Friday 25 November 2016

Believing God's Love

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.—1 John 4:16
The greatest truth in all of Scripture is this: God is love. Understanding this in its full dimensions will set you free to enjoy all that is yours as a Christian. But you must accept that God loves you. If you grew up experiencing unconditional love in your family, this may not be difficult for you. However, if your early years were void of love, this truth may be hard to accept. God loves you, not because you deserve His love, but because His nature is love. The only way He will ever relate to you is in love. His love for you gives you an inherent worth that nothing can diminish.
If you cannot accept the truth that God loves you, you will be limited in how you can relate to Him. When He disciplines you, you will not take it as an expression of His love. Rather, you may resent Him. When God says no to a request that is less than His best for you, you will conclude that He doesn't care about you. Without a clear understanding and acceptance of God's love for you, you will be disoriented to Him and to what He wants to do in your life. If you will accept God's love, however, you will be able to return love to God as well as to others (1 John 4:19).
Are you experiencing the profound sense of joy and security that comes from knowing you are dearly loved by God? Being assured of God's love for you sets you free to enjoy the numerous expressions of love He showers upon you each day.

Wednesday 23 November 2016

DANCERS AT THE GATE OF HELL.

I listened to a message by Dr. D. K. Olukoya and it's a blessing to me. I will love to share it with you. Happy reading......

