EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 19 – Sunday, 17th May, 2020
(Matt.28:20, Gen.39:2)
THE MYSTERY OF ‘AND LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS’

The secret behind Joseph’s success, many would doubtlessly argue, is his gift of dreaming, his cup of divination, divine favour or his inspired ability to interpret dreams.
I contend so sharply however in the polar direction. Unreservedly, the secret of Joseph’s success cannot be anything else other than the fact that he had the God of heaven constantly on his side and with him.
Please understand dearly beloved that it is one thing for God to be on one’s side. It is another thing for God to be with one. Understand further that God is with everybody. For He is omnipresent; He is everywhere and so, He is around everyone whether in the air that blows around everyone, on the land on which everyone walks or in the skies which is above everyone.

It is however a statement of sound spiritual fact that God is not on the side of everyone. The Godhead is perfectly pure; His purity is defiantly stunning and has no place for the tiniest impurity. As such, based on the purifying blood of the Lamb, the Blessed Holy Trinity is constantly only on the side of those who have submitted their lives to God through the Saviour Jesus Christ.
Notice that at no point did the Bible inform mankind that ‘the Lord was with Joseph’ until Joseph had passed the test set for him by satan through the lustful and the fleshly corruption of the wife of Potiphar.

Likewise, no one earns the grace to have the trinity on his/her side until the test of Calvary have been successfully passed and other Christian conditions commanded by God have been fully heeded.
The question concerning the last phrase is how? In verse 19 of Matthew chapter 28, the Lord gave a clear commandment to His own instructively saying: ‘go ye into all the world and make disciples of all nations’…… Having seen their hearts of willing compliance then He followed up His commandment with an eternal blessing, promising to remain with them even to the end of the age.

There is a note of serious observation here. It is the observational note of due and worthy service. My sister, you have been dutifully serving the Lord. Are you already planning in your heart to halt that service? Why? Because somebody in that ministry is misbehaving? Because God is not turning up as He ought to?
Whatever is your reason. Please remember Joseph. Even while he was persecuted and imprisoned, he kept the fire of his divine service aglow. Whilst in prison, Joseph nevertheless interpreted dreams and continued to give God glory for the gift of interpretation of dreams even before Pharaoh until that gift made not just a room but a palace for him (Prov.18:16).
Who can tell whether it is in the course of your rendering service that your delay, your stagnation and problem of whatever kind will be solved. Who has the ability to predict God and the wonders of His hands?
Christ commanded His followers to see the great commission of global soul-winning and evangelism as a qualifying criterion for all blessings. How and what does this mean?

Every blessing that a man will ever have and every height that any man will ever attain are all attached to only one commandment. It is the commandment to make Christ known having known Him personally first. It is on only this one spiritual assignment of soul-winning and evangelism that the Lord promised to be with man. In no other was this promise made.
My dear beautiful daughter and sister, you sing in the choir and so sonorously too. That is good. But the Lord is asking me to tell you that you should lend your voice to Him in practical soul-winning and person to person evangelism. What do you do in the office? Find time for evangelism there. Every Saturday is not for merriment, laundering, and recreational activities, go out for evangelism.
The mystery is this: whosoever has the Lord on his side and with him has access to all blessings. For the Lord Himself is the blessing. And if the One who is the blessing of all blessings be with one and on one’s  side, would there then be any need to ever be in want of blessings?
Listen to me dearly beloved, paying tithes and offerings and supporting the work of God is very good and very rewarding. However, evangelism, soul-winning and service in the kingdom is of pivotal importance. Ruth met her husband while serving God in Boaz’s field.

Part of the reason for attending that vigil was because I thought I was going to minister that night. At the end, because I was just recovering from malaria I was not called upon to minister. But right there at the minister’s stand where I sat, the Spirit of God ministered to a lady in the midst of a crowd of people possibly close to 2000 saying: ‘that man over there is your husband’. She is the QUEEN of my heart and home today.
What can’t God do for the man duly and worthily serving in His vineyard. In the modern world of Christianity today, deep backsliding and diversion from Bible truth is now the order of the day. In some churches today, evangelism has now become a departmental assignment, no longer for everybody. But Christ made it compulsory for everyone. O backslidden pastor and hell-going church (irrespective of how so great a pastor and mighty a church you are), if you don’t repent and make evangelism a priority for all members, hell is well prepared and awaiting you.

