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Is he a liar…or are you?

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Sunday to Sunday we speak words we don’t hear we hear words that aren’t true…its pastor speaking, ‘bring those tithes or the eater eats it.’ We wan2 leave like Jesus but without the sinners, so we tell them ‘its sunday attendance,’ and then dance to songs that so negate the template of our confession….

‘Church’
Its a drama not a name again. Its a movie where we wear ourselves out with wears we wouldn’t wear all week, all weak. Camera! Lights! Actions that say ‘fear’ when scripts had wrote ‘faith’.

Like ‘Father bless this food; I don’t want to eat poison for the sake of manifestation’ and ‘Father, protect me on this night, don’t say I didn’t ask you.’

We praise God for Sickness and thank him for Death…

So Tell me Church,’Is God the thief or irresponsible?’ ‘Is he a liar…or are you?’

#EVERYDAYJESUS speaks truth

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John 7:18
He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

John 9:4
 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work

John 8:31-32
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

In my experience I have come to accept that the most primal need of every artist is that of communication. No matter the definition or style when art is misunderstood, the pain hits hard on the artist in ways psychologists can only write about. Hence when we do art we try our best to portray what only our eyes see and try to bring into reality so that without explanation our art speaks for us and you now see what we saw. So yes beyond all the razzmatazz we all including the best of us are just trying to say something…

Now there lies my issue: if you are going to say something, let it be worth hearing or in the words of my friend Glofame ”keep shut and I’d have noticed you for your silence”.

Now I know you have things to say you believe are worth hearing but hold your horses. First, lets classify your message. If something is essentially correct you have just stated a fact but if something is universally and absolutely correct at all times it is then considered the TRUTH. Now since only one can boast of such wisdom, I make bold to say that the truth is what God says it is.
This is why we cannot afford to focus our attention on ourselves for only through Him can we deliver the truth about every issue of life. Whether we recognise it or not, whether we accept it or not we have a responsibility to feed the world with the truth through our art forms. We are today our generation’s Christs hence we have to make the truth heard in all the corners of the earth because everyday Jesus speaks truth

Just wondering… (Simeon)

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Just Wondering …

I wonder when contributing to all discussions that are floating around you became a mark of your perspicacious nature.
I wonder when crying at people’s word, beating yourself to comatose when it’s like your hope is no more feasible, putting a rope round your neck any these worthless paroxysm of emotions became a sign that you are tender hearted.
I wonder when talking to people harshly, denying them every single thing they politely requested of you, being too spineless became your ID for your formality and strong personality.
I still wonder why someone would believe that excess cholesterol would kill them, that a bullet could put a hole on their chest, that a ruler would help them create a perfect straight line but struggle with the truth that sin kills, that God has need of them and that hell is a big reality.
I wonder how comfortable we can be reading and arguing about politics yet give little attention to studying the bible or even praying for the nation’s survival.
I still wonder how I willingly cause God pain yet he’d still patiently wait for me to return to him, to heal and clean me up.
I was…

…Just wondering.

#EVERYDAYJESUS knows

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On Saturday I urgently needed to fix my cloth as I needed to appear smart where I was to speak that day. I took the cloth to my tailor and asked him to fix the little opening near the pocket.
The man turned the cloth inside out and then began to TEAR the pocket with his hands… Hah! I was like, “I said you should sew, not tear”.
So I shouted, ‘You are tearing my cloth o’.
But he replied “I KNOW”.
Those two words sank into me like a heavy stone sinks in water. I couldn’t talk again.
He’s the tailor, and I’m just a customer. Even though I couldn’t relate tearing with sewing but the Tailor says “I KNOW”.
God is saying, ‘I KNOW’.
He hears your complaints.
Father, My fiancee just left me… ‘I KNOW’.
I have no man to pay my fees… ‘I KNOW’
I was rejected at the embassy again… ‘I KNOW’
I have no money to cater for my needs… ‘I KNOW’
So many times when the Lord is fixing us, He starts by ‘tearing’ us. Tearing our confidence in ourselves, Tearing all our philosophies, Tearing our pride and fake humility, Tearing the things we call dear and giving us the truly dear things.
The only thing necessary is wisdom. Wisdom to know when it is the Lord and when it isn’t the Lord. The devil tears to kill, God tears to Fix. God tears the old to give you the new.
God’s tearing fire only refines His own. God’s tearing
approaches only yields the peaceable fruit of Righteousness.
So in reality, God tears no man, He only makes. We call it tearing, He calls it Making. We call it breaking, He calls it building. He knows you have need even before you ask. That’s why when we complain… He responds thus: ‘I KNOW’.

