The Holy Bible: A method to the Madness

22/12/2023

IS PLEADING THE BLOOD OF JESUS BIBLICAL? - PART 2

I stirred some discussion and caused a ripple in many minds by highlighting that the phrase 'I plead the blood of Jesus over my family/job/thoughts/illness, etc.' lacks biblical foundation.

Those accustomed to the call-and-response prayer pattern—where one says 'blood of Jesus' and others respond likewise—found it hard to grasp why I wouldn't just stay in my lane and leave the alone.

Part of my mission is to strengthen the body of Christ, fostering unity, maturity, and unwavering faith through proper teaching. I aim to cultivate a community of believers standing firm against false teachings and misleading practices. So, I won't just leave you alone; I'll teach you.

As I mentioned before, 'to plead' means to make an emotional appeal or present and argue for a position. It could also involve making a statement of what you believe to be true, especially in support of something or someone.

If I were to plead the blood of Jesus Christ, I'd explore the Bible to understand the provisions made by the blood of Jesus and use them in prayers, a practice known as 'praying the word.' This aligns with Psalm 107:2: 'Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy.'

For instance, If I were facing a recurring issue attributed to negative foundational altars, instead of chanting 'Blood of Jesus' or covering myself with it, I would use 1 John 1:7 and say: 'My heavenly Father, since I received the life of Christ, I have walked in light, and the blood of Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin.'

I might go further, saying, 'LORD, I know that I was not redeemed with corruptible things but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot' (1 Peter 1:18-19).

By using these Bible verses, I'm pleading my case based on the blood of Jesus Christ—making an emotional appeal or presenting an argument supported by evidence in scriptures.

To deepen this, I might engage in communion regularly until the matter fades away.

If, even after this, you insist on soaking yourself in the blood, my prayer is that the eyes of your understanding will be enlightened in the name of Jesus Christ!

29/11/2023

REASONS WHY MANY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PRAY

There are several reasons why many find it difficult to pray and they are:

1). Lack of understanding of the power of prayer (James 5:16-18)

2). Heaviness, depression and worry (James 5:13). This is a strategy of the Devil to make us destroy ourselves from within. History shows us that a great civilisation cannot be destroyed except from within.The natural human response in times like these is to withdraw within oneself to be able to introspect in order to seek solutions but we soon slip out of it and begin to brood. It is in such situations that we begin to magnify the problem and get into self hate analysis forgetting that there are two prayer warriors in our lives -our minds and our mouth (Luke 6:45, Ephesians 3:20).

3). Because of sin consciousness: The greatest impact of sin is in the guilt it creates. (Romans 6:14, Hebrews 10:17, Psalm 102, Hebrews 4:15-16)

Righteousness is the ability to stand before God without a sense of guilt (Jude 1:24). Many approach the throne of Grace without boldness and this is why they do not recieve results.

4). Spiritual weakness

5). Thinking that your prayers are not answered. (1 John 5:14, Psalm 145:18, Mathew 7:11, Isaiah 65:24)

6).Distractions

We will stop here today. Tomorrow we look at strategies on how to fight for your prayer life.

Pray:

i). Heavenly Father, I am grateful to be awake today with my bodily functions intact.

ii). Please strengthen me that I may remember all I have learned and put them to practice in the name of Jesus Christ!

28/11/2023

*FIGHT FOR YOUR PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL LIFE (LUKE 5:16)*

Like the popular saying goes "A prayerful Christian is a powerful Christian." Prayer is a strong weapon of warfare but to remain prayerful is easier said than done. It is requires a fight.

To be prayerful is to be sensitive spiritually. If there is a man to pray, there is a God to answer.

On this spiritual path, we pray over everything (Philippians 4:6). We pray over our offerings, tithe, seeds, food and anything you can think of.

With prayers you can reach places beyond your physical reach. You can expand your sphere of influence.

You can be in one city and subdue forces of darkness in another town. You can take charge of your office and programme everything in your life long before you are even there.

As the Devil plans ahead you also plan ahead in prayers. Nothing in your life can go wrong until your prayer life has been attacked. It is an interplay of forces.

If you are not speaking into your life in prayers, something or someone else is speaking something you may not have control over into your life and affairs. Physics tells us that nature abhors a vacuum.

