17/03/2016
ASK THOSE WHO SAW THE REVIVAL OF 1980s AND 1990s IN NIGERIA, THEY WILL TELL YOU WHY WE ARE CRYING OVER THIS "FIRELESSNESS" WE ARE SEEING IN OUR GENERATION OF CHURCHES.
John Knox prayed: "Lord, Give me Scotland or I die"...
St Patrick, a rugged believer that Brought even dead animals and dead trees back to life prayed: "God, Give me souls or give me nothing else"....
They Brethren during the Hebrides revival prayed:" Lord, If you will not use us, please, kill us"...
They brethren from England who went and brought the Fire from Azusa Street revival gathered everyday under the terrible cold... Their only prayer topic was: "Lord, give us men that will spread Your Fire in the streets of England"...
During the Indonesia Revival, those hungry hearts were seen praying day and night:" Lord, The harvest is ripe... If it pleases You, please use us".
One prayer that was common during the days of William Seymour was: "Lord, this is another day that hell must lose men and women. Please, we are here. Use us"...
Paul, that 'fanatic and lunatic' said:" woe is me if I preach not the gospel"
Rebecca said to her husband, Jacob: "Give me children or I die"
But unfortunately, our churches are filled today with people who are not ashamed of spiritual barrenness... We are only hearing them asking "God give me money.. God give me husband... God give me visa". Where do we see members again that will be praying and fasting, and when you listen to them, you will be hearing:" Lord, let Your Fire fall in my community and let their be revival"?
When Paul encountered Christ, he fell down and rose up. What He asked was:" Lord, what will You have me do"... But today, when we fall under anointing, we stand up to start expecting marriage proposals and visas and employment letters. Man of God, this generation of members in many of our churches everyday have not had a genuine encounter yet ...
No generation has carried Bible the way we carried it without opening it... No generation has been so passionless for souls the way we are... No generation of ministers has lied to their members the way we are doing... And no generation of members are zealously going to hell from their churches than in our generation. Many Preachers in our time are distracting their members from the Cross of Calvary... Ask any of those that saw the revival of the 80s and 90s, they will have tears in their eyes for this merchandise we are doing with the Holy Ghost... Brother, the Holy Ghost is far from some of these generation of churches everywhere... Don't be decievd because people fall under the anointing...But sir I can bet that what is pushing them down is not the anointing.
Burden for the lost and passion for Evangelism is the only ancient sign that He is around... A man that has lost his cry for souls has lost the Holy Ghost... A church where members attend from year to year and are not challenged to go for souls, but they are only challenges to pay their tithes and sow dangerous seeds; that church has lost the Holy Ghost... When I mean soul I mean KINGDOM GROWTH and not CHURCH GROWTH. It's unfortunate that the aim of few crusade we see around mainly for Church Abd Financial Growth... None is geared toward Kingdom Growth.
A prophet that sees date of birth and phone numbers of people but does not see that the people are doomed sinners; that prophet has lost the Holy Ghost, and he needs revival. The first time the Holy Ghost came in Acts 2, there was massive conversion of doomed souls... 3000 men and women who were rushing to hell were interrupted... They surrendered to Jesus, and from there, they began to carry the goodnews to the ends of the earth... Preaching to all creatures...
Now, in our time, people come to our churches and fall under the anointing, and stand up to start expecting Contracts, Jobs and Marriage proposals... It's all about what God will do for them not what I will do for God. In the 80s and 90s, when people recieve the Holy Ghost, everybody in their streets or communities used to know. They wake up early before everyone, preaching in all nooks and crannies... Until the day will break upon them... Some of them will boldly go to their village shrines and start preaching to everyone there, persuading them to shun those lifeless gods and accept Jesus... Some of them will start preaching from classroom to classroom in their schools, until sinners will start running away whenever they are around... My brother, in the 80s and 90s, nobody carried the Holy Ghost that was not talked about... Some were disowned by their parents... Some were excommunicated in their communities, while some were even beheaded or burnt alive... And even at the point of death, they were still preaching to their executioners about Jesus...
Everything is wrong with this kind of Holy ghost we are teaching our members about...
Our church worship leaders who only speak in tongues when they come to church and carry the microphones... But in their streets, no one knows they are born again... Sundays school teachers who open their Bibles only when they are in church... But in their business centers, for years, no one has seen them open their Bibles to teach people about Jesus... There is certainly something wrong with this 'Holy Ghost' we received... And those on the pulpits must be held responsible for this massive decline... How can I carry the Holy Ghost and yet, I will be silent in my lecture room, while boys and girls who are carrying demonic Vodoo marks will be in charge... How can I carry the Holy Ghost and my friends in my streets will not know about it... If it is Holy Ghost, the carrier must be talked about...
