Yesterday night, I was so tired around 12 midnight that I wanted to skip prayers. I have a routine of always praying at 12 midnight.
But then I remembered the words of Apst. Arome Osayi said prayer becomes a sacrifice when it is inconvenient to do.
Guess what? I stood my ground against fatigue, sleep, and weakness. I prayed sufficiently. I am sharing this just to highlight what this man represents to me.
He has become a reference to me in virtually all aspects of my life, especially ministry.
When I was inches close to sexual immorality, it was his words that the holy ghost kept blasting in my mind:
"When the fear of God leaves your body, you will start touching a woman's breast."
Those words saved my life. When I was thinking of recording sermons to upload on a popular sermons download platform because I knew the guy, it was his counsel against seeking fame or reach in ministry that corrected me.
I remembered him saying, "Stay in Sabo." "Let God announce you."
It was his strict adherence to righteousness that made me vow and develop the mantra that, "My lips do not lie." Of course, I am an honest person, but making it a vow was a result of listening to him.
It was his helpless dependence on God that made me learn more profoundly the way of being insufficient before God.
It was his numerous battles against terrible spirits that helped me to learn the way of fearless spiritual warfare.
I could go on and on and on. But the summary is I found a preacher that I can follow as He follows Christ. I found a man who went through fire and death to become a true servant of God.
I did. And forever I will be grateful to God for that. Finally, is the preacher you listen to the most getting you closer to God?
I pray God helps you and lead you to such. May God help us all. Amen.
As you intentionally grow closer to God’s Spirit, you will develop an unflinching desire for Him.
There is a sweetness in fellowship that will begin to come out of your Spirit.
This is a major hack to long prayers & fastings.
It may start mechanically but will grace take over.
A TALE OF APOSTLE PAUL & APOSTLE PETER , PETER OF NIGERIA.
Location: Antioch.
PAUL, to Apostle Peter-of-Nigeria:
My brother, stop it. This is absolutely wrong of you. You have been eating with these our Gentile brethren because you know it is the right thing to do. But when these Jews from James arrived from Jerusalem, you stopped eating with our Gentile brethren out of fear. This is hypocrisy, bro, and it's beneath you. Stop it at once.
APOSTLE PETER of Nigeria:
"Ehm, Paul. Let me ask you a few questions: Have you walked on water before? Has bread multiplied in your hands before? Were you on the Mount of Transfiguration to see the Lord in His transfigured glory? How old are you in the faith? Have you seen Jesus weep in your life before? Were you the one to whom the Lord said: 'upon this rock I will build my church'? In your ministry, have you seen 3,000 people come to faith after a single sermon? Have you ever been brought out of jail supernaturally by a ranking angel? Has iron gate leading into a city opened before you of its own accord, ever before?
Paul, when you have done at least half of the things I have done and seen half of the things I've seen and experienced, you may be qualified to correct me. The fact that God is showing you small-small rhema does not mean we are mates. Even if I need correction, it can not be coming from you. Don't you have respect for your seniors in the anointing? Yes, you have some following now, but we are not mates."
And this is how Peter completely deflects and refuses to attend to the substance of Paul's concern and correction.
Peter-of-Nigeria is an endemic, blackmailing, petty species. A colossal liability to the church! And his followers, his minions, contaminated by, and steeped in his irrational 'braggry' make it doubly difficult then to call Pater-of-Nigeria to order. The minions, zombinized by African traditional christianity, will call for your head if you as much as suggest that their pope might be out of order, even when he clearly has gone off the rails. The pope is naked. But the minions..!
And, while there is an ideal way to correct elderly/popular/prominent/rich preachers, the way to correct them can not swallow up the fact that they can and should be corrected.
For the sake of Christ's body, even when we think a correction misses the way it should be done, we must uphold the correction, centralise it and insist on it, while – as a marginal enterprise – we also correct 'the way' the 'correcters' went about correcting the preacher.
But then, the minions!
The Omoge & I are honoured to share fellowship with our brethren in North America for the first time.
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Stay long praying in the Spirit!
You will hear the inaudible and see the invisible!
You will grasp immortal material and spiritual advantage!
The life inside you seeking expression will burst forth in colors of divine possibilities.
Stay long in prayer, touch the intangible!