Dancers at the gate!!!
It is a horrible thing to be dancing when you see death, but the truth of the matter is that some people are dancing at the sight of death. Please I beg you, read this with rapt concentration and assimilation. Unfortunately, the trap we’re talking about today, some have already entered; so the purpose of this piece is to caution those who are careless; to warn those who are not careful; to deliver those who are already caged and to create a prevention for those who could be future targets. Dancers at the gate of death!!!
There are two muscles in the body of a man that has destroyed man beyond comparison; there are two muscles in the body of a man that has disgraced so many men; there are two muscles in the body of a man that has put man to shame and has made an able bodied man, who is an elephant to become lizard. These muscles have made people who are eagles to begin to look for worms to eat on the floor like a chicken.
Muscle number 1 is the tongue. Muscle number 2 is your penis.
These two muscles, more than any other organ in the body, has disgraced men and paralyzed their destiny. It is still doing so and the devil is using them with terrible effectiveness; and the reason the devil is using it is because he knows when he gets you through that one, it will take heaven to deliver you.
There is one muscle and one hole in the body of a woman that has put so many women in disarray, that has made so many high flying women to be swimming in the ocean of trouble and despair; that has made so many promising stars to be buried alive. That muscle is their tongue, and the hole is their vagina. Access to your body is a sacred thing and once you make it loose, you lose your destiny as well. More than any other problem that people have brought, the one that is so complicated and cause trouble for women is that one in the mouth and the hole under, the vagina. Unto every womb, there is gateman assigned from heaven. If you push off the gateman and you allow just anything to happen there, the ball is in your court.
Reuben lost his destiny because of sex. It is time for most of us to understand that the whole of life is not sex and one of the most terrible statements ever made to somebody was made to Reuben (Genesis 49). Reuben was supposed to get double inheritance, he did not get any. He was supposed to get good things, he didn’t get any. What made Reuben not to achieve his destiny is what we want to look at now. Genesis is the book of beginnings. When you want to know the origin of a thing, go to the book of Genesis. Genesis 49:2-4 “Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father. Reuben, thou art my first born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.”(he slept with his father’s wife). Look at his qualifications according to the scripture and how great he was. He was the first born, his might; the beginning of his strength; the excellence of dignity and the excellence of power; look at how great this man would have been. His destiny was aborted because he slept with his father’s wife. What put his destiny into trouble was his penis. There are lots of people whose destinies have been paralyzed and mortgaged already. You need to cry to GOD and repent; some still need to get home and hold that penis and pray that whatever demon is inside it that wants to misdirect your life should go. We keep getting cases everyday about people who went to the university, who are supposed to do well, but brought back with several problems; some of them running mad and the situation is so bad now that even people in primary schools are catching little boys and girls in the toilet sleeping with each other. They have already started a foundation of destiny destruction right from their youth.
It is we, who don’t know what we are doing, the enemy knows what he is doing. You can call the devil all manner of names and he will not contend with you. You can say, “devil you’re under my feet, you’re a liar,” fine, he won’t argue with you. You can say, “devil you have no power,” fine, he knows he is not as powerful as GOD, but one name you can’t call the devil is a fool. He is very intelligent, he knows what he is doing; he knows the kind of sin he can push you into that even the greatest prophet will not be able to deliver you.
I am still on the people right now and a lot of people in this country don’t like Dr. Olukoya because I’ll tell them their actions are wrong; you can’t do this, you can’t do that, no matter how highly placed you’re. If you ask me to point my finger to one thing that has put Nigeria where it is today, it is the power of sex; strange women! Anytime I go to minister in our church in Abuja, those days, anytime you got down from the aircraft, you’ll see different cars coming out of Aso Rock to pick up girls from the airport and when I see those girls, I’ve never seen a normal girl among them. So if our leaders are sleeping with dangerous people, they are sleeping with marine people, they are putting their penis inside serpents, they’ll take all kinds of terrible decisions that will spoil peoples’ lives. It is not a sin for somebody to have an erection, but it is a sin to follow the direction of that erection. Sisters, if there is any gate you should guard very jealously in your life, it is the gate of your womb. The person who deflowers(dis-virgins) you is a very important person in your life, because dis-virginity is a covenant. When a man puts his organ into you, it will be wet with the blood that is coming out from your broken hymen, you have thereby formed a blood covenant with whoever deflowers(dis-virgins) you. This is why you have to keep your virginity till you’re married. So if you’ve thrown it away and you have even run high mileage in it, then you need to really repent, not only repenting, you need to go back to all the people you’ve slept with one by one and begin to break soul-ties with them because each person that sleeps with you has formed a spiritual soul tie with you and when you have so many of such soul ties in place, it will affect so many aspects of your life.
Women of destiny are never loose with their vagina. Women of destiny don’t go around with all kinds of men, women of destiny are women who pray, they know their destiny, they pray and get a man who will help them fulfil their destiny. They don’t just pull down their skirts anyhow, anywhere. Women of destiny don’t say we didn’t want to go far and they went far. If you see a woman of loose virtue then I can show you a woman who is a failure. If you see a man that is loose with women, I can show you a man who is already a failure. What finished Samson? Sex. If you hear of suicide bombing today, terrorist problems, bla, bla, it is sex that started it. Sarah was there, she didn’t have a baby on time and brought her house help to Abraham. Abraham was a very old man and the house help was a young girl. Abraham is like the sugar daddy who goes to campuses to sleep with their children’s age mates. Some people blame Sarah, but Abraham could have declined the offer and said “no, this girl is the one doing the house hold chores, I can’t see myself condescending to the level of sleeping with her, I will wait for GOD.” But no, he slept with her. Hagar gave birth to Ishmael who also gave birth to 12 sons(tribes) that make up the Arab nations that is now terrorising the whole world today.
So, sexual sins are generational; there is no casual sex, it is generational, you’re going to reap it. The only people that GOD delivers easily are those people who are raped, because it is not conceptual, the victim was raped. It is like an armed robber coming into a place, but those who walked in and are active and conceptually participated in the act without being drunk, you did it with a clear mind, you’ll reap the harsh benefit of it. It is very sad. Many destinies have been destroyed, many are being destroyed and the enemy is not stopping at all; he has invaded the present generation with a sexual revolution that is beyond comparison and to even spoil the case, there are pastors who are in sexual cages, who harass women who come for counselling, who run after girls, etc, simply because the same cage that wants to destroy their destiny has caught them. All these people are dancers at the gate of death and this is a serious matter.
I shared the story of a brother who went to a party where he met a very beautiful lady, whose name was Funke; they had so much fun together at the party despite the fact that he was meeting her for the first time. On the long run, right there at the back of the party venue, he slept with her, free sex. Later at 2a.m, he took Funke home with a promise that he will see her again at about 11 a.m. the next day. This man was brought to me when he saw what was more than him. According to him, he went to see Funke at the agreed time and the woman he asked of Funke from asked him to wait while she ran into the house to call the other women in the house(I guess to make sure she heard him right) and when they came, they asked him again whom he was looking for. They asked him to describe her, which he did very well. He received the shock of his life when they told him that Funke died 5years ago. He argued with them that he brought her to the house just the previous night and that was where the problem of his life started. His parents took him everywhere; both psychiatric hospitals and churches but he was silent about his encounter with Funke until he was brought before me(at this time, he was as good as a ‘mugu’,ie, Zombie) and in the course of the question and answer session(counselling), I asked him who he slept with. At that juncture, he asked that his mother be excused, which I did and thereafter, he confessed to me what he did. It took him 5years to regain himself and go back to school. Destiny destruction, just because of one organ in the body that he couldn’t control.