Unfortunately, today, we have built Bible schools where men and women are graduating without the Holy Ghost... They litter the streets putting the form of godliness but denying the Power thereof... That is why our members are carrying ipads and iPhone and ipods But, how many are carrying the Holy Ghost?... How many of our members will say to the witch in their villages: "Let me not bother my pastor... I can handle you... If you don't Confess, you will run mad now"? And the witch will see the Power Manifestation... How many will tell the sick around them:" My pastor is busy in the church... Let me handle this one... In the Name of Jesus, rise up and walk" and before everyone, bones will begin to join bones? My brother, if our members know what we are robbing them, they will not come near to our churches again...
When Brother Philip caught the Holy Ghost, it showed in Samaria... The whole city was engulfed with joy... Just one man, setting a whole city on Fire for Jesus... How many churches do we have in just one Street, yet, the activities of witchcraft is increasing... More landlords in the same streets are converting their houses to hotels... With all the horn speakers we are using to disturb our neighbourhoods in our night vigils, yet, drug addicts meets in front of our churches...
But not in a street where a man like Brother Stephen were... Just one church filled with men and women who are full of the Holy Ghost is not enough to bring revival to a city... No Street is depraved enough to silence a young man who is full of the Holy Ghost...
I saw days when diabolic landlords used to come and beg Holy Ghost carrying Tenants to pack put from his compound, even if he does not want to pay the ones he has stayed... All because of the Holy Ghost power in display with that brother... but today diabolic witchcraft our so called believers. But today, we have driven the Holy Ghost out... We have buried human beings and live animals as sacrifices in many of our churches so that we will be having crowd ... How can we expect the Holy Ghost in such places? He is now looking at us.. When we are tired with our man made programs... When we are tired of jambores and picnics... When we are tired of serving coffee and tea... If we turn to Him, I am sure that He will show up...
I don't have a problem eating and laughing in church, but Man of God sir, Philip never did 'Suya Night' to attract the Samaritans to church... He never did night of comedy... I am not against this but it's becoming a ritual... We invite secular entertainers on God's altar to Minister what sir. Man of God, when a man who is full of the Holy Ghost is in town, men who are full of themselves must surrender to Jesus... Lord, we don't care who we have lost if we have not lost You... There is no one else we are not ready to lose to make sure we will not lose You... May it please, You to send down Your genuine Fire once again in our time... Forgive us Lord, and come again to us in your Power... We have replaced You with sermon notes... Bible school degrees... Titles... Doctrines and dictums have taken the place of the Holy Ghost...
Sister, why is miserable drug addicts and touts disturbs you in the campus is because they are only seeing you carrying Bible...They have not seen you carrying the Holy Ghost... They have not seen you anyday tell anyone: "Jesus loves you". If I were you, I will make up my mind this months and say: "I am tired of singing in the choir alone... I must carry the Holy Ghost...
Bro, why all the secret cult members are forcing you to join them is because they are only seeing you in church, but that's all. You have never joined the evangelism group of your churxh to invade the streets, under sun or rain, preaching Jesus... They only see you attending praise nights and church youth picnics... To them, since you cannot carry the Holy Ghost, you must join them to carry guns... If sinners are getting comfortable to stay with you, then, it's obvious that you have lost the Holy Ghost... Sister, If your friends are no more calling you 'Jesus Girlfriend', something is wrong. If you no more feel broken whenever you sin, you have lost the Holy Ghost... If you have the Holy Ghost, when you shake someone's hand they should know that this one is different. When you enter someone's house, the person will feel something different...
Friend, in the 80s and 90s, sinners use to know believers once they see them, even if they don't carry bibles... Those days, one believer in a whole dormitory will be controlling other students in the dormitory... Believers were respected, not because of the size of their bibles, but because of their passion for the Holy Ghost. Lord, please, give it to us again in the old school way.
Sister, after 3years as a believer, you should stop sharing only your church handbills this year... Ask the Holy Ghost to help u to share the gospel. Let the Holy Ghost help you preach in your office. If you cannot preach about Jesus, you are not carrying the Holy Ghost. In the 80s and 90s, the brethren then did not wait to go to Bible schools before they will start preaching... They got born again and began to invade places, to tell others what Jesus has don't for them.
