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I said, you are using the pretenders to judge the rest of us. I say it all the time. If you're a student on campus, especially when you're a preacher, don't lie that you are failing for the gospel sake. Do you get my point? There's a simple reason why Christian leaders don't pass on campus. They kno...
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is the self, the natural human flesh that does not allow people receive the promises from God. That's what I'm saying. That doesn't allow those things to manifest. So Peter said it like this. He said we have the promises. Paul said it also, we have the promises. Paul said, for us to receive those pr...
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For we are the temple of the living God. Just as God said, I will dwell in them. Now, these are the sayings of God. I will dwell in them. I will walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be my people. He said, therefore, come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And do not...
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Whatever is born of God overcomes. It's not whoever, is that what he said? Whatever, every idea, if it's a scientific invention, if it's one of those things that God brought out from heaven for you, it will overcome. You are getting my point? If it is a medicine, a discovery, it will turn around hea...
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He granted us his precious and magnificent promises in order that by them we might become partakers of the divine nature. What he was saying is that God has his ability. God has his traits, his characteristics. Now for you to partake of it means for it to be manifested in your life. Are you getting ...
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and your godliness, brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness, love. Verse eight says, if these qualities are yours and increasing, now notice the word that they are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks thes...
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the sayings of God. And see, from what Peter is saying here, that those things we discussed, then the sayings of God, they are the ways by which, you see, those are the promises of God. That's verse 4. He said, He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises. We looked at those things for...
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Alright, let's begin from the book of the second letter of Peter. Let me read from verse Two, having introduced himself in verse one, Peter said, grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining t...
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The Word of God is always correct. The Word of God is always true. Even if things don't look like that at the beginning, you can be certain that God's Word will eventually be proved to be true. And like I say all the time, God hardly spends time telling us what is obvious. If you see the word of God...
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That's why I said the greatest victory, the greatest victory is what I'm talking about. Peter said it like this. He said, add to your faith virtue. Moral excellence is the word my Bible here uses. We've talked about the promises of God. When I wrote the book, How to Walk for God, this is where I spe...
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It is not what we call a church. We don't meet on Sundays. We don't have all those things. It's just an avenue to release this anointing and let people run with it. All right? So it makes sense to be able to close. I mean, it was a big day. You close. Boric Jonah is a church. Yet he will shut the do...
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All right? Making decisions based upon how they feel, how their body moves about the situation. That if you are like that, you are inferior. All right? Even though you have a lot of money, you are inferior to somebody who can rule over his spirit. That is, if a man is angry, that doesn't propel him ...
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oolish woman; bush woman.” I actually heard a
man call his wife mumu-wife (In Nigeria, mumu
means something like a dunce or retard).
Whatever the man called a living creature, that was
its name.
My dear Mr Husband, your words have mighty
power over your wife, more than you have
imagined. The ...
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bad about it.
Outside you will think she is tough, but inside she
admires those women who don't have to do what
she is doing. The problem is that it is usually too late
when she finally realizes this.
THE CURSE OF EVE
We know the story of Eve as told in the book of
Genesis chapter 3. Adam had given...
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in this matter; it empowers
him to tap into divine wisdom. I like the way my
wife says it; “So, my husband, what do you say?”
That decision she made to behave thus has saved her
from a lot of trouble.
Marriage is not a democracy. In fact there is no
democracy in the things of God. God simply rules ...
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to throw the authority to the fore, you may just
have as much problems in yourself as the person
you are claiming is not submissive. You should have
a teaching spirit and make yourself easier to obey.
I mentioned earlier that submission is a matter of
faith and a matter of understanding. A woman
sh...
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s because the word of God is in his
mouth, and he did not say what to do concerning the
sacrifice if he does not come.” Submission looks for
wisdom and counsel in the mouth of the person of
authority.
I am a specialist doctor involved in training both
medical students and specialist doctors. I was
...
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olish to be
submissive. You will see your husband do things
wrong again and again and you will come to the
reasonable conclusion that it is risky to follow this
man. That is how spiritual things work.
Submission is an attitude; it is not just a yes-sir
behaviour. Like I say to my wife, “I am anoint...
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t, and He did it. I claimed it by faith
from those words of Solomon. Any man who
believes in Christ Jesus can do that too.
*Married December 1999
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TAKE IT BY FORCE
One of the problems with the societies and churches
of God that go against the wo...
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spot
in your life; a name that her father or mother can't
use, and your children too. A name that no man who
is not eagerly looking for the wrath of God will dare
to call her. I call it a love-name.*
*On a lighter mood, one of my friends calls his wife Sweetheart
and she calls him the same. When th...
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who wants the favour of God must first renounce
worldly thoughts and accept the thoughts of God.
This book is about creating the right imaginations
and expectations in the hearts of the people of God.
We must know what God calls a husband, and what
He calls a wife. We must know these things!
We mu...
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o produced is born of God and it
overcomes.
Let us go together in this book and create
expectations of marriage from the Word of God.
INTRODUCTION 17
*How to be a Christian. Being a Christian is not hereditary and
is not passed on by association. I...
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t hearing all the stories
of who said what to who. It was not going to work
and he knew it. He led them in a prayer of
circumcision of the marriage, and the romance and
affection returned immediately.
I have used this story to point out that Christianity is
not psychology; we walk by the power of t...
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e
already mentioned, authority figures are not
permitted to directly oppose the written word of
God (Acts 4:19). If it is something that is against the
word of God, of course the woman cannot obey it.
