Gen. 29:15-30 emphasizes the role of one’s character in ones successes or failure in life. In HOJ two, hard work, industriousness, honesty, respect, lawfulness and fear of God are some of the constituents of Jacob’s character that he used in servitude to his father-in-law Laban and God prospered the works of his hand and increased the yield of his Master’s cattle under his care Gen.: 30: 27-30. God will prosper you if you can imbibe these traits in your character.
When God endows you and you become blessed, it is expected that you should be a blessing unto others by using your endowment to better your fellow man; this is part of your service to God, which answers the question of many people who wants to know what serving God means. When you use your God’s given endowment, your talents, which constitutes God’s blessings and gift to you plus your fear of God, your holiness, your righteousness, your Christ-like life style in service to your fellow man or woman, meeting up and satisfying their needs and aspirations, bringing joy and happiness with smiles on their faces, which in turn promotes their health, giving them good means of livelihood with peace of mind, you are serving God. This is why Jesus said, I was hungry and you gave me to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, but you will say Lord where did I give you to eat and drink but I say unto you, so long as you give it to any of these little ones to eat and to drink, you have done it unto me. This is the divine service that man (man or woman) is called upon to fulfill for God in the midst of humanity, which we call serving God. This service type is always God’s focus in endowing and blessing people with diverse gift and this service of man to man is always God’s focus in His overall plan for man not the individual man while He aims at guiding man for him to fulfill this objective, see HOJ One page 2.
Many a time man has seen his gift from God, his endowment from God and his blessings from God as his personal materials, wealth, money etc and thus always uses same to satisfy and meet up his personal needs and desires, which is a wrong perception of God’s aim for blessing and endowing him thus the individual has become self centered and selfish with God’s blessings and endowments under his care. He is now starving as many people as God had aimed to benefit from him, the individual is about failing in his service to God and God will not be happy with him. This is the reason why many individual’s resources, money, material have failed and dried up; shut up and there is no prosperity, no increase, and they lament forgetting that they are the cause of their predicament.
Many people think that going to church on Sundays or any other day is service to God, no wonder, when you meet a friend on the road on a Sunday and ask him, where are you going? He will quickly answer you, I am going for service, I am going to serve God, because he thinks that going to church is going to serve God. God does not need anybody to serve Him, rather God need people to worship, praise and thank Him. He also need that you serve your fellow man with all what He has blessed you with.
Church or prayer house is the house of God symbolized with two divisions or chambers:
One division or chamber is the section reserved for God called the inner room or the holiest of holies, the altar side
While the second division or chamber is called the outer room or body of the church, the side where the congregation stays. The express church or house of God is the body of an individual human being (man) and is also divided into two: the soul or heart of the individual and the fleshy body of the individual, that is why Jesus said know ye not that thou art the temple of God.
In the church whether symbolized or expressed, the inner room, which is represented today by the altar section of a conventional church is where God stays while the outer section represented today as the area where we arrange our pews (chairs) is where man stays. The question might be what do God and man stay here to do in the church? But before we answer this question let us get this clear, man come or go to the church but God is in the church as a spirit, in other words man come or go to the church to meet with God who is in the church. The question again will be what do man come or go to God who is in church to do? Man come or goes to God who is in the church to:
Commune or discuss or talk with Him in prayers, petitions etc
Hear from Him in case He has an information as a guide to give to a person who comes to Him in the church
Praise and worship God as his fundamental duty to God for his creation.
Church or house of God is one of the heavenly places where God “art”, see HOJ One.
Jesus expanciated on the word church when He was telling the Israelites that a time cometh when those who will worship God will not only do that here in Jerusalem, rather He said that they will be wherever they are and worship His Father who art in heaven. That makes it to be that church is any place, any heavenly place where man and God can meet in the business of monologue, dialogue, prayer, and petition, hear or receive information as guide, praise and worship in fulfillment of man’s fundamental duty to God.
A heavenly place is a place where by God’s yard stick, not man’s, there is love, peace, unity, harmony, understanding, fear of God, respect for God, willingness and willful readiness to obey God and do His commandments, where there is a total and complete surrender of oneself to Christ and allowing Christ Jesus to have His way in everything. The status of an individual with God and Christ will make or mare a heavenly place.
In other words the presence of God and Christ makes a place heavenly, while the absence of God and Christ from a place makes it hellish. When God and Christ is in a man, the constituents of the man become heavenly and wherever such a man stays and stands is made heavenly as long as the constituents remains and he stays there. Whatsoever he touches under this state is made heavenly, this is the art of consecration, made holy and sanctified, that make holy and separate.
