Monthly Archives: March 2019

COVENANT BREAKTHROUGH SERVICE:MARCH-APRIL 2019

COVENANT BREAKTHROUGH SERVICE
YEAR 2019 THEME: Solution and mercy
Annual Scriptures: Gen.17:1-2, Ps.85:10-13, Ps.138:8);
QUARTERLY THEME and Scriptures: (Theme – My Mountains Are Moving Away), (Scripture – Ezek.36:1-8);
MONTHLY COVENANT PRAYER SESSION:
VIGIL: March 2019 – April 2019;
Time: 12 A.M to 1 A.M.;
DATE: Sunday 31st March 2019 to Monday 1st April 2019;
COVENANT THEME: Power For A New Beginning;
Monthly (April) Scripture: Ezekiel 36:11;

FAITH DECLARATION: With resolute faith, declare the following eternal words aloud: Ezekiel 36:11.
CONFESSION: Confess the following Scriptures with resounding faith that cannot be resisted nor denied: (Psalms 129 and 144):

“O lands, mountains and seas, and all that exist within and outside the realms of existence, to bow and obey the commandment of the Lord is your bidding. For the voice of the Lord you hear and obey. ‘the voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire; the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness even the wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth; by the voice of the Lord, the forests are stripped bare; and everyone says, glory’. I see fruit bud out of the mountain. And so by the voice of the Lord, I take hold of my fruitful season. I speak and address all lands, mountains and all seas by the strength of the voice of the Lord that the precious things precious fruits in you that belong to my rising and announcement, be made manifest in this new moon and fresh quarter, in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

HOUR OF HEAVENLY SHOWER: pick up the Scripture below and speak gladdening words to Jehovah: Psalms 136.

HYMN: I Must Tell Jesus

PRAY NOW:
1. O God, I thank for making me see the dawn of a new moon.
2. Forgive me O God for every sin in my heart, conduct and words.
3. O God, for as long as you created the lands, mountains and seas, cause them to speak breakthroughs into my life from this day.
4. For as long as you created the lands, mountains and seas O God, cause them to swallow all curses, covenants, yokes and forces tormenting my rising, announcement and celebration.
5. O God, let the power of God for a new beginning rest upon me.
6. O God, let your power for a new beginning move me forward.
7. O God, by the power of God for a new beginning, I shall occupy that seat of honour prepared for me.

Pray against prayer reversers, evil caterers, dream polluters, powers of the night, and evil twins that harvest breakthroughs before you sleep.

THE MYSTERY AND MARVELS OF MERCY

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 12 – Monday, 1st April, 2019
(2 Sam.9:1-13, Ps.102:13)
THE MYSTERY AND MARVELS OF MERCY

If there is any aspect of grace capable of reversing the irreversible, it is mercy. If a king must eventually own a kingdom over which he will exercise his dominion, it will happen by mercy.
A man who succeeded in marrying a good wife succeeded on account of mercy. That a promised time for a breakthrough to happen did not fail can only be credited to the mercy of God.
What makes a man who has been forgotten to be remembered and made to sit on the throne is the mercy of God. When men flourish and attain heights of greatness, the answer for their ascendancy into stardom cannot be pitted on any other reason but mercy.

Equally, when men go through the harshest of life’s situations and when such cause and period of tumultuous situations were engineered by divine hands, that too occurred as a result of mercy.
Mercy prepares a man with the needed skills to meet the demands of the day soon coming. Mercy is the coolest drug on the freshest open wound. Mercy is equally the surgical knife cutting through into the flesh, the bones and the marrows in order to pull out that hydra-headed monster of cancer germ with a view to giving the cancer patient perfect peace and best health.
Mercy takes away the good man ahead of the evil day. Mercy is the cheapest to find but most difficult to obtain or to accept. No one is attempting to pacify you or please you with soothing words in this piece of writing.

