The Eagles of Grace Outreach Ministry International

20/08/2019

For the WOULD - BE COUPLE

Sometimes in an attempt to have a tushed and polished wedding ceremony, we take people we don't need from the wedding reception into our covenant marriage. This is what gives your uncle the confidence to act like he has an opinion over the matters in your marriage because he sponsored your wedding cake. This is why your relatives act like they are entitled to giving you marriage advice because if not for them you wouldn't have had a venue for your larvish wedding party.

I have met inlaws who intrude into the issues of a newly wed with the entitled mentality of "I sponsored his wedding suit, he knows my opinion has to count."

Oh preserved generation, it is better to have a loud marriage than a loud wedding. Your wedding is supposed to stop certain people from gaining access to your marriage, not open more doors for them to come in.

So, uncle has become the spiritual instructor for your marriage, it's him you take your family issues to for advice. You didn't choose him because you had the leading of the Spirit to do so. You didn't choose him because he has a fantastic marriage with visible evidence worthy of emulation. You choose him because he was the father of the day at your wedding. You choose him because you know he can break kola with N200,000. You choose him as your marriage adviser because you needed someone who can launch the cutting of cake at your wedding with N100,000. You know he isn't full of the spirit, you know he isnt fit to stand as your adviser, but you wanted a suitable chairman of the occasion. This is how we take people we don't need into our marriage, people who are not in God's plan for our marriage, because they fit perfectly into our plans of a LOUD WEDDING.

Oh preserved generation!

I don't know about you, but it ends with me!
This foolishness, this ignorance, it ends with me.
Walking faithlessly into a covenant marriage ends with me!
I will never let worldly expectations distract me from the requirements of my covenant marriage.

Is somebody catching this?

28/07/2019

27/07/2019

JERKING, LAUGHING, FALLING DOWN, AND FIRE TUNNELS

In the Charismatic/Pentecostal movement, you will often times see and witness a variety of physical manifestations of the “Holy Spirit” such as: jerking, shaking, laughing, weeping, dancing, drunkenness, falling down, and more.

But how exactly do we know that all these “physical manifestations” are from the “Holy Spirit”? The best answer to this question in my personal opinion is to apply what I call the “Jonathan Edwards Test” to the physical manifestations. He had 5 tests that he used for them:

1. Does it bring honor to the person of Jesus Christ?
2. Does it produce a greater hatred of sin and a greater love for righteousness?
3. Does it produce a greater regard for Scripture?
4. Does it lead people into the truth?
5. Does it produce a greater love for God and man?

You have to sincerely wonder how much of the “physical manifestations of the Holy Spirit” in the Charismatic/Pentecostal movements would survive these tests? What about all our fire tunnels and impartation services? Is all the laughter, crying, shaking, and being “slain in the Spirit” producing any of the five realities mentioned above?

And before you go thinking I’m a critic of physical manifestations, remember that I have also laughed, cried, je**ed, shook, danced, fell down, and been so totally drunk in the Spirit that I couldn’t drive home on several occasions. I’m just asking questions and inviting dialogue because as much as I travel and am constantly around the physical manifestations, the more I don’t believe half of them could meet any of Edward’s tests.

Most of what I’m witnessing lately is just fish flopping and bodies shaking but absolutely no character or pursuit of holiness as a result of being touched by God in powerful ways. I’m seeing fire tunnels full and no one at prayer meetings. I see people wanting an “impartation” from their favorite preacher and not interested in daily discipleship. I’m deeply concerned! Are you?

-Jeremiah Johnson

27/07/2019

Stop doing this please:

Everytime you have private issues with your partner rather than talking about it privately with your partner and sort things out, you quickly run to your WhatsApp and Instagram stories to post some very indirect finger pointing quotes that talks about how you're feeling, this is called an ABUSE OF CONFLICT. Too childish for anyone who is mature enough to keep a love relationship to do.

Many relationships never get past their issues because people prefer to talk to strangers about it instead of talking to whom it may concern - your partner. Please stop doing that, it is not a peace setting attitude that should accompany a believing relationship and marriage. There is no relationship without its own bespoke issues, but when this issues come up don't start making posts and uploading quotes suggesting to your partner and the people it does not concern that something is wrong. Some people can be fighting with their partner and he will have no idea what's going on, he gets to know something is wrong when aunty puts up one funny Steve Harvey's quote that says "If you are tired of loving me I will keep loving myself" 🤣🤣🤣 . That's when he knows something is bothering his girl. Sometimes he gets to know something is wrong when his friends start sending him screenshots of some posts his girl is making on IG. Stop it. Keep your private life private, if something is wrong talk about it with your partner, and leave people out of your business.

