EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 25 – Sunday, 28th June, 2020
(1 Kings. 20:30-33, Ps.39:1, Prov.6:2, 1 Thes.4:11)
MIND YOUR WORDS AND YOUR THOUGHTS

Being discrete about the use and the flow of words and thoughts as well as the frequency of words and thoughts is an attribute everyone must imbibe. Why? For the content of Proverbs chapter 10:19 states that ‘ in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise’.
Ah! Just consider the second paragraph of that foregoing verse. If we all will apply diligent thoughts to the challenges we have gone through or such challenges that we are currently being encumbered with, we will discover that some of them emanated from the discussions we have had with one individual or another.
Whether it be church, office or among friends, we must understand dearly beloved that no where is actually free to so freely discuss important issues of life. Would the next statement alarm you that there are testimonies that must not be shared? If it does alarm you, then consider the warning given to the ‘blind man’ by the Lord Jesus In Mark chapter 8:22-26.
Ask yourself about that good dream that you shared with someone or some people. Has that good dream seen the light of dawn till date? The truth is this: unseen spirits follow different people. As such, if you discuss matters of the heart with an individual whose surrounding environment is polluted, your matter of the heart so discussed will be polluted and will experience setbacks.
Who are your confidants in your family or office. Are you aware that your sister, brother or even mother may actually be the one stopping that miracle that you have been craving for? Here is the greater evil. Some people do not complain or react when you utter grieving words against them. They simply deal with you through the power of their pen. How?
Have you been involved in discussing your boss in the office? Are you aware that one or two of your colleagues with whom you have discussed that boss may have informed that boss? They will equally inform that boss not to ask you in order to conceal their identity and thus hinder you from discovering them and their busybody activities.
So, the choice left with that boss is the power of the quiet pen. No wonder, you did not get that promotion in the office despite your intense effort. Someone stood in your way. Be careful beloved! We have just gone through a three-day prayer and fasting in which the Lord has greatly visited us. Do not therefore be the architect of your own blockage.
Why do you think in your heart that you don’t want to leave Nigeria whilst your glory mate is still abroad? Stop that thought and/or such words. The word and the sure prophecy of the Lord shall take root in your life and manifest too no matter what.

IN THE END, THOUGHTS, WORDS AND ACTIONS DETERMINE DESTINY. NO MAN WILL EVER BE GREATER THAN HIS THOUGHTS.

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: Rock Of Ages
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, forgive me for every negative thought and words that I have uttered against myself.
2. O God, by your name and your saving strength, I cancel every evil word and thoughts that I have spoken or thought against myself and that other people have spoken or thought against me.
3. I release the reverse of every evil word and thought upon my life now and henceforth.
4. I send the anointing of Jehovah upon my life to always attract favour from now on.
5. I refuse from this day to settle for less.
6. O God, arise and silence every accusing finger and slandering mouth working against me.
7. Don’t operate that fibroid- Prophetic Instruction

Present your personal petitions.

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 24 – Sunday, 21st June, 2020
(Lk.1:46-55, 1 Sam.2:1-10, Judg.5:1-31)
‘THE IRREFUTABLE AND UNREFUSABLE POWER

