Monthly Archives: December 2019

COURTS OF WICKEDNESS

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 44 – Monday, 11th November 2019
(Job.2:1-7, 38:12-13, Acts.6, Acts.7)
THE COURTS OF WICKEDNESS

Understand that every ongoing activity of the day is a replica of the undergone actions and verdicts previously decided and subsequently decreed by the forces of the night. So, in a sense, there is no falsity in the conclusion that the night is the commander and the controller of the day. Inversely speaking then, it is a statement of spiritual fact that the day is a subject and a mere stugee of the night.

Argued from the sphere of the art of theatre and creativity, it must be unarguably said that no cinematographic movie can be argued to amount to a reality. No! all cinematographic pictures are mere mirrors reflecting previous realities. Put simply in the context of the powerful influence of the night, all activities of the day are mere displays; their actuality were prepared and perfected during the previous night or nights ever before.
Meetings of dark spiritual substance hold in crevices, covens, grottos, graveyards, roads (especially where three, four or more footpaths meet), in the depth of the seas and in oceans, the underneath of trees, shores, offices, churches, entrances, eve of weddings and wedding nights, in the second heaven, etc.
These meetings hold in order to decide the outcomes of global events, world soccer, national and international elections, super-christian gatherings, the attainment of certificates and awards, the attainment and retention of key positions, how prosperous organisations can be, successes and failures, sales and promotions, the falling apart of especially Christian marriages, who becomes the leading overseers of religious institutions, who becomes what and how and when such and such things happen.

Just as meetings do not hold in the physical realm without leaders in hierarchical order, in the dark arena meetings are held with presiding authorities taken decisive decisions. Salient other highlights remain the attendant functions of meetings in the dark spiritual arena.
In the courts of wickedness for example, there must exist the function of at least one reporter. The reporter is the one who levies the allegations for deliberation. There must equally be in attendance witness who substantiates the details of the allegations levied by the reporter.

There are two strange mysteries about the courts of wickedness. First, despite the fact that the setting of these courts is the dark realm and mainly composed of dark forces, nevertheless, sometimes personalities of light are occasionally present especially in circumstances where the subject matter for deliberation involves a Christian. These forces of light could include ministering Spirits sent to rescue such Christian, the spiritual personalty of that Christian himself or even Christ Himself.
Second, it is worth noting that dark forces could also be present in the arena where forces of light are gathered. A clear example of this instance is well documented in Job chapter 2 from 1 to 7. Here, the Almighty God and His sons were in deliberation. Shockingly, Satan too was there.

When light shines, it shines in order to expose darkness and to dispel it. On the contrary, when darkness pervades around the light, it does so in order to pick information—information for the purpose of furthering evil intentions into wreckless havoc.
So, Satan’s presence in such arena is not unobvious. Indeed, the Lord sees through the hearts of all. And Satan was not an exception to God’s divine antenna’s detection. Notice that the questions thrown at Satan by God were clearly direct.
So then, the questions ‘where have you been?’ and ‘have you considered my servant Job?’ were questions designed to pull out from Satan the intention for his presence at the uninvited meeting. The thematic message of those questions were supposed to teach us some thing unique about the Almighty.

The unique fact that God knows the end even before the beginning (Isaiah 46:1) is one of the foremost attributes of God. Listen, dearly beloved. Courts of wickedness where matters of men are discussed and decisions swiftly taken are real.
Believe this also that no matter how darkness can be, it is still as clear as crystal before the light. So God is always aware of all things ongoing in the darkest realm. Note also that there is no denying the fact that discussions about you are constantly ongoing in the unseen world.
Note further that there is at least a day of the week in which the dark household forces of every living man meet for deliberation. Have you found out that day of the week attached to your own lineage? Note still that the most senior authority in the dark realm gives final judgment and his judgment is binding.