I saw someone of them... Before they cake to Bible schools, they had already opened more than branches of churches in villages where they conquered for Jesus... They only came to Bible schools to be sharpened... But unfortunately, these days, when some boys are tired of fraud businesses, their parents will tell them to enter Bible schools,... When they graduate, they will start looking for Halls in cities to rent ... If people are not coming, they will go and collect powers from the rivers to be creating magic, and people will start trooping... Check their members, none of them have any single passion for the lost around them... Sister, you don't need to ask too much to know if your pastor is a false prophet... If he is not talking about how to win the lost... He is lost... I mean Kingdom Growth not Church Growth. If he is not gingering you to win souls, then, he is fake...
Satan has hijacked many pastors, now they are making the hearts of their members cold... People are tired of hearing about money, cars, enemies etc, from year to year...
The same things they hear in clubs and their village meetings... They want an encounter that will make them look at their drug baron friends and tell them: "Take the whole world and give me Jesus"... These are the things I saw in the revival of the 80s and 90s... And we know that it is still possible that God will give it to us in our time... Yes, I know there is a revival coming...
More fake churches might be coming out here and there... It might even get to a point when it will be hard to see a church where the balanced gospel will be preached... But brother, revival is coming... Somehow, God is raising remnants that will not sabotage the coming move of His Power... When you see them you will know...
When you listened to their messages in T.V you will know... When you read their books, you will also know that these are those God is preparing for this endtime revival assignment. They might have wounds, sustained in the class of defending the Name of Jesus... They might have secret pains only God knows about... They might not pastor the largest crowd or the finesss church auditoriums... Sone of them might not have any followers hip on Facebook and Twitter... You may not see them in posters with the 'big' men of God in our time... Their ministers conferences might not be attended by thousands of people... They might not be known among the 'happening' men of God... But in hell, they will be popular... Satan will be more afraid of their small churches than he is of many big auditoriums where they are running 20 times services...They might not be among the biggest authors but when one copy of their books enters a heathen community, someone will read it and catch Fore.... And in the next few weeks, that person would have surrendered that whole community to the God that created have and earth.. ...
Sir, I am talking about a noiseless army who God has purged of this disease of vain glory in today church.. They are the ones that will usher in a spiritual awakening in our time... And in the next 500 years, if Jesus tarries, that generation will still be talking about them... This is where I want to belong sir... I am ashamed of belonging to a generation where God is looking at us and saying to us: "I am missing your fathers... I used your fathers to win over the world, but you generation is using Me to build your empires". I don't want God to look at me and say: "Joshua Ekeh, you have lost your first love... I am waiting for your children to use them to do what I asked you to do..." (In tears) Lord, please, help me...
I want to carry this Fire till the day I will breath my last.. There are many in many hidden and open places who are crying this same cry Lord... Please, help us!. The road is still far, yes, Lord, we know... But You that helped our fathers, please, help us... May they not read our books and not feel Your Fire again...
May they not attend our night vigil and go back the same way, with no touch of Grace...
Lord, we want to carry this Fire till our dying day...
We have read about revival...
We have been praying for a revival...
Yes, we saw a little glimpse of it in the days of our fathers... But Lord, in our time, we want to see revival...
We want to see communities begging pastors to cone and reconcile them to Jesus, even when no one went to preach to them...
We want to see fake pastors looking for churches where they will go and serve as ushers in truth and in spirit...
We want to see radio and T.V carrying it that the Presence of the Lord broke out in some cities and people began to cry, on their own accord, looking for churches to Confess their sins...
We want to see our youths in our churches invading the streets weekly, persuading sinners to follow Jesus... We want to see them taking over the malls, preaching Jesus...
Lord, we want to see them invading villages and refusing to cone out until they convert the least people to Christ....
We saw it in the days of Charles G. Finney and John Wesley... Jonathan Edwards saw these days too... Europe and America can still remember how it was when Your Fire has not quenched...
Even in our heathen continent Africa, many still have the memories of what it looked like when You breadth on us... Please, Lord, for the sake of those who are zealously trooping to hell from their churches, give us a mighty spiritual awakening once again... We are ashamed of this microwave revival... We need the real thing...
Let it break out in our churches, in schools, in streets, in ghettos, in malls and wherever men and women are living... We are sure Lord, that we will never remain the same again... Yes, we know, that things will never remain the same again...
I love you from the depth of my heart...
In tears here...
God Bless You Iyke Oriaku, you are a blessing. Your enthusia for this work gives me hope that God still have Armies.
Ekeh #