HOW TO PROPERLY INTERPRET YOUR PROPHECY

 *How to properly interpret your prophecy.* 

(Please, send this message to any genuine child of God whom you love sincerely with all your heart.)

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.

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. 

I trust that God will help someone with this brief meditation.

Someone was in a meeting when the angel of the Lord made the following statement;

"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

And in his zeal he decided to take action in the direction of what the Lord has publicly declared.

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

 *How do we avoid this kind of embarrassment and the associated danger?* 

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

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. 

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.

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.

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

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”.

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”.

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.

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.

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. 

 *This you can do by,* 

1. Daily reading of the bible, 

2. 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 

3. Daily prayer meditation,

4. Fasting prayers

5. Having a place and time for quiet time. A place you can just stay quiet to listen to the Lord.

6. 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.

7. Attend conferences and prayer meetings just to fellowship with others.

8. Follow Pastor Emma N J Nwosu through the Social Media.

I will like to hear from you.

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

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WHEN OUR SPIRITUAL LEADERS MISS THE MARK

For every serious Christian 

When our spiritual leaders miss the mark; what should we do?

Kumuyi, Oyedepo, Benny Hinn and the rest of us

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

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

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. 

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.

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. 

Praise God!

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. 

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?

Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did 1 Cor 10:6 NIV

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.

Pastor W F Kumuyi and the devil’s box

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.

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.

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.

My question.

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.  

Bishop David Oyedepo and the Word of Faith Movement

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”

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.

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?

Pastor Benny Hinn and the $1000 Seed Faith

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?

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. 

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.

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.

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

Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood Transfusion

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.

Now they have changed or adjusted their beliefs, what happens to those who lost their lives to those errors they made them believe?

Abel Damina.

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.

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.      

Like Uzah, Like the REST OF Us

Apostle Paul told us how to follow a man. We should be careful to observe if the man we are following is following Christ.

Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ. 1 Cor 11:1NIV

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?

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

I will like to get your reactions from this brief meditation.

I wish you a joyous New Week

(Kindly share this across your contacts.)

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com 

(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.  

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. 

Contact  : +2348035724526, +2349092862555 pnurnigeria@gmail.com)

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JESUS CHRIST IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

*JESUS CHRIST IS MORE THAN ENOUGH*

PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers 14/12/2023

_"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_

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.

This text has some very straight information for us.

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.

He did not ask them to change or repent before He expressed His love for them.

_But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us Rom 5:8NIV_

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.

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.

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.

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.

_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_

Whatever other name that will trouble the human race will be addressed by this unique gift of God. Hence the Lord Jesus Christ said,

_"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_

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.

_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_

_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_

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.

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.

_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_

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.

_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_

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.

For those that will accept Jesus Christ, He shall be the all-purpose solution in their life.

For their sickness, Jesus Christ is their solution

For their trials of life, Jesus Christ is their solution

For their fear, Jesus Christ is their solution

For their demonic problems, Jesus Christ is their solution

For their financial challenges and need for prosperity, Jesus Christ is their solution

For their struggle with sin and evil habits, Jesus Christ is their solution

For their need for peace of mind in their homes and private lives, Jesus Christ is their solution.

Whatever the believers shall have as the challenges in their lives, Jesus Christ remains the solution.

You can understand better why the Lord Jesus Christ told His followers,

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

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.

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.

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.

I encourage you to step up in your prayers today.

Remember not to be selfish; invite others to join us.

Remember to write out your personal prayer requests. You should know what you asked for in order to remember to share your testimony.

Remember to choose specific time and place for your private prayers.

Start with the following short prayers and I will share more within the day.

Begin to thank God for this wonderful gift, Jesus Christ 

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

Command that the rest of this year will serve you and that you will not serve this them. 

Command that rest of this year must release whatever is left of the blessings of the year 2023

Bind the powers of the devil that have positioned themselves to work against you in the ending of 2023

Bind the powers of the devil that have positioned to work against your family and loved ones

Command the gates of t2023 to usher you in to the store houses of good things for 2024

Declare Jesus Christ Lord over your life, family and all that is yours

 Announce and insist that the rest of this year must surrender to His will in your life.

Give God praise for this wonderful revelation.

