House On The Rock

I have heard many times that Christianity in Europe is becoming history because of secularism.

May I say to my readers that secularism is not limited to Europe, but to the West generally.

Someone once said that when Christianity began, it started with relationship with God through Jesus Christ, but when it got to Greece, it ended up as a Philosophy on reaching Rome, it became an Institution. In Europe as a whole, it is now a culture and now America has commercialised it!

For some, everything is seen in $s. (Thank God for God fearing ones)

For you to be healed you have to sow for it. For your loved ones to be saved, you have to sow for it. “For you not to lose your salvation” you must sow for it!

There is offering for oil, water, handkerchief (of all colour), special sword that cut the ear of Roman centurion, chariot of fire that carried Elijha to Heaven, different Bibles with concordance and yet to some of them faith is not there.

We all know that the real Jesus never asked anyone to sow for their healing. He was moved with compassion and healed them. But today so called “Christian preachers” are different. I wonder who they represent and whose they are.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am of opinion that if a cloth is dirty, the necessary thing is to take it for dry cleaning. If you are sick, you go to the doctor.

Right now I know that we are not clean but thank God for His cleansing process going on! We shall be cleansed and made ready to meet our Lord and King in the air soon!

The enemy is doing its best to make the world believe that Christianity is old fashion and it is a sect.

If following Jesus Christ on daily basis, serving His purpose on earth and not be conformed to the dictate of this world is what you call a sect, then we Christians are a sect.

If being a Christian SUNDAY – SUNDAY (not Monday to Saturday as a secular believer and on Sunday put on church cloth) makes us a sect, and then let it be.

If giving to promote Christ Kingdom on earth through preaching of the gospel is what makes us a sect, then we are sect.

Just because some eggs are bad does not make the whole eggs in the tray bad. Just because some are greedy, selfish, immoral and uncaring does not speak of the whole Body.

The Church of Jesus Christ is more than American Church, European Church, African Church etc…. The Body is global with parts from all around the world!

I am not ashamed to say I am a CHRISTIAN BY GOD’S GRACE!

To all my brothers and sisters around the world it is time to stand up and be counted as A CHRIST FOLLOWER!

Remember, it was the heathen in Antioch who first called us CHRISTIANS when they SAW how believers lived. When they saw how the church loved, care, support and practically lived out the word of God. They said this is none other that CHRIST FOLLOWERS. CHRISTIANS.

I am what I am by God’s grace A CHRISTIAN! For this I am not ashame to declare it even on my blog.

You may say but you are a preacher. Yes but I have come to know that some preachers are in ministry for livelihood so being a CHRISTIAN 24/7 does not matter to them. It is a job they entered into.

Some of us have nowhere to go to. We have left our professions and degrees to follow our Master because we are CHOSEN for His purpose on earth.

On behalf of such people, we are not ashamed to be called CHRISTIANS AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE SO!

“And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds, then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgement” 2 Peter 2:6-9.

I know for some of you, the messages you read on my website and blog are probably what you never expected to read. For some, it is the medicine needed for your soul and spirit.

Beloved, the fact that you are on this page now simply tells me that God is speaking to you and I will advice you not to switch off (which we often do in our mind when we are not comfortable with the message) or worse to close the file.

You see, you and I must go back to basic!

We have been in the Church too long we forget it is not about Church but KINGDOM.

The Church without Kingdom agenda offers us religion and cover up. But when your mindset is geared into fulfilling Kingdom agenda, your walk with the Lord takes a different meaning.

Church that offered us religion also gave us form of godliness without power. The result is imitation, deception and fake. We cover up and we are not even good at it.

Our best cover up is seen as far as eyes could see by all except those who by choice deny the truth!

We justify ourselves by saying that love covers multitude of sins BUT we fail to read IT DOES NOT COVER ALL SINS. Multitude is not all even according to GOOD OLD ENGLISH WORD.

So as Chosen generation, what are we to do?

Choose to live according to Kingdom principles.