For I KNOW the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
-JEREMIAH 29:11
Trust God.
My clothes came out better. You are coming out better too…

By: Chinonso Nwigwe Johnson

Need I say more?

#EverdayJesus …is the message

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Beloved, with the very last ounce of your breath, RESIST HELL, Now – while alive!

There is no human word to describe the Cruelty; the Stench; the Horror; the Pains; the Regrets and, the Gloom, in HELL!

A Good Church Life without CHRIST inside your Heart is, automatic Hell!! Rom. 8: 9b

How do you know you have Christ in your Heart?

*No Hatred but Love!
*No Witchcraft but the HolyGhost!
*No Malice but Forgiveness!
*No Lies but Truth!
*No Evil but Goodness!
*No Idolatry but Christ!
*No Immorality but Holiness!
*No Revelling but Worship!
*No Drunkenness but Sobriety!
*No Self but Christ!

Rev. 21:27
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

PLEASE, Save your Precious SOUL from HELL – Now!!!

No one can save their own soul. Stop all this kinda messages.

As Moses lifted up the bronze serpent, The Son of God is lifted up…(John 3:13-18)

His blood is the ransom for our souls, paid to God, because ALL have sinned. (1John 1:7-9)

Instead of preaching the Gospel of Hell, TELL THE WORLD THE GOOD NEWS.

Nobody sent you to preach the gospel of hell, so GROW UP!!!

People are living wasted lives because instead of showing them love, most of us are busy either threatening them with hell or acting like God’s only children.

1 Corinthians 13

1John 1-3
Beloved, do not put faith in every spirit, but prove (test) the spirits to discover whether they proceed from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into the world.

By this you may know (perceive and recognize) the Spirit of God: every spirit which acknowledges and confesses [the fact] that Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [actually] has become man and has come in the flesh is of God [has God for its source];

And every spirit which does not acknowledge and confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh [but would annul, destroy, sever, disunite Him] is not of God [does not proceed from Him]. This [nonconfession] is the [spirit] of the antichrist, [of] which you heard that it was coming, and now it is already in the world.

And 7-13
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is (springs) from God; and he who loves [his fellowmen] is begotten (born) of God and is coming [progressively] to know and understand God [to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him].

He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love.

In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him.

In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.

Beloved, if God loved us so [very much], we also ought to love one another.

No man has at any time [yet] seen God. But if we love one another, God abides (lives and remains) in us and His love (that love which is essentially His) is brought to completion (to its full maturity, runs its full course, is perfected) in us!

By this we come to know (perceive, recognize, and understand) that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His [Holy] Spirit.

Grow up and #sticktotheWord

You should submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Sin won’t take anyone to Hell…faithlessness in Jesus will.

So instead of Hell…  EVERYDAY JESUS is all you should preach.

#EVERYDAYJESUS…responds from his spiritual identity

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Rhapsody Of Realities TeeVo.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD.

Tuesday, May 17th 2016.

“IT IS WELL!”

(Your Life Responses Are Important)

2 Kings 4:26

“Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’ ” And she answered, “It is well.”

LET’S TALK.

When you read the scripture above in context, you’ll see that the Shunammite woman was rushing to go see the Prophet Elisha, because her son had just died.
On sighting her from a distance, Elisha asked his servant to go and enquire from her if all was well. When the prophet’s servant asked her, “Is it well with you, with your husband, and with your child?” she replied, “It is well.” At no time did she change her positive confession, and because of her persistence, she got her boy back to life. That’s faith!

What would your response be if the college you applied to sent you a rejection letter? Would you say, “Nothing ever seems to go right for me” or “It’s all working out for my good”? If your grades weren’t up to par as you wanted, would you say, “I’m just a flop” or “Success is my birthright”? If you received sad news from home, would you declare God’s peace over your home or break down in tears?

You must realise that it’s not just what happens in your life that’s important, but what you do about it. When the storms of life rage, you must learn to respond in faith and not according to your senses. Responding in faith will cause a change in the situation, while following your senses will cause you to be overcome.

To respond in faith, you need to fill your heart with God’s Word, because faith comes by hearing the Word. Besides, your response would always be based on what is in your heart. So, the next time you feel the squeeze of life, don’t cry, run away, or wallow in self-pity. Focus on the Word, and declare what it says about your situation.

