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The Bane Of Religious Systems And Sects.

To the children of Israel under the old covenant, they knew and called upon one God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To the church of Christ under the new covenant, we know and call upon one God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; however, the denominations/'church' sects professing christianity, have their different gods they call upon, depending on the denomination/'church' you belong to...the god of this or that commission, the god of bishop this or that.  Truly if it be the church of bishop so and so, then it must also be the god of that bishop that is actually served & worshipped.  Romans 16:17-18 clearly reveals to us, that the actual god being served and worshipped in denominations(those who cause/maintain divisions in the body of Christ), is the belly and we are admonished to avoid such grounds of fellowship.  Romans 16:17-18 "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine ...

The Octave Of Redemption And Significance Of The numbers 6 And 8.

8th June.  On the eve of the octave of the sixth month, i sat, lost in thoughts as streams of inspiration and revelation flowed.  A cursory look in the book of Luke, and i saw the words: "In the sixth month  the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,  To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name  was  Mary." The sixth month is indeed a time of divine visitation. The number six, is the number of man(Revelation 13:18) ; man was created on the sixth day(Genesis 1:26-31); Six days was given to man to work/labour, as in the wilderness journey of Israel, six days to gather the manna from heaven(Exodus 20:9; 16:26); Six cities were given for a refuge to the manslayer, under the law(Numbers 35:13-15) etc. The greatest divine visitation was when God himself became a man; no greater divine visitation hath any man than this, that God himself should come to us as one of...

Times Of Intense Testing And Pressure(Pressured Jewels).

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Times of intense testing and pressure are upon us; and these are days when nothing will truly stand in relation to God, and as being of God/bearing the name of God, except what is of Christ essentially and intrinsically. The imitation: so called 'christ' and 'christianity' with it's fruits(strange children/bar Jesus/sons of Jesus), is becoming manifest/seen for what it truly is, as it's true colour appears under the intense test and pressure from heaven. The voice, the definition and undeniable mark of the days we're in will be: what is of God, what was conceived and received in God, what originated/began in God and not in men. This will be the measure, the standard and dividing line; it will also be the defining/underlying principle of the switch and transition to all God and heaven will do/unfold in these last times; as heaven begins to move to expose, halt and overthrow things that are not of God, yet branded as being of God. It is a clear-cut tra...

Learn The Parable Of The Fig Tree(Time Is Short).

Learn The Parable Of The Fig Tree. In 1948 Israel budded again as a fig tree nation, after the destruction of Jerusalem, the temple and the dispersion in AD 70. 70 years ago(May 14, 1948), Israel was declared an independent state by David Ben-Gurion. Eleven minutes after the declaration, US President Harry Truman officially acknowledged Israel as a nation; but later regretted waiting so long to make that acknowledgement.  To Harry Truman, eleven minutes was so long a time, to have waited before acknowledging the declaration.  From Truman's acknowledgement 11 minutes after, to Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, 70 years after. No one who knows the scriptural significance of 70 years with respect to Jerusalem and Israel, would doubt that this is a very significant hour for Israel. The clamour of the Jews, to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, couldn't have been fulfilled until such a day and hour when Jerusalem prophetically enters it's...

May Day! Payday! (Prophecy in Poetry).

May Day! Payday! (Prophecy in Poetry). Sometimes beginnings feel like endings and endings often feel like the most emptying experience. It's a new month. Brace up World! Wake up Nigeria!  Sit up and listen up! Your time to be released from the chains of an awful past, and the pains of a miserable present, has come. You can't keep going the way you've always gone and known. Rise up and shake up! Rid yourself of torn garments Rip apart the cloak of torments Get off the back of old warhorses Clear the mess in Augean stables Jettison all that sell you for gains Cast away their accursed wares Shake and turn their filthy tables No longer feed their insatiable cravings No longer heed their deceitful fables They will not return to run Their strongholds will burn They fail in strength and faint The wealth they took and spent Can't spare them a day more to spend Another day to wine and dine Now, so hard to find in time Take awa...