I need to add however that this kind of question
rarely comes up in a Christian home running
norma...
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have no option. You cannot have
a concubine; you will walk into a curse that way. You
cannot divorce her; you will also be disobeying God.
So what option do you have left? Get the love back
by force!
The problem is that the church has left the word of
God and have joined the world in trying to get ...
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the end of a decade of marriage than at the
beginning. By that time I had been married for close
to 10 years, and it was the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.
How did I achieve that?
point will eventually become violent out of frustration, as they
try to get their wives to submit. ...
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ey
were right, I kept it for my use only because my wife
said it was too small for her needs and she preferred
the one she already had, a Sienna minivan, which
could accommodate her load and the kids.
Let us men get dirty at home with household chores
with our wives. It is not against being a real ...
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how I always wanted
to marry someone who the word of God could
mould, and I married my wife because she was so.
He told me this after he observed how my wife
would defer to me in matters and show it.
What I am saying is that it was not natural to her too,
but was a product of the word of God, and a...
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cuss this
matter of unity. Money is very important and is
about the single most important thing in life that
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shows where someone's heart is.
In most marriages today, the husband has his
money, and the wife has hers. She does what she
likes...
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he is to be to her but he
will either be unwilling, unable or both. The genesis
was when she took over his place, thinking she was
wiser and knew how to lead.
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I have seen this curse play out again and again in the
lives of women. I have seen many tough wome...
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d. She said nothing further but the Lord did
not keep silent. In their case Abraham even
appeared right to the common mind, yet the Lord
ruled in favour of Sarah and made her husband do
what she said.
So she turned to Abraham and demanded, "Get
rid of that servant and her son. He is not going ...
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d the New Testaments tell us what to do and what
not to do.
Show your fear of God by standing up in the
presence of elderly people and showing respect for
the aged. I am the LORD. Lev 19:32 NLT
Some people think this is African culture, but it is
not; it is called the-fear-of-God culture. Pa...
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ings.)
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This book is not just about marriage, but about
creating expectations from the word of God about it.
It only has value for those who respect His word.
If you are reading this I assume you are a child of
God. I assume you have given your life to Jesu...
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cludes
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o ask for positions
from the Lord and He told them in simple language
that they did not know what they were talking
about (Matt 20:22).
INTRODUCTION 13
When our thoughts differ from those of the Lord on
a matter, we hinder His ability to bless us. Th...
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ase for
mutual submission too in that I always pay keen
attention if they seem to not agree with a decision I
am making on a case. There are times when it is a
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case of because-I-said-so but those are rare and are
needed only when there is crisis and the
subo...
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headship and submission in the home
even though it is a very touchy subject for
most women. Touchy or not, the truth must still be
taught, and that truth comes from the word of God.
Life has a structure and marriage has an order.
There are offices in life and there are ranks of offices.
O...
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t is not a
romantic treatise designed to be appealing to the
senses. It is simply an exposition of the word of God
on marriage.
I trust your life will be touched as you read this
book.
Pastor Bankie
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This book is not just about marriage, but about creating
expectations from the word of God abou...
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tings of the elders of the
people. We all met it on the earth. God created it from
the very beginning as He was making the first man
and the first woman.
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re you ready to walk in the way that leads
to true joy and happiness in ...
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blems arise only because the couple, at
least one of them, allowed it.
A word, it is said, is enough for the wise.
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Sir, could you kindly address the issue of
denominations as it relates to marriage. We have
been t...
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m. Never behave towards
him like you think you are wiser than him or more
spiritual (a very common problem with female
church leaders). That is an effective way of sowing a
bad seed for your marriage.
Call your husband a name that stimulates
leadership. 'My husband;' 'My prophet.' Anything
but his ...
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We'll go back there in a moment. One of the most important prayers Christians must learn to pray is about themselves. And what I mean is this. Like, sometimes when I'm talking with my wife, I'll tell her that, look, this is what I, maybe we're analyzing the situation. I say, maybe I'm wrong. But as ...
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Eli was analyzing how God does things here, from verse 13. He said, why do you complain against him that he does not give an account of all his doings? He said, indeed God speaks once or twice, yet no one notices it. How does he speak? In a dream, a vision of the night, when sound sleep falls upon m...
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You can't give to anybody. You have no money for any other thing but to use to look good. No way. One day you could travel. It's only that one that contains your goods that they will take. You know what God is trying to teach you? A man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things that he ...
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You know why God judged him harshly? Because he took time to devise evil to cover his iniquity. That's why he was judged harshly. He went and took another man's wife is bad. Please get my point. Nobody is saying, what's the big deal? After all, he's only a man's wife. That's a very wicked sin. Do yo...
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Are you getting my point? So when we're talking about purification of heart, is that eradication of the thorns that are inside the heart? Last time I explained that you can't do it yourself. I said the power of the believer is what? The power of what? Prayer, confession. In Psalm 32, he said this is...
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You know the reason? He doesn't want to go to jail. It's a terrible experience. But the thing that leads to going to jail, he can't change it. So he starts making excuses. That's why he thinks that the sin is in being caught. I watched a movie some time ago. A man was in prison. He asked the other g...
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A lot of these satans, they don't, that is, if you know how useless they are. You know, sometimes when we practice in Christianity, I ask people, read the scriptures and check where those who, these things were recorded for our learning. The people who taught us the fundamentals of Christianity, Pau...
