrested and whisked away for immediate detention in police custody.
In the case of Joy, the police alleged that the new car being driven recently by Joy was a stolen car. Indeed, in the course of the car theft, the owner of the car was brutally shot by the armed robbery gang, and the owner of the car was still being attended to in the intensive care unit of Asokoro hospital.

The fact of the matter is that Joy was not at the scene of the car theft. But unfortunately, the car she bought was indeed the stolen car. Worst still, the robbers had sold the stolen car to Joy with fake papers. Thus Joy needed to prove to the police that she had an alibi. Put in layman’s language, an alibi is a witness who can testify that indeed Joy was somewhere else on the said day in which the crime was committed. Fortunately, the crime in question was committed at about 11:30 A.M. on a day in which Joy had taken the first flight out of the Federal Capital Territory along with her friend at about 6:45 A.M. So, Joy’s friend was there to testify in her favour. But to the astounding shock of everyone, Joy’s friend remained staunchly unwilling to testify on her friend’s behalf. This was simply because of the envy for her friend, Joy, who had just bought a new car, and she had no car.

Suddenly, Joy remembered that her flight return ticket at about 9:30 P.M. on the same day of the car theft incident was still in her handbag which was now at her residence. Upon this information given by Joy to her sister, Myra, the flight return ticket was retrieved and presented to the police who took immediate steps to verify the return ticket. Upon verification, Joy’s story was found to be true. Thus Joy was released from police custody, and all criminal charges against her were dropped. God had used the power of evidence to save Joy.

Dearly beloved, how do you treat your receipts? Forms given to you to sign by investment houses, land dealers, boarding passes and the likes, do you bother to check that the other party has equally signed? Do you keep those boarding passes properly?
Ah! Many are in prisons today for crimes they know nothing about. They were simply careless with the only documents that could save them from problems that they did not envisage could arise.
Jeremiah the great prophet did not rely on his prophetic anointing. Rather, he insisted the evidence of the purchase of the land must be sought and obtained by Baruch. The same principle was adopted much earlier by the great Abraham. The truth is this: there are little things that count which many Christians pay little attention to. When therefore our nonchalant attitude throws us into problems, then we choose the route of blaming God or others for our misfortune.

The merits of the potent power of evidences cannot be overemphasized. Evidences can save, their absence when needed can kill. Generations yet unborn can enjoy unending peace over land or property matters simply because the power of evidence is rightly positioned in their hands. But is the case of prophet Jeremiah and the great Patriarch of faith the same with modern day Christians? Do you know dearly beloved that Christians can be so nonchalant to the extent that even to check up the expiry dates of products purchased by them is a problem? Learn unlearn and relearn the lessons of life from Joy’s escape experience.

She could have been sentenced to life imprisonment at least for an offence she knew nothing about or even sentenced to death by hanging. Thank God in her case for available evidence which saved her. Jane is yet standing trial at the Federal Capital Territory High Court with her lawyer seriously struggling to save her because the only evidence that could save her has been either washed away in her pair of gins trousers’ pocket or emptied inside the waste bin.

IN THE END, LIFE IS MADE EASY WHEN WE RIGHTLY PLAY OUR PART. FOR GOD WILL NEVER FAIL TO PLAY HIS PART.

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 something 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. Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suite 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos. Or: every Tuesday at Chapel of Christ The Light Alausa, Ikeja from 12 noon for lunch-break fellowship and reenergizing motivation for progress of every kind.
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).

Recommended Bible Scripture For New Converts And The Newly Restored: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN.

HYMN: I Have No Other Arguments
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, restore to me the great friends that I have lost due to their mistakes and/or due to mine.
2. Errors that will send me and my destiny to physical and spiritual confinement, O God, deliver me from them.
3. I cancel the loss, kidnapping or death of any of my children.
4. Users of my glory for personal gain, you shall die in frustration.
5. O my glory, be healed and be released from satanic confinements.
6. Present your personal petitions.

 

 

THE BEST OFTEN ARRIVES SO LATE OR EVEN SOMETIMES COMES LAST

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRY

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 6 – Sunday, 4th April, 2021
(John 2:1-10)
THE BEST OFTEN ARRIVES SO LATE OR EVEN SOMETIMES COMES LAST

Welcome to this edition of THE MESSAGE NOW. The facts below are worthy of your attention and further spiritual explication: (1) In the equation of the Almighty, it is a fact that it is never over even when it is over.

(2) In the equation of the Almighty, the best from the Lord often arrives late or even sometimes comes last.

(3) In the dictionary of the Most High, the phrase “left alone” does not exist. Why? Because certainly someone will be left standing with you even in that storm. That someone is the Most High who never deserts man at any time for His love’s sake (see Jn.16:32).

(4) Seeing God in every storm of life makes the expiry moment of that storm arrive much faster than it was programmed for.

(5) It is too true that there is no better time to praise God other than at those times when a miracle is still being expected or at those times when one is yet in the midst of storm (remember Paul and Silas; Acts.16:25).

In the understanding of the Almighty, every challenge confronting man (whether permitted by Him or thrown as an affront from the devil or his agents) has come for a purpose and will give God greater glory and praise in the end. The exclamation as well as the question raised by the “master of the feast” in verses 9 and 10 of our text today only goes to confirm to us a major characteristic of the Almighty. That the Almighty often saves the best for the last is no falsity.