At another occasion, I was at the headquarter church when some boys came and one said he was the president of a cult group in the university and the other said he was the secretary general. So I welcomed them and asked what I could do for them. They talked for so long without really making any sense, so I asked them again “what really do you want?” It turned out that they wanted money. So I said “sorry, I can’t give money because it is GOD’s money” and they said “you sell books” and I said “yes I sell books, it is GOD’s money too”; then they said they wanted to go. But as they were about leaving, the one who said he was president said, “can you pray for us sir?” to which I agreed. This turned out to be ‘a holy mistake’. The moment I laid my hands on him and declared “Father in the name of Jesus”, all of a sudden, I have never seen such a reaction before since I have been ministering. Something folded him up like a balloon and he landed on the floor and he started tearing at his trousers. He initially went for his zip, but when he was not getting the cooperation, he tore his trousers himself and I saw his penis and for the first time in my deliverance experience, I have never seen this type of thing before because the head of his penis was a serpent and the hole through which the sperm is supposed to come out was the tiny tongue of a serpent that was sticking out at intervals. Then I rushed for my anointing oil and poured it on the penis then he became normal. So I decided to engage him in a chat and when I asked him how many girls he had slept with in the past three months, he said about 21, both within and outside the campus. Imagine for instance a girl of destiny, who is supposed to be a high flyer in life now finding herself under this man whose penis is a serpent and what he was bringing in and out of her body is the head of a serpent and what he is pumping into her body is poison and that is why fybroid, menstral troubles, happen to so many women and pastors are struggling to deliver them, not knowing that at a stage in their lives, they had slept with a serpent who had put venom inside their womb in order to derail their destiny. He said he had slept with 21 girls and he could not even trace the girls. This is a very serious matter.
We had a crusade in the university of Ibadan many years ago. After the crusade, I returned to Lagos, but at the crusade, there was a word of knowledge that some girls were at the university to bury peoples’ destinies and that they should come out to be delivered or they will die within 7days if they did not come out. They did not come out and I did not bother, but instead of coming out at the crusade ground, they came to me at the headquarters to confess that they were the ones being referred to but felt too embarrassed to come out. So I said “the anointing of that day was for the moment and it is gone”. I then asked what their mission was. They said their mission was to destroy men in the campus, sleep with the boys or men, and take their sperms to the coven. I asked “how many have you taken like that” and they said they started when they were in their prelim classes and they are now in their final year, so they have lost count. When I asked the implication of their actions, they said those men are finished in all honesty. They added that they will never make it or amount to anything meaningful in life. I asked further how we can help them, they said unless you can track them down and even they can’t tell how such men can be tracked down because they don’t even remember their names. Now imagine someone who has been sent to the university to become great and he ends up with one of these ladies, his destiny will automatically take a downward slide and he will live in trouble forever except he meets a good prophet.
Today, I want you to be honest with yourself. If you don’t face the reality, you’ll end up in a fantasy world. If you don’t face the reality today and get delivered, you may live in bondage forever. That thing that makes your body shake anytime you see a sister, there something in your body that needs to come out. It is a destroyer. Never think it is a normal thing, it is not normal. As for sisters, that thing that is inside your body and all the men are running after you and you’re rejoicing, it is a bad spirit because both negative and positive men are running after you. Something is in you that is magnetizing them. If it is a good thing, it should not magnetize evil men. This situation must be addressed today as acidically as possible.
Some time ago, we were in Kaduna (a state in Nigeria) and a prostitute was in the hotel where we were and was sent to seduce one of our pastors. The hotel is a tall building with a lift in it. As I entered the lift, I saw this lady in it and she smiled at me and I smiled back; then I got down at my floor without a word from either of us. Again, I had to rush down and pick something and lo and behold, the sister was still in the lift, so I politely asked her “do you live in this place?” and she said “shut up”, that she was looking for a customer. I asked if she was a prostitute, she said no, but a commercial sexual partner. She made the mistake of following one of our pastors who did a simple Mountain of Fire and Miracles prayer for her and she started screaming “ye, ye, pastor please pray for me o, see fire, see fire.” She was like that for about 2hrs and when she eventually came around, we asked her what she saw. She said she saw a large place where a lot of people were being hung either by leg, mouth, belly etc, but the underlying fact was that they were being hung by the weapons of their sin. She said further that some were being hung by their penis in hell fire. This is a serious matter. To worsen the case, you acquire the demons of your sexual partners. Anybody you sleep with, you must collect all the demons he has in his or her body. It is automatic. Whether you use condom or not, the demons have no respect condoms; they’ll cross. The more people you sleep with, the more demonised you become. You may say but I am not a witch, no. It is easier to deliver a witch than to deliver a fornicator.
When GOD wants to do HIS judgement, HE judges your motive, your thought, your heart, HE judges what you were thinking and as far as the bible is concerned, you can rape a woman in your heart; once you do it in your heart, you’re declared guilty. Fornication is a thing of the heart and there is nothing like “Pastor we did not go all the way now.” Once it originates from your heart you’re declared guilty. There was the case of a born again medical doctor who died 20yrs ago. He was married to a born again wife and left 5 children behind. When she saw the corpse of her husband on the ground , she started praying, reminding GOD that early death was not part of their covenant with HIM and that how will she be able to take care of 5 children all by herself; she kept praying, refusing that his corpse be taken to the mortuary. The man died at 9a.m. and after about 24hrs prayer by his widow, without stopping, the dead doctor came alive with a loud sneeze. Recounting his experience, he said when he died, he found himself in a very dark place where suddenly he was grabbed on each hand and was being dragged toward hell. He said he protested to the demons that he was a child of GOD but the demons could not be bothered. They dragged him to a corner from where he would be thrown into the boiling fire of hell, he said he saw human beings emptied into the fire the way lorry empties sand at the construction site. He said further that suddenly he heard a voice from above that shouted “release him” and the demons released him. He said at that juncture, satan came out personally and protested to GOD that the man was without blame, except for the adultery of the heart to which GOD agreed and said nonetheless he wouldn’t allow the man to go to hell because of his praying wife(see what prayer can do). So when he came back alive, he went about sharing his testimony, abandoning his medical profession and whenever he wanted to end his testimony, he declared with a loud voice: “Beloveth, there is heaven and there is hell, choose one.” All these issues of boyfriend, girlfriend, there is nothing like that. You can jolly well call him ‘boy enemy’ because that is what they are.
Of all the drives that GOD created that pushes someone forward, the sexual drive is the strongest which needs to be controlled; and anybody who is sowing sexual seed is sowing a bad seed and sometimes, some of your present day backwardness may be due to one careless sex you had sometime ago at the back of your house which you thought was a casual sex but as far as the enemy was concerned, it was a valid transaction. Judah in the Bible slept with his daughter-in-law and that chain of sexual sin went on until it reached David. The sexual sin of David now set in motion a lot of terrible things, his child died and the war never departed from his family, his children were sleeping with his wives in the face of the sun.
Many preachers run away from this sermon and refuse to tell people the full implication of sexual sin.