The Kingdom of God is never about eating and drinking (this we will and must do) but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost according to Romans 14:17. If you and I realised this without any preacher manipulating us to think otherwise for their own selfish gain (which again is another gospel – Galatia 1:6-10) we will not be in the mess we all are in today but never mind, Jesus already told us in the parable of the Wheat and the Tares Mathew 13:24-30 the day of Harvest will show the difference.

This message is to help you see life as a believer differently so that when you stand before Him who redeemed you, you will not be ashamed.

Firstly, where ever you are now, is a matter of choice.

You are either a victim of someone’s choice or you made the choice yourself.

If someone made the choice of where to be for you, and you are not living a fulfilled life as a matter of the choice made on your behalf, take your life to Jesus Christ yourself and let Him tell you what to do.

Never allow someone unproductive in their walk with Jesus Christ and ungodly in lifestyle determine where to worship Jesus Christ and how far your life can be as a follower of Him.

You must enjoy the peace of God and His Joy always. These are your rights as redeemed of the Lord after all, why would He die for you and you would still be miserable?

We never know how to please God and live according to His standard hence Christ came to show us and through His Spirit in us enables us daily to live to please God. If all these are not your priorities, I plead with you to make radical changes starting from today.

It is about time you take your spiritual life serious.

He took dying for you and I seriously and did not compromise even when opportunity was given to Him by Pontius Pilate.

There are decisions you cannot make which; has to be made for you depending on your age.

If you are minor under parental guidance, decisions are made for you on major issues which affect every area of your life. What you can do is to pray to God for wisdom and obedient heart towards God’s word for your parents, custodian or guardian.

As member of a church, the decision to advance the cause of Christ is committed to His Shepherd and the leaders of that assembly.

If the cause of Christ Kingdom is not pursued in your church, you can take yourself to Christ and settle your destiny before Him. Remember 2 Corinthian 5:10!

PRAYER:

When you pray for your leaders, their hearts can turn to do the things that please God and in turn bring peace and joy to all under their care.

I know you will probably say to me that how many times do we have to pray for these leaders?  And I will tell you that as many times as you can pray for us.

Moses did not stop to pray for the leaders of the household of Israel including the people even when God Himself wanted to destroy them and raised a new generation through Moses! Left for some of us we would have been glad for such record. Samuel said God forbid he should not pray for Saul.

To pray is a command but what we pray for is another matter.

Why not allow the Holy Spirit to pray through you for your leader. You will be amazed what He will come up with!

After all is done and your leader still bend on self destruction (after all Judas had the Master Himself and still ended up the way he did) use your legs.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE NO ONE ELSE! BE DETERMINED TO MAKE HEAVEN, YOUR PREPARED HOME.

DO NOT ALLOW OTHERS TO DECIDE OTHERWISE!

“And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another” Matthew 24:10.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are drawing closer daily to the day of our redemption as sons of God.

Prophets have been speaking about the coming storm that will shake the very foundation of our faith for those whose confidence is not fully in Christ but in the man and woman of God in their lives. Biblically also it is written that everything that will be shaken will be shaken so that what cannot be shaken can remain. When the storm comes naturally, many things are removed only those things that are structurally built to stand against the storm will survive.

So is the shaking of the Church of Christ.

It is painful to see that the picture of the Church of Jesus we have now is so far removed from the Church we often read about in the Scripture.

The saints of God paid with their lives for us to have the Bible written in languages we can read all over the world and these were men who fear God and hated evil deeds.

They have no time for pomposity and social status that has made some of us in the Body of Christ so important that God Himself could not recognise anymore.

Our gospel has become “another gospel” and we love it so.

We enjoy sitting with corrupt men and women in our churches but because they are the ones in vogue we don’t mind. We can afford to turn our eyes away from their sins and enjoy fellowship with them after all Jesus dined with sinners but we failed to admit that they never remain sinners for long.

Apostle Paul did not say we should abstain from the ungodly of the world hence our light will not penetrate their darkness and for them in turn know that we are the children of the most high God.

