THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 33 – Monday, 26th August, 2019
(Jude 1:3)
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES
(Part 2)

There is a basic characteristic about authority. It is the fact that authority usually descends from an un-commanded commander down to the commanded. Authority usually does not imbibe equal partnership; the master is always at the top.
In the general sense, the one who is classified as authority, is usually the one who dishes out tasks. Oftentimes, his tasks are not followed up with rewards, and who can really question him/her. If his tasks receive the back-up of rewards, it is always at his/her own prerogative, time and disposition when he/she finds it so convenient to do.

But the case of the Great Master, the Blessed Lord Jesus, is markedly different. His tasks always comes with accompanying rewards. Indeed, Christ is so lowly that obedience to His given tasks makes one equal with Him before His father. Recall the content of John chapter 13 that Christ not only washed His disciples’ feet, He categorically informed them that He was no longer addressing them as His disciples but as His ‘friends’.
In the equation of the Almighty, genuine Christian service makes the children and the heavenly father one entity. Christ worked, serving the course of the Father so dutifully (John 5:17). The result of Christ’s dutiful service earned Him oneness with the Father as was elucidated in the account of John chapter 10:30. This act of service is the next consideration of Christian doctrine.

(3) Christian Service(Evangelism): An author, pastor and lawyer once argued in a book that ‘it is a man’s service onto God that recommends him onto greatness’. Hmmm! Can that really be true? Oh! It is spectacularly true.
But understand that it is both improbable and impossible to serve God without a genuine heart of love. For a master whom you do not genuinely love you certainly cannot please with your service (2 Chron.25:2).
What does that imply? It means that service to God is an expression of love to God. Genuine service to God tells God how much we value Him. Human masters load their followers with myriads of service that oftentimes are heavily crushing. But the Great Master, Christ gave to all who are His friends only one task: MAKE ME KNOWN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD (Matt. 28:18-20).

It has remained an age-old misnomer that evangelism only means the distribution of tracks and the preaching of the gospel. This is true, but not the whole truth. Please understand that winning souls is the best anyone can do for Christ in this present world.
And I do encourage us to seriously do so. But do you know that living a holy life, good enough for others to emulate is equally evangelism? When Christian workers, church members and leaders perform excellently with genuine heart in their given department, they are equally evangelizing.
Do I hear you say how? Matthew chapter 5:16 informs us that ‘let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works,and glorify your father which is in heaven’.
Are we aware that whilst carrying out our duties, others are directly and indirectly being led into our direction? It was the lifestyle of my secondary school classmate, Stephen Angulu, that first prompted me to desire being a Christian. By serving God as a soldier on our duty posts, we are gladdening the heart of the Almighty. The spiritual cameras of heaven too are beaming clearly at us.

I have a spiritual daughter who goes out of her way to remind me about some of our church activities. Why shouldn’t I see her as a challenge? And why shouldn’t I be encouraged by her actions?
There is no one who serves the Lord who will ever be forgotten. Get a further secret and lesson of life about Christian service/evangelism from the espoused mystery below.
If you assist in sweeping or cleaning the things that pertain to God, God in turn makes sure that diseases and sickness are swept off your life. If you serve God with your finances, God knows how to position men to see to it that you never go down. And you know what, those who serve God with their substance will be put in everlasting remembrance (Luke 8:1-3).
If you support in building the house or place of worshipping God, daily and everlasting blessings and the cancelation of all curses are your portion as enunciated in Haggai 2:19). Read the entire account of the book of Haggai chapters 1-2 and see what I mean.
If you support in giving God praises like being in the choir of the house of God and so doing with a genuine heart, God in turn confirms His word in Malachi 2:1-4 in your life by nullifying curses and ensuring your deliverance, salvation and outstanding quicker breakthroughs as laid down in Psalm 50:22-23.
If you arrange chairs and put the house of God in order prior to service hour or even without any services at the corner, God makes sure that He arranges your life and puts its it in order. If you preach with a genuine heart about Christ, you carrying out the greatest deliverance for yourself especially from within. Do I hear you interject?