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deliverance. Now, that's what I want. There's a scripture I want us to read. Psalm 119. I want to prove that god indeed causes trouble. You can call it allow, can call the cause, just know that if he allows, you can't rebuke that satan. Verse sixty-five. Psalm 119. He said, thou has dealt well with ...
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And his children were his goods. His servants, his workers were all his goods as far as God was concerned. So they killed all of them. No matter how much that Satan hated Job, he couldn't touch his flesh. He came back and said, have you considered my servant Job? Satan said, yes. He's not cursing yo...
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that what he would like to do now is to go back to all the people he had preached to, to tell them, I'm sorry, I lied to you. The things I preached to you were not true. I'm sorry, I thought they were true, but I have found out that that is not life. One of my friends read this writing in a newspape...
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It is the devil. Are you getting my point? We don't look inwards and say, search me, oh lord. And check whether there is any hurtful thing within me. We blame everybody. The pastor was telling me about it. Probably you go around blaming. These great men of God are wicked. After serving him for 12 ye...
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Now the psalm starts thus, it says, Be gracious to me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, according to the greatness of thy compassion, blot out my transgressions. wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin, for I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Again...
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you can do for yourself as a Christian is not to be correctable. to be stubborn, to find it hard to take correction. This is the way we have always done it and one of the people who don't like taking correction is just that they don't want to accept they were wrong. Now, let me say that again. I'm g...
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Are you getting my point? We emphasize that. But that's what one needs to go through is a purification of the heart is a process that every believer must go through in his or her life. And that is actually the main job that God has given you and God has given me. I explained last time that God could...
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I will punish you first. So as to remove this candle because one day we come when you will fly a jet. If pride is your problem on this your own what will be the issue now when I give you a jet? You buy a brand new suit made in China. I erase you like this. Your leg not touch the ground again. What a...
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He said, verse three, when I refused to confess my sin, I was weak and miserable. And I groaned all day long. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Verse five says, finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hi...
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He said, we did everything, we did everything, we did everything. The sheep, the sheep, just the man who brought it for sacrifice, for sacrifice. Well, we didn't kill the king, but what's the point? Everybody's dead. It's not a people-less king. It's an effectively dead king anyway. He said, but you...
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Do you get the point I'm making? What's happened as the seed of God inside you is directing your new course in life. That's what I'm explaining. Number one way God corrects you is that one. Simple. You have been nudging your heart. You go somewhere, you hear a word. David knew what he was doing was ...
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Do you get my point? Look, my wife told me the other day that she went somewhere for a women's meeting. One woman was preaching. And she was talking about how to handle your husband with wisdom. Ah, that's... Can I remember the story properly? Anyway, let me summarize it. You handle your husband wit...
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When I got there, he said, you can stop here. I said, no, sir. Where is it? I want to drop you at your gate. I kept on driving. Finally, the man said, OK, it's OK now. I said, are you sure you're all right, sir? He said, yes. You're sure? I don't have to drive you further. The man said, no, my house...
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a whole child of God like you. One single devil went after your business, it finished it. Went after your health, it wrecked it. This devil came, went after your marriage, your wife and your children, they've left you. This devil came and he just came here to let people know that you still believe i...
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is God that gives the increase. People say, oh God, those words sir, you have blessed my soul. No, God be praised. I thank God. And when I say it, I'm not telling them, I'm telling myself and I'm telling the Lord, God to you be the glory. I say, very fine. If you do like that, I will raise it to big...
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I said, now go upstairs, go and lie on your bed, and go and sleep. Five minutes later, he was fast asleep. Yes, it's a scriptural way to do it. I mean, I wasn't angry. It took me time to, I was in the study, I was working. When I came down slowly, knowing what I was going to do, because I first chec...
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and then they will give him money. You are getting the point I'm making. Now, but then he not knowing, I said that the way I see it is that the guy was a good man. That is, he had the seed of God in him. He had not just grown yet. He had walked in the way of the world for a long time and he was begi...
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So we took one of our friends who was in town with us and after the meeting we talked for a very long time. We were analyzing things that were going on in the body of Christ and it was so painful seeing the kind of thing that the church of God has degenerated to. Let me say this to you again. I say ...
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Sometimes people are telling me what is wrong and I don't correct them. If you are younger than me, I don't waste time. All right? But usually when it comes to my friends, my mates, that's when I have a problem. It's not as if I want to deceive them. Yes, I don't know how to just, you know, just tel...
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a reference point. One day, issues will come up and they will refer to it. Another person, one day, will correct the person. All right? And then, that's how the Holy Spirit works. I'm going to bring out something here. That the first way by which God corrects people, all right, is just by words simp...
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any of us would rather start a process of deliverance, praying all night and sowing seeds that are supposed to break the yoke. Ignorance!
A Christian can have challenges; it is not a sign of a curse!
There are 3 sources of 'problems' in the life of the believer.
1. Ignorance. This can be as it aff...
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e will not allow you to be tested beyond your power to remain firm; at the time you are put to the test, he will give you the strength to endure it, and so provide you with a way out.” 1 Cor 10:13 TEV
Hey, even blessed people have had those disappointments! Read the story of one of them here.
“23 ...
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hard only for the man who is cursed. The fact that life can be hard is the reason why Jesus promises His reward only to the overcomer. Why should He talk about overcomers if things will not be tough?
The promises of God for your life are real, but there are many obstacles and adversaries on the way...
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spite that however, it is still
a thing to be done. We must master the flesh and make it do the
bidding of the spirit.
If you understand this, understanding arranged marriages will not
be so hard.
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any
facets.
