Nnenna

Pilgrim

[Nnenna @scarletsign]

Sometimes you gotta put your fists down. I know you’re trying to protect yourself and also prepared to attack... but with your fists constantly in front of your face, you miss out on a lotta good stuff. Just saying!

[This Excellent Church @thisexcellentch]

Faith Is Trusting God, Not Taking Control

From the sermon, The Leper’s Cleansing, Miracles and Parables Series.

Available on all streaming platforms.

[Ekaji @ekajiibe]

The grace of God has reached for me
And pulled me from a raging sea
And I am safe on this solid ground
The Lord is my salvation

I will not fear when darkness falls
His strength will help me scale these walls
I'll see the dawn of the rising sun
The Lord is my salvation

Who is like the Lord, our God?
Strong to save, faithful in love
My debt is paid and the victory won
The Lord is my salvation

🎵❤️

[Sam @DrFeruke]

Decreeing is evil speech. James calls it sinful and arrogant for human creatures to decree their future.

Positive confession is to submit your plans and desires to the will of God.

[Nnenna @scarletsign]

🤭🤭🤭😭😭😭

[Terry Hague @TezzaBelle88]

30° abroad: “let’s explore this town.”

30° in the UK: “I may not survive this Sainsbury’s trip.”

[QueenGift Emeka-Eze @ogwurulobi]

There was a season in my life when I was deeply persuaded by what is popularly called “Hyper-Grace” teaching.

During my service year in NCCF, I lived in the family house with other brethren.

Our pastor(president) at the time strongly taught doctrines that emphasized grace in ways I had never heard before. Since I came from a different spiritual background, the teachings sounded fresh, deep, and intellectually convincing. And to be honest, many of the things he taught appeared to have scriptural backing. I believed them wholeheartedly.

Over time, I became fully persuaded that we had discovered “the real truth” others were missing.

After service, I returned home passionately defending and teaching those doctrines to family members. I taught things like:
- “Once you are saved, you can never be lost.”

Whenever my elder brother tried correcting me with Scripture, I argued strongly and dismissed his concerns. I was convinced I was defending grace, when in reality, pride had quietly entered my heart.

But God, in His mercy, intervened.

One night, I had a dream.

In the dream, I went to fetch water from a deep well. (This alone was unusual because I don’t fetch water from a well physically). I fetched the water and poured it into a clean white paint bucket I had carefully washed. Then I carried the water elsewhere because I intended to fetch more.

When I returned and opened the bucket again, I suddenly noticed particles floating inside the water.

I became disturbed in the dream and kept asking:
“How did particles enter this water? I washed this bucket thoroughly. I even covered it.”

Then I woke up.

Unlike some dreams, this one troubled me deeply. I knew God was saying something, but I did not yet understand what it meant. I began to pray and seek understanding from God.

Then the Lord spoke clearly to my heart:
“Your doctrine has been infiltrated.”

That sentence broke me.

I began to cry before God for mercy.

What shook me was not merely the realization that I had been wrong, but that I had confidently taught error while sincerely believing I was defending truth. I realized it is possible to love God sincerely and still become imbalanced doctrinally if we do not submit every teaching to the full counsel of Scripture.

God began to teach me afresh.

I learned that:
-Grace does not cancel holiness (Hebrews 12:14).
-Grace is not permission to continue in sin (Romans 6:1–2).
-Believers are still called to obedience, perseverance, and the fear of the Lord (Philippians 2:12; John 14:15).
-The same apostles who preached grace also warned believers against living after the flesh (Romans 8:13; Galatians 6:7–8).

Scripture says:
“Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid.” (Romans 6:1–2)

“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14)

“If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die.” (Romans 8:13)

The issue with many modern grace teachings is not that they preach grace. Grace is central to Christianity. We are saved entirely by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

The problem comes when grace is isolated from repentance, holiness, perseverance, obedience, reverence, discipline, and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit.

The apostles never separated these truths.