Someone has opined many years before now that ‘life has no definition’ but it is inbued with certain ‘basic characteristics, including joy, sadness, pain, etc’. If joy and sadness are part of the condiments of life as it rolls along, then so long as we are alive, these condiments of life will try to remain constant.
It is a fact however that the constancy of joy or sadness is preconditioned by human choice. Get it right! You are sad because you submitted to the choice of being sad. I share commonality with the school of thought which claims that sadness and certain features contained in life are entirely natural phenomena, and that some situations are just so overwhelming that they pull us in the downward direction of depression and sorrow.
But nevertheless, the choice to salute God’s greatness even in that stormy and gloomy situation is not just a probable one but an actual possibility. Remember king David in 1 Samuel chapter 30:1-10.
Let us consider for a moment how sad father Abraham must have felt following God’s request to him for the sacrifice of his only promised seed born by his only genuine wife who had been barren for 90 years. Beloved, there is a great lesson to be learnt from father Abraham.
Lesson (1) God is present in every stormy situation (1 Kings chapter 19:12, Job.38:1).
Lesson (2) the eyes of the Almighty are constantly monitoring the heart of man when man is at his wit’s end or moments of his lowest ebb.
Lesson (3) man’s word uttered from the heart at desperate moment will determine the next action the Almighty will take (Gen.22:8-18). Although father Abraham was on an expedition of the most grievous trial, nevertheless, he expressed the word of faith onto God. Expressions of faith during moments of grief glorifies God. It is the same as the expressions of praise.
Lesson (4) Expressions of faith or praise during waiting periods, times of grief or anxiety always provoke prophetic action to materialize into prosperous realities. How and what does this mean? Father Abraham’s expressions of faith in the end provoked divinity to utter prophetic words that are still manifesting till today and will remain so even after now (Gen.22:10-18).
Let us search the Scriptures a little deeper. The word of the Lord states that: ‘the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy’ (Rev.19:10). What on earth can this very deep statement ever mean?
Amidst many interpretations, one plausible meaning is that when we offer testimonies by faith before God alone, then prophecy that cannot be denied takes over. It can equally be argued that the verse underdiscourse means that the word of the Lord is the surest word of prophecy.
All put together, the undeniable lesson is that when men express praises of faith to God out of a righteous heart whether in moments of joy or sorrow, an irrefutable and unrefusable power is always released by God to end any challenge that such men are facing.
Therefore, biblical Baba Israel Ade-Raymond Ebo, old but young and most agile, is it not time for you to put on your dancing shoes and fill heaven with praises ahead of the miracles being expected?
Beautiful Titilola, isn’t it time to shower God with unusual worship? Blessed Felicia Vicky, the name Felicia as given to you by God means blessing. You have always praised God. But is it not time to advance the level of those wonderful praises? For I see a rainy sky and yet loaded with more rain.
Brilliant Margaret-Joy, sonerous voices are meant to be rolling heaven around in glorious ecstasy. Shan’t that begin from now? Benevolent Mercy: the mercy of God always triggers the celebration of the Almighty. But why do you have to wait sister until God does His own first? It is time for you to move the hands of God into action through high flying adoration of the Almighty well ahead of what He will surely do for you.
Benign (harmless) benefitting Leanne! The only thing God is waiting for is your worthy acclamation to Him. Won’t you begin that now? Bridled Toyin, blissful Pastor Adeniyi, beaming Paulette, bright Olumide, beloved Oluwole, well-behaved Olajumoke, the ever-bubbling baroness Adetutu, basking Adedoyin and billionaire members, many prayers you have offered to God on varying subjects.
Like as the angel said to Cornelius in Acts chapter 10, I say to you all that all of your prayers have been heard and answered. Waiting for manifestation before eulogizing the Almighty will rather effect delay. Therefore, is it not time to show the Almighty how much you value, honour and love him with your well-pleasing praises?
There is enormous power in the praises that preceed divine action. Blessed Virgin Mary celebrated God even when all she had was simply prophetic information. But didn’t her expression of faith and worthy celebration of the Almighty give birth to the greatest miracle known to all humanity through her whom ‘all generations shall call blessed?’