But the problems are the sexually corrupt, reviler, idolater and extortioners in the Church. We dined with them and even call them brothers and sisters. These are the ones who rob Paul to pay Peter and no one is saying anything about them. 1 Corinthians 5:10-11

These are the ones who seduced our children, and wives are not safe from their counselling rooms.

These are the ones who in the name of “anointing” raping our purses and have introduced all sorts of business enterprises into the Church. From the sword that Peter used to cut the ear of the Roman soldiers to the soap for washing. From holy water to oil of the anointing when you send them offerings!

If Jesus beat folks out of the Temple in Jerusalem, what do you think the Storm is going to do?

I read from the scripture that God will judge false prophets and those who allowed them to prophesy lies to them.

If your walk with God is so precious and you know that Jesus died for you on the Cross at Calvary. Why would you allow any of the wicked practices to go on without you saying enough is enough!

Beloved, Jesus said that before His return, there are signs of events that will take place.

·        Take heed that you are not deceived.

It is so sad that many have fallen victim of deception amongst us that even if Jesus should appear to them face to face they will miss Him.

·        Many will be offended.

Many other signs were given but the one for this message is the one that talked about being offended.

The word offended means: many will become victim of stumbling block! “Skandalizo” scandals. Many will be made to sin when they see what is happening in the Church.

You see beloved. In the Western Society, we have luxury and thank God for luxury but travelling on first class ticket to preach does not mean we are better than our brethren in the part of the world where they could only afford breakfast!

Having a private jet does not mean you are anointed by God to flaunt it to those who are believing God for their rent. It is a privilege that has made many of us become so arrogant and selfish.

It is so bad that we cannot even greet brethren without heavy security!

Thank God for Jesus. If you and I are that anointed, why do we need all these securities for? Where is our faith in God for protection? So if you die what next? Whom have you prepared to take on the mantle, when you are not even trusting God to protect you how can you trust a man to step into your shoes to continue the project.

We need the Holy Spirit like never before.

We are to pray for our leaders and God forbid we should not pray for them after all the Church prayed until Peter was released from prison BUT they never prayed for irresponsible leaders or members. Paul sent Alexandria a curse for his blasphemous acts.

Simon the Sorcerer was cursed to perish with his money for trying to buy the anointing. Where is that same Church today? We have hidden under pretence and falsehood and God is fed up for the sake of His Son.

We are not seeing harvest of souls as we should because we the labourers are not harvesting fresh ones but fighting over the ones that are already damaged from church to church!

God forgive us and have mercy on us.

Have we not read it that God will not take it lightly on anyone who causes these little ones to sin. He said it would have been better if such person is not born!

A man who beat his wife each time she gets pregnant is still preaching “hot sermons” and no one says anything but we are only interested in his ministry and the crowd he pulls with the money involved.

Those of us that are leaders and members have become so secretive it makes the household of Chloe looked like a gossiper of the event in Corinth.

Oh God help us!

The storm is coming! Let us all get ready. Let us remove all falsehood in our houses and prepare ourselves.

For years I have heard my prophet friend proclaim the word of the Lord on this matter about the storm even on Revelation TV. In our prayer time I saw a serious wind came and remove the skirt and what was hidden was exposed.

From then it has been one thing after the other.

He who hath an ear let him or her hear what the Spirit is saying now. Get ready

·        Get rid of the church social circle that looks like those in 1 Corinthians 5:11

·        Get rid of the circle that looks like those in Psalm 1:1

·        Get rid of a crafty friend called “Jonadab” 2 Samuel 13:3 Every time you fall into sin he is the one who pat your back for you till you did not that the Spirit had departed from you like Brother Samson!

·        Get rid of flatterers like the woman in Philippi who is always calling you anointed man of God but you know you are not all that was said about you. You have only gone to one country to preach but you have been presented as a worldwide preacher!

You have become a victim of the spirit of divination long enough.

The storm is coming! May you not become a stumbling block nor a victim.

“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.” Romans 13:11-12.

Ladies and gentlemen, many things are happening in our world today that are very shocking for the ear to hear and mind to understand.

