tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22203513073770046772024-03-26T04:30:00.180-07:00Prayer Network for Universal RevivalThis Blogg serves to preach and express PNUR views and beliefsEmma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-27649210980405545762024-03-26T04:17:00.000-07:002024-03-26T04:29:26.645-07:00PRAYER PARTNERS: HOW IMPORTANT ARE THEY?<p> PRAYER PARTNERS: HOW IMPORTANT ARE THEY?
</p><p>It is a sign of a healthy Christian life when someone cries out, “I want to have a prayer partner!” We can never overestimate the importance of having prayer partners. The bible does not hide the fact that we will do better in life if we work as a team.
</p><p>Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Eccl 4:9-11NIV
</p><p>Nowhere else does this hold truer than in the matter of spiritual activities. The reason being that within the body of every human being is an ongoing battle between the flesh and the spirit. The soul of man is the central processing unit (CPU) and it manifests whatever comes from either side. A man who is fighting this kind of battle will most likely fall one day, “But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!”
</p><p>So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want Gal 5:16-17NIV
</p><p>Take note of the clause, “You do not do what you want”.
</p><p>Also take note of another clause, “they are in conflict with each other”.
</p><p>This battle runs in the life of every human being. The reason we did not feel this conflict before we came to Christ is because our spirit person was dead and our fleshly personality had the total control, so the desire for the things of the spirit were either dead or in its minimal stage that was of no threat to our flesh. The things the flesh desire are the things that satan and the worldly system desire. Since the real battle is between the world of good and evil and our flesh subscribes to evil, satan is at peace with the choices of the flesh.
</p><p>On the contrary, when we come to Christ our spirit personality is resurrected and the battle for control starts. The spirit personality tilts to the things that are towards God and the growth of our soul towards godly virtues. This is not what our flesh wants.
</p><p>In your spirit person, you know that you ought to read the bible but your flesh wants to watch indecent contents on the Social Media. You know you ought to fast at least every Thursday of the week, but your fleshly person wants to eat. You now know the benefit of getting up to pray in the night but the flesh won’t have that; it would prefer that you watch movies till late in the night or just go to bed. Before your salvation and the resurrection of your spirit, attending church services and fellowships, were not very important but now that you are born again and your spirit person is hungry for more of God, you don’t just want to go to church, you are interested in every detail of the activities that happen there.
</p><p>Due to this conflict you need to know how best to fight and win. One of the most effective ways to fight this battle is to have other good believers who are pursuing this end as you. Even though we read it say that two are better than one, the same bible said that an evil person around you could mess up what God is working out for you.
</p><p>Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character." 1 Cor 15:33NIV
</p><p>So, every company is not right for the believer. When the disciples were facing persecution, they had their own team or people to return to.
</p><p>On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God Acts 4:23-24NIV
</p><p>It was these people who joined them in prayers.
</p><p>When Daniel’s life was threatened by Nebuchadnezzar, he had prayer partners to ask to pray with him.
</p><p>Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon Dan 2:17-18NIV
</p><p>Even the Lord Jesus Christ required prayers from His prayer partners.
</p><p>Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." Matt 26:36-38NIV
</p><p>You cannot become so big that you no longer need prayer partners. In fact, the more you grow, the greater is your need for prayer partners. Unfortunately, many servants of God do not understand this. They even feel shy to express their need for prayers. This is especially so when servants of God boast about the spiritual power they have more than everyone else.
</p><p>When prayer partners are most needed -
</p><p>When you are stressed and depressed. Just invite your prayer partner or walk into a prayer fellowship and be quiet for a while.
</p><p>When you want to make an important decision. Tell someone to pray along with you.
</p><p>When you are seeking to hear from God or getting some direction on some issues.
</p><p>When you are too tired or confused to utter prayers on your own. At moments like this, devil will want to stalk you because you are in your weakest moment and vulnerable. You need to contact your prayer partner as soon as possible.
</p><p>When you need someone else to kick-start your prayers. You are not just able to start praying on your own.
</p><p>When you have a big spiritual challenge like the sudden death of a child, spiritual attack on your family or a bad news from home.
</p><p>When you want to develop and grow your prayer life to a higher level. You need to have a fix time and place to meet with your prayer partners or team.
</p><p>Where do I find the right prayer partners?
</p><p>From what we stated above, you can see that your prayer partners ought to be people around you. Too sad that most of us brag that we don’t relate with people in our immediate environment. If you cannot mention one person around you that fits in for a prayer partner, then you have to review your connections. May be you are in a wrong company.
</p><p>Your prayer partner does not necessarily have to be very strong spiritually. He may be someone who is also seeking to grow up in spiritual matters. He mostly will have struggles of his own. Both of you are just coming together to keep yourselves warm.
</p><p>Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Ecc. 4:11
</p><p>The advent of technology makes it easy for us to have prayer partners who are staying even in another continent. There is no problem with that for a start. Yet, there are things that only people nearby can do.
</p><p>Even if your spouse is not as strong as you would want, still ask him or her to be your prayer partner. Start with short moments of prayer and then grow with time. Your colleagues at school or workplace can be your prayer partner. I strongly advice against an opposite sex who is not your spouse as a prayer partner, unless there are other persons present. That brings me to add that you can have more than five members in your team.
</p><p>You did not have the power to choose your parents or siblings, but you are the one to choose your friends. Now, think of at least three persons you would want to propose to as your prayer partners. Write down their names and take two nights to ask the Holy Spirit to open their hearts to accept to be your prayer partners. You can also ask the Lord to show you if they are not the right ones for you. They maybe members or your local church.
</p><p>I think your spouse will be wonderful for this.
</p><p>(Please, let us know before you ask someone on PNUR Network to be your prayer partner, unless you know that person before you joined the PNUR Family)
</p><p>Let me know what you find.
</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com
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</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-85498472980456710372024-03-14T11:06:00.000-07:002024-03-14T11:06:55.987-07:00ESTHER: LIFE OUTSIDE THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQk81eVz1_8upczFihShgti7l59N_VOOh6HcXY1W_-GGAs6OVJ70C0ksox5GG_6jz6tNdIkVsSRnNn7Rf_kuwCwaCXTchSpz8vX6vg7vHlmiMpUT98WweHHE86UkMN8kyD6ZzYEftkt7Hw3Hk0wepYMYe6R2TefYKOyF0UTGW5LO2-Hq4YcekYgAe6guk/s236/images%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="236" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQk81eVz1_8upczFihShgti7l59N_VOOh6HcXY1W_-GGAs6OVJ70C0ksox5GG_6jz6tNdIkVsSRnNn7Rf_kuwCwaCXTchSpz8vX6vg7vHlmiMpUT98WweHHE86UkMN8kyD6ZzYEftkt7Hw3Hk0wepYMYe6R2TefYKOyF0UTGW5LO2-Hq4YcekYgAe6guk/s1600/images%20(1).jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Our Troubles and Troublers</p><p>Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Est 7:6NIV</p><p>Recently I was a guest preacher to a church program and the theme was, “Haman Must Die!” The focus of the program was to do spiritual warfare against spiritual and natural forces that represented the enemy of their progress. From the first day I received the invitation, the Holy Spirit kept impressing in my spirit that Haman was not their problem. By this I do not mean that there was no Haman, but that the power Haman had over them was because they relinquished their God given position and so lacked the moral standing to exercise their Kingdom authority, therefore they became vulnerable and weak before the powers that resisted their wellbeing. This will form our next focus in this meditation</p><p>After a period of fasting and prayers to seek God’s intervention, Esther was able to secure access to meet her husband in the inner chamber of his personal retreat. After explaining herself, the king was shocked and wanted to know who could have devised such evil against his wife.</p><p>Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Est 7:6NIV</p><p>That is the way we present our troubles and troublers. We talk about them like they came from nowhere and we pray to God about them like, if God was serious enough with doing His job and protecting us, there would never have been troubles or troublers. The truth however remains that God sees our future troubles and troublers before they manifest and He takes steps to spare us the pain. But our tendency is to respond to the troubles when we can see them. At the time we are able to see them physically, they would have taken roots spiritually. At that point, like trees with ancient roots, we will then need great efforts to deal with them and in most cases, at a very high cost to us. That is the situation with the enemy that Esther now introduced to her husband as “this vile Haman”.</p><p>Who is Haman?</p><p>He was from Amalek. Far back when the Israelites were coming out of Egypt, without any provocation the Amalekites attacked them from the rear. They attacked the weak and despairing among the people of God. The Lord Himself told Moses and the people of Israel to brace up and fight back. Ex17:1-3</p><p>From this point God knew that Amalek would constitute a great threat to the establishment of the people of God. So,</p><p>Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner. He said, "For hands were lifted up to the throne of the Lord. The Lord will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation." Ex 17:14-16NIV</p><p>So Haman was an offshoot from a generational enemy. Many years before Esther was born, God undertook to prevent this situation that caused her threat to life. One of the first assignments that God gave to King Saul was to deal with Amalek. </p><p>Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'" 1 Sam 15:1-3NIV</p><p>If King Saul did what he was commanded to do, there would never have been a Haman. Unfortunately, </p><p>The Lord anointed you king over Israel. And he sent you on a mission, saying, 'Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.' Why did you not obey the Lord? Why did you pounce on the plunder and do evil in the eyes of the Lord?" "But I did obey the Lord," Saul said. "I went on the mission the Lord assigned me. I completely destroyed the Amalekites and brought back Agag their king 1 Sam 15:17-20NIV </p><p>Now, the vile Haman, according to Esther, was an Amalekite and from the royal root of King Agag. So great was Agag that even the Spirit of the Lord recognized him. King Saul killed the common people but preserved the members of the royal family. It was Samuel who killed Agag but some members of the royal family remained alive. We can now see that if the ancestors of Esther did what they were instructed to do, Esther will not have to fight with vile Haman today.</p><p>Secondly, I hope you remember that at the start of our meditation, we said that Esther, Mordecai and the rest of the Jews that are now facing the threat of the vile Haman were among the great number of the people of God who refused to heed the Lord’s call to return to their own country. </p><p>"This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: "'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you — may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem Ezra 1:2-3NIV</p><p>So, if Mordecai and Esther had joined the rest of their people, Mordecai will not have a face to face confrontation with Haman that will lead to the issues we are talking about now.</p><p>After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles … When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. Est 3:1,5-6 NIV</p><p>On the one hand, this vile Haman came to be because of the failure of the ancestors of the present generation of the Jews. I make bold to say that a great number of the battles believers are confronted with today are the result of the sins of omission and commission of those who lived before them. The Lord Jesus Christ made the same statement to His audience.</p><p>What it means is that every drop of righteous blood ever spilled from the time earth began until now,. from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was struck down between altar and sanctuary, is on your heads. Yes, it's on the bill of this generation and this generation will pay. Luke 11:50-51(from THE MESSAGE BIBLE): </p><p>Whatever calamity that would come on this generation will be the result of the seed their ancestors sowed. the imminent death that forced them into fasting was because their ancestors failed to obey the instructions from God. The location they met the crisis was because they themselves failed to obey the Lord.</p><p>This calls for introspection from my reader. It also reminds you that whatever things you do today, are seed that you are sowing. If you do not reap them, your generations will. Those of us who are returning to idolatry and occult; those of us that are robbing temples; those of us that are oppressing people; those of us who are building beautiful houses by destroying the future of other people’s children and those who attacking and abusing servants of God should know that someone will reap what they are sowing. This holds for both the positive and negative side of life.</p><p>Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Gal 6:7-8NIV</p><p>We like to point out here that Haman did not fall from the sky and it is not the result of failure on the side of God. Most of the complicated spiritual battles we are facing today are the result of negligence on the part of our fathers. The rest are there because we are failing in our responsibility. God is very ready to help us get through out of them but we need to face the truth.</p><p>I strongly believe that the three days and nights of fasting and prayers was not directed at asking God to kill Haman. I believe it was a period of national repentance and reconciliation with God. It was a time to call out their sins and the sins of their fathers. </p><p>In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes. Est 4:3NIV</p><p>Sackcloth and ashes represents repentance and humbling themselves to ask for God’s mercy. They were not out to bind and destroy Haman. They were aware that they would not be in such circumstances if they had obeyed the Lord.</p><p>Repentance clears the way for God to step in. Are there things you need to repent of? In the course of reading this, are you reminded of some generational iniquity that you need to repent of?</p><p>Once they began to offer the right kind of prayers, God began to move on their behalf. Their destiny helpers began to remember them. Their enemies began to fall down and serve them. Court cases they could not handle began to go in their favour. </p><p>That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. "What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?" the king asked. "Nothing has been done for him," his attendants answered. Est 6:1-3NIV</p><p>Even the so-called almighty Haman fell down before them to beg for his life.</p><p>Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life Est 7:6-7NIV</p><p>Hmmm!</p><p>Our troubles and our troublers are not nearly as powerful as we have made them to appear. We only need the right heart attitude and prayers. </p><p>Do you feel like praying now?</p><p>Please, go ahead. I will come back to you.</p><p>(To be continued).</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-62384109080271928772024-03-14T11:04:00.000-07:002024-03-14T11:04:41.629-07:00ESTHER: LIFE OUTSIDE THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTsbN2a5K5CEIx1VA0H7TkrpHeWjYHVWefmoxagJSJ4jsXOGY3qwyl6aPwMhW-qc-kGTFNjfjsO8PMFAshSKhtYrmKyxSw8qteY1h623lmNOzmHDWSEG6sHhv_3ZQWpbrFXLi8c9dd70zdsamGQC2R0orfaEk0nr4gc6TGHXmZtN2RykMVejv5OfdmBU/s1002/Screenshot_20240312_233349_Chrome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="822" data-original-width="1002" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTsbN2a5K5CEIx1VA0H7TkrpHeWjYHVWefmoxagJSJ4jsXOGY3qwyl6aPwMhW-qc-kGTFNjfjsO8PMFAshSKhtYrmKyxSw8qteY1h623lmNOzmHDWSEG6sHhv_3ZQWpbrFXLi8c9dd70zdsamGQC2R0orfaEk0nr4gc6TGHXmZtN2RykMVejv5OfdmBU/s320/Screenshot_20240312_233349_Chrome.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> Intimidated by the fear of suffering</p><p>"Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish." Est 4:16NIV</p><p>Unless you have been in the same position, it will be difficult to understand all the implications in Esther’s statement; If I perish, I perish. Here Esher decided to confront what she had feared all her life; the fear of suffering.</p><p>Oh, how many of the Lord’s people fear hardship and suffering. We sing it in our songs and shout it from our pulpits; we don’t want to suffer and we don’t want to die. I beg to disappoint you by saying you can never find a life of true purpose outside the realms of deliberately embracing suffering and death.</p><p> Unknown to us, the devil has discovered this weakness in us and so has technically taken us captive within the prison walls of our fears. For the fear of suffering a young minister sacrificed his daughter to satan so he could have a big congregation. For the fear of suffering our brothers in the business world joined occult so they can get contracts. For the fear of not having our own fruit of the womb, believers have drunk concoctions in the satan’s coven. There is no limit to what satan can take you through if he could intimidate you with the fear of suffering. </p><p>One of the principal assignments of our Messiah who suffered is to deal with this fear.</p><p>Free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death Heb 2:15NIV</p><p>Fear is a merciless slave master </p><p>We are not told at what age Esther was when her parents died and the circumstances that led to their death. However, we know that she was born at a time her people were living as slaves among ruthless gentile people with emperors who were reputed for their mindless torture and murder of their enemies. Nebuchadnezzar was brutal; just imagine a man who felt no quam as he attempted to kill hundreds of young men he had spent three years to train, just because of the issue of a dream. Not many people knew that all those young people were castrated as eunuchs, that included Daniel and his friends. That explains why we never heard of the children of Daniel. The emperors enjoyed absolute power. That included king Ahasuerus who ruled at the time of Esther.</p><p>The fear of suffering and death was part of Esther’s everyday life. It was the fear of what they could suffer that kept Mordecai from joining others in Jerusalem when King Cyrus opened the doors for them. Fear of suffering made her hide her real name and nationality. Imagine to find yourself in a situation that you don’t want anyone to know who you really are. Though in a marriage. the same fear kept her from complaining when she began to lose her place in the palace. </p><p>Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, "All the king's officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that he be put to death. The only exception to this is for the king to extend the gold scepter to him and spare his life. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king." Est 4:10-11NIV</p><p>She suffered in silence. She married the man out of fear of offending her father. Oh, did we forget to mention that the king also married her just to get back at his wife for disobeying him. History said that the king’s marriage to Esther did not last.</p><p>Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her. Then the king's personal attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king. Est 2:1-2NIV</p><p>There are many, today who still make decisions, not because of sound judgment, but because of what they fear. Some for fear of poverty, married a rich unbeliever. Some for the fear of parents married someone from their tribe. Some for fear of suffering like the pastors who keep begging for mission support, clung to the job they know they ought to leave to make their service to God more effective. I have met families who are now childless because they aborted their children earlier because they feared they won’t be able to raise children then.</p><p>Like Esther, fear has become the prison house.</p><p>Fear made Esther silent about what she knew of the saving power in the Lord Jesus Christ. She dared not talk about Jehovah because she was afraid. How she was afflicted in her soul for the period she lived in that fear. Oh, the emptiness in her heart. In today’s parlance, she only hummed Christian hymns and wished for the days when she owned her life.</p><p>Despite all she had sacrificed, the enemy did not spare her. The family she belonged to had been taken, her peace had been taken, her prayer life was taken, she cannot remember the last time she opened her bible, and now, her father is telling her that, not only himself, but her entire race was about to be destroyed. She was afraid.</p><p>We are often deceived to believe that satan will let us be if we do not disturb him, but that is a lie. While Esther played it cool, the enemy of her soul was gaining more and more grounds. Haman had bought her husband over and had total control of the whole kingdom because he now wore the signet ring. </p><p>Esther could not even see her husband’s face for the space of one month but Haman could visit even in the midnight.</p><p>The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had erected for him. His attendants answered, "Haman is standing in the court." Est 6:4-5NIV</p><p>Esther decided to face her fear. All the compromise was to her lose. </p><p>Now, if I will perish, let me perish.</p><p>Everyone will now know that I am a true child of God. All my friends and staff will hear the testimony of my conversion. Everything about me will once again radiate my true personality in Christ </p><p>If I perish, I perish </p><p>I can see in my mind’s eyes as the Queen Esther walked into the conference hall and ordered all her staffs and servants to suspend all activities and give her their attention.</p><p>“Everyone in this office must join us for a three days fast”.</p><p>I can see the shock on everyone’s face. Who is talking?</p><p>“Yes, I know you are surprised but I want you to know that I am actually a Christian child of God. From today, no more those worldly dressing and everything in this space that is under my control will reflect the glory of King Jesus Christ”.</p><p>That was the first time anyone of them ever heard the word, fasting and praying to Jehovah. I will shock you further; are you aware that Queen Esther went into the presence of the king under a fast? When you fast for three days without food and water the way they did, your body will omit a smell. Before now, that would bother Esther. No longer so.</p><p>If I perish, I perish.</p><p>(To be continued)</p><p><br /></p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-39183151818633293372024-03-10T20:13:00.000-07:002024-03-14T11:08:41.721-07:00MORDECAI: LIFE OUTSIDE THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIA-PwEKeN9KBTMuXdjKMzYOju3_bGgcwo6WLsxJk0-zVjtg0t4VARTnhAaHqipPRxOSmq0BCvPDt4zyd7jmhEvYqNzbtTQjKgT7rU4zuaAd8hUMa3cSxLwpABKK9H0L-y4Qg0lHYiRbkTSiDmKygRMffMHiAcI9pF65lIcYGL4AXDOAZgOpb85xrwq0/s274/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="274" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBIA-PwEKeN9KBTMuXdjKMzYOju3_bGgcwo6WLsxJk0-zVjtg0t4VARTnhAaHqipPRxOSmq0BCvPDt4zyd7jmhEvYqNzbtTQjKgT7rU4zuaAd8hUMa3cSxLwpABKK9H0L-y4Qg0lHYiRbkTSiDmKygRMffMHiAcI9pF65lIcYGL4AXDOAZgOpb85xrwq0/s1600/download.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /> Mordecai; Life outside the perfect will of God.<p></p><p>I am sorry to say that this message is not for everybody. In fact, I wish I knew the specific person for whom the Lord is sending this message, I would have sent it directly and not bother my entire audience. I can only ask everyone to open up as we go through it and maybe at one point, the one for whom this message has come will jump out.</p><p>"Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish." Est 4:16NIV</p><p>From our main text, within the reply of Queen Esther to Mordecai are hidden some ugly history. We call it ugly history because they are things that even the inspired author of that bible book was ashamed to mention. The nation of Judah was taken into exile because their God handed them over to their enemies. They were sentenced to spend seventy years in exile. within this period God advised them to integrate themselves with the people of the land of their captivity.</p><p>This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: "Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." Jer 29:4-7NIV</p><p>Mordecai was among those that were born in the period of this exile and so was Esther who was his brother’s daughter. There were those who strived to retain their original spiritual and national identity even though they lived in Babylon. These were the heroes we use as models today; Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Some people like Ezra continued to teach the Jews the word of God even though they were in exile.</p><p>In answer to many intercessions, God sent Cyrus to work for the restoration of Jerusalem and the new nation of Israel.</p><p>"This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: "'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you — may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem. Ezra 1:2-3NIV</p><p>Unfortunately, not many of God’s people were eager to return to their own country. At this time a good number of the surviving population were born in exile and their lifestyles were those of the gentile nations. Their ambitions and dreams were those of Babylon. So, preaching of the true gospel of the true kingdom of Jehovah sounded strange and for others, it was unrealistic. There were those who held to the old instructions to adopt to Babylon because it matched what they wanted to hear. This was the category that Mordecai belonged. Out of the entire nation of Israel, only very few were willing to return; 49,897 persons.