IN THE END, IT WAS ABOUT THE CLOSING MOMENTS OF THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2020. THE LORD SHOWED HIS WONDERFUL KINDNESS TO ME BY OPENING MY EYES DURING THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT AT ABOUT 2 A.M. I SAW A MAN STANDING AT OUR BACKYARD CLOSE TO OUR STARTIMES SATELLITE DISH POLE. CARELESSLY, I IGNORED THE REVELATION, AND FINALLY RETIRED TO BED SOMETIME AFTERWARDS. STRANGELY, AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME DURING THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, THE LORD OPENED MY EYES AGAIN THROUGH HIS EXTREME KINDNESS. FOR THE SECOND TIME AND FOR THE SECOND NIGHT IN A SINGLE STRETCH, I SAW THE MAN AGAIN. THIS TIME AROUND, HE WAS NOT ALONE. HE WAS STANDING ON THE SAME SPOT, FACING A CAT AND BOTH WERE EQUALLY IN COMMUNICATION. THE LORD AROUSED MY SPIRIT, AND I REBUKED HIM IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. HE VANISHED WITH SUPERSONIC SPEED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD ADJACENT TO MY APARTMENT. THE MAN IN QUESTION WAS THE SPIRIT OF DEATH. WHEN THE DAY BROKE, MY ACTIVITIES CONTINUED AS USUAL. THEN AT ABOUT MID AFTERNOON OF THE SAME DAY, SOMETHING MONUMENTALLY DISASTROUS ALMOST HAPPENED. MY WIFE WAS AT THE SAME BACKYARD PERFORMING HER USUAL LAUNDRY CHORES FOR THE FAMILY. HER LONE PARTNER WAS MY SON AS I REMAINED IN THE HOUSE SO BUSY ON MY LAPTOP. SUDDENLY, MY SON TOUCHED THE POLE AND REPORTED THAT IT WAS SHOCKING. WONDERING WHY THE STARTIMES’ POLE SHOULD BE SHOCKING, MY WIFE TOUCHED THE SAME POLE, AND THEN HER HAND GOT HOOKED TO THE POLE. SHE WAS IN CLEAR ELECTROCUTION. SHE TRIED TO REMOVED HER HAND BUT THE ELECTROCUTION KEPT ROLLING HER AROUND. SHE COULD NOT TALK, AS SUCH SHE COULD NOT SHOUT AND CALL FOR HELP. MY INNOCENT FIVE YEARS SON JUST WATCHED ON AS THOUGH IT WAS MOVIE SPREE IN MELODRAMATIC PERFORMANCE. SUDDENLY, THE ELECTRIC CURRENT THREW HER OFF WITHIN A DISTANCE OF FEW METRES. THEN LANDING ON THE HARD CONCRETE, I HEARD A LOUD NOISE OF A FALL AND A PAINFUL SCREAM. THANKS BE TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE PAINFUL SCREAM RETURNED HER TO LIFE STRICTLY BY MERCY AND WITHOUT ANY HUMAN INTERVENTION. MY WIFE’S BIRTHDAY IS TODAY, THE 21ST DAY OF JUNE. I THANK MY GOD, THE POSSESSOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. PLEASE JOIN ME IN CELEBRATING GOD NOT FOR HER MEMORY IN DEATH BUT FOR HER LIFE.

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: Rejoice In The Lord And Be Glad
PRAY NOW:
Imagine the Almighty God before you and all your biggest and smallest concerns sitting right in front of the Almighty, and begin to celebrate God unmindful of those concerns.
Present your personal petitions and celebrate much more afterwards for having granted them all.

EXPRESS IMAGE GLORY MINISTRIES
THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 5, No. 23 – Sunday, 14th June, 2020
(Isaiah 55:1, 1 Kings 18:1-46)
‘THE SOUND OF ABUNDANCE OF RAIN’

