THIS IS THE KEY ON HOW YOU CAN FINISH WELL IN THIS KINGDOM|| BRO GBILE AKANNI
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You may be a church pastor, when you preach people weep and repent
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You may be a good choir when you sing people dance and get delivered
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You may be a drama minister when you act you bring people to God
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You may be a great evangelist when you evangelize the kingdom of darkness is in trouble
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You may be a cheerful giver when you give you save people
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You may be a prayer warrior when you pray your tongue is like fire and miracles happen
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You may be dressing like 'SU' when people see you they call you innocent
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The fact is that YOU CAN DO ALL THESE AND STILL MISS HEAVEN. The Bible says in Matthew 7:21- "Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven."
PURITY, TOTAL PURITY IS THE KEY...

People know you as a saint in the church but who are you in the secret place?
Do you still remain holy even when people are not watching you?

Can we record your secret activities and play them before the congregation?

Can we see what you do in secret and still call you a man of God?

Lastly, LET HIM THAT THINK HE STANDS TAKE HEED LEST HE FALLS, only the pure in heart will see Jesus.

Be pure in all your dealings and keep the flag of Christ up.

May we all receive the grace to finish well...

This is why it is said that a man once took time to make a list of everything he'd want God to do and numbered it. When it was prayer time, he'd go over the wall and point at a number "God, number 72 and 98 and 24" and then he'd walk out believing that God knows the numbers and he'd figure out the prayer point written there.

Truly, we do not know what to pray as we ought to, sometimes, as we are about to rise from the place of prayer, we'd be like "yes! God I almost forget, concerning my aunty..."

This underscores the importance of the Holy Spirit in our lives to help us pray. Do you have the Holy Spirit in your life?

All my heroes went to prison:
John the Baptist. Peter. Paul. Silas.James.
Not canceled, not shadow banned, not dragged in the comments.
Imprisoned.
Paul wrote Scripture while chained to a wall. We hesitate to speak because someone might unfollow.
He preached Christ knowing it would cost him years of freedom. We worry about reputation. He lost his rights.
We worry about platform. He wrote from a cell.
Ephesians.
Philippians.
Colossians.
Philemon.
Letters we sip coffee over were written in confinement. Paul didn’t ask God to make life easier, He asked God to make him bold.
“Remember my chains.”
Today we call inconvenience persecution. They called prison obedience.
The early Church didn’t grow because it was safe. It grew because it was surrendered.
All my heroes went to prison.
Lord, raise up a Church again
that would rather risk everything
than water down anything.

BE REAL, IT IS YOUR FATHER

Some of you say, but I always try, but it will not work. He said, come. You don't have money.
Buy without price. Come. Come.

Come and take milk. Come and take wine without price. Come.

Why will you be languishing when your father is saying, come?

So, I ask you to look at it personally, don't be religious about what I'm talking about.

Be real. It's your father that is calling you.

He who knows the future that he has for you, he say, come.

ACTIVITIES OF MR. FLESH ~ GBILE AKANNI

SCRIPTURE READING: GALATIANS 5:19-21.

We want to look at God's provision for old life of flesh, is there a way out and if there is a way out how can we get at it.

We don't just want knowledge but the issue that God want you to do must go beyond just the knowledge, it must become an impartation, no man can do it for us except the Lord Himself help us.

Gal. 5:19-21, the Philip Modern Language explain this passage as thus : " The activities of a lower nature are obvious, here is a list: sexual immortality, impurity of mind, sensuality, worship of false god, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, bad temper, rivalry, factions, partying spirit, envy, drunkenness, all these things like that.
Verse 21- I solemnly assure you that those who do such things will not inherit God's kingdom "._

What bothers me most is the conclusion in verse 21, if the word is as it was put in this serves some of those things we said it is not matter is capable of denying one of God's kingdom.

What you will look at casually and said it's just a mistake might be a very critical matter that will jeopardize all our effort in the work of God. We want to look at what is God doing to liberate us from the dominion and the tyranny of flesh that is God's provision for our deliverance from the flesh.

The provision of the blood:- Immediately what happened in Genesis chapter 3 in the garden of Eden, God starts to look at what to do to redeem a man right from the beginning.
I want you to know that the heart of flesh cannot please God, it cannot serve God, in fact, anything flesh touches in the purpose of God is contaminated, anything that comes from the flesh cannot please God.
When man was trying to sown leaves to cover himself, God look far beyond, He slaughtered an animal to make skin, even this is not redemption.

In Genesis 3:22-24, God made a redemptive decision, God chased them away from the garden because He did not want to immortalise the flesh. From this passage God was saying though flesh took over, it must not live for ever, it means there is an end to Mr flesh.

There is an end God want us to experience to the works of flesh in our lives. Our priority is how God will bring flesh to an end in our lives. We don't want to suppress flesh, even though we suppress it for two or three years, the day it will wake up, it will still strike and spoil all you have done for years.
Imaging a man of God that has been keeping his lust for five years, checking himself not to allow lust, the day his lust rises, all the five years effort he had made is finished completely.