As prophetic generation, we are being prepared to witness the final warfare of the Church against the Kingdom of darkness before we are called home. Until then, cheer up. Your best days are round the corner.

As God’s people, what we are seeing is disheartening truly.

Wickedness, disappointments and betrayals are daily occurrence. Many have turned so cold and loveless for God and even in their relationship it is shocking. But hold on, God is still on the throne and He is on your case for good.

The wickedness found in the world is peculiar to the world as we all know but when we now have to deal with the same in the church! That is where the challenge is for us all. The word of God tells us from the book of Prophet Jeremiah that “For among My people are found wicked men; they lie in wait as one who sets snares, they set traps; they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich….An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so, but what will you do in the end?” Jeremiah 5:26-31.

We have become a generation that seek after prophetic but cannot seek the Lord who gave the gift. We have become a generation that promote technology above relationship with human being in the Church. The caring aspect of the ministry of Jesus is nearly gone out of the window and some of us love the noise of the technology during worship, we love the laptop on the pulpit and microphone in the ear like a pilot ready to take off BUT after the whole show is gone, what happens to your spirituality? Are you strong to resist lust and minute temptation of the week? Are you a better husband to your wife or you go back home to still treat your wife or husband as a vessel to be abused or even worse your children who refused to follow Jesus because they cannot see Him at home since you have been going to Church?

Beloved, warfare is real! You and I cannot afford to sit at ease in Zion or say peace, peace when every wind that is blowing is against our comfort in Zion.

It is time for us to recognise the time and season and live responsibly, with sense of urgency knowing that the time is short and our redemption is nearer than when we first believed.

Recommended weapons for victory in this hour:

·        Watch and pray.

Jesus in His message to His disciples told them to watch and pray. “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” Matthew 26:41.

No soldiers go to battle to sleep. Even in the time of peace, a soldier is a soldier.

God expected you and I to be like the Gideon’s army who drank water by lapping like a dog in Judges 7:5-7. Be watchful.

To watch is to be on the lookout, be discerning and not be caught unaware by the enemy. This is a picture of a security guard responsible for guarding a house or a valuable site.

This is a serious statement as many of us claim to pray but we never watch. You cannot have one without the other. To say you will only pray and not bother to watch is to make the statement of Jesus irrelevant.

To say you will only pray and have nothing to watch is to live irresponsibly, not caring for your loved ones and the treasures that God gave you which by the way you will be held accountable for on the day of judgement is a sin.

To watch and not pray is to solely depend on your strength to deliver you in time of trouble. Prayer is communicating with God for His counsel to be given on how to deal with the situation.

Prayer is communicating with God and getting answers. You cannot know God’s purpose for the day until you talk to Him.

There are different types of prayer and different way of communicating to God. Whichever way or type, we are commanded to pray as believers.

Prayer that is backed with action of fasting and giving [like Cornelius,] and based on the word of God not traditions of men, goes a long way. Matthew 17:21, Acts 10:2

Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus that “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints and for me that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel.”Ephesians 6:18-19.

What am I to watch for?

·        Watch for the little foxes. “Catch us the foxes, the little foxes that spoils the vines, for our vines have tender grapes” Songs of Solomon 2:15.

Foxes are corrupt elements within the Body of Christ.

The influence of mixed multitude that often gives canal counsel against the perfect will of God.

Those with Balaam counsel that made us believe that sexual sin before marriage is not bad as long as you are doing it with your girl friend whom you will marry at the end of the day. What we forget is that what Balaam could not do through his curses, he made Israel to do at Acacia Grove. Numbers 25:1-3.

·        Watch for habits that displeased the Lord and habits that make your body to be the abode of all kind of diseases and afflictions. It is in the Western world that you see “believers” smoke immediately after “powerful prayer session”

·        Watch the enemies of your vision so that you will not become victim of their schemes to hinder the work. The Sanballats and the Tobiahites.

      Nehemiah 4:1-3, chapter 6.

The warfare of today did not just start today. We were born into it both naturally and spiritually. The intensity of it and the moral decay of today makes it more fervent but it is the same weapon used by our fathers of faith of old, used today that gives us victory!