Have you not read the content of Hebrews chapter 10:22? It reads: ‘let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith; having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water’.
‘Our bodies washed with pure water’?! What does this mean in the context of preaching and evangelism generally? Every word of God preached during evangelism is full of enormous power. It works deliverance to the hearers who are two: the addressee and the one addressing the addressee.
For the one addressing the addressee (that is, the evangelist), note that there is no way a word will be spoken by a man that two things will not happen. One is the movement of the tongue in course of talking. The other is the movement or vibration of saliva in and through the mouth of the evangelist or the speaker of the word.
During the process of talking or evangelizing, saliva moves in two directions which is often unknown to man. The first direction is inward. The second direction is outward towards the atmosphere or sometimes even touching the outward hearer unintendedly.

The mystery is this: that saliva travelling back into the evangelist is carrying the enormous power which goes inside him/her to perform unspeakable miracles and also reside in him/her as residue of great spiritual power. No wonder, when such evangelist pray, there is always great results.
Having got this mystery from the Holy Spirit, I ask everyone the great question: where do you still stand? On the side of God with a genuine heart at every level of Christian service or do you wish to continue in your old ways of leaving His work undone?

Will we force you to give your tithes and offerings? Will we force you to administer rightly? Will we force you to lead prayers in your prayer department? Will we continue to force you to fast and to come to church?

IN THE END, WHO ARE YOU SERVING? REMEMBER THAT YOU CANNOT STAND ON THE FENCE. FOR THERE IS NO VACUUM. YOU ARE EITHER GENUINELY SERVING GOD, YOURSELF OR SATAN. DON’T YOU KNOW THE ANSWER?

Question and Answer Section:
Question: What book of the Bible contains no single mention of God or Lord?

Answer: The Bible book of Esther.

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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: Faith Of Our Fathers
PRAY NOW:
1. In every place O God where I have failed the doctrines of the Bible, O God forgive me and return me to the path of old.
2. O God, kill off that nulge in me which is opposed to any word of God.
3. O God, as Nehemiah prayed that ‘God remember me or the good that I have done onto this people’. So God, please remember me for the services you have helped me to genuinely render to your work.
4. O hand of Pharaoh and witchcraft stretched forth against the forthcoming Conference of this Ministry, let the sword of God collide against you.

ANNUAL CONFERENCE IS NEXT MONTH.

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 32 – Monday, 19th August, 2019
(Jude.1:3)
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES
(Part 1)

It remains an acceptable philosophical stance that belief in anything is the start-point of knowledge. When belief has fully taken its grounded position, then the process of knowledge has just begun. Until the knowledge of anything occupies its rightful place, derailment is both probable and possible.

This philosophical stance equally holdsway with Christian doctrines and standards. It needs to be reechoed that constant reminders, reemphasis, repetitions and reiterations are potent tools for reengineering beliefs and for entrenching knowledge.
These tools are so vital that even after knowledge has been gained, their relevance remains unquestioned. No wonder Proverbs 22:28 warns us that we should ‘remove not the ancient landmarks which thy fathers have set’. Why? The reason is partly so that such good ‘ancient landmarks’ may be passed onto the generation from us.

There are doctrines, standards and principles laid down by the Lord Himself (Jn.8:31), the Apostles of old (Acts.2:42), the ten commandments by God Almighty through the prophets (Deut.5:6-21).
The question is why are doctrines still necessary? The answers are obvious:

(1) because doctrines are integral parts of the word of God (2 Tim.3:16).

(2) Because doctrines are commandments of God, and it is only by exercising obedience to them that our genuine love and followership is truly expressed to God (Jn.13:34-35).

(3) Doctrines are necessary because no doctrine no heaven (Rev.22:15, 18-19). And

(4) Without doctrines there will be no baselines for restraints. Put aptly, doctrines checkmate human excesses.
Underlisted are Christian doctrines in the Bible for which all Christians must abide by.