We are looking for a way out from God, if we say there is no way out, then our gospel is weak. If God is pointing to a man about what can send him to hell and He did not make a way of delivering him, so why is God saying it. Some of us may say nobody is free from this and you settled into it, I want to tell you that somebody can be freed, God had made provision for us to experience total deliverance.

Right in Genesis, God had instituted that there is going to be a way out when He drove the man from the garden of Eden not to take the tree of life and immortalise himself, God was saying He has not given up on man, I have a plan for him, am still going to use him in my ministry on earth.

From that chapter three all through the old testament, you will discover that the imagination of Mr flesh is continually evil and all efforts to help him no way, the flesh is actually untamed. If you notice how flesh operate, you will discover that so many things you do, you don't want to do it.

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ACTIVITIES OF MR. FLESH ~ GBILE AKANNI

SCRIPTURE READING: GALATIANS 5:19-21.

We want to look at God's provision for old life of flesh, is there a way out and if there is a way out how can we get at it.

We don't just want knowledge but the issue that God want you to do must go beyond just the knowledge, it must become an impartation, no man can do it for us except the Lord Himself help us.

Gal. 5:19-21, the Philip Modern Language explain this passage as thus : " The activities of a lower nature are obvious, here is a list: sexual immortality, impurity of mind, sensuality, worship of false god, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, bad temper, rivalry, factions, partying spirit, envy, drunkenness, all these things like that.
Verse 21- I solemnly assure you that those who do such things will not inherit God's kingdom "._

What bothers me most is the conclusion in verse 21, if the word is as it was put in this serves some of those things we said it is not matter is capable of denying one of God's kingdom.

What you will look at casually and said it's just a mistake might be a very critical matter that will jeopardize all our effort in the work of God. We want to look at what is God doing to liberate us from the dominion and the tyranny of flesh that is God's provision for our deliverance from the flesh.

The provision of the blood:- Immediately what happened in Genesis chapter 3 in the garden of Eden, God starts to look at what to do to redeem a man right from the beginning.
I want you to know that the heart of flesh cannot please God, it cannot serve God, in fact, anything flesh touches in the purpose of God is contaminated, anything that comes from the flesh cannot please God.
When man was trying to sown leaves to cover himself, God look far beyond, He slaughtered an animal to make skin, even this is not redemption.

In Genesis 3:22-24, God made a redemptive decision, God chased them away from the garden because He did not want to immortalise the flesh. From this passage God was saying though flesh took over, it must not live for ever, it means there is an end to Mr flesh.

There is an end God want us to experience to the works of flesh in our lives. Our priority is how God will bring flesh to an end in our lives. We don't want to suppress flesh, even though we suppress it for two or three years, the day it will wake up, it will still strike and spoil all you have done for years.
Imaging a man of God that has been keeping his lust for five years, checking himself not to allow lust, the day his lust rises, all the five years effort he had made is finished completely.

We are looking for a way out from God, if we say there is no way out, then our gospel is weak. If God is pointing to a man about what can send him to hell and He did not make a way of delivering him, so why is God saying it. Some of us may say nobody is free from this and you settled into it, I want to tell you that somebody can be freed, God had made provision for us to experience total deliverance.

Right in Genesis, God had instituted that there is going to be a way out when He drove the man from the garden of Eden not to take the tree of life and immortalise himself, God was saying He has not given up on man, I have a plan for him, am still going to use him in my ministry on earth.

From that chapter three all through the old testament, you will discover that the imagination of Mr flesh is continually evil and all efforts to help him no way, the flesh is actually untamed. If you notice how flesh operate, you will discover that so many things you do, you don't want to do it.

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BEWARE OF PRIDE (PART 1) || PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

God told Elijah to anoint three people to replace him. This is because you can see pride in Elijah's response when he says, "And I, even I only, am left...". There is only one "I AM" and that is God Himself (Exodus 3:14). This is why, when Jesus Christ called Himself 'I AM' in John 8:58-59, the Jews were furious that He compared Himself to God. Of course, at that time, they did not know about John 1:1 and 14, which says Jesus is God who became flesh and dwelt amongst us. The name I AM must be reserved for God and God alone.

When you search the Scriptures, you would discover that the words 'I', 'me', 'my', 'mine' are the languages of pride. That was the language of Satan in Isaiah 14:12-15. When you find someone always saying 'I', 'my', you know you are most likely dealing with a proud fellow. Beware of this because the higher you go, the greater the risk of you saying 'I', 'my', 'me' all the time.

We see an example in the strong and anointed man of God called Samson. In Judges 15:14-16, where the power of God came upon him and he killed thousands of soldiers with a jaw bone, he said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men”. There was no, "Thank You, Lord" to the One who sent down the power; it was all about himself. Even when God had clearly restored his strength in Judges 16:25-28, when the enemies had caught him and plucked out his eyes and he wanted to pray just one more prayer before dying, what did he say?

And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. (Judges 16:28)

It was about him all the way. That is why, as strong and anointed as he was, he fell so low that he ended up blind and grinding corn for his enemies before dying with them.

NOTE THIS:
Beware of pride because it can make you fall so low that your enemies would begin to rejoice over you.

CULLED FROM: Open Heaven Daily Devotional

listening to the majority rather than God's authority is the first step to failure