Graceway Christian Centre

31/03/2024

04/02/2024

Happy Sunday Friends!

Healing is children's bread!!

Join me tonight on ATMOSPHERE FOR HEALING on Almond FM 94.3.

7:00pm - 7:25pm.

And on Wednesday 4:30pm for a repeat edition.

Testimonies abound to His glory.

18/11/2023

Many in our generation, are trying to live by their pastor's Faith. It doesn't work! Faith is something personal!!

However anointed your "Papa" is, he is meant to live by his own Faith. Jesus will always tell the people, "THY Faith has made the whole." Not once did He say, "MY Faith has made thee whole." If they needed their Faith then with Jesus, you need yours today, because when the chips are down, "the just will live only by his own faith" (Hab. 2:4)

Join us tonight on Google meet, as we consider the topic: UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE FAITH. 8pm(WAT).

Just use the link below:

https://meet.google.com/ten-gcnp-yqv

24/09/2023

CHRISTIANITY AND POLYGAMY

More than ever before, there has been an increase in the agitation for polygamy among Christians today, especially on social media. These agitators propagate that polygamy is right, and should be encouraged among Christians. The following are the four (4) focal points on which their argument is based:

1. There's nowhere in the Bible where it is expressly stated that Christians should not marry two or more wives.

2. The Bible is not against polygamy because men in Bible days had more than one wives, and still had a great relationship with God. An example of such was David.

3. The Bible is not against polygamy because, even in the Bible, it is said that women will so much outnumber men, that seven (7) women will be willing to be married to one man, even at their own expense, just to take away the shame of singlehood.

4. Today's reality of having more women in population than men, which has resulted in the inability of many mature women to get a man to marry them.

I have always heard these arguments being put forth, and I never bothered myself about it. But the Lord nudged my heart today to address it.

One of the signs of the endtime is that people will use the scriptures to say whatever they want it to say. And of course, people who are looking for justification to do what they desire to do will gladly receive it.
The question is, how tenable are these points? I will like us to consider them one by one, starting with the last one:

4. Are women truly more than men today? I don't know where they got this from, but a Google search can easily confirm this. According to Google, Female population of the World fell gradually from 49.9 % in 1973 to 49.7 % in 2022. So, in the last 50 years, Male popular has been more than female: 50.3% to 49.7%.

3. Isaiah's prophecy (chp 4:1) often quoted out of context to say what is contrary to its true position. In chapter 3, Isaiah prophesied of God's judgement coming upon Jerusalem and Judah for backsliding. He listed out the punishment that was to come on their women in vs 16 - 24, and that of the men in verse 25, saying, "Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war." He then began chapter 4 by telling them the effect of their men falling by the sword, "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, “We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by your name, to take away our reproach.”" Now, this is what some use as justification for polygamy.

2 & 1. David had many wives and there is no scriptures that suggests that God scolded him for it. It's important to note that David lived in a dispensation that was different from ours. Some things were permitted then that are not now. Jesus made this known in Matt. 19:8. While introducing the new dispensation, He reinstated the original intention of God for marriage by saying, "...‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'." Please note, "... the two (not three, not four) shall become one flesh."
Marriage, for a Christian, is designed by God, to be a prototype of Christ's marriage to the Church. Jesus does not have two (2) Brides.

Now, what about our advanced sisters yet to be married?
It is important we know that God does not only have His plan for every of His children, He also has a time for every of His plans for them. He may not come in our time, but He never misses His time. Zechariah and Elizabeth desired a baby earlier in their marriage, but John never came until they were old, because there was an appointed time for the purpose he was coming to fulfill. Though He may tarry, please wait for Him. He makes all things beautiful, ONLY IN HIS TIME.

