Rhapsody of Realities 15 February 2019 By Pastor Chris Oyakhilome – Automatic Cleansing
Topic: Automatic Cleansing
In whom, we have our redemption—the remission of sins, — (Colossians 1:14 EBR).
Aren’t you glad that in Christ, all our sins are remitted; past, present, and future? Imagine if someone says our future sins weren’t taken care of by the blood of Jesus, when then is He going to fix them? When will they be remitted?
Also, assuming that a Christian committed a sin at his workplace, and said to himself, “This office isn’t conducive for me to pray right now; I’m going to hurry up with work so I can get home to pray, and get reconciled with God.” Imagine that while he’s still at work, the trumpet for the rapture of the Church suddenly sounds; will he go to heaven or will he be left behind?
Now, maybe you’re thinking, “That Christian is done for! He can’t go to heaven.” That means you really don’t know the Lord. He’s too passionate about your salvation to leave you behind because you made a mistake. He provided for the Christian what is called automatic cleansing! This is what the Word teaches.
Those who’ll be left behind are those who haven’t been walking in His light; those who didn’t know Him and didn’t love Him. The mere fact that you acknowledged you did something wrong, for which you thought to talk to Him, shows that His light is in your heart.
Now, read what the Word says in 1 John 1:7: “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin .” The underlined portion doesn’t say you’ll be cleansed after you pray to God for forgiveness; no! Neither does it say the blood of Jesus is going to cleanse you from sin; it’s not futuristic; it’s a continuous automatic process! His blood CLEANSES you each time the need arises.
And guess what? This auto-remission of your sins is a legal matter before God. It’s no longer a matter of choice from God; it’s a legal justification for a Christian. Hallelujah!
This is why it’s so important that we know, understand, and walk daily in the light of God’s Word, not in human assumptions. Walk in the light of your righteousness, pleasing the Lord with your life, and you’ll not have to worry about sin, because your nature in Christ isn’t subject to sin.
CONFESSION I live and walk in righteousness; Satan has nothing in me, because in Christ Jesus my Lord, I’ve been justified from all things from which I couldn’t be justified by the Law of Moses. I walk conscious of the Father’s nature in me. Hallelujah!
FURTHER STUDY: Romans 4:6-8; Micah 7:18-19 AMPC
1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Mark 1:21-45 & Leviticus 8
2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Matthew 14:22-33 & Genesis 46
Rhapsody of Realities 15th February 2019 Devotional was written by Pastor Pastor Chris Oyakhilome (D.Sc., D.D.). President of Loveworld Inc. aka Christ Embassy Int’l.
The head of megachurch First Baptist Dallas, Jeffress, who is also a member of Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board, made the comments on radio presenter Todd Starnes’ show.
“Let me say this as charitably as I can,” Jeffress said.
“These ‘Never Trump’ evangelicals are morons. They are absolutely spineless morons, and they cannot admit that they were wrong.”
His strong words followed a conversation about abortion.
“This is an issue of life and death,” Jeffress continued.
“This is so black and white, so much about good versus evil. I don’t get it.
“It really goes to the core of who we are as a country and what kind of a country we have in the future, and if we can’t get this issue of life right, I just don’t know where we’re going to go down the road.”
Mr Trump has been very vocal about his pro-life stance.
White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere confirmed that the president had recently met with Democratic New York governor Andrew Cuomo for a wide-ranging conversation on several topics of disagreement, including abortion.
According to Deere’s statement, “The President raised his concerns to Governor Cuomo about Democrats’ support of late term abortions” during the meeting.
Last month, New York State passed a law protecting women’s access to abortion if Roe v Wade is ever overturned.
Ese means thank you in Yoruba language in the western part of Nigeria. This song came to me as a reminder, when i think of how many people who die everyday through different medium, most terrible one was before i lost my Dad in 2016.