One of the ways to make prophecy come into manifestation in your life is through prayers (1 Timothy 1:18). It is also through prayers that you can counter negative pronouncements in your life and affairs.

The way out of temptation is through prayers (Mathew 26:41). I have often taught here and elsewhere that the spiritual path labelled Christianity is no child's play and is not for the faint hearted, lazy or careless person. One major sign of spiritual carelessness is prayerlessness. Those who hate you for nothing or seek to make your life difficult do not live their lives carelessly so why must you?

Tomorrow, by the help of the Holy Spirit, we will continue this teaching by showing us why many find it difficult to pray.

Pray:

1. LORD thank you for the gift of life.

2. LORD forgive my carelessness and help my prayer life.

May we be engraced with unusual ability to pray in the name of Jesus Christ!

22/11/2023

🙏 **WAKE-UP CALL! 🌟**

God's "secret" formula to supernatural wealth and provision is to seek the growth and expansion of His Kingdom (Mathew 6:33 Read from verses 25 to 33 to get the context)

This supernatural wealth and provision is only activated in obedience (See Isaiah 1:19, Deuteronomy 28:1; Deuteronomy 30:16).

What it activates is what we know on this spiritual path as "The Blessing" or the grace called Favour.

⚠️ Important: This formula is exclusive to believers in Jesus Christ who've declared Him as Lord.

When you obey, you will NEVER lack the basic things of life and they'd often come supernaturally. Whether or not you will be very wealthy will depend on the amount of work you are putting into the job assigned to you by Jesus Christ himself.

🙌 May God bless us all in the name of Jesus Christ! 🙏

27/07/2023

NEVER SAY DIE...QUIT WORRYING (Matthew 6:26-27)

As news of unstable economic policies hit you from all corners, let not your heart be troubled.

Remember Bible stories of how the people of God prospered even in famine. Refuse to be moved by what you hear or see. Your mind should be set on the word. For it says, if you be willing and obedient you shall eat the good of the land.

We grew up seeing people complain about the government of their time. There had never been a time when the current government did better than the previous.The prices of things were never known to come down.

The world has been programmed in a certain way and if you do not get it, you are on your own. Begin to re-program your mind to gather as much wealth as you can. Refuse to engage in conversations about how bad the economy is. Monies are simply changing the direction in which they flow and they'd flow into the hands of people. What are you doing to ensure you are one of those it flows to?

Worry drains our energy and creates a stronghold of habitual distress, robbing us of joy, peace, and happiness. Don't allow worry to consume you; keep your eyes on the solution (Philippians 3:13-14; Isaiah 43:18-19).

© Peniel Diaconal Network International

25/07/2023

I GET AM BEFORE NO BE PROPERTY: STOP CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST AND FOCUS ON THE NOW

Many of us are in the habit of holding unto our past glories. We are constantly brooding over the millions we lost, over that car/property we once had or one position we once held so much so that we forget to live in the present.

Sometimes our refusal to let go of the so-called glorious past or emotions like bitterness and unforgiveness can slow us down and even keep us locked in the past. Guilt and despair over past sins may also keep us chained to the past. It drains us of the required energy to focus on the things that matter and opens up doors to many life issues that might eventually lead one into depression and maybe avoidable death.

There's no point holding on to the past when there is such a thing as RESTORATION on this spiritual path of Christianity. Even the scripture where you are told to forget the former things did not tell you that your old tv set or phone will be returned rather it promises you a new one (Isaiah 43:18-19).

As Christians, we must begin to learn as Apostle Paul did, to forget those things which are behind, and prayerfully reach forth unto those things which are before, taking daily steps to press towards our goals (Philippians 3:13-14).

© Peniel Diaconal Network International July 2023.

13/07/2023

*RELAX AND TAKE LIFE EASY: FOR WE BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THIS WORLD, AND IT IS CERTAIN WE CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT.* (1 Thimothy 6:7 NKJV)

I recently came across a meme that read:

*"Life no hard, na you wan use coke budget drink Hennessy"*

For our none Nigerian followers what this means is that life is not so difficult, it becomes difficult when you begin to think of how to take Hennessy with a budget that can only accommodate a soda (coke).

