CONQUERING FEAR

Good morning people of God. It's another beautiful day the Lord has made and we will continue to rejoice and be glad in it.
Our Bible reading for today is from Deuteronomy 20:1-end and the memory verse is from Deuteronomy 20:4 "for the Lord your God is He that goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you victory."
Growing up, my younger sister was tougher and had stamina more than myself so any time someone offends me and I tell her, she will confront the person and ensure the person never crossed my path again. Then woe betide you that you lay a finger on me, she will fight you like a wounded lion. Then between me and her, she loves to take what belongs to me without asking for permission but she will never tolerate another person trying that with me if not the person will face her wrath.
My relationship with my sister for me comes very close the relationship God has designed to have with man. The Bible passage we read today started with God warning the Israelites that at any point they go out to war against their enemies, when they see horses and chariots and an army larger than theirs they should not be afraid for the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt is with them. This means that the things they are to see at war front is arranged to instill fear in them and if that happens, it will be easy to conquer them.
One would ask what is fear? Why fear? Fear from a dictionary definition means a painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil or the apprehension of impending danger. This definition clearly states that fear is pain aggravated by an expectation of evil.
Now, the things arranged by an enemy to instill fear are always things that suggest danger and the devil is an expert of instilling fear. Today God is saying to someone reading this post that your problem is not what you see that poses to be a threat to your life or your job or your marriage but who is with you in this fight. The memory verse goes further to declare that it is the Lord your God that is to be with you, He is the one who will fight your enemies and give you victory.
Therefore to conquer fear all we need is God. We all have our fears in different areas of our lives and these fears depending on how we handle it can make or mar us, unfortunately the devil is the expert at using fear to bring one down.
I therefore ask you today; who is with you in this battle of life? The person with you determines if you will be victorious or fail.
Till I come your way again, remain blessed. 

THE POWER OF HUMILITY

Good day friends, I believe we are all doing well in the presence of God today. For those that didn't make it to church today, I bring you the word of God straight from my father in the Lord Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere Gift. As you come in contact with this message today, may your life receive the change that only God brings in Jesus name Amen.
Our Bible reading today comes from Daniel 4:28-33, Luke 1:52, 14:11. King Nebuchadnezzar was one of the world's greatest ruler. He conquered many kingdoms and defeated many nations that he became proud and ended up living like an animal for seven years. Many people have lost great things because of pride.  Jesus Christ our Lord taught us humility by washing the feet of His disciples. For he that exalts himself shall fall.

IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT HUMILITY 

1. It was pride that changed angels to demons. 
2. Hold strong your convictions, remain humble in your speech, let your actions speak for you. 
3. You learn humility through accepting humiliation cheerfully with a smile. 
4. Pride is concerned with who is right while humility is concerned with what is right. In most cases you need to let go who is right and go for what is right. 
5. If you are humble, nothing will touch you, not praises nor criticism nor humiliation. 
6. Humility is the ability to give up your pride and maintain your dignity. 
7. God can wreck your plans when He sees your plan is about to wreck you. Only humility will make you understand this fact. 
8. Humility is the disappearance of yourself and appearance of God in everything you are doing. 
9. Humility is the gateway into the grace of God. 
10. The first test of a truly great man is in his humility. 
11. Pride will cost you everything but leave you with nothing while humility will cost you nothing and leave you with everything. 
12. Pride makes you artificial while humility makes you real and original.
13. It is better to loose pride and gain your soul than to loose your soul to pride. 
14. If people are trying hard to bring you down it only means you are above them .
15. Always keep in mind that there is always someone superior than you. Even a child can teach you new things. 
16. James 4:10 - Humble yourself before the Lord and He will lift you up. 
17. Work for a cause and not for applaud. Don't strive to make your presence noticed rather let your absence be felt. 
18. Coins always make sound but paper is silent, so when your value increase from coins to paper ensure to be silent. 
19. A humble man makes room for progress. 
20. A mistake which makes you humble is better than an accomplishment that makes you proud and arrogant. 