Christian marriage: This is the union of only one man and one woman. Christianity does not permit a union between two equal genders that is, man and man or woman and woman (Lev.18:22), Rom.1:21-32 esp 26-27, or sex between human beings and animals (Lev.18:23). Neither is anal sex or oral sex permitted among Christians. Nor does Christianity support masturbation.
Christian marriage is both a legal and a spiritual union where divorce is inpermissible (Malachi 2:16). There is equally no remarriage in christianity (Matt.19:9). For what God has joined together, no man should put asunder (Matt.19:6b). As far as Christian doctrine is concerned. If remarriage is the case, those partaking in such remarriage are living in adultery.
Note that sex before the payment of dowry is unacceptable (Heb.13:4). For such amounts to fornication and fornication is not permitted in christianity for all who practice fornication have no part with God (Eph.5:3-4, 1 Cor.5:11, 1 Cor.6:9-20.
In fact, quite apart from Christian standard and doctrine, is it not a fact that sex is no test of love? Sex before marriage removes the shine and beauty of the marriage. How so respected and authority commanding before God is a man or a woman who kept his/her virginity until his marriage or until her dowry has been paid. O young lady, would you lose your God-given virginity on the altar of mere material gifts or the sweet words of fantasy? O my young brother, would you?
Those Christians who kickstart their wife before dowry is paid end up managing in that marriage; they never enjoy it as they should. Neither is their finances ever in good shape. Did you get that?

Christian dressing: this is an area where many have allowed themselves to be deceived and are still deceiving themselves till date. Christians are living in the world but are not part of the world. Why then do Christian brothers and sisters fashion their dressing, hair-do, hair-styles and appearances after the fashions of this world?
Know you not that ‘the fashions of this world passeth away’? (1 Cor.7:31). Have you not read about the end of those who follow after the fashions of this world and how it was explicated in Jeremiah 4:30? If there is no difference in the manner of dressing between Christians and the world, then what makes us different?
If our dressing is to score the point of our beauty when the beauty is not there, is that not vaineness. If our dressing is to score the point of our beauty even when the beauty is already there, is that not pride and vaneness too?
Hear the Holy Scripture calling out: ‘charm is deceitful and beauty is vaine. But a woman that fears the Lord, she shall be praised’. The same rule and Scripture applies to men also.
How did attachment and braiding of the hair emerge? Events and experiences inform us that they are all machinations emanating from marine world. The events and experiences expousing these information have evidential proofs. But more than these, what does the content of 1 Timothy 2:9-10 tell us?!
Big Mr Man of God! Carrying punk style, Tyson hair styles. What do you think you are doing Sir? You say I am ‘fearfully and wonderfully made’. That is true! But did the Scripture say ‘beautifully made?’ And even if it says ‘beautifully made’, are we expected as Christians to misuse our liberty? If at all the Scripture included one being ‘beautifully made’, does that also mean punkly, tysonly and stylishly made?
Have you not read between the lines that Absalom’s pride and showmanship was the beginning of his fall? Did you not see between the lines that his attitude towards his hair greatly contributed to his pride, showmanship and eventual fall? Do you want to fall O mr Man of God? (See 2 Sam.14:26).
For ages now, the contest has remained raging that there is no need for a Christian woman to cover her hair when she is prophesying or praying. And the argument of some of these proponents is that after all her pastor’s wife does not cover her hair.
The best response for you is that you are equally preparing to miss heaven with your pastor’s wife. Have you not read 1 Cor.11:1-16?
Mrs sister and mr brother, that the Bible instructs us with certain standards on dressing, is that now the reason for your dressing poorly? Please tell us Mr brother, why you should dress with your trousers and well-tucked-in shirts accompanied with a pair of sandals or slippers on your foot? Sir, do you know that even unbelievers don’t dress that way?
Understand that there is a dress sense in Christianity. It is such dressing which celebrates in the genuineness of heart; not skimpy; not tempting; not for showmanship; not to lure; not to negatively affect weak consciences or give other onlookers an unchristianly orientation (1 Cor.8:9-13).
Understand this mystery: do you know that sometimes, our dressing determines the type of spirit that companies with us? Dear brother dear sister, don’t be an Israelite in Egyptian attire. It does not number you among the saints.
Are you saying ‘please leave me to dress as I wish, stop forcing me’. Who is forcing you Mr man and Mrs woman. I am telling you because obedience is the foremost key that unlocks all blessings. I am telling you because only the ones who obey God can please Him. You cannot disobey God and believe that you are making Him happy. By the way, do you know that there is blessing for obedience? (See Rev.1:3).
IN THE END, REMEMBER THAT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS: ‘THE WAY OF TRANSGRESSORS IS HARD’ (PROV.13:15).

