Tuesday, September 23, 2008

WHY YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOK OF GENESIS AGAIN

I am more convinced than ever before that in order to unlock some of the mysteries in the bible, you have to read the book of GENESIS again. Here is one of the many reasons.

GENESIS is the word that gives birth to the word GENE from which we get the word GENEALOGY and science agrees that this is the FABRIC of humanity.

Humanity needs not fear the devil and this we can see from our genealogy. In genesis, we see that the devil and his schemes are meant to be as far away from us as possible. The devil was declared a vagabond and illegal to take habitation in our lives, here is the proof.

MATHEW 6:9-13 is the lords’ prayer. Emphasis on verse 10.
The will of God being done on earth as it is in heaven. Literally means that our BODIES (made from the earth) need to be conformed to the will of the father. Remember, “If my people, called by name…” Yes, He shall heal your FLESH… made from the earth (Land/earth/soil )Gen 2:7.
But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. [Romans 8;11]


The consequences of the BLOOD were first shown in GEN:4: 8-14.
When Cain kills Abel, the power of the blood of the righteous of God is actually spelled out right there by GOD Himself. The punishment spelled to Cain was not for the Cain the man, but for the spirit behind the actions of Cain.
The Spirit of Cain is declared, “vagabond” and is not supposed to be anywhere in near the sons of God. I say it is the spirit of Cain because God protects Cain the man by assuring him that no one would actually kill him.

Fast forward to Mathew 27:32-44:
When the blood of Christ is shed, it is shed for us all…. This means that the devil actually killed you and me and our blood was spilled and sent the same message to God like that of Abel. (I hope you get this thing people.)

“Your” blood has been spilled coz you are DEAD in CHRIST! (gimme a HALLELUJAH!!)
OK… I am about to stand up at this point! Listen to what God is telling the devil on this matter conserning our health, wealth, family, relationships…
Gen: 4:10- God said, "What have you done? “ How dare you touch Ariho,…. This is where you put your name!

"I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
[Exodus 33;17]

More later

Monday, September 15, 2008

THE SERMON I NEVER GAVE.

September to remember.... oh yes!!

Friends, I had prepared sermons and rehearsed the delivery but it all fell flat on its face.
I was in the car really composing myself and asking God for the grace when something dropped in my spirit.
The sermon that you shall preach shall not be about you but about ME.I want to say that Our God is a God of order, however, I was nervous and all over the place.

I had blogged my sermons: The one about temptation.

Anyway some things to note.

1. The blood of Christ was so deep as i opened the scriptures and the saving power that it has. On my spirit was JUST one Soul that I believe i was assigned to... and it did happen. One man gave his life to Christ.

2. It was good to have my dad over in the service especially that he was upcountry and had travelled back late.

3. I also led praise with my father, with him on the vocals and myself on the guitar.

I have decided to actually start preaching sermons and recording them for myself to teach myself.

Overall how did i do? (Sheepishly smiling)... preaching with the keyboard is different to talking to 500 blinking eyes!!!


BLESS.
AK

BLESS!

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

AMERICA NEEDS OBAMA FOR REAL!

I have been accused of being an OBAMA fanatic and rightly so. I have 2 shirts to show for it and have contributed to the campaign. I am a stakeholder! I have not had an American directly influence the way I view HOPE since Billy Graham retired from active ministry.

America is what it is today because people from distant shores traveled to its shores with nothing but HOPE. Many people have tried to down play hope as empty words and fronted EXPERIENCE and other credentials including LIPSTICK, but Jesus gave us with FAITH, HOPE and LOVE... the greatest being love.

All in all, I have a few pointers for my AMERICAN friends who will the final say at the polls on 4 November, AMERICA NEEDS OBAMA.

Nothing ever got done anywhere in the world unless someone was willing to HOPE and have the FAITH to diligently pursue it. This statement makes OBAMA the right man to lead America.

The best definition of leadership is by a personal mentor, Myles Munroe
“Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.” (The Spirit of Leadership)

No one has influenced, inspired and ignited politics world wide like Obama has.
As an African American, Obama possess the gene of an African, which America needs right now in order to preserve it. AFRICA IS THE LAND OF PRESERVATION and Its people carry the gene of preservation.

1. Jesus in order to escape death from Pharaoh was taken to AFRICA by his parent, obviously as the scriptures tell us.

2. The Children of Israel, escaped a famine that would have wiped them if it was not for them coming to AFRICA where they had enough to eat under Joseph.

3. The slaves that were taken captive to the west, including America were actually taken to work on farmlands and through their sweat and toil, although under duress and undue influence made the economies of the west what they are today.

It is evident that all authority comes from GOD and He is no respecter of “WHERE ONE IS FROM” geographically. Joseph in Egypt, the governor of California (whose name i cannot spell), Daniel in Babylon, Moses in Pharaoh's house... List is ENDLESS.

SO AMERICA, PLEASE REMEMBER... YOU NEED OBAMA now more then EVER.
VOTE WISELY

Thursday, September 04, 2008

TEMPTATION IS PART OF THE FORMULA

It is amazing when you discover that GOD really wants us to prosper and stand out as heads or rather as KINGS in His Kingdom. Truly that is why we declare him KING of KINGS

How then do we become kings?
We become kings when we have a domain. As longs a man/woman has a domain they are crowned kings.