KEYS TO HUMILITY

1. Always depend on God.
2. Always leave a good impression on anybody you encounter. 
3. Be ready to learn at all times. 
4. Never discriminate, we are all created in the image and likeness of God. 
5. In every situation return all the glory to God. 
6. Always attribute your success to God, not to your academic qualifications, beauty, tribe or connection. 
7. Reject the urge to be jealous, always kill it whenever it comes up. 
8. Always do the right thing, no matter what let the will of God be paramount than your own will. 

Till I come your way again, remain blessed. 

THE POWER OF ALTAR

Good afternoon people of God and a very happy new Month to all of you. It's a miracle and equally an unmerited privilege that we entered this month of March in the land of the living. This therefore implies that we have another opportunity to right our wrongs, we have a chance to start afresh, we have another opportunity to worship God. I don't know who you are or what you are passing through at this critical period but one thing am sure of is that, if God has preserved your life till this day it's for a reason, just believe that His thoughts for you is of good and not of evil but to see you to an expected end.
I have been off the radar for some days now not because am sick or in any form of trouble but because am human and sometimes loose focus. To this end I will plead with you my lovely friends to always remember me in your prayers, I really need it.
Today, I just want to share with us a message from my father in the Lord Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere Gift. This message was the deliverance message at our night vigil yesterday and I pray that your contact with this message will deliver you from any evil altar erected against you in Jesus name Amen.
Altars are either erected for God or for the devil. Good people erect altar for God while bad people erect altar for the devil. Altars are most times abstract but very powerful. Anywhere you erect altar for the devil, there is massive traffic of demons there and anywhere you raise altar for God there is massive traffic of angels there. Great men of God in the Bible erected altar for God at different strategic points in their life, we have Abraham, Noah, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, Elisha etc. Altar is different from shrine. An altar can be raised with word or sacrifice while a shrine must be constructed. There are different types of evil altar and they are;

1. Crossroads altar - for summoning evil from the four cardinal points; north, east, west and south. 
2. Tree altar - usually erected on a tree with odd coloured cloth or nail. 
3. Photograph altar - in this case a picture is used as a point of contact to manipulate the victim. 
4. Image altar -in this case an effigy or a dull is used to represent the victim  and anything done to the image directly affects the victim. 
5. Reporting altar - in this case, there is a constant report made against the victim on daily basis before a shrine. 
6. Clothing altar
7. River altar - this one, they transfer people's cases to the river. 
8. Ancestral altar - this has to do with invoking of ancestors to fight the victim. 
9. Family shrine; this is used in monitoring every member of the family. 
10. Physical altar - this is where human beings are kidnapped and used for sacrifice. 

HOW TO DEAL WITH EVIL ALTARS

1. Recognize their mode of operation 
2. Renounce every known and unknown sin
3. Pray the right  specific prayers
4. Kill the priest administering at the evil altar
5. Withdraw your benefits and virtues from the altar
6. Destroy the evil altar
7. Erect the altar of God anywhere you go. 
8. Regularly dedicate yourself and your household to God. 

Till I come your way again, remain blessed. 

THE DEFAULT STATUS OF A CHILD OF GOD

Hello friends! Happy new day. I specially thank God for the miracle of sleeping and waking up and am sure you are rejoicing in this new day the Lord has made and granted us the privilege to be a part of.
Our Bible reading for today is from Deuteronomy 15:1-end and our memory verse is from Deuteronomy 15:4 "But there will be no poor among you, for the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance to possess."
In a group of five children, you have the son of Dangote, the son of Sanusi, the son of Ngozi okonjo-Iweala, the son of a medical doctor and the son of a driver, it is obvious that without being told you will identify the son of the wealthy people, may be through their flamboyance or their attitude to material things or their discussion of adventures. Just like it is easy to identify the children of the wealthy people in the group, it should be easy for a child of God to be identified in the crowd.
A child of God is to at all times known for the following;

1. Faithful to God and have no other god beside God.
2. Be respectful to your parents, all and sundry.
3. Do not steal or covet what does not belong to you, be it property or human.
4. Do not lie or bear false witness.