Question and Answer Section:
Question: What book in the New Testament contains the lengthiest verses?
Answer: The Gospel according to Saint Luke.

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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: Faith Of Our Fathers
PRAY NOW:
1. In every place O God where I have failed the doctrines of the Bible, O God forgive me and return me to the path of old.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE IS NEXT MONTH!!!

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 31 – Monday, 12th August, 2019
(Num.16:1-50, Num.17:1-13, Ps.74:9)
THE MYSTERY ABOUT AARON’S ROD AND THE LESSONS DERIVED THEREFROM

I contend very strongly that evident fruitfulness is the basic hallmark of a divinely-ordained Call. I contend still that the reasoning of God though seemingly stupid by human reasoning is of such supreme intelligence in comparison to the greatest echelon of all human knowledge.
Further, I contend the more that only divine reasoning can unravel the mysteries propounded by divinity. If all these spiritual academic contentions were to be untrue, tell me then what points the mystery behind Aaron’s rod was designed by God to score?
To every prophetic and ministerial Call, there must of necessity be the mark of the Call. Psalm 74:9 states: ‘We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among any that knoweth how long’.
When there are no signs, it is because the people have become rebellious to the word of God and disrespectful in their hearts to the prophet of God. When there are no signs,it is because the prophet himself has fallen out of favour with God.
At other times, the absence of signs occurs when the prophet has reversed from being a prayer warrior to becoming a ‘playing warrior’. Such act of laziness was never the case with that great Man of God called Moses.

But in spite of Moses’ steadfastness, the scandalous congregation doubted, ‘murmured’ and challenged his spiritual authority. And God needed to give them a proof. For what most men look out for in a prophet is proof. And only fools doubt proof.
The case of the children of Israel was so bad that everyone of them presented themselves to be prophets also and considered themselves equal on the prophetic pedestal with Moses. Whilst it is true that every man is the prophet of his own life and destiny, nonetheless, they ought to have borne it in mind that the equality of all prophets is not true.

For all Christians are truly equal as children of God but we differ in grace and in anointing. And how so true is the fact that humility is one of the greatest promoters of grace and anointing. For did not the Scriptures state that God gives grace to the humble? (See Jam.4:6, 1 Pet.5:5, Prov.3:34).
In the case of the Man of God called Moses, humility was never missing in his human culture so much that the Holy Scripture could not but testify about him (Num.12:1-3). So, dear brother Pastor, humility is key. Therefore, pray for it, seek it and be sure you get it. It is the hallmark of spiritual elevation and fruitfulness.

Oh! My dear brother prophet, hear the painful yearning of the heart of the Lord saying to you this day: cease from advertising yourself and your ministry; stay far away from fleshly tricks to be noticed; be absolutely care less about crowd and fame. Do the work of the Master as it is fitting and pursue greatly after righteousness and spiritual power, minding nothing about money and wealth.
O Man of God, do you not understand that those who rose up against Moses and Aaron were people from the same tribe of Levi as was Moses and Aaron? Understand then O Man of God that the word of the Lord is true which states: ‘a man’s foes shall be they of his own household’ (Matt.10:36).