Remember that we are praying for you.

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE THINKING

 *Constructive and Destructive Thinking* 

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

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.

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,

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Matt 6:27NIV

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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

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,

We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ 2 Cor 10:5NIV

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.

Instead of thinking of the things you have lost, you have now to think of what you can do with what you have.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Instead of thinking of all the defeat you have suffered, you must now think of all the great victories that are ahead of you.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

 Remain under the atmosphere of favour in Jesus name.

Please remember to share this with your contacts.  Someone may need a message of hope too

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

The time we live in - Special message from Pastor Emma N.J Nwosu

 *A message from my heart – Emma N J Nwosu* 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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

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

Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin Ps 73:18NIV

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.

David goes on to declare his eternal security;

 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

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.

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. 

I will love to pray with you if you need it.

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com +2348035724526 WhatsApp

CONTINUED REFLECTION FROM DELIVERANCE WEEK 2023

 Continued reflection from Deliverance Week 2023

*Oh Lord, what is delaying my deliverance?* 

In anger, his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured until he should pay back all he owed.  "This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart. Matt 18:34-35NIV

Almost every deliverance minister I have heard or met thinks of the deliverance ministry as a way to help people gain freedom from evil spirits. This is the reason why some bible scholars insist that a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ cannot be possessed by demons. Hence, in their opinion, a believer cannot be in need of deliverance. This is a shallow way to consider this argument because, like you would have heard me say, there are ten factors that stand for the term, Deliverance. (Read my books, How to be Delivered and Remain Delivered. And, You Can’t Ignore Satan and His Demons. Available as soft copy PDF on Amazon Kindle Bookstore. You can also order directly from PNUR Press and Books by sending me a private message)

In Deliverance Week 2023, the Lord began to show us that the greater number of people who are currently in need of deliverance are not directly under the bondage of demons. This short story will cast more light on this.

In 2013, a dear Christian woman took some of my books that amounted to thirty-five thousand Naira (N35000), a big sum then. Despite many efforts to make her give me at least part of the money, she could not. I had bills to pay, and some of those bills were pressing.

One day, I thought this over and decided to preach to myself. So I went to the bible.

Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors Matt 6:12NIV

I took that passage literally; I owed some people, and this sister owes me. The Lord promises that if I cancel this sister’s debt, God will move the hearts of other people to cancel my own debts. I prayed along this line,

“Sister T, today in obedience to this word of God, I write off your credit. You are no longer owing me”. 

It was more than six years before Sister T called me. She wanted to plead with me to bear with her because she was not yet ready to pay me. She was shocked when I told her that she was no longer owing me because I had cancelled the debt six years ago. She tried to find out if I took that decision out of anger, and then I explained to her my reasons.

There was a long pause at her end. She cut the call but called back after some time to say that I taught her a hard lesson that day. She said she had been very rough with people who owed her, and she believed that was the reason things were very difficult with her. Imagine that I forgave her the debt she owed me without waiting for her to ask, but she was merciless to those who owed her but have been begging her to exercise more patience with them We have not spoken again since then, but I am sure she will spread the love.

Our main text comes from a similar story. The master forgave his subject a large debt, but the servant was not willing to forgive a fellow servant. So the master commanded that his servant be handed over to the jailers to be tormented until he has suffered enough to cover the amount he owed.

The fearful thing is that the Lord Jesus Christ said that God the Father will hand over any believer who refused to forgive their fellow humans to the tormentors to be tormented continually until they too have suffered to cover the cost of their sins.

Who are the tormentors implied here? Satan, his demons and agents of darkness. It implies that some believers who are seeking deliverance from demons will never be delivered because it is God that handed them over to be so tormented.

Unfortunately, there are many professing Christians presently in this kind of circumstances. It is a worse news that many deliverance ministries are not helping matters. They have a lot of prayer collections full of hate. They teach those seeking deliverance to return evil for evil and anger for anger.

Many unmarried ladies are still bitter with a man who broke her heart years ago, and she is still praying and expecting that something very bad would happen to them. Even pastors find it very difficult to forgive their disciples who tore their church and moved away. They are praying and hoping that something bad will happen to them. Business people are still sinking lower into more debts because of their heart attitude to those who owe them but are not able to pay. The examples are more than we can state all here.