IN THE END, MAKING CHRIST KNOWN MAKES YOU KNOWN AND GETS YOU FULFILLED IN EVERY STRATUM OF LIFE. IN THE 70S, BABA APOSTLE WILLIAM FOLONSHO KUMUYI RODE EVERY TUESDAY ON MOTOR-CYCLE FROM LAGOS TO BENIN CITY (OLD BENDEL) ALL BECAUSE OF MAKING THE SUFFERINGS AND THE SACRIFICES OF CHRIST KNOWN TO THE PEOPLE OF BENDEL STATE. ISN’T HE KNOWN THE WORLD OVER TODAY? YOU CAN TELL.

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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

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: Throw Out The Life Line
PRAY NOW:
1. I thank you God for this word you have sent to me through this edition of The Message Now.
2. O God, please forgive me for failing you in the area of evangelism and soul-winning.
3. O blessings of soul-winning and evangelism begin to manifest in the following areas of my life.
4. I sack and banish all spirits, forces and circumstances depressing me from performing my assignment as a Christian.
5. O deadly flood coming to level even a city in Nigeria, I send you back.
6. O Spirit of God, take over my soul, spirit and body.
7. I retrieve that child about to be carried away by large body of water.
8. My loins shall bring forth miracle children who rule the world for God in their generation.
9. O God, answer the cry of sisters looking for the fruit of the womb.
10. Present your personal petitions now.

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THE MESSAGE NOW

Vol. 5, No. 18 – Sunday, 10th May, 2020
(Acts.28:1-6, Ps.71:7)
YOU ARE THE NEXT WONDER

Has the question ever been raised by your intelligent mind that when will these prayers and encouragement become a reality in my own life and in my own situation?
Whether we believe it or not, the first and the surest answer to the foregoing question is that God will never miss His determined time and timing. Recently, my wife informed me about the account of a sixty-eight year old woman who gave birth to twins. This was not a fable; my wife saw one of the twins being carried by the woman herself and the other being carried by her aged husband.
Listen, beloved, the worst the enemy can do to you is to delay your destiny. Certainly, whilst God remains alive, the enemy cannot destroy your destiny, and this the enemy knows fully well.

The second answer to the above poser is that every tear that you shed in your heart and in your eyes through prayers are being recorded by the Almighty (Ps.56:7-8). When God’s divine bottle reaches its brim, then every delay to all your prayers shall suddenly fizzle away and become a thing of the past. By that time, verse 9 would have become unstoppable (Ps.56:9).

The greatest secrets are: don’t fear and don’t fall back from Christ. In my case, God promised me that He will restore sight to my two eyes. It has been years now; and I am still patiently waiting. Why waiting? Because it will surely happen; and it shall be as He has told me.
Imagine verse 6 of our first text. It reads: ‘however, they were expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had looked for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god’.
Indeed, the Apostle Paul was a god under the Almighty God. But more than this, there is a succinct lesson between the lines. For a viper to fasten itself to one’s body will immediately call for an instinct reaction. Such is always a serious instinctive reaction of panic.
But the exact opposite was the response from this great Apostle. Why? Knowledge will inform anyone that there are basically five things which produces the true reality of what is contained in any man. Put differently, when any of these five things take hold of anyone, the true essence and real personality of that person will step out into open glare and stir up in perfect display.

These five things include:

(1), Alcohol: what you do after alcohol has taken hold of you is what you truly are innately.
(2) Money: money intoxicates like alcohol. But here is the truth. The pride and the resulting arrogance displayed by you after you have become wealthy is the very pride and arrogance which have both been resident in you even when you were poor. Money only became a means which brought the ends which is pride and arrogance into open manifestation.
(3) Power: power is not meant to control a man. Rather, man is supposed to be in control of power. But when power takes the driving seat in any man’s life, the ends of such man is that he become unapproachable and disrespectful.

Shockingly, do you know that there are husbands who cannot engage their wives in matters concerning common things of the home and marriage. Such husbands simply say, ‘am I not the head?’ Such husbands even draw their feigned arguments from Bible verses by noting vehemently that the Bible says, the husband is the head of the woman (1 Cor.11:1-7).
Yes Sir, you are the head, but have you forgotten that she is the neck carrying you? And how many times has the neck ever complained about the carrying of the head? So, if the neck is constantly and “uncomplainedly” carrying the ever heavy head, why not engage the neck who is the wife in this instance in the bonding business of the home and life generally?Mr. husband, the problem in actual fact, is not the problem of headship. It is that egoistic driving force of power.