21 Irrefutable Laws Of Hero Worship And Religious Brainwashing.

21 Irrefutable Laws Of Hero Worship And Religious Brain Washing.  1)  Believe everything pastor says. 2)  If you have any doubts as to what pastor says, blame the devil.  3) Do not ask questions. 4) Do not allow any question to enter your mind. 5) Everything pastor says, or, does, is right. 6) Anybody that asks pastor questions, or, has doubts in his mind, about the words/actions of pastor, is a devil. 7) Pastor does, or, says something that is obviously wrong ? Pray for pastor. 8) Attend Church at least five (5) days a week. 9) Pay your tithe, vows, Seed, donations, etc, but don't expect any form of accountability ; pastor doesn't owe you, or, any member of the Church, the duty to be accountable. 10) Between your family and the Church, the church comes first. 11) Your pastor knows everything. 12) Your pastor is your spiritual head and covering, so you have no divine security/covering in whatever you do without his a...

This Day In Two Perspectives(Easter Sunday & April Fool's Day).

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This Day In Two Perspectives. Today in the christian religious world is Easter Sunday, a day set aside to mark the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and the 40th day counting from the holy period they call lent; during which adherents are to abstain from meat. To the secular world, it's a new month, and April Fool's day; a day when folks across the globe fabricate and share all manner of mischievous hoaxes and gambits. It's apparently a free day of perjury; a day to lie, and to be lied to, a day when to love and make(fabricate) a lie is very entertaining and most welcome. In contrast to these perspectives, scriptures clearly show that the believer in Christ is not called to observe days, months and times; neither is the believer to be judged in meat or drink, in respect/regard of a religious holy day or new month. Galatians 4:10-11 " Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.  I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you la...

Save Our Generation! The Gethsemane Hour Of A Nation.

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Save Our Generation! The Gethsemane Hour Of A Nation. The noise and emptiness, of what is being churned out as music, from the Nigerian Music Industry today, is so appalling; yet amazingly appreciated by the young generation. It's sadly a reflection of the low level of thinking of many of the youths. The music in every generation is a reflection of the state of that generation; thus when the music is all about sound, beats and meaningless rhymes with little or no message in it, it shows that the generation is a noisy/boisterous generation that has no message. It is sadly a generation with all the instituitions, equipments and technologies for productive education, and relevant information, potent enough to birth national transformation; yet a clueless generation bereft of sound education and knowledge. It's not a surprise to see Nigeria in the doldrums and cesspit of corruption and ineptitude of leadership, with the younger generation failing to arise and save the day. ...

The Religious Middle Wall Of Partition And Segregation Part 1.

One God Vs The Many gods Of Denominations. To the children of Israel under the old covenant, they knew and called upon one God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To the church of Christ under the new covenant, we know and call upon one God, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; however, the denominations/many 'church' sects professing christianity today, have their different gods they call upon, depending on the denomination/'church' one professes to belong to...the god of this or that commission, the god of bishop this or that.  Truly if it be the church of bishop so and so, then it must also be the god of that bishop that is actually served and worshipped. Romans 16:17-18 clearly reveals to us, that the actual god being served and worshipped in denominations(those who cause/maintain divisions in the body of Christ), is the belly and we are admonished to avoid such grounds of fellowship.  Romans 16:17-18 "Now I beseech you, brethren, ...

Time To Redeem The Time Part 3.

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The Dire Need For Spiritual Sensitivity. Ephesians 2:1-2 "And you  hath he quickened , who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience". 5:14-18"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord  is . And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit" The scripture texts above, lifted from the 2nd and 5th chapters of the book of Ephesians, presents to us three important points: (1.) Spiritual Deadness In Sins And Tresspasses: a state which every man born into this world, comes into at birth; but whi...

Time To Redeem The Time Part 2.

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Esau's Profile In The Church Today. According to Genesis 25:27-34 and Hebrews 12:16, Esau was profane and had little or no regard for spiritual things. He was adventurous, self motivated, self driven, a go-getter, a physical result/profit-oriented man, who saw little or no profit in a spiritual inheritance to be conferred with just words/pronouncements of blessing. He was a daring and bold hunter like Nimrod, who was a mighty hunter before the Lord(See Genesis 10:8-10). Esau was just not the man for the spiritual inheritance. He casually sold his birthright for a morsel of meat, yet before the time and day came for the release into the blessing of the inheritance, he had ample opportunity and time to redeem the time, but he saw no need for that. He lacked spiritual understanding and sight, thus, he walked like a mere/carnal man who cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God, as they are foolishness unto him. To him anything that wouldn't profit him physically/mat...