But note additionally that there is a cataclysmic error that dark forces make in the courts of wickedness especially where the subject matter of deliberations concerns a Christian. It is the error of forgetting the content of Col.2:10.
The forces of darkness always forget the fact that the most senior between light and darkness is light. So even in their dark gathering in the dark realm, Christ alone has the final word for He, Christ ‘is the head of all principalities and powers.
But in order to gain Christ’s support during satanic litigation in the courts of wickedness, the first paragraph of Col.2:10 must have been fulfilled. It reads: ‘and ye are complete in Him.
The word ‘complete’ in this context means belonging to Christ in all ramifications. Notice that this is the same condition attached to being able to gain victory in 2 Cor.10:6. It reads: ‘having in a readiness to visit all disobedience when your obedience is complete’.

In short, salvation and continuity in righteous living is the sole currency which purchases the jurisprudential erudition of Christ to stand for one as one’s advocate in the courts of wickedness. Are you expert in sin: sin through evil speaking and the rough handling of people with your mouth, evil desires against others, lusts, and any other kind of sin, then you are making your case in the hands of Christ so difficult to defend.
The only reason that made Satan to rise up against Deacon Stephen in Acts chapters 6 and 7 is because he wanted him to offend God and lose heaven just as he wanted Job to sin against God. But thank God that at the nick of time Christ rose up and defended His interest in the life of that Spirit-filled Deacon.
Marriage manipulations, delays and retardations are the results of the verdicts of the courts of wickedness. Have you been manipulated in any way? What bus-stop of life are you currently being held up? Go back to God and reverse those verdicts that have been taken against you in dark courts of wickedness.

IN THE END, EVERY STRUGGLE AND SUFFERING THAT A MAN GOES THROUGH IN LIFE IS A FUNCTION OF EITHER THE VERDICTS OF DARK SPIRITUAL COURTS, THE WICKEDNESS OF MEN AND SPIRITUAL FORCES, THE TRIAL OF GOD OR SELF-INFLICTED PROBLEMS. THINK ABOUT IT AND TELL YOURSELF WHICH YOU BELONG TO.

Question and Answer Section
Question: What day of the week do the forces of your father and mother’s household meet?
Answer: Hmmm!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counseling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:

Suit 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos.

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

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

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

HYMN: Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah
PRAY NOW:
1. Every arena where my matter is being discussed for evil, catch fire right now.
2. Almighty God, arise and rescue me from the forces of my father and mother’s household.
3. Evil shadow following me in the spirit realm or in reality, I rain down the raw liquid fire of God upon you.
4. Who stopped the people that were before me shall not stop me by the power of God Almighty.
5. Treasures of the Lord and treasures of my lineage, locate me by force and by fire.
6. I will not bury my children by my own self.
7. O God, who has charged me and Express Image before any dark judge in any dark courts, I scatter their gathering and I withdraw my case from them.
8. Every evil file opened up in my name, catch fire.

THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

THE MESSAGE NOW

Vol. 4, No. 43 – Monday, 4th November, 2019
(Gen.1:1-5, 14-18, 15:1-20, 1 Jn.1:5, Jn.1:5)
THE MYSTERY OF LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS

There are many things so marveling about God. One of such many things is that fact that God can do all things. Ever imagine that a most terrible man can give birth to a child who happens to be the best preacher in town? And when this is considered thoughtfully, doesn’t such, to some extent, appear mysterious?

Such is equally one of the marveling wonders of God. If I define darkness to mean the absence of light, scientifically speaking, I would not be far from the truth. If I argue that light cannot be better explained other than the fact that the presence of light is the absence of darkness; most certainly, it would be difficult to fault me.

