*LETTER TO Mr. FLESH - IN MY BODY*

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Welcome back to my blogsite. From now on wards, God willing,  I shall be more regular on this site because it will preserve its postings longer than any other platform.

Let's begin with this anonymous but very useful article I  have just read titled
*LETTER TO Mr.  FLESH - IN MY BODY*

The article captures the whole essence of Christianity and indeed our entire lives  - to make heaven.  It settles once and for all the incessant struggles between our flesh and our 'borrowed' soul which ought to return to its Maker. Let it guide us all.

*LETTER TO Mr.  FLESH - IN MY BODY*

(Romans 8:8)

EARLY IN LIFE
I THOUGHT YOU WERE ME

I HAVE THE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING NOW
THAT I BORROWED YOU, AND
THE REAL ME IS INSIDE OF YOU

I ALSO KNEW YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HEAVEN, NEITHER WILL YOU END UP IN HELL

YOU WILL NOT LEAVE HERE

YOU WILL GO UNDER THE EARTH

EVEN THE BONES WILL GET ROTTEN LATER

SO I HAVE DECIDED "Mr. BODY", TO KEEP YOU IN CHECK....

*YOU WILL NOT CONTROL ME

*YOU WILL NOT LEAD ME TO HELL

*YOUR LIFE SPAN IS 0-120
BUT AM GOING TO LIVE FOREVER IN ETERNITY, SO
I CAN'T SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL

*IF YOU ENJOYED SIN FOR 100years
AND I END UP BURNING IN HELL, THEN AM NOT WISE IF I ALLOW THAT

*WHEN AM EATING, YOU ARE THE ONE BENEFITTING
 
*WHEN AM SLEEPING IT'S FOR YOU ALONE, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT DOESN'T SLEEP

*ALL THE MONEY I HAVE RECEIVED IS FOR YOUR CONSUMPTION

*AFTER HERE NO RECORD OF THESE THINGS...

-I NEED SPIRITUAL FOOD
WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD

-I NEED TO SPEAK WITH MY MAKER, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

SO FROM NOW ON Mr. FLESH,
I SUBJECT YOU TO THE WORD OF GOD

*YOU WILL NOT CONTROL ME

*YOU WILL NOT DISCONNECT ME FROM GOD

*YOU WILL KEEP AND OBEY GOD'S WORD SO THAT I CAN GO BACK TO MY MAKER

*YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO LOOSE, BECAUSE AM THE ONE GIVING YOU LIFE

*YOU WILL BE REFERRED TO AS DEAD BODY AND WITHOUT ME THEY WILL BURY YOU

SO YOU BETTER BEAR ALONG AND KEEP FOLLOWING ME ......

Thanks for choosing to cooperate with me.

                     
 Your Subscriber (Mr. Soul-Spirit)

*Text*
I Corinthians 9:27.  
"But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway"

Read it daily. Keep sharing it.  

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Glory Be To God for Adding Another Year.

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“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psa. 90:12

E very year, I hardly remembered my birthday anniversary not to talk of marking it. Indeed, I most times I  don’t remember it because I saw myself as still being in the battle field where much ground needed to be conquered.  So I have fully engaged myself  that I hardly knew when the 22nd of July flew past.  

But every time I forgot, there were consistently many well-wishers amongst my family members and friends alike whose best wishes messages trooped in to serve as a reminder.  I am grateful to them just as I humbly pray to God for forgiveness for not offering Him commensurate thanksgiving as He  added more years.  So I publicly declare His goodness before the entire world this 22nd day of July 2018 as I turn 61 years!  

At 61, what are there to celebrate?  So many things.  It all began with my birth coming to the world.

Secondly, I was born into paganism.  My mother was particularly very devoted to idol worshipping. When He wanted to save both of us, He caused me to take ill, an illness which defied all solutions until, I was brought before Him in a crusade where He healed me. My mother lived the rest of her life serving God.  So of all I am, SALVATION is the foundation.  

Yes, I mean salvation came first, and its other benefits followed.  I wasn’t born with a silver spoon.  But He gave me a silver spoon by Himself.   He led me by His hand through my educational growth, education, marital, career, parenting and retirement pursuits and all came out to be very successful.   He trained my hands for war against poverty the end result of which is that my life became far better than my parents! Above all, anything and everything I lay my hands upon succeeds ad His favours surround me all the time.  I am enjoying peace ALL-ROUND. 

Dear reader of this message, if you haven’t come to Jesus, I tell you, you are missing a lot.  Accept him as your Lord and personal saviour today. Then you will understand what I am celebrating and share in the experience yourself. 

 So, please join me to celebrate my God at my 61st birthday anniversary!  God bless you.