Remember, the Bible tells us that “for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10:4

·        Submission.

The word submission is a word used for ages to abuse many in the society especially women.

Submission is powerful if understood by revelation.

It means to surrender yourself to what you see to be above you in purpose or authority.

 “Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief for that would be unprofitable for you” Hebrew 13:17.

God’s blessing rest on those who submit. “The Angel of the Lord said to her, “return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand. Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be counted for multitude” Genesis 16:9-10.

James in his epistle wrote “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you” James 4:7.

You cannot resist the devil if you are not in submission to God. Your deliverance comes through submission to:

1: God’s spoken and written word

2: God’s delegated authority.  2 Chronicles 20:20.

The danger we face in this age of the Church is by allowing the enemy to make us look at the weakness of our Leaders to determine our levelof submission to their authority.

No one is perfect and is used by God.

No one is ever qualified also. He qualified the called and chosen. John 15:16, Isaiah 61:1[Amplified Version]

We are not to follow sinful and unrepentant leader for how can the blind lead the blind? Both of you will fall into the ditch.

Your leader is chosen by God for equipping you for the work of your ministry and if you begrudge your Leader, you cannot learn from him or her.

These are the list of the people you cannot learn from.

1: A person you cannot submit to his or her authority.

2: A person you resented.

3: A person you envy

4: A person you find fault with all the time

5: A person you will not forgive.

·        Thanksgiving & Praise.

Your appreciation of the goodness of the Lord over you and your household takes you past His gate.

When you approach His gate, you are to thank Him for the Blood of Jesus that made it possible for you to even come to the gate.

Remember, we the Gentiles were lost in sin and had no hope of knowing the true God until the price of Redemption for humanity was paid in full at Calvary.

“I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart and His courts with Praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name.” Psalm 100:4

One of the sign of this age is that men will be unthankful. 2 Timothy 3:1-2

Everyone believes that someone owe them something so why should they appreciate the good gesture done for them. Beloved no one owes you a dime!

Even God owes you nothing. He paid the ransom for your soul through the death of His Son at Calvary. As a matter of fact you owe God a debt you can never pay fully. All you just have to do is to open your mouth every second, minute, and the time is endless to thank Him for saving you.

Offer thanksgiving to God.

When you praise God, you declare His greatness. God inhabit the praise of His people.

When praises goes up, blessings come down.

Declare the praises of Him who was, and is and is to come.

 YOUR CHILDREN NEEDS YOU.

“Train up a child in the way it should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it” Proverb 22:6

Thank you for opening this site.

For you to still be reading this message now is because I believe the Spirit of God is speaking to you and if you agree with what you are reading kindly call some of your friends to open the page and read also.

This message I believe should be read by all ESPECIALLY my African brothers living in Europe.

The word of God for us who believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God teaches fathers to train their children in the way they are to go.

To train means, to equip or disciple your children.

The question then is how can you equip or disciple a child in a way he or she is to go when you don’t know the way your child is to go as a father.

As a result of not knowing the way God wants your child to go, some fathers either ignore the equipping or disciple programme or gave it to someone who will do the job poorly. At times, some have left the job completely to their wives.

Thank God for mothers but there is a place for mothers and there is a place for fathers.

Mothers are nurturers and they give wisdom while fathers give life and strength to their children.

Fathers are supposed to give vision and direction to their children. They are also to lead by example for their children to follow hence the issue of discipleship.

Disciples are those who are thought by impartation. What are you imparting to your children?

Life or death.

We are living at a time that stress is manifesting through individuals at an alarming rate and many times through lack of seeing dreams become reality, some are giving up on life and taking their venom of frustration on their children.

But wait a minute, because you did not get what you set out to achieve today does not mean that you are to lash out at everything that moves around you.

The word training does not mean you are to abuse your children.

You may say to yourself, how can I prepare my children for the future I never have?

My answer to that is that because you never had it does not mean that your children cannot have a beautiful, bright future.