Mr. politician, when you needed the people’s vote, you stooped low. Now the people have given you what your itching throat craved for, and the same people are not allowed any close to your office. You are simply power mad. And the madness of power is now drawing out your true portrait.
(4) Sex and woman: do you know that sex and woman intoxicate? Do I hear you say how? Have you noticed that when young girls and young boys begin to involve themselves in illicit sex, then consequently they become rude and unruly?
Watch out for a man who has been a little quiet and easy-going. After a short while, he becomes fortunate to find a fine young lady to date. Suddenly, his wings shoot out and his once-clipped feathers begin to flutter and make incredulous noise. His woman exposed the true reality in his innate personality.
(5) Fear: the greatest exposer of the faithless and the doubtful is fear. Let us learn a lesson from the story of the Apostle Paul. Here was a man of like passion as we are, whom God had promised that he will testify concerning Him in Rome (Acts.23:11).
Now arriving on the island of Malta in Acts 28:1-6, a viper had been waiting only to sting him so that he will die and fail to arrive in Rome in fulfillment of his Apostolic assignment. If the Apostle Paul had died on the island of Malta because of simple snake bite, God would have been made a liar.
What the viper came to do to Apostle Paul was not just to bite and introduce poison into his system. The viper’s ultimate aim was to attack him with the spirit of fear so that he would be detarred from fulfilling his destiny in Rome. But what was contained in the Apostle Paul which is faith in Him who had promised stirred up and confronted the fear brought by the attack of the viper.
Fear then can be viewed to man as a depressant spiritual drug and an intoxicating spiritual steroid engineered against faith. And if in the day of the adversity brought by fear, our faith fails, then we have given occasion for the agenda of the enemy to be accomplished and that of God for our lives to be delayed until another season.

Beloved, have you been postponing the day of your breakthrough by being susceptible to fear? Please understand that for every moment when we demean God by surrendering to fear and discouragement, we debase God and uplift the enemy. For every time when we uplift God and shame the enemy, then celebration of our glory follows.
Please realize this dearly beloved that no fear or discouragement comes the way of any man except that man is at the very gate of a major breakthrough. At that moment, fear and or discouragement shows up in order to make one miss the divine mark either by making one to sin or to back track from a positive decision or from a good course of destiny.

IN THE END, O AWAITING BROTHER, O AWAITING SISTER LIKE THIS BLIND PASTOR WRITING THIS PIECE TO YOU. PLEASE DON’T GIVE UP ON GOD. YOUR TIME WILL COME AND SHALL NOT TARRY. YOU MAY BE DELAYED, YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO BE DENIED SO LONG AS GOD WILL REMAIN ALIVE. KEEP PRAYING. KEEP EXPECTING AND KEEP SERVING THE GREAT MASTER, JESUS. YOUR END SHALL BE ‘A WONDER UNTO MANY’ FOR GOD REMAINS OUR ‘STRONG REFUGE’. YOU KNOW WHAT! YOU ARE THE NEXT WONDER.

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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: I Need Thee Every Hour
PRAY NOW:
1. I thank you God for this word you have sent to me through this edition of The Message Now.
2. O covenant and divine agenda of the Most High, please take root and come to pass in my life very soon.
3. O God, in mercy, recover back for me that major thing in destiny that I have lost or that I am about to lose.
4. O spirit of fear, I dethrone you from my life today and I enthrone the Lord’s Spirit of faith.
5. The greater disaster soon to happen in Nigeria shall not include me and my loved ones.
6. In the name of Jesus, I stop that flood designed to carry people away.
7. God, the Maker of heaven and earth, expose false pastors and false prophets, and if I have been under the umbrella of any of them, deliver me and recover my glory and prosperity virtues from them.
8. Present your personal petitions.

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THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 17 – Sunday, 3rd May, 2020
(Lev.16:1-34, Rom.7:18)
THE RECOMMENDATION AND THE POWER OF HYGIENE

The content of Romans chapter 7:18 states: ‘for I know that in me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not’.
Just as so discomforting is a dirty body to any person, so is a life paraded by sin so much discomforting to God. And who cannot tell of his own physical or spiritual condition by himself if such person is not to be most deceiving to himself?
Those who study that brand of social sciences known as behavioural science tell us that there are three ways through which a person’s psychometrics can be determined.
These three ways include: (1) by what that person acts or does. (2) by what that person says. And (3) by the testimony of others concerning that person.
Like the behavioural sciences, the hygiene character of a person tells so much about a person. How much one values his/her health, environment and even his/her finances is a clear indication of such person’s personalty dynamics. Of course, hygiene is a core aspect of everyone’s personalty dynamics.