Sir, I understand that the Bible says a woman
should be submissive to her husband in all
things. But what about a situation in which a
man requests his wife to do something that is
wrong?
I will lay a few points clearly out here. One, submission is an
attitude. I have explained that ex...
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often necessary; seeking
them is absolutely out of order. If they come we will accept them,
but we are not allowed to seek them. We are to seek only to
understand the ways of God by His written word.
3
In Acts 10, Peter fell into a trance and saw a vision in which the Lord told him to
stop calling...
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ethnic group and one race. That race and
group is called Christ
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Next we will see some of the things that constitute errors in criteria
for choice-making in the li...
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s the victory that overcomes. It is our faith. Whatever
is so produced is born of God and it overcomes.
Let us go together in this book and create expectations of
marriage from the Word of God.
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ak nicely and kindly to anyone persistently for some time
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and the person will start having feelings towards you, especially if it
is a woman.
A lot of ...
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ement has the
temple of God with idols? 2 Cor 6:14-16
We see from these verses that the doctrine of opposites attracting
is to be reserved for shallow matters that are not the main meat of
life.
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everything he owned, his offer
would be utterly despised. Song 8:7 NLT
Let me state it again: your duty is to declare your true self; it
is the woman's duty to decide whether she likes it or not.
AVOID DECEPTION
Deception is something we must all avoid, both men and women.
As a woman, don't...
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estions.
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CHAPTER 12
How To Find True Love
Love
The proper description for what is called falling in love
is emotional captivation. Love is not a...
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tly far above all we can
ask or by ourselves even imagine.
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Most of what is often found in the hearts of people are formed
by the society, by fleshly desires ...
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God); rather, carnality will
be shown in what kind of woman I like.
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A brother came to me once and we were chatting. At a point he
asked if the Lord spoke to me about ...
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like. Being carnal is not in going by what I like (I do
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pleasure to be pleasing to God); r...
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It is your habitual way of thinking that determines whether you
are carnal or not. This is what determines what you like and what
you do not like. Being carnal is not in going by what I like (I do
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oes not
belong to Him. Rom 8:9
The spirit of a person describes the force pushing someone and
this is what determines the direction the person is headed in. My
wife was not perfect, neither was I. A perfect man or woman is one
in which there is no need for improvement, and is someone you do
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he will of God from being manifested.
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CHAPTER 11
Spiritual Tomfoolery
That was the first thing God asked him when Adam
claimed he was naked: “Who told you that you wer...
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ll-trained through
use, and you have learned to approve that which is excellent, there
is a good chance you will only fall for a true love. Even then, it
still must be tested with clear and open eyes.
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ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your sight;
Keep them in the midst of your heart.
For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their whole body. Prov 4:20-22
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g up and kept me with another until I was ready
to meet what He had planned, and till she was ready to meet me.
We had a good laugh about it.
Don't forget, it is the sinner that will be captured.
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will become what her mother
is, and being fat is a sin.)
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"Does he have financial responsibilities? (I want to be the only
project he has to solve as you kn...
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there is no need for
improvement, and is someone you do not want.
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yet. It is not possible to marry ...
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we reject the counsel of the word of God
and accept the counsel of the world. If you read the gist in Isaiah
chapter 55, you will see that an unrighteous person is known by his
or her thought pattern.
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rld, and I have no
word for them; my issue is with those of us who call ourselves
Christians but who have not bothered to check with the word of God
about this matter of racial and ethnic segregation. Many Christians
are praying for the will of God in marriage, but they do not forget
to remind the L...
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ed for shallow matters that are not the main meat of
life.
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What I am saying is that you will only attract your true type. No
matter how hard you pray and how...
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n times in which
someone falls in love and the whole thing turned out good; however
the concept of falling in love is too dangerous to act on. I do not
think you should stay in anything you fell into.
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See, when we believers pray about the will of God in marriage,
we are not asking what the Lord thinks of the person.
Do you like him?
Do you think she is beautiful?
Do we look nice together?
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airs of this life and about marriage in particular. One of
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the men was quite impressed with the thoughts I expressed. He
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ith your example of faith is just a
gamble. The fact that you married him despite the fact that you know
he is not a believer is all the example he needs to know that your
faith is not serious to you.
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The idea of being a believer is about the spirit someone is open
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eria are these that you are using to make the
judgments of your life?
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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that you m...
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tell me what women should look like. Without going into
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details, I have watched in the few years I have lived as the societal
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anything I was careful not to use the scriptures to support my
point, even when I had some to use; I felt it would not be a fair
discussion and I was being careful not to abuse my office as a
teacher. She testified to me one of those days that a major reason she
agreed to marry me was that she felt ...
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enough investigation in the life of any potential
husband or wife to defend yourself against these troubles of life. You
can only pray and put your confidence in the Lord. That is the ONLY
safe place.
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in your way.
"Thank you for a new life.
"Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer, then a new life has begun. Your new duty is to start
learning the ways of the Lord, that is what it means to be a disciple.
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anything and which changes with the
weather.
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When parents directly oppose God's word in their opposition,
then it is time to be the light. Expla...
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e to
change him or her. It is not the right thing to do.
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I know it may be hard to get up out of the love you fell into,
but there is the power of prayer to...
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ing
standards unless you are of faith in Christ Jesus
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What do mean when you are talking about a wife, or a husband?
Once, a young man like I was and who...
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course there is no hard and fast rule about this, but generally
speaking, marriage was designed to be entered into in the youth
period. If you are waiting till you are made, then you will not marry
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also noticed and had discussed the matter with a senior
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nt to do. That is what is called
conversion.
