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Jesus Taught Us Faith 1

Among all those who have wielded the power of God and done mighty works by prayer and faith, no one has ever done as many exploits as Jesus. Therefore, it is wisdom for us to take a lesson note from Him. Fortunately, for us, Jesus taught us faith—not just in theory but practically.

In the 11th chapter of the book of John, Jesus had the following conversation with His disciples:

[11]…”Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.” [12] Then His disciples said, “Lord, if he sleeps, he will get well.” [13] However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep. [14] Then Jesus said to them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.”

From the above conversation, we could deduce that Jesus knew very well that Lazarus was dead; yet He said, “He sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”

But why did He make such a misleading claim, as it were?

Early on, when Jesus was informed that Lazarus was sick, He said,

“This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” John 11:4 [NKJV]

That wasn’t His personal declaration; it was God’s very word about the sickness of Lazarus.

How did I know this?

Jesus said of Himself.

“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.” John 8:28 [NKJV]

“Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority, but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” John 14:10 [NKJV]

He spoke just as the Father dropped it in His mind.

“This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” That was all that Jesus needed to hear God say, and He was so sure that Lazarus would never die that even when he died, He still said, “He sleeps!”—That’s the meaning of faith: trusting what God says in His word beyond anything happening around us.

But What do Christians do Today?

If an average child of God today were in Jesus’ shoes, the greatest demonstration of faith they would make is to panic, burst out into tears and say, “Father, you said this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” I trusted you and said it to everybody around me, and yet he died. Why have you put me to shame, Father?

Did you see the issue there?

Jesus knew that what God said was true and done from the moment God said it. He didn’t need God to do any other thing before he would know His word was done. Therefore, irrespective of what happened after He got God’s word, what God had said was done.

However, on the contrary, the latter—the modern-day believer—receives God’s word concerning any issue of life. Then they start waiting for God to do something so they will know what God has said is true and done. Ergo, if anything happens in favour of God’s word, that proves to them that God has done what He said. However, if circumstances go contrary to the word of God they have known, that becomes a proof that God has failed.

For so long as you continue that way, you won’t get any result by faith!

You see why many believers are frustrated trying to get results by faith? If you ask them, they had all the faith, but God failed them. But in actuality, they never had faith for once.

You must spend time to learn how to demonstrate faith indeed. And fortunately, in as much as there are many false teachers out there, there is still a remnant of genuine, great teachers of faith that you can learn from—I learnt from someone—you just have to be circumspect. However, I recommend that you pick any of my books on faith as a way of support and also because I’m sure of what is written there.

See you on the victor’s side.

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Do You Want Instat Results In Your Prayer Life?

If you have been praying without getting the desired answers, read this.

In the book of Matthew 17:14-20, we see the disciples of Christ doing all they could to cast out a demon but to no avail. In their own understanding, they had all the faith, but the case was just too strong.

“This is an impossible case,” they thought. However, when Christ Himself, who truly had faith, came onto the scene, cast out the demon and healed the sick boy lickety split, they were unsettled and couldn’t hide their embarrassment again.

Therefore, they came to Christ, enquiring why they had faith—as they thought—but couldn’t cast out the demon while Jesus Himself did cast out the demons by the same faith.

“You didn’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I assure you, even if you had faith as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” (Matthew 17:20).

This reply given to them by Jesus shocked them to the marrow because, in their thinking, they were full of faith.

This is not an isolated case! Even among God’s children today, it is common to hear such things as I have done this; I have done that in order to get rid of this situation, yet it refused to go. In other words, they are trying to say, “I have all the faith, but my situation has proved too strong.”

If you are one of those who think or speak like that, may I announce to you that it isn’t the hardness of your situation that has kept it with you but your lack of true faith in God (Yes, there are cases of appointments where God uses some circumstances in the life of His faithful to achieve His purpose. However generally when unpalatable situation persists in the life of God’s children, its always traceable to lack of true faith)

Now the question I expect you to ask is, if all I have done about my situation isn’t a demonstration of faith, what should I do when I have faith?

That and other questions on faith I have, by the help of the Holy Ghost, answered in my book, “WHEN YOU HAVE FAITH. In this Holy-Ghost-inspired write-up, you will learn how to go beyond merely believing in God to firmly trusting Him in such a manner that will deliver all the results you are expecting of Him

Good Luck.

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Life Is All About Positioning

Life is all about positioning: the earlier you take knowledge of this, the better for you.👇🏻

It doesn’t just matter the amount of delicacies on the dining table, if you are pressed, you can’t enjoy yourself there. You have to reposition yourself to the toilet and ease yourself while those at ease enjoy themselves at the dining table.👇🏻

It doesn’t just matters the amount of money in the Bank, if you are wretched and penniless, you won’t come out with a dime even if you spent aeon there. It is wisdom for you to go about your business and leave the Bank for those who have done business already and amassed tons of money.👇🏻

It doesn’t matter at all, the prospects of the market and industry, if you are sick, it is rather suicidal for you to be there. You ought to forfeit all the gains for those who are healthy and take to the hospital—there and there alone can you find respite.👈

🙏 That’s wisdom for winner’s 🙏

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AT A TIME LIKE THIS

Behold, He Comes

You really feel like doing great things for your God; however, as it were, you are just hedged in without the least bit of leeway.