Neatness, many generations have contended and concluded, is next to godliness. That cannot be far from the truth. For God Himself recommended unceasing hygiene in the course of carrying out bishoprick assignments.
Divers washings of the body before conducting any spiritual assignment or even before entering into the priesthood office was and still is a foremost criterion for acceptable service to our Maker.
Although the Old Testament was a shadow of the reality of the New Testament. Nevertheless, divine instruction to eschew uncleanness of the physical body was and remains mandatory for the priests.
Seriously speaking, by the continuous washing-of of the human body demanded by God in the Old Testament, The Almighty God was pointing to the purity of the heart much more to be emphasized later in the new Testament.

For the Spirit of God by the writings of the great Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 6:1-2 instructively informs that ‘…… shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid’….
It has and continues to be argued that what is good for the goose is equally good for the ganda. Therefore, if constant bathing and consistent washing-of of the body is so vitally important for the members of the priesthood, then there is no exception for anyone. Why? What is good for one is certainly good for all.

In our modern day as it was in ancient past, one for all is equal to all for one. If the war against the lack of hygiene is to be won and Covid 19 pandemic is to become a relick of a lost age, then the antidote is that everyone must become his brother’s keeper by maintaining the highest levels of hygiene.
The question is how?

• Stop the shameful habit of rough-handling money or writing on money notes.
• Cease from keeping dirty pans and plates in the wash-basin or zink overnight.
• Dirty husband who will not wash-up the seed of his body (semen) after the moment of intimate affair should immediately desist from such habit (see Lev.15:16-18).
• Women who care less about their menstrual pads and menstrual clothes should give their unclean actions a second thought (see Lev.15:19-27).
• Avoid dirty surfaces, dirty clothes, sweating and sweaty attires. Avoid soaking dirty clothes for too long also.
• Use sanitizers, izals, bleach, detergents and other disinfectants very regularly.
• Children’s toys and playkits should be disinfected or soaked into warm water before they are handed over to them. And should such toys and playkits still fall on the ground afterwards, they should be disinfected again.
• Refuse to eat food already dropped onto the floor and do not allow your children do the same.
• As a health worker or a political ‘animal’ (using the language of Plato), who is saddled with the responsibility of taking certain decision with respect to people’s health during this time, don’t inflate figures in order to justify your corrupt spending because if Covid 19 does not get you, your lies will catch up with you some day, and be sure that that will be more disastrous for you.
• Use face masks.
• Maintain the highest standard of holy living. Remember that holiness is a shield; it saves from satan and can even save from corona-virus.
• Be informed that before the next person you are the first beneficiary for keeping to the strict rules of hygiene. And why won’t you pursue to your favour that which will be of immense benefit to you?
• Maintain some distance when you are involved in conversation with another. For Aaron the priest of the Most High distanced himself from the rest of the people during the performance of priestly assignment (Lev.16:17).
• Pastors, please avoid laying hands suddenly on anyone except when you are so directed by the Spirit of God. For if corona-virus cannot get you, remember: ‘lay hands suddenly on no one. Be not partakers of other men’s sins’ (1 Tim.5:22).
• Make it a duty to ‘afflict your soul’ at least once a week with fasting. If anything, fasting has a way of sanitizing the soul; it is at all times a spiritual cleanser.
• Parents, please stop french-kissing your children early in the morning with unwashed mouth all in the name of love. If you truly love them, you will sanitise that mouth with quality paste and effective brushing first before kissing them. All through out the night whilst your mouth was closed, it had become a household accommodating all forms of bacteria. Don’t spread such into those innocent children during that unwarranted French-kissing.

IN THE END, SEE TO IT THAT YOU DO NOT FLOUT DIVINE GUIDANCE. FOR OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSINGS AND LEADS INTO THE PATH OF SAFETY. BUT DISOBEDIENCE INCURS THE EXACT OPPOSITE LEADING TO PAIN AND SOMETIMES EARLY GRAVE. AS SUCH, EMBRACE PHYSICAL HYGIENE, VALUE AND CONSTANTLY PRACTICE HOLY LIVING. THEY SHALL BOTH BE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL SHIELDS FOR YOUR SURE SECURITY AND SAFETY.

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

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

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: Throw Out The Life Line
PRAY NOW:
1. Pray for that child whose bone was being cracked by that tiger in the revelation given to me; that that tiger would rather die before it is able to perform its demonic assignment.
2. O God, let this era of Covid 19 be for me and my household a season of unusual breakthrough.
3. O God, dislodge and disappoint workers of iniquity, falsity and flatteries in this season of Covid 19.
4. O God, surprise nations and your children with unusual economic and financial prosperity the season of Covid 19.
5. Mighty God, make me obedient to your instructions at all times and help me to stop struggling with you.
6. Who is holding onto my prosperity virtue? After the order of Hebrew chapter 1:14, I assign the angels of God against you to recover my lot from you.
Present your personal petitions.