T’sour Elohim

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[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Theologians generally agree there are THREE key aspects to a "saving faith." The Bible tells us even demons have two out of the three.

Here's a warning: two-thirds faith can still send you to hell.

[MJ👑 @iam__Jezreel]

“This is why you hear people say I was doing fine until I became a Christian”

Watch this deeper revelation🔥🔥🔥

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Most people assume Christianity's problem with sex outside marriage is that it thinks sex is dirty.

It's the opposite.

The Bible's sexual ethic exists because it holds a higher view of sex than the culture around it does, not a lower one.

Here's the actual biblical case, including the part that's usually preached badly. 🧵

[dele osunmakinde @deleosunmakinde]

Dear Minister,

Luke's opening words should permanently alter the way a minister thinks about ministry. They dismantle the false idea that spiritual authority is built merely on passion, charisma, or even personal experience. Luke demonstrates that there is another path to authority: disciplined, painstaking research under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

How does a man who never walked the dusty roads of Galilee produce not one but two inspired books that now shape the faith of billions? How does someone who was absent become the historian of Christianity? Luke himself refuses to leave us guessing. Before he tells us anything about Jesus, he tells us how he came to know what he knew.

He writes:

"Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us... it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order..." (Luke 1:1 to 3).

Those are not the words of a man claiming secret revelation. They are the words of an investigator explaining his method.

Luke makes no attempt to present himself as an eyewitness. Instead, he openly acknowledges his dependence upon those who were. He received testimony from those "who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word." He listened. He questioned. He compared accounts. He verified facts. He traced events carefully. Only after arriving at what he calls "perfect understanding" did he begin to write.

This is remarkable. The Holy Spirit inspired the Scriptures, yet He did not bypass careful investigation. Inspiration did not eliminate research. Divine revelation did not excuse intellectual discipline. The Spirit worked through a man who was willing to labour until the evidence was coherent.

That should humble every minister.

Some imagine that because they can preach, they no longer need to study. Others mistake spiritual excitement for theological depth. Luke exposes both errors. The man who wrote the longest Gospel was not present at the events he described, yet through disciplined investigation he produced the most orderly account of the life of Christ. Then he wrote Acts, the only inspired historical record of how the gospel moved from Jerusalem to Judea, Samaria, and eventually to the Gentile world.

Without Luke's second volume, we would know remarkably little about Pentecost, Stephen, Philip, the conversion of Saul, the missionary journeys, the Jerusalem Council, the planting of the Gentile churches, or Paul's imprisonment in Rome. The bridge between the earthly ministry of Christ and the expansion of the Church was constructed by a physician who knew how to investigate before he wrote.

That should permanently destroy the excuse, "I was not there."

Luke was not there either.

He simply refused to let his absence become an excuse for ignorance.

He compensated for what he lacked in experience with extraordinary diligence in research.

Here is the lesson every minister must learn: the future belongs not merely to those who have experiences with God, but to those who can faithfully investigate, organise, interpret, and communicate the works of God. Experience may ignite a ministry, but disciplined understanding sustains it. Memories fade. Eyewitnesses die. Feelings fluctuate. Careful scholarship endures.

This is why every minister must become a researcher of the things of God.

Research is not the enemy of spirituality. It is one of its greatest servants.

Every sermon deserves investigation. Every doctrine deserves examination. Every testimony deserves verification. Every interpretation deserves comparison with the whole counsel of Scripture. God has never rewarded intellectual laziness simply because it was wrapped in spiritual language.

Luke stands as God's enduring witness that careful research is itself a ministry.

So stop seeing yourself merely as a preacher.

See yourself as an investigator of divine truth.

[MJ👑 @iam__Jezreel]

The difference between SIN and INIQUITY🔥

Take a moment and watch this!!🤯🔥

[T’sour Elohim @KingAy__]

@au_badela Don’t be overly righteous in the sense that you can’t claim to be self righteous because the righteous we possess is through Christ Jesus, the Bible says our own righteousness is as a filthy rag. It means don’t walk by the law, you’ll believe it works because of you

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Every atheist I've debated eventually lands here: if God is real, why can't we see him? I used to fumble this. Then I read 1 Timothy 1:17.

Paul is mid-argument about grace and his own conversion when he breaks suddenly into praise:

"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever."

"Eternal," "immortal," and "the only God" make sense as praise. But invisible? We don't praise men for being unseen. Why does Paul list it as something as glorious as the majesty and immortality of God?

Unless invisibility is not a limitation. Unless it is out of gracious design.

Paul met the unmediated light of Christ on the road to Damascus, he was knocked into the dirt, and blind for three days. He knows what the alternative to invisible feels like. It produced collapse, not worship. His praise is a survivor's testimony.

When people ask for God to be visible, they don't understand what full divine visibility would actually require.

God is omnipresent in essence. Therefore, total divine visibility fundamentally requires omnipresent visibility.

If God reveals Himself to the fullest extent of His capacity, He must be visible everywhere, at all times.

In the room you closed the door to. In the moment you spent your life believing nobody was watching. A visible, omnipresent God is not majestic; He is psychologically catastrophic. Nobody wants this, not even the devout.