The evolution of different facets of life is not and will not amount to an epoch-making event because, like change, evolution is ever constant. Despite the constancy of evolution in almost all aspects of human endeavor, evolution has its frontiers of limitation. For one, evolution does not affect the Almighty God. Neither will it ever affect the nature of God.
For instance, if the present generation of human existence lasts for another ten million years, the nature of the Almighty God will never evolve from good to evil. It is not a statement of spiritual farce or fallacy that man has a fallen nature. It is the fallen nature of man which drew out the warning from God against the giving of bribes (Job 15:34).
But if God strongly warns against the offering of bribes, then O man, tell me when did God Himself become a receiver of bribes? Certain teachings in the Christian circles apparently point in the direction of God being a receiver of bribes.
I am sure that the immediate attendant yearning question arising from the foregoing is undoubtedly the question echoing the word “how” so loudly. Can we Pastors be more careful? Why are we Pastors demonizing God especially when the issue of money is in the equation?
Permit me to throw in this question. Is it shameful, is it unrighteous for a pastor to request for financial assistance from his spiritual daughter, brother or co-pastor in the church? Is it not rather shameful and defaming to the name of the Almighty that a Pastor is stealing money belonging to God in style? Or is it not so shameful that a Pastor is requesting church members to sow seed to God before God will grant that miracle?
Men of the world especially in black Africa receive bribes before they give that job opportunity or sometimes they force people to join cult before they render certain assistance. Mr. Pastor, are you now telling us that the Almighty God has similar traits with such people? Pastor, if the church of God is in need, tell it in clear terms to the people of God. Whosoever is willing, let him/her support the work as much as grace is available onto them.
Miracles of God are obtained on the basis of mercy, righteous living and compliance with divine guidelines. At what point did God become a seller of miracles? When did heaven’s standard of giving blessings change to the law of sale, price bargaining and purchase? What have you done Pastor with Psalm chapter 41:1? If sowing seed remains your panacea for obtaining the promises of God and the receiving of miracles, then the rich who have money to sow will keep receiving all the miracles. And, it means the Almighty God simply folds His hands that the ‘poor’ can keep suffering and eventually die in penury. Hmmm!
Mr. Pastor!!! No one sowed any seed for the miracle of ‘abundance rain’ to happen in 1 Kings.18:41. Preaching the gospel of merchantal prosperity requires serious carefulness. Remember the integrity of your bishoprick office and the dignity of the Almighty God is always at stake.
If you tell your flock to sow seed in order for that miracle to be gained, then consider; what if that miracle does not happen because it is not yet time or because the hand which sowed the seed is a hand full of sin, what then happens to your image and the integrity of your bishoprick office? What do you want the sower of the seed to think about the dignity of God and His faithfulness?
For there to be the sound of abundance of divine rain, righteousness must reign in the heart and life of the one seeking the face of God for the downpour. After this, quality prayer of knowledge accompanied by worthy praise must necessarily follow. In the process, a listening heart must be attentive patiently and intently waiting for that word from the Almighty. Lastly, the faith that God is able to perform that which He has spoken must be accompanied with the ‘hope that maketh not ashamed’ (Rom.5:5).
Reading from verse 30 of 1 Kings chapter 18, it is obvious that a process was put in motion before the declaration of the sound of abundance of rain in verses 41 and 45-46 by prophet Elijah the Man of God. It is always a process of enthroning righteousness.
Did not the New Testament confirm same in Matthew chapter 6:33. The verse under reference declares: ‘seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness’. When that condition is satisfied, then every other thing shall be added onto us. Thus in consonance with the will of God, Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord. Why?
The simple answer is so that the altar can begin to speak on behalf of Israel again. And Having repaired the altar of the Lord, the first assignment of that altar is certainly to announce to heaven that the altar has been erected once again, that its fire is kept aglow again, and that the order of righteousness and righteous prayers have commenced again like as it used to be.
The altar now occupying its rightful position means that heaven now has a representative medium for communication with the earth. Thus the land of Israel was now ready for the once brassy heaven over it to be reopened. And was that not what eventually happened.
Didn’t the heaven open and pour out their immeasurable blessings? Did anyone pay God some money through the instrumentality of seed sowing before divine action took place in Israel? What note of importance does the content of Isaiah chapter 55:1 score to your intelligent mind? Don’t get me wrong? Paying tithes and offering is a clear commandment. But seed sowing is personal volition.
Contribution to perform certain assignment in the house of the Lord can sometimes come by way of guided instruction from the Lord. But when Pastors give express command to people to sow seeds before miracles can happen, certain criminal trespass is already beginning to take place by such Pastor.
Whosoever desires to sow seed to God for a given purpose must do it in honour to God, in appreciation and in the knowledge of expressing love and value to God. Let the merchantal message of bribery stop and believers should read their Bibles, cease from lending credence to biblical self interpretation by self-influenced Pastors, and finally, O believers, stop being gullible.
I see a surge of water of refreshing and comfort is here running down from the mountain top bringing money, peace and comfort. For I see something good about to happen to not a few. The rope has just been snapped off from that lady. For her, it is the end of the waiting era. For not so long from now, retardation is no more, giving way for speed of accomplishment. The power of the poison in that life is ended.
Why is that lady afraid to have that baby? I break that yoke of fear right now, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Your good thoughts shall happen in reality right before your very eyes. Whether they like it or not, you are going to pass that examination. I am seeing that Igbo lady’s face for the second time. Why are you considering how that miracle will happen? Leave it to God; He will singlehandedly make it happen.
You will walk gallantly free, and as for the matter of the finances, nothing will hinder provision. It is the time for abundance of rain. It shall rain down promotion, honour, peace, marriages and groundbreaking accomplishment. I have good information for you: the tree they tied you to in the spirit realm has just released you.
Do you know that you have walk out of the forest? And now, you are by the road side. Don’t go back into the forest. No! turn around. No! No! Return! What killed others will not kill you.
IN THE END, I DECREE THAT ABUNDANCE OF THE RAIN OF GOD’S BLESSINGS SHALL FALL UPON EVERYONE TODAY. DON’T WORRY; THE TEARS AND REGRETS OF TODAY SHALL SOON EXPIRE. THE FLOOD OF DIVINE DOWNPOUR SHALL WASH THEM AWAY. EVEN IF YOUR FAITH MAY NOT BE SUFFICIENT ON THAT DAY OF RECKONING, MERCY SHALL STEP IN FOR YOU. SHALOM

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: Sweet Hour Of Prayer
PRAY NOW:
1. O Spirit of tithes and offerings, arise from this day and begin to speak favour for my finances.
2. O God, I repent for murmuring and complaining.
3. You devourers programmed into my home for wastage, I sack you. I drive you out. And I forbid your return by the blood of Jesus.
4. I address you my bank account, no more zero or little money in you.
5. All satanic hangers hanging up my finances, I break you down now. And I recover my money.
Present your personal petitions.