PRAYER POINTS
Lay your hand on your womb (sisters) and pray like this:
• Every deposit the enemy has put in my womb as a result of sexual sin, come out by fire
• Every evil marriage in the spirit because of my careless sexual past, be release today by fire
• My destiny that has been mortgaged on the altar of sex, oh LORD deliver me from it, in the name of Jesus.

When you sleep with a prostitute, you and the prostitute becomes one. If you sleep with 20 prostitutes, it means you have segmented yourself into 20 different parts. If such a man now sleeps with you, it means the demons he has collected from the 20 prostitutes will be pumped into you and then problem starts from there. 1 Corinthians 6:15-20 says “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? GOD forbid. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the LORD is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of GOD, and are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify GOD in your body, and in your spirit, which are GOD’s.” 2Cor. 3:9 also says, “For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.”
The ministration of today is to bring glory to your life, therefore accept. Of all the sins on earth it is only fornication that is against the body and the body is the temple of GOD and whosoever defiles the temple according to the Bible shall be destroyed. This is the only sin in the Bible where GOD promised to personally supervise your punishment.
Sexual sins carry consequences. It is a devastating time bomb. Sex is for replenishing the health and pleasure, but a strict condition is attached to it and the condition is marriage. It’s such a serious issue that GOD declares that you must stick to one partner for life. Sex starts with thought process, it begins with the mind, proceeds to the imagination and then the person becomes a slave. Sexual sin has no value at all because what you stand to lose is more than the 5 or 10 minutes of pleasure; you stand to lose your life and your destiny. It is a hard slave driver, it will keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay. You must be careful because the father of all sins is the devil and mother of all sins is lust, once lust starts, other sins follow suit.
CONSEQUENCES OF SEXUAL SIN
• Feeling of guilt
• Self condemnation
• Divided mind
• Anxiety
• Damaged self esteem
• Hypocrisy
• Emptiness
• Disappointment
• Anger
• Depression
• Dishonesty
• Doubt
• Wasted time
• Diminished effectiveness
• Fear
• Disobedience to GOD
• Regret
• Remorse
• Abortion
• Damaged fellowship with GOD
• Crime
• Divine punishment
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Damaged testimony
• Damaged relationship with GOD
• Damaged ministry
• Damaged future
• Damage to GODly usefulness
• Fragmentation of souls
• Defilement
• Reprobate mind
• Delivery to satan
• Sinning against your body
• Brings GOD’s wrath upon one’s life
• Laying a bad marital foundation
• Breeding of bastards
• Evil blood covenant
• Demonization
• Strengthening of internal yokes and burdens
• Destiny diversion
• Church pollution
• Makes satan happy
• Unwanted pregnancy
• Damaged womb or reproductive organ
• Barrenness
• Untimely death
• Murder
• Wrong marriage
• Troubled marriage
• Physical and spiritual death.

CATEGORIES OF SEXUAL SLAVERY
• Sexual purity
• Sexually polluted
• Lost virtues
• Future time bombs
• Chronic deliverance case
• High mileage pollution
• Sex in the heart
• X-ray spirit
• Shaven Samson
• Altar prisoners
• Evil negative charge
• Self sex(masturbation)
• Lost glory and destiny group
• Demoted prophet
• Hidden infirmity group
• Baby polygamist
• Generational curses
• Catapulted to zero level
• Catastrophic children
• Cursed sexual organs
• Bewitched womb
• Prostitution
• Molech reproductive organ
• Spiritual sex(spirit husband and wife)
• Violent introduction(rape)
• Sexual day dreamer
• Soul ties
• Magic/occultic hold
• Sexual addiction
• Fragmented soul
• Cursed hand
• Constant wet dream
• Sleeping with animals
• Watching pornography
• Reading pornographic magazines
• Reading sexy books
• Lesbianism
• Homo sexualism
• Oral sex
• Group sex
• Sex with children
• Incest
• Fondling and petting
• Taking drugs to excite yourself

If you must escape from all these then
• Flee
• Burn the bridges(get rid of things that will drag you back into the bondage)
• Discipline your body
• Be renewed in your mind
• Make a covenant with your eyes
• Go for deliverance if you need one
• Learn the power of prayer and the word of GOD
• Avoid anyone that is provoking you sexually
• Seek for help if the bondage persist
• Let GOD be your obsession

PRAYER POINTS
• yoke breaker, Jesus Christ, break my yoke now, in the name of Jesus
• Every power assigned to waste my destiny, die in Jesus name
• Anything in my life assigned to destroy my destiny, die in Jesus name
• Power of defilement, I am not your candidate, die in Jesus name
• Power of GOD, incubate my life in the name of Jesus
• (Mention your name) I prophecy upon you, arise and shine in Jesus name.
GOD BLESS YOU.......


The Father of Penticostalism in Nigeria (Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalol)

 Babalola was born of Yoruba parents at Odo-Owa, Kwara State, Nigeria.He was brought up as an Anglican. He was registered at an elementary school at Oto-Awori on Badagry Road, Lagos State, in 1914. He got to standard four, before he became a blacksmith's apprentice and he learned it for two years, before he became a steamroller operator under the PWD (Public Works Department), then under the control of Great Britain, learning to become a steamroller driver. After 15 days of learning to drive the caterpillar, he was able to drive it without any assistance. After nine months; he became a master in his class. A steamroller was first given to him on 1 April 1928 to work on the Osogbo – Ilesha road. On June 14, 1928 he was transferred to Akure – Ilesha road. On 9 October 1928 at about 12 o'clock he was by his steamroller by the river Ariran, it was here he heard a loud voice from above like the roar of thunder which called his name thrice saying "Joseph! Joseph!! Joseph!!! Leave this job you are doing; if not, this year you are going to be cut off from the earth." Again On 11 October 1928, while trying to repair his machine, he heard an audible voice from the Lord to abandon the job and start preaching. That is how he received the call and he went into fasting and prayer. Ayo Babalola was sent out of the Anglican Church of his village by his Bishop because most members of the Church see visions; speak in tongues and pray vigorously. Babalola was baptized in Lagos lagoon in December 1929.
Apostle Babalola was heavenly anointed by God even before his birth. The kingdom of darkness (astrologers]; whom are specialized in detecting glorious and special stars of an unborn human being were able to decipher the greatness of his ministry exploit. However, his whole ministry data and glory was sent to Sister Olufumilayo Adebayo who was a demonic agent during those era and also specialized in satanic exploit in African continent.