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Let me now get back to the matter of what the will of God is.
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do not
think you should stay in anything you fell into.
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not fall into it. That is why there...
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Please note this verse quoted here very carefully. It is not about
being smart; deliverance from hypocrites come only from being pleasing
to God yourself. If you are a sinner you will be captured. I remember then when I came from Lagos to Ado-Ekiti and for
a few days I worked with some young ministe...
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is against the will of God, even if you are engaged to the
person. Engagement and marriage are two totally different things.
Sir, Is it good to be in courtship for a long
time? How long should it be?
Again let us understand what we mean when we use the term
courtship. Some use the term to mean the...
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rits, we are to take authority over those matters with the word
of God and compel them to manifest positively in our lives. Those
things are the general will of God for the life of every child of God.
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"How rich is his family? (Since my God is limited by
circumstances I have to be sure he is covered.)
"Is her mother fat? (You know she will become what her mother
is, and being fat is a sin.)
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ho truly loved the Lord and was seeking Him with all her
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e than to succeed without one. She is
a help and not a liability
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In this chapter I will deal with another of the common strongholds
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potential wives that is
true Christianity, not the practise of 'hearing' God. Years before I got married, a dear sister asked me what I wanted
in a wife, and I gave her a set of points, three of them. She smiled
and said that she asked me the same question a couple of years
earlier, and those were t...
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ell her his dreams of
God and who she sees is working towards that dream. What he is
now outwardly may not be much but his faith is big, his prayers are
like those of Jabez, and his diligence is real. A real woman does
not want a Dodi—a rich boy who is only planning to inherit from his
father a lot ...
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ty or
happiness. These things are to be found in the Lord
alone.
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As a wife, faith puts constraints on you. As a child, as a student, faith puts constraints on you. One reason why you will not cheat in an exam is faith. You say, if I'm going to pass, I have to pass by faith. That would be the blessing of God. How would I finish in an exam? And I'm still going to s...
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So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I'm speaking as if I'm insane. Are they servants of Christ? I more so. Now listen, how are they servants of Christ? That's where I'm going. In far more labels, in far more imprisonments, beaten times without number, ofte...
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You know, of course you understand that spiritually, faith is a love that God understands. What I'm trying to say is that love is defined different ways. Two things to check when you're defining love. What are the two parties involved? Love has to have two parties. So what are the two parties involv...
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Is there anybody teaching to you like that? He's lying to you. The first thing faith does is to put constraints. There was nothing wrong with what Abraham was going to collect. By the law of warfare in those days, everything belonged to him. But he looked and said, Ah! Uh-uh. Melchizedek just blesse...
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Can I use this expression? Please listen to it with care. They should be more careless with their lives. Carelessness in, I believe me, let me just please God and if I die, let me die. That is a sign of somebody who had a true gospel. That's the truth. Messages sometimes, faith slips away from those...
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put constraints on you. That is the first mark of faith you should look out for in your life. What am I refusing to do that I have the rights to do, all because of my faith? What I say right now, legal rights? Sorry, I talk, you know, it's your people you used to talk to. One is a good thing if I me...
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No one has taken it away from me, but I lay it down on my own initiative. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. this commandment I received from my father. That is, the father issued a commandment for me to lay down, and I willingly laid it down. Now what I want t...
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So let them take their share. I just jumped mentioning their names. They are kind of tongue twisting, you know what I mean? The Lord is good. The next line says, after these things, the word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision saying, do not fear, Abraham. I am a shield to you. Your reward shall...
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750,000 there. The Lord said, bring it as a shade. I will wash your hand in oil. God said, no problem. Here's your casket. We are going to use that money to buy. Don't worry. Just be gathering it. When the money has reached a big sum, go and buy the motor car. I will kill you inside the car. The mon...
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Profession, confession of the mouth, is a manifestation of true faith. However, dead faith also has that. People who have dead faith also open their mouths and claim that they have faith, but they are deceived. That's a matter of fact. But so James Knight said to us, how do you know whether your fai...
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that the Lord has given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, and I am being filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. As a result of this, I am walking in a manner worthy of the Lord, I am pleasing Him in all respects, I am bearing fr...
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With scripture, you look at your life, you look at what you believe God wants to be doing. As a result, there's certain things you just don't do. Now you can't force it on everybody, but your interaction with scripture and life has put constraints on you in certain areas. We call those things testim...
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salvation, Christian salvation, salvation through Christ Jesus is by faith. However, the faith must be alive. There is dead faith. James showed it to us. If your faith does not have walks accompanying it, the faith is dead. The faith is dead. Now, something I've been saying, which I must remind us o...
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against the election, suspended the election, announcement. There's announcement of results. Of course, because of option A4, getting the result was not a problem. If you had enough people around, they could collect the results directly as it was coming out from each polling station. So they collect...
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lities but by the grace and power of God working with me (Zec 4:6).
See, wisdom and calm have since come into me, and things are moving faster now as if by themselves. I have been experiencing grace.
Friends, how often have we overlooked the resources of God inside us so that we allow little thing...
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==I have to spend more money than I budgeted for this; am I made of money or what?
==My children are growing and needing more time to guide them, and I still have to work. I hope I don’t go crazy.
==My boss has given me more assignments at work as if I could divide myself into two; I will just ...