Our memory verse clearly states that there will be no poor among you and the next verse instructed that for us as children of God to qualify in being rich we must obey all that the Lord commands us to do. Little wonder Joshua said in Joshua 1:8 "This book of law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." Simple and straight to the point! So you see friends, by all standards the default status of a child of God is 'BLESSED', but to be blessed indeed is dependent on the following according to Joshua;

1. Knowledge of the word of God which is the law
2. Meditate on the law day and night
3. Obey the law

The Bible says that the word of God is a light unto our path, therefore the knowledge of the word of God brings light into our life and the light shines that darkness cannot comprehend it.Meditating on the law day and night means internalizing and enshrining the law in our heart, when there is an internalization of a knowledge it gets into our subconscious and takes the automated position, at this this point we don't need to think too deep to get the knowledge function when it is needed. This is what happens when we internalize the word of God which is the law. It becomes a part of us and obeying it becomes very easy.
Finally, we must know that life is governed by principle and not miracle, so if God's standard states that we become rich by obeying His command, then when we disobey His command we should not expect to be rich.
Till I come your way again, remain blessed.

TITHING

Good morning beloved, hope your night was well spent? Well, it's a brand new day of the Lord and we must rejoice and be glad in it.
The message for today is a sensitive one but I am going to be treating it according to Biblical directive. Our Bible reading today is from Deuteronomy 14:1-end and our memory verse is from Deuteronomy 14:28-29 "At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year, and lay it up within your towns; and the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns shall come and eat and be filled; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do." Wonderful God!
Honestly, I will not say this is the first time I am seeing this but this is the first time I will be breaking it down through the guiding of the Holy Spirit. Let's look at the entire Deuteronomy chapter 14, like I said earlier the book of Deuteronomy is the book of recollection, reiteration and command for the next level in the life of the children of Israel, it has also become same for me and if you believe you're moving to your next level it will be same to you. In the beginning of the chapter, God through Moses instructed the children of Israel on how to keep themselves even while mourning, what animals to eat and what animals they must not eat. He went on to also instruct them on the state of the food they will eat e.g they must not eat anything that dies of itself. They must not boil a kid in the mother's milk.
The next interesting instruction in the chapter is the instruction on tithing. It started from verse 22 of the chapter saying;

1. You shall tithe all the yield of your seed which comes forth from the field year by year. 
2. This you must do before the Lord your God in a place He shall choose. 
3. You shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, of your oil and the firstlings of your herd and flock; that you may learn to fear the Lord your God. 
4. If the way to the place God has chosen is too far, you shall convert your produce to money and go to a place God chooses and spend the money for whatever you desire, you shall eat there before the Lord your God, you and your household.
5. In tithing you shall not forsake the Levite who is within your town for he has no portion of land or inheritance. 
6. At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your produce in the same year and store them within your town. This will be for the Levite, the sojourner, the orphans, the widow and the needy. 

What is tithe? Tithe is the one tenth of a man's income.
What is tithing? Tithing is the act of offering your tithe unto the Lord.
Our God is a God of procedure, a principled God, a God that pays great attention to details. Tithe and tithing was first mentioned in the book Deuteronomy where we read today, unfortunately whenever tithe is mentioned in church these days the Bible verse mentioned is Malachi 3:10.
Looking at the instructions given regarding tithes and tithing you will see the reason why Pastors refuse to make references to the book of Deuteronomy when tithe is mentioned. I have carefully written down these instructions and you will see where Malachi 3:10 became relevant.
The children of Israel having been instructed to always bring their tithes in a storehouse within their towns every three years were reneging and the Lord through prophet Malachi reminded them that He do not change, that they should return to Him and He will return to them, they should not rob Him through their tithes and offerings and they should bring their full tithes into the storehouse that there may be food in the Lord's house and they will see Him bless them and rebuke the devourer for their sake.
Now who is the food in the Lord's house meant for? Your answer is found in Deuteronomy 14:29. So do not mix it up, tithing is an important responsibility every child of God must fulfil and the best way to do that is according to the word of God.
Till I come your way again, remain blessed.