Now, imagine these kinds of people fasting for a whole month for breakthrough; imagine this kind of person doing warfare prayer against the attack of witches and wizards. Imagine this fellow praying for deliverance from complicated diseases.

Who will rescue them when it is God that handed them over? They move from church to church, prophet to prophet and prayer-house to prayer-house. The more they prayed, the more complicated things became. It is not because the servants of God are not anointed or because their problems are too difficult. It is simply because God handed them over.

What should this kind of person do if they want to be delivered from the tormentors? The first thing is to ask God for forgiveness and then extend forgiveness to others. In this way, God and only God will revoke the right of the tormentors, and they will be set free.

Unfortunately, this is not a popular message in the prayer ministry and deliverance circles. Yet, I want my reader to understand that this is the only way.

Our main text added a powerful clause to the words of Jesus Christ. He said that forgiveness must not be a tool to get deliverance or healing, but it must be from your heart. It must be a sincere forgiveness. It must be a forgiveness with the understanding that the other person deserves to be forgiven just like you.

Simon wanted to progress in his walk with the Lord; he had abandoned his sorcery kind of ministry, given his life to Christ, gotten baptized, and became a disciple of Philip. He wanted to go all the way for the Lord. But he was stuck at a point. He decided to sacrifice even his money if that was what it would take for him to progress to the next level of his walk as a disciple.

When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money and said, "Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."  Peter answered: "May your money perish with you because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! You have no part or share in this ministry because your heart is not right before God. Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin." Acts 8:18-23NIV

Did you read that? Full of bitterness; he was angry and bitter with some people; unknown to him, that was what was blocking his progress. No amount fasting, praying, and giving to God’s work will resolve this matter.

Many people are still held back in the prison of demons, curses, and illnesses because they refused to give to other people the very thing they are asking God to give them. They are in that condition under the express permission of God.

If your deliverance has been delayed for too long, maybe you should look into your heart.

I would like to hear from you.

Emma, your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

OUR GOD IS NOT A BEGGAR

 *Our God is not a beggar.* 

"Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a great king," says the Lord Almighty, "and my name is to be feared among the nations. Mal 1:14NIV

This scripture is the response of our God to some people who erroneously believe that God must be poor and hungry, so will happily accept whatever is given to Him in the name of sacrifice. Too bad that God refers to such persons as cheats.

Let me repeat it, the God I serve is not a poor beggar and I don’t allow my personal condition or deficiency mislead me to think otherwise. Some years back, my wife and I visited a very wealthy man for prayers in his house. Before the time of the night prayers I heard him abusing his wife and I thought he also beat her. I walked up to the room to request what the problem was. He told me to return to my guest room. At the time of prayer he called that we should come out for prayers. I came out with my wife and told him that the prayer has been cancelled because he did not show me respect as a man of God, neither did he respect the God I represented. Even though we did not have sufficient money for our transport, we walked away.

In another instance a family wanted to give me, according to them, ten million Naira to help me build a house. I turned down the money because the so-called giver was treating me like I am a poor pastor whose God could not help. More than once I have refused the gift of some people because they acted like they were helping a poor man.

I am sorry if I sound arrogant here but I want whosoever reads this to know that I don’t judge myself based on how much money others have more than me, but on the grounds of my position as a man of God. I insist that giving to PNUR or my person must respect this rule or you don’t send at all.

Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward." Matt 10:41-42NIV

We must recognize our ability to give to God as a privilege. Unfortunately, people focus on the human instrument when they want to give to God’s business. Our main text points out how people brought worthless things and sick animals to the sanctuary because they believe it was the priests who would eat them. It is shameful that this is the way some people give to God’s business. They give the rejected, they give the leftover and they give what they will not even give to a human being that they respect.

When you bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the Lord Almighty.  "Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your hands, will he accept you?"-says the Lord Almighty. Mal 1:8-9NIV

My God is not a poor and hungry God.

Some argue that they would have given if they had plenty. Unfortunately the bible thinks otherwise. The bible even thinks that the so-called poor people in our midst are more open to giving than the wealthy and I am a living witness to this.