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Recently I was appointed to head a combined department at the institution where I work and that came with some extra duties beyond the obvious. This was an appointment I specifically prayed that I would not get because of the extra work it would impose upon me. I most certainly did not want it, but ...
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righteous man on earth who
continually does good and who never sins.
Eccl 7:20
However, that same Apostle John pointed out that
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anyone born of God does not practice sin (1 John
3:9). He was implying that even though the basic
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o make one body of
all races of mankind. As true
Christians we must realize that we are
all of one ethnic group and one race.
That race and group is called Christ.
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ext we will see some of the things that
constitute errors in criteria for ...
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t life's principles; it is
about vision and it is about destiny. Your true love is
one with whom you can run in the same God-
ordained direction. How you will get to know that
person is another story.
Just as an addition, let me state that attraction can be
useful if your senses are well trained. A...
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not a prize to be won in a
duel; she is a gift of God.* If she wants to marry the
greatest spender, please gladly lose and be happy.
The truth is that love, true love, cannot be bought, so
do not try.
If a man tried to buy love with everything he
owned, his offer would be utterly despised.
So...
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eople with those voices many claim to hear.
Did God speak to me about the wife I married?
Going by voices, no. But was I careful to seek His
will, and was that will revealed? Yes, most certainly
yes.
How did I seek His will? I will explain that in a
moment.
I MARRIED ...
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nd do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
what the will of God is, that which is good and
acceptable and perfect. Rom 12:1-2
The issue of marriage is not an isolated thing in life
but is part of the daily walk with God. God...
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your life?
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nd do not be conformed to this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that you may prove what the will of God is.
I need to emphasize that as Christians we are the
light of the world, just as the Lord Jesus said. ...
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t the Army
15. The Righteousness of God
16. Prophesy!
17. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
18. What is God's Will Here?
19. Living by Divine Wisdom
20. The Habit of Faith and Other Sermons
For free download of most of these titles,
please visit pastor.ng
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younger brother, Deji, wanted to marry and my
mother asked my opinion of the matter that the
young woman is Ibo, I said to her simply, “Mummy,
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we are either Christians or we are not!” That was my
opinion and I did not even think it was a mat...
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-degree fashion around me.
One day they want them fat; the next they want
them thin. Years ago, full busts were too much, but
now they pay vanity surgeons to make them as big
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as possible. Years ago, Europeans wanted women to
be as white as possible, now they want them tann...
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st know these things!
We must know what marriage is from His
viewpoint.
We must be asking for the right things when asking
the Lord for a wife or a husband. We must have the
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right things in mind when we ask Him about getting
married. Once we align the thoughts of our hear...
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produced is born of God and it
overcomes.
Let us go together in this book and create
expectations for marriage from the Word of God.
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*How to be a Christian. Being a Christian is not hereditary and
is not passed on by association. I...
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ill
turn out only to be a source of entertainment or a
source of frustrating standards unless you are of
faith in Christ Jesus. Step aside for a while and give
your life to Christ Jesus (see page 17).
For those who are believers and who are looking for
the best from God, I want to tell you that you...
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d for me, and I choose to believe it.
"Make me one of your own and fill me with your life and your joy.
"Make me know you for myself and lead me forever in your way.
"Thank you for a new life.
"Amen.”
If you prayed this prayer, then a new life has begun. Your new
duty is to start learning the ways ...
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hard you
pray and how much you learn
methods of making the right
choices, you can only be granted
that partner that is in accordance
to your ability to accept.
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T here are different ways by which one
prepares to make a choice of a mate. I do not
...
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ely to end
up with one, and that is possibly statistically correct,
but…
…if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the
old things passed away; behold, new things have
come. 2 Cor 5:17
All the ancestral curses invented by a grandfather
who was a witchdoctor are erased by being in
Ch...
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e
said nothing, that will still be what you will
want to do. That is what is called conversion.
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L et me now get back to the matter of what the
will of God is.
So we see that the promises of God cover all those
areas of the fear of gentiles,* so Christians d...
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he fact that kings were commanders of the army of
the nation. So when Eliab came forth looking like a
warrior he thought he was seeing the next king of
Israel. No, the Lord was judging with the heart.
…for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at
the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at...
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other
and the senior bro seemed convinced of the
genuineness of the faith of Bro Abel. Anyway, that
settled it for us and we forgot about it. The pair
graduated and got married immediately
afterwards.
A few years later my friend met Bro Abel on the
street and as part of exchanging pleasantries he
a...
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e
held on to those points indicates to me that they
were the revelations of God to help me. They were
not just based on my feelings. I liked the woman
who fulfilled them, and she is the one I married.
Let me share those points with you and explain
them as I go on.
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Being a...
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often
necessary; seeking them is absolutely out of order. If
they come we will accept them, but we are not
allowed to seek them. We are to seek only to
understand the ways of God by His written word.
* In Acts 10, Peter fell into a trance and saw a vision in which the
Lord told him to stop calling ...
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en start asking for blessings of
good afterwards. In the same light, don't eat the fruit
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that He calls bad and then start claiming good by
faith. It does not work like that!
My brethren, let us learn to ask the questions that
really matter and stop all this spiritual tomf...
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. My wife too initially thought I was odd,
but she had the right spirit and in her the third point
was also fulfilled.
There is more on this in the companion book,
Fundamentals of Christian Marriage.
Once these my three points were fulfilled I did not
care whether the woman was short or tall, fair...
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l or remain holed up at home, colour
preferences, and such mundane things. In the real
issues of life, opposites repel.