What more shall I learn from the mystery of Aaron’s rod which budded and did bud overnight?
(1) That all things are possible with God.
(2) That if dead, dry rod can become green tree overnight, then every good thing that has been dead and/or buried in any life can revive again.
(3) Job 14:7-9 informs us that even when a tree is cut down, yet at the scent of water, it shall sprout again. This tells us that every dead or delayed breakthrough needs only one thing: the breath of God. Man was made out of dust. Dust is inanimate. What made dust-made-man to become a living entity is the fact of the breath of God. Therefore, ask God to breathe upon that situation of your life.
(4) That clear demonstration of miracle-working-power is one of the direct proofs of divine Calling on a man. God allowed Aaron’s rod to bud to prove to the congregation of the children of Israel that He, the Almighty, is the power and force behind the Calling of prophet Moses and his brother, priest Aaron.
(5) Aaron’s rod budded because God wanted to teach the children of Israel the lesson that anointing demands two instant responses from the followers; (a) commendable respect, and (b) instant obedience.
(6) Aaron’s rod budded and budded overnight because God is both the God of the eleventh hour and indeed the Lord and the Master of the twelfth hour. God cannot be too early; God can never be too late; God is ever on time.
(7) Divine dawn of reality will always follow and supersede the darkest night. After every dusk will follow the bright day. Therefore, with God, always await the bright day, not the passing dusk, gloom or the dark hour which is soon fizzling into oblivion.

IN THE END, OUR LIVES ARE GREATER THAN AARON’S ROD; WE ARE THE TODDLERS RUNNING UP AND DOWN GOD’S LARGE ALTAR WHILST GOD IS BUSY ATTENDING TO MANY OTHER THINGS. SHOULD HE EVER HEAR OR FEEL OUR YELLING BEFORE EVEN SEEING OUR TEARS DROPPING, HE WILL SWIFT TAKE THE ACTIONS BEYOND OUR WILDEST IMAGINATIONS. BUT UNDERSTAND THAT OUR HUMBLE HEARTS AND OUR PRAISE-OFFERING SPIRITS WILL SPARK GREATER DIVINE ACTION THAN OUR TEARS. THEREFORE, KEEP THE LIPS OF PRAISES EVER FLIPPING.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: How long did it take Aaron’s rod to bud?
Answer: Only overnight.

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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: The Great Physician
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, the people were seeking shame for Moses and Aaron but you discomfited them. Do to those seeking my downfall as you did to the enemies of Moses and Aaron.
2. O God, let the dead and delayed situations of life receive the breath of God.
3. O God, release greater grace and enormous spiritual power onto me.
4. Pray for the Pastor of this Ministry.
5. Pray for the success of the forthcoming Conference; request for the reign of the miracle-working-power of God.

Annual Conference is next month!

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 30 – Monday, 5th August, 2019
(Gen.3:1-24 esp 9, Gen.48:8-20 Esp 10, 1 Sam.28:6, Heb.8:12, Rom.2:4)
HAS THE ALMIGHTY EVER BEEN BLIND, DEAF AND DUMB AT ANY GIVEN TIME?

What a question! Isn’t such a question absolutely a nonsense question? Even if it is nonsense, it is nevertheless a senseless question for nonsense does not mean no sense. Rather, it is no sense which is equal to senselessness. As such, both no sense and senselessness do not stand at per with nonsense.
So then understand that when some argue that nonsense still contains some fragments of sense, can they be said to be absolutely wrong? The unequivocal answer is NO. If therefore even nonsense contains some sense thereby differing from senselessness and no sense, then the above question cannot be said to amount to nonsense because there is yet some element of sense to be gained therefrom.
I rather think that a question of the kind referred to above should trigger a mix of the emotional quotience of surprise and the intelligence quotience of a strong desire for some spiritual research of some sort, and not simply confining and consigning the question to the waste bin of trash and nonsense.

The question again is: has the Almighty ever been blind, deaf and dumb at any given times? The unequivocal answer is YES. Now, I know that for those who belong to the school of thought which considers a question of this kind as nonsense, even the answer proferred to the question will trigger in them some sparks of paranoia.

Hmmm! It is a nonsense question after all with a crazy answer, isn’t it? A close look at verses 8 and 9 of the first Scripture reveals something quite staggering and striking. The verses in question read:
‘8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, where art thou?’
Where art thou?! Why will the Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient Almighty God ask such a question? In the first instance, He, the Almighty created that garden where they were.