And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints.   And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will. 2 Cor 8:1-5NIV

These people were poor, in the words of the Apostle Paul, but that did not keep them from giving. Also, contrary to the giving style of some arrogant people, their giving did not keep them from surrendering their life to Christ and submitting to their spiritual leaders.

It is a common thing that most rich people claim that they give their widow’s mite. Sad to say that it is only when they want to give to the ministers and the ministry that they become widows. They don’t buy phones, cars, houses or clothes of widows. They don’t take vacations like widows, but anytime they want to support the ministry they become widows. 

Let us see what the widow’s mite is in the bible.

As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.  "I tell you the truth," he said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on." Luke 21:1-4NIV

So the widow’s mite is hundred percent of all she had. But we see someone that gives something that costs him nothing tell us that he gave the widow’s mite.

Let me tell you today, if no one has told you before, all that giving is not honored by God. It will be better that you don’t give at all than to insult God in the name of widow’s mite. God is not a poor and hungry beggar.

We often hear and read people who condemn preachers who live luxurious lives. The same people don’t give to the poor ministers and they condemn rich pastors. It appears to me that they would have all ministers of the gospel as poor beggars.

Let me address my fellow ministers; I have discovered that most ministers find it difficult to give to other ministers’ work. They only shout giving theology when they are the receivers. I want you to know that you will reap what you sow into other people’s ministry.  The sad thing is that you rarely reap in the currency and quantity you sowed. Hence, most people lament when they reap what they have sown in the life of others.

I want to repeat that giving to God’s business is a privilege and it is for your blessing. The bible refers to it as sowing, and God deals with us based on our heart attitude when we give.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Cor 9:6-7NIV

Deliverance Week is almost here and we need to host people who need deliverance and ministers of the gospel. This is a fertile soil to sow. We have ministers who would want to come but they don’t have the funds for transport. You can sow into the life of these people by sponsoring them. It is a way to connect to your own blessing even if you don’t come.

Concerning those who believe that God should send money from heaven to Pastor Emma and his team, if He truly called them, I want you to read the following;

Anyone who receives instruction in the word must share all good things with his instructor Gal 6:6NIV

Some have never given anything to support PNUR even though they have been here for more than two years. Please, stop sending us good wishes when God has put some amount of money in your custody that could support our needs. I want you to know that it is the support of a few people here that has been carrying this work thus far. Imagine if all the members of PNUR Family and Partners respond to this call and send us something right away.

It is not about how much you give but your willingness and the provision that God has made available for you. We have been praying and fasting; binding and loosing; declaring and commanding, not read the following.

But just as you excel in everything — in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us-see that you also excel in this grace of giving 2 Cor 8:7NIV

We pray for you,

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God 2 Cor 9:10-11NIV

Now, don’t allow the devil to keep you from connecting to the blessing of this great season. Silence every contrary voice and send something as part of identifying with what God is doing in this season and you will share your testimony soon. 

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POWER OF COMMANDING PRAYERS

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PNUR Global Day of Fasting and Prayers 02/11/2023

 " *Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matt18:18* 

Welcome to another special day of appointment with God. Every Thursday God has graciously granted us permission to approach Him with our prayers. Prayer is the opportunity that God has given you to say something about all the arguments going on about your life and destiny.  Failure to pray is indirect suicide and I know you are too wise for that. 

I like to share with you a true life account that happened in Nigeria. Specifically in Port Harcourt where I live. There was this genuine believer in the Lord Jesus Christ who walked in one of the oil servicing firms. One day he walked into the office of his boss and jokingly asked him why he has not received his elevation for years now. His boss sat him down I told him, “I told you to join our secret society and you refused. You said you are following Jesus Christ. Let me tell you, for as long as I remain here, nothing that is your right will get to you until you do what I said”.

This struck the brother like thunderbolt. He got up, went to his office, took sick leave for one week and went home. Within the said period he declared the kind prayer I am talking to you about now. He commanded that if the Lord is God that his boss must make a mistake that will throw him out of work. He finished his prayer and returned to work. In the space of three months, it was discovered that his boss had made a mistake that cost the company millions but because of his connection to the occult coven, he was quickly transferred to Warri, also in Nigeria. They dubiously brought in a born again Christian to take his place. When our brother whose promotion had been delayed narrated what his former boss had said, the new boss quickly approved his promotion. The new boss was also not comfortable with the speed he was transferred to this new station, so he immediately instituted an audit. The damage of the other man was discovered. He was recalled to Port Harcourt to face a panel and dismissed from service and was also demanded to pay a large sum to the company. 