THE MESSAGE NOW

VOL 4, no 23, Monday 17th June 2019

WHICH WAY TO GO?

2 Kings 7:3-5,8,9; Psalm 32:8, Psalm 37:23

THE MESSAGE NOW
Vol. 4, No. 22 – Monday, 10th June, 2019
(John.14:15-18, 25-26, 16:5-15)
THE ULTIMATE PERFECT FOUR AND THEIR UNILATERAL ONE CATALYST

If there is any other pursuit of man other than the pursuit after these four perfect and ultimate combinations being in perfect unison, then such pursuit is either ancillary and subsidiary or outrightly a most useless pursuit.
The foremost problem with ancillariness and subsidiary status of anything is that such a thing or pursuit as it is in this instance is never on the same pedestal with being major. An ancillary or subsidiary vision for example is never the original vision.
Ancillary and/or subsidiary vision or goal, at all times, are substituted visions which do not stand at per with God-given or original vision. They are oftentimes accepted as substitute for nothing else.
Examining deeply the idea behind ancillariness in the light of the four pursuits of perfect and ultimate combinations mentioned above, an intelligent mind makes only one conclusion that ancillary and subsidiary pursuits in parri passu with the four perfect and ultimate combinations is a choice between option and priority.

Every spiritually-discerning and intelligent individual agrees with the fact that priority cannot be contested against. Neither does it permit competition because there is never an existing competition where a priority goal is in the equation. For priority is simply the ultimate. And what else is important when the ultimate is the pursuit?
Man certainly has an end; for none would doubt the reality of death eventually at some point in man’s existence. So, the pursuit of man’s eternal home (that is heaven) is an ultimate pursuit.
Since man’s eternal home is preponderant on the quality of man’s life in the present, therefore, holiness is not an option but a foremost priority in the pursuit of man. Believe me; how can holiness be sustained? How can heaven be gained?

Neither of these two (that is, heaven and holiness) can happen without another major pursuit; it is the pursuit of happiness. Happiness in this context is that which is made possible by the catalyst of the four perfect and ultimate combinations which is also one of the four.
Without a pursuit after this catalyst which is the fourth ultimate of the four perfect and ultimate combinations, none of the other three can be realistic. Man’s pursuit after receiving and knowing the Holy Spirit is non-negotiable. For it is by Him and through Him that all other pursuits are realizable.
Understand the enormity of the indispensable role of the Holy Spirit to man and in man. Every christian from the time of Christ’s departure would have been a perfect orphan were the Holy Spirit not promised and given.
The best preacher in town would have offered his/her greatest spiritual thesis without a single soul being saved except the Holy Spirit were in place and position to breathe on the message preached.

Believe me; money and certain other things guarantee peace and security. But how deep sustaining and sure are such peace and security guaranteed by those other things? Lasting peace and security is one of the fundamental functions of the Holy Spirit. We are quickened by the Holy Spirit.
Happiness is given and sustained by the Holy Spirit even in the midst of the greatest storm. There is no satisfying life of holiness without the Holy Spirit being resident in our live (Rom.8:1, 4-11, 13-17).
Shocking! What a biblical revelation by God that even the Lord Jesus Christ The Most Blessed could not begin His earthly ministry nor perform any miracle until the Holy Spirit came down upon Him (Matt.3:16-17 And Acts.10:38).

Shocking still, Understand the mystery and get the connection between the Holy Spirit and God’s working of miracles. This is in that until the Holy Spirit ‘moved’, God could not utter the word of miracle which commenced the creation of the world. Ah! It was not until the Holy Spirit alighted on the Lord Jesus that God could confirm Him as His only begotten Son (Matt.3:16-17).
Far more shocking still is this next mystery. Do you know that if a man does not have the Holy Spirit such a man is not born-again? (Rom.8:9). Are we aware that the Holy Spirit is the spiritual elevator which will convey those who possess Him to heaven on the day of Rapture? This means that no Holy Spirit in a man and no rapture for that man.
In fact, no man is truly a heaven-bound citizen without the Holy Spirit. Christians are second-class citizens on earth today because of our attitude towards the Holy Spirit. The few outstanding people on earth today waxing strong and doing exploits for God and for humanity are so doing because of their turn of attitude and faith towards and in the Holy Spirit.
You can only go as far as your turn and time to and for the Holy Spirit so permits. The truth is this: the more and more ordinary a Christian becomes the less and less of the Holy Spirit such Christian permits to function in his/her life. No vehicle functions without an engine. There is no daybreak without the dawn and the brightness that accompanies it. No great dream, wonderful thought or word of favour can effectively dawn reality without the signature of the Holy Spirit being first appended to any such. Carefully read the account below.