He, the Almighty created them (Adam and his wife) also. Being the sole Omnipresent in life and in all, and being the lone Omniscient in everything, wasn’t He, the Almighty present everywhere throughout the entire nooks and cranings of the garden and everywhere else that Adam and his wife might be hiding? Couldn’t He, the Almighty see them.

Metaphorically, the Almighty could not see them. The reason the Great God of heaven and earth could not see them or saw them but could not be bothered is the reason of love. Love trusts. Since love trusts, love never doubts the object of its affection.
The eyes of love are very different from the eyes of the flesh or the outer eyes. The eyes of love sees and ‘believes all things’ ever trusting never doubting (1 Cor.13:7). Oh! How I wish that man would learn from one of the greatest lessons of life that never lie to the one who trusts you and never trust the one who lies to you and of course, never lie to your own self.

O man, can you hearken to the voice of wisdom and learn now? Do I hear you say what wisdom?! Learn from the power and persuasion of love: do you know that every woman knew the true nature of the man she was getting into marriage with right from courtship moments?
The reason she cared less about his faults and weaknesses is twofold. First is the reason of love for love blinded her. Second is the reason of deceit; she was not true to herself about that man. The same is the case with the man during courtship days.

In the case of Adam, his wife and the Almighty, divine love enshrined in the high expectation and the consistent familiarity of usual embrace loosened up the Almighty from His unquestionable capabilities of Omnipresence, Omniscience and Omnipotence.
In short, God was absolutely blinded by love on two strata. First stratum was the fact that His consistent love for them kept them always in His heart. So even when they were not with Him, He could not forget them. But despite this, their usual fellowship together, the warm embrace of a father with His own and the cherishing affiliation between the creator and His creatures made Him see them in His mind’s eyes but could not feel them.
Second stratum is the love of sorrow; such is the painful love of disappointment from those you least expect to hurt you but also such people that you cannot do without. It was the same love that made the Almighty see the younger brother in preference for the older in the case of Ephraim and Manasseh as was encapsulated in Genesis chapter 48:8-20.
The evil coincidence is equally this, that just as God can be blinded through ecstatic love and the love from sorrow.

God can equally be deaf and dumb when sin is in place. This was the case of king Saul in 1 Samuel chapter 28:6.
But note that if king Saul’s situation was a negative account, the case of a sinner turning from sin to saintly life is positive. The content of Hebrews chapter 8:12 informs us that ‘and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, their sins and iniquity will I remember no more’.
How so wonderful is the Almighty that He can have a memory blackout and a sight challenge to the sins of men all because of His love and passion! What manner of love is this that One gave His only begotten Son to die for sinful people?
Know this O people that genuine love is real and uncontestable. Love disciplines but in its discipline it does not cast away. I have argued somewhere that he who doubts proof is a fool. So is the case of God’s love; it is without doubt.

Do you doubt the love of God because of His goodness to you? See then the content of Romans chapter 2:4. Do you doubt the love of God because of your delay experiences and satanic oppression? Wait and see very soon; He will give you a spectacular proof of His love by means of miraculous wonders demonstrated in your life.

IN THE END, THE PRINCIPLE OF RECIPROCITY APPLIES ALSO IN THE CASE OF LOVE. FAN THE FIRE LOVE IN RETURN TO GOD’S LOVE. WHAT THEN WILL HAPPEN IS THAT THERE WILL BE COINCIDENCES OF LOVE AND SUCH WILL PRODUCE AN EXPLOSION AND AN IMPLOSION OF LOVE FROM TWO ENDS. THE IMPACT OF SUCH IS ALSO TREMENDOUS AND LONG LASTING ALWAYS LADEN WITH BREAKTHROUGHS, BREAKFORTHS AND JOY.

Question and Answer Section:
Question: What was the first lie in the Bible?
Answer: ‘You will not surely die’ (Gen.3:4).

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: What A Friend We Have In Jesus! Nearer My God To Thee! Near The Cross
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, please return me back to my first love for you when I first got saved.
2. O God, give me a miracle borne out of your love for me.
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