Some of us from Africa came from a home where our fathers never had a bicycle but they sacrifice for us today to drive BMW, JAGUAR, MB, HONDA CVS etc….

I am challenging fathers to look ahead into 2010!

See greatness ahead of you and channel your children into it. They need you.

A man called Samson lost his sight to his enemies, but he cried to God to give him one more time opportunity to avenge himself against his enemies and God answered him by restoring his anointing. The Bible teaches us that Samson killed many at his death than while alive.

Fathers I pray for one more time anointing on you so that you can arise and see your children become the dream of greatness you once nurtured and in return see your enemies flee.

Now the major challenge facing parents now is the social services department.

My brothers please wake up!

These guys are not joking. They are out for kill if you will not obey the word of God.

I believe that a child equipped well or disciple effectively will not report his or her father to social services when disciplined. On the contrary, your discipline is a proof of your love.

Love exercise discipline.

Brothers, the way you were beaten, should not be repeated by you towards your children. Majority of our fathers never know how to show affection towards us.

Yes they sacrifice for us to have education (for those who have such fathers).

But for many of us, it was the affection and the warmth of our mothers that we know and thank God for that.

For some of us, our fathers were wonderful men. They not only sacrifice for our education they suffered family humiliation to stay loyal to our mothers and us their children.

The crunch of the matter is that, you cannot raise your children in Europe the way you were raised in Africa.

Some of the discipline given to us can be categorised as abuse (and if you will be truthful to yourself you hated it at that time too)

Please obey the word of God and enjoy the latter days of your life rather than grow with bitterness because the social services took your children away from you.

There must be a key to unlock the hearts of your children apart from a little slap on the face, electric wire on her back side, compulsory fasting while you are eating, African Koboko or painted stick ”Mr white”, keeping malice with your children for a week, tying the hands and feet on a spot for a while etc….

There are ways of Loving and Understanding your children. Being there for them not as absentee fathers, celebrating their achievements not criticising them all the time (I know you are always the first in the class during your time) giving them self worth, value and FINALLY LIVING BY GODLY EXAMPLE!

This goes a long way!

Look out for part 2 next week for the completion of the message and about mothers……….

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It is that time of the year once again that all of us should be taking stock of how we had lived our lives in 2009.

I am always amazed to see how we think the year is far ahead and we never put our plans to action.

It is called PROCASTINATION

I am amazed how we think we still have many years to live so we are not bothered about anything.

It is called COMPLACENCY

I am amazed at the rate with which many of us set out on a course this year but have changed our minds many times.

It is called lack of FOCUS

I am amazed how many of us are suffering today because we want what other have and we did everything to get it and now it has become a serious burden and we wish never had the stuffs.

It is called JONES SYNDROME.

I am amazed how our stubbornness has affected us and pushed us out of the will of God as it did King Saul of Israel.

It is called PENTECOSTAL WITCHCRAFT.

I am amazed how cold we have become in our love for things of God and fellow brethren that nothing move us to care for the man next to us again. Even if they drop dead, we still careless.

It is called SELFISHNESS & PASSIONLESS.

I am amazed to see how fast we judge others but are lenient with ourselves.

It is called JUDGEMENTAL SPIRIT.

I am amazed how we point fingers and forget about the rest of the fingers where they go.

It is called ACCUSATION & ALLEGATION

I am amazed at the rate of divorce in the church and we are Bride of Christ in waiting.

If you are seeking divorce, no matter how justified you are as a believer in Jesus Christ. It is A REFLECTION of your walk with the Bridegroom!

I am amazed as to how we never bothered about soul winning when he or she who win soul is wise. But instead, befriend them in their sinful state, laugh at their crude jokes without conviction.

It is called PARTAKING in the sin of others.

Be careful of good the enemy of the best.

Brethren, today in my message, I want to believe God that by the time you finish reading this article, you would have changed your address and relocate to another place in your mind where:

The environment is called NO LIMIT

The neighbourhood is called GREATNESS

Your neighbours are people who move from GLORY TO GLORY

·        What is the meaning of the word ”to settle”?