</p><p>The whole company numbered 42,360, besides their 7,337 menservants and maidservants; and they also had 200 men and women singers Ezra 2:64-65NIV</p><p>As it was those days, so it is today. The preaching of the message of revival of our sanctification is no longer valued. The message of eternity in heaven and hell is not the kind of thing people want to hear today. Death to self and living for the Spirit is not one of the topics one will hear in a conference today. Even those we considered as fathers in the Christian faith keep manifesting lifestyles that shames the true gospel for which we knew them.</p><p>For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God 1 Cor 1:18NIV </p><p>Mordecai happened to be in the number to whom the message of the Cross was foolishness. Has it occurred to you that it was an abomination for a true daughter of Zion to be in the number of virgins competing to be married to a gentile king? Has it occurred to you that Mordecai was encouraging his daughter to eat those delicacies that Daniel and his friends called defilement? Are you aware that King Ahasuerus was about the fourth king after Cyrus? What were Mordecai and Esther doing in that gentile nation after other believers had departed to Jerusalem?</p><p>Hmmm! My hands are shaking.</p><p>While believers were parking up and marching towards Jerusalem, Mordecai was adjusting himself for life in the world after the revival. While other heaven minded Christian leaders are now teaching their congregation that friendship with the world was enmity towards God, Mordecai was training his daughters on how to trap rich gentile men for the sake of material wealth. When other believers laboured at carrying rocks to restore the temple of true worship of Jehovah, Mordecai was standing as a security man at the gate of gentile nations with party placards in hand, seeking to prophesy to the uncircumcised that God will continue to bless them in their sin. While brethren contended for the restoration of a true worship, Mordecai was teaching his own congregation on how to live and be welcome by the world. The things that genuine believers mourned and lamented over, were the same things that Mordecai celebrated as success.</p><p>They have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, and have mingled the holy race with the peoples around them. And the leaders and officials have led the way in this unfaithfulness." When I heard this, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled hair from my head and beard and sat down appalled. Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel gathered around me because of this unfaithfulness of the exiles. And I sat there appalled until the evening sacrifice Ezra 9:2-4NIV</p><p>The point is that Esther and the other members of the church of Mordecai did not even know that these things were sin, because Mordecai encouraged them to do it. Esther succeeded to get married to the unbeliever through the worldly method taught by her leader and there was celebration in the church of Prophet Mordecai. Esther was taught that telling lies was kingdom wisdom, so that even her own husband did not know her real name and nationality. </p><p>Yes, you read me right. The king did not know the real name and nationality of his new wife. The result of this was that all the maids and friends of our sister in the palace were total unbelievers. Furthermore, our sister was not able to share the gospel with them. Oh, how could she have shared the gospel with them when they did not even know that she was born again? If they did not know that she was born again, how could she now teach them kingdom lifestyles of fasting, prayers and meditating in the word of God?</p><p>The hypocrite that he was, Mordecai refused to bow to Haman on religious grounds but he had told Esther to hide her identity. </p><p>Then the royal officials at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's command?" Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai's behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew Est 3:3-4NIV</p><p>Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. Est 2:10NIV</p><p>Did you get me? While Prophet Mordecai bragged about his commitment to God, Esther bowed down to all the heathen idols in the palace because she was told to hide her true identity, but the hypocrite of a leader still boasted that he was called by God.</p><p>What I want you to understand is that, all those crises and confusion among the exiles in Susa happened because some fellows chose a path for themselves that was contrary to God’s plan for them. When we choose our own paths, we encumber ourselves with the responsibility to sustain ourselves. Deceiving, telling lies, stealing and all kinds of manipulation soon become our new lifestyle. </p><p>You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? James 4:4-5NIV</p><p>(To be continued)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieoJoxKGmsrpo_E4ni527EeQHkdd5y8ADVfP4QUxWAnC2xtf_NhxvYnqJ7IXyNpNNAOVsRwWG2yeWLKfoaBiX6dKc6Ua5PdZF-A5zWbhAESAktn7yQ_w3nwWmVysxwSWZRTtLIPB2YxsBiqMNm7cHBvr1SZN8VsAJNLHPuVorCqMHdRD4uA9GeN64BHhU/s274/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="274" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieoJoxKGmsrpo_E4ni527EeQHkdd5y8ADVfP4QUxWAnC2xtf_NhxvYnqJ7IXyNpNNAOVsRwWG2yeWLKfoaBiX6dKc6Ua5PdZF-A5zWbhAESAktn7yQ_w3nwWmVysxwSWZRTtLIPB2YxsBiqMNm7cHBvr1SZN8VsAJNLHPuVorCqMHdRD4uA9GeN64BHhU/s1600/download.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-81293025312567130222024-03-06T04:45:00.000-08:002024-03-06T04:45:43.754-08:00EVERY SCEPTER OF THE WICKED <p> *PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers 07/03/2024*</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeT8Yyne_CHU3oH5q_72j3pqcGuZHM0j-gnmFcAFCBGd33izs3v0bXuhE6veemUjXY-xFfbM2pLjsmBJbPTO5II3CjrFQ3DZESoiqHvwzRrYdy_SG2QsxPKdzpJ0MZwhMW4A2cQbTwA50sWhPyYbEDgd86EqbxR4AinSv-TO2nG932eIuH8MTez7sgnQ/s951/IMG-20230927-WA0038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="951" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeT8Yyne_CHU3oH5q_72j3pqcGuZHM0j-gnmFcAFCBGd33izs3v0bXuhE6veemUjXY-xFfbM2pLjsmBJbPTO5II3CjrFQ3DZESoiqHvwzRrYdy_SG2QsxPKdzpJ0MZwhMW4A2cQbTwA50sWhPyYbEDgd86EqbxR4AinSv-TO2nG932eIuH8MTez7sgnQ/s320/IMG-20230927-WA0038.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>*Every Scepter of the wicked must be broken now*</p><p>_The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil Ps 125:3NIV_</p><p>Glory be to the Lord Jesus Christ for another opportunity to come into His presence. Remember that prayer is the opportunity that God has given to you to say something about your life. When you fail to pray at a time like this, you are simply surrendering your life and destiny to the opinion of others. God has given this earth over to man to rule but through the vehicle of prayer we grant God permission to intervene in the activities going on in the earth. Through prayers we can also revoke whatever the devil and his agents have done against us and our loved ones.</p><p>Scepter in the context of our text represents government or seat of power. At the point of writing, the scepter or seat of power was already on the land or blessings that are the portion of the child of God. The prayer of the Psalmist expresses the impending danger if the circumstance persists; godly people could be compelled to do things or go to places that they would not go ordinarily. Unfortunately, situations have forced some people to do so.</p><p>This one is a true life story and the man that did this evil thing was the biological father of one of my members. So I am not telling you a story I heard from somewhere. On the day this man was to be buried, as they lowered the casket into the grave, a lady married to one of his relations just noticed some movement in her body and her menstrual period flowed out. She ran to a corner and tapped on her husband and there was a loud shout of “Chai!”</p><p>They were told but they did not believe it. The man had made sexual advances on the woman but the woman cautioned him and warned him that he was going to commit abomination for attempting to sleep with his brother’s wife. This evil man decided to hurt this woman. By some diabolic means he shut her womb under an oath that unless he died that woman will remain sterile. The timeline of the curse expired when he was laid into the grave.</p><p>I have heard people say something like, “Only over my dead body will this person get promoted in this office”. Some of these statements are not empty words and they often back their words by resorting to hidden diabolical actions. Like the account we just shared, there are some today that are carrying curses from witchcraft covens or evil altars. Too sad that they have never taken time to pray about them.</p><p>I decree that every such curse hanging over the head of anyone reading me now must be broken today, in the name of Jesus Christ.</p><p>Shout that AMEN like thunder!</p><p>Any man or woman that has tied your pain to his breathing, must expire now, in Jesus name.</p><p>Thunder an AMEN!</p><p>For our holy brethren who condemn aggressive warfare prayers, let me explain. We are not asking the man to die. What we are saying is that, if this evil person said that he will not be alive to see you move forward in life, he must die now, because at the end of this prayer you are moving higher, in Jesus name!</p><p>Give the AMEN! three times now.</p><p>People, I feel the anointing!</p><p>Years back, I returned to my home town after the Holy Spirit prompted me. I told a very close relation that I was told by the Holy Spirit that he had sacrificed me before a satanic altar for his own riches. I told him that I came to ask him to revoke what he had done because I did not want him to die. Yes, I was sure that I will not die because the Lord placed me under the covenant of life and peace but I didn’t want to leave what I am doing in the mission field to come and bury him.</p><p>In response, he told me to walk out of his presence. The Lord laid me to the occult prophet that carried out the ritual for him. The prophet accepted that they did such a thing but told me that it was not in his hands but in my brother’s hands to change the status quo. I went back to my brother with the false prophet, but he told the man not to mind me because there was nothing I could do. I called some people, among them are those who are still alive today; I told them what had happened and what I am pleading with my brother to do and save his life. They told him to reverse whatever he had done if what I said was truth. Well, he refused. The good news is that I was at his burial.</p><p>I declare to you today under this anointed atmosphere of our PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers; any man or woman who has placed you as a sacrifice on any satanic altar shall take your place in the name of Jesus Christ!</p><p>Shout that AMEN like you believe me!</p><p>A woman brought to see me three of the most beautiful set of ladies I have seen in my life. They were her three daughters. All graduates, all gainfully employed, all tall and elegant with this skin texture that only dead men can resist. Three of them were home grown well behaved ladies. Yet, at the age of 32, 35 and 36, no man was showing any interest in any of them. Men talked to them like fellow men. The woman lamented how her husband had died in a very mysterious condition and how her husband’s brother quickly encroached on the family property after his death. She managed to train these beautiful ladies up to University level through her “Akara” business. Those of you in the western nations cannot imagine the kind of pain associated with sending three daughters to university by frying “Akara”. I just pray it will not be your portion in Jesus name.</p><p>Here they were, no suitors and every night she wept her head a river because she knew that something strange were holding those ladies. Her husband’s brother was even trying to drive her from the place where she fried and sold “Akara”. My heart bled at the level of wickedness of man against man. I gave her an assignment and some prayers.</p><p>Now hear the testimony! It was not up to two months the same woman ran to me in excitement.</p><p>“Brother Emma, you won’t believe what I want to tell you. My two daughters are getting married at the same time in a week’s time”.</p><p>They got married because God broke the scepter of the wicked. The third and youngest got married six months after.</p><p>I announce to you that the season of your bondage must expire today in the name of Jesus Christ.</p><p>I just wish that you know how to shout an AMEN! that can shake even the throne of the devil.</p><p>When we talk about such things, some believers accuse us of magnifying the devil and spreading fear among the children of God. But as I write now one of my pastor friends is living like vegetables. He went one day to unlock the door to his church, something flicked past his face. There and then he lost his memory. As we talk now he can’t pronounce my name, he can’t read the bible, he can’t operate a computer and these are among the many things he can no longer do. He just sits in a place.</p><p>If this does not get you angry, then you don’t have a heart in your chest.</p><p>Our main text tells us how dangerous it is for the inheritance or destiny of a child of God to be under the stranglehold of the wicked. Scepter means rule, it means government and it could also represent authority. The scepter of the wicked means the controlling power of the wicked. It could be witchcraft enchantment, it could be satanic curses and invocations. In some case, a member of a larger family trades the family members on an occult altar and sets his throne over the entire family. You will notice that only this man will experience prosperity in this family. Every end of year, every other member of this large family will line up in his house for stipends.</p><p>Whatever they are, it says that under such condition some righteous women have seen themselves in the house of witchdoctors in search of fruit of the womb; some godly men have joined occult so they can secure a job and put food on the table; some decent girls have become prostitutes so that they can change their undies. I mean there is no limit to the terrible corruption that could happen or take place in the life of a child of God under the stranglehold of wicked people.</p><p>We will not be able to count the number of good people who have been pushed into evil because they could no longer endure the suffering. Many have backslidden and some weak hearted ones have resorted to commit suicide.</p><p>I strongly believe that if any of such persons are in this prayers with us, those satanic limitations shall be broken. I repeat, I believe that there is sufficient anointing flowing for this special day of prayers and this anointing will surely break the yokes from those who dare to take God at His word and join in this fast.</p><p>That is why I want you to consider yourself fortunate to be connected to this prayer and fasting. Don’t let anything distract you from participating in this prayers.</p><p>Yes, I feel the anointing as I write now!</p><p>Fix a place and time sessions you will enter into private prayers.</p><p>Don’t be selfish, involve other people around.</p><p>Then remember that, “When You Pray, *YOU MUST BELIEVE YOUR PRAYERS!”*</p><p>Now, pick up those Prayer Collections, “Prison Break” and “Jesus Christ Breaks Every Chain”, and launch into aggressive warfare prayers with them.</p><p>Please, if you don’t have them yet, just let me know and I will send them right away</p><p>I will come back to you as we all pray.</p><p>I know that you know that I am praying for you.</p><p>Remain under this anointing in Jesus name</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-58643964375465910232024-03-03T17:10:00.000-08:002024-03-03T17:10:37.724-08:00BEFORE YOU MAKE THAT MOVE <p> BEFORE YOU MAKE THAT MOVE.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikj38QqozwUxuVln295wKbQCKILm8araBy-97LOMX1HvJ9UM062nxUhYPOLDn0hPeuoCtU8KVA6jHO3go_HeGlutOC4FOnR8_VP9LFR7tInV78eqcbioUeQj6e3R3_V66ziJ95t_bu6lRydvvhX4AaXkP4pbMZjtHGdfmKCIss1c_pxGCN4zvZy5Ev8yY/s3267/20240225_134842.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3267" data-original-width="1884" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikj38QqozwUxuVln295wKbQCKILm8araBy-97LOMX1HvJ9UM062nxUhYPOLDn0hPeuoCtU8KVA6jHO3go_HeGlutOC4FOnR8_VP9LFR7tInV78eqcbioUeQj6e3R3_V66ziJ95t_bu6lRydvvhX4AaXkP4pbMZjtHGdfmKCIss1c_pxGCN4zvZy5Ev8yY/w192-h324/20240225_134842.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Read this before you move out this week.</p><p>So the king of Israel brought together the prophets — about four hundred men — and asked them, "Shall I go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or shall I refrain?" "Go," they answered, "for the Lord will give it into the king's hand." 1 Kings 22:6NIV (I advise you to read the entire chapter).</p><p>We could escape many dangers if we are able to know for sure what God’s will is. Unfortunately, only few people have exercised their spiritual senses to be able to distinguish between the voice of their mind, the nudging on of the devil and the genuine voice of the Holy Spirit.</p><p>Our text describes what most believers would erroneously refer to as the leading of the Holy Spirit. Ahab just remembered something he overlooked for three years. a spiritual brother would say that it was the Holy Spirit that reminded him. That was the first affirmation.</p><p>In today’s parlance, he consulted with another believer (King Jehoshaphat) and got his support to undertake the task with him. Then he consulted some prophets (it is you that refer to them as false prophets. For Ahab, he enquired of men of God and they were four hundred of them). The prophets told him that God has graciously opened the doors of success and prosperity before him. They told him to move on. One should say that Ahab did all that was necessary to be sure he was doing the right thing. </p><p>The other brother suggested that they should also consult another kind of prophet to which Ahab reluctantly consented. When the lone voice of one hungry looking prophet said something different, Ahab shouted, “I knew it! These narrow minded pastors from a never-do-well church of one man and his wife have never liked to hear about my success.”</p><p>His statement resulted in a quarrel with prophet when the “old fashioned prophet” went ahead and still declared the true counsel of God. I don’t know how many people that will not take sides with the positive prophecies from four hundred prophets against a lone voice. Too sad that King Jehoshaphat did not rise in defense of the lone prophet that he invited into trouble. </p><p>So we say that Ahab was led by the “Lord”, secondly, a fellow believer (King Jehoshaphat) confirmed it by accepting to go with him and finally and most importantly, the “Lord” confirmed it through the mouth of four hundred prophets.</p><p>If you read through that story, even Ahab felt that the lone voice could be saying the truth but still went out to that war because he felt his ego was threatened. For him, “Why should that prophet talk to me like that?” The truth is that most believers are not seeking the true opinion of God when we approach servants of God. Our minds are made up on the kinds of things we want to hear or tolerate. So, if a servant of God tells us something, we only accept if it agreed with what we wanted to hear.</p><p>For example, if I told you that God will open door for you to work in an international organization or give a multimillion dollar contract, you will most like jump and declare, “Amen!”</p><p>On the other hand, if I told you that you should not accept the same propsosal. You will frown and demand to know why. If I hand you a large sum of money and claim that God told me to give it to you, you will say immediately, “That is my God! Thank you Jesus!” But if I told you that God has asked me to tell you to give some money to support the printing of our gospel, you will tell that you will need to hear from God before you obeyed that. So, what we claim that we are listening to God, the truth is that we are struggling to surrender our will to God.</p><p>Some years ago, I warned a man not to honor a foreign business invitation. He was told by a tribe’s man to bring in a large sum of money to start a better business. He was visibly disappointed in me because more than other five prophets had told him that good fortune awaited him. He went and was robbed and had to borrow funds to find his way back to Nigeria. That was exactly what happened between Ahab and the prophet, Micaiah. </p><p>Unfortunately, Ahab died on that trip. It is clear that he was made up in his mind on the kind of things he wanted to hear and that is the real problem. There are those who go out to those who flatter them and sing their praises. They go only to pastors who make positive prophecies and they are bold to say that they avoided those that say “negative things”. These form the greater number of people who have died like Ahab. </p><p>This is a new week and I pray that you will not hear any invitation that will complicate your life in Jesus’ name. It is also important you decide to be open to the opinion of honest people who may say something you don’t want to hear.</p><p>Most importantly, decide today that you will obey whatever the instruction from God is. Your life could depend on it.</p><p>I like to hear from you</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-87967928679686187192024-03-02T04:50:00.000-08:002024-03-02T04:50:37.345-08:00EFFECTIVE WAYS TO OVERCOME COMPLICATED SPIRITUAL PROBLEMS <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7dW7SjDcc0D5wpcdTRdka39NU8y08SWnsrDy_nwLa20BMOujq51ZpFxgIFrbZFct46sN89eJ5HM4DeFte3_OwrQrgku76RBJ13hvWnNpz8SOJ7a775Uwmm6_QKkNqhMNdtsbFLFekDvjP_0hmDF2i5Yo2-e9i9SInMYUlQ_AiJRspzhwdJwaysa5A54/s590/FB_IMG_1709278478177.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ7dW7SjDcc0D5wpcdTRdka39NU8y08SWnsrDy_nwLa20BMOujq51ZpFxgIFrbZFct46sN89eJ5HM4DeFte3_OwrQrgku76RBJ13hvWnNpz8SOJ7a775Uwmm6_QKkNqhMNdtsbFLFekDvjP_0hmDF2i5Yo2-e9i9SInMYUlQ_AiJRspzhwdJwaysa5A54/s320/FB_IMG_1709278478177.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Effective ways to overcome complicated spiritual problems</p><p>The level of discussion on spiritual warfare we are doing here is not for the thumb licking Christian; it is not for the Christian that has no vision. I am sorry to say that I don’t even expect everyone to read this article to the end. This is because I know that a lot of professing Christians are not interested in knowing the Lord deeply and winning great battles for our King of kings. </p><p>My life and entire ministry has been enshrouded in spiritual battles. I have come to understand that God passed me through these things because He wants me to help other people who will be passing through similar situations.</p><p>Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God 2 Cor 1:3-4NIV</p><p>In 2005 I decided to fast for 40 days and 40 nights. before that time, I had fasted just 40 days, 6-6 without food or water. I remember that I have done that more than once. But on this occasion that I undertook to fast for 40 days and 40 nights, I was taking water. I moved from Port Harcourt city to Adam Palm where I had worked as a missionary. On the seventh day of this fast I received I direct word from the Lord that I should stop the fast. I was afraid that the devil was trying to truncate my focus, I was binding the voice. On the eighth day, the Lord spoke to me again. I asked Him for a sign if it was really Him speaking to me. On the ninth day He gave me the sign but it was not until the tenth day that I suspended the fast. The reason I am giving these details is to prove to you that these are not made up stories.</p><p>I believe the energy I generated through those exercises were part of the things that the Holy Spirit has used to carry me through all the challenges that satan brought my way. I agree with those who advice that we ought to be careful the way we engage in fasting prayers. I am among those who suffered health challenges due to my fasting. It is not easy keeping a struggling person from overdoing spiritual exercises as they fight for their life. The make things worse are the negative attitudes of some people to such struggling child of God. I had pile and I thank God who healed me miraculously, because I could not even afford medical treatment.</p><p>In my book, The Right Ways to Fast and Pray, I narrated in simple words the ways to go about your fasting in order not to have health crisis. You can order the book from us. They are also available on Amazon Kindle Bookstore.</p><p>The revelation I had while on this fast</p><p>In the course of this fasting, I had a revelation.</p><p>I was caught in gully like pothole in the middle of a road. I was the only human being there but there was all manner of old vehicles. Some were like trucks that are used to carry sand and there were old fashioned cars. Imagine seeing old Peugeot 404 truck and you are there caught in a pothole along sides it. I could hear the grinding sounds coming from the tyres and engines of those vehicles as they struggled to navigate their way out of that pothole. The unfortunate thing was that none of those vehicles could make any kind of progress in spite of all their efforts.</p><p>When I saw my condition I just cried out, “Jesus Christ, please deliver me!” then with all the strength I could muster I threw myself forward and was able to leap out to the better side of the road. I started lifting my hand shouting, “Thank You Jesus”.</p><p><br /></p><p>That was not the end of the drama. One of the Peugeot 404 old truck also flew up and was heading towards me to land on my head but I was able to dodge it. That was at the point I woke from my revelation. I don’t need to tell you that my life started changing for good after that encounter.</p><p> One thing I have been consistent in pointing out to you is that I was a committed believer and in active ministry when I faced these challenges. There are many believers who are facing similar situations and they are thinking that perhaps they are not really born again. Of course, that is what some inexperienced believers teach. </p><p>The next point I have mentioned in these teachings is that I had to stand up and take deliberate actions to break free from these oppressive yokes of the devil. I changed my mind-set about deliverance for believers. I decided to take steps toward my personal deliverance. I want to warn my reader that most so-called senior pastors are total ignorant of these kinds of issues and it will help you to avoid anyone that you are not sure understands what you are going through.