Consider the experience of Zechariah and his wife, Elizabeth, in Luke chapter 1, and you are bound to ask at least one serious question. Why did God wait until these two were well stricken in age before giving them a son? The simple answer is, as far as the core issues of life are concerned, the best from God often comes late. There is however something hidden here. Have you noticed that at all times when something from God comes late, that thing is always worth the wait?
Take note of this hard truth that God’s best for us doesn’t show up sometimes until that final disgrace is already at the door. Hear this harder truth that God’s miracles sometimes do not appear until even that time when that final disgrace has already come through the doorway. Hmmm! Does this last point shock you? God makes all things beautiful in His own time (Eccl.3:11).

The truth cannot be challenged. At all times when it appears by man’s standards that God is late, God always comes so big. John the Baptist born to Zechariah and Elizabet, Isaac born to Abraham and Sarah, prophet Samuel born to Elkanah and Hannah, the healing, deliverance and the restoration of Job, all came too late but they came too big.
Have you been in expectation of something from the Lord? Does it appear to you that God has forgotten you in the waiting room of life? Hmmm! Keep hope alive. God will come and He will come best and so big. Therefore, please hold on because God always appears before man reaches the point of holding out.

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 something 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. Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suite 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos. Or: every Tuesday at Chapel of Christ The Light Alausa, Ikeja from 12 noon for lunch-break fellowship and reenergizing motivation for progress of every kind.
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).

Recommended Bible Scripture For New Converts And The Newly Restored: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN.

HYMN: My Hope Is Built On Nothing Else
PRAY NOW:
1. Mention to the Lord your expectations and any storms you are currently passing through, ask Him to step into the situation now.
2. O God, my father, I invite you in to crush every glory oppressor confronting my glory.
3. Dear father, the best that you have for me in this season, let them locate me without hindrance.
4. God who never makes mistakes frustrate every power diverting my favours and cause my breakthroughs to find me.
5. Present your personal petitions.

UNSELECTED BY MAN BUT ELECTED BY GOD ONTO EARTHLY RECOGNITION AND ETERNAL RECKON

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 5 – Sunday, 28th March, 2021
(Acts.1:1-3, 15-26)
UNSELECTED BY MAN BUT ELECTED BY GOD ONTO EARTHLY RECOGNITION AND ETERNAL RECKON

Have you ever been in a situation in which you were fit for the job or a given position and you were unelected or not selected by man? What was your immediate or eventual reaction or response? Did you react badly? If your reaction was emotional and ruthless, then your focus perhaps in life generally has been a focus on man, not on God. Did you try to find out whether your nonselection was a function of a spiritual battle you need to pray about? Understand that an uncareful church is constantly under spiritual manipulation. So the church may have been manipulated against you.
Consider the story below. It was Fathers’ day celebration in 2009. Something strange happened in church that Sunday. The Pastor of the church, a fine reverend gentle man decided to honour all the fathers and potential fathers in church that day with a gift of one Mass-Bar Chocolate to everyone. The sharing went smoothly. That was no strange thing. But I was left out of the gift. That was certainly strange to me because although I was not yet married, I was already about 35 years of age. I tried to indicate that I hadn’t got a piece of chocolate yet, but the Lord restrained me.

Note that each time the Lord restrains man from that which is good to man, it is because the Lord has something much better or the best. No matter how painful the restraint may come, be informed that the end of the matter is what matters most; and with God, the end is always extremely so sweet.
As the Sunday service wore on, the Pastor began to minister in his usual wonderful fashion. Then the Pastor raised a question: “what is the longest name in the Bible”, The Pastor asked. To this question, there was no answer from any member of the church except me.
As soon as I gave the answer as: Maher-Shalal-hash-baz, the entire church erupted with great laughter; the Pastor ran over to my seat with great ecstasy, and gave me two Mass-Bar Chocolates. Hmmm! Two Mass-Bar Chocolates as against one which every other father and potential father got.
What if (as a blind person) I had reacted, claiming discrimination? What if I had been emotional over nothing being in a white dominated church? The patient one will always get to know the reason behind everything and even obtain the best in the very end. For if only the human eyes can be patiently careful, they will behold the human nose with ease.

