You will die, and after that comes judgment.
Repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Eternity is long—don't be wrong.
He that wins souls is wise, not he that wins arguments.
This week, let your words draw people closer to Christ, not push them away. May your conversations always be seasoned with grace and salt. (Colossians 4:6; Proverbs 11:30)
1. Seek for the next big opportunity that is right before you.
2. Build a daily confession of its present reality in your life mix it with thanksgiving and praise.
3. Go to God for wisdom to teach you how to get it done.
4. Go to work obeying his instructions.
THE CONVOCATION.
It has pleased the Lord to have us converge at His feet for instructions, impartation of grace and empowerment. It’s an Apostolic and a Priesthood Conference.
Pray, plan and attend.
🚨‼️The world says, “Love yourself.” Jesus Christ said, “deny himself.” That is not a small disagreement. That is two kingdoms talking. One puts a mirror in front of a man and tells him to worship what he sees. The other puts a cross in front of him and tells him to die to what he is. Modern religion has spent years trying to make those two messages shake hands, but they will not. The mirror and the cross are not friends. One flatters the old man. The other crucifies him.
Paul said the last days would be marked by men being “lovers of their own selves.” Not haters of themselves. Not people suffering from a shortage of self-esteem. Lovers of their own selves. That is the Bible’s diagnosis. The age is not sick because men failed to admire themselves enough. It is sick because self has become the god of the age. My feelings. My truth. My identity. My dreams. My platform. My peace. My story. My will. Same old devilish tune, just played on modern instruments.
And the tragedy is not merely that the world preaches it. The tragedy is that professing Christianity borrowed the language, put a worship track behind it, and called it healing. Sermons became therapy for the flesh. Songs became emotional mirrors. Churches became platforms for personalities. Testimonies became branding exercises. The cross became a prop in the background while self stood in the spotlight saying, “Look how loved I am.” But the gospel was never “you are amazing.” The gospel is that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again.
The answer is not self-hatred. It is not fake humility. It is not walking around pretending grace did nothing in you. The answer is Galatians 2:20: “yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” That is the death blow to the religion of self. Not self enthroned. Not self discovered. Not self promoted. Christ. The Bible believer does not need a better mirror. He needs the cross, the Book, the Spirit of God, and a Saviour who has the preeminence.
@TNTJohn1717 Honestly, this piece will make me take genealogies and historical record passages in the Bible more seriously.
I usually, skim past them.
At a point, I paused to go read Genesis 36.
Social media is not where God has called us to first learn about Him. Scripture is. Find yourself seeking God through His Word far more than you seek spiritual crumbs online.
When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.
Dates. Places. Names you can check.
Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.
Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.
Now read the opening of Luke 3:
“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”
SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.
An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.
And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…
UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.
Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.
Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”
Certainty. That’s the offer.
One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.
The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.
They dug. It’s still standing.
Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.
You’ve heard it said, “Guard your heart.” It’s not a cliché. (Proverbs 4:23).
You become what you consistently feed on – what you watch, listen to, and believe.
If you keep telling yourself, “All men cheat,” “All women are the same,” or “No marriage lasts,”…
Don't lose your cutting edge trying to get everyone to like you. Those who succeed in the public square and make huge impact are people with deep convictions and are not apologetic about it.
They daily improve and refine what they believe through study and answering questions, but they are rooted in something.
Those who have no roots but drift with trends and winds always wanting to be on the "popular side" lose the respect of all.
Paul said this of his apostleship.
2 Corinthians 6:8
"By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true."
Only false prophets are loved by all.
Luke 6:26
"Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets."
Sometimes, we pastors encourage the tribalism of parents by saying, "Just marry from the tribe they want."
But what if that is not God's will for the person?
We also need to admit that parents are not always right.
The 5 Expressions of the Word of God - Apostle Michael Orokpo, PhD.
(Full Message Title: The Ministry of the Sent Word)
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🚨‼️This chart exposes how Satan uses half-truths to corrupt doctrine, weaken believers, and disguise error with just enough truth to sound believable. From Eden to modern churches, the Bible shows that mixture is one of the devil’s greatest weapons, and the answer is the full counsel of God rightly divided and believed.
When Bible Reading Becomes Bible Handling
2 Timothy 2:15 — “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Introduction
There is a mighty difference between a man who reads the Bible and a man who handles the Bible. Plenty of people read it. Plenty of people quote it. Plenty of people underline it, frame it, post it, embroider it on pillows, tattoo it on their arms, and hang it on coffee mugs next to some soft little religious saying about “being enough.” But that is not what Paul told Timothy to do. Paul did not say, “Skim to shew thyself emotional.” He did not say, “Post to shew thyself popular.” He did not say, “Feel to shew thyself spiritual.” He said, “Study to shew thyself approved unto God.” That word “study” already runs half the modern church out of the room. They want a verse that makes them feel warm in the morning and a sermon that keeps them entertained for twenty-two minutes, but they do not want the sweat, discipline, humility, and fear of God required to handle the Book straight.
The Bible is not a religious scrapbook for emotional slogans. It is not a box of fortune cookies where a fellow reaches in, pulls out a verse, cracks it open, and pretends God just gave him a private message about his business plan, his new girlfriend, his bad decision, or his favorite sin. The Book is sharper than that. Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword.” You do not play with a sword like a child plays with a toy. You handle it carefully, soberly, and skillfully, or somebody is going to get cut the wrong way. The trouble with a lot of Bible readers is not that they do not own a Bible; it is that they handle it like a dull spoon instead of a living blade. They grab a phrase, ignore the passage, forget the speaker, erase the audience, skip the context, and then announce, “The Lord showed me.” No, in many cases, the Lord did not show them anything. Their imagination showed them something, and then they used a verse as a costume.
That is why 2 Timothy 2:15 is one of the great dividing lines between Bible believers and Bible hobbyists. A hobbyist plays with the Bible when he has spare time. A workman labors in it because God will inspect the work. A hobbyist wants a thought. A workman wants the truth. A hobbyist looks for something that agrees with him. A workman lets the Book correct him. A hobbyist uses verses as decorations for his opinions. A workman trembles before the words and asks, “What did God say? To whom did He say it? Where does it fit? How does Scripture interpret Scripture? How does this divide between Jew, Gentile, and the church of God? How does this line up with Paul’s gospel, the finished work of Christ, the grace of God, and the doctrine committed to us?” That is when Bible reading becomes Bible handling. That is when a man stops treating the King James Bible like religious wallpaper and starts standing before God as a workman who must not be ashamed.
Chapter 1: Study Is a Command, Not a Suggestion
Paul’s command begins with one word that modern Christians often hate: “Study.” The verse does not begin with “feel.” It does not begin with “dream.” It does not begin with “wait for a chill to run down your spine.” It begins with study, and that means God expects the Bible believer to put his mind, his time, his attention, and his labor into the words of God. That alone destroys the lazy spirituality of this age. We have Christians who can spend four hours researching a new phone, two hours watching conspiracy clips, three hours arguing online, and thirty minutes comparing restaurant reviews, but give the Bible ten distracted minutes and call it devotion. Then they wonder why every smooth-talking heretic with a microphone can drag them around by the nose.
Study does not mean a man must become a dry academic skeleton with dust in his veins and no fire in his bones. God forbid.