</p><p>I determined to never compromise my walk with the Lord. Some people tried to divert me to try occult. Some senior pastors tried to force me to give up my vision and sit under them to pick peanuts. I was also under pressure to quit the ministry. Friend, none of these are solutions to your problem. Like I mentioned earlier, the reason I survived these attacks is principally because I remained in the ministry. Don’t ever close your church because people are not coming. Don’t ever join politician pastors to play partisan politics so you can feed yourself. If you are reading this and you know that God has called you for a great assignment, remain focused because you will one day share your testimony the way I share mine today.</p><p>I avoided the spirit of bitterness. Satan has found willing tools in many children of God. They will hurt you, betray you and abuse you. Do not allow hurt to remain in your spirit. Whether you are a minister of the gospel or just a faithful child of God, the situation is the same. Many people fell away when they faced the unexpected from believers. Bitterness pollutes your spirit and soul. Remember to always plead the blood of Jesus Christ over your mind and offer forgiveness to those who hurt you.</p><p>I remained in the committed attitude of prayer. Thank God for my wife and later, my children who did not give up on me. </p><p>You already saw that it was not only once that I fasted and prayed. African society is terrible in its unique ways. People can spend anything to bind an upcoming destiny through witchcraft and voodoo. And they will go on to boast, “I have made that man that he will never amount to anything!” Unfortunately, those who will carry out these satanic processes against you are those who should benefit if you succeed in life. Out of sheer ignorance our African people have destroyed many people that would have saved them. The result is that many families are living in abject poverty today.</p><p>The Lord has led in my heart to call believers to return to the place of radical spiritual warfare and prayers. This is the will of God for us because it is our responsibility to subdue and rule of this earth. We can only do this through the power of the Holy Spirit generated through fasting and prayers. </p><p>I have written some books that I believe can assist anyone who wants to progress in the spirit and break free from every satanic yokes. They are, PRAYERS THAT BRING RESULTS VOL. 1&2, </p><p>IN GOD'S WAR COLLEGE </p><p>CONFRONTING WITCHCRAFT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD </p><p>COVENANTS: HOW THEY AFFECT PEOPLE </p><p>THE RIGHT WAYS TO FAST AND PRAY is also there to guide your prayer and fasting. These books are all available on our website. You can also order directly by sending me a private message </p><p>I suggest that you register for DELIVERANCE SCHOOL ONLINE. Here you will learn more and be equipped to help others.</p><p>I invite to special deliverance services, every Sunday in the month of March 4pm daily </p><p>0803 572 4526 +2349092862555 school4deliverance@gmail.com </p><p>Please, let me know if you are coming. </p><p>I took time to pray for everyone that will read to this point. I believe you will share a testimony soon</p><p>Please let me know if you are blessed by this.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-86257443400961503992024-02-29T08:21:00.000-08:002024-02-29T08:21:11.799-08:00THIS IS WAR <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWLnzeaYCKboNF7Bf5haVuFdnOB55gq8jDjas-F5XdZCCOEY7Y0_DPu1j9NSNgnmJUMTsTqaiAKHdpmWgCf_GQAA4fXhvoU4_G2T5ztr2djHLJUYu-Zt15uaa4gqIk2srP9-YD9PJCxiS3gp9ORDGNKcfQ5Ursdu078u1JbXvIDgdPGBbkJi07Qye6QU/s638/FB_IMG_1709153615502.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWLnzeaYCKboNF7Bf5haVuFdnOB55gq8jDjas-F5XdZCCOEY7Y0_DPu1j9NSNgnmJUMTsTqaiAKHdpmWgCf_GQAA4fXhvoU4_G2T5ztr2djHLJUYu-Zt15uaa4gqIk2srP9-YD9PJCxiS3gp9ORDGNKcfQ5Ursdu078u1JbXvIDgdPGBbkJi07Qye6QU/s320/FB_IMG_1709153615502.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>THIS IS WAR!</p><p>Maybe I need to repeat this here. There is a kingdom called the kingdom of darkness and they are under the supreme command of satan. Among the many things they do is to take over every land space, all existing businesses and offices. They want to control every city and hold total sway in all offices. They want to control every realm of political power and that includes church organizations. They are fighting tirelessly to destroy every true servant of God and frustrate them out of the ministry. Even in a situation where a genuine Christian sets up a business, their intention is to either take over or kill the business. This is part of their efforts to control every activity on earth.</p><p><br /></p><p>God’s response to this, is the raising up of believers in Jesus Christ. God will never come down on this earth to fight with satan and his demons. This is why He has raised servants of God to teach all believers as Apostle Paul makes plain here. The essence of this kind of teaching is to wake the believer up to his divine assignment. It is God that is talking to you now and you need to pay attention. Do not let anything hinder you from reading this to the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>And to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord Eph 3:9-11NIV </p><p><br /></p><p>The unfortunate thing is that many believers in our Lord Jesus Christ do not recognize this responsibility and our duty to is to remind them. The stories I share here are true accounts and the reason I mentioned some specific names is to support my position.</p><p><br /></p><p>Professor Kontein Trinya took me to see a beautiful lady who runs a private school in Port Harcourt city and she shared a weird account with us. For the space of more than one year she could not visit her own school premises. She said that each time she thought of coming to the school premises, she felt this fear that something could happen to her. This woman is a member of a living church and she did not know how to communicate this to her husband or anyone close to her. One day she suppressed the fear and drove into the school premises. To her shock, the school accountant asked her, “What are you doing here?”</p><p>I don’t know if you understand what I want to communicate. This woman built a private school on a land space that could be up to fifty plots of land, furnished and equipped the school. Then she employed some academic and administrative staff in her own school. That for the space of one year she had not walked into the premises of her school. That school was operational and making some money and someone was making money from the school she built with her money. Here she is, and a member of staff of her school was asking her why she had the audacity to come into her own school premises. It was then that it dawned on her that the accountant had hijacked the school from her through diabolic powers. Whether you believe it or not, there are women that left their marriages like this for a housemaid. There CEOs that left their business like this for a staff. Someone shared an account of how he transferred ownership of large company to total stranger to go and sleep at home.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we are calling on people to pray, some think we are taking our Christian faith too serious.</p><p>Still with Professor Kontein Trinya; a man asked for private prayers during one of the Preacher Retreats. Professor Kontein asked that I should join to minister deliverance on the man. Pastor Blessing Unogwu and Pastor Prince Echem was there. The man said that he had narrowly escaped death more than three times at the work place. One time a large blade flew out of the machine and came for his head. He narrated two other instances and as a sensitive person he knew something was not okay. I made it clear to them that an altar was calling for his head unless he was willing to go and bow down to serve at the shrine. He said that he was not willing to go back to serve at satanic altars. When he carried out the prophetic process I instructed him, right there in our presence we watched the demons leave violently. Those demons had entered into the man to either force him to leave his job and move to the shrine or they will kill him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another PNUR partner, runs another private school in Port Harcourt. He bought brand mew school buses but these vehicles kept suffering breakdown. Every effort they made to salvage the vehicles resulted in more issues. They were struggling to pay staff and to keep the school afloat. I was invited to pray in the school premises with all the staff and students. Two days after we finished the prayers, they found a large python in the school premises and killed it. The story of that school started getting better ever since.</p><p>Reverend Nnamara Emeka of Assemblies of God Church in Bamenda in Cameroon, told me how strange bees blocked the entrance to their church in the mission post. It was reported that churches are not permitted in that location but he insisted on having one there. It was by intense prayers that those bees were dislodged and the church is still standing.</p><p><br /></p><p>If we are in the dark about the activities and powers of satan and his agent, it is because we refuse to open our eyes to read our bible. Yes, most people read their bible with their minds closed. They go into the bible with their minds made up on the kind of things they want to see. In this way, they are not able to see what God wants to show them.</p><p><br /></p><p>May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan Job 3:8NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>The book of Job mentioned a demonic principality called Leviathan. It said that this demonic high power would be quiet and some curse experts would provoke it as they initiate curses on the day. In this way they direct and instigate leviathan against their enemies. The targeted enemies will find themselves struggling with spiritual forces who are on assignment to undo them. If the targeted person or organization does not have his own spiritual power or covering, your guess is as good as mine. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have heard someone say something like, “Those shrines are nothing”. The bible agrees with you but read this;</p><p><br /></p><p>Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. 1 Cor 10:19-20NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>Those material shrines are nothing but behind them are demonic spirits who have their satanic agenda to steal, kill and destroy. If the believer in our Lord Jesus Christ is not equipped for the conflict, he will become a prey. These form some of the reasons the Lord Jesus Christ said that we cannot face our Christian responsibilities effectively unless we have the power of the Holy Spirit. </p><p><br /></p><p>I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come Eph 1:18-21NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>Religion or sound theology are impotent without this power of the Holy Spirit. The bible did not conceal the fact that we are engaged in a present spiritual conflict.</p><p><br /></p><p>For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph 6:12NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>Besides the need to get good education and expertise in some fields, the bible said that we will be faced with spiritual conflicts in the paths to our success. Put in another way, it is not always the lack of money that is hindering your ministry and business. It is not always biological situations that are causing your sicknesses. It is not always youthful misconduct that is making your children misbehave. It is not always natural forces that is hindering your businesses. If you will go far in life, you must recognize the existence and activities of real spirit elements, and then learn how to deal with them. In confronting these evil spirit forces, we need to know the kind of weapons we should use, because not all weapons are effective in dealing with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ 2 Cor 10:3-5NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>The mistake most Christians make today is that they think that they can just borrow any kind of weapons from anywhere. Some think that God will play along with them, no matter how they go about it. This is not correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>The weapons of believers are different from the weapons of satan and the weapons of this world’s system. So, it will be to your own good to know the weapons that God has provided for those that trust in Him. I say this because, like I have repeated to you many times, satan’s kingdom is organised with a clear cut agenda. Some erroneously believe that satan will not bother them if they avoided him. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hear me, child of God. Satan has already unleashed his armies of wickedness against you. Whether you know it or not, they are drawing closer every day and they are going to lay hands on you, your business and loved ones very soon, unless you stand up and put to use the weapons that God has made available to you. They are in your neighbourhood, in your office, on the internet, in your cities and in your village. Satan hates you because you look like God. Your success will mean the success of God’s purpose on earth. The easiest way to overcome is to stand up on your feet and put him where he belongs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The way to put the devil where he belongs is by standing up to make specific prayers and prophetic actions in your life, families and offices. You will need to get up and decide to really pray and address matters in and around you. You cannot continue to wish that things will change one day. You need to tell yourself that it will take discipline to pray, fast and rearrange your life to get back your destiny from the oppressing powers of darkness. You will need to address your family members and team to understand that this war.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 4 things I want to recommend to you now.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. I have written some special books for people who want to start up to deal with matters in their life and families. Prayers That Bring Results. Vol. 1 and 2. In God’s War College. These books are only for people who want to take responsibility for their spiritual life and put satan where he belongs.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Get some of my books. You Can’t Ignore Satan and His Demons, Confronting Witchcraft in Your Neighbourhood. Covenants: How They Affect People. You can choose from more 40 different titles to get more knowledge on deliverance and spiritual warfare.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Register for Deliverance School Online. Here you will be tutored through my close to 30 years of experience in this field</p><p><br /></p><p>4. Come over to our centre in the month of March. I dedicated every Sunday in the Month of March to help people. Time is 4pm. </p><p><br /></p><p>Follow the contacts below for more information.</p><p><br /></p><p>Door of Hope Christian Center Port Harcourt Nigeria. Valley View Gardens Estate Atali </p><p>0803 572 4526 +2349092862555</p><p>school4deliverance@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-91985671968501623352024-02-29T04:44:00.000-08:002024-02-29T04:44:10.743-08:00PRAYER RENDEZVOUS WITH GOD <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEighQ-_8jIIucluDz509fxGQydEE9sIOxCgYos1-tigoarWVdTdI4SHoXJetFI9Jy0n1RidVn2yVpCfHVikMz1pgi0nIV7LnSMOpfqBOI8RJSS7tiwoVJC-m_Kw7xLUt_uL7cirbcU_Pj3obv5OvI99DJcpyBjslOiy53ofSUEnt2Jsb-cjBvOpzZkIDsg/s2769/20240225_153019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2769" data-original-width="1884" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEighQ-_8jIIucluDz509fxGQydEE9sIOxCgYos1-tigoarWVdTdI4SHoXJetFI9Jy0n1RidVn2yVpCfHVikMz1pgi0nIV7LnSMOpfqBOI8RJSS7tiwoVJC-m_Kw7xLUt_uL7cirbcU_Pj3obv5OvI99DJcpyBjslOiy53ofSUEnt2Jsb-cjBvOpzZkIDsg/w226-h323/20240225_153019.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br />Prayer Rendezvous with God
</div><div><br /></div><div>Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before Dan 6:10NIV (Please read Daniel Chapter 6)
</div><div><br /></div><div>Thank You master Jesus Christ for another Thursday. People celebrate all kinds of things but we celebrate our appointment with God on PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers. This is that day we have secured an appointment and our loving God knows that we will come and He is waiting.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Don’t forget that prayer is the opportunity that God has given to us to say something about all the arguments going on in the spirit and natural realms concerning us. If you fail to pray, you have placed yourself at the mercy of other people’s opinion.
</div><div><br /></div><div>We have received many testimonies and we know many more will come. My prayer for you is that today is your turn.
</div><div><br /></div><div>For the mature Christian, prayer is not just one of the things that happen in the church; prayer is a meeting place with God. It is like when you have secured a special appointment with a very important person. That is why mature Christians understand the things I want to share with you here.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Satan knows the powerful effect that prayer has on the affairs going on in the spirit and physical. Unfortunately, many professing Christians are not aware of this. So, it is easy for satan to distract them from praying. Satan knows that through the vehicle of prayer, we can change the tides; we can reverse his agenda, we can break his chains and dismantle all his evil forces. Prayer also enables us to take hold of our delayed blessings. The enemy knows this and so he is determined to keep us from praying. There are those that see prayer as what they resort to if all things fail. This should not be. We should keep prayer as the principal thing. If we are always in the atmosphere of prayer, we are better prepared for all the visible and invisible schemes of the devil and his agents.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Our main text today explains my point very well. Daniel did not know that some of his colleagues were jealous of him. How could he have known? Unlike some people, he committed himself to quality service to God and mankind. If he gave attention to the devil like some of us do, he would not have time to be so effective in his duty in such a way that distinguished him for the king’s promotion.
</div><div><br /></div><div>There are some who give much time in the place of prayer but put little or no time in their everyday activities at work. Prayer will break the heavens to release the anointing which you should employ for work. If you pray and don’t back it up with diligent labors, you may be rich in the spirit but you will be poor in your pocket. This goes also for those who work as pastors; I pray much but I also work hard in other endeavors. I pray but I also check on people.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Something else you will get from our main text is that, busyness of Daniel did not diminish the quality time he spent in the place of prayer. Take note that he had fixed time he went to his place of prayer. If you read further you will see that he carried his fasting to work. In some occasions he was weak in his body because he was fasting. That shows the place prayers had in his heart. The place of prayer was the meeting point for him and his God. He knew God will be there and he was not going to keep Him waiting. Unlike some people, prayer was not just a tool to solve his problems. For such people prayer time could be reduced if problems reduced. If more problems arise, then more prayers are added. If God graciously took away all his problems, then he will have no more time for prayer.</div><div><br /></div><div>Take note that he had fixed time and fixed place for his prayer time. It is okay to pray from anywhere but it is important that we also have a particular place to meet with God. For Daniel, it was a room upstairs. The window served for more than ventilation; it was his spiritual telescope. Other people saw a window but for Daniel it reminded him of his focus.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Also take note that his enemies knew about this governing principle in his life. When the king came in the morning to check on him in the lion’s den, he made reference to this,
</div><div><br /></div><div>At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions' den. When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, "Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?" Dan 6:19-20NIV
</div><div><br /></div><div>What do people know about you? Have your children stumbled into you while in the place of prayer before? Can someone testify and say of you, “Today is Thursday, Sister will not take breakfast, you know she is a member of PNUR Family.” Can someone count on you and say, “Brother K will send me the article for PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers, even though I lost my phone?”
</div><div><br /></div><div>So, Daniel had a prayer time and place even though he worked hard in his office.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Take note that when his enemies targeted him, they focused on keeping him from doing his prayer assignment for just one month. They knew that if Daniel failed to pray fervently as was his custom for a whole month, he will lose his stamina to resist their attacks. They knew that just one month without prayers, sin will gain control of him and he will fall from his safe place. Just one month without prayers, he will not be able to stand up against temptation for corrupt practices. One month without prayer he will not be able to concentrate or function effectively. If they will achieve their aim to neutralize Daniel, that will be if they could keep him from his prayer rendezvous with God.
</div><div><br /></div><div>It is in that place that he developed his muscles for the battle of everyday. Take note that it was for him what a petrol filling station was to a vehicle; if he did not refill his tank then he will not complete his journey. He had so much to do every day that he had to go and refill his tank three times each day. The attacks were much, so he will need more fuel. There is too much expected of him to deliver, so he will need much fuel. He had an excellent Spirit and people expected excellent result, so he will need much fuel.
</div><div><br /></div><div>As I write now, I can now see why many believers are casualties in the affairs of this life. I can now see why many women have lost their marriages and their children. Okay, now I know why many men of God don’t have sufficient anointing to meet the need of those that cry out to them. Now I know why they are so overwhelmed that they want to quit or commit suicide.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Jesus Christ help us today! We need more fuel. We need to refill again and again!
</div><div>We take the place of prayer lightly; we think that it is most expedient to pray when we have plenty troubles. We don’t see that our enemies don’t take a break. Just like Daniel’s enemies, they are always at work. They have launched and lost many attacks and they are researching on what method they would employ to get us down. Now they know that when you reduce your prayer devotion, you are most vulnerable, they can give you a promotion at work to keep you from prayer; they can give you an unbeliever spouse if that is what will keep you from prayer; they can send you a rich politician to get you out of the place of prayer. I know my friends that won American Visa Lottery to live in the Whiteman country and when I saw what they have become, it is clear that satan just got them out of the place of their strength.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Hmmm! What is God telling us today?
</div><div><br /></div><div>So the fight is not about money, love, fame or plenty of material possession. The enemy knows that whatever a believer has without the presence of the anointing power, will not last. The enemy knows that he will never get permanent victory over you if you continue to pray. So he is intensifying his efforts at whatever cost to keep you from honoring the appointment you have with God in the place of prayer.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will come back to this later. You already got the message.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Don’t let anything hinder you from the fasting and prayer of this week.
</div><div><br /></div><div>If you don’t already have it, get a particular place that you retreat to on intervals for the purpose of prayers. You have a prayer rendezvous with God. It is a special appointment. Excuse yourself whenever you can, no matter what they will think of you. Life is precious and it is safer when protected in the place of prayer.
</div><div><br /></div><div>You already know that one proof that your prayers are working is because the devil is doing everything to keep you from praying. So, no matter the efforts of the devil and his agents, keep your prayer rendezvous with God.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Our website is up again, so, you can download Prayer Collections of your choice.
</div><div><br /></div><div>Remember to encourage others to join you.
</div><div>Remember to pray for my team.
</div><div><br /></div><div>We are praying for you
</div><div><br /></div><div>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com
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</div>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-46542882577676816842024-02-23T07:40:00.000-08:002024-02-23T07:40:06.162-08:00TOO STRANGE TO BE TRUE <p> *TOO STRANGE TO BE TRUE*
</p><p>Perhaps you have read the following scripture before but I want you to turn on your spiritual eyes and mind, and read it again because it will guide our meditation now.</p><p>"Now, son of man, take a clay tablet, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel. Ezek 4:1-3NIV
</p><p>I want you to understand that the exercises that are explained in our main text is same as someone taking someone’s picture or properties and positioning them for witchcraft in the coven or evil altar. Yes, this is the kind of exercises that evil people carry out and you see pictures in a bottle or padlocks are bound with black threads.
</p><p>Have you heard of someone suddenly going mad?
</p><p>Have you heard of someone suffering from incurable diseases even after they have visited the best hospitals in the world?
</p><p>Have you heard of a multimillion dollars business crumbling to nothing for no just cause?
</p><p>Have you heard of a beautiful young woman not able to settle down in marriage?
</p><p>Have you heard of someone who sold everything he had to go to Europe only to land in prison and in some cases they died?
</p><p>Have you heard of a man of God committing suicide because of hardship in life and ministry?