This is one trick I use and it works for me, let me share:

Each time I have something to say to Aunty, maybe she did something that doesn't sit well with me and I feel that strong urge to pour out my feelings on my status, know what I do? I just post all her fine pictures on my status to confuse her, within me I'm very very angry, but the expression of my anger still has to produce love. (Hope someone understands this one? It still has to produce love) I'm not perfect with this trick yet, still growing and learning into it, but I want to encourage you to try it too, alright? It works 😍😍😍

Anytime you're angry over something your partner did or didnt do and you're too angry to even talk to them about it for that moment, just go to your status and post all their fine pixures and confuse their brain 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪. It works two ways: first your anger produces love, and then it makes your partner know that your anger or your differences in that moment does not change a single thing! You still love them scaarrer!🤩🤩💍💍. And sometimes, those pictures help to confuse your village people who are silently waiting for you two to break up.

Scripture says is not what comes in that defiles a man, but goes out. So it's okay to be angry, but let your anger always produce love. Do I have anyone here willing to start trying this anger management trick with me from now on?

25/07/2019

THIS IS TGE BEDROCK

*WHAT IS MINISTRY?*
By Bro. Gbile Akanni.

So many years ago, I was invited to preach at Idda Polytechnic. As I was on my way (I went by road and I drove my self) I discovered that the road was too bad and the journey was stressful. Deep in my heart, I cried out to God, "Oh God! Is this how I will be going about preaching? What will be the result of all these suffering? All the time I go from place to place preaching, preaching preaching.... What will all these amount to?"
I cried and said; "Lord, is it possible that I can preach a single message and people will not recover from that message for ten years?"
God quickly answered me; "Yes!"
He asked me; "Do u want your life to be my message?"
He told me; "It takes about 20mins to prepare a sermon but it takes 20 years to prepare a message. Preaching is not all about talking but pushing.
It is all about pushing out life and not sweet words. Preaching is not all about bringing out rhema but pushing out the life of God that have been embedded in you at the quarry site".

I broke down and said "God make my life your message".

That was how God began a fresh labour over my life.

After being in ministry for more than 50 years now, i testify that I have seen men who attended my programs just once and till today the fire they caught is still burning. Some people that were in meetings where I was invited to preach just once, I have met many of them still standing strong for the Lord.

I then discovered that ministry is not all about talking but it is first of all, life.

This experience I had with God gave my life and ministry, a paradigm shift. I no longer struggle to preach because I know that once I open my mouth, it is God flowing and not rhemas that I memorized.

I have seen many ministers, when they handle the mic, utterances will be gushing out, but when I weigh them with my spiritual antenna, there is no life flowing. I will just sit down there and be crying, "Oh! God help our generation". Revival will not come until God raise men that carry God.

How I wish that ministers will not be encumbered by programs but to allow God to breath on them and make their lives a message to the whole world.

Acts 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

The life of Jesus was his message

Brethren, ministry is not about shouting but shining.
Light does not shout, it shines.

Do you need this kind of ministry?

25/07/2019

Do not compromise on the most important things in marriage. My purpose in life is to push God's plan for marriage down your consciousness, until you begin to breath it, breathhhhhhh ittt!

Listen;
If your partner cannot hear God concerning you.
If God cannot speak to your partner when you're too weak or too distracted to hear Him for yourself, please do yourself a favour and rethink that relationship, you are with the wrong person...

I feel for people who are in a relationship with someone who have no spiritual relevance, it's so sad. I mean, like how can one just willingly decide to throw away the advantage they have as a believer?

Guys, dating someone who has a strong spiritual presence is our advantage, we don't just chose to date anyone like our worldly friends do, for us it's different, because we know that we have been set apart, called and chosen for a purpose. If your partner cannot pray in tongues and make the devil run like hell, they should be able to prophesy and declare things into existence. If they cannot prophesy they should be able to dream dreams and see visions. If they cannot dream dreams they should be able to interprete tongues. If they cannot interprete tongues they should be able to give good and Godly counsel. If they cannot give good counsel they should be able to be kingmakers. If they don't have the ability to raise kings let them raise Queens. If they cannot raise queens let them unite the family and be instruments of peace. If they cannot unite the family let them be able to raise Godly seeds. There is no room for spiritual emptiness, no space for sitting on the fence, you must be spiritually relevant somewhere, there must be something about you that gets the enemy scared everytime he comes against you. The fire burning in my bones cannot yoke with your ice water, I need to be sharpened, not QUENCHED!

See guys, take this from me and treat it as URGENT:

If there is nothing you can cause God to do for your partner because of your presence in his or her life, if you cannot be an Abraham negotiating favour in the life of your Lot, please relax, it is not your time.