I don’t intend to teach you any magic here but simple faith in the power of the prayer of authority of the believer. On this platform, we will focus on exercising our Christ-given kingdom authority. You would have perhaps heard me say that there are three things the Lord Jesus Christ handed the Church before He returned to Heaven

His name as our banner. That means that we are among those who approach God through His name. There are those who chose other names and it is not our place to know if it is working for them or not

Power. I want to believe that everyone on this platform is Spirit-filled. At least two of you were filled under my ministry. The presence of the Holy Spirit is the guarantee of divine power to enforce the purpose of God on earth by subduing satan under our feet. We may use the weapon of praying in Tongues some times

Authority. This is the right we have to command obedience. By this authority we have through the Lord Jesus Christ, we are supposed to demand that things should turn in a given direction. This maybe new terrain for some of us. This is the point we want to execute in this season of prayers.

On the ground of the above, we will fix our own time to stand up and direct our prayers towards our end. I love to say that we must learn to surrender to God’s original intent as we pray. This is not talisman kind of prayer. 

How do we start this?

Develop a mind picture that you are Daniel and having received the information from my last teaching, you now know that you have responsibility to address the spiritual forces that are holding back the angels bringing down your prayer answer. Then consider yourself as Mordecai or Esther and now you know that the seemingly negative disposition people have towards you was not really their intention. You have just realized that the King of heaven and the people in charge of those offices or government establishments are actually under satanic manipulations. 

Again try to see with your mind’s eyes that your family,  businesses or clinics are under concentrated monitoring and now you just saw those ugly demonic beings sitting on your projects. View it that the fund that has been delayed are actually held back by a satanic power of darkness and it is only at your command that he will release it.

If you are able to do this, what will your reaction be?

In my early days of ministry I was staying with a family and there was no day they never quarreled. The quarrels were often started by the man and then malice will set in for weeks. On one occasion it became obvious that they were going to breakup. The Lord laid in my heart to undertake the kind of prayers I am discussing with you now. I went to the house of my pastor and asked for permission to spend one hour in prayer in one of his rooms.

I just kept addressing whatever evil forces were manipulating the man of the house. It is true that I also prayed for the woman but somehow the Lord impressed in my spirit that the man was the problem. In about forty five minutes of my prayers, the Lord opened my eyes and I saw very heavy chains all over the man of the house. They went across his neck, down his legs; his head was not left out. I just started commanding the chains to break. I prayed until a powerful force struck the chains and they scattered. I knew I have won the battle and so came out of the room. I went back home to see the man sending one of the girls that lived with us to take money to his wife for food items. Until I left that house there was never any such conflicts. 

Would it not be wonderful that as you focus in prayers that your eyes are opened to see perhaps, a bottle in a shrine with your name in it? And as you engage in commanding prayers the bottles suddenly scatters?

Would it not be wonderful that as you pray your eyes are opened to see that an occult altar in the area you are based have been making enchantments against you? Then as you are praying they catch fire.

Would it not be wonderful that in the course of your prayers, you see the angel of our God enter the house of the governor and specifically remind him of his responsibility towards you?

Would it not be wonderful that as you are praying that the Lord releases the spirit of mistake on the “Haman” occupying the door way to the human instrument for your next level and you hear that he has been sacked?

Even though the battle Daniel and Mordecai waged are in a higher level, but I believe that was the kind of prayers that opened the mind of King Ahasuarus. I believe it was the kind of prayers that provoked heaven to release reinforcement for the angel that was bringing the message for Daniel. 

In my case it was just one hour but Daniel carried his for twenty days and Mordecai and the Jewish nation fasted for three days.

This is the kind of praying I will leads us into this week.  Now go into prayers and begin to specifically address every man or woman that's important for your next level to turn in your direction in Jesus name

Remember to invite others to join our prayers today. 

Remember to choose specific time and place for your private prayers. 