One thing I now understand is that doctrinal deception rarely comes as total falsehood. Most times, error comes mixed with truth. Just like the particles in the water, contamination can enter what initially appears clean.

That dream remains one of the greatest mercies God has ever shown me.

Today, whenever I engage people trapped in doctrinal extremes, I try to remember my own story. Many of them are not evil people. Many genuinely love Jesus. Many sincerely believe they are defending truth, just as I once did.

That is why arguments alone are often not enough.

People need sound teaching, patient correction,humility, and the convicting work of the Holy Spirit.

May God preserve His Church.

[Michael Yaw Antwi @mikeautoplug]

The sermon that broke the Internet.
Paul Washer sermon 👌

[Ekaji @ekajiibe]

The word of Faith movement is simply false. It is poison. Everyone should be warned to stay clear of their doctrines.

I remember being new to the faith and listening to this lady on Twitter who was teaching how we could control the weather by speaking to it, how we could speak life into phones and gadgets that no longer worked and see a change happen.

She spoke greatly about the power of our words to change things. Because I was new to these things, I assumed she had attained some level of spiritual authority and maturity, but NO, she was misguided. There is nothing in God’s word that elevates the speech of mere mortals to a point where it can create new realities.

“Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass,
when the Lord has not commanded it?” - Lamentations 3:37.

All such doctrines and ideas that make people believe they can shape their outcomes by their declarations and confessions are unfounded in the Scriptures. And those who are honest, who truly take time to think, will find out in time the futility of these doctrines, as they keep confessing many things that never come to pass.

Because it is not in man to order his ways. You cannot independently confess things into being that were never sanctioned by God. That desire is even an ungodly desperation for control over your future. Jesus already taught us to be fixated on the present and to commit the rest of our lives to God. The obsession with declarations is a sign of faithlessness.

This confession thing is also legalism. You are essentially trying to earn good outcomes from God by your works. You really think the strength of your confessions will give you some spiritual merit before God. Your trust is in the strength of your declarations as a system to secure yourself. And this is not what faith is.

None of this is true Christianity. It is an ungodly way to approach God, who sent His Son to die for you when you were a wretched sinner. What confession did you make for Christ to take your place on the cross? And why exactly do you think that will be the basis for getting good gifts from God? If He freely gave His Son, what good gift will He withhold from His children? Think.

Don’t spend your life making declarations and confessions, thinking you are exerting yourself spiritually. Or because you know someone it worked for, thinking your time will soon come. This is not how to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. We do not look to the experiences of others without testing them by the Scriptures. Just because it worked does not mean they were in obedience.

Trust in Christ. Pray to God in humility, expressing your needs and desires, and also abandon yourself to His sovereignty. This is the true exercise of faith. Resting utterly in the character and revelation of God. Your life is His business to order for His glory. Insist on His word, not your way. You are not omniscient, and there is no way for you to know the best outcomes for your life with your limited mind.

Trust in Christ alone.

[Anna Lulis @annamlulis]

BREAKING:

78-year-old pastor Clive Johnston has been convicted in Ireland for publicly reading the Bible verse John 3:16

The judge claims abortion-minded women could be influenced to choose life for their unborn babies.

He made no direct mention of abortion.

Pray for him 🙏

[Jeremiah Knight @iamrjknight]

It is a heavy judgment when God leaves a man to his own lusts and withdraws the restraining guidance of His Holy Spirit. Many think judgment is only when God strikes, but Scripture shows something even more terrifying. God may give a man over to what he insists on loving.

Romans 1 says this with fearful clarity. “Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity” (Romans 1:24). That is not freedom. That is judgment. When God lets the sinner have the sin he refuses to forsake, the soul is not being liberated. It is being handed over to its own ruin.

This is why David cried with trembling, “Do not cast me away from Your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me” (Psalm 51:11). He knew that the most frightening thing was not losing comfort, reputation, position, or earthly blessing. It was to be left without the nearness, conviction, correction, and mercy of God.