Can two people walk together without agreeing on
the direction? Amos 3:3 NLT
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for
what partnership have righteousness and
lawle...
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stions we
will find it easier to clear our minds in order to be
able to receive what God really wants us to have.
Instead we have often spent our energy on questions
that are silly in the eyes of God.
“Is she from a broken home?” (I need to know since the
God I serve cannot heal a broken life.)
“Ho...
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who call ourselves Christians but who have not
bothered to check with the word of God about this
matter of racial and ethnic segregation. Many
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Christians are praying for the will of God in
marriage, but they do not forget to remind the Lord
t...
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he said. I was not going to
preach on love and she knew it; I did not care who St
Valentine was and I was not planning to adjust my
sermon to suit him.
But I am not my own; I am a minister of Christ.
As I was about to be called up to preach, a thought
and a scripture dropped into my heart. I knew ...
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ld be guaranteed. I opened this
verse above and read it to him. I told him that, “even
if I were to be found in the midst of a thousand
Jezebels I will not marry one.” That word guided
and guarded me.
Safety is not in just praying. It is not in having
visions and dreams about who your wife or
husba...
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t) with his half-sister Tamar that he arranged
to have her by force.
Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. And
Amnon, her half brother, fell desperately in love
with her. 2 Sam 13:1-2 NLT
But feelings are so fleeting that once he had his way
the feeling turned violently.
Then suddenly...
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26
Please note this verse quoted here very carefully. It is
not about being smart; deliverance from hypocrites
come only from being pleasing to God yourself. If
you are a sinner you will be captured.
I remember then when I came from Lagos to Ado-
Ekiti and for a few days I worked with some young
m...
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woman and then showing himself as
he really is to her. It is her duty to
pray and decide if she likes him
enough to make a life-long
commitment to him.
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B
eggars get crumbs. Whatever you beg for,
you get crumbs of. It is true with mon...
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its that tickle your
fancy, like we say. Are those things the real things
that matter, or mundane things? Peter said both men
and women must seek the things that are after the
inward man of the heart.
You should be known for the beauty that comes
from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle an...
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feeling of
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being in love, though nice to the emotions, is not
actually vitally essential to the beginning of the
marriage covenant. It is a feeling and it can be
cultivated.
Ravi Zacharias, an international evangelist of Indian
descent, told the story of how he was really...
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inciple of wife-
of-thy-youth, and Christians should forsake it as it is
the way of the world.
The word 'youth' is used to describe someone who
has just started out in life. It is not talking about a
*See also Prov 2:16-17; Mal 2:15
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child b...
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singer in the choir.
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I was trying to get to the points I understood by
revelation about the kind of woman I was
seeking to marry. Now let us get back to it.
We have seen that being a believer was a forgone
conclusion. So what was my first stated criterion...
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f God, then you
must go and pray. Parents, when they perform their
roles properly, are actually a layer of protection in
the lives of young people. That is something about
authority figures generally.
Now, sometimes the parents give their reasons, and
those reasons are totally against the word of G...
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th your
example of faith is just a gamble. The fact that you
married him despite the fact that you knew he was
not a believer is all the example he needs to know
that your faith is not serious to you.
IT'S ABOUT THE SPIRIT
The idea of being a believer is about the spirit
someone is open to and not ...
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in
my understanding, was a personal quest for the
knowledge of the word. No, I am not at all talking
about knowledge for the purpose of preaching or
showing off, but just to know and be changed by it.
I told the Lord I wanted a lady that loved Him and
whose love for Him showed in how she pursued th...
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that proceeds out of the mouth of God
shall man live.” What that means is that everything
you can ever want in life is to be found in the word of
God, and that you are to pursue them through the
word.
If you are afraid of poverty, pray about it. Bishop
David Oyedepo tells the story all the time of ...
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by the time he was through I said to him, “what you
want is what is called a wife. Go and get married!”
No girlfriend will ever be able to fulfil the things he
wanted. He had his definitions mixed up.
It is important we get our definitions right. As
Christians, getting it right means only one
thing...
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her I used to literally preach to
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the wall, the air as I took night strolls and to
imaginary congregations. So when she came into
my life, I had a ready and willing audience.
This was how it happened that I taught her so much.
But more important is the fact that she was lis...
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es.
There is a huge difference between desires and
expectations. Desire is something you simply wish
for, but an expectation is a derived thought. It goes
beyond just wanting something; it is born of
* Resonance. This is taken from a principle of elementary
Physics. According to the laws of God in...
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ng I have to tell
you is that you should give your life to Christ and
God's will will be revealed to you. Whether you are
in love or not, you need Jesus Christ and the
forgiveness of sin in His blood.
However, if you are a believer, I think you should
know you are walking in self-deception. I know ...
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d His own will be the same.
See, what God wants is just for us to have the right
heart towards Him and towards His righteousness
and we will discover that His will will become the
very thing we want.
If you really and truly gave your life to Christ, the
THE WILL...
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at all. She has by that action
demonstrated to you that she could not have helped
you prosper. She is a drain, a nag and a source of
spiritual confusion. Rejoice for the great deliverance
of the Lord.
What a godly woman wants in a man is that he is a
man of faith with a sense of purpose, and that h...
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t is the source of joy, good
children, good home, health and prosperity. It is the
source of everything. If you love the word and have
a spouse who does, then all other things shall be
added unto you.
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depa...
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but when she has that
blessing, her husband is empowered by
it. The whole home is empowered by it.
If she does something that earns
money, it also prospers.