The circumstances surrounding you seem most unseemly: “Nothing” is your categorical reply if you were asked, “What would you not do or give up to secure a ransom?” Nonetheless, nothing can you do; nothing can you offer to secure a release.

Regarding sin, you stand unstained, and in character, you are committed to incorruptibility; yet, that, so to speak, became the two-count charge held against you by men, for which reason men have sentenced you to an isle of no man, no voice—just alone and lonely.

At a time like this, what is the route out?

Behold, he comes!

Song of Solomon 2:8 [NKJV]
“The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.”

The faithful Lord comes for you! Although you are barred by mountains and hills from going for Him, your beloved Lord comes for you, and He comes leaping over all the mountains, skipping over all the hills hedging you in to find you.

In Mark 11:2-3 the Bible says,
“[2] And He said to them, ‘Go into the village opposite you, and as soon as you have entered it, you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it.’
[3] And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it,’ and immediately he will send it here.”

The colt couldn’t go for the Lord because it was bound in chains; however, the Lord came for it. And when He came, every barrier keeping it at a stand was undone because He will work and no one can let it. (Isaiah 43: 13)

Behold, He comes for you, and no one, nothing can stop him.

Dig Deeper:
Psalm 9:9-10
Isaiah 49:15-23.

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Men of Distinction Wanted

“Therefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:” （Acts 6:3, 5)

The world has gone haywire; the he dirty water that should be flowing under the gutter has become our mainstream. the light bulbs that we look up to for illumination now sits well, balanced in it’s position; but radiates darkness. The flag of morality and excellence has been brought to a half-mast like that of a mourning natio; so much that men of God who supposedly should be paradigms for godliness have become the Achans in the church. And in a bid to keep their rotteness from being exposed, they have become defenders against those they should be toiling to bring to Christ.

We are now being sermonised to accept the world we live in to be an ocean, not of water this time around, but of iniquity, ungodliness and moral depravity. And that we all, as fishes living therein, can never be free from this prevalent depravity.

However, I take exception. The endemicity of evil in the world today is rather a glaring gesticulation, a deafning outcry for men of distinction to rise and say,
“I DARE TO BE A STEPHEN.”

When the people of God needed seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, for appointment into a position of service, stephen was the only one who had attached to his name, “a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost.”

Take a look at the list：“and they chose STEPHEN, A MAN FULL OF FAITH AND OF THE HOLYGHOAST and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch.” in other words, he alone was what the ocation demanded. He was distinct amongst the seven. No wonder he went ahead and did exploits. And resisted unto blood.

Can someone rise up today to say,
“I DARE TO BE A STEPHEN；I DARE TO BE WHAT THE OCATION DEMANDS WHEREVER GOD HAS POSITIONED ME.”
Say it to yoursel! Personalise it: I dare to be a stephen；i dare to be what God demands wherever he has positioned me. Go ahead and customise it！say in my business, in my job,as a studen, as a wif, as a husban, as a fiance, as a fiancee, as a child of God, “I dare to be a stephen；I dare to be what God demands of me even if no one else dares. I dare to resist unto blood even if i am alone.”

MAY GRACE ABOUND.

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Divine Opinion

“…but what do you say?” John 8:6 [NKJV]

Read: John 8: 1-9

In the book of John 8:1-5, when the scribes and the Pharisees caught a woman in adultery, the first thing that came to their mind was a human opinion about the woman. The first thing they remembered was the verdict Moses, in the law, had passed on the woman—she should be stoned to death!

Nonetheless, they still brought the woman to Jesus and said to Him, “…Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do you say?” John 8:4-5 [NKJV]. And when Jesus gave His own opinion, despite all they had known that Moses had said concerning the action of the woman, they all surrendered to His verdict.

Oh, what a difference it will make in our lives; what an advantage it will give to us if, as God’s children, we will take a lesson from these merely religious men!

In our everyday activities we come across challenges in different areas of our lives. It could be a threat to our lives, it could be a health challenge, or it could be a financial challenge. At such times, what quickly comes to our mind is the opinion of professionals—doctors, economists—or those of our friends and associates concerning the challenge at hand. And then instead of going to Jesus and consulting the Holy Spirit to get divine opinion concerning the challenge at hand, we rather settle for the opinion of men as final.

However, in the book of 2nd Corinthians 10:3-5, the scripture says, “3For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” Such human opinions—no matter how reasonable they are—are the high things exalting themselves against the knowledge of God we have received, and we ought to, like the scribes and the Pharisees, consult the word of God to know what God Himself has to say about any circumstance we come across. And when we get his verdict, irrespective of the opinions of men we have known, his opinion should settle the matter.

Consecration

Father, in the midst of rumbling storm, in the middle of the rolling thunder, when the verdicts of men go viral concerning me, to hear your voice O God, shall be my priority; for only you alone can speak peace to my soul