A man abandoned to himself will not rise. He will sink. His desires will rule him, his conscience will grow dull, his sin will feel normal, and his heart will become harder. “My people did not listen to My voice… so I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own devices” (Psalm 81:11-12).

So we must pray for mercy. Lord, do not leave us to ourselves. Do not give us what our sinful hearts demand. Restrain us, convict us, wound our pride, guide us by Your Spirit, and keep us near to Christ. Better to be corrected by God than abandoned to our own lusts.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Justification gets you out of Egypt, but sanctification gets Egypt out of you.

[Nnenna @scarletsign]

@BLKLiberation84 “Errbody was there except for you and me” 🤣🤣🤣

[Ekaji @ekajiibe]

There is something to be said about continual repentance and crying out to the Lord for deliverance from besetting sins. When God responds with His sanctifying power, and you discover that the sins which once tugged violently at your soul and caused such great distress no longer possess the same weight upon your heart. When a man experiences this delight from sins that have kept him in bondage, which only Christ can work within him, he becomes far more eager to run into the presence of God for mercy and grace in moments of weakness rather than cleave to idols that can never satisfy.

[Lumen @LumenX_]

MY DEEPEST PRAYER IS THAT EVERYONE FINDS THE LORD BEFORE THEIR TIME ON EARTH ENDS, BECAUSE NOTHING ELSE MATTERS AT ALL.

[𝒆𝒏𝒙𝒄𝒉 @EN0CX]

The teacher was so shock that he froze and said to himself that, what have I created? 😂

[Unstoppable Bela @owojeloche]

There is a Christian genocide in Nigeria, and Islamic terrorists are taking advantage of our short attention spans and misplaced anger. They have not stopped killing people. Christians in the north and other affected areas have not stopped living in fear.

[Louise ✟🇻🇦 @prolifefrenchie]

Having unprotected sex when you’re not ready for children just to kill the child is the most unresponsible, cruel choice.

[Sam @DrFeruke]

Godly faith is simply to trust in God. Worldly faith is to trust that God will respond to your efforts.

The first is in a perfect being that has a better will which you submit to. The latter is in a system with principles that promises your own desires.

The first is comfortable with uncertainty and not being in control. The latter focuses on knowing and doing the requirements.

The first is satisfied with God Himself. The latter is satisfied with the things God gives.

The first is simple. The latter gets complex with formulae and regulations.

The first never puts to shame. The latter always fails eventually.

[Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 @TheMuppetPastor]

I learned an interesting fact the other day about Jesus’ lineage.

Some of you know this, but one of his ancestors was Ruth, the Moabite, and heroine of her own book.

What I had forgotten was this verse:

““No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever,”
Deuteronomy 23:3 ESV

NO Moabite could enter the assembly of the Lord? This harsh punishment was a result of Moab’s many sins against their cousin, Israel (sons of Lot and born of incest) when they tried to hire Balaam to curse the Hebrews, when they refused to help their cousins, when they invaded, and when their wicked religion butchered infants to their pagan gods.

So why was Ruth able to not only become Hebrew, but to be a proud member of the line of David, and later, Jesus?

“But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.”
Ruth 1:16 ESV

Ruth the Moabite did more than pledge loyalty to Naomi; she rejected her culture, her gods, and her old life, choosing the true God instead. Ruth was not subject to the curse against Moab because she was penitent, humble, and a convert.

God punished the host who violently opposed him and embraced sin even when they knew a better way. Moab knew about God; Lot was a follower, but they chose wickedness instead. Yet God forgave anyone who abandoned wickedness and returned to Him.

More than just a love story; Ruth is a reminder that God forgives all who seek His face.

[Ekaji @ekajiibe]

No greater privilege than being chosen of God. For He knows my frame, that I am nothing but dust, yet He has set His love upon me, cleansed me by His blood, and adopted me as His child by His Spirit. This is the greatest flex ever: that I belong to Jesus. I never have to live in fear or shame or condemnation because the living God is at peace with me.