She was perturb on how she can inter-change or manipulates the glory and ministry exploit of an unborn child. Nevertheless, she soul-ties Ayo Babalola with a demonic reincarnate woman from the pit of Hell as his future wife.

Apostle Babalola only mistake was his choice of wife. History has it that the woman he truly loved was a single mother, been a respected christian leader, the elders of CAC considered it an embarrassment for their leader to marry a single mother.

Hence, they misled him to marry the spinster who later became the thorn in his flesh. There was a time she poured palm oil on the white garment of the man of God on his way to a crusade ground. Another time after returning from the mountain after long days of prayers and fasting, the wife served him a delicious meal to break his fast.

He had only taken about 2 or 3 morsels when the wife told him" i thought you were a true prophet, because you should have known by revelation that the chicken in the food was stolen" The great man of God gently left the remaining food and returned to the mountain to ask God for forgiveness.

One of the days, he was expected to preach in an open air crusade but suddenly his wife locked him inside the room and ran off. The man just look up and cried "Oh Lord, see what my wife has done" The Lord ask him to lay his hands on the wall and immediately he found himself in the crusade ground. He usually floats on air while preaching, he can also pray for 3 months on knee without standing up.
Pa Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola once told his fellow ministers during prayer meeting to knee down for SHORT prayer. After about 2-3 hours of kneeing down, the minister becomes frustrated and sat down, leaving only Apostle Babalola still on his knee praying for about 5-6 hours. The following day, they asked him "Baba, if you ask us to pray a short prayer with you which took almost 6 hours, How many hours will your LONG prayer last?"

Many of us knew Ori Oke Aanu (Mountain of Mercy) Praying Ground, Erio-Ekiti in Osun State Nigeria. This mountain of prayer was founded by this same Apostle Babalola. There is a spot on top of that mountain rock where he knee to pray and his knee pierced through, leaving a giant hole in the rock due to his long hours in praying. That hole is still over there till-date.
He was the only man that traveled overseas for missionary works without airplane or ship. He usual traveled abroad with his ministers for missionary work neither by air or water, he only gathered his minister for prayer and instantly they disappeared into thin-air. Sometimes, when preaching the angel will left-up his two legs and he will begin to move and float in air without his feet touching the ground.
HIS MINISTRY CALLING:

On 9 October 1928 at about 12 o'clock he was by his steamroller by the river Ariran, it was here he heard a loud voice from above like the roar of thunder which called his name thrice saying "Joseph! Joseph!! Joseph. Leave this job you are doing; if not, this year you are going to be cut off from the earth."

Again On 11 October 1928, while trying to repair his machine, he heard an audible voice from the Lord to abandon the job and start preaching. That is how he received the call and he went into fasting and prayer. The watershed in his early ministry came when when he was commanded by God to go to his hometown to warn his people against Idolatry , fetish practices and evil works.

According to him; The Spirit told me to go to my hometown , where I was born. The Lord said I should rub my face with ashes and to carry palm leaves in my hand and to buy a bell, which I was to be ringing the moment I entered the town and I obeyed. The voice told me to tell my people that unless they repented , evil beasts would enter the town to destroy them.

On that same day I entered the town with a bell in my hand. The entire town was moved and there was great stir and consternation as people fled as they saw me. The moment they set eyes on me they fled. The Voice told me to ring the bell in my hand round the town and I obeyed.

His people however refused to repent or change their ways they instead summarily beat him up and his family was subjected to heavy persecution by the people of the town. In defense against the prophesied invasion of the town by wild beasts the people of the town armed themselves with Guns and Cutlasses. However God told His Servant to tell them he would not bring beasts again but instead would bring epidemics and it would start within forty- five days.

At the expiration of the prophesied forty-five days and epidermic of small pox broke out and within 3 weeks about 300 persons had died. But those who repented and those who came to the man of god after contracting the disease were spared. Ayo Babalola was sent out of the Anglican Church of his village by his Bishop because most members of the Church see visions; speak in tongues and pray vigorously.
While praying on same mountain, a giant python came to swallow him but instantly dried-up. On June 25, 1931 he slew the sinister Abugabu dragon of the jungles of Yogumbo and with a bell and Yoruba Bible in his hand he toured yoruba-Land preaching about repentance and importance of prayer and fasting,

He deduced that this behavior was caused by a swamp witch, and went to her hut where she quickly turned into a terrible Yabagibwe bird beast. Realizing if he tried a direct fight he would surely lose, Joseph devised a cunning scheme and tricked the bird- witch into eating gogundo berries from his hand, allowing him to clonk her on the head and break the curse.

This led to his joining the Faith Tabernacle Church in November 1929 where he was baptized in Lagos lagoon in December 1929. Ministry and healing of  the revival of his mission began with the raising of a dead child in September 1930. What followed this in 3 weeks was the healing of about 100 lepers, 60 blind people and 50 lame persons.

This also resulted in the desolation of Churches in Ilesa because their members transferred their allegiance to the revivalist and that all the patients in Wesley Hospital, Ilesa, abandoned their beds to seek healing from Babalola. This divinely kicked off The Great Revival of 1930, which saw people coming from most parts of Africa and Diaspora without posters and TV adverts.

On June 25, 1931 he slew the sinister Abugabu dragon of the jungles of Yogumbo, wielding a holy sword imbued with the fire of the Lord. From then on, with bell and Yoruba Bible in hand, he toured Yoruba land and eastern Nigeria, preaching about repentance, and renunciation of idolatry, the importance of prayer and fasting, and the power of God to heal sickness.

