Power of Thanksgiving

By on May 17, 2013

Thanksgiving is a  powerful act, but many have failed to realize it. Many have spent  time under going deliverance and prayer programmes  while all God demands from us are thanksgiving. There is power and strength in thanksgiving.

What is Thanksgiving?

The act of giving thanks to God for things, which He has done and provided for us.

Power of ThanksgivingWhy it is good to give thanks to God

As Christians, when we give thanks to God from our hearts, God is magnified. Gratitude glorifies God. Givers are more glorious than receivers. Benefactors are more glorious than beneficiaries. When we thank God, we acknowledge and display that he is the giver; he is the benefactor. The all-sufficient God, who owns and controls all things, demand from the creature he has made gratitude. He demand’s that we stop be great in our own eyes and become small that he might appear great.

Four ways to give thanks

1) By calling on God to appreciate Him for all He has done for us

2) By giving our testimony of His good deed

3) By singing songs of thanksgiving

4) To give thanksgiving offering, giving to the needy among us.

What happens when you give thanks to God

1) When you give thanks to God, he will arise and deliver you. “Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me” (Psalms 50:14-15).

2) He will fight your battles, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).

3) Gate of God, will open on to you, “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name” (Psalms 100:4). The key to the gate of God is thanksgiving.

4) Your wall of Jericho will fall flat.

5) Impossibility become’s possible

6) He will release miracle and deliverance, those things you did not pray for will start to happen in your life.

7) God will restore your life, the good things and everything the enemy stole from you

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Jesus the Homeless person

By on May 9, 2013

 

Jesus master and servant 

The bronze sculpture, “Jesus the Homeless created by Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz, remind’s me one of the reasons Jesus came this world (Mark 10:45, Luke 4:18, Mark 2:17 and Matthew 25:34-46).

The Christian missionaries that brought Christianity to Nigeria and Africa had the love of Christ at heart. They established good schools that impacted sound educational knowledge to their members and non members with little or no tuition paid. They offered free health care to all and took special interest in their members’ needs both physical and emotional.Jesus-the-Homeless-person

These missionaries proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus without fear or favour and their lives reflected what they preached. But in many church today there inconsistencies on the part of pastors in what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church’s credibility.

Most non- believers tend to point to the fact that Jesus the son of God rode into Jerusalem on a borrowed donkey (Matthew 21:2). But the lifestyle of some of our Pastors today will make Jesus weep if He was around today, because while majority of their congregations are wallowing in abject poverty, they are busy jet around the world in their private jets.

Some Pastors owning up to two private jets, and move around in multi million naira bullet proof SUV with convoys of armed security men protecting them. These Pastors have taken the preaching of prosperity to an “all new height” while relegating the messages of Salvation, holiness, baptism by fire to the background.

Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

It is sad that members sow seeds into church projects like elite secondary schools and universities which on completion about eighty percent of the same members who sowed cannot afford to pay tuition of such schools in this or another lifetime!

Scripture succinctly noted that Believers of today were first called Christians in Antioch because they possessed the very nature of Christ. The way and manner they went about their business was mirrored in the exemplary life of Jesus Christ, modesty, humility and righteousness were his watchword. Christ’s early ministry from birth to ascension was characterized by certain tenets which himself admonished his disciples and followers alike to adhere. ‘Set your affections on things above’ the Bible says, but the very Men who are supposed to lead the flock of Christ by example now milk them dry.

That there are some pastors who are fleecing the sheep and whose god is their bellies, does not mean all wealthy pastors are scammers. Many of them are entrepreneurial and do not even get remuneration from their churches. In fact, they are often the biggest donors/givers in their church.

One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life. Preaching with your life and witnessing for Christ with your life. Every Pastor’s action is the mirror which the world sees the Church of Christ. There should be modesty and humility in all they do.

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Impossibility made possible by God

By on April 13, 2013

 The God of IMPOSSIBILITY

God of impossibility promised Abraham “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” Sarah at that point in life has passed the child bearing age. Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind Abraham, when Sarah heard it, she laughed with doubts in her heart because from the human understanding it was not impossible for her to bear children anymore, which prompted God of impossibility to ask Abraham, “Is any thing too hard for the LORD?”(Genesis 18:14). Yes according to the time of life, God returned blessed Abraham and Sarah with a son Isaac “laughter”

God of impossibility“Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” These were Moses words to the children of Israel in the wilderness, when the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them, and were covered in fear. That God who make’s impossibility possible appeared and parted the Red Sea.

God of impossibility made impossibility possible when the children of Israel to walk on dry ground through the midst of the Sea and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left, while He made a show of the strongman Pharaoh and all his army and drown them all.

When the whole congregation of the children of Israel while in the wilderness complained of hunger. The God of impossibility rained bread from heaven for children of Israel (Exodus 16:2-4).

God of impossibility in Jeremiah 32:27 was asking the same question to all that doubted him or His capabilities, “saying, Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?”

Our God is indeed very great and generous! In Psalm 23:5, David said he was anointed to the point of overflow. At the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, when they told Him they needed more wine, He gave them one hundred and eighty gallons of the types of wine they had never tested. With a boy’s meagre meal of two fishes and five loaves of bread, He feed five thousand excluding women and children, yet the leftover filled 12 baskets because His name is El-Shaddai – the God who is more than enough.

There is no god like the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for He is in the business of making impossibility possible. The God of impossible, the God who gives life to what does not exist. You may think there are things still impossible with God everything is possible.

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