Time To Redeem The Time. Part 1.

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Time To Redeem The Time. Ephesians 5:15-17   "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,  Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.  Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord  is ." Romans 13:11 " And that, knowing the time, that now  it is  high time to awake out of sleep: for now  is  our salvation nearer than when we believed." It is time to redeem the time, but we can only do so knowing what the will of the Lord is. Only those, who understand and know what the will of the Lord is, have the precision of divine counsel as to redeem the time by not doing guess works, going round in circles or getting involved in things, that are not in line with the divine will. When we lack the precision of heaven, we will merely embrace opportunities without knowing if they are in line with the will of the Lord or not; we will take decisions and embark on programs/projects, outside fellows...

The Blessedness Of Waiting And The Peril Of The Zeal To Manifest.

The disciples had been with Jesus for about three and a half years of his ministry walk; they were taught and discipled by him. They saw him heal the sick, raise the dead, and perform great wonders and miracles. They also saw and knew the frailty of his humanity, in times of hunger, in need, in lethargy needing rest, and even sleeping off while they were awake. Being glorified, through his death and resurrection, they saw and fellowshipped with him as risen and glorified; he showed himself alive to them by many infallible proofs, and was seen of them for forty days, during which he spoke and taught them things pertaining to the kingdom of God. Despite the wealth of knowledge and firsthand experience/encounter the disciples had with Christ, they were instructed of him not to go forth witnessing and manifesting after his ascension, but to wait for the advent of the HolySpirit to endue them with power from on high, and constitute them as witnesses. Nothing of heavenly account and reco...

The LABEL Religion.

Uduak Etuk I have a friend who has a certain proclivity for Ice Cream. But not just any sort of Ice Cream. There's a specific brand she likes with nuts and caramel. So one day, I decided to get her some for a girls night out. I got her the Ice Cream she liked, only I put it in a different container and gave it to her. First, she scrunched up her face in consternation that I didn't get her her brand but I told her it was indeed her preference and she should taste it and see So, she opened it up, tasted it and realized it was exactly what she loved BUT she couldn't get over the fact that it was in a different container which did NOT have the LABEL she was used to seeing, so she still didn't BELIEVE The following WEEK, I got her some more Ice Cream in the container and LABEL she was used to, only I switched the content with content from another brand. She smiled in appreciation, opened the container, tasted it and noted it was  A little off but inste...

The Elusive And Delusive Love In The Air.

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The Elusive And Delusive Love In The Air.  It's that time of the year, we see all sorts of ridiculous themes and programs, organised by the lords and slaves of the 'churches'/houses of men. Programs designed to adapt to the weather, in the warmth of religious/secular festivity; and themes adopted to confirm to the trend of an elusive and delusive love in the air, which the prince of the power of the air savours. It is however, not a surprise to see the same power, which works in the children of disobedience, religiously and actively at work in the rebellious houses of men(so called 'churches' owned and run by men). It is consistent with the denominational/sectarian spirit, to walk according to the course of this world, seeing that those who are enslaved to it, walk according to/after men saying "I am of Paul, I am of Cephas" etc.  The history of the church from it's inception at Pentecost, is no doubt, fraught with the downward trend in ...

IF YOU CONFIRM IT IS BALAAM, SOUND THE ALARM!

By Olugu Orji Balaam is the colourful Biblical character that shows up while the nation of Israel was making that tortuous but epochal journey from Egypt back to Canaan. He was a man just as energetic as he was enigmatic. There are a few striking similarities between Balaam and Abraham: the famed father of faith and Israel’s prime progenitor. Both hailed from Mesopotamia and had at some point come into a vital relationship with Jehovah. Additionally, they both travelled away from their idol-infested homeland in obedience to specific divine commandment. It is easy to imagine the suave, sagacious Abraham being an inspiration to the more garrulous and rambunctious Balaam.  In terms of how each interpreted and responded to the divine summons, there exist fundamental differences and I intend to elucidate on the one I consider the most significant. When humans commit to a certain course of action, the awareness of the consequences or rewards is usually a powerful incentive t...