</p><p>I know that some things I write appear very unbelievable to some people. I would have found such things unbelievable too if they did not happen me. In fact, there was a time I did not believe that such things could happen to a believer in our Lord Jesus Christ. One time a servant of God in Owerri, Imo state of Nigeria called Pastor Andy told me that I was under witchcraft programming and attack. I mentioned the name and city because I need to make it clear to you that I am not making up the story. It was Brother Emeka Nnacho that linked us up.</p><p>Pastor Andy told me that I needed a level of deliverance because of some things he observed in my life. I told him that it was not possible that I should be under such oppression, owing to the fact that I was born again. Years after, another man of God in Lagos State in Nigeria confronted me on my way to Togo Republic for a program. In fact, he handed me a bottle of olive oil and told me to rather return to my home town and carry out some warfare prayers on my family house. I obeyed this one because the fire was on me then.
</p><p>When my family moved over to Port Harcourt in 2005, a woman from our family who lived in Port Harcourt told my wife that another woman, who happened to be my brother’s wife had confided in her that she had carried out some witchcraft acts against me that will make me amount to nothing. She advised my wife to abandon me and go away for her own good. Anyway, that was not the only time someone had told Joy my wife that kind of thing. That is why I believe I owe her my very life because she did not leave me.
</p><p>One day the same woman in Port Harcourt put some cups of rice, a tube of yam and a sown sackcloth on a large tray. She sent it to my house through her house-help. She did not cover them and the girl carried those items through the streets of Port Harcourt coming to my house. When I saw them, I knew that was a satanic prophetic action of desolation. At that time, I have begun to see that my earlier belief was wrong. I now believe that a man can be born again, called by God, anointed and living according to the will of God, yet bound in the dungeon like Joseph.
</p><p>One day I saw myself in the dream preaching the gospel confined in a small iron prison. I cannot narrate all that I have received as revelation here but I will tell you how they affect people’s lives.</p><p>a. Hardship – when I say hardship don’t misunderstand it to be the normal kind. </p><p><br /></p><p>b. Inexplicable Barrenness </p><p>c. Disappointments – people rarely honour their words to you. One time I began to call and ask people why they did what they did but they had no reason</p><p>d. Attracting negative people. One of the most potent weapons of satan’s kind is to project ingrates and negative people into your life. A life under curses attract negative people. </p><p>e. Frustration in ventures. Only Elder Yinka Sokan can explain to you the battles we faced while trying to produce my books. We will send in one information but receive another one from the typist. We kept fighting and having issues with printing presses in Port Harcourt. </p><p>f. Hatred – people do not just hate me; they just wish I would drop down and die and you see it in their behaviours. Even very close family relations hate you in such a way only the devil should. </p><p>g. Attempt on your life – three family members that I know went to join occult or whatever, and the request was that they should first kill.</p><p>h. Oppression – I don’t want to say much here but Pastors and fellow ministers can be funny. You see people seeing you as a slave material. Some people sent Joy and myself some clothes and I pray that God should forgive them.</p><p> *Let me tell you what helped and kept me alive today.* </p><p>1. I gave my life to Christ for real. The truth is that if I were not born again, I won’t be writing this today.</p><p>2. I dedicated my life to the service of Jehovah and I did not let anything to make me change my mind. If I ventured in the space of Satanism I won’t be writing this today.</p><p>3. I knew what I heard from God and I held to it. Once I discovered that any relationship was diverting me from pure worship of God, I quit at whatever cost and never to return.</p><p>4. I continued in the habit of prayer and fasting. Once again I thank God for the woman I married. If I married a worldly woman, she would not be with me today because the pressure was much.</p><p>5. I kept trusting in God for every stage I find myself. This God is wonderful</p><p>6. I avoided fake prophets and backsliding preachers. Satan can use them more than he uses demons </p><p>Now, hear me, these experiences birthed the information in all my books. I cannot say everything I experienced and the different battles I engaged in one piece. I can only encourage you to borrow the pattern I employed and the same God will help you.
</p><p>Let me make 3 suggestions.
</p><p>If you live within or around Port Harcourt, join me for special deliverance services on every weekend in March, at Door of Hope Christian Centre Port Harcourt.
</p><p>If you stay far away, you can read my books on deliverance and spiritual warfare. There are about 50 different titles. You just pick the ones that suits your needs. They are available on Amazon Kindle Bookstore and PNUR Bookstore. You can also order directly from us.
</p><p>You can also register for Deliverance School Online. Here you will get the required training for yourself and to help others.
</p><p>Contacts
</p><p>+2349092862555, +2348035724526
</p><p>School4deliverance@gmail.com
</p><p>I will like to hear from you.
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</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-49933725845336564712024-02-16T21:55:00.000-08:002024-02-16T21:55:30.342-08:00POSITIVE ENERGY OVERCOMES NEGATIVE ENERGY <p> Positive Energy overcomes Negative Energy</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeV15GCEdv5ayZY7tqLxgxML5YLlnzwSAcDq0VvWCGJj-SfsVelxCD3jTzeO4W2Y9_KaXwr0tsOtazWoelUAVJooLy2UjUvIPGxhGLMfXyKkt4I53BL3Fo27tGYHab2rBzMeBoPH1kMIv9TkK2ABAX_AedhppPMLS8_I9VSlCl7eWQJt4OOsj-SV2684E/s1600/IMG-20240214-WA0011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="738" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeV15GCEdv5ayZY7tqLxgxML5YLlnzwSAcDq0VvWCGJj-SfsVelxCD3jTzeO4W2Y9_KaXwr0tsOtazWoelUAVJooLy2UjUvIPGxhGLMfXyKkt4I53BL3Fo27tGYHab2rBzMeBoPH1kMIv9TkK2ABAX_AedhppPMLS8_I9VSlCl7eWQJt4OOsj-SV2684E/s320/IMG-20240214-WA0011.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good Rom 12:21NIV</p><p>Every kind of battle has its own kind of weapons. Hence, the bible talks about the weapons of the world and the weapons of warfare for the saints. </p><p>For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 2 Cor 10:3-4NIV</p><p>Even though, we often quote this scripture in relation to spiritual warfare, not many people understand the right application of the text. Hence, they keep fighting losing spiritual battles. </p><p>A lady reached me with eyes red from weeping. She narrated to me the kind of words someone used at her. The aggressor called her husband a poor and worthless man; she called her children never-do-wells and concluded that our sister and her “wretched husband” do not have what it would take to raise children in this expensive generation. Our heartbroken sister told me to pray so that the yoke of poverty would be broken from their life. She also wanted me to pray that her husband will have wisdom enough to make money like other men. She asked for prayers for herself and as I listened, she even got lost in her own thoughts.</p><p>My response shocked her and I noticed that the tears dried up immediately from her eyes, “So, you agree with the things the aggressor said about you and your family? I mean, do you believe that her assessment of your entire family is correct?”</p><p>She replied, “But do I need to agree with her? They are obvious. We are poor. My husband can barely dress neatly and with the present cost of things, how are we supposed to train our children, unless we have better sources of income?”</p><p>My response, “Unless you throw away the image that woman has created for you about your family, no amount of prayers can deliver your family from the things you fear”.</p><p>The look on her face showed how surprised she was to hear that.</p><p>My Sister, you just got struck with some enemy weapons. Whether that lady knew it or not, those words came from what was inside of her. Those words came from the devil. The bible said, </p><p>The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him Matt 12:35NIV</p><p>Those negative words are stored up in her and she will release same on anyone else, not just you. Unless she cleanses herself from the evil stored up in her, she will use the same words at her husband and her children. The presence of such words will end up polluting her entire life. She will use the same kinds of words at business partners and colleagues in the office. They are stored up in her.</p><p>He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'" Mark 7:20-23NIV</p><p>Another scripture has this to say,</p><p>What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? James 4:1-2NIV</p><p>That woman that used such words at you is actually sick and needs deliverance from the negative energy in her life. Negative words and attitudes generate negative energy. The negative energy is operating from inside the person. This negative energy will not turn to positive when she meets her loved ones. Most people like that are oppressed with bad dreams which are the results of the evils stored up in them.</p><p>If you can read this and you are the kind of person that are loose at the kind of words you use at people; you are the kind of person that treat people like trash because you believe that you have come to the point where you will never have the need of someone else, I want you to give me your attention. Just take a careful look at your spouse and children. You will discover that you also treat them the same way that you treat outsiders. Even though you give them money that you would not give to outsiders, the spirit and mind-set of your giving is the same. If you don’t change your attitude, the acidic spirit in you will also burn them. This acidic or caustic spirit is what I refer to as negative energy.</p><p>This negative energy will affect your children. Unless you cleanse yourself, you will later see all those negative things with which you cursed people in the life of your loved ones. I have heard people say something like, “You stupid and good for nothing child, after all the money I wasted on you, the children of that poor wretched woman is still better than you are”. I have been called to minister to the child of a very wealthy man who treats other people as trash. The boy is down with drugs addiction and the father is ashamed of letting outsiders know. His only daughter was not able to stay in a marriage and the rest of his children are just a reflection of the negative energy he threw at other people. This is because of the negative energy he released on his children. The sad thing is that he does not know that he was the cause of the children’s problem.</p><p>Back to our sister or whosoever is a victim of this kind of negative attitude; Like I said earlier, it is an attack and you need to know how to overcome or conquer the enemy who attacked you with such weapons. Our main text warns that we should be careful that we are not conquered or overcome by evil. Yes, that is the target of the devil and you need to be careful that they do not succeed.</p><p>We need to cast more light here. Within the context of our main text, to be overcome by evil means that, you begin to act like the negative person who molested you. When people are so treated they do one or more of the following;</p><p>They become depressed because they believe that they don’t deserve such treatment. This will mess up their day and affect other innocent people around them.</p><p>They hate the enemy back and return anger for anger. Whatever is the cause of the anger, anger is still anger. The bible says that it is only a fool that permits anger to linger in his heart. Eccl. 7:9</p><p>The anger in their spirit affect the wordings of their prayers; they are praying out of revenge and more often than not, they forget to mention their needs in prayers while calling down judgment on their enemies. Unfortunately, people believe that this is spiritual warfare.</p><p>They begin to pray for a time they too can become big and treat others the same way. I can tell you that God is not likely to grant their request. I have also seen people who began to treat people badly after God lifted them; it was not long and they fell back into poverty.</p><p>They begin to plan their life based on what they were told. So, if the aggressor said that they are poor, they begin to plan their life as poor people. If the aggressor said that their wife is ugly, they begin to call her in the same way. If the aggressor said that their children will never be great because they do not have the opportunities, they too begin to advise their children from that angle, resulting in their children living their life in defeat mentality.</p><p>In all of these ways, the poisonous arrows of the words of the enemy have achieved their end. Unless you change your attitude and understand that the devil’s opinion is not God’s opinion, your destiny will remain polluted, not because it is God’s will but because you agreed with your enemy.</p><p>This is what the bible said you should do,</p><p>In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one Eph 6:16NIV</p><p>How do we get this shield of faith?</p><p>Concentrate on generating positive energy. Here is the way to do it;</p><p>Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited. Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Rom 12:14-21 NIV</p><p>This simply means that instead of permitting the negative energy to get control of you, start to generate a positive energy. It does not make you a weak person. Rather it makes you a purpose driven person. Many people spend their lifetime reacting and responding to external provocation, whether good or bad. By this, they neglect their own God given intuition. That means that they have never initiated anything by themselves. The enemy of their destiny capitalize on this by sending them distracting signals to confuse them further. You must resist this temptation henceforth.</p><p>I have also met people who, against all odds that was against them, were able to defeat their past and all the devil’s schemes; today they are celebrating the victory they got by obeying the instructions from the Holy Bible.</p><p>Wait a minute. Did you read where it said that you will be heaping hot coals on the heads of your enemies? That doesn’t mean you have any part to play in this. You are preoccupied in generating positive energy but the reports coming out of your home and life makes them more miserable. Remember they boasted that you will amount to nothing. They are angrier than before because the negative energy they generate is working right in their own life. As they intensify efforts to hate you, you are shielded by the positive energy you generate, so it only bounces back on them. The only way they can have peace is through repentance and making peace with you. </p><p>This is God’s strategy for your battle with those who hate and attack you with negative energy. </p><p>I will like to hear from you.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-9662360946757800902024-02-11T15:22:00.000-08:002024-02-29T08:19:21.110-08:00DEAD CHURCH - LIVING CHURCH 2<p> Dead Church – Living Church 2</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2PSSCu6f0zg4f_DcaYI2CjX7uuizai1E4jqKc6wVyDo63xrY9plNpclmP6WNqwaX0uHWOxfqr6mL9ZMAxY_wuuh2uzrYuKnn3Ho32YzkTr-w16Fv3YksxufI_1Xvn5JdndQt6e4qIPwP1_7R-MR38_Z4GCFI7ttwFoGvH7Ck79ygW996DK_CBrbLOLo/s1280/IMG-20240128-WA0055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_2PSSCu6f0zg4f_DcaYI2CjX7uuizai1E4jqKc6wVyDo63xrY9plNpclmP6WNqwaX0uHWOxfqr6mL9ZMAxY_wuuh2uzrYuKnn3Ho32YzkTr-w16Fv3YksxufI_1Xvn5JdndQt6e4qIPwP1_7R-MR38_Z4GCFI7ttwFoGvH7Ck79ygW996DK_CBrbLOLo/s320/IMG-20240128-WA0055.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>When that life of God that is the presence of the Holy Spirit, is absent among believers, the people seek alternative sources of power. I don’t care where you are reading me from, the situation is the same all over the world. The leaders might not know it but the people need spiritual power to meet the challenges of everyday life. If the local church lacks this power, the people go to places to secure it.</p><p>That was the situation with the church in Ephesus before Apostle Paul visited.</p><p>Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, "In the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out." Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. [One day] the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?" Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding. Acts 19:13-16NIV</p><p>1. Faking the original anointing. The people listened to and hear what God is doing in other places in the power of the name of Jesus Christ. But these things did not happen in their own congregation. Some people who visited revival programs in other cities will now try to practice what they saw in those other places. The leadership are afraid to invite the vessels that God has raised for that purpose because they do not want to lose their members. Unfortunately, no one is available to teach the people and groom them to be worthy vessels for the anointed gospel, some of these people resort to occult and buying spiritual materials from mystic shops in their quest for something that they want but do not know how to acquire it. The bible said that besides the sons of Sceva, there were other people that were doing it. This became a ground for satan and false prophets to exploit the genuine seekers of God. I have seen this a lot as I travel from country to country. You see members of churches doing the same things that fake prophets do among their members. Owing to the fact that no one had the real thing and the leaders are alright with it because the false anointing was not taking the endangered people out of the dead churches, they are permitted to continue. It is important that we note that these young men were children of a religious leader. </p><p>2. There are some errors that cannot be resolved through theological arguments. We need to understand this. Some Christian leaders think that if they point out the false prophets, their people will avoid them. We have learned by experience that they only end up doing free advertisement for the false prophets unless there is a genuine manifestation of the anointing in that local church. It was when the Lord Jesus Christ drew back from those who were exploiting the power in His name, and the demons had liberty to deal with those fake men, that people saw the difference between the genuine and the false.</p><p>We saw this kind of thing somewhere else.</p><p>Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, "This man is the divine power known as the Great Power." They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw Acts 8:9-13NIV </p><p>No one would have been able to convince Simon the sorcerer to quit what he was doing unless through this kind of manifestation. Take note that even the false prophet was looking for the real thing. When he found it, he also repented and got baptised. This is contrary to the way we see false prophets. We look at them like God is through with them. But the truth remains that God wants all men to repent and come to the knowledge of the truth. The right atmosphere and manifestation of the genuine anointing of the Holy Spirit is what is required to bring the transformation. </p><p>This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim 2:3-4NIV</p><p>Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will. 2 Tim 2:25-26NIV</p><p>3. Genuine presence of the Holy Spirit will purge the church.</p><p>Before the coming of a man with the true anointing, there was all manner of hypocrisy and falsehood going on. That also means that people doubted that there was sufficient power in the name of Jesus Christ to support them. Today we have professing Christians who consult with witchdoctors and belong to the occult. There is no way we can convince them to separate themselves from those things unless we prove to them through the practical manifestation of kingdom power as Apostle Paul did, that there is sufficient power in the church. The first thing they saw was the miracle working power of the Holy Spirit.</p><p>God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them Acts 19:11-12NIV</p><p>It is possible that these people saw this as part of the arts of magic. It was when they noticed that those who took the name of Jesus Christ for granted suffered the consequence instantly and physically that they opened up.</p><p>When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. </p><p>This is something the present day church should learn. The open desecration of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ by bloggers, comedians and Social Media content creators is having an effect on the move of the gospel in our world. It is time that we petition God through prayers so that people will suffer consequences for this act. </p><p>There are 5 things that happened in this church that led to revival;</p><p>a. The Holy Spirit was introduced into their worship and activities.</p><p>b. The believers were now filled with the Holy Spirit</p><p>c. The power of God became active in their midst in signs, wonders and miracles</p><p>d. The false brethren and prophets were exposed and punished</p><p>e. The believers separated themselves from every other allegiance they had with satan through idolatry and occult practices. </p><p>When these happened, the following was their testimony;</p><p>In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power. Act19:20</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-37128726616020484422024-02-11T15:17:00.000-08:002024-02-11T15:17:09.100-08:00DEAD CHURCH - LIVING CHURCH 1<p> Dead Churches – Living Churches. 1</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgcJ5oPtLvX6Q6n8qT-0bZyc30NtkC4KDsVK4W_JE8dejIMpCeG6aHiVnFFdac4bWjBXIcmwrA9xtNK7cEJqrp4Q8rYdScKsZErgLzdRgjNOz8ox7-zm0q770cVZ73bvSuW8wEG6fqNtQZQuc7vdOcYX-29J8e828S2n68k5fBrtza5bedlXEMkvFvTPE/s1280/IMG-20240128-WA0027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgcJ5oPtLvX6Q6n8qT-0bZyc30NtkC4KDsVK4W_JE8dejIMpCeG6aHiVnFFdac4bWjBXIcmwrA9xtNK7cEJqrp4Q8rYdScKsZErgLzdRgjNOz8ox7-zm0q770cVZ73bvSuW8wEG6fqNtQZQuc7vdOcYX-29J8e828S2n68k5fBrtza5bedlXEMkvFvTPE/w240-h256/IMG-20240128-WA0027.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?" "John's baptism," they replied. Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus." On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied. Acts 19:1-6NIV</p><p>It will be difficult for us to get all the message in our main text if we don’t take the background to the account.</p><p>Apollos and Paul were both church planters and apostles of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Paul planted the church in Corinth.</p><p>One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent. For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city." So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching them the word of God Acts 18:9-11NIV</p><p>Even though you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 1 Cor 4:15NIV</p><p>You only need to read First Corinthians Chapter one and chapters 12-14 to see what a marvellous work Apostle Paul had done to raise and establish a spirit-filled church that was overflowing with all the gifts of the Spirit. In fact, he devoted three chapters of the letter to Corinthians in order to guide them on how to operate in and manage the abundant presence and grace of the Holy Spirit in their midst.</p><p>This was the church that Apollos now visited and began to teach them his version of the gospel. What we see here is like a change of pulpit. </p><p>While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the road through the interior and arrived at Ephesus. Act 19:1.</p><p>We will get back this matter later.</p><p>So Paul found himself in a gathering of believers that was planted by Apollos and he could not believe his eyes. These people were known as disciples of Jesus Christ but there was no physical manifestation of the presence of the Holy Spirit. They had all the outward show of religion but they lacked the power. Paul knew that there was only one reason this could be.</p><p>There he found some disciples and asked them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They answered, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."</p><p>It is not only that they had no power of the Holy Spirit in their midst but they have not even heard that there was a Holy Spirit. They have been taught about the Law of Moses, they were taught about good morals and they heard teachings about the coming messiah. They were taught discipleship and I believe they knew so much about God and his word. In spite of all these, there was no life in them. The Holy Spirit is the life in the Body of Christ.</p><p>Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit— just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Eph 4:3-6NIV</p><p> If they did not know the Holy Spirit and His power, that means that was a dead church. Some people get offended when they hear that their church is a dead church. Here we find in the bible a perfect example of a dead church.</p><p>I am sorry to offend you, but if there is no material manifestation of the Holy Spirit in your local church assembly, that church is dead. In one of PNUR conferences, we used a Pentecostal church auditorium and the members made much noise in prayers. That denomination is very popular and spread out all over the world. But we noticed that many of their members are not filled with the Holy Spirit. I took time to teach on the Holy Spirit. Many of their members came to thank me because that was the first time they heard some of the things I taught them.</p><p>They were taught spiritual warfare, loyalty to the church leadership, faithfulness in tithing and offering, but no one had taught them about the Holy Spirit. If ever someone mentioned the Holy Spirit and His power, it was mentioned in the passing. It is not possible to have church without the presence of the Holy Spirit. I am not saying that people cannot gather; of course there are so many gatherings today that the Holy Spirit is not in their midst. These are social gatherings and I need to warn you that you are missing a vital factor in your midst.</p><p>When he observed the activities of that assembly, Paul immediately knew that the foundation of that church was faulty. So, he asked further,</p><p> So Paul asked, "Then what baptism did you receive?" "John's baptism," they replied. Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance.</p><p>Paul had to relay the foundation of that congregation by rebaptising them into the name of the Lord Jesus. We can see that we can relay the spiritual foundation of a local church if we find that the people who planted the church did not do a good job. We also see that there is a place for baptising people a second time, if the first baptism was not done properly.</p><p>Then Paul proceeded to lay hands on them to be filled with the Holy Spirit. </p><p>When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.</p><p>There are some who claim that once we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and are baptised, we do not need anything else because we are filled with the Spirit. This is not correct. We can take another example from the bible.</p><p>When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. When they arrived, they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus. Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. Acts 8:14-17NIV</p><p>Philip was a powerful man of God with evidences of miracles and deliverance in his ministry,</p><p>Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there. When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they all paid close attention to what he said. With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many, and many paralytics and cripples were healed. So there was great joy in that city Acts 8:5-8NIV</p><p> Yet the people were not Spirit filled while He ministered. He had to invite some other brethren who had the Apostolic grace. We can learn from here that ministers may need the support of outside servants of God to fill in some ministry duties in their congregation. </p><p>We can see that the people were sincere and willing to accept everything God has for them, but the preacher that took care of them lacked the spiritual resources. Many congregations are in this situation today. The pastors are deficient of the Holy Spirit and His power. Unfortunately, they lacked the sincerity and courage to seek God for the genuine experience. They now see the congregation as their source of livelihood, so they are more concerned that the people do not hear other ministers than about the spiritual wellbeing of the congregation. The people are malnourished and suffering. Some denominations have even built a theology around their poverty of the Spirit and His power. They claim that God does not intend that all congregations should manifest the power of the Holy Spirit. They claim that God has called them only to teach the people empty theology and in some cases, they spread lies about the believers who manifest genuine anointing power.</p><p>Hear me again; no Holy Spirit, no church.</p><p>If the church congregation does not have the evidence of the power of the Holy Spirit, that church is a dead church. Like I said before, the Holy Spirit is the life of the church. The reason He is not at work in the church is because He has not been invited. It is not true that once people gather somewhere and call the place church, the Holy Spirit will start working there. We must learn to invite Him. We must also make room for Him to express Himself among God’s people.</p><p>When Paul invited Him and prayed for the people to be filled with the Holy Spirit, things changed for them. We read later about the marvellous things that God did through the power of the Holy Spirit in the same church.</p><p>God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them. Acts 19:11-12NIV</p><p>So in the same place where they were called a dead church, we read of this great manifestation of divine power, and that is because someone invited the Holy Spirit.</p><p>Unfortunately, instead of humbly inviting the Holy Spirit, some people will begin to fake the evidences of the presence of the Holy Spirit. They shout like they are under the anointing, sing like they were in the Spirit and do all manner of things to create an impression for outsiders to believe that they too had the power of the Holy Spirit. Most times they succeed and in this way they only fool themselves. </p><p>These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your deeds complete in the sight of my God. Rev 3:1-2</p><p>This could be a congregation that had known the power of the Holy Spirit but now they are more concerned about materialism and politics. They now grieve and quench the Holy Spirit (Eph4:30, 1 Thes. 5:19). They have lost it. Instead of bowing down in repentance, they decided to fake it.</p><p>Is your church dead or alive?</p><p>I will love to hear from you.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-31282475893829767302024-02-05T16:07:00.000-08:002024-02-05T16:07:05.379-08:00THE DANGEROUS SIDE OF A LOVING GOD <div>*The dangerous side of a loving God* .</div><div><br /></div><div>Casualties of revival; that is what we call them. Unfortunate ones in the midst of the glorious move of God. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died, just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house. It happened as the man of God had said to the king: "About this time tomorrow, a seah of flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria." 2 Kings 7:17-18NIV</div><div><br /></div><div>God is almighty and when He decides to do awesome things, He does not need our vote or strength to achieve it. God can do anything, whether we have faith or not. Let me put it this way; the reason He is asking us to have faith is so that we can draw-in His energy and grace in order to do the things He does. He loves us and is willing to share everything He has with us. Since the day He gave His only son to redeem us from our sin and from the power of satan, it has become clear that there is nothing he cannot give to us.</div><div><br /></div><div>He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Rom 8:32NIV</div><div><br /></div><div>Our text also shows that no one is indispensable where God is concerned. The king and his leaders doubted and quarreled with His word of prophecy, so God employed the services of the lepers to declare as truth that which the nobles have doubted. They called them rejected but God does not seek human consent to make His choice. The rejected stone can once again became the cornerstone. That should encourage anyone who thinks that he does not fit into what God will be doing in this New Year. God can use you.</div><div><br /></div><div>You can repeat that to yourself ten times; “GOD CAN USE ME!”</div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine the atmosphere that morning. Imagine how hope returned to the dejected nation and how those living in the fearful darkness received the light of life and everyone was lively again. Picture yourself in that city that day and imagine once silent voices clattering with live again. God has brought back hope to the dead nation. This is entirely the doing of the Lord and no one can take credit for it. God has risen to answer to the cry of the people.</div><div><br /></div><div>This brings us to a very important thing. When God begins to move and joy begins to flow like a river, it is still important that we look inwards and make peace with our past by reconciling truly with God through genuine repentance. The presence of the miraculous work of God should immediately draw us to do inward search because, as He said to Moses and Joshua, we stand on holy ground.</div><div><br /></div><div> Yes, when we see revival again; when we see the power of miracles again and we see dying plants springing up and budding for fresh fruits; we know it is God. If we know that it is God, then we should search ourselves to see if there are things incompatible with God.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think this requires further emphasis. God can still work and perform miracles in spite our sins and shortcomings, we should not think that He has forgotten His word. The bodyguard of the king had issues with the God that was moving in the midst of the people. Instead of to humble himself when he observed that the word of God from the prophet has come true, he moved on as if nothing serious happened. He paid fatally for this careless disposition. Sad to say that he was not the first and last in this kind of circumstances. </div><div><br /></div><div>The sons of Aaron; Nadab and Abihu (Lev.10) also paid fatally when they took God’s instruction for granted. God had taken pain to light the altars with His own presence and their only responsibility was to support God’s holy fire with firewood every evening. They failed in this duty. Instead of coming in repentance before the Lord, they dared to bring fire from outside God. I want you to note of that very well, they brought in another kind of fire into the God’s own kind of fire. As I talk now, there are some who go to mystic shops and others visit witchdoctors for the purpose to receive a fake kind of “fire” so they can deceive God’s people that they have God’s fire. The Lord consumed them with His own fire. </div><div><br /></div><div>David was zealous for the Lord but it was the duty of the priest’s family to bear the ark of God on their shoulders. The music was high and the crowd was large. It is at such moments that we conclude that God must be too excited to remember His own primary commands. Yet, the Lord broke out against Uzah. It was his duty to tell the David what to do. He failed in that duty and paid fatally for it. (2Sam6). This talks of rich folks who do not fear God and has assumed that if they can build structures and buy musical equipment, they can simply hire the services of some men that God has called into the ministry. In their thinking, God must be impressed with the outward things they are doing and not bother that the instruments with the true anointing are not given their rightful place in the things of God. Uzah was a fool. Nothing should cower the Lord’s anointed not to stand out and declare the true principles of our God.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ananias and Sapphira thought that the size of their offering will cover the eyes of the Holy Spirit. God wants us to be truthful in our measurement. They paid fatally for it (Act5).</div><div><br /></div><div>All these happened in the time of great move of God in the midst of His people. It was God and not satan. It was God’s power and all they witnessed were from the only true God but the judgment also came from Him. That is because His people were taking Him for granted. </div><div><br /></div><div>Back to our main text; it was the joy of the Lord that filled the heart of the people and what they were celebrating was God’s intervention. As they rushed out of that city that day and moved to the gates of the enemies, it was God that motivated them. Is it not strange that every human step that trampled on the king’s bodyguard until his death, were given strength by the moving of the power of God?</div><div><br /></div><div>Forgive me if I scared you but it is important that I warn you so that you don’t become a casualty of the move of God. That is God using you as an example to warn His congregation lest they follow your bad examples.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry." We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did — and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test the Lord, as some of them did — and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did — and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 1Cor10:6-12NIV</div><div><br /></div><div>I believe it is right for me to close my case here. By God’s special grace I have brought you to the point I started with you. I have brought you to Calvary again. The first time it was in hopelessness. Now it is hope restored. I want you to ask yourself now, “Are there things I need to put right? Are there issues in my life I need to correct? Are there matters in my heart I have left unresolved?”</div><div><br /></div><div>Beloved child of God, God has already thrown the doors of enlargement open before us. The siege has been broken and joy has returned to our souls. We should not be as foolish as that bodyguard. We should bow our heads now and pray in a humble submission.</div><div><br /></div><div> ```You can borrow from my prayers if you are yet to find words of your own:``` 👇</div><div><br /></div><div>“Lord, I thank you today. I am very grateful that you have done these great things for me this year without considering my shortcomings and sin. </div><div>Now Lord, I want to make peace anew with you. Please forgive my sins of ……</div><div>Forgive my arrogance and forgive all negative words I have spoken in the past.</div><div>I still stand by the grace in the blood of Jesus Christ and I don’t take your grace for granted.</div><div>Holy Spirit of our living God; take totally control from now, in Jesus name. Amen.”</div><div><br /></div><div>(Excerpt from my book, OH LORD, AMPLIFY LITTLE ME. Available as soft copy PDF on Amazon Kindle Bookstore and PNUR Bookstore)</div><div><br /></div><div>I will love to hear from you if you uttered this short prayers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Remain under the anointing in Jesus name</div><div><br /></div><div>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlDzApnu767K8g4yL4RG7ujhSprx4tf35kRBtl7HUgmzqFZtYqSWJKOXv8fblDpOfgSHbSSa8H2YUVkpiwW4GeOTCCLMA0Swev15sDB-vq51FNBb1_JRnieKPdlRUdJC5l2U6NkIeI3wFHi9-YXSRvt1TNrCDTUDWp0_rKykMP_wTsWX6H4xyNjOtD3M/s1280/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlDzApnu767K8g4yL4RG7ujhSprx4tf35kRBtl7HUgmzqFZtYqSWJKOXv8fblDpOfgSHbSSa8H2YUVkpiwW4GeOTCCLMA0Swev15sDB-vq51FNBb1_JRnieKPdlRUdJC5l2U6NkIeI3wFHi9-YXSRvt1TNrCDTUDWp0_rKykMP_wTsWX6H4xyNjOtD3M/s320/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-18469485024119522402024-02-04T16:03:00.000-08:002024-02-05T16:03:23.225-08:00A TEST FOR GENUINE LOVE <p> *Just a sober reflection for you* </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmHtKYqYGEa4fvi_UP8BtP6kKjF9WsrWcbEu87KtjlwpGdL39_wLKympPGDadREBJdxoWIQMPaBhG3jJW2OPUelRFEjVpfm7z5AQ6gLiii4GPu74MAZmoFnCki3PJ9MOXK1UJwlRFCT369rvbkDFYUmojCmcxhPk3YtmeYdnKMN1FLso8Hsgi4qAyHafU/s1280/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmHtKYqYGEa4fvi_UP8BtP6kKjF9WsrWcbEu87KtjlwpGdL39_wLKympPGDadREBJdxoWIQMPaBhG3jJW2OPUelRFEjVpfm7z5AQ6gLiii4GPu74MAZmoFnCki3PJ9MOXK1UJwlRFCT369rvbkDFYUmojCmcxhPk3YtmeYdnKMN1FLso8Hsgi4qAyHafU/s320/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> _A test for genuineness_ </p><p>"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep John 10:11-13NIV</p><p>At a point in my preaching this Sunday morning tears gathered in my eyes and I could not control it until it went down my cheeks. The atmosphere suddenly assumed this sacred calmness that could only have been the result of the presence of the Holy Spirit in a special way. I was trying to explain to my audience the relationship between the Pastor and his congregants through the story of John Fawcett (1739/40-1836) the author of the hymn “Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love” </p><p>Baptist Pastors and members will be able to relate with this story better because it has a background to some practices in their circles. In the Baptist Church, the contract is between the Pastor and the local assembly. The local church negotiates with the Pastor on how much they are able to pay. It is the responsibility of the Pastor to decide to stay or move to a church that can pay better.</p><p>A bigger and richer London based congregation had come to hire John Fawcett from a poor rural congregation. The local church loved him but they did not have the financial muscle to contend with the city church in London of all places. They resorted to pleading and prayer but their Pastor felt that he had to move on. After all efforts failed they came out on the day he was to leave to bid him farewell.</p><p> The richer church brought in their truck and loaded his belongings. Those poor people stood by and watched. I have been in this kind of congregation; children with poorly fitting gowns and mucus running down their noses; mothers with hand-me-over gowns and head-ties; men with worn out hats smiling sheepishly with unkempt beards and hairs.</p><p>Reverend John Fawcett had this pull in his heart; “What sin has these people committed against me? In what way have these people wronged me? Why am I leaving these people that love me so dearly?”</p><p>The simple honest answer, “They are poor. They are not rich. They love me and I love them. My presence is a blessing to them and they are doing their best”.</p><p>He had now to choose between the call to duty and the call of his selfish interest. Rev John Fawcett could not leave in the midst of the tears.</p><p>That was the background of the hymn he wrote. He asked the rich people to put down his belongings because he was going to stay with his own family. Yes, they were his family but the rich church were his employers. He was not a hireling but a true shepherd. He chose genuine love and obedience to Christ against self-interest and money.</p><p>Years back I was in Cameroon to organize a conference and one of our PNUR partners led me to his local church pastor. Our intention was to use the church auditorium for the conference. I had not as much as said why I came to see this pastor before he poured out his frustration with his parishioners. According to him, they were not doing enough to take care of him as a man of God. He complained about everything and threatened that he will leave that church. I politely told him that I was not impressed that he could raise such subject before me a total stranger that he was meeting for the first time. He literally insulted me and asked me to leave his office. He was very angry.</p><p>The man that took me to see him was the church treasurer and I asked him what this Pastor’s monthly allowance was. You will be shocked as I was, Five Hundred Thousand CFA (500,000 CFA. Today more than N500,000) per month. Now as then, this is not a mean take home allowance. He lived in church built accommodation and they provided money for his phone and data. </p><p>If this pastor found himself in the place of John Fawcett he would have left and jeered at the people as he will be celebrating his new catch</p><p>It is not only about Pastors. Some Christian believers change church because they don’t have fine building and they don’t have many car owners. Men have abandoned women because they are yet to have babies and yet, I have seen ladies who say, “Please, I can’t marry suffer-head man like him”.</p><p>Few people think of what their leaving will mean to the other person but only what they will gain if they left. Christian love is not about what we can gain but about what we can contribute to other people’s life in keeping with God’s purpose.</p><p>In this new week, let the lesson in this song guide your hearts.</p><p> Happy New Week </p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Blest be the tie that binds</p><p>our hearts in Christian love;</p><p>the fellowship of kindred minds</p><p>is like to that above.</p><p>2. Before our Father's throne</p><p>we pour our ardent prayers;</p><p>our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,</p><p>our comforts and our cares.</p><p>3. We share each other's woes,</p><p>our mutual burdens bear;</p><p>and often for each other flows</p><p>the sympathizing tear</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-27700453772856351022024-02-04T02:12:00.000-08:002024-02-04T02:12:00.354-08:00YOU CAN HAVE YOUR OWN PENTECOST <p> *You can have your own Pentecost* </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3H9EykTMe6-26UphPhjxc14FUqtcwxXMZpRpmaOhO9SDf1Mwcvjm7diZSCN3RNGADg1ns3a6AejRrcO9v8tuzcAS6drRFDCW5pEIHOBcosKrcHmLkzfwOBLwploAxdYMa4B3Oi7MQ7GVXfp9ZMcN0HoCK6heeZtlEOaQ-tRH8QzLlCJAOv3JYq8vk68s/s1280/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3H9EykTMe6-26UphPhjxc14FUqtcwxXMZpRpmaOhO9SDf1Mwcvjm7diZSCN3RNGADg1ns3a6AejRrcO9v8tuzcAS6drRFDCW5pEIHOBcosKrcHmLkzfwOBLwploAxdYMa4B3Oi7MQ7GVXfp9ZMcN0HoCK6heeZtlEOaQ-tRH8QzLlCJAOv3JYq8vk68s/s320/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I am saying this out of experience; anybody can have Pentecost if they choose. If a Gentile soldier who did not have a bible nor did he know the name of Jesus Christ, could have his own Pentecost, so can you. </p><p>I want to highlight some points here and hope that you can borrow something from them to prepare for your own Pentecost. </p><p>1. Set your heart to it. It is important you understand what you are searching for and set your heart to it. There will be efforts by satan and men to try to divert your attention. Right from the first day I yielded my heart to be a minister of the gospel, I resolved to carry my own Pentecost. I did not want to be a minster who is so called because he earns a salary or because of some kind of dressing. I had many options and temptations to change my focus, some “old prophets” tried to get in my way but I remained focused. Today, I don’t have the material wealth others have but the world over I am known as an agent of Pentecost. Let me tell you, you will not find any person in this league who followed a different approach </p><p>2. Understand what you are looking for. You are not out to compete with anyone, you are not looking for a big or small church, you are not out to be like anybody; your focus is to be so connected to the Lord that He can trust you with His power. Once something moves to come in between you and the Lord, that thing must be let go. I learned this lesson from Rev. Stanley Awuzie; the Bishop at his time tried everything to bring him to the level of all other Anglican priests but he resisted it with his last blood. He was eventually transferred to an interior place with the hope he will come begging but he rather turned that place to pilgrimage center as people went looking for him in that place. He once told me never to go cap in hand to beg my senior minister for money but I should trust God for everything. I followed this principle and it has sustained me. There was a misunderstanding at Total-Care Ministries where I did my first ministry assignment and Dr. B C Mbata served me query and asked me to report all the tithe and offering in the ministry. Well, I told him that I have nothing to reply because I had never seen where they were counting the money. He asked the cashier and he was told I spoke the truth. Yet, I never lacked anything. </p><p>3. Prayer discipline. There is no alternative route to kingdom power; prayer is the route and like I said earlier, your prayer life must go beyond the ordinary. All the people who are manifesting the Pentecost have this in common. They fasted more than everyone else, they prayed more than everyone else and they gave time to the word of God more than everyone else. </p><p>4. Books but nor every book. You should not waste your time reading books of </p><p>those who write from common sense. Some writers are operating from the flesh level and so their ideas come from the flesh level. Some will warn you of praying too much and advice you to eat your breakfast regularly, drink plenty of water and take a good sleep every night, so that you will not die before your time. Give a careful look at the person who tells you this, and you will see why you should not follow his advice. Read and follow only men and women who carry this Pentecost because they are the only ones that can help you. Once I get into a conference and the speaker begins to talk from his brain, I am through with him. The bible is the manual for you; give careful attention to men of God in the bible and you will get to this power </p><p>5. Sin will neutralize you. Delilah said to Samson, “What can I do to you so that you become like every other man?” and this remains the research of devil and his agents. When you begin to feel like having sex, understand that it is potent channel for the devil to send demons into your life and ruin your ministry. When some negative habits like drinking, socializing and such things begin to pull you, understand that the devil is waiting for you outside. Matrimonial violence, stealing in any guise, anger and all manner of ungodly ambition will paralyze your spiritual power. Once sin creeps in, prayer power flies out and so does power </p><p>6. Evil company can ruin you. Once you observe that the person you are relating with is compromised, don’t stay back to try to change him, run! Bible said that it is easier for him to corrupt you than for you to change him. Beloved, you will begin to feel lonely because of your new lifestyle and people will begin to say that you are acting strange. Keep walking! You don’t have to be in every gathering of ministers of the gospel. Choose one and be committed to it and dedicate the rest of your time to your ministry. </p><p>7. Sanctify your home, church and environment. If you are expecting the </p><p>governor of your state, how would you prepare your house? Do the same as you prepare to host the almighty Holy Spirit. Don’t allow people to use your chairs anyhow and I mean using your chairs for social events where they take alcohol or cast jokes. Have a mindset that this place is reserved for a special guest and that guest is holy. </p><p>8. Midnight prayers. I don’t know why, but I noticed that all of the Lord’s </p><p>mighty men I know are people of the night. I have never met a man operating in the anointing who does not wake up to pray in the night. The Lord Jesus Christ kept midnight prayers, Rev. Awuzie did quite often and I do; in fact, I feel very uncomfortable to sleep soundly in the night without getting out of bed for some long minutes. My wife and I see it as sign of bad things if we don’t get out of bed in the midnight hours. Yours cannot be different. Don’t lie on your bed to pray, you will sleep off; discipline yourself to move about while praying in the night. </p><p>9. Trust God to give you a team. Keeping the above points of discipline will be easier if you have likeminded people working with you in the same direction. This is very important because two are better than one. There are times you will need to go to a retreat place together and the presence of teammates will help your concentration </p><p>10. Prepare for a long wait. Remember the foolish virgins, they were not ready to wait for long. Set your heart that the above discipline will be your lifestyle until and even after the Pentecost has come. Pray in Tongues often and do prayer walking. By prayer walking I mean strolling around and muttering prayers and meditating in the word of God. Learn to seclude yourself when you can afford it.</p><p>(Excerpts from HOW TO TURN YOUR CHURCH INTO POWER STATION</p><p>Available on Amazon Kindle Bookstore and PNUR Bookstore)</p><p><br /></p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-39786608615166144422024-01-31T10:11:00.000-08:002024-01-31T10:11:22.281-08:00I OWE YOU NO APOLOGY, DEVIL <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLoyIiGsMljSW-HQPhgKOJl39_OPCukWzIe_ZPUgNVJiBmG0AE_AQ1mlRZa7aCXzigDw1m7YJSxCpcerbw8SAlnrgwled64wz59ZwvzDDKnskKwGxzcLLSGkPvCdh4w_jVGmQ7hAawG6SZAyQ9HAqkS7wUosCcZlefO0483IDTL1yMt3Y1lUnj4CIspU/s1280/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLoyIiGsMljSW-HQPhgKOJl39_OPCukWzIe_ZPUgNVJiBmG0AE_AQ1mlRZa7aCXzigDw1m7YJSxCpcerbw8SAlnrgwled64wz59ZwvzDDKnskKwGxzcLLSGkPvCdh4w_jVGmQ7hAawG6SZAyQ9HAqkS7wUosCcZlefO0483IDTL1yMt3Y1lUnj4CIspU/w240-h231/IMG-20240128-WA0004.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> *I owe you no apology, Satan!*<p></p><p>PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers 01/02/2024</p><p>_Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." She kept this up for many days. Finally, Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her Acts 16:16-18NIV_</p><p>Glory to master Jesus Christ for another wonderful opportunity to appear before our God. Every Thursday our God has graciously granted all members of PNUR all over the world access into His presence. Our God says that we could come. We are on a special appointment and by His special grace, we don’t take it for granted. We have come to know that prayer is the opportunity that God has given to us to say something about our lives and to respond to all the arguments going on against us. Failure to pray at the time of prayer is like surrendering ourselves to the conclusion other people would make about us. We are too wise for us.</p><p>The devil, the enemy of our souls and who also hates the fulfillment of our divine destiny would want to put obstacles on our paths; he would want to make it look like we are doing something wrong if we serve our God the way we should. Hence, today we declare to him that we owe him no apology.</p><p>Taking a look at our main text, it is important to observe that the slave girl was able to accurately tell people what the future held for them, but she did it through a spirit of divination. She was also able to decode the identity and mission of Paul’s team, and that was still through the operations of a demon spirit. This should blow an alarm for every genuine child of God who erroneously believed that if the prediction is accurate, then it is from God.</p><p>Many people have been misled by this kind of thing but before long, they found themselves in circumstances set up to achieve satan’s purpose for them; to steal, to kill and to destroy John 10:10. Let me state here that fact is not truth. Satan and his agents can tell you the fact but the truth only comes from God. Fact can change with time but truth remains truth even if we refuse to recognize it.