I spent my first two weeks of the new year with him in the hospital, I saw a lot of patient crying with different symptoms, many were not because they had no money to be heal. I can still remember a very rich man who was rushed into the emergency unit, who passed out under an hour.
After spending all I had, my Dad still died. Why I said to my God thank you, is because of the great gift of life.
Ese By Ambassador David – Mp3, Lyrics
Lyrics
Intro
Oh oh oh uuu yeah
Thank you Lord
Am grateful to you
Oh oh Abasi sosongo oh oh
There is no god like you Jesus hallelujah
Verse one
You do the things
Wey man no fit do…..
You make a way eeeee
Where there seems no way eeeh
Nah you be God oh
Your not a man oh
For all you av’ done
We have come to say eeeeeeh
Chorus
Ese oh oh oh olorumi eee 2x
Ese oh oh oh akwa abasi 2x
Verse two
Thank you yeah yeah
You changed my life
You gave me what I want….
You will never let me die before my time
See am alive me I no go die
Many in the hospital crying after doctors and nurses
We av’ come to say eeeeeh
Repeat chorus
Everyday many deh die
But we are alive….. Oh
Waiting i go give to you
For the life i deh live….
Anything you want me do
I say nah waiting i go do
(Syncopation)
My papa eeh eeh
My papa eeh eeh
Nah you big oh
Daddy nah you big oh
Repeat chorus
Repeat chorus
Outro
Thank you Lord For all you av’ done We are so grateful Nobody is like you Jesus.
Some 230,000 people signed a petition created by CitizenGo which urged DC Comics to cease involvement.
It has now emerged the California-headquartered company has now shelved publication – planned for next month.
Ignacio Arsuaga, the president of CitizenGo, said: “We are glad to hear that the blasphemous ‘Second Coming’ comic will not be released by DC Comics.
“This is a victory for Christianity and a victory in favour of respecting religious beliefs.
Great news! The blasphemous “Second Coming” comic deriding Jesus has been cancelled. Our petition (of over 228,000 signatures) made the difference! https://t.co/M8klGFBone
“It would be a shame for a popular and well-loved brand like DC Comics to promote this blasphemous and anti-Christian content.”
In a message posted on Twitter, the creator of ‘Second Coming’ said he had gone “separate ways” with its would-be publishers.
The: DC/Vertigo’s cancellation of the orders for Second Coming, just so you know, DC did not do anything untoward to me. I asked for the rights back and they gracefully agreed. They’ve been a pleasure to work with and it will still be released, albeit with a different publisher.
Church members play a role in revitalization. Their attitudes and actions must reflect an openness to reaching others. Today, we discuss nine commitments they must make to see revitalization in a church.
This Week’s Question:
FROM WADE — Podcast #056 grappled with the uniqueness of a calling to revitalizing a church. You offered helpful up-front points to the would-be revitalizing pastor. Would you flip the coin on to the reverse side and build out the attitudes and commitments of a congregation and its leadership that desires revitalization?
Episode Highlights:
One of the greatest joys of corporate worship is leaving our personal preferences at the door and being led together.
If you’re not serving in your church, you’re not really being an active member of your church.
The deeper in love you are with Christ, the more you will want to serve others.
Dying churches anesthetize the pain of dying with busyness and activity.
The nine commitments we cover are:
I will move from “I am” to I will”
I will worship with others
I will grow together with others
I will serve
I will go
I will give generously
I will not be a church dropout
I will avoid the traps of churchianity
I will make a difference
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Revitalize & Replant is sponsored by the North American Mission Board and ChurchReplanters.com. More than 10% of churches in North America are at risk of…
Former Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, John Leech, who now leads the opposition on Manchester Council, said: “Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester Council, described Christmas as ‘peak begging season’, the council claimed soup kitchens organised by communities and outreach teams are a ‘bad idea’ whilst fining and trying to sue the homeless, spending £10,000 on one-way tickets to get rid of rough sleepers, refusing to build affordable and social housing and claiming the only way to tackle ‘offenders’ is to fine them”.
