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Sunday November 25, 2012
Emptied for glory
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Divine Message with Special Apostle James
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May God bless His word and His name be praised forever. The import of this message is your uniqueness. After every other thing has been created by God, our creator made man and poured Himself into the world through man in order for us to continue the work of creation and also make new discoveries to better our world.
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elcome aboard. Just another time in His presence. Feedbacks and messages are soul-inspiring and it simply showed millions are being blessed daily. As God’s total package after creation, divine power was breathed into you for earthshaking revival and hair raising positive revolution in your world but ask yourself – Are you in line with that divine plan? As repeatedly said in this column, God will not waste His raw materials to create a failure. He deposited great potentials inside you and as an investor, God expect you to deliver and bring results back to Him. This informed our teaching today – Emptied for glory.
Divine word
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply…” (Genesis 1 verses 26-28)
Hope for the Hopeless with Pastor Goke
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e want to bless the name of the Lord for answering the prayer of His church and for opening our eyes to our responsibility as a church. We made it clear last week that when the church prays and wakes up to her responsibility, then the miraculous happens, the unexpected comes to be, there will be peace in the land. It’s my prayer that whenever we call unto Him on behalf of this nation, He will be there to answer us. “Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with us; fight against those who fight against us! Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for our help. Draw out also the spear and Javelin and close up the way of those who pursue and persecute us. Say to us, I am your deliverance! Let them be put to shame and dishonour those who seek and require our lives; let them be turned back and confounded who plan our hurt! Let them be as chaff before the wind, with the Angel of the Lord driving them on! Let their way be through dark and slippery places, with the Angel of the Lord pursuing and afflicting them. For without cause they hid for us their net; for without cause they dug a pit of destruction for our lives, let destruction befall ( our foes ) unawares; Let the net they hid for us catch them: let them fall into that very destruction”. Father, it is time You open a new chapter for this Nation, so that the entire world will know that we have You as our God. I know our nights are over; we are in the very morning of our days. Today is going to mark the
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Thinking corner
•You were created by God to continue the work of creation by becoming creative and a co-creator with God. •You came into the world to raise a generation whose destinies are tied to the fulfillment of your assignment. •You are a critical factor to divine manifestations this present age. •God placed you there to manifest His nature. He stopped that work since He created you. •God will not come down to do your work for you. He gave you brain for Him to rest. •He called you fruitful and said you should multiply, anything less is not from Him. Are you really manifesting that? •God poured Himself into you after giving you divine breath for you to continue the outpouring in your world. •You must not go back to your creator until you have poured yourself into your world with nothing else to live for.
Change agent
You must not be counted with the numbers, you are unique, a positive change agent, pathfinder and a leading light. Jesus Christ left the world after 33 years, only when there was nothing else to live for – Has poured Him-
self into the world, finished His assignment and knew it was time to report back to the creator – the result – Apostle Peter, James, John and the rest continued the work for Christ has poured Himself and left the stage for them. It is not about age but the fulfillment of your purpose. Will you be marked for greatness after your demise or just by a passing word? You need to know that as God poured Himself into you during creation, you must pour yourself into your world and only leave once there is nothing to live for – It is not your choice but a divine demand.
Tablet One
Prophetic legend and God’s general with divine bombshell, Saint Moses Orimolade Tunolase, a man whose birth was remarkable and founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, worldwide came into the world and positively changed the course of history. He journeyed from Ikare, Ondo State to Lagos and turned the then Isale Eko [heart of Lagos] upside down for Christ with his evangelistic and prophetic exploits. His healing ministry traveled as far as the palace of the Queen of England and the records are there till today. By the time he left, he has poured himself into the world with Baba Aladuras Onanuga, Olugbusi, Ogunyadi, Lene Ogunfeyinmi, G.I.M. Otubu, Okeyemi, Onyeleonu, Prophet Gabriel Fakeye and the likes moving on with the great work he left behind.
Tablet Two
His exploits in his days was enough to guarantee you an interest free loan in the
bank. Heard the voice of an angel in the then Dahomey, now Republic of Benin, moved to Nigeria, took residence in the swampy Makoko area in Yaba, Lagos and turned the place into a tourist attraction. Stand for honours, Prophet Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oschoffa. The founder of Celestial Church of Christ, worldwide made giant strides in his days and got great honours that Pastor Abiodun Bada, Papa Ajanlekoko, Pastor Ajose, Pastor Owodunni, Rev. Mobiyina Oschoffa and Superior Evangelist Olaolu Kadri are firing on with the outpouring.
Tablet Three
Prayer Warrior with signs and wonders, Apostle Joseph Ayodele Babalola was too powerful in his days that his tomb is still thronged daily by followers who believed in signs and wonders. The founder of Christ Apostolic Church, worldwide poured himself into the world and the church still waxes stronger years after his demise. Prophets Obadare, Abiara, Babajide, Dr. Daniel Olukoya, Pastor Oluseye and the likes are spreading the vision daily.