In 1930 Faith Tabernacle affiliated with the British Apostolic Church. Then following a schism in the Apostolic Church about 1940, Bablola went with a new independent church, Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), where he continued his healing and revivalistic activities until his death. The C.A.C regards Babalola as an apostle and his revival ministry as the beginning of the church. A CAC retreat center was built at Ikeji-Arakeji, Osun State where Babalola was first called in 1928.

THE MYSTERIES ENCOUNTER OF BABALOLA.
1. The Mysterious Tree of Usi Ekiti: This was a tree in a Forest believed to be inhabited by evil spirits and it was in this forest a land was given to him for his revival campaign. This tree had been cut many times but it stood again as if nothing hd been done to it,however the Apostke went to the tree rand his bell and prayed on the tree and it was cut down forever.

2. The terrible gods of Ifira: There was a god called " egule" worshipped in the Isowo Quarters of the town . This god was so ruthless that no man dares point a finger at it to call attention to it as such acts led to forfeiture of fingers or death. It is said that a big python coiled around the pot on which the god was placed. This god was situate on a bushy hill and no one dares goes there for fear of being harmed by the god or the python guarding it.

When the Apostle got to this town he requested to visit the hill of this god. People were concerned for his safety but he insisted , then people from neighboring towns and villages came to see what was going to happen. All he took was his bell and his staff and he went to the hill with people watching him.

Immediately he sited this god and its python he started ringing his bell as he moved towards it. and immediately the pot on which the god stood broke into pieces and the snake fled , when people saw this they started singing and rejoicing and the people beheld the Python and trampled it till it died and the people abandoned the Idols for God.

Other instances encounter include : The Forbidden forest of EFON ALAAYE , Deliverance of Oke Luse (Ondo State) from Elephants, The case of Isua , Idols jumping out of fire while they are being burnt etc. A lot has to be done to document the many great works of this man of God.

The Christ Apostolic Church has not died along with Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola in 1959. In fact it has grown rapidly over the years, with many churches under the Christ Apostolic Church name but each church with a specific branch name.

HOW APOSTLE AYO BABALOLA DIED. (ACCORDING TO A WITNESS)
Until his sudden departure to glory on Sunday, July, 1959, Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola showed no sign of illness. On Friday 24 July, he returned to Ibadan to attend the general council’s meeting slated for that day. On Saturday morning, July, Apostle Babalola conducted the Morning Prayer for ministers and members living in the residence of Christ Apostolic Church; Olugbode, Ibadan and prayed for everybody.
The same day, he sent two of his followers, Michael and another fellow to me at Ede that I should prepare a place for him to sleep. I never knew he was talking of his final sleep. Apostle Ayo Babalola arrived Ede around 6:30 pm in the evening that Saturday and he was gladly received. Before his arrival, I had prepared my bedroom ready for him.

We ensured that nobody was allowed to rush into the bedroom with him; for it was Apostle Babalola’s habit that he never turned away anybody who came to him for prayer and counseling, no matter how weary he might be. After prayer, I informed him that his meal was ready. He declined to take any meal but requested to be allowed to have some sleep, because he had been holding series of meetings since the past nine days with little or no rest.

He woke up three hours later and took some tea and slept off again. At 4 a.m. on Sunday, he woke up, took his bath, took some tea and had his morning meditation without any disturbance. At 6 o’clock, I went to him in the bedroom and he began to talk about a great convention which will soon be held at his hometown, Odo-Owa.

He was speaking in parables, so I did not suspect that he was talking about his approaching death. He directed me to call in Prophet Babajide who was in the adjacent room. Both of us knelt down beside his bed and he began to narrate to us how he began his ministry. It was such a sublime experience. Both of us just listened; we did not utter a single word during the course of his narration. After this, we knelt down for prayer. The three of us prayed. I took the lead. Prophet Babajide followed.

When it was Apostle Babalola’s turn to pray, he prayed for a very long time, praying for the church, the leaders and for us too. After the special service, people came to Apostle Babalola in my bedroom and bid him farewell before leaving for their various destinations with joy and humor.
He bid everyone farewell and prayed for them. Nobody suspected through his speech or action that death was lurking in the corners. We left him alone to attend to those who were waiting to see him.

Meanwhile, Michael Osabi and Samuel Oluwatusin, the two young men who used to wait on him, remained with him as he took a nap. When he woke up, he called me and returned my covering-cloth to me. His action surprised me and I asked, “Baba, why are you doing this?”

He replied, “A man should sleep with his own clothes.” It did not occur to me that he was speaking of his imminent death. He advised me to go and have some sleep myself. By then, everybody else had gone to church for the evening service.

Around 5 p.m. as he lay on the bed, Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola breathed heavily three times, saying after, “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” His breathing was like the rumbling of a rain-storm and there was a great vibration in the bedroom. As this was happening, his personal attendants (Michael and Samuel) ran to call me to his bedside before he gave up the ghost. We began to pray and quickly sent for the church leaders who had gone to church for the evening service.
The father of penticostalism in Nigeria.

Monday 21 November 2016

Prepare Your Mind.....


Therefore, get your minds ready for action, being self-disciplined, and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.—1 Peter 1:13
Your mind is a wonderful thing! You can memorize life-changing passages of Scripture that can undergird you in your daily life; you can meditate upon God's Word, discovering His magnificent truths; you can discern between truth and falsehood; you can recall God's past blessings.

Some of God's most effective servants were those who disciplined their minds for His service. Moses, educated in the best schools of Egypt, assembled the books of the Law for the Israelites. Isaiah used his scholarly mind to write an exalted prophetic book in Scripture. Paul learned under Gamaliel, the outstanding teacher of his day, and it was through Paul that God presented much of the theology found in the New Testament.