   

WHERE OUR CHURCHES MISSED IT (PART 4)

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WHERE OUR CHURCHES MISSED IT (PART 4)

I don’t want to call people names, particularly supposed men of God.  However, I saw something was fundamentally wrong with that approach.  When a person raises an opinion that intends to build rather than destroy, that person’s action should not be termed antagonistic or ‘misleading’ particularly when he had addressed it to the right quarters (like a Pastors’ Forum) that can investigate and verify the claims he has made.  Unfortunately that’s the position of our senior Pastors in many contemporary churches.  They block avenues for improving the church and the leadership do not have cogent information to work with to improve the church.   And the churches continues with its old practices which are detrimental to their own growth. 
Some leaders, even when they get the information, all they say is “get out if you are not pleased with our policies”.  Whichever way the optimistic observer tilts, he is met with a brick wall.   The options left for him are: quit the stage or remain in there but be silent and watch things deteriorate. Many people adopt the latter approach and they act with insincerity of heart which the bible calls “hipocrisy”.  They don’t believe in what they are doing but they want to please man, not God which is the most dangerous thing to do.
I have talked majorly on three major areas where churches our churches need to improve upon:
1.  The monies they collect from people which make them look like business centres.  Collect monies that are biblically allowed.  Do not to say what is not biblically  mandatory is mandatory to cajole people to drop money unwillingly and at all costs.  There’s this confusion as to whether all the old testament laws are applicable in the New Testament.  Let’s leave tithing alone.  According to the old testament, men ought not to shave. Why are men of God clean-shaving today?  Men ought not to eat certain animals because they are unholy.  Catfish is one of them.  Today we do eat them.  Paul had serious encounters with the Jews who insisted that circumcision of the flesh is law but he tutored them to understand that ‘circumcision of the min’’ is more important.  Men ought not to divorce their wives but Jesus says that is God’s intention but the hardness of our hearts led us to do divorce.  A woman by the well had several previous husbands but Jesus said that even her then supposed husband was not her husband which means she has made wrong choices and has not even got it right.  Please let’s not get lazy, all these things are in the Bible. Asking me for the Bible Passages?  I urge you to read the Bible not just portions of it so that you can appreciate the context in which the Bible is talking. 
2. The uses they put the application of such monies so collected to be in line with God’s intention for collecting them.  People have been criticising our churches for building schools that their members cannot afford to send their children.   One thing ought to be made clear to the membership of our churches.  Let them know whether  it is the church that owns the church or the General Overseers.  There’s nothing wrong if a General Overseer owns a School.  Everybody will know that it is a private business and no unnecessary expectation will be placed on them for scholarship.  But if it is the church that owns it, no doubt many members of such church will expect that they get some benefits from them.  Our church leaders are silent on the ownership of the schools their churches seem to be running.  This has led to misconception and wrong expectations leading to avoidable accusations. 
I used to know a boy who lost both of his parents when he was very young.  Finally the grandmother relocated from Lagos to her village.  On getting to the village, the boy who was very skilled in drumming started using his talent for God in an orthodox Church.  The church took over the education of the boy and today, he is about completing his education.  This is a meaningful welfare package.  Whereas there are many Pentecostal churches today that have no adequate welfare packages to cater for the needy.  They know how best to receive, not to give. Yet they are building cathedrals! This unbiblical practices must be changed. 
3. Over-burdening the people with Crowded church programmes.  Over-crowded programmes are derailing the people being recycled to attend them psychologically, medically such that they lose focus on how to plan their lives.  For instance, churches take advantage of Holidays to make their members restless.  They have taken over their members’ week-ends 100%.  Many students have misunderstood spirituality and devoted less time to their studies and they failed.  It takes time to think through and it takes time to plan and get results on any pursuit in life.  Many have been overburdened with spirituality that they have no time left to think, plan and execute projects that would have bettered their lots.  Let me share a real life experience here to the glory of God and to the edification of man.   I studied privately after Primary education to become a University Graduate and get called to the Nigerian Bar.  It took hard work, devotion of ample time, energy financial resources and a lot of prayers for me to accomplish this.  I devoted ample time to my career yet I was schooling.  In spite of these, I looked after my home front.  Yet I did not sacrifice serving God to the best of my ability to the point that I attended as much of the Bible Studies, Colleges, etc and got certificated in all of them.  In the process, I got ordained as Deacon and finally an Assistant Pastor in a reputable church as RCCG and eventually voluntarily retired as an Area Pastor at age 60.   Today, I am all the better for all the efforts invested in all those directions.  Anytime I looked back, I give glory to God and I pat myself on the back for being wise not to ignore anything needed to be done.  How did I achieve these?  I must tell you that much as I was persuaded to devote my entire life to spirituality, I was able to discern that that would not profit me and I applied wisdom to give some time to other pursuits.

The story has changed today.  Many of our converts are so gullible that they can’t distinguish which programme to attend.  They want to attend everything because the churches lay more emphasis miracles without action which unfortunately, they believe in. When they review their lives later,  they discover that they made avoidable mistakes, some too late to correct!  For God’s sake let’s not over-saddle our church members with programmes that give them no time to attend to their private lives.  We cannot fix mid-week vigils and when the workers get to work and are unproductive and get punished for such and begin to send Holy Ghost fire to consume their superiors.  A lot of lives have been lost to travelling to Campgrounds for programmes that can be watched over the net.   For instance RCCG’s Dove Decoder is subscription free.  Why ask people not to come to the Camp Ground for what Dove TV can beam to them in their local parishes or private homes?    The cost of logistics is financially overburdening and the exposure to all sorts of travelling risks are there.  Many people (Pastors and families inclusive) that I know  have lost their lives to road accidents due to these exposures to imminent dangers.  It is not that we won’t die but we should not die so cheaply.

These are the truth that is worth considering by our churches.  I have nothing against anyone of them.  They are the representative of God.  However, their actions must protect the sanctity of their members lives by not exposing them to unnecessary hardships.  Here I rest my case.   May God Almighty help us, and our Church leaders not only to accept but to follow the path of truth that will set us all free in Jesus name.