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HEY! WHAT ARE THESE MYSTERIES ALL ABOUT?

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

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

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

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

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this Facebook page should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com
The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages. Our website is: www.expressimageglory.com

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

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

 

A LIVING OR A DEAD CONSCIENCE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ANNOUNCEMENTS
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.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com
The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages. Our website is: www.expressimageglory.com

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

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

IT IS NOT OVER EVEN WHEN IT IS OVER

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 42 – Sunday 25th October, 2020
(Ps.40:)
IT IS NOT OVER EVEN WHEN IT IS OVER

Sound conviction would have failed me if I find any soul still living who has witnessed and experienced a year like year 2020. It has been a year of turbulence to say the least. In fact, will anyone be wrong to say that if the only success that one has eventually made this year is the success of remaining alive, and that that is certainly enough for the year?
Stratum of tragedy have culminated in diluge of disasters. Catastrophies at some points graduated to the echelon of cataclysms. And the deaths of men was an abnormality which became a normal thing and in the end emerged as a mere norm. Business failures, church desertification, forced holidays, retrenchments, compulsory downsizing, job losses and many more have been the characteristics of the outgoing year.
But through it all is the evidence of divine kindness. It was the same year in the midst of the tidal storm that some people got increases in salaries. Employment letters greeted the doorsteps of many. Long awaited fruit of the womb became a reality. And yet, it was the same year that many renewed their covenants with God and had fresh experiences with the God of heaven.
So then, it is truly not over even when it is over. But would a statement of this mean? It is not over even when it is over! Really! Yes! It is not over even when it is over because only the Almighty who has the final say will determine and tell when it is truly over.
Situations, circumstances and even man does not have the final say but God. Hear the way one intelligent man aptly captured it. John Burroughs opined, ‘A man can fail many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else’.
Going down the lane of exchanging or shifting blame is not incidental but accidental. To conclude that someone else is responsible is to consider God the least able to resolve that problem. It is the same as apportioning blame against the Almighty. To hold grudge against God because of that miracle which is yet to happen is simply to be bitter.
To be bitter because of any problem is to consciously create a blurred vision and blocked perception for oneself. The end-result is always the case that solution is nearest but cannot be seen. The hands of the clock of year 2020 may be winding down but remember that ‘He that changes time and seasons’ (Dan.2:21) Is yet alive.
Those bitter thoughts, the pains and the bitter conclusions of your heart are simply all that you know. But Tammy has an all-time admonision for me and you. Tammy L. Kubsko noted ‘let go of what you think you know. Something amazing happens when you let God and trust Him’.

Therefore, as turbulent year 2020 winds down remember the following:

  • God is going no where. Neither can His days wind down.
  • Because God is yet alive means and you are alive too and this means that it is not over even when it is over.
  • God does not fail like men do. If He does then He has become like men. Remember that His track record cannot change and it cannot be altered.
  • The fact that God is alive means that your breakthroughs and celebrations are still ahead.
  • Since satan is known for bad news and God is known for good news. Therefore, God and satan are never the same. If God is different from satan, then His mercy is bound to succor you. It is only getting late for you because it will become the later and greater glory in the end. Did you get that?
  • It is the small things that cause miracles spurned by laughter. The big ones and the real ones cause tears of joy. That is your portion you know!
  • It is not over even when it is over. For the endpoint of and for man is always the startpoint of the Almighty.
  • Be sure that God is never happy with the sufferings, struggles and the failures of man.

IN THE END, THE BEST EXPECTATION OF HUMANITY IS ALWAYS THE LEAST THAT DIVINITY CAN OFFER. WAIT FOR DIVINITY’S BEST. IT WILL COME. FOR ALTHOUGH MAN MAY EXPERIENCE FAILURE. HEY! NOT THE ALMIGHTY.

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.
Further information: Be informed that this Ministry has only one Facebook page and no other. Any other Facebook page is counterfeit. Any Concerns or questions about this facebook page should be directed to: contactus@expressimageglory.com
The General Superintendent Minister of this Ministry therefore pleads and urges you to desist from all such fake and ungodly Facebook pages. Our website is: www.expressimageglory.com

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

HYMN: Stand-up, Stand-up For Jesus
PRAY NOW:
1. Read Is.40:1-2, Forces that have held me down, your woe has come. Collide against and be ended.
2. Read Is.14:4, Hands siphoning my breakthroughs, wither as the Hands of Jeroboam withered.
3. By the Lord’s force, fire and power, I recover my stolen gold.
4. All my blessings stored up in year 2020, be released to me now.
5. Present your personal petitions.

THE TRAGEDY OF THE RESTLESS HEART AND THE CONSTANTLY FLIPPING MOUTH

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES

THE MESSAGE NOW

Vol. 5, No. 41 – Sunday 18th October, 2020

(Ps.39:1-2, 2 Sam.1- Eccl.10:20)

THE TRAGEDY OF THE RESTLESS HEART AND THE CONSTANTLY FLIPPING MOUTH

 
The tragedy of any life whose heart/mind is a consistently noisy one and a mouth whose lips constantly flips open to utter words is ever incalculable. In the frankest sense, the lips of man have but only two major functions: to deliver man and to destroy man. The choice of what turn of the two events takes hold on man is the sole determination of the state of the heart of the man being destroyed or being deliver.
It is certain that every constantly noisy heart will consistently produce an ever flipping lips. Flipping lips have no restraints. They convey ever more the message of the uncontrolled heart. Everyone is their audience. They involve themselves in every conversation. The depth of their hearts are never full or half-full with worthy issues of life; rather, they are constantly empty.
If only mother Eve kept her mouth in absolute quiet, and did not get into conversation with the enemy of humanity, humanity would not have had to experience damnation from that memorable encounter in the Garden of Eden. Is it not the right wisdom flowing from perfect knowledge that when the winds and the storms of life come raging and beating hard against the boat of one’s life and destiny that stillness of the heart and stiffness of the lips glued to each other is a perfect antidote for dousing tension, averting danger and avoiding the release and the spread of vital information? For did not the Holy Scriptures enjoin us to mind our business and be quiet? (1 Thess.4:11).
 