But all those definitional stances are no more than the facts of man and science. In divine dictionary, the consideration is by far different because out of darkness light can be born. And it is possible from spirit parlance that light can be separated from darkness.
More shocking still, the mystery of spirituality informs us that there can be the existence of darkness without light being absence but unnoticed. This means that the two can be subsumed in one entity co-existing without the light revealing itself. Amazing! Technically speaking then, darkness births light. What great mysteries are these? Yet still, light can exist right inside darkness without being noticed by the eyes and the facts and science of man.
Nonetheless, when light manifests once, its power is so potent that darkness which had birth it cannot stand before it. The secret mystery is that light is most gentle but equally most powerful.
A further mystery is that light has its time of manifestation; it does not seek to dominate. Neither does it announce its arrival but its presence commands the noticeability of its arrival and announcement.

The summation of the foregoing is that light is imbued with unchallengeable authority. Darkness on the other hand is most domineering. It has no authority, power and it is full of perfect weakness.
Despite its perfect weakness, it still strives to announce its presence by itself. It is therefore shouty and demanding. At no point can darkness overpower the light without the consent of the light. Indeed, within the confines of human history, the dominance of darkness over light has only occurred once under the clear assent and consent of the One who is the original Light (Exo.10:22-23).

History would remind any quality researcher that there was a total solar eclipse on May 20th 1947. Solar eclipse occurs when the moon (luna) moves between the sun and the earth, thereby totally or partially blocking the light from the sun. Seriously speaking, whatever explanations the science world may have as the reason for this occurrence is best known to science.
The possibility of a clash between the moon and the sun is not uncommon to Bible students. In Genesis chapter 1:14-16, the Scriptures give us a deep mystery. It reads:
’14 And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
15 And let them be lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also’.
Any deep thinker will understand that these two great lights are entities. It would also be understood by such deep thinker that the fact of the word ‘rule’ accorded to these entities means that these entities were imparted with some sort of authority and power. Where authority and power exists between entities, personalities or organisations, there is likely to be the prospect of contest. So, the event of May 20th 1947 was simply a natural reaction of two powers against each other.

The first Epistle of John the beloved in chapter 1:5 states that: ‘God is light and in Him is no darkness’. If He is light, how is it that the Spirit of God moved upon the waters whilst darkness was covering the face of the deep and no light could shine until God said ‘let there be light’?
Yet again, from verse 12 of Genesis chapter 15, it was out of horror and great darkness that the great God spoke to Abraham. How is it that the One who is light and in whom is no darkness chose the medium of darkness to speak?
Is it not written that the Light shineth in the darkness and that darkness comprehended it not’? He could shine in darkness and yet remain invisible and unnoticed. Is it not equally written that ‘behold the bush burned with fire but the bush was not consumed’ (Exo.3:2). OH! he could speak through the burning bush and neither the physical human eyes nor darkness can comprehend His mystery.
1 Cor.2:10 states: ‘but God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit:for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the DEEP things of God’. Alas! The Spirit being light yet ‘moved upon the face of the DEEP’ was searching the wonders of God and yet ‘darkness was upon the face of the deep. And yet still, that darkness could not discover or uncover the Light being the Spirit of God who was busy searching the deep wonders of God awaiting the spoken word to manifest that Light.

What a mystery and what a wonder! Is He, the great Light not all in all? Just see the great and unexplainable mystery of the oneness of the Light, the Word and the Almighty God all subsumed in one whole entity. And yet see how deep darkness can be and nevertheless despite being so deep, yet darkness cannot uncover that union or the works ever and always performed by the union entities.
Again, it is written: ‘the light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not’. So are His ways; when the battering arm of darkness befall a man with gloom, with doom and with the looming horizon of sorrow, horror and terror, the Light works the wonders of deliverance that darkness does not understand until those wonders worked by the Light spark out into unchallengeable reality.
Then the darkness of gloom, doom and looming sorrow, horror and terror are dispelled and their disappearance is obvious. How awesome a lesson it is for man to invite the light into that situation of gloomy storm.