</p><p>The discomfort that Apostle Paul felt was the agitation of the Holy Spirit within him. We cannot overemphasize the importance of listening to the Holy Spirit in every moment and circumstances. There are people who are currently “enjoying” themselves where they are now and they cannot understand why they feel discomfort despite everything seeming alright on the outside. It could be that the Holy Spirit is trying to warn them of danger.</p><p>It could be in a budding relationship or a kind of a job or even membership in a particular church; there is this inexplicable discomfort. That was the way Paul felt and he decided to try something. He addressed the “friendly spirit” in the name of Jesus Christ. It is possible that he did not know it was a demon. Perhaps he thought it was the gift of prophecy but it turned out to be a demon. Here we come again to something I have been hammering on over the years; learn to do warfare prayers as often as you can. Conclude your Thanksgiving with warfare prayers; conclude your confession of sins with warfare; conclude your requests and petitions with warfare prayers. Demons and agents of darkness lurk around every corner and we ought to know how to bind and cast them out of our space. That was how the Apostle found out. Fire and smoke will often drive out hidden animal enemies. He addressed it by the power in the name of Jesus Christ, and Bam! It was a demon because the spirit flew away.</p><p>Some reading this now are in a relationship where they are not permitted to pray and they don’t ask, Why.</p><p>Some are promised marriage if they are willing to stay in the relationship and keep the Church out of their home. They have not asked, Why.</p><p>Some are employed in places where they are warned not to mention the name of Jesus Christ or even try to show their bible on their office desk. They have not asked, Why.</p><p>If this is your present state, take my advice and leave that place. You are toying with your eternal soul.</p><p>_What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Matt 16:26NIV_</p><p>There is nothing in this life worth sacrificing your soul for. If they don’t want Jesus Christ, then that place is not for you.</p><p>You may not observe any visible sign but the Holy Spirit keeps agitating in your spirit. You can do what Paul did; take one of our Prayer Collections and start warfare prayers. Who knows, you might be cohabiting with demons.</p><p>They did not see that coming. The devil and his agents would want to dictate the terms of your relationship with them. They are of darkness, so cannot endure the presence of light. Their intention has always been that we should put off the light. Children of God will suffocate in the absence of the Holy Spirit and light. But when we turn on our light, satan is in trouble. That was the point they tried to make Paul regret his actions; they beat them up and threw them into the prison. Hear me, it is better you die in prison than you perish in the process of trying to keep a friendly relationship with evil men.</p><p>Paul and his partner were put in the prison because they dared to address those demons in the powerful name of Jesus Christ. I can hear Paul in my spirit saying, “I owe you no apology”</p><p>_About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose Acts 16:25-26NIV_</p><p>Hmm!</p><p>Praying and singing hymns in the prison? It is not the likely thing to do. Most people would grumble and complain in such a situation. After all they had the conflict when they tried to defend God’s interest. Take note that the other prisoners heard them. It did not matter whether they prayed and sang hymns, or grumbled and complained; the people around would still have heard them.</p><p>Are you a child of God that is passing through some difficulties now? It does not matter what you say or do when everything is going well for you. The real content of your character is revealed when you face trials because of your faith in Jesus Christ. Prov.24:10.</p><p>They were in the same prison compound with them and we are not told what the other prisoners did when they were thrown into the prison but obviously they were not believers and so did not have the privilege of a living prayer-answering God and the enabling power of the Holy Spirit that made Paul and his teammate to pray and sing in the prison.</p><p>Another thing we can learn from this is that we ought to make our relationship and walk with God solid because that will show when pressure of life comes on us. We can see that pressure comes on everyone but their reaction only exposes the stuff they were made of. 1 Cor. 10:13, Prov. 24:10</p><p>The background of our main text is that Paul and his team came into a particular territory and a lady with a spirit of divination felt that they could be friends and ministry partners if they would not disturb her demons. They were free to preach the gospel if only they will not disturb her demons. She and her masters would willingly give some financial support to them, if only they would not disturb her demons.</p><p>This is the kind of thing satan is asking from believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. They are asking believers to lay aside the basic principles of our faith, so we can dwell together. In some ecumenical circles you are asked to pray without mentioning the name of Jesus Christ. They will serve and worship their demons; we should not complain about their sin lifestyles but should even permit them to practice them in our churches.</p><p>Peter was told to keep Jesus Christ out of his conversation and ministry.</p><p>_Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard." Acts 4:18-20NIV_</p><p>Like most believers of today, Apostle Paul permitted this relationship for “many days”, and everything was going on fine for them. But that was contrary to the will of the Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit that called them out,</p><p>_While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." Acts 13:2NIV_</p><p>We cannot have true success if our present position or comfort is contrary to the reason why the Holy Spirit started the work in our lives. This is something every child of God needs to keep in mind. God does not judge things based on how comfortable we are with them, and the amount of money we bring to church while practicing such things. God judge things based on his kingdom agenda for you and those concerned.</p><p>To continue in such a relationship is what is called compromise. The truth is that once a child of God says, No, to compromise, persecution follows. You will begin to see the true nature of the people you thought were your friends. Satan and his agents know that our God hates compromise. They know that for as long as God is concerned, compromise means a total rejection of God.</p><p>_You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? James 4:4-5NIV_</p><p>In the face of such persecutions, the great news is that God never forsakes His own. If you will stick out your neck for God, God will stick out His neck for you. Apostle Paul and his team stood for God and God stood for them and manifested for them in a great way, even in the prison, leading to the saving of more souls. When they were living in compromise, they could not have result in their ministry. But when they declared their total stand for God, God manifested His power for them.</p><p>There are people who are currently asking God to manifest for them but they are not ready to declare their total stand for God. The bible has shown that God never forsakes His own. We should not fear any kind of persecution but through the power of the Holy Spirit position ourselves to confront every activity of satan and his agents.</p><p>Prayer is the way and key to do so. If we are in the attitude of continuing prayers,</p><p>1. We will be ever ready for all circumstances</p><p>2. We will be in a position where God can easily reach and warn us about danger</p><p>3. We will have the requisite anointing presence to meet every spiritual circumstances</p><p>4. We will have our anticipated result because the prayer of a person filled and led by the Holy Spirit is full of divine power.</p><p>5. We will eventually emerge victorious in all conflicts that we engage in the name of Jesus Christ.</p><p>That is why I invite you in today’s PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers to stand up in faith and pick up those power Prayer Collections and engage in radical prayers. You may not know what you are praying about, you have to pray all the same. Remember I told you to deal with demons and all agents of darkness through warfare prayers. Say those prayers in faith and I will hear your testimony very soon.</p><p>Remember to encourage people around you to join.</p><p>Remember to write down your personal prayer requests and choose location and time for your private praying.</p><p>You can make request for a specific Prayer Collection to meet your needs.</p><p>You should know that I am praying for you.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-89277310359803330802024-01-05T22:10:00.000-08:002024-01-05T22:12:42.066-08:00IN RESPONSE TO THAT SERVANT OF GOD <p> This message is not for everyone.</p><p>IN RESPONSE TO THAT SERVANT OF GOD.</p><p>In response to many questions and comments I get from some upcoming servants of God I am presenting this message. It is becoming more difficult to understand what is the correct bible standard for servants of God. Unfortunately, these are not the days you will get to know the truth by listening to an older servant of God. Many who walked in accordance with established bible truth in the past, seem to be regretting it. We can say this because the same people are preaching in a reverse gear the messages they preached in the past.</p><p>To make things worse, fake servants of God are on the everyday increase and they are very loud. They flaunt material things in a seductive manner and this has become a ground to further confuse genuine children of God.</p><p>I want to let us know that our confusion of mind does not in any way mean that our God is also confused.</p><p>Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness." 2 Tim 2:19NIV</p><p>This brief meditation is addressed to those who truly belong to Jehovah. The foundation is sure; God knows you but you have the responsibility to intentionally turn away from wickedness of any guise.</p><p>In the past four years, I am sorry to say this, almost all the upcoming servants of God who approached me did not give any indication that they are looking for a closer walk with God. Some are seeking means to make more money because, according to them, they have been poor for too long. Others want me to teach them how they can prophesy. Don’t be deceived to think that they are seeking the gifts of the Holy Spirit. No. they want mystical powers that will enable them know the secret lives of people, call their phone numbers and see their villages. This is so they can attract attention to themselves and become popular in the city and as a result become rich in material things.</p><p>Many of these people have doubtful testimony of their salvation and very few of them belong to any local congregation. Some have succeeded to gain these mystical powers by joining Satanism and learning manipulative ways to hoodwink people. Many sincere seekers of the Lord Jesus Christ have fallen victims to these kinds of people and then conclude that there are no more genuine servants of God.</p><p>I want to declare here that there are yet many genuine servants of God. If you are a genuine servant of God who thinks that you are alone, I want you to recognize that the author of this meditation is genuine and there are yet many of us. It is to these genuine servants of God who are still standing that I write now.</p><p>Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs — he wants to please his commanding officer. Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor's crown unless he competes according to the rules. The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this 2 Tim 2:3-7NIV</p><p>Hardship or suffering is part of our inheritance as servants of Christ Jesus. If we want to face the truth, we must concede to the fact that the letter that Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy was not a general message to every Christian. In my book, “The Nazirite”, I made this emphasis that consecration is not a communal thing. Everyone who is serving Christ must be sure that he is in it by personal choice. The Apostle Paul used the phrase, a good soldier and it is easy for us to understand that there are those who are in the same faith as we are, but they are not soldiers. The clause, “good soldier” is not talking about training or expertise, instead it is saying, “soldier indeed”. It is important that we recognize that everyone who claims to be servants of Jesus Christ fall into this class,</p><p>For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things Phil 3:18-19NIV</p><p>The same Apostle Paul wrote this and he was not referring to some folks outside the Church. If you meet someone who claims to be a servant of the Lord who is not seeing suffering in Christian service as our entitlement, be warned that this one is living as an enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ and you must not emulate him or her. There are many who push up their shoulders as Christian leaders or supposing mentors and by the words of their mouth, they have shown that they no longer agree with the words of Apostle Paul to Timothy. They quote the same bible but subtly avoid some very vital points.</p><p>If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain 1 Tim 6:3-5NIV</p><p>Never in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ have we found a generation that so accurately confirms the words of the Apostle Paul. The Social Media is awash with controversies resulting from these men and women who have lost connection with the Holy Spirit. This has provided grounds for the servants of the devil to make spot of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This has further advanced satan’s course.</p><p>If a servant of God does not understand this, he will certainly have problems in his efforts to remain steadfast in the ministry. It is regrettable that many genuine seekers of the Lord Jesus Christ are confused. It is the duty of the genuine to step up and “occupy” till the Lord send this wave of revival we are expecting to manifest very soon.</p><p>To these genuine servants of God, the Apostle Paul advises them to borrow lessons from three areas.</p><p>Soldier – like the soldiers they must be dressed ready for action every time. They must not live like civilians, they must not eat what others eat and must not go where other people go. They must live the life of focus to please the Lord Jesus Christ who is their commander.</p><p>Athlete – For a sportsman to win the price, he undergoes a lot of personal discipline and training behind the scene. Personal fasting and prayers; study and meditation in the word of God are among the things we must devote ourselves to if we will be able to face the challenges associated to winning back the souls of men for the kingdom of God. </p><p>Farmer – A wise farmer observes and takes advantage of the weather for the benefit of a good harvest. The darkness of this age tells us that we need to connect to the Holy Spirit for the right formulae to draw in the souls. We must choose our “seed” of the word of God by the help of the Holy Spirit and determine through His guidance the right soils that will give us the required harvest.</p><p>Take note of the way he summarises this advice;</p><p>Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.</p><p>Servant of God I want to tell you that you are not alone in this and it did not start with you or this generation. The best thing for us to do is to do our best to focus on Christ and where you can find any, connect to a fellowship of likeminded servants of God.</p><p>Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast 1 Peter 5:8-10NIV</p><p>I will like to hear from you.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98y7I5zpyvR31h8xSthh9u79h6khIdTkvRPn4s2kAFSSIBudTVeCRa5ae3kZC-imjs6qVA4YfDnD9m2hFfZ4_L1y3N2gtXkkTyZVK6q07jpeAxQhuqp19qh3AtXSBNLFp-hQEDd3o0VtvP0LeSgmhAwMGefbdpqidHdYSRDwJpjpU51pUDniGr41XlvU/s1433/Screenshot_20231111_101948_Gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1433" data-original-width="1079" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98y7I5zpyvR31h8xSthh9u79h6khIdTkvRPn4s2kAFSSIBudTVeCRa5ae3kZC-imjs6qVA4YfDnD9m2hFfZ4_L1y3N2gtXkkTyZVK6q07jpeAxQhuqp19qh3AtXSBNLFp-hQEDd3o0VtvP0LeSgmhAwMGefbdpqidHdYSRDwJpjpU51pUDniGr41XlvU/w192-h190/Screenshot_20231111_101948_Gallery.jpg" width="192" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-35690358716058350322024-01-04T02:43:00.000-08:002024-01-04T02:43:50.474-08:00FIVE REASONS GOD MAY NEVER GRANT YOUR PRAYER REQUEST <p> Very important for praying Christians</p><p><br /></p><p> *Five reasons God may never grant your prayer request* </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFfsKwYpTGzmWPCvp8u3dt4IYywjJE0w6ad32GUQ1v5QoCeMDJUuSlk7pUHwDuJmuoOleeoQkvOqtvFPF5nJXJlwzCwfp_M3DXOJnkI4N4zplO2qTGhASDlzRu8yyHi0ZcwE-JfUqfw0hzE8dwz0Mw35Jn35HPxk7nBXOyJmoxBz0Mq9zqR_DYIYfpHw/s900/IMG-20231218-WA0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFfsKwYpTGzmWPCvp8u3dt4IYywjJE0w6ad32GUQ1v5QoCeMDJUuSlk7pUHwDuJmuoOleeoQkvOqtvFPF5nJXJlwzCwfp_M3DXOJnkI4N4zplO2qTGhASDlzRu8yyHi0ZcwE-JfUqfw0hzE8dwz0Mw35Jn35HPxk7nBXOyJmoxBz0Mq9zqR_DYIYfpHw/s320/IMG-20231218-WA0012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The Lord dropped these words into my spirit as I was praying for all PNUR family members this morning. I discovered it is something He wants me to share with you. We are known all over the word as a praying group of people. It is important that do not let the outward reputation that people hold about us deceive us to believe that God is Ok with everything we do. God wants us to get better every day and that is why He keeps talking to us with every opportunity He has.</p><p>While I was growing up in the Christian ministry I heard many teachings by reputed preachers which I have come to discover were misrepresentation of God in regards to prayer.</p><p>I have come to discover that there are many bible instances where God attended to the need of some people even though they never knew nor acknowledged Him. Pharaoh of Egypt and Cyrus the Persian received God’s support when they knew nothing about Him. Our perspective of God’s special is not in agreement with what I see in the bible.</p><p>I have come to discover that God has intervened in the affairs of people who did not have faith as we claim it. The widow of Nain (Luke7:11-17) was not even praying when the Lord Jesus Christ raised her son back to life.</p><p>I have come to discover that God is not offended when His children express fear or doubt. He rather steps in to calm their nerves and then show them the way out. Abraham and Peter both manifested fear and doubt.</p><p>I have come to understand that God answered prayers of people who did not know the word of God as we claim. The people of Nineveh in the book of Jonah and the military man Cornelius in Acts chapter 10 had zero knowledge of scriptures, yet their prayers received urgent response.</p><p>I have come to discover that God does not abandon people because they committed sin. Instead, He wants to step into their lives and show them the way out. King David and Apostle Paul are clear examples. (Rom5:8)</p><p>What then are the reasons that could make God not to respond to our prayers?</p><p><br /></p><p>1.</p><p>God has His own will. God responds to prayers when that prayer agrees with His will. God saves someone when that person’s existence is tied to God’s agenda on earth. This is why some people still die despite much prayers.</p><p>I heard a man of God say, “If there is a man to pray, there is a God to answer. It is true that our God is a prayer answering God but it is also important that we recognize that He has things that fall within the list of things He would grant. If we pray intensely about something and back our prayers with many days and nights of fasting, God will not be bullied to grant to us our requests if they do not agree with His list of things to give to us.</p><p>This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us 1 John 5:14NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>2.</p><p>God is not a murderer and nor does He delight in destruction. It must be heart-breaking to observe how many of our prayers are targeted at the destruction of other people’s lives. The truth is that sometimes we must destroy if we must build and some people must be killed if we must live in peace, but the God of the bible is not a murderous God. If your prayers are built on God killing people; whether enemies or oppressors, you can be sure that God will not grant many of your prayers. God sees and knows about the many evil things going on in this world and He is not waiting for your permission to destroy the world, if that were His will.</p><p>Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him. 2 Sam 14:14NIV</p><p>When we refuse to forgive people and wish in our hearts and everyday prayers that something bad should happen to them in order to make us happy, we should know that we are distancing ourselves from the Spirit of God.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.</p><p>God does not bless us or answer our prayers to feed our greed. Greed is defined as excessive intense desire for something for one’s selfish end. God wants to give us wealth but why do you want it? God is very willing to give a better paying job but why do you want it? To know where you fall in with this, ask yourself, “What have I been doing with the things I have now? </p><p>Why do you need another car? Why do you need to travel abroad? Why do you need a bigger house? In what way would your acquiring these new things honour God and benefit mankind. Even though many people claim that they will use the new things they are praying for to serve God, you can easily judge their sincerity by observing what they are currently doing with what they have now.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.</p><p>God wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. </p><p>This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth 1 Tim 2:3-4NIV</p><p>The first point here is “God wants them saved”; when you table your prayer request before God also consider how it is connected to the salvation of other souls. When you express your dislike for people of other races and celebrate it when they are killed, you should know you are far from God’s will. In many churches in the city, their hearts are totally closed against strangers because they want to protect their expensive church properties from thieves. They will not even allow the stranger to express themselves before to start to insult them because their heart is full of hate and bitterness. No matter how bad you feel about those criminals, God wants them to be saved. Jesus Christ did not die for your expensive church properties but He died for them.</p><p>If your prayer request says that God should help you to kill everyone who does not like you, you can be sure that He will not grant that. 40 days fasting will not change that. If your prayers killed them, you killed them by witchcraft.</p><p>If you are asking God to grow your business but the things you produce are for the wasting of other people’s lives, you can be sure that God will not grant that. If you are seeking Visa to travel abroad at the expense of the little congregation that God has placed in your care, you should be sure that God is not the one sending you out. Except you receive a direct express word, please drop that plan.</p><p>“Saved” talks about evangelism and “Knowledge of the truth” talks of discipleship or caring for a body of believers. When the church board is making plans and they ignore this two, God cannot be part of those plans.</p><p><br /></p><p>5.</p><p>God has His own intentions for you, your family, your city, your church congregation and everything else. He does not depend on your prayers to take a decision about this world.</p><p>I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please. From the east I summon a bird of prey; from a far-off land, a man to fulfil my purpose. What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned, that will I do Isa 46:10-11NIV</p><p>Unfortunately, some of us pray like all that God does is to sit down to respond to our prayers. One time I went to the Republic of Togo and my intention was to settle down there and work with a church congregation. After settling with some of the elders of the church, I returned to Nigeria to brief Joy. She was Ok with the plans. Then I returned to Togo, only for God to tell me in my dream that I should return to Nigeria and move to Port Harcourt. </p><p>One would wonder, why was He quiet all the time I was making all that arrangement? To be candid, I was already fed-up with the PNUR vision and wanted to settle down in a church. But He is my boss. Joy was surprised when I returned to Nigeria to tell we were moving to Port Harcourt instead.</p><p>It is not always that God says, No, because we are going to commit sin. We can have very godly intentions and God steps in to say, “No, my child. This is not in my original intention for you”. In 2 Sam7:1-16, David felt guilty that he was living in a place better than where the Ark of God was kept. He invited his prophet and expressed his intention to build a temple for God. His prophet agreed with him and asked him to go ahead with his good intentions. But that night, God told Nathan to tell David that his good intentions was not in the original plans of God. God promised to bless him for the good intentions but He did not change His intentions to suit David’s plans.</p><p>As we want God to support our intentions in this New Year, we should try as much as possible to align our plans my God’s original purpose for us.</p><p>Remain in the place of prayers.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-39652984241937304872024-01-01T09:03:00.000-08:002024-01-01T09:03:15.926-08:00Importance of Revelation in our walk <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Bs1mAyTuhP0F0hHDfwnavRhwt5sMmxYjBv-UfTo4-HQWA09rjZZagzFsDr0UVrEd-BYPknghyJTrQ89lfPuZZEyYKpPAiucbV6Zpq4DkQceQdlm78-pg3L7DnprULkSTfBlb6oo1Y78N-DDpAvfl71fCoXF83O0igft7MdkJjB-ubmiKh2uvvfhZISM/s1280/IMG-20231230-WA0010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Bs1mAyTuhP0F0hHDfwnavRhwt5sMmxYjBv-UfTo4-HQWA09rjZZagzFsDr0UVrEd-BYPknghyJTrQ89lfPuZZEyYKpPAiucbV6Zpq4DkQceQdlm78-pg3L7DnprULkSTfBlb6oo1Y78N-DDpAvfl71fCoXF83O0igft7MdkJjB-ubmiKh2uvvfhZISM/s320/IMG-20231230-WA0010.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> _The importance of revelation in our walk_ </p><p>It is my pleasure to welcome you to this New Year. The word of the Lord for us is quite encouraging; Rest on every side. My prayer is that you have the rest experientially in Jesus name.</p><p>We need to walk under divine revelation this year. Yes, we need to be in a position when things don’t take us by surprise. It is the manner of the enemy to steal in to cause us great harm and damage when we are not in the realms of revelation. When I say this, I am not implying those believers who are never serious with their spiritual life. Very spiritually disciplined children of God have suffered shock attacks too. Imagine the embarrassment Prophet Elisha faced when one of the most faithfully financial members of his ministry stormed in on him.</p><p>When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, "Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why." 2 Kings 4:27NIV </p><p>This was the woman that gave him a comfortable lodging place; she was the woman who hosted him with fine meals; she was the woman that God gave a miracle child through the ministry of Elisha. Her family recognized him as their household prophet. How could it be that sickness and eventual death struck the family but Elisha did not receive any signal. She galloped wildly on her donkey to get to him and even while she took hold of his garment, a prophet of high standing like Elisha still did not receive any signals from the spirit.</p><p>Two incidences happened in Door of Hope Christian between 31st of December 2023 and 1st of January 2024; the first was the case of a man who came to Sunday service as a first timer. It was through a revelation that I learned that he was a spy who had intention to come to rob us after. The second was a spiritual report on one of my faithful workers and the Lord asked that I should stand over him as a prophetic cover to neutralize the planned attack on him.