Premier contacted the Labour council in Manchester about these claims, who responded by saying: “There is absolutely no proposal to prohibit rough sleeping, or indeed begging, and it is wholly misleading to suggest there is.
“Our absolute priority remains to support anyone who is in need and connect them with the services which can help them move forwards in their lives, while making clear that certain very specific behaviours will not be accepted.
“What is proposed is to address aggressive begging and certain anti-social behaviours associated with a small minority of people which have a direct detrimental [affect] on the quality of life of people living in the city centre, for example, obstructing the entrances or stairways of their homes or carelessly discarding used needles and syringes.”
The main criticism made by the Lib Dems regards the Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs), which prohibit specific behaviours in…
If you’re planning to get married today in Las Vegas, you can apply for your marriage license here, then pick it up at the baggage claim area at the airport. Alternately, if you or your travel partner is named “Valentine,” you can get free air travel to Iceland today.
A “Smooches from Pooches” kissing booth is waiting for you at Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina. Master violinist Patrick Contreras will serenade you at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in California. If you forgot to get a Valentine’s Day card for your loved one, you might head to Chicago Midway Airport, where they’re distributing free cards today.
“Love others like God loves them.”
As Janet Denison noted in her blog, the history and legends surrounding Valentine’s Day remind us that today is “a perfect holiday to allow God to use you as a witness to his perfect love. Love God with everything in you. Love others like God loves them. Let people know you are a Christian this Valentine’s Day by sharing God’s perfect love with them.”
God’s word repeatedly calls us to love as we are loved:
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34; cf. John 15:12).
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:7-8).
“Love one another with brotherly affection” (Romans 12:10).
“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly” (1 Peter 4:8).
Why is it hard to do what God calls us to do?
Three enemies of unconditional love
Three cultural factors conspire together against experiencing and sharing God’s unconditional love.
One: Americans have separated Sunday from Monday, so we don’t think God’s love is relevant to the “real world.”
Centuries before Christ, Greek philosophers began separating the soul from the body…
MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES YOUTH CONNECT SERVICE TOPIC: THE ALTAR OF DESTINY OBITUARY TEXT: I CORINTHIANS 3:16-18, I CORINTHIANS 16:15-20 DATE: SUNDAY, 03-02-2019 VENUE: MFM HQ YOUTH CHURCH
Happy New Year to you in Jesus name.
Today, I’d be speaking on the altar of destiny obituary. It is pertinent to know that destiny is a key and crucial matter. Due to this, three entities are interested in it:
God: God is interested in destiny because that’s the sole reason for your creation;
Man: Man wants to find fulfilment and as such, its an object of his interest;
The Devil: The Devil too is interested in your destiny because he knows quite well that once he succeeds in diverting you from it, all your noise in church about your superiority over him is just empty breeze. He clearly understands that God cannot bless you in a place that He hasn’t called you to be. For many here, their angels of breakthrough are waiting at a bus stop from which they had already departed.
Facts on Destiny:
It is God’s pre-ordained future for you;
It is God’s plan for your life;
It is the purpose for which you were born;
It is your divine blueprint;
It is what is written in the book of heaven concerning your life.
It is for these reasons that you must discover and work on it early in life. One tragedy of life is that it is a disaster to do the right thing at the wrong time. Listen beloved, there can be no success outside one’s divine destiny. Any success one claims to have outside their divine destiny is a journey to bondage from which they might never recover. Once a person is out of destiny, the devil loses interest in them because he knows that person is practically finished.
The Altar of Pre-marital and Non-marital Sex:
Two potent and devastatingly dangerous weapons the enemy employs in capturing destinies are:
Sex and;
Drugs.
However, of the two, the more potent is sex. The enemy seems to have done an outpouring of the spirit of the dog. Categorically speaking, this has become a ‘doggy’ generation. It causes me deep worry and grief especially when I consider the rate at which young people die (physically and destiny-wise).