Domain – comes from the word DOMINION: an area of Jurisdiction. Sovereignty.
DOMINATE means to have a commanding influence over something.

Examples:
• Bill Gates is the KING of Microsoft because he DOMINATED it.
• Michael Jordan - Basket ball
• Michael Jackson – King of POP
• Muhammad Ali – Boxing
• Tiger Woods – Golf
• Michael Phelps- Swimming

How do you become a king/ dominate an area/skill… etc?

1. The only way to dominate an area is stop treating failure in this area as a RESULT but as part of the FORMULAR. Bill Gates dropped out of school, M.J was told that he was too weak and too uncoordinated for the sport, MJ had a troubled childhood and continues to have an unstable adult life, Mohammed Ali, had issues with identity, Tiger woods, was too black for the sport of golf, Michael Phelps was un focused and “hard work”

DID THIS STOP THEM? NO!

As believers, when we become numb to trials and temptations knowing that the reward is far greater, we become kings over SIN and hence we are crowned with the crown of LIFE.
Deuronomy: 7: 16-19

16. You shall consume all the peoples who God your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

17.If you shall say in your heart, these nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

18.you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what God your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;

19.the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which God your God brought you out: so shall God your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.

MATHEW: 3:16, 17– 4:1
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matthew 4:1. Then was Jesus led/driven up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. After the Glorification of GOD came the purification by Fire.
Jesus was tested in EVERY way and yet without sin.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. [1 John 2;16]
Lust of the flesh: (Mathew 4:3).

The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread." We all get tempted with the last of the flesh, when did you last fast?

In the west the number one killer has become obesity, because people cannot control their appetites. Many Great men have been brought to their knees not by a woman but by lust of the flesh. Eg. Swaggart, Haggrard, Bill Clinton, Spitzer , John Edwards.

Lust of the eyes: (Mathew 4:8-9).
Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. He said to him, "I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me."

Observation:
The kingdoms of the world that we are often showed by satan, in their glory actually belong to us but the promise is instant gratification.
Our eyes often wonder and we find ourselves “checking stuff out” . That car, that house, that phone, that sister, that brother…etc.
(And then the law of attraction comes into play. We hold mental pictures and start plotting how to have it now!)

Pride of Life: (Mathew 4:5-6).
Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'
Satan’s suggestion to Jesus was “PUT ON A DISPLAY” such that they may see and marvel!
We are always compelled if not by our desires by our peers to put on a display.

➢ When you feel like showing, hide and when you feel like hiding show.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire. Gal:5:17

Mathew 6:13a.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
In the Lords prayer we are asking the lord to deliver us, and not to lead us into temptation. This means that when we temptation comes. God should deliver us and but may it not be his hand orchestrating the trial as was the case for JESUS.

JOB: 1:6-12
In the accusations that the devil brings to God about Job was the issue of purification.

6 Now it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before God, that Satan also came among them.

7 God said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Then Satan answered God, and said, "From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."

8 God said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."

9 Then Satan answered God, and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

10 Haven't you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face." In 9-11 of Job, the message is “ Without testing, and scars to show you cannot claim to have a soldier in Job.” What battles has he fought to front him as one to contend with?

12 God said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of God.
God knowing the HEART of JOB, doesn’t lead but lets trials come to Job.
But again, Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. (James 1:13)

At the end of it Job is blessed 10 fold in places because one of the ingredients of increased blessing had been added to the equation.
What was Job’s “SIN”? (Job 1:1-5)

1. There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

2. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

3. His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

4. His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

5. It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.

James 1:2-4
2. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
3. Knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:12
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

1 Peter 1:6 - 7
Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ

BIG MOUTH ME!!!

Well, I really admire JOYCE MEYER she is truly anointed and when she starts slating herself on the issue of talking too much?, We are so on the same page! Well Sister Joyce you always talk about me only that you put herself in the frame.

Recently, thanks to face book… I got chatting to an old friend and as fate would have it, we talked a lot about the past…. Obviously we are friends so that makes it obvious that our lives crossed paths at one point.
I just realised my big mouth is influencing my fingers too…. Here I am making matters worse… Haha.

Well, after I said all I said… it was clear that when you take things off your chest and they cease to become “secrets” between you and yourself… they kind of lose the power they had over you. It is funny how you can flip from OK to not so OK because your mind just visited a stage in the past.

OK this morning woke up to the book of DANIEL… I am 3 chapters into it and will give you my take on it in a short while.

Bless

Monday, September 01, 2008

Living in God's LOVE


Amazing grace how sweet the sound!!... BOYZIIMEN!!

I have been below par lately not on my usual flame reading the word and sharing it. My reason was i had lots of work to do and the excuse has been holding until this morning when I woke up with GOD just asking for the tithe.

A tenth of my 24 hours as the bare minimum.
If you are feeling this way pal... I am asking you to read MALACHI 3.
The promise is that GOD will open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing so GREAT you cannot contain it. For a minute i thought about a 30hr and it is what I ask for, at this rate i can use a 50 hour day!!