</p><p>Pastors, parents and heads of organizations should be bothered about this. As the spiritual authority over a group of people, you owe them to cover them through your prayers and receive signals through the Holy Spirit to cover them through your prophetic intercession. </p><p>Back to our text; thank God that the woman’s son was recovered, it is important we recognize that it is not in all cases that people survive such attacks.</p><p>In another occasion still under Elisha, some of the young prophets had exposed themselves to possible death.</p><p>One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine. He gathered some of its gourds and filled the fold of his cloak. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, "O man of God, there is death in the pot!" And they could not eat it 2 Kings 4:39-40NIV</p><p>How often are members of our churches and families exposed to great danger but those who hold spiritual authority are too blind to notice. Take note that they were already eating the food before some of them cried out their concern about the presence of poison in their food. At times it is a destructive teaching that has entered the church or some kind of lifestyle among the youths but the spiritual leaders are not sensitive enough to know it. It could even be a material danger. One time, while in the mission field of Dad Palm, with Joy and my children, a very dangerous snake had entered right into our sleeping place while we were all in bed. Someone had warned me that the false prophet in that area was angry about my activities of delivering people from the power of satan. That night he sent that snake to kill. Sudden I received a word from the Lord and I announced a bible passage loudly.</p><p>And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven Rev 12:7-8NIV</p><p>I declared this passage and announced, “Satan, you are not strong enough”.</p><p>I don’t remember how many times I repeated this scripture before Kasarachi screamed out, “Daddy, there is a dangerous snake in this room”.</p><p>I want you to understand that spiritual alertness and that loud proclamation of that word of God was what paralysed that agenda of the devil.</p><p>In some congregations, they are currently operating with familiar spirits in the name of “prophetic ministry” but no one recognized it. </p><p>Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved." She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her Acts 16:16-18NIV</p><p>I personally had some agents of darkness come in to work with me in the name of church workers trying to exercise fake spiritual gifts, not in all cases was I able to decode them until certain circumstances started manifesting. One time a lady went outside rubbing her face in a nearby bush because the Lord struck her; she was an agent of darkness. In another instance, the power of God struck the head of a woman on a wall and she came out bleeding. Another messenger of the kingdom of darkness.</p><p>That was what happened with the Apostle Paul. He had a misunderstanding with the head of his team and still travelled under circumstances of strife. Even though some group of believers endorsed his arrogance and prayed for him, but God was not satisfied with this.</p><p>Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, "Let us go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing." Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them, but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work. They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus, but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord. He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches Acts 15:36-41NIV</p><p>These are among the many things that open doors to satan in the ministries of servants of God and our churches. The brothers commended Paul to the grace of God but it was not these brethren that sent them out in the first place. Paul was okay with human approval but God wanted him to go back and reconcile with his spiritual leader. Yes, Barnabas was his spiritual leader; it was Barnabas who picked him up when everyone else avoided him. How prone we are to forget our beginning. If you look carefully at the account of his ministry from that time, you will notice the obvious struggle. In fact, he later begged that Mark should be sent to him to assist his ministry. Thank God that Barnabas did not bow to popular opinions.</p><p>We are warned to be careful about ourselves when we think we are now very established and mature. </p><p>So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 1 Cor 10:12NIV</p><p>Imagine that the great Apostle Paul was pushed about by a demon for many days and did not know it. It took the strife in his soul by the Holy Spirit before he could notice that there was something wrong. The reason being that the demon was saying things in his favour. </p><p>Hmmm!</p><p>It is possible that someone who is reading this now could be in the same condition; you are currently sitting under a ministry that has roots in the devil. Maybe your ministry is “progressing” even when your ways are not right before God. You think everything is okay because people around you are giving you positive accolade. Someone may be somewhere that he is receiving a good salary but at the expense of the true purpose why God raised you. So you silence the authority that the Lord Jesus Christ has placed upon you. </p><p>It was when the Apostle Paul took back the authority he had as a servant of God that the false peace evaporated and the war started. It was only then he returned to true soul winning again. Many believers think that it is okay to stay anywhere they are accepted. It is okay to stay, but it must not be at the expense the divine agenda for your life.</p><p>We need to operate in the realms of divine revelation, so we will not be operating as “blind bats”. </p><p>I want you to pray now and ask the Lord to activate your sense of divine spiritual revelation as you match into this new year. Also ask the Holy Spirit to deposit in you the gifts of the Spirit you will need in your journey this year.</p><p>I will love to get your reactions.</p><p>Emma your brother, pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-39259498932732372872023-12-25T07:51:00.000-08:002023-12-25T07:51:44.492-08:00HOW TO PROPERLY INTERPRET YOUR PROPHECY <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGTyAvr5ZCaeLXSWvRdThZIRDp5GgLoFIwHyzU5YhvinN64IPu-U7OOqowISSRFpDd4yqDgW-LT9akmDzrnwG_gQgY42QAAfbsX_7UR_SWEZ1kA6WJqmzIF373U3NeglOd08v8whZwVoWtuIt_exIMS1q9m-294_y2Yn_hlYFGpUMcTX573a9fZURNITE/s1000/IMG-20231213-WA0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="480" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGTyAvr5ZCaeLXSWvRdThZIRDp5GgLoFIwHyzU5YhvinN64IPu-U7OOqowISSRFpDd4yqDgW-LT9akmDzrnwG_gQgY42QAAfbsX_7UR_SWEZ1kA6WJqmzIF373U3NeglOd08v8whZwVoWtuIt_exIMS1q9m-294_y2Yn_hlYFGpUMcTX573a9fZURNITE/w169-h352/IMG-20231213-WA0008.jpg" width="169" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> *How to properly interpret your prophecy.* </p><p>(Please, send this message to any genuine child of God whom you love sincerely with all your heart.)</p><p>A personal word of prophecy can be very helpful when we are seeking direction from the Lord. As we prepare to enter a new year, there are many people who are asking questions from the Holy Spirit. It is a thing of joy when we receive a revelation or a servant of God in the prophetic office tells us something which we consider to be an answer to our heart cry for a direction from God. However, there is a dangerous side to this. In fact, what I want to share with you is something I received as a personal lesson from the Holy Spirit.</p><p>Many people have gotten into trouble because they wrongly interpreted a revelation they received from God. I don’t mean that God did not speak to them but that in their understanding of what God said to them, they missed the true meaning and, like I said they got into some kind of trouble. Some even got confused and concluded that it was not God that spoke to them. I have instances of servants of God who packed it up claiming that they are not sure that God called them in the first place because of circumstances that keep repeating in their ministry. </p><p>I trust that God will help someone with this brief meditation.</p><p>Someone was in a meeting when the angel of the Lord made the following statement;</p><p>"Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'I will return to Jerusalem with mercy, and there my house will be rebuilt. And the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem,' declares the Lord Almighty Zech 1:16NIV</p><p>And in his zeal he decided to take action in the direction of what the Lord has publicly declared.</p><p>Then I looked up — and there before me was a man with a measuring line in his hand! I asked, "Where are you going?" He answered me, "To measure Jerusalem, to find out how wide and how long it is." Then the angel who was speaking to me left, and another angel came to meet him and said to him: "Run, tell that young man, 'Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the great number of men and livestock in it. And I myself will be a wall of fire around it,' declares the Lord, 'and I will be its glory within.' Zech 2:1-5NIV</p><p>Take note of the adjective addressed to the person, “Young man”. This implies his youthful strength and passion. He had the energy to do the job. Also take note that he was a good learner, hence, he was quick to know that he needed the measuring line and he had it ready for action. It is important you take note too that the angel urged the other angel to hurry before the young man goes ahead to mess things up in his youthful zeal. </p><p>Hmmm! This disease called, “Haste” has complicated the life of many sincere children of God. Some have even outrun angels in their haste and there are those possessed by holy stubbornness who will never listen to any other instruction that is different from what they heard the first time.</p><p>I read some accounts when some people sold everything they had and went to the sea ports waiting, because they had received revelation that someone was coming to take them to Africa for missionary assignment, but they met no one. Some have resigned their jobs before they got the appointment letter for the new job because they received a revelation or a word of prophecy from a prophet, but the new job never came. A young lady told me that she was sure that her pastor’s wife was going to die and he would marry her, hence she turned down a marriage proposal from a ready suitor. There was this very spiritual brother I used to know. He was a respected close friend to one of my friends. He was known to have fasted for 40 days and forty nights more than once. One day he came up to announce to my friend that God has revealed to him the woman he would marry. The lady was living in Lagos City but he lived in the village. They went ahead to print the invitation cards after announcing the date, even before the wife to be had accepted his proposal. I warned my pastor friend that I heard something different in the spirit but they refused to listen to me. Well, the lady turned him down even though guests have already been invited for the wedding.</p><p>It is not in all cases that we meet obvious failure in the beginning; in some cases, things progress positively but only for one to discover after some time that one has made a mistake. Hence there some living in marriages that they discovered only too late that they were deceived. Some have started their “own church” and now they have discovered that they misunderstood what the Lord was saying. There are those who abandoned their ministry assignment in Africa because they believed that God was calling them in the USA. Today, their present spiritual poverty has proven that they misunderstood the revelation.</p><p> *How do we avoid this kind of embarrassment and the associated danger?* </p><p>Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. 1 Cor 14:29-30NIV</p><p>Avoid the temptation of pride. No matter how high you have risen in the spiritual dimensions, learn to humble yourself to recognize that you may not know it all. This is going to be tough for some people, because they cannot imagine that someone else could receive something different or even better than they have. </p><p>Submit a group of believers who operate in similar gifting or ministries. Take note that other prophets were to listen carefully to what our “Major Prophet 1” is saying and judge it to know how correct it is. Understand that they may end up saying that we may need more time to be sure about this. The one who received the revelation should be humble enough to wait. God will obviously confirm His word. Jer1:12. We can learn from this also that we must not swallow supposing words of prophecy hook and sinker. We owe our self the duty to crosscheck it with scripture.</p><p>Seek the opinion of more mature servants of God. This is another difficult task for many young people, unless they are humble. I have this one bible instance that always surprise me when I read it.</p><p>Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone Ex 18:17-18NIV</p><p>An old man with years of experience in the ministry and leadership, came around to visit Moses in his duty post. After studying what Moses was doing, he was courageous enough to state that what Moses was doing was not good. We can understand from this text that one may be doing something that is not good, but it does not mean that he is committing sin. Yes, we often miss it up here, because some would say, “I know that I am not committing any sin”.</p><p>Even God boasted that He had no servant of God like Moses because He spoke with Moses face to face as a man speaks with his friend. Number12:1-9. Moses had direct and daily access to speak with God. All through their journey they had the Lord accompanying them as a pillar of fire by night and pillar of cloud by day. It was to this Moses that Jethro said, “What you are doing is not good”.</p><p>Today, the protocol officers of Prophet Moses would walk Jethro away immediately and he would be lucky if they didn’t beat him up. Strange enough that Moses listened to the voice of experience and adjusted the pattern of his ministry and we are not told that he enquired from God before he did so. He was able to achieve more in his ministry by following that advise. Till date, governments all over the world have borrowed this pattern.</p><p>The principle of bible correctness. It is important that we mention this here. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ is referred to as the Word of God made flesh. We know that the Holy Spirit is God in the Spirit and He is working with all believers to do the will of God. We know that all that is written in the bible are inspired by the Holy Spirit. (John1:1-3, John14:16-17, 2Tim3:16-17), hence, we can be very certain that we will never receive anything from God through the Holy Spirit that is total in variance with what the bible would permit us to do.</p><p>Finally, remain open to the Lord for further instruction. From our main text, even though the young man was very zealous to carry out his God given assignment, he was within reach for the second angel to correct him. </p><p> *This you can do by,* </p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Daily reading of the bible, </p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Regular reading of healthy books on revival history. Stories of other servants of God can be very helpful for someone seeking direction for his divine assignment </p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Daily prayer meditation,</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Fasting prayers</p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Having a place and time for quiet time. A place you can just stay quiet to listen to the Lord.</p><p>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Listening to and reading sound messages from other more experienced servants of God. Don’t make the mistake of only listening to your favourite preachers.</p><p>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attend conferences and prayer meetings just to fellowship with others.</p><p>8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Follow Pastor Emma N J Nwosu through the Social Media.</p><p>I will like to hear from you.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p><p>#prophecy</p><p>#prophesy </p><p>#propheticword</p><p><br /></p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-16477784780291903062023-12-17T15:32:00.000-08:002023-12-18T13:30:43.431-08:00WHEN OUR SPIRITUAL LEADERS MISS THE MARK <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>For every serious Christian </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>When our spiritual leaders miss the mark; what should we do?</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Kumuyi, Oyedepo, Benny Hinn and the rest of us</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled. The Lord's anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God. Then David was angry because the Lord's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah 1 Chron 13:9-11NIV</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab the Levites. He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate yourselves and bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way 1 Chron 15:11-13NIV</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Today is like one of those days one gets up from sleep only to receive a letter from his boss for an assignment he hates to undertake but because of a sense of duty, must carry it out. As long as I am concerned the men I will mention here who will form the objects of our discussion are celestial beings and I am reminded that even the angel of our God fear to bring charges against them. Yet, we have to do it because of the connection the subject has to do with every one of us. I am also faced with my sense of duty to guide my teeming followers across the world. So, it is not just about these men but about the present generation and those that will follow them. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>The above scriptural references state how a young faithful follower of King David lost his life in active service; he died working with all his energy to assist the Lord’s anointed to achieve the task he had undertaken for the Lord. The most painful side of this matter is that Uzzah was not killed by witches or wizards, he was not killed by occult powers or agents of darkness in any guise. The bible is very clear that it was God that killed him. For some people this is hard to believe. After our Deliverance Week 2023, the Lord has been impressing in my heart to point out to the believers in Christ Jesus that many of the ugly situations for which we accuse the devil are actually the result of our abuse of holy things. This is one other example of such.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>This outcome displeased King David so much that he abandoned the Lord’s assignment and the ark in the middle of the road. He could not understand why God should reward faithfulness with such ingratitude. If you read the whole account you will discover how another man who saw the “obvious death” involved with the ark and decided to sacrifice his life by taking the object of death into his house was blessed. David began to rethink when he heard that God had blessed the keeper of the ark abundantly. That was when David discovered that the problem was not with God but with the method he employed to carry out the holy assignment. So he repented, corrected his method and successfully fulfilled his holy task. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Praise God!</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>So we can learn here that the reason God is not blessing our lives or ministries may not be because we are disobeying Him but it is possible that we are obeying Him in the wrong order, but then somebody has lost his life; a woman has become a widow and children have become orphans because of the error of David’s method. It seems unfair to me that there was nothing that was said about compensation. So Uzzah’s young life was cut short as a result of David’s error in serving his God. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Why then did the author of the bible – the human as well as the Spirit author – choose to put such a discrediting account in God’s holy book?</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did 1 Cor 10:6 NIV</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>The Lord permitted that these kind of account should be included in His holy book to keep us from making the same mistakes. Unfortunately it is not in our nature to learn that way. We still make the same mistakes and then jeopardize our lives and those of others. It is for this reason we are choosing some models of Christian service to drive home our points.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Pastor W F Kumuyi and the devil’s box</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>If there is a place for spiritual grandfather, he is mine because he raised my father-in-the-Lord. Firebrand elite preacher of the gospel of holiness. Those that love or hate him, do so for that reason. He is uncompromising in what he believes as God’s truth.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>He told his followers to keep away from TV sets branding it devil’s box. They were not to waste their time acquiring degrees from universities and it was also reported that there was a time that followers were advised not to get married. According to him, the return of Jesus Christ was too close to waste time on such.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>All that has changed with time. In the recent, I have heard him correcting some of those teachings and tagging them “Unbiblical”. He now appears on TV. In fact, even rural churches under his denomination have one so that they could follow live-broadcast of his teachings. Many of his followers are currently university lecturers and he remarried after he lost his first wife to a terminal sickness.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>My question.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>How about those who lost lifetime opportunities because they followed what he now brands unbiblical? I know families who destroyed wedding pictures and some abandoned their family members to die of hunger because they refused to join their church denomination. These damages are irredeemable. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Bishop David Oyedepo and the Word of Faith Movement</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>He made mockery of those who suggested that believers may need deliverance from demons. He taught that once one comes into Christ, all sufferings, sicknesses and other challenges of life are over. Followers were not permitted to announce death from the pulpit and they dare not attend meetings with other “lesser Christians”</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>As I was told by a trusted brother, circumstances in the life of his very wife forced him to ask another servant of God to attempt to cast out demons from her. When the demons left, his wife became okay. Today, he has officially declared Tuesday for Deliverance Services and Winners’ Chapel can join other Christians in fellowship.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>How about those who followed his teachings and lost loved ones because they refused to accept deliverance from demons? How about those who kept mouthing empty boasts in the name of faith and exposed themselves to death?</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Pastor Benny Hinn and the $1000 Seed Faith</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>For those of us in the USA, you may not understand the value of $1000 to a person in Africa. Oral Roberts had introduced this thing and many followed it. People were asked to sow seed faith as a contact for extraordinary miracles. He built the support framework for his ministry through this medium. If Pastor Benny Hinn makes a proper scriptural restitution of the money he made from this practice, he would go bankrupt. Yet, there were those who sowed their school fees, house rents etc to what he now calls error; what happens to them?</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>One day, Pastor Benny Hinn came on air to declare that he no longer believed in such giving. He said such kind of giving amounted to trying to buy God’s gift with money. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>In the same class are, Dr. Crefflo Dollar and Rev. Dr. Abel Damina. These men currently live on the monies they got from this kind of giving. Crefflo Dollar and Abel Damina even asked those who still have their old teachings to destroy them because according to them, they were false teachings from the devil.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Yet, most people bought those books and CDs by giving lavishly to support the ministries of these men. Some of the givers are now poor and there were those who could not finish their education because they gave their school fees to Abel Damina and Crefflo Dollar. Unfortunately, these men are not considering returning the money they had collected unjustly.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount." Luke 19:8NIV</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood Transfusion</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Many things have changed among these people; they are now permitted to pray in the open and most important of all, blood transfusion is now permitted. They used to claim that it is same thing as eating blood of animals which the bible condemned. Many of their faithful followers died because they refused to receive medical assistance in this area and will not accept prayers of healing or deliverance.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Now they have changed or adjusted their beliefs, what happens to those who lost their lives to those errors they made them believe?</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Abel Damina.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>I have to return to this fellow because, even though the other preachers made mistakes and are currently very busy trying to make amends, he metamorphoses from one error to a more destructive one. Currently he is launching direct attack on entire bible teachings. He has come forward to condemn baptism by immersion and the Holy Communion. He said that God does not live in heaven and even was bold to say that Mary was not the mother of Jesus Christ. Space will fail me to mention his many destructive heresies. Abel Damina is regarded by many as one of the greatest church leaders of this generation and his following is very large.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>As we talk now, there are still many that are following and defending his teachings. Some of these teachings have eternal consequence on those that follow them. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Like Uzah, Like the REST OF Us</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Apostle Paul told us how to follow a man. We should be careful to observe if the man we are following is following Christ.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. 1 Cor 11:1NIV</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Unfortunately, most Christians are just too lazy to read their bible for them self. Coming back to talk about Uzzah, THE BOOK OF THE Law that stipulated how to carry the ark of God was in his father’s house; his father was the custodian of the revelation that David lacked which resulted in his fatal error. God was fed up with people who abandoned their spiritual responsibilities because of laziness or greed. The only reasonable thing for God to do was to strike in such a way that will get David thinking. But who would He strike and not violate the principles of His holiness and fairness?