Look at Isaiah 6. The prophet sees merely the hem of God's garment filling the temple, not the full glory of God, just the overflow. His response? "Woe to me, I am undone." A partial glimpse unmade him completely.

God isn't after bland empirical agreement. James already ended that: the demons believe, and tremble.
Intellectual assent is a bar the devil clears daily.

God isn't running a census of the convinced; He is seeking genuine love. And genuine love requires genuine choice, which requires that the object of love not be overwhelming.

This is why women despise love bombing. A man who floods your psychological space until refusal becomes impossible isn't loving you, he is eliminating the conditions for love. The "yes" he extracts is engineered by exhaustion.

God does the exact opposite. He veils His glory precisely so that you retain the dignity of saying no. The love bomber makes himself so large that you have no choice. God makes Himself small enough that you do.

Which brings us directly to the Incarnation.

The Incarnation is God making Himself visible enough to be known, but small enough to be rejected without fuss.

It is the most precise solution to the most precise problem: God doesn't arrive as a sky-filling terror, but as a baby in a manger in a backwater town. You can walk past a carpenter from Nazareth. You cannot walk past the throne of Isaiah 6.

The Bible is already clear that every knee will bow, a day of compelled reality as certain as the sun. But God is not eager for a forced crowd. Right now, He is seeking the single, freely given return of a heart in love.

When an atheist asks why he cannot see God, he is asking a better question than he knows. The answer is not absence. The answer is restraint.

Now one can finally understand why Paul says INVISIBLE, and means it as highest acclaim. It is not a limitation, it is a mercy.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

The Bible commands us to fear God.

It also says perfect love casts out fear.

Most people quietly resolve that tension by deciding "fear" just means "respect," a polite word for being impressed.

But there's a verse that makes that impossible, because it says God's forgiveness is the reason He is feared.

Here's what the fear of God actually is. 🧵

[Tosho @richtosho]

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[Koinonia Global @koinoniaeni]

There can only be one Billy Graham, one Reinhard Bonnke, one Benny Hinn, one Daddy G.O, or one Joshua Selman, but there can be many expressions of Jesus Christ.

The highest calling of every believer is not to imitate personalities, but to become like Christ. If we all pursue His likeness, the world will witness a great harvest of souls.

In addition to strong convictions, we must cultivate Christ-like character. We need businessmen with character, preachers with character, leaders with character, fathers and mothers with character, believers whose lives reflect the nature of Jesus.

Do not excuse wrong attitudes because of your family background, culture, or personality. Whatever does not look like Jesus must be surrendered and overcome through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit.

As believers, our identity in Christ must be greater than our cultural identity. Keep what is consistent with God’s Word, but reject everything that contradicts the character of Christ.

When people encounter your life, they should see Jesus before they see your background. The greatest evidence that Christ lives in you is a life transformed by His Spirit.

Revisit the full sermon titled “The Compelling Christian Life (Becoming A Light To The Nations)” on the Koinonia Global YouTube channel.

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How I almost made a huge mistake that would have crashed my ministry - Apostle Joshua Selman

[iNspiritextra @iNspiritextra]

Pause and listen as Pastor Nathaniel Bassey reveals one of the secrets behind the success of his life and ministry and shares a powerful instruction that every believer needs to hear.

[Priestly @PriestlyKing111]

Time doesn’t change anything
Decisions sponsors changes

~Apostle. Joshua Selman

[POJU OYEMADE @pastorpoju]

A type of prayer God won't answer the way you asked for it. He went silent on Paul then said "My grace is sufficient for thee..."

[Holy Malam @Newbirth30]

I am 40+ this can't be the plans of God for me😪😪
God for the sake of my kids, please have mercy on me

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

On the first Easter afternoon, the risen Jesus met two heartbroken disciples on a road.

He walked with them for hours.
He talked with them.
And they had no idea who He was.

It's one of the most quietly profound stories in the Gospels: a slow, deliberate reveal that teaches us how Jesus still meets us in our disappointment.

Here's the walk that reveals everything. 🧵

[T’sour Elohim @KingAy__]

@ScottRoberts Apostle Joshua Selman

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

But his new life was not easy.
Far from it.

Paul lists it himself: imprisoned repeatedly, beaten five times with thirty-nine lashes, three times beaten with rods, stoned and left for dead, shipwrecked three times, in constant danger. (2 Corinthians 11:23–27)

The man who once inflicted suffering on the church now suffered relentlessly for it.

Yet from a prison cell he wrote: "I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content." (Philippians 4:11)

His transformation wasn't just a change of belief.

It was a change so deep that suffering itself couldn't shake the joy underneath it.

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Saul — now Paul — didn't rush to fame.

He spent years in relative obscurity, in Arabia and back in Tarsus, being formed before being launched. (Galatians 1:17–18)

Transformation was instant.
Preparation took time.

Then came the missionary journeys — thousands of miles on foot and by sea across the Roman world, planting churches in city after city, from Antioch to Corinth to Ephesus to Rome.

He took the gospel to people who had never heard it, and left behind communities of believers everywhere he went.

The man who once tried to erase the church became the man who spread it across the empire.

[Priestly @PriestlyKing111]

The key to victory over sin

Dr. David Ogbueli