Our first text in this edition reads:
‘1The former treatise have I made O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
2 Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy Ghost had given commandment unto the Apostles whom He had chosen.
3 To whom also He showed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Wow! Our brother, Doctor Luke, knew about the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ right from the very start! Hmmm! Let us consider our brother, Doctor Luke in today’s first and second Scriptures more deeply.
The evidence of the first Scripture in Acts.1:1-3 is that Doctor Luke had been with the Lord Jesus from the very start of His earthly ministry. But when one Apostle was needed to be chosen in order to replace Judas Iscariot. The man, Doctor Luke was not even considered. Rather, manly intellect through the instrumentality of “casting lot” selected Mathias. But by divine election, Doctor Luke was approved by God.
With due respect and honour to Apostle Mathias, the question just cannot be ignored; was any thing of note ever heard about Apostle Mathias? But the one who was divinely elected remained remarkable on earth through out his time on earth and until today and after now. Again, divine election put him in eternal reckon.
Doctor Luke by the Spirit of God gave us one of the four gospels and the book of Acts. He was not an Apostle, and probably did not have the auratory and charisma possessed by Apostle Mathias. So, we can say that before man, Doctor Luke had no voice. But understand the spiritual difference. Apostle Mathias had voice before men but no volume for his voice before God. Conversely, Doctor Luke had no voice of recognition before men. But before the Godhead, his silent works had voice and volume.
Dear brother, dear sister, what are you doing for God for which the church, people and the world don’t offer you any respect, appreciation or recognition? Never look back or get weighed down by discouragement. Why? There is One waiting to reward you in the immediate and in the hereafter.
Dear brother, dear sister, look only in the direction of God’s approval and reward, not man’s applause and commendation. Many are called by men and satan. But very few are sent on divine assignment by God, and those He has called, He will justify, and in the end, glorify.

Therefore, I counsel O man, concentrate on God. Avoid what you see which berates you and irritate your God-given spirit man. Avoid the commendations of men and shun church gossip and partisanship in the House of God. Make Christ your daily mirror before whom you constantly stand to beam out the beauty or blurriness of your spiritual face with further instructions to be better and be like Him.
IN THE END, YOU WILL END UP BELOW DIVINE STANDARD IF YOU CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON MAN AND THE DEEDS OF MAN.

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 something 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. Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suite 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: Murmur Not
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, I repent now and I forgive as many people who have robbed me of my blessings in any way.
2. Cobweb powers and every other force that inflict me with rejection and disfavor, catch fire now and loose hold of me.
3. O my diverted greatness, I know the truth now. Therefore, return to me now.
4. Manipulations in my church, die now.
5. O God, anoint my pastor afresh with the Holy Ghost and with power.
6. Present your personal petitions.

MY FATHER IS RICH IN ALL THINGS AND I AM HIS HEIR

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 4 – Sunday, 21st March, 2021
(Psalms 24:1, 50:10, 82:6)
MY FATHER IS RICH IN ALL THINGS AND I AM HIS HEIR

The eternal Scripture in Psalm 24:1 informs us that ‘the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof’.
I must be correct to say that for as many who believe in God, the Biblical statement that ‘the earth is the Lord’s’ is a restatement of the obvious. Who else can dare own this planet other than the Most Supreme One? I contend that what is rather novel about verse 1 of Psalm 24 is the added phrase, ‘and the fullness thereof’.
The novelty of the word ‘fullness’ is our foremost interest in this phrase. The question is what fullness imply or mean in this context? Fullness as used in Psalm 24:1 means to continue to increase.

The eternal Scripture informs us in Genesis chapter 1:28 that ‘and replenish the earth’. Semantically speaking, the word ‘replenish’ imports the same meaning as the word ‘fullness’.
The Almighty created the earth with a mandate for the earth to continue to expand. Why? Because more than what was created in six days at the start of creation, further creation and recreative increases would continue. This means in many senses that everything that has been created and will be created and being created remains a product of the spoken word at creation: saying, ‘let there be …’.
Great inventions, technological advancement and groundbreaking records by man in modern and in more modern times are all functions of the continuing words of ‘fullness’, ‘replenish’ and ‘let there be…’.

What does all these mean? When God finished the first and original work of creation on the six day in which He created man as the last and indeed the crown of His creation at the time, the Almighty handed over to man the authority to continue from where He stopped and rested on the seventh day.
Understand that from that point the mandate given to man is to ‘replenish the earth’. Agreed, man lost that authority to satan in the garden of Eden. But understand also that the Son of the Living God regained that authority back to man. So, as it is at the moment, God expects and needs man to express that authority on His behalf.
However, there is a sad end to this foregoing conclusion. Since the authority of furthering God’s creative abilities now lies with man, satan too needs man to express that authority in his own name, falsity and subtilty. Why? (1) that he may continue to enjoy the glory that belongs to the Almighty. (2) That his influence, depravity, falsity and evil power may continue to spread on the earth.

Ah! Understand that Satan is constantly in contest with God through man. What does this mean? Without man’s response to satan, satan is actually zero. Since the moment of the Cross of Calvary, Man remains an authority over satan. But man does not know this reality. Do you know that at no time in the Bible did God refer to satan as His son? Do you know that at different points, God referred to man as His son? Understand that even the Son of God was declared as the Son of man. Understand also that the Son of God is our brother born of the same eternal blood (Acts.17:24) and we are co-heirs with Him in God and in the replenishing of the earth.

Ah! Dearly beloved, we have gone too far off the path. If the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof (Ps.24:1), if all the silver and gold are God’s (Hag.2:8) and if the cattle upon a thousand hills belong to God (Ps.50:10) and if we are gods of authority under the Almighty (Ps.82:6), then why are we not groundbreakers in greatness, in breakthroughs and mighty records? Why are we strugglers only? Why is it that the majority of Christians are talkers, not makers, movers, shakers and creators of great things?
The best that most of us are is being preachers without being the manifesters of mighty works. On the other end, however, the children of darkness are performers of worthy courses, great things and mighty inventions. Oh! The princes are now on foot whilst the servants are continuing to ride on horses.
Hmmm! I can understand. The salt of the world has fast lost its savour and become the sand of the world. The light has gone so badly dim. But we are the heir of the great and wealthy God. But our authority lies dormant. Therefore, we feed as though our father is not rich in all things.