Take it or leave it! It remains a great mystery and indeed puzzling to the mind the fact that the Light can operate inside darkness without revealing itself onto darkness and yet the operations performed by the Light can be seen in clear action by the visible eyes of man but not by darkness.
It means the revelation of the Light to man occurs by choice. And each time the Light chooses to reveal himself, darkness automatically gets exposed and dispelled. This why in Genesis chapter 1 darkness covered the face of the deep’; yet the Spirit of God remained in active service in the creation of the universe.
The only potent force which has the ultimate power to reveal the Light is the Word of God who is God Himself. It is written, ‘and God said, let there be light, and there was light’. And yet another mystery! Who is truly the Light if not the Word? For is it not written, ‘thy word is a lamp unto my feet’.
If the word is a lamp, then it is a light and a provider of light. So then when He chooses to speak, light and illumination is immediately in readiness to surface.

What then is the summary of all these?
(1) As light cannot be restrained (except the light of man by opaque objects), it exists independently and supremely.
(2) God, the Light of just men, knows no cycle or circle of limitations.
(3) Without God, the summary of the entire universe is darkness.
(4) Darkness will always bow to light no matter what.
(5) The light is eternally constant and omnipotent.
(6) The light and the ray of hope may not shine nor spring up during that unpleasant situation, yet God is quietly at the background working out His wonders soon to be revealed.
(7) Blindness of the human eyes is beleaguered by blackness, bleakness and darkness of the physical eyes of man. Isn’t it a mystery that yet the eyes of God shines through the blackness, bleakness and blindness of human eyes to offer revelations and uncommon solutions which the physical eyes cannot see?
(8) Just as light dispels darkness at will because when light chooses to shine darkness just doesn’t exist at all, so too, God does not know nor recognize any impossibilities.
(9) Each time there is a declaration of the word of God, light automatically begins to shine and darkness loses its balance completely and automatically.
(10) The more and more a man loads himself with the word of God, the more and more the light of God flourishes in him. The further implication is the less and less darkness can exist in that man.
(11) He in whom dwells the word of God is a containment or carrier of divine light. The carrier of divine light is a carrier of God’s divine presence. Darkness cannot therefore be the next-door neighbor of such a-one.
(12) Just as light needs no helpers to shine, so also the God of heaven and earth needs no helpers but obedient worshipers in the working of His wonders.
IN THE END, HOW FAR MAN WILL GO IN GOD AND IN LIFE IS STRICTLY DEPENDENT ON THE EXTENT OF THE LIGHT WITHIN HIM AND AROUND HIM.

Question and Answer Section
Question: Who is Light of life?
Answer: The Word of God (Jn.1:14).

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Counselling, Prayers and Appointments: Please contact contactus@expressimageglory.com Alternatively, meet us every Sunday at the address below:
Suit 26, 2nd Floor, Nikky Africana Plaza, 70C Allen Avenue, Opposite UBA/MTN Office, Ikeja, Lagos.
Donations and Financial Supports – Please support the Kingdom of God through Christ Jesus in this Ministry by paying your hard-earned money to only this one account and no other: Express Image Glory Ministry, Stanbic IBTC Bank, Account number – 0020881228.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page or bank account is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page or bank account should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages or accounts. Be informed also that there is only one medium for soliciting donations and that medium is via our weekly magazine – The Message Now through our Facebook page or website: www.expressimageglory.com

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

HYMN: Thy Word Is A Lamp To My Feet
PRAY NOW:
1. O Word of God, please come to me and speak to me.
2. O Word of Jehovah, lighten my pathway to success and to destiny land and to destiny people.
3. Every darkness in me, I send the Light and the Word of God against you to be eternally dispelled.
4. Great God, the Possessor of heaven and earth, rejuvenate my vision.
5. Right hand of fire, recover me and my destiny out of every obscurity, and cause my star’s stardom to commence before 2019 expires.
6. O mighty God, cause Express Image Worship Centre to become a spiritual ladder where holy angels of divine power ascend and descend.
7. Father, in your mercy, turn Express Image Worship Centre to solution ground where no prayers will be denied nor delayed.