Our weekly Prayer and Fasting activities continues. It holds as follows:

Mondays – Friday:  6:00pm – 7:00pm
Saturday – Sunday: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

The Mission department is embarking on a mission trip to a village called Abababubu in Ondo state.

Your contribution towards this journey will be highly appreciated. You can contribute in Prayers, Financial and Welfare materials like Food items, New Ankara Fabric, toiletries, good Shirts and Trousers, Bags of Rice, etc

You are hereby reminded of the Let’s Go a Fishing during this Easther period.
Let’s be prepared Spiritually, Financially and in physical appearance, as true service will be rewarded by God.

The venue of the Let’s Go a Fishing will be announced later.

In the part one of this message, we mentioned that there is no stagnation in life without a cause and, where there is no rain, there will be stagnation, fruitlessness, struggles and unprofitability. We also mentioned some conditions to be fulfilled in order to experience overflowing, namely: Access to Right information; Get yourself into the Ark of Safety; You must think God’s thought. Here are other conditions:

Believe GOD for your victory

Psalm 105:14-15- ‘He suffered no man to do them wrong: ye He reproved kings for their sakes; saying touch not my anointed, and do my prophet no harm.’

To attract God’s favour and backing in life is to have absolute trust in His thought concerning you. Noah believed God and did the unusual by building the ark and saved his household. (Gen.7:5-7). While the rain from heaven was acting as a destructive agent against God’s enemies (enemies of righteousness) the same rain acted as a means of divine upliftment and comfort for God’s people.

Make up your mind today if you want to overflow and the glory of God will come to your life. Where others sowed and could not reap, you will sow and reap in abundance. When men are crying over the threat of death, you shall rejoice over life and peace. When men are dying of  lack and famine, you shall look for who to distribute your excesses to.

Complete Obedience

Obedience to the words of God is very germane to overflowing. It is recorded that Abraham obeyed God completely and he became blessed and His blessing flows from generation to generation.

Fear of the Lord

Psalm 25:14-“The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and He will shew them his covenant.”

Psalm 128:1-Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord that walketh in His ways. Psalm 147: 11. “The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear Him, in those that hope in His mercy’

The above passages confirmed how God takes pleasure in those that fear Him, Hence it is very important to adapt your life to fearing God to have a guaranteed overflowing.

Giving

Giving is an attribute of God. He gave the most precious (Son) to salvage humanity at His own expense. Prov. 11:24- “There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is that with holdeth more than is meet, but it tendereth to poverty.

We should give, not in the house of God alone, but to as many that we are privileged to give.

No doubt if you follow all the mentioned principles, you will experience divine overflowing.

Remain blessed.

Don. Wole Bodunde

A lot of people have asked this question “If Jesus paid the price for our sin, why do we still suffer the consequences of our sin?”

 The Scriptures state, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23). Christ paid the penalty for our sin. We all deserve death, which is the ultimate penalty for sin. Everyone will pay for his sin unless he comes to Christ, who has paid the price for our sin with His blood. Adam and Eve suffered consequences for their sin by being expelled from the Garden. Instead of using the word “consequences,” we should think of the word “discipline.” The writer of Hebrews says about discipline and its purpose, “And have you entirely forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you, his children? He said, my child, don’t ignore it when the Lord disciplines you, and don’t be discouraged when he corrects you. For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes those He accepts as his children”.

“As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Whoever heard of a child who was never disciplined? If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children after all. Since we respect our earthly fathers who disciplined us, should we not all the more cheerfully submit to the discipline of our heavenly Father and live forever? For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always right and good for us because it means we will share in his holiness. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it is painful! But afterward there will be a quiet harvest of right living for those who are trained in the way” (Hebrews 12:5-11)

God shows His love by correcting us and/or using discipline to bring us to where He wants us to be. What does a good father do when he sees his child straying away from the right path to go his own way? He brings him back by means of discipline. Now discipline can come in many forms, depending on the seriousness of the offense. If a child is never disciplined or never suffers the consequences for his wrong action, he will never learn what is right.

Therefore, out of love, God disciplines those who are His. If you never suffered the consequence of your sin, how would you know when you are doing right or wrong? The psalmist says, “Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread; they wouldn’t think of praying to God” (Psalm 53:4). See also Psalm 10:11, “The wicked say to themselves, ‘God isn’t watching! He will never notice!’” If God did not bring about consequences, we would not learn from our mistakes and change our ways. God only disciplines those who are His, and He does this out of love for us, not to harm us or tear us down. It is God’s way of saying, “My child, you are going the wrong way, and it is time to turn around and do what is right.” If we are not corrected when we do wrong, then we will keep doing wrong.

God has paid the penalty for our sins so we will not have to suffer the second death, which is hell (Revelation 20:14). Because of His love for us, He disciplines us and brings us into the relationship with Him that He desires. So the next time you feel you are suffering consequences for your sin, remember it is God disciplining you out of love.

Finally, acts of disobedience to God’s laws will very often result in temporal consequences that have nothing to do with God’s discipline. For example, a murderer who comes to Christ and repents of all his sin will receive God’s forgiveness in the eternal sense, and he will enjoy full fellowship with God for eternity in heaven. However, the society in which he lives will still demand that he pay the price for his crime in a temporal sense. He may have to spend his entire life in prison or even be executed for his crime. But even in these situations, he can be greatly used of God while he waits for his ultimate redemption and eternal joy.

 Stay Blessed.

 Mike Ben