Tablet Four
Prophet Josiah Olunowo Oshitelu, a man with an unrivalled gift of the tongues of heaven moved into the agrarian town of Ogere in the present Ogun State, founded the Church of the Lord[Aladura] and transformed lives positively.That prophetic move which birthed the annual Taborrah prophetic festival became a spiritual outpouring and Prophet Adejobi and other spiritual children to the present Primate, Dr. Okikiola Oshitelu are the evidence of the outpouring. •To be continued next week
The church should take up her responsibility beginning of our unending days of peace. “We will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted us up and have not let our foes rejoice over us. O Lord our God, we cried to You and You have healed us; O Lord, You have brought our lives up from Sheol. (the place of the dead). You have kept us alive, that we should not go down to the pit (the grave). Sing to the Lord, O you saints of His and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. For His anger is but for a moment, but His favour is for a lifetime or in His favour is life. Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning”. The book of 2 kings chapter 7:1 says “ Then Elisha said, Hear the word of the Lord, Thus says the Lord: Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria! (I mean to say in Nigeria). I like to declare and decree that the expiring date for our suffering in this Nation is now. All that has not been enough will soon be surplus, because Christ is our hope and our reality, in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are also his offspring . He forgets not His own. Anyone who says “it will never be well with this Nation, please Lord put them to shame and disgrace. I believe the time for God to intervene in the situation of this Nation is now. How long Lord, are you going to be silent and allow the wicked rejoice over the righteous, how long are You going to fold Your arms and allow the wicked have his way in this Nation. You never gave the enemies of Moses any opportunity to negotiate their way because it is dangerous to negotiate with the devil. Father, as from now withdraw your peace from them, let your mighty hand rest upon them for destruction. David said “because they hate peace, let it be far from them” Psalms 109:6-20. We are so rich in this country, yet we are living like a pauper, we were pilar of Africa but today outside world is regarding us as pilar of failure. Lord why are we so rich but poor, You
have endowed us with gifts ( mineral resources), Our land that was flowing with milk and honey is almost dried. Our leaders believes in national cake, followers believe in chop make I chop syndrome. Leaders have disappointed themselves, disappointed the citizenry, their immediate community and even You (God). They have dinned with the devil and they are now paying the price. They’ve sold out their conscience, looking for power where there is no power. The welfare of the electorate is no more their priority, princes and princess are walking with their barefoot while the servant are riding on horse-back. Abomination! It must stop now. Our liberation has turned to lamentation; our freedom has turned to free bound. O Lord if it’s our sin that has put us in this mess, please remember mercy. Habakkuk says in the book of Habakkuk chapter 3 verse 2 “ O Lord I have heard Thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the year make known; In wrath remember mercy”. Daddy, for the sake of the elect in this Nation, remember mercy and reinstate our hope. Don’t let our hope be dashed. One of the chief secrets to any successful ministry is a praying church. We talk often about the prince of preachers, do we? C.H Spurgeon, was asked a similar question on one occasion: what is the secret to the success of his ministry in this church? After the meeting he took that inquirer down under the main body of the church to a hall underneath; and there were hundreds of people praying while Spurgeon was preaching the gospel! Is there any wonder that people were being converted! While he was in the act of throwing the gospel net forth, there were people weeping and crying and travailing before God. Another giant in evangelism was Charles Grandison Finney; now you mightn’t have agreed with all of his theology, but you couldn’t deny that God mightily used him. He was no “here today, gone tomorrow” evangelist.
When he went into town he would stay there, perhaps, for months. He wouldn’t worry about the reaction of the people, he wouldn’t worry about the numbers, he wouldn’t even worry when people got so upset that they walked out of his meeting or sometimes the whole of the congregation followed that one person- because whatever he lost by strong preaching, he regained by his strong praying. Just as Moses had Aaron, Charles had two men that followed him everywhere. It’s amazing, the difference between Charles and us, is that he had that strong praying support. I think it’s right to say that our emphasis has change today, from praying to programmes. Programmes are not unimportant, but they’re not as important as praying. Our emphasis has changed from interceding to entertaining. Our prayer alter is no more hot, that is why you see nobody trying to show case himself as somebody. Ladies and gentlemen we must return to our old time religion. Elijah said “if I’m a man of God.......” let’s put this authority in use. It is important to have a good praise, exalt the Lord Jesus, we should get rid of this attitude that “anything will do for the Lord”, we should strive for the best and excellence for Him. Let us never replace interceding with entertaining, or even travailing before God with traveling. The sin of prayerlessness not only is tragically found in the life of individual believers, but it pervades the church of Jesus Christ in the west. To God, prayerlessness is sin, do you realize that? That there are not only sins of commission - that is, the thing that you do that God tells us not to do- but there are sins of omission, the things that we have left undone that we ought to have done. Probably very high in the “top ten” of those prayers. By His grace next week we will talk more on, “ Christians awake to your responsibility”. Remain bless in Jesus name. •You can reach Pst Goke Aniyeloye on gokeaniye@gmail.com or gokeaniye999@yahoo.com.