I decree therefore that a thousand and far more people who will be reading this edition now and after now, receive the knowledge to realise who you are in God. Receive fresh revival fire to take on your portion and possess them. And I command that we all truly become gods of authority on the earth as designed by the Almighty, in Jesus name.
Please repeat the words of this song now: I am a trillionaire, a trillionaire indeed and in deed. My father is rich in all things, and I am His heir. I realise my position and reach for my possessions today. I exercise my authority I possess my possessions and positions from henceforth. I shall use my possessions, positions and authority to replenish the earth. I shall advance the course of the Almighty and fulfill it without delay, without compromise and without looking back. With my co-blood brother, Christ with me, my success on every sphere is assured and guaranteed. I enforce that success from this day.

IN THE END, GOD MADE MAN TO BECOME A MAKER, BLESSED TO BECOME A BLESSING AND A CREATURE TO BECOME A CREATOR. THEREFORE, MAN MUST NOT BE LESS THAN THE SPOKEN STANDARD OF DIVINE DESIGN.

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 something 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:
Suite 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: When The Power Of God Descended
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, open my understand to know who I am.
2. At what point did I miss it with you O God, please take me back there and give me a fresh start.
3. Divine authority that came to man by divine mandate, enter me now.
4. I refuse to be hot in church and cold as from after church.
5. O drainer of divine authority and divine strength, as I stand before God now, I sack and slaughter you.
6. Problems and sad situations that came with me to church today, receive the attention of the Almighty.
7. Present your personal petitions.

THE FINAL WORD

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 3 – Sunday, 14th March, 2021
(Prov.23:18, Ex.12:, 1 Kings8:56, Chron.32:8)
THE FINAL WORD

Let us agree without a shadow of doubt that the strata of life exists in hierarchies, often from the least to the greatest. Whether we accept or not, especially by reason of unbelief or atheistic skepticism, there is a Supreme Being at the apex of all of life’s strata. Nothing else lasts but Him. And after Him is nothing else. The keys of the start/the beginning of all things and indeed the end of all ends remains with Him and He is the determiner of all things which are, which was and which will be.
Let us then draw certain conclusions from the foregoing preamble.

First, Proverbs chapter 23:18 states that ‘surely there is an end, and the expectations of the just shall not be cut off’.
The ‘end’ signifies expiry moment to everything that has had a beginning. Consider Eccl.3:1. There is a time apportioned for everything. Put simply, whatever is going on around you or wherever you think you are now, has an expiry date.
Are you flourishing in wealth? Consider the rainy day, and prepare in anticipation through God for it. Are you in that moment when the storm seems unending. Consider that the storm cannot last forever. Life is never as straight as the barrel of a gun; it is rather a containment of several bends or curves. Every journey of life ends with one learning curve or the other, thereby terminating that season.

Second, it means then that no condition lasts forever because change remains one of the few constant things in life. As it is often said in popular parlance, ‘no condition of life is permanent’.

Third, since our tongues are the deliverer or the destroyers of our lives depending on the wrong or right usage, the services of our tongues therefore can always be employed to terminate or enlongate any situation. Dearly beloved, consider these questions.
(1) Where are you now on the journey of life?
(2) Are you satisfied with that present position?
(3) Do you have an understanding of the reason you are in that present position?
(4) What time is God saying that the end will come?

Listen, if God is saying nothing, then consider that God is leaving the choice to you. Therefore, employ the services of your tongue today to effect that required change. Listen beloved, no man can control or successfully contend against your destiny and turn it down without your consent. Why? Because you are the greatest prophet/prophetess of your life besides God. The instrument of your destiny’s control for acceleration is not with the enemy but with you. It is your tongue. Rise up therefore today, and say something.
Remember Mark chapter 11:23, Jesus said you will have what you say. Remember Psalm 81:10, God said, ‘open wide your mouth and I will fill it’. Fill it with what? You are the one who will determine that.

When I was in secondary school, I told my youngest brother that when I am older, I will go to America. Today, I am the only person from my family who has traveled outside my native country to white man’s land. Did you get that?
Remember Exodus chapter 10:28. Did not Pharaoh declare his own end by himself? It is written: ‘and Pharaoh said unto him, get thee from me. Take heed to thyself. See my face no more; for in that day thou seest my face, thou shalt die’.
Do you know that that man Pharaoh never saw Moses again until the day the firstborns in Egypt were slaughtered? The Bible recorded that that night Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron in haste, and seeing each other that dark night, two anointings faced each other, that of light and that of darkness. It was therefore a collision between the stronger and the weaker.
Moses’ anointing prevailed. Why? When the day broke and Israel had journeyhed onto the edge of the Red Sea, Pharaoh pursued, and having declared his own end with his own tongue previously, he died wrecklessly in the Red Sea. Thus his tenure of reign as king and his existence as a living being came to an abrupt end.

