Saturday, 20 February 2016

You are uniquely different

“Jesus answered them, is it not in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;” (John 10:34-35)

“For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising” (Isa 60:2-3)

Beloved, a lot of us in the church do not truly know who we are. The passages above are the true pictures of the believer in the end-time church. We completely miss it when we identify with the world in the natural and miss our place in the supernatural. You are uniquely different.

Child of God, stop thinking the way the world thinks or you will keep suffering the way they suffer. Stop fearing what they fear or you will begin to fail the way they fail (Ps 1:1-3). Whatever the situation of the economy, as long as unto you, the word of God has come (John 10:35), you will continue to be fruitful and multiply (Gen 1:28). Why? 'You are a king and a priest in Christ packaged to reign on earth'. (Rev 5:10)

Though Job was perfect, upright, feared God and eschewed evil (Job 1:1), but he didn't realize that his case was different. Since he did not understand that he was under covenant, he feared what other businessmen of his time feared (Job 3:25) and also suffered like them. While Satan saw an hedge around him and all he had, Job was totally ignorant of who he was. (Job 1:10; Ps 34:7; Heb 1:14).

No matter the position of our economy today, no matter the number of sickness and plagues unleashed in the world today by the powers of darkness, if you are born again, you are completely secured in Christ and that makes you uniquely different!

Pastor Kelechi Nzeh.

Sunday, 31 January 2016

PASTOR'S REFLECTION

Go back to your old sin, your problem comes back

“After Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him; Beloved, thou art made whole; sin no more lest a worst thing come unto thee” (John 5:14)
This statement of Jesus clearly explains to us that once you obtain healing and deliverance from the Lord, you are expected to abstain from sin in order to maintain the healing or deliverance. A return to the old sin or another sin will result in you having the problem back even in a worst situation (Matt 12:43-45).
Total ignorance of this old spiritual rule and/or the deliberate refusal of many in the body of Christ is the reason there are many sickness and deliverance cases in the church today.
Beloved, it is very obvious from the passage that it was sin that caused the man's impotency of thirty eight years, and that was why Jesus was simply charging him to sin no more. Sin is dangerous and can make a person, family, business or ministry completely impotent spiritually, physically, financially, and otherwise.
It is the mercy of God that brings healing to one, but truth sustains it (John 8:32) and the marriage of mercy and truth guarantees righteousness and peace (Ps 85:10).
As we end the new year's fasting and prayer, let us sustain and perfect our healings and deliverances by abstaining completely from old habits and sins we have destroyed or renounced. If you build again the things you have destroyed, you not only make yourself a transgressor, but welcome back expressly old problem(s) in worst situation.

Pastor Kelechi Nzeh.

HYMN

LORD, ABIDE WITH ME
·  1. Abide with me! fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me!

·  2. Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day.
Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away.
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me!

·  3. I need thy presence ev'ry passing hour.
What but thy grace can foil the tempter's pow'r?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Thru cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me!

SUNDAY SCHOOL

TOPIC:    FOUNDATION OF FAMILY LIVING (PT1)
TEXT:    Deut. 6:1-25; Psalm 78:1-8
CENTRAL TRUTH:  The Bible Must Be Taught In The Home

Memory Verse:    Deut. 6:7

LESSON OUTLINE
1. WE MUST TEACH GOD’S WORD
2. WE MUST KNOW OUR SPIRITUAL HERITAGE

MORNING MANNER

THEME:     THE NAME OF JESUS

TOPIC:    CONCLUSION, USING THE NAME OF JESUS WITHOUT DEFILING IT
TEXT:        Isaiah 9:6

PRAYER BULLETS

1. O Lord, be praised for Your faithfulness and mercy over me, and my family.
2. Father, Let Your praise continually be in my heart, in Jesus name.
Psalm 23
3. Father, be the Shepherd of my family and the church as we go into the new month.
4. Let Your goodness and mercy accompany me throughout in new month and this week.
5. This week, I shall not lack any good thing, spiritually, physically, maritally, academically, financially, emotionally, materially etc, in Jesus name.

ANNOUNCEMENT

1. Bible Study holds every Wednesday, by 6pm.
2. Next Sunday: Prophetic and Holy Communion Service.
3.Evangelism Team meeting holds today immediately after service, for all the evangelism members.
4. Our 4th Anniversary comes up next month, 26th to 28th February, 2016.