When you pray,  believe your prayers. 

We will share the Prayer Collection soon. 

Send me a private message if you are joining us for the first time today. 

Remain in the place of prayers in Jesus' name 

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

HOW TO GET FREEDOM FROM GUILTY CONSCIENCE

`Guilty Conscience Hinders Prayers```

_Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful Heb 10:22-23NIV_

I welcome you again to another day of general fasting and prayers for the PNUR family all over the world. Don’t forget that prayer is the opportunity that God has given to you to say something about all the arguments going on in the spirit and physical concerning your life and destiny. To fail to pray at this time is to surrender yourself to the decisions of your enemies. It is suicide and I pray that you will not be guilty of such serious sin.

We will discuss today from a popular bible story but I trust God to guide us through another dimension.

_Some men came carrying a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. . . ." He said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home." Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God Luke 5:18-25NIV_

It is important that you observe that it was not the faith of the sick man that the Lord saw but the faith of those who carried him to the venue of the healing service. In this we can learn that we can support the failing faith of our loved ones. We can support the faith of our spouse if it is failing; we can support the faith of our children or our parents. Let me add that we can support the faith of our religious leaders. One time even the Lord Jesus Christ asked for this kind of support from His disciples but they could not offer it but resorted to falling asleep.Matt26:38.

The next thing we can see here is that we may be very sincere in our efforts to assist someone but our efforts will not bear fruit unless we discover the root of the problem. The men that brought in the sick man had worked tirelessly carrying their friend from place to place in their search for healing; of course this involved time and money. We can see that even though they had faith but until the root of the problem was discovered, the faith was fruitless. If you asked them before then, they will tell you that the problem was that their friend was paralyzed. All efforts were directed on how to make their friend walk again. I have seen this kind of thing many times and we cannot overemphasize the need that we should be able to hear from the Holy Spirit in our time of intense prayers. Many pray intensely but for the wrong thing or faced in the wrong direction.

Thirdly, the Lord Jesus Christ was able to get the man healed because he could identify the man’s real problem. The man’s problem was guilty conscience/. He had gotten into some kind of sin and I believe that he was sorry about this sin and have even prayed for forgiveness of this sin but his conscience kept condemning him. That state of mind was the obstacle to his healing. Whereas people gave medicine for paralysis, he was sick of a different ailment called guilty conscience. Whereas people prayed for healing of his body he wished his soul could be healed first.

I want to believe that none among his friends could have thought of guilty conscience as a serious problem that could keep a godly man paralyzed for so long but I can boldly say out of years of experience in the deliverance ministry, that God fearing people are the actual victims of this problem.

_Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water Heb 10:22NIV_

Take note that the person with sincere heart is the one asked to apply the blood of Jesus Christ for cleansing of his conscience. Take note also that the same scripture tells us to draw near to God in full assurance of faith while still applying the blood of Jesus Christ on our guilty consciences.

There are many who are still paralyzed and stagnated not because they did something wrong or that demons are holding them, but because the devil convinced them that they have done wrong and deserve to suffer for their sin. In this state he or she is busy with asking for forgiveness instead of standing up to claim his kingdom inheritance. There are some whose sin have long been forgiven but the guilty conscience and the devil have taken a harmful grip on their soul to insist that God has not forgiven. The challenge however is that their faith will still need to pass through the same channel to take hold of God’s promises. Since guilty conscience blocks the access, they are not able to have the required faith that can gain them the desired miracle. It is not that God has refused to heal them but rather that they are not able to receive the healing. It is not that God has refused to answer their prayers but rather that even at the source of the desired miracles, they are not able to appropriate the miracles to themselves.

*What is guilty conscience?*

*A sense of having done wrong - Judas*

_When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed innocent blood." "What is that to us?" they replied. "That's your responsibility." So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself Matt 27:3-5NIV_

Guilty conscience can be defined as a conscious awareness in one’s mind of having done wrong. This is a situation where your conscience analyzes your actions and establish that you are in the wrong by your action. Take note that what your conscience said is one thing but your actions depends on you. We see that in Peter’s case.