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L et me address this issue particularly as it
concerns women. Godly and holy women
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No, let me put it like this. His disobedience was sin. That was when the principle of sin entered into the earth. And because he was the head of the creation, he opened the door. He was the doorkeeper, essentially. So he opened the door and sin came in. Now you must understand these spiritual things...
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and Eve saw it and they knew that don't go near that area. Are you getting what I'm trying to explain? Yes, they saw those things. So the Lord used to come and they heard the footsteps, alright? Not the breeze. They heard the footsteps of the Lord when He was coming to the garden and they went to hi...
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And they were just passing and just mingling with the other people. And that's how he goes around toe and fro. The Lord asked him, where are you coming from? I'm going toe and fro. And God allows that. So he went in there because you see, God, you know, if you read my article, The Love of God, let m...
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I said, we're either Christians or we are not. Let everybody know it. You have to be careful. You want to marry in your village. Your problem don't begin. You never ever marry. That is, you're already leaving God for troubles. Say, in the name of Jesus, Satan, into my house. I have a wardrobe for yo...
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Eve, you know the story, she ate the fruit and then she gave it to her husband. When Paul was going to comment on that later, he said that the woman was deceived, but the man was not deceived. And then as a consequence of, of course, when they gave it to Adam, what that means simply is that Adam kne...
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The man had left one kind of bondage and has entered into another one. Of course, I don't have to tell you where all this money is going to. Do I need to tell you that? I mean, you should be able to work that one out. He has to submit his salary to the prophet. The prophet will tell you the one he c...
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That is why I said if God is sharing our judgment, Barack Obama is in front. Before any homosexual in America, he will collect his own. Because not only those who do them experience God's judgment, but those who take pleasure in them that do those things. So what am I trying to explain here? Charles...
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Everlasting life says that if it is critical for the sustenance of this, of that area, that place is set on fire, people will pass, they'll block the road, the dangers will blow it up. And they'll say, nobody was injured, but they need to burn up that bush. Everlasting life means that if anybody tri...
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Let's quickly kick into our message for this afternoon and let's learn some things about the walk of Jesus. That's what we began to speak about last time I titled it the walk of Jesus Christ. What do I mean by that? I want us to understand Now, you know, every day you see things and it's so importan...
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One thing I preach, one thing my wife did not forget, I said, as you, as you are getting older, if my children are going to be in the house one day, if you are packaging food, make it two portions. You teach them kindness. You talk to them, listen, this is your destiny, because this is my house, and...
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They will tell you, you know Americans, oh God, not in America, just so-called civilized, when you don't know God, you are in trouble. Yeah, this I just recognized, God, thank you for this knowledge of you that we have. They will not label your child for you. He has attention deficit hyperkinetic di...
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The problem is serious. I said it last time, when you make yourself disciples in deed, are you getting my point? That is where you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. These days, people don't like to study to know the truth. They want quick results without following God persistently...
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They possessed him. He had finished killing them before he realized what happened. That was why he broke down when his father was questioning him on the phone. Satan, I say it all the time, pushes people. The Bible tells us that Satan entered into Judas for him to betray Jesus Christ. Are you saying...
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and said, sir, I think your son did this thing. And the man was surprised. My son? Let's make a long story short. The man called his son. Because the thing happened some time before, and the investigation didn't go anywhere. They couldn't make a headway. So this new fellow who took over, after he an...
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of Jesus, of the works of Jesus. Jesus came to come and do what for us? We're going to read a few scriptures. Last time I began to talk about the fact that this earth is a manifestation. Let me, how do I say it again now? It's a stage where spiritual things are demonstrated. Are you getting my point...
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They are listening to satan talk to them. Then I went to answer, I said, this is not Ajani Koko's house. This is my house. In this house, Jesus is Lord. In this house, I shall have what I say. In this house, the power to name all the created beasts on the field, all the creatures that were with Adam...
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Go and check your family, they are all very lazy. They all believe that government, are you getting my point? She will supply all their needs. So when Seta wants to keep that family in bondage, he keeps on telling them lies. He sees them in Bia Palace with jobless people like themselves, blaming the...
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I'm talking about what? Accusation. And this is how he spends money. This is how he spends money. Very soon now, we will be broke. I don't know what is wrong with this woman. I don't know. Which kind of stupid person did I marry? And oh God, don't forget it. What Adam did was to open the door. You s...
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Don't ever forget that. If Satan offers you something, what you are going to give to him is business. No, think about it now. All right? If you're a businessman, what do you think? You understand? You are offering somebody something. What he's going to give back to you is more than what you're expen...
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You are attentive. Tell the boy, say amen. He doesn't want to say amen. You do the will of God. You have a king. Forget all that lies. They tell you that don't flog a child. You flog a child. The problem is we don't start early enough. When we don't start early enough, now they get a problem. Don't ...
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ise.
‘Let the weak say I AM STRONG.’
Remember this: in all the troubles of Job, the contest was whether or not he would sin with his mouth. Please “suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin.”
It is in these trials that “few are chosen.” O yes, many were also called but they failed. Have yo...
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ital lessons by which you will survive when you reach that promised land. Even Jesus had to go through it.
“Although He was a son, yet He learned obedience from the things which He suffered." Heb 5:8
So you see that the fact that things are not going right for you does not mean God is not there. T...
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his first year of working, yet you haven’t after eight years does not mean you are a failure. It just means a car is not part of your own first eight years.
“Do not fret, it leads only to evil doing”
The fact that our lives differ even though we may all be sons of God is the reason why He was call...
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