SHINING IN THE GLORY OF GOD

I bring you all greetings from my father in the Lord Pastor Samuel Oguche as I share with you this morning the message in church today.
Our Bible reading for today is from Isaiah 60:1-2 and our memory verse is from Isaiah 60:1 "Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you."
What does it mean to shine? It means you're not having anything covering you from being seen.  To shine means that you can easily be spotted in the multitude. To shine means an outstanding fellow in the midst of others. NB; outstanding could be positive or negative, in this context we mean the positive kind of outstanding.  To shine means to be defiled.  To shine is to exhibit brilliance in intellectual power. To shine has to do with the way someone appear Ezekiel 43:2, it is our duty to shine in the glory of God.
What do we need to shine in the glory of God? Ezekiel 43:7-10. God has created us in His glory and therefore we designed to shine. There is the good kind of shining and the bad kind. We are not clamouring for the shining of the wicked rather the Godly kind of shining. Every shining needs a light, thus no Christian can shine without the light of God, the light of God is the word of God and the word of God is Jesus.
To shine in the glory of God is a matter of choice. When we are shining in the glory of God, personal ego will have to die. Shining in the glory of God removes the trouble of how am I going to do it.
How can one miss shining in the glory of God? The only way to miss shining in the glory of God is when one is living outside the word and will of God.

Till I come your way again, remain blessed. 

CIRCUMCISION OF THE HEART

Good day people of God. I believe you all are enjoying the day, its a beautiful day the Lord has made and we continue to rejoice and be glad in it.
Our Bible reading for today is from Deuteronomy 10:1-end and our memory verse is from Deuteronomy 10:16 "So circumcise the foreskin of your hearts, be no longer stubborn and hardened."
The message today is a combination of science and spirituality and i know a lot of people will ask me how? One thing that we must understand is that the spiritual controls the physical. In our reading of Deuteronomy 10, Moses continued with reminding the children of Israel of their misconduct and reiterating the fact that their salvation lies in their obedience to the commandment of God. The interesting part of Moses's instruction to the Israelites is in Deuteronomy 10:16, 'Circumcise the foreskin of your heart. To understand the magnitude of the instruction in this verse we need to clearly define these two key words; foreskin and circumcise.
What is foreskin? It is a fold of skin that covers a particular part of the body while circumcision is a surgical procedure that removes part of or all the foreskin. Thus circumcision of the heart implies removing everything that poses as a foreskin to the heart. The things that poses as foreskin to the heart could be stubbornness, human logic, envy, immorality etc. The word of God is saying that for one to occupy and enjoy the good of the promised then the circumcision of the heart must take place. This circumcision can only effectively take place with the help of the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that will through the word of God teach you the right attitude, the right approach, the right utterance, the right feeling, the right prayer to pray and believe you me, when you learn and apply these teachings of the Holy Spirit you will discover the difference and the feeling is always great.
Today, i have a doctor who is a specialist in heart circumcision, he is non other than the Holy Spirit of God. In life, we are faced with different situations and because God gave man the power to choose between good and bad, we tend to use the human understanding to analyze issues, sometimes we get it right other times we get it wrong but there is one person who can never be wrong, He is the one who sees the end from the beginning and anyone that trust in Him will never perish. The only sure way to trust God is by circumcising the foreskin of our heart, removing those things that hinder us from hearing from God, those things that hinder us from seeing things thru the eyes of God those things that challenge our obedience to the command of God. For us to occupy our promised land and enjoy it God must come first in everything we do.

Sadly, it took me two days plus to understand and communicate this message. I therefore ask you my lovely readers to always put me in your prayers.
Till i come your way again, remain blessed.