The truth is this: the devil knows not the intentions of man until they are expressed by him. Unfortunately, the dark realm has no two definitions other than it is a realm ably assisted by unending network of wickedness and information-gathering. In the dark realm, spiritual network is the vein. Information is the blood running through that vein. With the consistent existence of the vein and the blood, the dark realm is always kept active.
It means therefore that without information that is, the blood, spiritual network is always at a stand-still traffic on the rails, roads, waters and the airways of spiritual veins. Put differently, he who fails to control his heart and lips/mouth is the greatest enemy of himself. Why? He is the one who feeds the enemy with the weapon to constantly hurt him.
The one you convey information to about yourself may not be a member of the dark realm who will always forward it on. Of course, he may equally not be a member. If not a member, you never know what spirit accompanies that fellow.
The concern and the wisdom is why not learn from the wisdom which says ‘he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls’. A particular African tribe speaks about the maxim which states that ‘walls have ears’.
The truth is this: everything created by God is a living entity in the spirit realm. This means that even when you have not voiced out a secret to men, but merely soleloquised about it, you can be sure that it is no longer a secret.
 
Khalil Gibian penned ‘if you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees’. So, if the trees get to know, why won’t the animals of the forests? And if the forests get to know, why not the hunters and gardeners hunting the animals and tending the flowers and trees of the forests? And if the hunters and the gardeners are aware, how about the spirits resident or existing around those hunters and gardeners?
Life is a complex mystery; therefore, be wise. Let us ask ourselves some pertinent questions. Why do some people remain so long in their battles of delay, non-achievements, failure, setbacks, stagnation and the likes? Let us check out our lives! How many of us have been careful with our lips? The trouble always begins from the heart. Isn’t it?
Ask yourself the pertinent question what secret did you expose which sold you out to the enemy? Who do you know is your enemy by the way? You say but that fellow is my blood sister or brother. True! But do you know them more than God? How did you use your mouth over that incident which concerned the other fellow?
For instance, in that long ago situation, you said they built their church as a form of advertisement in order to attract people to their church! Hmmm! Do you know that the only reason they built their church that way was simply because the Man of God over that assembly said that he wanted everything beautiful for His God because his God has been so kind and has always given him beautiful things? So, brother-sister, sister-brother, how then have you used your mouth in that instance?
Why is it that even when the Spirit of God is checking you and requesting you to hold back those words, yet you refuse. But you rather go ahead to utter them. Ah! Pastor! Ah! brother! The wise content of Ecclesiastes chapter 10:20 states, ‘curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter’. Thoughts of the heart have no difference from words in the ears of the Almighty. That which man utters from the bedchambers of heart are seen and heard by the Almighty.
Ah! I get the message now! Purity of the heart is the determiner of the perfection of the lips. And the gracious fruits of the lips can save life. Oh! As much as they can save, they can equally kill. Isn’t that so true?
 
In the final analysis, what then is the conclusion of these matters?
If the actions of men determines the state of one’s heart, then one is already a corpse awaiting burial.
Until stillness of the heart becomes the regular culture of the man within, then the Holy Spirit is either a tenant yet to move into that innate apartment or that apartment is merely a service apartment where the Holy Spirit only makes irregular visits.
Any man who can say anything to anybody will in the end bow to anyone and to everyone. Bowing to anyone and to everyone makes you subservient. It means that your bowing to God makes no difference and does not matter.
He who can say anything no matter how vile to anyone will address the Almighty as mere man even when He makes a full appearance of Himself.
Many times in riotous argumentation between and among men, the quiet and the humble one is the victorious one.
He who is the master of his words, the flow of his thought and in control of his lips is the sure master of life.
Most times, what God, satan and men are always waiting for is the next utterance from the lips of man.
 
IN THE END, HOW WISE OR HOW MOST FOOLISH A MAN IS CAN BE TOLD BY HIS UTTERANCE. THE MOST SPIRITUAL AND THE MOST MATURED MAN IS KNOWN TO GOD BY THE STATE OF HIS HEART, AND TO MAN, PURELY BY THE ACTIONS EMANATING FROM HIM.
 
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!.
 
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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: Thou My Everlasting Portion
PRAY NOW:
1. I repent O God for the wrongful use of my lips.
2. I rededicate my heart and my lips to you O God afresh.
3. O rain of grace, fall upon my heart and my lips and season them to continually emit grace and graciousness.
4. I take back every blessing that I have lost because I failed to keep mute.
5. O God, Joseph was not quiet about the secret of his life and that made him to experience all sorts of troubles before he was established. Nevertheless, O God, you yet showed him mercy. Please O God, show me your mercy for every point where my lips have caused the experience of delay.
6. Present your personal petitions.