From experiences gathered in the past year, it is with great sadness in my heart, that I lament the horrible scale of destruction outpoured on the youths of today. Sadly, I recently got to hear of the burial of a university student. The ostentatious life of her friends appealed to her and not long after she was introduced to a sex partner who would prey on her lust for mundane things. To cut a long story short, she died from excessive lactation.
Another tragic incident is that of a young man currently awaiting my arrival at the headquarters. This young fellow was literally free as his parents had gone overseas. He brought home a sex partner from a party who unknown to him was a mermaid. He discovered after several rounds that he felt a cold sensation around his leg area. Long story short, he now knows that he is doomed.
The altar of sex is an altar which has created a great level of impurity, caused a great level of pollution, created a future time bomb, shaven the hair of so many a Samson, caused irrecoverable loss of glory and destiny, created the most chronic deliverance cases, initiated hidden infirmities, and spread the seed of polygamy.
It has provoked generational evil accusations, caused catastrophe in children, initiated bewitched womb, attracted curses to the body’s organs, transformed a person to a slave in the spirit realm, and caused plenty of spiritual evil collection.
Beloved, this altar acts to fragment souls, it ensures shining lights are dimmed, it has encouraged family idolatry, turned prophets to parrots, rendered pastors past tense, turned goldmines to dustbins, reconfigured deliverance to disturbance, converted eagles to chickens and heroes to zeroes. It has rewired young people’s brain to failure, initiated destructive covenants, punctured virtue balloons, placed many young people on death row, initiated many young people into witchcraft.
It has empowers stubborn spirit wives and husband, programed destiny impotence and stammering, it has a capacity to provoke divine anger, wasted prophets and prophetesses, converted somebody into nobody, programmed serpents into so many lives, buried multiple talents, moved people from grace to grass, de-anointed men of God aggressively.
This altar provokes power failure, empowers the marine world to wreak havoc and finally published the greatest number of obituaries.
Listen beloved, people of destiny are not sexually loose. Women of destiny, do not pull off their pants at the slightest provocation. Same goes with men of destiny, they never plunge their penis into just any available hole. Listen carefully, there is no free sex. Every sexual act is a spiritual transaction. Pre-marital or non-marital sex exposes one’s life to the attacks of the enemy as it signals to the demons that you’ve crossed into the spirit realm illegally.
One such case that tragically ended in death was the story of a man who slept with his secretary. Unknown to him the secretary happened to be a marine queen. As instructed by the Holy Ghost that fateful day, a word of prophecy came forth. It was that he should report to my office for prayers after service and that failure to comply would signal his end within seven days. However, since his wife was with him, he tried without success to devise tricks to shake her off. With every attempt of his, she insistently wouldn’t budge. He opted not to come as he wanted to keep it a secret from her. Unfortunately, he died the following Tuesday.
Hear this friends, any act of pre or non-marital sex is highly dangerous. To confirm what you already know so well, during sexual adventures, humans share bodily fluids like water and blood. However, it doesn’t end there. They share some spiritually vital and physically relevant virtues, more so, heritage, destiny, children, success, failure, battle, misfortunes, sicknesses, pains, discomforts, poverty pretty much everything. But most importantly, demons. I’d let you in on a secret today, know for a surety that the greatest mode of demon transfer is sex outside marriage.
I have an advice to the soon-to-be-wedded lovebirds, I urge you not to build your marriage on a faulty foundation. Except on the basis of marriage, all other acts of sexual adventures are illicit. Listen, even if both families signatory to the wedding have a cordial relationship, know for sure that this isn’t a license for you to engage in sexual adventures, only marriage is. Desisting from any such acts only works in your favor.