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:37

Now normally I don’t like to copy and just paste stuff for you. But you see, a friend of mine is going through a difficult time, I almost want to ignore it all and leave him to it but that isn’t right. I see him holding himself together and all and I can’t help wondering..

Would I react the same in his shoes?

Of course I’m never getting in his shoes.

But you see there’s something Our Father told me once.

IF YOU LOOKED AT YOUR PROBLEMS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF OF ETERNITY…SEE YOURSELF IN THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH, WHERE YOU LIVE FOREVER…DO YOUR PRESENT PROBLEMS MATTER THEN?

YOU ARE ETERNAL. That’s a fact. Focusing totally on today’s issues like they are the deciders of your destiny is totally childish…

Don’t forget…😎

ALL THINGS {GOOD AND BAD} DO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THEY THAT LOVE GOD AND ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.
[Romans 8:28]

#EVERYDAYJESUS is your response

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Psalms 119:99-100
 I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers, because Your testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged, because I keep Your precepts [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying them].

Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].

In the light of the scriptures read, 119th chapter of The Psalms and 12th chapter of Paul’s Letter to the Romans, I see that saying continually to ourselves ‘I have a sound mind’ continually will neither activate, facilitate nor develop our minds.

But according to the scriptures, we must be conscious of the word. This we can do by bombarding our minds with the Word. Get recordings of sermons, find Gospel music that is spiritual because its scriptural, be disciples of Jesus and Love rather than tradition and complacence.

This way…our minds will be renewed because the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

That’s rest.

Look to Jesus by listening to the Word. Study it when you can. Listen to Christ in you all through the day. This way Everyday, Jesus is your response.

ELDRITCH

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Lord, don’t call me the unthankful for my eyes has seen more than my head could contain and my gaze on you seriously under the attack of
never ceasing turbulence that is aimed at wrecking my faith in you. You are kind, more than benevolent. You had warned me long enough to prepare against this torrential rain that has vowed never to cease long before I even smelled life at the corner. I can’t contain it again; I can’t thrive again by the weapons my hands have made. Am getting weaker in scheming better ways to fighting this menace that has shifted my gaze from you, to the so called followers of you that have so strongly clenched to their arm-chair-critic’s seat and when they are knowledgeable enough, they sit on this high professorial throne of “I know” and “the bible said”. Basking in their knowledge they are set on the mission of making a mockery of the few that had decided to embark on the “going into the world” mission, making them to feel like they are not qualified to uphold this mandate. They never bother about living out your life, neither do they care about bringing you joy by the way they carry themselves. But God, I am not trying to judge them. They are saints compared to me.
You see, God, I can see this strong decline from the standards you laid long before I was born. I could see myself answering “Mr. Light” yet my deeds are viler than that of the so called infidels. I try to cover my shortfalls with the platitude that, “it’s a gradual process, you can’t become like Jesus in a day”. I can’t deceive you or try to deceive my very self for every single line I try to straighten with my cook’s book ended up having flaws I’ll never be able to make plain. You see me even when I hide under the root of religious living like the Pharisees, it never got you daunted, neither were you flabbergasted by my window dressing acts. You were always waiting for me at the end of the tunnel, yes, to gently lead me back to the track. I’ve always treated you as a stranger trying to kidnap me at such times. I swap my Simcard and still claim that you were not reachable. So when you called, you met a dead end and when my network provider the Devil, Mr. Satan was kind enough, he would tell you in that mocking tone that my number was currently switched off, you were never giving up, you were bent on calling my number, yes, you never allowed insufficient airtime and low battery that I was always on to dissuade you from caring for me. You were there for me even when I did not value you.
But lord, you had prayed that the father would protect us from the evil one yet, evil has built its mansion inside our tent of worship. We see nothing as sacrosanct, the old fashioned way, and the way you established we have tagged “dated” and still claim that we are on the way of the cross. You were patiently with me, you cared for me. And here I am testifying of your kindness as I see this phase come to an end gradually. Few hours before the new moon will be sighted and you have never left the door of my heart, you keep banging on my door each time I forced you out even when I made the choices not to allow you anywhere close this mansion of sin I keep making more grandiose effortlessly as the day rolls by. But I have one thing to thank you for, “thanks for converting this edifice to rubbles each time you strike me with you word”, thank you for accepting the place of the captain once again, thanks for been the friend that has always been by my side like a lover, that you for always correcting me like a father should his son. Thank you lord, Jesus for all your cares.
Your son that has the fault of locking you out,
Symolean, Mikado Goodest.