As humorous as the above is, it passes a very profound biblical message.

Understanding man's penchant to worry over the unknown, the Bible in Mathew 6:34 advises us not to worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will take care of itself. It further states that today has enough trouble of its own.

James 4:1 and James 1:14 suggests that our troubles arise mainly from our desires and ambitions that consume us. We are even warned not to boast about tomorrow:

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil (James 4:13)

Interestingly, when the Master, Jesus Christ, taught how to pray, it was "Give us this day our daily bread (Mathew 6:11) not tomorrow and not this week, month, or year.

The Psalmist, on the other hand, informs us that God DAILY loads us with benefits (Psalm 68:19)

Please do not get me wrong, this is not a call to be slothful (lazy) but to be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12, see also Romans 12:11)

Let us endeavour to ask for and live one day at a time just as Lynda Randle did in her song and we would not only live a peaceful and healthy life, we would live fulfilled.

© Peniel Diaconal Network International

06/03/2023

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOU, AS A CHRISTIAN, CAN MEASURE YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH?

In recent times, I have had many people ask me how they might know if or when they are growing spiritually? For some, it is the "frustration" of not being able to manifest superpowers that leads them to begin to question their journey on this spiritual path of Christianity. After all, the Apostle Paul had advised that we desire spiritual gifts 📦 (See 1 Cor. 14:1) so when these people who have spent considerable time in the study of the word and prayers are unable to "manifest" they begin to question if they are doing the right thing or not.

If you are on this Altar and you happen to be in the situation above, worry not. What I am about to share with you by the help of the Holy Spirit will put your mind to rest.

To achieve this, and with the permission of those who are signed up to our mentorship programme, I have decided to share with you, one of the lessons in their curriculum.

Many of us have been erroneously led to believe that spiritual growth can or should be measured by the level of spiritual powers a person is able to publicly display (manifest). Anyone who appears unable to do a public show of his/her spiritual powers or gifts is often considered to be at the lower rung of the spiritual ladder 🪜. This emphasis on such public displays of one's power is what has led many into the traps of many magicians and charlatans whose only preoccupation is centred around the more you look, the less you see.

WHAT IS SPIRITUAL GROWTH?

Spiritual growth is simply the process of becoming more and more like Jesus Christ. When we place our faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit begins the process of making us more like Him, conforming us to His image. Spiritual growth is perhaps best described in 2 Peter 1:3-8, which tells us that by God’s power we have “everything we need” to live lives of godliness, which is the goal of spiritual growth.

Notice that what we need comes “through our knowledge of Him,” which is the key to obtaining everything we need. Our knowledge of Him comes from the Word, given to us for our edification and growth.

There are two lists in Galatians 5:19-23. Verses 19-21 list the “acts of the flesh.” These are the things that were predominantly in our lives before we came to Christ for salvation. The acts of the flesh are the activities we are to confess, repent of, and, with God’s help, overcome. As we experience spiritual growth, fewer and fewer of the “acts of the flesh” should be seen in our lives. The second list is the “fruit of the Spirit” (verses 22-23).

It is by comparing this second list with the acts of the flesh to see that which persists and that which has been dropped that we may be able to access our growth spiritually. As you grow spiritually, it is expected that the fruits of the Spirit become increasingly evident in our lives as we daily interact with people.

It is these fruits and not the number of people who fall under anointing when we show up that determines one's spiritual growth.

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28/12/2022

HAVE YOU PRAYED FOR YOUR HELPERS TODAY?

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16)

The scripture above simply says that you automatically activate a principle that ensures you are also helped when you pray for others.

We are able to relate with this easily because we see from the scriptures (Job 42:10) that Job was restored after he shifted attention from himself and prayed for his friends.

PRAYER POINT

Today let us solemnly remember all those who have been of help to us one way or the other.

Those who have helped you financially, those who gave you jobs, those who have fought for you etc.

If you know that you have ever received help through the ministry of men please pray this prayer with all your heart.

Take it as an experiment and and report your results between the time you make the prayer and the next 3 weeks.

This prayer MUST come from your heart.

To easily achieve this, reflect on the condition you were before the help came and how you felt after the help came. Whether or not you asked them for the help.

God bless us all in the name of Jesus Christ!

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