The Mystery of DNA and Sex:
Experimental results from a research conducted by a University in America reveals that if you have sex with a man, his DNA lives in you forever. The result of this research has informed and given immense insight on why God frowns at pre and non-marital sex. This result proves that when sexual intercourse occurs between a male and a female, there is a deposit of the DNA of the man in the woman. Furthermore, the man who has had more sex with her, leaves more of his DNA in the woman and as such whenever the woman ovulates, the eggs that she produces may contain more of other DNAs. Judging by the results of this experiment, it is hugely advisable that the girl child remains a virgin until marriage. Suffice to say that once a lady has multiple sex partners, it becomes a room of confusion as her cells becomes reconfigured. Little wonder, children from many homes have terrible behavioral problems.
Ladies, listen carefully, whenever you absorb sperm from a man, you absorb a living entity into your life. The living cells enter your bloodstream. This could perhaps be the reason as to why a married couple who have been married for so long a time end up looking alike. Say no to sex outside marriage, say no to pre and extra-marital affairs.
On a conclusive note, the consequences of pre-marital and non-marital sex are devastating, humiliating and horrible. Reuben, David and a host of others landed in deep troubles because of sexual looseness. Of what essence is it if you are plagued by feelings of guilt, self-condemnation, anxiety, doubt, wasted time, testimony damage etc. Don’t acquire a demon of your sexual partners. Flee all forms of sexual perversion.
I urge you beloved to please rise above these limitations. Till next time. Peace.
Prayer Points:
Powers saying that I will not go far, your time is up, die in the name of Jesus.
Powers waiting to hear me cry where I expect laughter, before I leave here, die in the name of Jesus.
Powers assigned to waste my destiny, die in the name of Jesus.
The Altar of Destiny Obituary by Pastor D.K Olukoya
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Zofija Kaczan, a Nazi prison camp survivor, died in hospital on 6th June 2018 from pneumonia – a condition brought on by injuries she sustained in the attack one week previously.
The Polish-born Christian was left bleeding in a street after being knocked to the ground and having her handbag stolen by 40-year-old Artur Waszkiewicz. She had been on her way to church.
A spokeswoman for the Polish community of St Maksymilian Kolbe said: “Despite the pain and suffering that she was in for the last week of her life, she had the capacity to pray for her attacker before she died.
“We believe she has found peace in the arms of her Heavenly Father.”
Mr Waszkiewicz from Hilary Road in Shepherd’s Bush, west London is being told to expect a “lengthy” jail term when he is sentenced at Derby Crown Court on Thursday.
Ms Kaczan suffered multiple injuries – including a broken neck and cheekbone – in the attack in the Normanton area of Derby.
She survived a Nazi labour camp during World War II where she was forced to work in factories and even received the death penalty on her birthday.
The spokeswoman for the Polish community of St Maksymilian Kolbe continued: “We would like to thank all the people who have been involved in bringing the perpetrator of the crime against Zofija Kaczan to…
In its latest annual report, the Project 3:28 initiative – which advocates for 50/50 gender representation – concluded 62 per cent in 2018 were male (38 per cent were female).
Authors named the Premier Digital Awards (52 per cent male/48 per cent female), Greenbelt (45/55) and New Wine (56/44) among those who offered the most equitable mix of male and female speakers in 2018.
Its authors said: “It is six years since we began gathering data on the number of women and men speaking at Christian events, and so we wanted to celebrate those events that have most increased the equity of their platform over the past six years.”
Here is an overview of the platform balance for 2018. The platform was 38% women overall (this is 1%. decrease from 2017). #328awards. pic.twitter.com/jfoN9usMNt
Word Alive (87/13), the Keswick Convention (85/15) and Bible by the Beach (79/21) were found to be among the “least balanced” platforms.
Some 1,337 speakers were included in the latest statistics. Of them, 823 were male, while 514 were female.
The number of events included in the research has grown – from 25 events in 2017 to 34 last year.
Only speakers listed in adult programmes were included in the figures – worship leaders, as well as the leaders of child and youth sessions were excluded.
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