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So, what I do when I see things like this in the Bible is to adjust my categories in my head. I won’t say, “Oh, well that can’t be, because I’ve got this category in my head.” No, no, no. You fix the categories in your head.

If once I thought of grace only as a character trait or a disposition or an inclination in the nature of God, which moved him to treat sinners better than they deserve — if that was my only conception, once upon a time — now, having seen all the texts, I broaden my understanding of grace as the Bible uses the term. Now I say, “Well, it appears that the word grace in Paul’s use not only refers to God’s character trait or disposition or inclination to treat people better than we deserve, but the word grace also refers to the action or the power or the influence or the force of this disposition, which produces real, practical outcomes in people’s lives, like being sufficient for good deeds or enduring the thorn in the flesh or working harder than everybody else, which Paul says about his own apostolic work.”

Now, that does not mean you have to give up that simple definition of undeserved favor. That’s true. That’s a good definition. It just means that the word also embraces the encouraging truth — at least I love the truth; that’s why these verses are so precious to me — that this favor overflows in powerful, practical helpfulness from God in your daily life where you most need it. That help is also called grace because it’s free and it’s undeserved.

Draw Near with Confidence

So, let me end with a precious verse that we all know and love and maybe have never thought about in this term of grace. Hebrews 4:16: “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace.” That’s a throne with the quality and the character and the inclination to treat people better than they deserve. That’s the kind of throne we’re coming to. But then it says, “that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Or a more literal translation: “that we may find mercy and grace for a well-timed help.”

It is incredibly encouraging that God’s grace is both the inclination of the divine heart to treat us better than we deserve and is the extension of that inclination in practical help.

Why Are You being Deceived By the Presence of the Anointing While the Character and Integrity are missing? Why do you think the Anointing Would cover up all those Character flaws? Why do you think your sonorous Voice and Gifted skills of Praises and Worships is all the Lord needs above your Personal Intimacy?

You are a gifted Actor, Who have blessed multitudes of Souls and heal many lives, But you are an Unrepentant lustful Child of God, Who Wins Souls for the Lord And Whose Soul is Sliding to Hell.

Why are you being Deceived By the Anointing of God you carry,

You Preach with all Conviction!

You Teach with all Persuasion!

You Sing with All Inspirations!

You Act with All Unctions!

And yet the Integrity is Lacking!

Your Lustfulness has injured many.

Your Covetousness have wounded a lot.

Your Pride had baffled multitudes.

Your Arrogance has astonished countless.

Yet, once you Mount the Stage and hold the Microphone, The Anointing descends like a shower! And the Congregation are soaked in the Power of His Presence!

Ah!ah!

I am seriously scared of this type of Anointing! I don’t want it! Anointing that Deceives the Carrier of it!

I don’t want it! Oh God! Don’t Anoint my Message If my Ways are not Right in Your Presence.

Don’t Show Up if I have missed it!

Why should I be Deceived to think that all is well When all are Wrong?

Why should I believe you are happy with me When You have long left me alone!

This Anointing of Samson! I don’t want this Anointing!

Anointing that would still be Working till Delilah shaved off the Dreadlocks of Power?

No warning Signal? Or the Signal wasn’t loud enough? Or it was Samson that never paid Attention?

No! I don’t want it! Did you noticed that,
Samson was still powerful and Anointed even after….

After Samson had had a One Night Stand with the Harlot of Gaza, He still had the Power to uproot the bars and posts and iron gates of the City of Gaza! He carried them all On his shoulder up to a journey of more than ten kilometres and carried them up to the mountain to dump them there. Anointing that Works after rising from the Harlot’s bed!

Why must Someone Trek A Thousand Miles, Before knowing he is on the Wrong path And turning back to start all over?

Beat me Now, if I am wrong!

Flog me Now, if I miss it.

Deal with me.!

Correct me.!

Prune me.!

BUT DON’T LEAVE ME!

STOP THE ANOINTING, WHEN I MISS IT!

Don’t let it be like Pressing Iron, that is still Hot After the Power is removed from Socket!

So, my Brother! So, my Sister! That you Carry incredible Anointing to fulfill your Ministry of Teaching, Acting and Singing, Does not Give you the License not To live RIGHT !

DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE ANOINTING.