So, get this into the mind of your head that your delayed marriage will in the end inform you that it was all a function of mercy. Mercy always has a happy ending. The theology we have all been brought up with only informs us about the positive sides of mercy.
The truth is that mercy sometimes has a negative beginning but is sure to end sweetly. Remember that God had sworn that King Saul and his generation would never come close to kingship or reign of any kind.
In a sense, it meant that anything palace was a no-go area for the descendants of King Saul. But why was Mephibosheth exempted from this divine judgement? Ask yourself the question, who made King David to remember the house of King Saul after so many years after King David had been crowned the king of Israel?

Really! Was there truly none left of the house of King Saul whom King David could show God’s mercy to for Jonathan’s sake? Did you say only Mephibosheth?
How wrong is such an answer. Have you forgotten Rizpah? Have you forgotten that only King Saul and Jonathan his son died in the battle with the Philistines? Yes, Ishbosheth who became king after his father, King Saul was beheaded.
But were there none others from the lineage of King Saul who were still alive? O yes, there were. So why was it a lame young man by the name Mephibosheth who was already confined to the waste bin of history in Lo Debar the one remembered for greatness and existence in the palace.

Mercy can rewrite the worst history to become the best future. Was it not also for reasons of the mercy to come that that pastor spent virtually all available finances on hospital bills from the second day of March through to the thirtieth day? Mercy knows the future.
Mercy will allow the wicked to have their way for an eventual celebration for you in the end. What is your interpretation of mercy, I should ask? “What is mercy” is best understood by the originator of mercy Himself.
All I know is that you have been delayed till now. But mercy has not allowed you to be denied. In this new moon and new quarter, mercy will turn the table the right-side-up, and you will neither be delayed nor denied again.

The problem about mercy is that whilst mercy is accessible to everyone; not everyone enjoys mercy. It is a mystery about mercy that men often miss the hour of the visitation of divine mercy and suddenly become the enemy of their God-sent angel of mercy through whom mercy will always address their situation or some men even get near mercy but interpret it to be something else.

This is the reason the set-time of mercy comes but it is not experienced. Take note that mercy should not have found Mephibosheth. For one, his condition was against him: he was already confined and condemned by lameness.
Two, he was from the cursed lineage of King Saul. Third, he had also become environmentally handicapped. By living in Lo Debar, the spiritual atmosphere over Lo Debar had moved him to the lowest of the low.
Remember Lo Debar means ‘no pasture’ ‘nothing town’. Aptly put, Lo Debar means of no use or amounting to nothing. Yet mercy passed through such dreaded environment to pick out a man.
Consider this: how long ago did Mordecai save the life of King Ahasuerus? Why was it that it was that particular night he could remember him? Why was it that Mordecai could not be remembered during any of the king’s many celebratory moments?

It is another mystery about divine mercy: it always has an appointed time. Yet, it is another mystery of and about divine mercy that its appointed time can be fast tracked. Remember Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus. Bartimaeus fast tracked the moment of his breakthrough by consistent tears and loud wailing. Maybe the way to fast track yours is by dutiful service consistently rendered without weariness, reluctance or grudge.
How many servants of God have you slighted in your heart? How many children of God have you done evil to? The Master of those servants of God and the father of those children of God cannot allow mercy flow to you. Do you doubt that? Then, carry on with your sinful life. The end will tell the entire matter in the end.

IN THE END, MERCY COMES FROM GOD AND BY GOD. MERCY COMES TO MEN WHO PROVOKE IT BY BEING MERCIFUL. MERCY IS AN OPPORTUNITY WHICH OFTEN COMES WHEN IT IS LEAST EXPECTED AND PERFECTLY UNMERITED. ALWAYS ASK FOR MERCY DURING EVERY NIGHT PRAYER; IT IS ANOTHER MYSTERY ABOUT MERCY.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: How old was Jacob when he met Pharaoh King of Egypt?
Answer: 130 years old.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.
Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus 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 Superintendent Minister and Pastor 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: Loving Saviour Hear My Cry
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, let my turn and time of mercy come.
2. O Spirit of mercy, help me to know the time of the visitation of mercy.
3. Begin to show mercy from now on.
4. Pray for mercy for two people this week: a person that you love so much and a person who has hurt you.