Two spiritual daughters of Pastor Bangbayan of the Deeper Life Christian Ministry came to him years ago. Their lamentation to him was for him to assist them in fervent prayers because according to them, their flatmate who was of the spirit of witchcraft was oppressing them. The Man of God (Pastor Bangbayan) did what experienced pastors do. He did not pray. But instead, he admonished them. Among a number of things, the Pastor said, ‘if you have the Holy Spirit in you how can someone with a lesser spirit oppress you’? With these words, Pastor Bangbayan steered his spiritual daughter into spiritual action and God overcame for them soon after.

Christians! Why are we where we are? Is the spirit we claim to possess truly the Holy Spirit? That is a question deserving personal answers. Good dreams and glorious thoughts are fulfilled by the Holy Spirit with supersonic speed and without an iota of hindrance. Words of prophecy become realistic by dint of right-positioning to the Holy Spirit. Likewise ill-words die as soon as they are uttered by the actions of the Holy Spirit.
Pictures have greater immense effects on the human mind more than words. Being attention-sustaining and highly impressionable on the mind right from the first glance and further stare, the message engraved in pictures can keep focus, direction and target forever or almost.

Indeed, to most people or at least to so many, the underpinning impact and preference for pictures is such that cannot be so easily underscored in mere words and expressions. Dreams, imaginations, thoughts, visions and revelations in general are spiritual dramas presented in pictorial manner.
For instance, revelations reminding us about the second coming of the Lord, rapture, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, events of the past (for the purpose of warning) events yet to occur, come oftentimes in revelational manner by the activity of the Holy Spirit.
These pictures presented to us by the Holy Spirit have lasting impact on human memory so that the prospects of considering such revelations in the optional sense and not as foremost priorities can be quite remote.

The human mind is a magnet. This is a trait of the human mind well understood by the Holy Spirit. So, when the Holy Spirit operates in frequency of a satellite, signals are easily picked up by the natural magnetic force of the mind. This is also the activity of the Holy Spirit.
Can man understand that the Holy Spirit is a living personality who relates with man in the simplest way man can understand if allowed to freely operate? Can man climb down from his natural high horse and realize that man is merely man and that the Holy Spirit is the true, senior director of any life who will be successful?
Can any board meeting successfully commence or be successfully concluded with binding legal effects without the assent of the Managing director who ordinarily presides over such meeting in the company of the company’s chairman? The answer no doubt is no. So it is impossible to succeed in the journey of life without the Holy Spirit. So it is impossible to be happy, maintain a holy life or ever make it to heaven at last without the Holy Spirit. He is the unilateral catalyst of the entire perfect and ultimate four combinations in unison.

The Holy Spirit is a most unstoppable and the only unhinderable force in the entire universe. His gifts are ever irrevocable and comforting words are the most soothing. The words of the greatest of men do fail. Not that of the Holy Spirit. The only hindrance to the Holy Spirit is that He hates one thing, and that is sin.

IN THE END, TAKE THE HOLY SPIRIT OUT OF ANY LIFE EQUATION OR NEGLECT TO HAVE HIM IN YOUR COMPANY, AND THEN YOU FINALLY FORGET AND FORSAKE ANY SUCCESS AT ALL. KNOWING THIS: IS THE HOLY SPIRIT TO YOU A FOREMOST PRIORITY OR A FORGOTTEN OPTION?

Question and Answer Section:
Question: Have you been genuinely baptized in the Holyghost?
Answer: Hmmmm?

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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: When The Pow’r Of God Descended
PRAY NOW:
1. O God, purge my vessel today.
2. O Holy Spirit, breathe upon me afresh, return me to your first love and fresh power.
3. O Dew of heaven fill me with the Holy Spirit, happiness, Holiness and heavenwardness.
4. O Blessed Holy Spirit, visit my foundation today and ever more.