You could carry the Anointing And still Miss it in the End! IF YOU DO NOT LIVE RIGHT!

May the Lord God of Heaven grant us Sense with His Anointing!

Brother Clifford made it a duty upon himself that come sunshine or rain, he will be at the Train Station distributing Gospel Tracts to passengers as they board or leave the train! This he did faithfully for several years!
One day at the church service after a rendition by the choir members in church, the choir was appreciated, praised and given a standing ovation. Brother Clifford, instead of being happy for them was very sad. He thought his soul winning efforts was not being acknowledged, rewarded and recognised by the church members and ministers.
He also noticed that nobody from the station has met him to say thank you for what he has been faithfully doing over the years.
Brother Cliffird decided to abandon the trips to the Train Station. Instead he joined the choir and started singing with them. To his surprise he was warmly welcomed. He discovered also that very soon he was singing and receiving standing ovations. He concluded in his mind he has just made the right decision.
One day, he sang Psalm 23 as a solo and by the time he finished singing, the whole church including the pastoral team and the elders were on their feet clapping and giving him a standing ovation.
Suddenly there arose an old man, a stranger in the midst of the congregation who asked to sing the same song while the church was still on their feet clapping for the soloist.
Against protocol, the pastor cynically allowed the old man to sing.
By the time the old man finished singing, the whole church was on their knees, some weeping, others praying in repentance.
That day, there was no more sermon but an altar call. With sinners giving their lives and backsliders returning to their first love and the whole church rededicating its life.
Brother Clifford, the evangelist in choir robe, felt a deep hole in his heart. He felt empty. He saw the difference between entertainment for the appreciation of men and the ministration for the appreciation of heaven. He left the church with a heavy heart.
Without thinking of removing his choir robe, he headed for the Train Station empty handed as if in a trance. Getting there he met a man in the same spot where he used to stand to distribute gospel leaflets before. The man was distributing gospel tracts and handed him one. The Tract read “I WILL BE A FAITHFUL SOLDIER, I WILL DIE AT MY POST”. It ended asking, “are you a faithful witness of the WORD?”
With tears in his eyes and a shaky voice, he asked the man how he came to start distributing the tracts at the spot in the Train Station. The busy man, not looking at him, told him of a dead man who used to come there come sunshine and rain to distribute tracts. That for months the man has not been there. He told him that he believed and concluded the man must be dead. He said the dead man once gave him a tract before that changed his commitment to Christ. And since the man was dead, he felt God wanted him to replace the dead man to continue the good work in the memory of the dead man.
The man kept emphasising, “The Dead Man, The Dead Man” which further sent Brother Clifford back to his knees weeping and asking for God’s forgiveness.
Hmm…
If you are still reading this believe me, God has set you up to read it because He has a purpose for your life.
Have you left your assignment because of some discouragements from cynics and critics?
Have you abandoned the unheard, unseen and unsung praise of heaven for the standing ovation of men?
Are you like the evangelist in choir robe? Or are you like the singer singing to entertain in church – the place of entertainment is in the theatre not the church.
The church is for ministration in the Spirit by Worshiping God in The Spirit and The Truth.
GOD ASKED ME TO TELL YOU TODAY THAT HE IS A GOD OF SECOND CHANCE RETURN TO YOUR FIRST LOVE TODAY

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This got me Thinking:
Anybody that died below 70years in the church of E.W KENYON he raised him back to life…

A man called Saint Patrick did not only raise dead people back to life…

He was also raising dead animals and dead trees back to life…

An illeterate that was rejected admission into Bible school disappeared from the community and people thought he had committed suicide…

2 months after, he resurfaced in a place where someone died in the community…

As they saw him, all of them ran away… Thinking he was a ghost…

He went straight inside the room the dead man was lying…

He didn’t pray… He didn’t open the Bible…

He just got there. Called the man’s name and told him:

“Please, stand up now, because i want you to accompany me back to the train station …”

Immediately, the dead man heard his voice, he rose up from the dead and followed him out of the room…

People saw them and were following them around to wherever they were going…

When they got to the old rail way station, he entered there with his new friend that just came back to life …

That was when people knew that he was not dead all these while he disappeared…

He was there looking for the power of God…

Since they rejected him admission into bible school, he made up his mind to look for God or die looking for God …