THE BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING

THE MESSAGE NOW
VOL 4 NO. 11- 25TH MARCH,2019

THE BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING
GEN 14:18-20; PROV 3:9-10

Giving tithe and offering predates the New Testament era; it’s not an innovation in the New Testament church. It has been practiced by the Faithfuls as far back as the period when Abraham rescued his cousin Lot and the goods the enemy took from Sodom. On his way back from the war Melchizedek met him, blessed him, gave him bread and wine and Abraham gave him tithe of all (Gen 14:20). This was the first account of tithing.
Jacob one of the patriarchs, also vowed and paid tithe unto God (Gen 28:20-22). During the dispensation of the law, all Israelites were commanded to bring their tithe ‘‘into a place where the Lord your God shall choose’’ i.e His house (Deut. 14:22,23).
Tithing is part of true worship. There are lots of blessing in giving tithes and offering unto the Lord. One of the secrets of spiritual and material blessings is faithfulness in giving of our tithe and offerings.
I know a man of God who gives his tithes and a minimum of 10% of the tithe as his offering. I think this is a rewarding spiritual mathematics.
There is a question of where do you pay your tithe. The tithe should be paid where you receive your spiritual food & blessings. You can’t eat in canteen A and pay in canteen B. It is important for believers today to know where to pay their tithe. Tithes must be brought to the store house of God where the Gospel is being preached in truth and where the propagation of the gospel is the primary objective and pursuit.
The most important condition is that you must first surrender your heart to God before God can be pleased with your tithe and offerings. You must be born again and become a child of God. While tithe and offering are made mandatory other giving are also rewarding as God bless such givers meaning they are also much approved of God. It is part of our service to God and humanity.
⦁ When we give our tithe, the store house of God will be full (Malachi 3:10)
⦁ When we give our tithe, windows of heaven’s blessings will be opened to us- (Malachi 3:10)
⦁ When we give our tithe, immeasurable blessings will be poured upon us (Malachi 3:10)
⦁ When we give our tithe, the devourer shall be rebuked- (Malachi 3:11) i.e we shall not spend money on things that merely deplete our resources wastefully
⦁ When we give our tithe, the fruit of our ground shall not be destroyed i.e we shall have good harvest.
⦁ When we give our tithe, our plants shall not cast their fruits before their time i.e there shall not be any kind of abortion (Malachi 3:11)
⦁ When we give our offering our barns shall be filled with plenty i.e good yield (Prov 3:9-10)
⦁ Our reward shall be a great proportion of our offering that is profitability (2cor 9:6, Luke 6:38)
Pastor Adeboye once gave the testimony of a brother that borrowed money to singlehandedly sponsor the feeding at their annual convention. The man eventually became the chairman of the bank where the money was borrowed. The Lord looks at the heart of the giver.
Giving our resources to God brings spiritual & physical blessings to us as enumerated.
⦁ When Peter gave his empty fishing boat to Jesus, he got two full trawlers of fish back (Luke 51:7)
⦁ The shunamite woman gave her chamber & food to Elisha her barrenness was turned to fruitfulness (2king 4:8,10,13,14-16)
In the end, it is our giving willingly, cheerfully and whole heartedly either by command, intuition or impulse that will always attracts God’s reward.
Question and Answer:
Q: How was the earth watered initially before the rain?
A: Mist went up from the earth (Gen 2:5-6 )

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.
Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus 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 Superintendent Minister and Pastor 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: Take my life and let it be

Pray Now
⦁ Father you owned my life and all that i have, give me the grace to hold everything with a loose hand
⦁ 2 Samuel 24:24 – Father help me i will not to give unto you anything too cheap
⦁ From today, i shall never fail to pay my tithe.
⦁ Prov 8:18. Father you give power to get wealth, establish your covenant with me, give me abundant wealth & health this year
⦁ Exo 12:13. Father no plaque, death or destruction in this year 2019 shall come near me, they shall over me and my house In Jesus name.
⦁ Blood of Jesus answer for me this year (repeat 7 times)
⦁ Act 16:26 may earth quake now from the foundation, my closed doors open, all my chains and fetters loose In Jesus name.