*Sense of not having performed up to expectation - Peter*

_After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, "Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away." Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, "I don't know the man!" Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly Matt 26:73-75NIV_

An awareness that your performance was below expectation. That was the way Apostle Peter felt after he denied the Lord Jesus Christ thrice but he decided to pray about.

*Consciousness of sin - Mary Magdalene*

To find oneself in a state of being conscious that you are not up to expected moral standard with the society.

*Conscious awareness of unworthiness or the feeling of being polluted. - Woman caught in adultery. John 8:1-*

*Effect on the victim of guilty conscience.*

1.Depression

2. Lack or loss of confidence

3. Lack of concentration or confusion of mind.

4. Inability to step up again; 5. Feeling insecure.

6. Feeling of self-rejection

7. Urge for suicide.

8. Inability to pray or to stand in a holy place.

9. Inability to connect to the anointed presence.

*Ways out of guilty conscience*

i. Take your attention from yourself and look onto Jesus Christ who knew about your weaknesses and died for your sins Heb12:2

ii.Accept that you are human and forgive yourself Rom3:23-24

iii. Forgive others who would have sinned against you for the same reason that they are human Col.3:13

iv. Accept God’s forgiveness. Rom5:8

v. Accept God’s word concerning the issue 1John1:9

vi. Understand that God did not appoint the devil to judge you. So, silence the accuser of your soul with God’s word.

vii. In some cases you may need to seek counseling

viii. The activities of accusing spirits must not be ruled out. If it persists, go for deliverance.

You can now understand why the Lord Jesus Christ turned His attention to the man’s soul instead of the area everyone else was focused. We can see how this offends religious people. The spirit of religion is the principal beneficiary of the services of guilty conscience. In fact, religious people suffer more from guilty conscience. See how they immediately questioned His right to forgive the sinner. Note also that they did not say this out. They complained and grumbled at the same location that guilty conscience grips them.

We can only thank God that the Lord can hear our hearts and consciences. The same way he could hear the conscience of the sick man, he could hear the accusation of his silent accusers. The Pharisees were as much prisoners to guilty conscience as the sick man but they never saw their guilty consciences as a problem, so the Lord left them with their diseases. The man who saw it as a problem was healed. Who knows the many ailments and challenges that could have been healed if only they called it a problem?

Today, I invite you to accept the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus Christ over your soul as we pray on. Just understand that satan is the accuser of the brethren and will continue to bring charges against every child of God. Whether you once committed the sin or not is not the issue. The Lord Jesus Christ knew that you won’t be able to pay for your sin, and that was why He laid down his life on the Cross of Calvary for your redemption. Once you confess that sin, believe God’s word for your forgiveness.

_If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9-10NIV_

_He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. Prov 28:13NIV_

According to the word of God, once you sincerely confess a sin, God forgives and you find mercy. You don’t have to give satan any grounds again by listening to him. Prepare your mind for encounter today as you join in this prayers.

Make sure you encourage others to join the prayer. 

Choose a special location and time for your prayer.

Remember, when you pray, believe your prayers. 

We will post the Prayer collections later. If this is your first time of joining us, send me a private message requesting for the Prayer collections. 

You know that I am praying for you. 

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com

Balaam and the company of those that curse days

Balaam and the company of those that curse days.

The bible did not underestimate the power of the Balaams of our time. The book of Job surely did mention them.

May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan Job 3:8 NIV

There are those who have assigned to themselves for whatever reason to place curses on days. They take upon themselves to speak curse words into every day of the week; these messengers of Satan love to see people in pain. The above scripture says that there is a monster demon called Leviathan that will execute such curse words. It suggests that Leviathan would have lain low if not provoked by these expert cursers. The skill of stirring Leviathan or whatever other spirits in charge of blessings is what Balaam is famed for. Only that in this case he was specifically called to place a curse.

This will remind us of those who are steadily harassed in their dreams or in everyday life. These are at times because a day curser has stirred some evil spirits to harass such person. I was witness to heathen priests pouring out libation and speaking words of curses or blessings. One may overlook such things as vain idolatry but the bible says that those are terrible weapons in the hand of Balaams of this age.

In another place, the words of these men or women are referred to as Calamities and Lashes (Scourge like that of a whip). 