WHEN POLYGAMISTS GET BORN AGAIN:
Paul the apostle, while listing out the qualifications of anyone who is to be ordained a Church leader, insisted that such a one must be "the husband of one wife." That simply suggests that there were people with more than one wives in the church. And since a Born Again Christian is not permitted to take a second wife, it simply means that they must have had those wives before they got Born Again. They came to Christ with them, and they were accepted for who they were. But they couldn't be ordained into Church leadership.

05/09/2023

Happy Platinum Birthday to you, Daddy. A general in God's army. Wishing you many more fruitful, grace-filled, and prosperous years. Thanks so much for giving to the Lord.

04/09/2023

BEYOND THE PREGNANCY TEST

One of the things Christianity is not is "Keeping the Laws!" Christianity is not about "dos" and "don't". This is because, not breaking a law does not make you "not guilty" of that same law. It is not until you physically commit a sin that you have committed it. You may be a virgin and still be guilty of fornication. Jesus made that clear in Matt. 5:28. So, there's more to your Christianity than what you do, or did not do. Also what you do as a child of God is not as important as the 'WHY" of your doing it - your motive for doing whatever you do. It is not enough that the action is right, the heart behind it must be equally, or more importantly, right.

A major challenge we have in the Body of Christ today is that we focus on the fruit (actions, character) and not on the tree (the heart). The fruit cannot be bad except the tree is bad, because the fruit is simply a product of the tree. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit (Matt. 7:18). In the Nigerian Church today, some laws have been put in place, to ensure Christians do the right thing. An example of such is some churches requesting intending couple to undergo a pregnancy test, before they can be joined together. Any couple with positive pregnancy test result will have their wedding cancelled. This to a great extent, has kept intending couples from getting pregnant before marriage. But is that the ultimate? That law has succeeded in keeping them from getting pregnant before marriage, since they don't want their wedding cancelled, but it has not stopped them from sleeping together before marriage. Worse of it, many even commit abortion, so that they can be joined in the church.

One of the things we must never forget is that laws have never accomplished the purpose of God. It did not in the Old Testament, and it will not in the New. But a renewed heart will. That was why God abolished the Old to establish the New. The Old was a compilations of "dos" and "don't", but the New is about a changed heart. If the heart is right, the actions, and even the words, will be right. That is why Jesus admonishes us to "...make the tree good and its fruit good..."(Matt. 12:33).

When my husband and I were getting married a little less than three decades ago, no one requested for pregnancy test, and yet we kept away from s*x because our loyalty was first and foremost to God who sees what our pastors could not see. Our love for God kept us away from premarital s*x. But today, it's no longer about God, but about avoiding being sanctioned by the church. God demands more of His children. Even in your obeying God, He will rather have you do it out of your love for Him, as against obeying Him out of fear of hell fire.

26/08/2023

Congratulations Honey!

Happy Birthday to you!!

Wishing you many more fruitful, beautiful and blissful years in sound health, joy, peace and prosperity.

Love you like never before.

22/08/2023

Good day friends!

THE GREATEST SECRET TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE

Over the years, I have come to discover that marriage does not work by "7 or 10 Principles To Success In Marriage." Success in marriage demands much more. The greatest secret to succeeding in marriage is BEING A CHRISTIAN IN YOUR HOME! Being a Christian in your home will naturally make you to observe every principle needed to make your marriage work, both the ones you know, and the ones you don't know.

A Christian is not one who goes to church, neither is he/she one who has confessed Jesus as his/her saviour, or prays in Jesus name. But one in whose life the Word of God is evident. You are a Christian only to the degree to which your life is in conformity with the Word of God.

The degree of your conformity to the Word of God will determine the degree of your success in marriage. If you are a Christian in your home, you will submit to your husband, not because he is deserving, but because the Word of God says you should. If you are a Christian in your home, you will love your wife, and stay faithful to her against all odds. If you are a Christian in your home, you will not deny your husband s*x for any reason, you will forgive and forget because that is the only way to be at piece with God. When pleasing the Lord becomes your goal in life, you will naturally please your spouse, and you will be at peace with all men.