Declare with your tongue that no evil will befall your children. That your children will be a million times better than you. That you will not die before your time. That your glory and great legacy will shine greatly whilst you are alive and that they will even outlive you. That wealth and every form of prosperity shall become your errand boy, and lack and losses shall be ended. That your health right now shall blossom and at old age you will not become a liability to anyone for Moses was yet strong even when he was a hundred and twenty years old.
Dearly beloved, command the resources of heaven to begin to answer for you from now. Command down the power and the grace for evangelism upon your life. Command unusual rain of fruitful anointing to flood your head and life now and abide with you forever.

IN THE END, REMEMBER THAT IT IS GOD AND YOUR TONGUE THAT HAVE THE FINAL WORD OVER YOUR LIFE, NOT ANY MAN OR THE ENEMY. I DECLARE WITH THE TONGUE SEASONED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND THE POWER OF HIS CROSS THAT I SHALL SEE YOU ALL AT THE TOPMOST POINT OF LIFE’S GREATNESS. BE BLESSED FOREVER. AMEN.

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 something 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:
Suite 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: I Need Thee Every Hour
PRAY NOW:
Declare aloud, I cancel every evil word, thought and dream working against my acceleration.
All forms of attacks facing me and constituting roadblocks, die now.
O God, visit my foundation with your unquenchable fire.
Evil legs and evil shadows, monitoring spirits and family bondages troubling my destiny, collide against the Rock of Ages and be crushed.
Begin to prophesy great things over your life and destiny.
Present your personal petitions.

THE IMMENSE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 2 – Sunday, 7th March, 2021
(Dan.4:34-37, Jn.3:17, 22)
THE IMMENSE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING

Every man has found himself at his present spiritual level, current achievement, progress, retardation or retrogression, failure or success because of his limited or expanded understanding. Consider the fact below as contained in Proverbs chapter 4:7. The verse under reference reads: ‘Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting; get understanding’.
You mean despite wisdom being the most principal thing, there is still need for understanding? Ah! I concede therefore that if wisdom is the path to solution, understanding is the actual solution.

Do you know that the reason people’s spiritual lives are dry, low or stagnated may not be because they aren’t praying or fasting. It may just be a failure of understanding the word of God which they try to study. The lone reason why certain bad dreams come to pass in our lives is not because wisdom failed us as to remembering the dreams after we awoke. But because there was no understanding of the meaning. The lack of understanding of these dreams therefore triggered praying in the wrong direction.
Frankly speaking, without understanding, God’s hidden treasures in a man’s belly can never manifest. Men never get stuck in any sphere of life except when they become bereft of understanding. There is a revelational understanding needed by man in order for him to get closer to God, ascend the ladder of greatness and solve great mysteries and problems.
A riotous home is headed by a husband who lacks understanding. The woman or the wife who constantly nags may be so attractive but lacks understanding. I contend without any trepidations that a clear understanding of any stubborn situation turns that unpleasant situation from a stumbling-block to a stepping-stone.

I repeat again, we are where we are today because of our lack or lots of understanding of the situations, signs and mysteries of yesterday. Note: just as these three greats of faith, hope and love must be in the company of any Christian in order to please God and in order to make it to heaven at last, so also the three greats of knowledge, wisdom and understanding must accompany man in this present age in order for success to be attained and in order for one’s destiny to be fulfilled with effortless ease.

IN THE END, IF UNDERSTANDING IS LACKING,SOLUTION BECOMES A MIRAGE, AND EVEN PRAYERS CANNOT BE SO EASILY ANSWERED. THEREFORE, WITH ALL OUR SINEWS AND STRENGTH, LET US GET UNDERSTANDING.

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 something 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:
Suite 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: I Need Thee Every Hour
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, give me Understanding.
2. Spirit of understanding and wise counsel, enter into me now.
3. O spirit of failure and errors, I terminate your influence over my life.
4. Spirit of acceleration takeover in my life.
5. Present your personal petitions.

CARRY OUT THAT INSTRUCTION EVEN WHEN IT APPEARS THE MOST STUPID THING

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 6, No. 1 – Sunday 28th February, 2021
(Jn.2:5, 7-8)
CARRY OUT THAT INSTRUCTION EVEN WHEN IT APPEARS THE MOST STUPID THING

It was in the city of Birmingham in the year 2012. I awoke that morning with a migraine-like headache that resisted all effort until the Lord stepped in. Sometime later that same day, at about the evening session of the Christian programme I was attending in Birmingham, having travelled all the way from Aberdeen, something so strange happened.
As I entered the hall of meeting and with the headache still harassing my head, I heard the Lord speaking to me very clearly. The Lord said, ‘remove your shoes and place your feet on the ground. Immediately, I did so. What followed was most amazing. The headache vanished instantly.