 From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will befall you. In famine he will ransom you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword. You will be protected from the lash of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction come Job 5:19-21 NIV

Note that one of the seven calamities is “The lash of the tongue”. The promise is that you will be protected from the lash of the tongue, being so protected you will hence not fear destruction. If we can take this a bit further; the cursers place curses by stirring up Leviathan the demon in charge of executing curses but the child of God is protected from such demon. If the wall of protection is not there, the cursed person is exposed to destruction. This destruction can lead to death, accidents, diseases and frustration in life etc.

The bible talks of this curse factor in another place.

No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,"   declares the Lord. Isa 54:17 NIV

Here again we see a tongue rising up to accuse; to say things against you and declare why you are so judged. The above scripture did not say that you will lie down and sleep because the Lord will fight for you. It says that you will refute the said tongues. That means it will be your place through the help of the Holy Spirit to say, “No! Not so! That accusation is not true and the curse cannot stand!”

I hope I am getting clearer now? A dear friend and partner was concerned after the earlier post that I pointed out that we don’t have to fold our hands and wait for God to fight for us. 

Yes, I mean to emphasis that point. There are battles the Lord will have us leave for Him and not fight, like in 2Chron20, but in most other battles mentioned in the bible, the Lord will have the active involvement of His people. He will ask their leaders to call out men and meet the enemy in His Name.

The Lord said to Moses, "Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people." So Moses said to the people, "Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites and to carry out the Lord's vengeance on them. Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel Num 31:1-4NIV

Through laziness, some will rather claim only the promises that asked us to fold our hands doing nothing and overlook those that ask us to put on the whole armor of God and withstand the foes. 

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 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. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Eph 6:10-13NIV

Curses are not God’s will for His people but devil and his agents are not out to give us God’s will but their evil curses. Somebody once said, “What have I done that somebody will curse me?” Well, that is not the argument in the kingdom of darkness; they are evil and all they do is evil. So placing curses is what they live for. Curses, Spells, Hexes, Vexes and all evil yokes are daily released to locate unsuspecting persons. The bible therefore asks the believer to stand up against the works and workers of evil.

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Eph 6:13 NIV

Another error we teach in the church is that ungodliness only refers to sin such as fornication and murder. No, ungodliness refers to everything that is contrary to God’s design and purpose for your life.

Poverty, diseases, failure, premature death, broken marriage, barrenness, impotence and all such things are all ungodliness because they are contrary to God’s likeness and nature. These are the very things that Balaam Company will want you to have. You can now understand the following scriptures better;

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.  It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope Titus 2:11-13NIV 

The Grace of God does not tell us to throw our hands into the air and wait for God’s deliverance but to say, “NO!” to things that are not God’s will for us. Those things are from the devil and are spread by his expert cursers through the demon monster Leviathan.

Can we pray again?

Say, --

1. Lord, I decree a total NO! to all the evil things that are not in your will for my life in Jesus Name

2. I say, NO! to defeat, death, diseases (you can mention the rest) in Jesus Name

3. In the name of Jesus I disallow every curse and operation of Leviathan the monster in my life in Jesus Name

4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I confuse every demon assigned to monitor every curse placed on my life. I bind them and cast them completely out of my life in the powerful Name of Jesus Christ

5. I condemn the voice of expert cursers rising against me, in Jesus Name

6. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I declare that I am protected from destruction and all instruments of destruction in Jesus Name

7. I silence the voice of any libation made contrary to God’s will for my life in Jesus Name 

8. In the name of  Jesus Christ I separate myself from every collective or grouped curses which the cursers have placed on me or my family in Jesus Name

9. I decree that a wall of fire surrounds me in Jesus Name

10. I unlock the presence of the Holy Spirit all over me in Jesus Name

11. I unlock God’s blessing for me and my family in Jesus Name

12. I connect to my eternal root in the Lord Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit in Jesus Name

Begin to raise your hands and thank the Lord!

Amen!

*Excerpts from THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BALAAM

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I invite you to Deliverance Week Camp 2023 6-11 November 2023, Door of Hope Christian Center Port Harcourt Nigeria Contact details 0909 286 2555,  0803 572 4526 via WhatsApp school4deliverance@gmail.com 

Emma your brother pnurnigeria@gmail.com