</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Uzzah! Yes, because it was his duty to speak out against that error but he was too busy dancing with Daddy G.O. It was his duty and that of his brother to bear the ark on their shoulders but the current state of things gave him freedom to live free like other believers. In fact, he died for his selfishness; he died because of his desire for a stress-less service. Yes, there are people who will read this who are currently serving in churches and ministries that they are sure that their practices are contrary to the truth revealed in the bible. But they are not willing to speak out because it could deprive them of their benefit.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Coming to address our leaders; they should understand that they don’t know it all. They should give attention to their followers once in a while. Perhaps the next disaster could be averted. They should be courageous to make changes if they discover that they have missed the way. In this light, we must commend Pastor W F Kumuyi, Bishop David Oyedepo, Dr. Crefflo Dollar and Pastor Benny Hinn. Even the leadership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses deserve our commendation. We also pray that their followers would understand that these men owe their obligation to the God who called them and they should as much as possible try to support them in their effort at reformation. This is in the case when they are taking the right steps.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>As for the followers, they should do their own bible study after they have heard the pastor’s preaching. God does not have grandchildren. If one follows a false teaching and lands in hellfire with his leader, there would not be time to make amends or complain in hellfire. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>A lot of false teachings are going round among Christians today, especially with the advent of the Social Media. Even people who are not Christians come online claiming to be pastors as a cover to deceive the followers of our Lord Jesus Christ. We need to be extra careful.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>If one finds some kind of mistake in the teachings of his spiritual leader, they should find a polite way to point out the errors. Once they are sure that a leader was bent on error and would not listen, they should escape the blow of Uzzah. That is why I encourage everyone to get the bible in the language they can understand. The red light is always when a preacher begins to explain the bible in strange languages. The bible was written to help ordinary humans discover the will of God. Read the Bible in the language you can understand. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Finally, the Holy Spirit remains our guide and teacher. We thank God that the Holy Spirit is available for every believer, irrespective of the office they occupy in the Church. Through devotional prayers and reading of the bible, the Holy Spirit will help everyone of us, as we yield to Him.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>I will like to get your reactions from this brief meditation.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>I wish you a joyous New Week</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>(Kindly share this across your contacts.)</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>(Pastor Emma N.J Nwosu is the International President of Prayer Network for Universal Revival. He lives in Port Harcourt with his wife Joy and four children. He hosts International Prayer and Revival Conference/Convention and spreads Revival Fire. He also heads School for Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare - Deliverance School Online. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>He has authored more than 50 books. Among them are, Pastor Lukas Church – Story of the Pastor who visited Hellfire, QUEST FOR SUPERNATURAL POWER, HOW TO TURN YOUR CHURCH INTO A POWER STATION, CONFRONTING WITCHCRAFT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BOUNCE BACK AFTER A FALL. His books are available on Amazon Kindle Bookstore and his ministry online Bookstore, PNUR Revival Press. </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Contact : +2348035724526, +2349092862555 pnurnigeria@gmail.com)</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>#PastorBennyHinn </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>#BishopDavidOyedepo </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>#deeperlifebiblechurch </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>#AbelDamina </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>#CrefloDollar </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>#jehovahswitnesses<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW1iLH3Kx7RbMyNnQ7yc5SbRM8G981yAAx6NcKdY0mPcCnJO21IqTk6AlQcCFpUfc6aOdHrp9W09rbliqBn1mKwyt9uICN72EXIupzN6l0mCMMF_0CZrfOm_ijrHeKgL1bnzcmlS8lGexP_FeDiuN3JdzMrszIUvtFHD_KCa5t5zCvnv9XxWO6AG67ceE/s900/IMG-20231218-WA0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW1iLH3Kx7RbMyNnQ7yc5SbRM8G981yAAx6NcKdY0mPcCnJO21IqTk6AlQcCFpUfc6aOdHrp9W09rbliqBn1mKwyt9uICN72EXIupzN6l0mCMMF_0CZrfOm_ijrHeKgL1bnzcmlS8lGexP_FeDiuN3JdzMrszIUvtFHD_KCa5t5zCvnv9XxWO6AG67ceE/s320/IMG-20231218-WA0005.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></u></span></div></div><p></p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-11014196743465074192023-12-13T07:30:00.000-08:002023-12-13T07:30:37.620-08:00JESUS CHRIST IS MORE THAN ENOUGH <p>*JESUS CHRIST IS MORE THAN ENOUGH*</p><p>PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers 14/12/2023</p><p>_"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16NIV_</p><p>Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a great privilege that we have permission every Thursday to approach God with our requests. I assure you that the Lord is ready to attend to us. I want you to remember what I have always mentioned to you, “Prayer is the opportunity that God has given to you to say something about all the arguments going on concerning your life in the spirit and the physical. To be quiet when you should be praying is to surrender your destiny in to the hands of your enemies”. It is just like committing suicide and I know you are too wise for that.</p><p>This text has some very straight information for us.</p><p>There is God and this God loves the entire world and there is no discrimination of race, nationality, tribal, religious or denominational inclination. He loves everyone and people equally. If you ever find a god or hear of one that favors one race above the other, you should know that it is not the god of the bible. He loves everyone without any consideration of the kind of sin they committed or the kind of culture and tradition they practice.</p><p>He did not ask them to change or repent before He expressed His love for them.</p><p>_But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us Rom 5:8NIV_</p><p>God’s kind of love is unconditional and undeserved. This is not the kind of love a brother has for his sister because they are of the same blood. It is not the kind of love that business people have for each other that fades when the business is over or fails. It is not the kind of love a man has for a woman because she provides sexual satisfaction to him or a woman has for a man because he gives her money. People may call all these love but they are not the kind of love that God loves the world. God’s love is sacrificial and is expressed in that God gave His only son to those who could not give back to Him.</p><p>We already mentioned that God’s love was expressed in sacrificial giving. The giving was made on the grounds of genuine love and it was made with the clear understanding that the world will not be able to reciprocate it. It was a gift borne out of mercy because if He does not do so, the world will be doomed forever.</p><p>This gift is a person whose name is Jesus Christ. Some argue that different people call Him by different names. Yes, that further proves the justification of this gift. Whatever name He is called in whatever languages, He remains the gift. You can call Him by any other name but you cannot place His name on any other person and still have the gift. He is the gift and He alone is God’s solution.</p><p>This person that is the gift is God’s multipurpose cure for every need and problem that the world has. This gift is more than enough to meet every need.</p><p>_Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father Phil 2:9-11NIV_</p><p>Whatever other name that will trouble the human race will be addressed by this unique gift of God. Hence the Lord Jesus Christ said,</p><p>_"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matt 11:28-30NIV_</p><p>Since talk is easy and cheap, other people can boast about their ability to help the human race, but only the Lord Jesus Christ has the power and moral justification to talk like this. This is because only He had the guts to lay down His life for the sin of the human race. Man’s principal problem is sin and the ground satan and his agents have to hurt Man is because of sin. Until Man deals with the power of sin, Man is helpless and hopeless. Jesus Christ died because of the sin of the entire world. When He died He broke the power satan has over the world.</p><p>_The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor 15:56-57NIV_</p><p>_When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross Col 2:13-15NIV_</p><p>The death on the Cross was the final blow on the power of satan and sin. On that Cross the Lord Jesus Christ took the place of the entire human race. After the Cross the devil had no more right to hold anyone in the world as a slave because it was a public show of defeat.</p><p>Even though God loves the world and gave the gift to the entire world and the death on the Cross was for everyone in the world, the gift will work for only those who welcome and accept this gift.</p><p>_He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. John 1:11-13NIV_</p><p>No one is to be forced to accept this gift. That is why some people can mock and insult the gift. Today is the Day of salvation. Here again we see that salient point; God does not have intention to send anyone to hellfire.</p><p>_For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. John 3:17-18NIV_</p><p>Anyone that rejects God’s gift by refusing to believe and accept the Lord Jesus Christ, has picked a ticket for hellfire. God created hellfire and heaven, the same way He created the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil, otherwise known as the tree of death. In His kindness He has warned us to choose life as He warned Adam and Eve. If we refuse to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ we have chosen to go to hellfire. So people go to hellfire because they chose to.</p><p>For those that will accept Jesus Christ, He shall be the all-purpose solution in their life.</p><p>For their sickness, Jesus Christ is their solution</p><p>For their trials of life, Jesus Christ is their solution</p><p>For their fear, Jesus Christ is their solution</p><p>For their demonic problems, Jesus Christ is their solution</p><p>For their financial challenges and need for prosperity, Jesus Christ is their solution</p><p>For their struggle with sin and evil habits, Jesus Christ is their solution</p><p>For their need for peace of mind in their homes and private lives, Jesus Christ is their solution.</p><p>Whatever the believers shall have as the challenges in their lives, Jesus Christ remains the solution.</p><p>You can understand better why the Lord Jesus Christ told His followers,</p><p>In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. John 16:23NIV</p><p>Not everyone will accept this truth and that is why the bible said, “Whoever believes in Him shall not perish”. God has given the gift, it is in your place to accept it through your faith. Faith is active and you must yield yourself and will in the direction of what you believe.</p><p>If you read this and you are not sure that you are born again, please I will want to hear from you. I am also available to take any other questions.</p><p>For the believer that reads this, you already know what to do. Every Thursday, PNUR Family all over the world take this privilege seriously by employing it in our prayers. We are bold and courageous because we believe that our God will honor His word.</p><p>I encourage you to step up in your prayers today.</p><p>Remember not to be selfish; invite others to join us.</p><p>Remember to write out your personal prayer requests. You should know what you asked for in order to remember to share your testimony.</p><p>Remember to choose specific time and place for your private prayers.</p><p>Start with the following short prayers and I will share more within the day.</p><p>Begin to thank God for this wonderful gift, Jesus Christ </p><p>Confront the remaining days of this year in the name of Jesus Christ. Specifically call out 14 to 31 December to recognize you for good</p><p>Command that the rest of this year will serve you and that you will not serve this them. </p><p>Command that rest of this year must release whatever is left of the blessings of the year 2023</p><p>Bind the powers of the devil that have positioned themselves to work against you in the ending of 2023</p><p>Bind the powers of the devil that have positioned to work against your family and loved ones</p><p>Command the gates of t2023 to usher you in to the store houses of good things for 2024</p><p>Declare Jesus Christ Lord over your life, family and all that is yours</p><p> Announce and insist that the rest of this year must surrender to His will in your life.</p><p>Give God praise for this wonderful revelation.</p><p>Remember that we are praying for you.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-86578206416819933612023-11-25T08:38:00.000-08:002023-11-25T08:38:59.475-08:00CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE THINKING <p> *Constructive and Destructive Thinking* </p><p>Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you Phil 4:6-9NIV</p><p>Anxiety and peace of mind are the products of our thinking. Anxiety results when we become concerned about ourselves and those we love beyond what is healthy. Anxiety in simple words means to be worried. Worry comes from our creating images for our minds through our thinking. Someone said, Worry is like a rocking chair; you are moving but actually going nowhere.</p><p>I engage in morning walk-outs and I have learned something. We walk around in the Valley View Gardens Estate. It is an estate with more than thirty different streets and more than hundred fenced houses. My walk-out team often chose routs to walk and our team leader told us how many kilometers we cover every morning. I decided to change the pattern by walking on a shorter distance and still cover the same kilometer distance. It soon dawned on me that I can be walking inside the Valley View Gardens Estate and still cover the same distance that would have gotten me from Port Harcourt to Abuja, the Nigeria Federal Capital Territory. In fact, I can spend same time and energy that would have gotten me to USA from Nigeria in Africa walking within Valley View Gardens Estate yet, making no progress. That is what anxiety does to us. The Lord Jesus Christ has this to say about worry or anxiety,</p><p>Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matt 6:27NIV</p><p>Yes, we don’t add but we waste all the hours we spend worrying. Remember we said earlier that worry or anxiety results from our thinking. It is what I call destructive thinking. Thinking that destroy you and steals your peace and diminishes your output in life. Like we have said, the same brain energy and time is spent on thinking. It is the same brain that creates images and ideas that could enhance our lives for good but we divert it to worry.</p><p>Our main text recommends a solution to destructive thinking and I will rephrase it in this way, “Instead of getting anxious about your problem, take time and pray about them. And while praying for God to help you, remember to be thankful for the other things He has done for you before. In this way God’s peace will form a wall of protection around your heart and mind against destructive thinking”.</p><p>Destructive thinking focuses on the enormity of our problems, in this way our problems seem insurmountable. The result of this kind of thinking is that we are not able to do the little within our power to help ourselves. Our problem maybe large alright, but within us are God-given capabilities that could be employed in whatever little ways to sustain us before the big break comes. But worry or anxiety tells us that it is needless making any efforts because our little energy cannot solve the entire problem. This is one of the causes of suicide and breakup in marriages or other kinds of relationship. It is also the reason some think that they are never-do-wells and have lived a good portion of their lives depressed and looking for who will carry them.</p><p>Our main text went further to encourage us to take charge of our thinking. Yes, some of us just let our minds to create images for us to think on. The devil also takes advantage of this to throw in gory images of a bleak future into our minds and we “feed on his poisons”. We relapse into depression and self-pity and in the process distract ourselves from moving forward to achieve. But we are now told that we can change the trend and fill our hearts with better life-lifting thoughts.</p><p>It says, “Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things”.</p><p>We are told that we should be in charge of our thoughts and not the reverse. This is what I call, Constructive Thinking. Constructive Thinking does not deny the presence of a problem but it is focused on what positive steps that could be taken to overcome them. In constructive thinking our hearts are filled with hope and anticipation of good things. We are very sure that there must be some God-given ways to walk out of this problem. This agrees with the bible.</p><p>Unlike the destructive thinker, the constructive thinker believes that he is not the first or only person that has been in this problem; he believes that there must be a way other people walked out of it and he will watch-out until he finds that way.</p><p>No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it 1 Cor 10:13NIV</p><p>Your mind and the devil does not stop to harass you when you decide to think constructively. Rather they intensify efforts to get attention and so we are told,</p><p>We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ 2 Cor 10:5NIV</p><p>Now we have come to see that there is serious spiritual warfare in this thing. Until we are properly schooled in the word of God, your mind yields easier to the devil and the world’s systems. It captures more of what the devil wants you to believe and think about. So, by the power of self-will and the Holy Spirit in your life, you must take charge and determine the things you must think on.</p><p>Instead of thinking of the things you have lost, you have now to think of what you can do with what you have.</p><p>Instead of thinking of who left you, you must now think on how to make yourself happy with those who are around and available to you.</p><p>Instead of thinking of people who have despitefully used and dumped you, you must now think of those are begging you to accept their love.</p><p>Instead of believing the news of a bleak future, you must open the word of God and accept the message of hope through the many promises of God in the bible.</p><p>Instead of thinking of how hard it is to reach your missing son and the contact for that big business, you must now think and believe that God will do anything for you in answer to your prayers.</p><p>Instead of thinking of all the defeat you have suffered, you must now think of all the great victories that are ahead of you.</p><p>And if the devil brings any contrary thoughts, you take them captive and declare to him what the word of God says! You bind him and cast him out.</p><p>Then quickly return to, “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you”.</p><p>I encourage you to adapt your mind to this simple Spirit-filled principles. This is easy to do if you set your mind to read your bible everyday as you face the issues of life. Pray when you should and the Holy Spirit will enable you by his presence to overcome Destructive Thinking.</p><p>My prayer is that you will enjoy this weekend and remember to send me a personal message to share your testimony after you have read this.</p><p> Remain under the atmosphere of favour in Jesus name.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please remember to share this with your contacts. Someone may need a message of hope too</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220351307377004677.post-29362784384912534622023-11-16T04:51:00.000-08:002023-11-16T04:51:34.504-08:00The time we live in - Special message from Pastor Emma N.J Nwosu <p> *A message from my heart – Emma N J Nwosu* </p><p>But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Ps 73:2-3NIV</p><p>I don’t know who will read this, but if you are that person who is facing a strong temptation to go out of your way to seek power or help from satan and his agents, I want to tell you not to do it. I spoke with a young man a while ago who was under such pressure because almost all his friends have gone to carry out satanic rituals so that their businesses will grow. Some of them are even mocking him now because, according to them, they are prospering now. The good news is that instead of joining them, he reached out to me to ask for prayers.</p><p>This is a terrible time to live in and it is a prophetic season when the bible said that the love of many people has grown cold.</p><p>And many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved Matt 24:11-13NIV</p><p>Evil and wickedness have become institutionalized and at the point we are now, people are even ashamed to say that they are living a godly life. Like never before, false prophets and false teachers are audacious. I was in a gathering of some bishops and one of them said, “Gone are the days when you rely on the gifts of the Spirit to build your church”. Yet, there is a promise in that scripture for those that will dare to hold their ground till the need.</p><p>I too have faced the same temptation and some ministers of the gospel have boldly suggested to me that I need to turn to satan for power. Negative attitude and mockery from fellow ministers can be tempting too. Also as a deliverance minister I have had the privilege to meet people who are now living in regret because they ventured to trade their souls for satan’s power. I want to tell you that even within commonsense, we know that satan represents evil and Jesus Christ stands for good. Why should your efforts to make your life good lead you to the satan that is evil? Yet, some people are currently living in that error now. They are even told to avoid genuine servants of God.</p><p>A man came to me for prayers concerning his business. He was into real estate business, what we call the Estate Agent and he wanted me to petition God for favor on his account. As I laid hand on him in prayer, demons began to fly out. I expected him to be happy for the deliverance but that was the last time he came to me. I learned latter from his friend that he was not happy that I destroyed the charms he had spent much money to make. What was he doing in the office of a pastor? Yet, there are people who erroneously believe that they can combine God’s power with satan’s power.</p><p>I was a guest preacher to a church but at one point my host and his wife were showing all indications that they were offended about something they would not let me know. I was later to learn from someone close to them that I had destroyed something they prepared to help them have plenty members. Unfortunately, there is a movement of some kinds of churches that draw their energy from satanic cults like these. They are warned to avoid people like me. A young man that was on PNUR Family and Partners platform was in this cult. They get their power to see visions from the devil. They cannot give people deliverance but people are always trouping there. What kind of church were they running then? If these people are Christians, how could they deceive themselves to believe that God will permit them to mix His Holy Spirit with satan’s power? These men have sold their souls to the devil.</p><p>A pastor in Nigeria who felt that his church was not doing well because of poor attendance went across to another “successful pastor” to learn what he could do to grow his church. They ended up going to India where he was initiated into an occult society. On the day he was to be empowered like the person that brought him, he was put into a special room; they asked him to pick up anything that fell from the ceiling and swallow it as they played the drums. The first time a lizard fell from the ceiling but he could not muster the courage to swallow it. He was beaten and threatened with death. He promised that he would eat anything if they gave him another chance. This time it was a large snake that fell. Out of fear he shouted, “Jesus Christ!” and the entire building caught fire and his hosts fled and left him there. He managed to find his way home by begging money from other Nigerians in India. It dawned on him that he was spiritually more powerful than all these men, even though he did not have all the money they had. What kind of church was his friend running? The truth is that these kinds of churches are all over the place and they are channels for satanic agenda on earth.</p><p>As is our practice we went to baptize some people during the deliverance week. We normally go to the river. At Choba River, in Port Harcourt City, we saw young men being attended to by witch doctors and they were naked as they were being bathed with blood besides the river in broad day light. This is a common thing today because many people know no boarders as they go from place to place to seek power for riches, fruit of the womb, growth of their businesses and even churches. They brag about it on Social Media and the government cannot do anything about it because the people in power are complicit to the same practices. Unless we connect to the mind of God through the Holy Spirit, we would find ourselves in the position David found himself. David almost fell but…</p><p>When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny Ps 73:16-17NIV</p><p>We need to enter into God’s sanctuary through the power of the Holy Spirit as we pray. It is only here we will be able to get the right understanding of life. We cannot be judging things because of the false impression satan projects before us. David said that in the inner place with the Holy Spirit, he received the right understanding</p><p>Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin Ps 73:18NIV</p><p>Almost all the churches I know in Port Harcourt City that have this kind of foundation are sinking now. I walked across one of them on Sunday and it has been closed down with grasses growing in their place. Many of them don’t have families because satan won’t let them. Many are suffering in terminal diseases. Satan cannot give them peace because he does not have it.</p><p>David goes on to declare his eternal security;</p><p> Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will take me into glory Ps 73:23-24NIV</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not writing this to promise you heaven on earth, but I can boldly tell you that everyone you see on earth will die one day. I can boldly tell you that none of the people you see today will love to live for 200 years on earth. I can also boldly tell you that eternity is forever. If you trade your glorious future with Jesus Christ for a short period of bliss on earth, you will regret it.</p><p>I recognize the fact that you may be facing some challenges today but hold your ground with Jesus Christ and your deliverance will surely come. Don’t bow down to satan but continue to trust God in prayers. </p><p>I will love to pray with you if you need it.</p><p>Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com +2348035724526 WhatsApp</p>Emma N J Nwosuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12218146551649543082noreply@blogger.com0