Israel Ade-Raymond Ebo

RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN THE FAMILY

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 10 – Monday, 18th March, 2019
RESOLVING CONFLICTS IN THE FAMILY.
TEXT: COL 3:12-24

Since the creation of the family, Satan has always focused on it for to destroy it.
When the first family was made Satan surfaced to cause the wife to disobey God and also caused Adam to sin hence the first family got disfavoured by God.
Since then Satan has continuously tried to tear families apart through conflicts; many a time such conflicts start with little things and when a couple allows the devil to magnify these little things the consequence is always disastrous.
Many of the root cause of conflicts in the family are things that are of no spiritual consequence. Pastor W.F Kumuyi once told a story of a couple that got separated over the use of tooth paste tube, such a thing you are supposed to laugh over escalated to the point of breaking the family.
The family conflicts sometimes arise as a result of the difference in the family background of the couple. Things like personal preference, handling of finance, interference of in-laws, children or house maids, communication gap, misinterpretation of action, wrongful suspicion as well as lack of patience with on another.
Conflicts should be handled with maturity (both should show high level of maturity), they should be handled with prayer and with the word of God.
Christian couples must never settle their difference in the presence of their children, friends, relations and neighbour. Doing such will destroy their Christian testimony.
I spent a great lot of time with my parents, they never quarrelled, my dad never use high tone voice against my mum, my dad never complained against my mum, my mum never argued with my dad, she never reported my dad to anybody, nobody ever came to settle any quarrel. My dad never called my mum by name despite the age difference and interestingly my dad never gave my mum money, i mean in our presence my dad never gave our mum any money. We were nine children and at any point in time there were 2 other dependent relatives with us plus transiting pastors who lodged with us often. Not once did i hear a quarrel between my dad and mum.
My mum had eye challenges and was to undergo eye operation but she refused, why? She said who will take care of our dad if she had the surgery. Many years later and two weeks after the burial of our dad she requested to go for the operation. She almost lost her sight for our dad’s sake. How many wives today can endure this?
We should love our spouses deliberately and intentionally, sacrificing all to keep the home happy.
Time should be created to discuss issues that cause tensions in the home but unfortunately many spouses discuss more with their friends and parents rather than their partner. This should not be, once the marriage is Consummated the couple should take the STEP together i.e S-sleep together, T-talk together, E-eat together and P-pray together. This step will volatilise any misunderstanding. Issues should be discussed under the atmosphere of love because when each tries is prove a point, the problem remains unsolved.
When there is love, we will be prepared to forgo anything that tends to break the home and which has nothing to do with our faith and love of Christ. The solutions to most of the conflicts that arise are found in the scriptures. If we accept what God says on such issues and pray together in sincerity and love, our homes will be a different place. If however the conflict is getting out of hand, we should consult a mature, competent, spiritual leader for counselling.
In the end, if Christian’s couples will be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love, in honour they will prefer one another; the home will be a radiant place. Conflicts will give way to confidence and heavy hearts to happy home.

Questions and Answer: Who was the king that had his two eyes gouged out?
Answer: King Zedekiah (2 kings 25:7)

Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.

Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus 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 Superintendent Minister and Pastor 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: God give us Christian homes

Pray now:

  1. Gen 3:1 Father, help me not to communicate with the devil, give me the grace to resist the devil at all times.
  2. Father let your son Jesus Christ be the head of my home
  3. Father, destroy every evil thought in me against my spouse
  4. Every personality in my father’s house, mother’s house, and in-law’s house against my marriage die now.
  5. Ps 139:14. I am carefully made; i am not an accident i shall not die of accident.
  6. Ps 139:14. My marriage is carefully made by you Oh Lord, it shall not breakup.