It means:

1: To establish yourself in a place. The only place the scripture allows us to be established is in your belief of God and the truth of His word. 2 Chronicles 20:20. You are to be rooted and establish in Jesus Christ. Acts 17:28 tells us that “in Him we live and move and have our being as also some of your own poets have said”

2: To relax. It means to loosen up, to be at ease, to put one’s feet up. The people of Laish relax and the Danites took over their land from them. Judges 18:27-29. When you settle for less, the tendency to lose what you have gained is paramount.

3: To be complacent.

When you become complacent, you have no reason to push for the best. You become self-satisfied, serene, unconcern about the best for you.

You cannot move house or change your address this morning until you know the alternative on offer.

God always offer us His BEST for our lives but the Adam and Eve nature in us always settle for less.

We are people called to a progressive lifestyle. Spirit, soul and Body.

In order not to settle for settlement mentality, you have got to know the promises of God for every areas of your lives.

Your personal lives, marriage, children, career, business, ministry, etc…

For example, God gave Israel promise through Abraham confirmed again to Moses in Exodus 3:7-8. The Elders of Israel also confirmed it was so Numbers 13:1-3,26-28 but the men of the tribes of Reuben and Gad settled their families and possessions before the promised Land - Numbers 32

When you know the promise of God for yourself NOT THAT SOMEBODY ELSE KNOWS IT FOR YOU. It comes with a drive/passion.

Beloved I have revelation for you. God is PASSIONATE about His promises being fulfilled in your life. God is PASSIONATE about your life progressing and achievement in life that glorify His Son’s name.

God is PASSIONATE about us possessing what is ours.

Caleb an 80 years old man from the tribe of Issachar took over his inheritance Joshua 14:7

Ladies and gentlemen, ENTRING your LAND is not the issue (if you get there) POSSESSION is the issue.

Never settle for right of abode visa in any country but to possessing what God says is yours is the issue.

Never settle for your wedding day but look to celebrate the progressive married life which includes endurance, romance, sexual relationship that is alive. The boy in you becoming a man daily and the girl in you becoming a woman also. That is what we should all look forward to celebrate.

Never settle for mediocrity in business. Because you become self employed does not mean you have arrived to now get to your office/store/shop at whatever time you want.

 Never settle for just being called a mother because you gave birth to a child/ren but raise up greatness in them and through them. Who wants to celebrate the womb that produced a child that is terrorising the elderly, the weak and the destitute?

Having degrees is not the problem, being productive with your degree in life is the crunch of the matter.

Going into ministry is not the matter, staying with finishing in mind and keeping faith is the issue.

Speaking in tongues is not the matter, walking in DOMINION is the goal.

Finally, never allow today to dictate or determine your future for you.

Stop settling for less. Go all the way as Joshua was commanded by God that there are still more land to possess so also I am here to tell us this today. OPPOSITON OR NO OPPOSTION, BARRIER OR NO BARRIER, VALLEY OR NO VALLEY, MOUNTAIN OR VALLEY,

Press on!

Ladies and gentlemen, life has no significant meaning to anyone who allowed the spirit of defeat to knock them down and refuse to get up.

No matter where you are right now in life, there is more bridge to cross! Don’t give up

Maybe you even feel like a failure after trying to succeed many times and you are at the verge of giving up.

Beloved, don’t give up.

You are not a failure because you fail! You are only a failure because you stop trying.

Get up and try again!

If Graham Bell had conceded defeat while trying to invent telephone, we will never have one today.

Born to a deaf mother and married to a deaf wife, two of his sons died at infancy yet never gave up on his inventions. Failed many times but did not give up until today we have phones in every corner of the globe! This generation and the next expect you and I to conquer our challenges.

If you believe your dream is real, get on with it.

No one ever expect the level of opposition to their dreams to be so intense but the greater the dream, the greater the barrier or opposition to it and if you are willing to go all the way, you will see it become reality soon.

Remember you are not alone in this race. You are surrounded by cloud of witnesses who have gone ahead of you and they are cheering you not to give up but to keep going.