Very many times, the miracle power of God does not effect great changes in our lives because of our fervent prayers and fastings. No! many times miracles come simply by reason of obedience. If I had disobeyed the voice of the Lord in that hall of meeting, my headache would have remained with me.
As one who had studied the Lord very carefully, the mother of the Lord told His servants to do whatever He told them to do. Soon afterwards, He instructed them to fill the water pots with water. And soon after, He instructed them to draw it out. If any of the instructions had been resisted, the recorded miracle of water being turned into the best wine would not have happened.
Peter in Luke chapter 5:4-11 should have allowed his academic brain and human intellect to dissuade him from letting down his net despite all night toils. And the result would have been continuing failure. Had the children of Israel failed to go round the walls of Jericho according to the number of times and days and shout in the end, no wall of Jericho would have fallen down.
Dearly beloved, God has a simple pattern of doing things consistently in His dealings with man. Notice that the instructions of God are often simple but man always tries to be complex. Notice also that the cost of disobedience far outweighs the demand from God. No wonder, Christ said ‘come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly. Take my yoke; for my yoke is easy and my burden is light’ (Matt.11:28-30)

Notice that once God gives a word of instruction, His power is already set in motion to perform that word. Understand that no matter how stupid or so simple the instruction may be, so long as it is coming from God, it will not fail. For the failure of the word of God is the failure of God. And you surely know that God will never fail.
These three things man must not do when God utters a word of instruction:

(1) do not argue.

(2) Do not doubt or belittle it.

(3) Do not entertain fear or consider it so cheap or too good to be true.

So, dearly beloved, what is God demanding from you? What is that assignment the Lord is calling you to carry out for Him? Don’t consider the present discomfort. Rather ponder on the end-results of obedience or disobedience.

IN THE END, NOTHING SHORT OF GREATNESS AWAITS THE ONE WHO FOLLOWS AND OBEYS THE LORD WITH SIMPLICITY OF HEART. SUCH A ONE WILL ARRIVE AT HIS/HER DESTINATION FASTER THAN EXPECTED.

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 something 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:
Suite 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: Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
PRAY NOW:
1. O Lord, I repent this day for resisting your voice.
2. Holy Spirit, please return to me and let me hear you instructing and guide me always.
3. Every hand determined to turn my destiny-helper away from me, catch fire now and be consumed.
4. Present your personal petitions.

 

HEY! WHAT ARE THESE MYSTERIES ALL ABOUT?

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 44 – Sunday 8th November, 2020
(Acts.9:8-19, Acts.6:1-8, 1 Sam.31:1-6, 2 Sam.1:4-10)
HEY! WHAT ARE THESE MYSTERIES ALL ABOUT?