Sadly, many Christians today do not exercise their minds to be of service to God. They allow others to do their spiritual thinking for them. If they can find their theology from a book, they will not bother to study God's Word themselves. If a speaker makes an authoritative statement, they readily accept it without verifying whether it is biblical.
Paul urged Christians to strive for maturity in their thinking (1 Cor. 14:20). He said there was a time when his spiritual thinking was immature, but he had prepared his mind to know and understand the great truths of God (1 Cor. 13:11). He had not allowed others to do his thinking for him. When you became a Christian, God renewed your mind (Rom. 12:2). Be certain to use your mind in a way that brings glory to God.

Sunday 20 November 2016

Let No One Look down on You

No one should despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.—1 Timothy 4:12
Timothy was a sincere young man who earnestly desired to serve the Lord. Yet certain weaknesses in Timothy's life hindered him from serving God confidently. Timothy was very young to be a religious leader, and apparently some doubted his abilities. Timothy had a tender nature and was sickly (1 Tim. 5:23). His was an inauspicious beginning for a young minister of the gospel in an age of persecution!

Paul urged Timothy not to allow his youthful insecurity to blunt his zeal and faithfulness in doing what God had told him. Rather than arguing with those who criticized Timothy, Paul urged him to live as an example of godliness. Paul advised Timothy to live a life that was so spotless in word, conduct, love, spirit, faith, and purity that his life could serve as a model for others in the church to follow. Timothy's life was to be the evidence that God had called him. God looked beyond Timothy's youth, timidity, and physical weakness and saw his sincere heart.

As you seek to follow God's will, you may identify with Timothy. Perhaps some things about you seem to disqualify you from serving the Lord effectively. You may be sensitive because you are a new Christian or because you come from a sinful past. Perhaps you have little education or money or social status. You may have previously experienced failure in your service for God. Don't allow this to intimidate you from following God's will. Your area of weakness may be God's means of demonstrating His strength (2 Cor. 12:9). Allow God to demonstrate His call upon you by transforming your life into a model of godliness. God bless you.

Legends in the Race (Kenneth Hagin)

Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an influential American Charismatic preacher born on August 20, 1917 in McKinney, Texas to the family of Lillie Viola Drake Hagin and Jess Hagin. He was so small and lifeless that the doctor thought that he was stillborn.

Personal Life

He was married to Oretha Rooker. They had two children, a son, Kenneth Wayne Hagin, who is presently the pastor of Rhema Bible Church and President of Kenneth Hagin Ministries, and a daughter, Patricia Harrison. She is the widow of the late Doyle “Buddy’ Harrison and is the owner and publisher of Harrison House, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

According to Hagin’s testimony, he was sickly as a child, suffering from a deformed heart and what was believed to be an incurable blood disease. He became bedfast at age 15 and was not expected to live. In April 1933 during a dramatic conversion experience, he reported dying three times in 10 minutes, each time seeing the horrors of hell and then returning to life. But in August 1934, he was miraculously healed, raised off a deathbed by the power of God and the revelation of faith in God’s Word. Jesus appeared to Rev. Hagin eight times over the next several years in visions that changed the course of his ministry.

Two years later he preached his first sermon as the pastor of a small community church in Roland, Texas, 9 miles from McKinney.

In 1967, he began a regular radio broadcast that continues today as Rhema for Today.

His favorite scripture was Mark 11:23: “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith”.

Many of his followers often called him “Dad Hagin”, “Papa Hagin”, and more commonly “Brother Hagin”. He is also often referred to as the “father” (or “granddaddy”) of the “Word of Faith” movement. Hagin never received any formal theological training, however, he received an honorary doctorate from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s.

Ministry

Hagin began an itinerant ministry as a Bible teacher and evangelist in 1949. He was also a part of the Voice of Healing Revival in the U.S. in the 40s and 50s together with Oral Roberts, Gordon Lindsay and T. L. Osborn. In 1963, Kenneth E. Hagin Evangelistic Association was incorporated, and in 1966, the ministry offices moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. That same year, he taught for the first time on radio — on KSKY in Dallas. In 1967, he began a regular radio broadcast that continues today as Faith Seminar of the Air. Teaching by his son, Rev. Kenneth Wayne Hagin, is also heard on the program.

Since its inception in 1963, his organization grew to include numerous media outreaches and ministries. These are:

Faith Library Publications – with 65 million book copies in circulation
“RHEMA Praise” – a weekly television program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network
“Faith Seminar of the Air” – a radio program heard on many stations nationwide and on the Internet
“The Word of Faith” – a free monthly magazine with roughly 600,000 subscribers
crusades conducted throughout the nation
RHEMA Correspondence Bible School
the RHEMA Prayer and Healing Center, located on the Rhema campus in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
RHEMA Bible Training College


Rhema Bible Training Centre
In 1974 Rev. Hagin founded what is now Rhema Bible Training College (RBTC). RBTC is an unaccredited Bible institute located on 110 acres (0.45 km2) in Broken Arrow, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. The curriculum is taught from a Charismatic/Pentecostal heritage. There are seven ministry concentrations specializing in Children’s Ministry, Youth Ministry, Evangelism, Pastoral Care, Missions, Biblical Studies, and Supportive Ministry.

The school has campuses in many countries of the world including Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, the South Pacific, Thailand, Nigeria, Zambia, Egypt, and the Philippines.


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RBTC also has over 40,000 graduates who reside and minister in more than 100 countries.

In 1979, he founded the Prayer and Healing Center there to provide a place for the sick to come to “have the opportunity to build their faith.” Its Healing School continues to be held free of charge twice daily on the RHEMA campus.