By The next morning, it was already on the news that a dead man came back from the land of the dead to raise another dead man back to life…

That old railway became a tourist center…

People were coming to see the dead man that rose another dead man back to life…

But as he would be explaining to them how it all happened, the power of God would hit them…

Some of them would be on the floor crying for their sins, until the next morning…

Other people will come there and meet them there…

The next time he went back to the school to seek admission…

All the teachers in the school gathered around him, begging him to teach them how to raise the dead…

As he was explaining to the teachers of the school, students sited him and gathered there…

As he saw their hunger to manifest the power of God, he released the power of God upon them …

And both teachers and students were impacted…

As they left there, they began to heal all manner of sicknesses…

That was how a massive revival broke out in that little community that lasted for about 100 years…

I am tired of coming online to see carnality being displayed by carnal men and women…

I am now ashamed of the days I wasted time noticing those that are not noticing me and those that are noticing me …

There is a higher calling…

We can’t remain in this level and expect to bring revival in our communities…

Suddenly, you have lost your burden to bring Jesus to your community…

Sir, check your new friends…

Suddenly, all your prayer request is for God to give you this and that…

No more passion for the Kingdom…
No more desire to take the gospel to some areas in your street…

Sister, you need God to revive you again…

Imagine if we have such a man in your family…
Tell me where the witch will come from to fight your business and marriage…

Imagine if you become such a man that raises both dead trees and animals back to life…

Tell me why the people troubling all the male children in your fathers house will not come to apologize to you…

We lost everything when we began to struggle to gain everything…

We failed everywhere when it became obvious that we have failed in the place of prayer…

Many families and communities are still doomed to premature deaths and chronic poverty…

Because those who God is expecting to carry the Fire there are on Facebook looking for those that will help them fight their enemies…

I wish God will open our eyes to see how backward friends have kept us all these years…

I wish we will tell ourselves the truth that we are far behind…

There is a program hanging over out heads that have not been fulfilled yet…

There are people that needs to enter into another dimension of power…

There are people that needs to rededicate their lives to the cause of the Cross which they once carried brazenly…

SCRIPTURE: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8:14.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Sensitivity to the leading of the Spirit is key to being led by the Spirit.

Our anchor Scripture makes it clear that being led by the Spirit is a mark of sonship in Christ. True sons of God are led by the Spirit of God.

It is very important to understand how the Spirit leads. Sensitivity to the leading of the Spirit is key to being led in the Spirit.

Let me give you examples: There are times you wake up in the morning and you don’t have a leading to eat. Food may be available but you just don’t feel like eating. The truth is, you do not eat just because food is ready; you eat because there is a need to eat.

When you slept the previous night, you did not plan to fast at all, but when you saw food, you just lost your appetite. In such a case, do not force yourself to eat by all means because food is on the table. Sensitivity directs that the Spirit is leading you to fast for that day or at least for some time.

You might also have planned a journey you wanted to embark on but you just lost your peace about it. Everything has been planned but you do not feel like going. Do not force yourself to go on that journey; listen to the Spirit of God.

Sensitivity is key to the leading of the Holy Spirit. People who are not spiritually sensitive would find it difficult to know how God leads.

My counsel to you today is to be sensitive to God’s instructions. Do not be in a hurry to do anything. Always try to know what God wants you to do per time.

Remember this: Sensitivity to the leading of the Spirit is key to being led in the Spirit.

ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Go through today’s message again.
2. Be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit. Do not force yourself to do anything you have lost your peace about.

PRAYER: Lord, I ask for the grace to be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit. Sharpen my spiritual perception and sensitivity, Lord, in Jesus’ Name.

FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE SPIRIT OF GLORY.

QUOTE: If you need the power of God in your life, if you need the visitation and move of the Holy Spirit in your life, then Word must combine with Spirit to generate power! Culled “GO IN THIS THY MIGHT” by Dr Paul Enenche.

DAILY BIBLE READING: Nehemiah 12-Esther 1.

AMAZING FACT: Israeli academics produce more scientific papers per capita than anywhere else in the world. Being connected to God is the secret of wisdom and greatness.

PROPHETIC WORD/DECLARATION: May God assist you with true sensitivity in this season in Jesus Name.