Nothing and no one can astound the intellect of man more than the things of God and God Himself. It is undoubtedly a terse statement that His ways are beyond human research and intellectual abilities. But it is equally true that God expects His children to be deep thinkers and untiring researchers at least for the purpose of searching out His mind and His interests on all matters of life.
Have you ever dear sister inquired of God – searched out His mind concerning that delay being experienced, knowing fullwell that that situation of delay is unpleasing to Him? How do you react to dreams that you don’t understand? Pray enquiry prayers about them or simply seek men for interpretation? How sure are you that men’s interpretations will always be true? Understand dearly beloved that seeking and searching out the mind of the Almighty is the key-solution to all of life’s challenges.
There are three mysteries before us in today’s edition of The Message Now. First is what the content of Acts chapter 6:8 is all about? Second, why is it that brother Ananias in Acts chapter 9 had only one assignment from the Lord? In addition, why is it that that assignment was given by the Lord to a mere brother – a mere floor member of the church and not the great Apostles and great Evangelists at the time? Third, why is it that despite the fact that king Saul was grievously injured by the archers, yet his life remained in him?
Beginning with the first mystery, the content of Acts chapter 6:8 reads: ‘and Stephen, full of faith and power, did great miracles and wonders among the people’. Hmmm! According to the same chapter reading from verses 5-7, Stephen, ‘full of faith and the Holy Ghost’, was merely a deacon in the church. Though merely a deacon, Stephen did greater than what many General Overseers and Superintendents of many modern and great ministries of today can and would do.
By human standard then, this man Stephen qualified to be a founder of his own ministries where signs and wonders would even have been the order of the day. But he did not. Rather, Stephen preferred to serve God in the capacity of a food sharer. The question is what is God saying here?
Every man will be great, accomplish divine destiny and have his requests easily turned to testimonies so long as he remains within the right spiritual atmosphere ordered by God. Did you get that? Not only remaining under the right spiritual atmosphere but such spiritual atmosphere that is ordered by God. Do you understand dearly beloved that the answering of your prayers equally depends on the covenant, the direct spiritual leader and the spiritual atmosphere under which your prayers are being offered?
Indeed, one’s attitude to his spiritual leaders determines his progress, the timeliness of his breakthrough and whether or not his prayers will be speedily answered.
The man, Stephen, ‘full of faith and the Holy Ghost’ was selected to a low position of being a mere deacon without any objection from him. Hmmm! Please understand that the state of his heart at the point of perceived demotion gave him instant promotion.
Have you been asked by your pastor to wash the lavatory of the church? How did you feel about that and what was your heart’s reaction? The point of human demotion is always the same point of divine promotion. Did you get that again? That Pastor is the representative of God over you. Calling you into that low office is indirectly calling you into God’s full presence. Do you know that in that lowly position of divine assignment the Lord will always be present with you?
Oh! How I wish that men understand that prayers are easily answered when God is present. Do you know that the prayers you offer whilst in that duty post are bound to be answered? Remember deacon Stephen. He did what the many General Overseers of today cannot do and would not do. Again, the question is why? The truth is this? The fact that God answered one’s prayer in healing one headache does not mean that that is a sign of call into ministry.
Many pastors of today have either been called by themselves, by God, by the devil or even by God but they rushed before time into pastoral service. But take note of this that even when it is by God, the state of the heart and God Himself remain the judge. Dearly beloved, I pray for you and for myself that in the journey and in the divine assignment apportioned to our destiny, we shall not miss the track, we shall not crash and we shall not fail our Master who called us, in Jesus name.
Second, why is it that brother Ananias in Acts chapter 9 had only one assignment from the Lord? Why is it that that assignment was given by the Lord to a mere brother – a mere floor member of the church and not the great Apostles and great Evangelists at the time?
The Lord knows everyone at every given time and for every given situation. The Lord is aware of what assignment to give to who and why. But in the case of our brother, Ananias, commitment and readiness for service is the key. The Lord is constantly walking through His church, constantly looking for the prepared one (Deut.23:14)
Brother Ananias was a disciple, not Apostle. But He was found worthier for the assignment. Do you seek to please Pastor, and not God? The value and appreciation one accords to God and the things of God gives one the worth, the weight and the approval of the Almighty for service and for greatness. Never forget that great saying that ‘it is a man’s service onto God that recommends him onto greatness’.
Do you know that there are mere church members who occupy greater position of worth, weight and approval before God than their pastors? But do you also know that there are worthy and weighty children of God approved onto greatness by God but who do nothing to advance their gift? Such worthy and weighty children of God will end up like brother Ananias.
Brother Ananias was used of God for only one assignment. And the chapter of his life ended there. The simple truth is if one does not seek to develop his God-given talent, such a person will pass on without reckon, without further record and unsung.
Evidently, Brother Ananias was a great Man of God though unrecognized by the church but duly approved by God. This brother had the gift of instant healing, the working of miracles and of course this our special brother knew the captain of our salvation so well. But when God triggered on his gift, he himself did not further it because of dormancy. Dormancy is the antimony of activism.
Having seen his gift manifest, the next step was to make a recourse to Proverbs chapter 25:2 and Proverbs 22:29. Our brother would have become more honourable, standing before kings and not mean men if only he took the extra step of praying his gift through to the realm of announcing him and his God and celebrating the same. Or is it not the gift of a man that maketh room for him? (Prov.18:16).
Ah! Alas! Our brother, great Man of God – brother Ananias, died with the gift and the grace of God in his life. Ah! Our darling brother, Brother Ananias enriched the cemetery, not the souls of humanity and the kingdom of God. Brother-sister, would you die with the gift and the grace of God richly lying dormant in you? Who will enjoy that gift and grace in the region of the dead? How many souls do you think you have enriched with your sonerous voice?
I entered Express Image Glory Ministry a few years ago and I heard a sister singing. I was so moved by God. But hmmm! I must hold the rest of the story back in my belly. It was because that little stream of water developed itself through consistent flow and through coastal enlargement, that was why over time it became an ocean of reckon.
The Annual National Conference of Express Image Glory Ministry is around the corner, how would you use your gift and the grace of God on you to move God into action for you and humanity? Think about it my sister; think about it my brother.
Third, why is it that despite the fact that king Saul was grievously injured by the archers, yet his life remained in him? By men’s consideration, the wicked must die and die instantly. But by God, the souls of men are so precious that God will fight to the last second for any departing soul to make it to heaven irrespective of his sins and wickedness.
King Saul was in great anguish; the archers had hit him, the Philistines followed hard after him, he was already grievously wounded but his soul/life refused to depart from his system. Why? The answer to that puzzle is not far fetched. The answer is contained in Ezekiel chapter 33:11.
It reads: ‘say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from evil ways; for why will you die O house of Israel?’
Here is the secret O brother O sister! Have you seen anyone who is deeply so sick and at the point of death? And are you praying so fervently for that person’s healing? That’s good! But please realise that such moment is also the right moment to introduce Christ to that sick person so that should the body be lost to dust the soul will not be lost to hell.
My biological father was a moslem for probably over 70 years of his 103 years, having previously been a clear idol worshiper. According to my sister, about 30 minutes before he passed on he gave his life to the Lord Jesus. It was during his last moment in tormentous sickness that my sister introduced Christ to him. And thank God, he accepted Christ at that hour. Why was he so tormentously ill at that time? Why did that illness drag for not less than five months? Why did he not simply die being an old man already?
His body was in anguish but his life remained in him so that the agenda of God may be accomplished. But in the case of king Saul, he missed his opportunity so badly. O dear Evangelist, dearest brother and dearest sister, get the secret; life in Christ is better than the grievous pain of losing a dearly beloved who is heading in the direction of hell. So, let us not be carried away by the pain of loss of person and personalty and in the process forget the eternal loss of that person’s soul.
Whether king Saul committed suicide or indeed, he was killed by the lying Amalekite man is not a fact in issue. The most important fact in issue is king Saul did not grab his golden opportunity. The damnable consequence was and still is that king Saul’s soul was eternally lost.
Remember Acts chapter 7:59-60. Anguish from the stoning made Deacon Stephen to cry to God to receive his spirit/soul quickly. But was that request granted instantly? The unequivocal answer is no. Why? Because until the human heart is perfectly ready, it cannot be received into heaven. The scourge of stoning at that moment had most likely affected the state of heart of this great Man of God – Deacon Stephen. Until he prayed that the Lord holds not their actions against them thereby freeing his heart from any iota of bitterness, his soul/spirit remained in him. Understand then that as soon as he made use of the opportunity, his spirit/soul was received into glory.