Israel Ade- Raymond Ebo

THE CHEWING-GUM OF YOUTUBE

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 9 – Monday, 11th March, 2019
(Is.58:1)
THE CHEWING-GUM OF YOUTUBE

Who on earth can tell what this edition of The Message Now will earn me. But whatever is the outcome: the insults of men? Another branding and rebranding on youtube? Hmmm! whatever. I am however sure in the end that the Lord who called me and sent me will defend His interest in my life.

Isaiah chapter 58:1 states: ‘cry out, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins’. With and in perfect clarity, I have a mandate by reason of this scripture to announce moral decadens, to instruct against it and profer solutions where necessary.

The butchering of servants of God is now a common mantra on youtube and social media. Let me strictly warn that such is not permitted in this ministry. Understand me in every way possible that this ministry will not spare any one with the penchant for maiming pastors with their tongues.

It is commonly believed that pastors are answerable to God only. But personally, I differ very strongly from such opinion. In my view, pastors are answerable to God and to the people over whom God has made them overseers.
As a matter of fact, any pastor who is a heaven-bound citizen will welcome with a heart of gratitude any Christian who points out his faults to him in love with a view to make him a better person. For no pastor is beyond correction. For me, this is still within the ambit of what the scripture permits.

But it is obvious that the frontiers of scriptural ambit has been so widened by church people and the public alike that pastors have now become the common chewing-gum of myriads of campaigns on youtube and the general social media.

Permit me to say that the attitude of some pastors is the reason behind this youtube and social media users. How clean are our hands Pastors? But even at that, youtube and social media users, has God handed over to you the cane to whip his servants?
Haven’t you read the accounts of Jeremiah 2:3? Has Psalm 105:14-15 not been instructive enough. When Africans and Nigerians in particular go onto the Internet and call leaders of the Christian faith by very unbecoming identities, what judgment do these Nigerians expect from God?

It was the turn of that Nigerian to refer to Baba (Pastor) E.A. Adeboye as a ‘liar’, Baba (Pastor) WF Kumuyi as ‘incapable’ and Dr. D.K. Olukoya as ‘devil’. When unbelievers witchhunt Christians and berate us, are we not supposed to be there encouraging one another as Christians?
When we tear the body of Christ apart and make devils out of children of God, are we not adding to Christ’s pains? Does the Spirit of God dwell in us really and truly? Can’t you simply sell your market on youtube and social media without maligning other people?

It appears to me that berating men of God has become the cheapest tool in the hands of these bloggers, youtube and social media users for advertising and promoting their products, church, books, followership, generosity. Get this clear; as you delight in bringing others down by promoting yourself, your church, products and followership, so will God promote your shame and disaster.

It was also the turn of another youtube user to claim that tithes and offerings should no longer be paid because some pastors enrich themselves through this medium. Hmmm! there is no doubt that there are pastors who do this. But should we flout divine instructions thereby offend God because of the actions of some of His messengers?

O youtube user and preacher, if men hurt God because of your campaign, do you not remember the trajectory of God’s judgment? Do you not understand that God always goes back to the root of every crime or sin when dispensing judgment?

If your youtube campaign is the genesis of disobedience, when the rod of divine judgment visits those disobedient people, how shall you the originator escape? Remember 2 Kings 2:23-24.

IN THE END, ONLY 120 MEN AND WOMEN IN THE UPPER ROOM TRANSFORMED THE WORLD AFTER THE MASTER DEPARTED BACK TO HEAVEN. THEIR ACTIONS GAVE BIRTH TO MILLIONS OF US TODAY. WHAT ABOUT YOU?!!! CONSIDER HEB.10:26-31 AND REPENT.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: How many disciples were present in the upper room?
Answer: 120.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counselling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com or 08098198155.

Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus 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 Superintendent Minister and Pastor 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: Take My Life And Let It Be
PRAY NOW:

  1. O God, have mercy on me for the sake of your Son, Jesus.
  2. O God, forgive me for speaking against any one among your servants.
  3. Remove every delay to my prayers by your mercy.
  4. Pray and fast on Tuesday and Thursday of this week for the unmarried ones in Express Image Glory ministries: ask God for several things for them. Let every evil word and hands working against them be paralysed and their way made open.
  5. Pick someone in your office, family and in Express Image Glory Ministries and pray for them on Monday, Wednesday, Friday to Sunday.

SHALOM.

SUNSHINE AT MIDNIGHT: A LIGHT FOR DIRECTION

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 8 – Monday, 4th March, 2019
(Acts.27:13-44)
SUNSHINE AT MIDNIGHT: A LIGHT FOR DIRECTION

Please capture the mood and message of the poem below.
Scattered leaves and bended trees,
Fleeing birds and vegetations hiding their heads and faces,
Fear-laden hearts and disappearing creeping fellows
All heading for the depth of the ancient seas, shacks and shelters, holes and hollows.
It is all because of you,
Because of you O towering storm of life.
What is fair about you O towering waves;
For the poor of little hope cannot find succor in nature’s gentle breeze.
But your violent hands mock their already broken hearts to founder and fester
In deeper and in more hopeless hopelessness.
Unfair is life’ unfair and unjust, for the equals are made unequal by your unfair travail.
But hear Life’s excuse! I am as fair as fair;
For do not the rich and the strong also share in my equal fair justice?
For whether it be gold or goads, to all I share them alike.

Doesn’t it call for a serious wonder that a man on the course of fulfilling divine agenda for the kingdom of God has to be violently confronted by such storm of life as Euroclydon?

Consider the words of verse 20 of our text: ‘and when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away’.The great Apostle’s experience was a perfect case of perfect hopelessness. But the power of unrelenting hope prevailed in that state of hopelessness. For in the midst of that dark storm en route their journey across a tide-throng sea, the Lord God made the sun beam its light for direction onto them.

Consider the words of verse 27: ‘but when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country’.

Why was it midnight? Couldn’t it have been any other time? The truth is, much as the sons of men believe that God can spring solution at the eleventh hour, even so He can shine the light for direction at the twelfth hour when every hope is finally gone.

There are certainly memorable lessons to be learnt from the account in our text:
The unfair treatment of life is not personal or targeted at a given people or person; it is usually an equal allocation to all.
The records of the Almighty written by Him about an individual can be delayed but can never be altered. Know that God will surely arise some day to defend His interest and His integrity.
There is a set time of expiry for every problem.
Nothing in the world can extend a time given by God for a miracle to happen except sin by the individual in question.
God is in the midst of every storm that His son or daughter is going through. This is the more reason why no storm can swallow up His own.
The longer the enemy delays the happening of a miracle, the sweeter that miracle will turn out to be.
Every storm is permitted because there is a need for it.
The storm allowed by God will eventually play out in your interest.

When going through any storm, keep these words as your driving motto: ‘and this time shall surely pass away’. Storms of life do not last forever; they only try to prove so. Remember that the remaining days for the expiry of any storm you are passing through are not as many as the days already expended going through that storm. Remember this: Paul the Apostle eventually made it to Rome despite Euroclydon, Cnidus and the shelter of Clauda. You too will make it.

IN THE END, IF THE STORMS OF LIFE DO NOT TOSS YOU TO AND FRO, HOW WILL YOU VALUE YOUR GOD AND THE MIRACLE SOON TO APPEAR?

Question and Answer Section:
Question: What is the modern name of the country Melita in Acts 28:1?
Answer: Malta.

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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: Take Your Burden To The Lord
PRAY NOW:
1. O Thou power of God that rescued Paul the Apostle on the terrible sea, appear against my storm of life this new moon.
2. I am not dying with destiny pregnancy, my destiny child shall be born.
3. Take a member of Express Image Glory Ministries every day of this week, pray for him/her and even fast a day for that person.
4. Hands slowing down the vehicle of my marriage and marital joy and glory, collide against the hand of Jehovah and shatter.
5. Hour of personal deliverance using the prayer points of the Covenant Breakthrough Service is next.