After Kenneth E. Hagin’s death in 2003, his son Kenneth W. Hagin continued to run the RBTC.
Others
Until shortly before his death on September 19, 2003 at the age of 86, Rev. Hagin continued to travel and teach throughout the United States and into Canada conducting All Faiths’ Crusades and other special meetings.
 Known as the “father of the modern faith movement,” Rev. Hagin was a dynamic preacher, teacher, and prophet. His teachings and books are filled with vivid stories that show God’s power and truth working in his life and the lives of others. He will be remembered not only as a great minister but as a great family man—for his family was his heart. He was there at every milestone ready to talk, to answer, to pray. He was a man whose belly laugh filled the room at the sight of one of his grandchildren or great-grandchildren.
Books written by Kenneth E. Hagin
Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an influential American Charismatic preacher and a great writer.
 
>A Better Covenant
>A Commonsense Guide to Fasting
>A Fresh Anointing
>Authority of the Believer
>Baptism in the Holy Spirit [Study Guide]
>Bible Faith Study Course
>Bible Prayer Study Course
>Biblical Keys to Financial Prosperity
>Bodily Healing and the Atonement
>Casting your cares upon the Lord
>Classic Sermons
>Concerning Spiritual Gifts
>Don’t Blame God
>El Shaddai
>Exceedingly Growing Faith
>Faith Food Devotions for Autumn
>Faith Food Devotions for Spring
>Faith Food Devotions for Summer
>Faith Food Devotions for Winter
>Following God’s Plan For Your Life
>Gifts of the Holy Spirit
>Growing Up, Spiritually
>He gave Gifts unto men: A Biblical perspective of Apostles, Prophets and Pastors
>Healing Belongs to Us
>Healing Scriptures
>Health Food: A Daily Guide To Spiritual Nourishment For The Soul
>How to Keep Your Healing?
>How to Turn Your Faith Loose?
>How you can be led by the Spirit of God?
>How you can know the will of God?
>I Believe in Visions
>Laying on of Hands
>Love: The Way to Victory
>Marriage, Divorce & Remarriage
>Ministering to your Family
>Mountain-Moving Faith
>Must Christians Suffer?
>New Thresholds of Faith
>Obedience in Finances
>Plans, Purposes and Pursuits
>Prayer Secrets
>Praying to get Results
>Prevailing Prayer to Peace
>Redeemed from Poverty, Sickness and Spiritual Death
>Right and Wrong Thinking
>Seven steps for judging Prophecy
>Seven Things You Should Know about Divine Healing
>Seven Vital Steps to Receiving the Holy Spirit
>The Art of Prayer
>The Believer’s Authority
>The Gift of Prophecy
>The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
>The Human Spirit
>The Interceding Christian
>The Key to Scriptural Healing
>The Midas touch: a balanced approach to biblical prosperity
>The Ministry Gifts (Study Guide)
>The Name of Jesus
>The New Birth
>The Present-Day Ministry of Jesus Christ
>The Real Faith
>The Threefold Nature of Man
>The Triumphant Church: Dominion over all the Powers of Darkness
>The Women Question
>Three Big Words
>Turning hopeless Situations around
>Understanding How to Fight the Good Fight of Faith
>Understanding the Anointing
>Welcome to God’s Family: A Foundational Guide for Spirit-Filled Living
>What Faith is?
>What to do when Faith seems weak and Victory lost?
>Zoe: The God-Kind of Life

The Coming day of the Lord.

Text: Matt 24:44
According to Anglican calendar,this Sunday is the last Sunday in Trinity. It prepares us for the beginning of another Christian calendar called ''Advent Sunday'. We commemorate the advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. The subject of the coming day of the Lord is a very important one, it is to remind the Christians of the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the Old testament, The day of the Lord means a period when God will enact His sovereignty over the world. It is also a period that God will judge those who forsake the God of Israel to follow other gods. It is the day of vengeance on the enemies of Israel and the manifestation of final deliverance of Israel.
The pronouncement of the day of the Lord by the prophets of old was a clear warning to the sinners among them of the danger of trusting in other gods,but for the committed faithfuls,it is a day of hope and Victory.
The New Testament took up this Old Testament expression to point to Christ's final victory,immortals or mortals and final judgment of sinners. Different expression like ''The day of Jesus'' Phil 1:6. ''Day of our Lord'' 1 Cor 1:8. ''Day of the Lord'' 1 Cor 5:5. ''Day of Christ'' Phil 1:10. ''Day of judgement'' 1 John 4:17. ''Day of wrath'' Rom 2:5 were recorded in the New Testament.
The second coming will mark the fulfillment of His promises. Matt 24:30, Act 1:11, Rev 20:1-6. The second coming shall mark the triumph of good over evil and the reign of justice and peace shall be established.
To doubt the reality of the second coming is to doubt the reality and validity of God's word.
The second coming of Christ raises our hope and confidence that God is in control of all things and is faithful to His word and promises. Titus 2:13.
Christ will come not as a lamb but as a judge. You might have heard that we are in the end times,the last days and that Jesus is returning soon. The question is, will you be ready when the Lord shall come? He illustrated how His coming would look like in a parable recorded in Matt 25:1-13.
Jesus also said in Matt 24:36-44,that no one knows the day or time. Don't doubt in your heart saying,where is the promise of Jesus Coming? It will surely come,it is imminent.
Apostle Paul told us to comfort one another with the expectation of Christ's return in this perilous time. This world is not our home,we are just passing through. Phil 3:20-21, 2 Cor 5:1, 2 Peter 3:1-13, James 5:7-8. Christ will return at an unexpected time,so we must be ready,Live a holy and be committed to the things of God as we await His returns.
God bless You
God bless King's Anglican Church