IN THE END, WHAT WE DO WITH OUR TIME WILL BE TOLD BY TIME ITSELF. AND IT IS ON THIS BASIS THAT OUR CREDIT SCORE WILL BE GIVEN TO US. HUMAN GREATNESS WILL NOT STAND BEFORE THE TALE TO BE TOLD BY TIME IF IT EXCLUDES GREATNESS FOR DIVINITY.

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 something 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:
Suite 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: Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, I repent for every time I wasted so far.
2. I rededicate my life to serve you and humanity through you.
3. O waster of time and effort, I sack you from my life by the name and the strength of God.
4. O my gift and grace from God, spring alive and announce God through me.
5. I am progressing in a new year, I live behind every regression to die with this old and outgoing year .
6. Present your personal petition.

 

A LIVING OR A DEAD CONSCIENCE

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 43 – Sunday 1st November, 2020
(Acts.24:16, 1 Sam.12:1-3,)
A LIVING OR A DEAD CONSCIENCE

Frankly and most sincerely speaking, I have not found much wickedness elsewhere except such wickedness being perpetrated by christians. The sort of behaviours put up by Christians, the level of abuse and the non-respect for the principles of integrity makes one to think whether some church-going Christians really have any living conscience living in them.
It is mainly Christians who find it difficult to repay debts. When promises are made by them, living up to their word is always a deliberate uphill task. In business engagements, some Christians buy products for say, N1000 and interestingly, they want to sell that product for N15,000. Christians are the swiftest in expressing detrimental judgment on other people.

Ah! I cannot but make this reference to A. Tozer. The great A. Tozer stated, ‘a Pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself. But a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself’. I cannot understand it. Christians! What has brought us to this lowest ebb?
The Bible and the doctrines of Christ are no doubt very refining. Change of character is a major sine qua non immediately after salvation. What then is the problem? Are we not saved? Or have we lost our salvation? Or have we stopped growing, and now experiencing stunted growth?
I cannot think of any other thing other than the fact that the moment a man loses his vision, his focus drowns and his pursuit is redirected or totally lost. No wonder! Blaise Pascal quipped, ‘the best way to kill a man’s vision is to give him another vision’. The truth is satan has given us another vision – a problem orchestrated by worries, anxieties, cares and concerns of life so that the vision of heaven and the focus of the love for God which we had at the start has now either dwindled or completely lost.

Here is no great mystery but simple truth that heaven is the pursuit for those who are journey-bound. It is ‘a continuing city whose builder and Maker is God’. The moment our focus shifts, then we begin to live like residents on the earth who have no home above to go one day.
Ah! Alas! Hear Adrian’s thoughtful admonision. Adrian Rogers said that ‘we ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and He is coming back this afternoon’. If this realisation is not in us, then Adrian’s statement to us will remain a farcical one.
The truth is this: there is no other key for unlocking heaven and for journeying in the end to heaven other than continuous holy living. Continuous holy living is the lone fuel which powers the engine for that spiritual rocket bound for heaven. The flipside of the aforesaid is simply this: if there will be any focus for heaven, it must be by way of holiness.
Here is a further truth that anyone living in the light of another is simply unreal, a counterfeit, fake and artificial. Artificiality is the same as hypocrisy. By the contents of Job.8:16, 13:16, 15:34, Lk.12, etc, the home of the hypocrite is the polar direction from heaven. Please realise O Christian that Christians have but only one common interest and one common enemy. Our ultimate interest is heaven and our commonest enemy is not fellow Christians or even other human beings, it is rather satan.

Heaven is important to a Christian to the extent that if anyone is not desiring to go to heaven and work assiduously to get there, there is really no need to give one’s life to Christ in the first instance. When holiness and heaven are no longer the foremost focus, deadness of conscience becomes the obvious result. The issue of heaven is so germaine and so vitally important to the extent that it can require change in friends and friendships, modification of family affliation, etc.
The pertinent question is why? The answer is not far fetched. It is an answer existing between the differential border line between priority and option. Whilst every other thing may exist within the realm of option, heaven is without doubt an uncontestable priority. The final question is the question of determining where we will all end up in the end of the very end. It is the question: where do you stand in all of these?

IN THE END, THE LIFE NOW IS THE DETERMINER OF THE LIFE NEXT AFTER DEATH. BUT WHERE DO YOU STAND NOW?

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
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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: Come Onto Holiness Church Of The Lord
PRAY NOW:
1. Repent and redeicate your life afresh to God (if need be).
2. O God, please reawaken my conscience to your Spirit and to sound holiness.
3. Problems of life determined to take heaven from me, you are a failure. I receive divine strength to conquer you and to possess my possessions.
4. O sweet hour of prayers, please begin afresh in my life and form an unending time table in my soul and life.
5. Earth things that shift my focus, O God, give me solutions to them.
6. Present your personal petitions.