I do not know if I have been able to make the difference between serving God and worship to God?
Serving God is using all what God has blessed and endowed you with to help mankind, alleviate the suffering and hardship of man, give man a good means of livelihood with the numerous natural resources on earth, which makes you a servant of God the Master or of God the Good Master. Remember Jesus Word on Master and Servant.
See all the numerous natural resources that God blessed Nigeria with but where are the good servants of a good Master, who will help their good Master to administer, and manage these resources to the benefit of the good people of a good Master? Look at Nigerian’s Ex –Minister of Petroleum Madueke, is an example of those who sees their endowment, their blessings of God to be for themselves, their children and grandchildren alone; such people turns service from the people to themselves and become self-centered thereby failing in their duties to humanity and thus fail God.
On the other hand worship, prayers, petitions, praise, can all be covered in worship and that is what we go or come to church to do, worship and praise are compulsory duties of man to God. Just because of service, man ought to worship and praise God for giving him the enablement to serve Man. You that is the servant who administers and manages God’s resources under your care to benefit the rest man, is not better than those whom you are used to serve, so service should be seen by a right thinking person as a privilege other than a right, it is those who fail to see it as a privilege that mismanages it.
So on Sundays, the individual go or come to church to worship God, Praise Him and at times give petitions in form of prayers to God. When you worship and praise God alone on a Sunday or any other day, you reverence, thank, sing songs, pour out your heart and soul filled happiness, joy, gladness to God making Him know that you understand fully what He stands for you, how He is that you live, that you appreciate and know that He is the one that sustains you, providing for you, fighting your unseen and seen battle and granting victories, victories that you know you do not deserve but He granted it to you, so you are worshipping and praising Him because you know and appreciate it. Worship and praise is a time set aside where man let God know that he loves Him in return, and is when man let God know that he fully surrenders to Him, is when man let God know that he faithfully depends on Him for everything, is when man let God know that he has no other God except Him.
It is always good to separate worship and praise from prayers and petitions. On a day you have prayers and petitions for God, it is also good to first worship Him, praise Him, before sending your prayers and petitions to Him. Prayers and petitions are often demands and asking from God. So in a nutshell, it is good that when you go or come to God in His house, know whether you come with demands and asking or you come with only praise, worship and thanksgiving. It is good many a times for us to come or go to God with only praise, worship and thanksgiving after which we go home satisfied, no asking and no demanding.
How many people can do this? But I assure you when you grow and wax strong in God to the extent that you can do it, it gladdens the heart of God and you will be surprise that He can even in such occasion marvel you by satisfying and doing for you a particular need, demand and desire that you wanted to present to Him on a later date. That is God for you but many people do not know Him to this extent. That is why in my life since I came to know him more, the days I worship, praise and thank Him are far more than the days I ask and demand things through prayer and petitions from Him. Most of the things I have received from Him have come to me when I did not even ask and when I did not even expect. Some of the things I received from God come even when I lost hope like my COREN membership and my membership of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, including my promotion in my work place to an Assistant Director in a Federal parastatal all were a huge surprise to me.
He fights my way through and that is why I feel like worshipping, praising and thanking Him alone rather than asking and demanding every time since He has used the ones He did to show me that He knows my needs so why do I boarder myself asking, I rather develop a habit of waiting on Him with praise, worship, and thanks, since I know He will do once it is due.
When God sees that an individual has turned “service of God” inwards to self, He turns off the tap temporarily, the supply, to make the individual realize and see if he will turn it outwards as it is to be. Turning off the supply becomes permanent when the individual fails to realize himself, make amends and change from being selfish with God’s resources under his care.
These resources that Madueke looted and carted away from Nigeria are resources God aims at using to better the living standard of Nigerian citizens but because Diezani Alison Madueke does not know what real service to God means, just like many other leaders she misused the service opportunity that God gave to her and mismanaged the resources. Watch out, you will see how the tap of her supply is going to be turned off against her.
It happened to Governor Ibori of Delta State of Nigeria and today Ibori is undergoing various incarcerations in prison cell in London.
Recently we hear Joseph “Sepp” Blatter born 10 March 1936 a Swiss football administrator who has served as the eighth President of FIFA tied to resources and funds mismanagement.
There are many others, these are fund and resources that should have been used for the betterment of the people. When you look at football you will agree with me that majority of the “stars” in football, especially from the African countries are illiterates, and is there anything that forbids FIFA to give an unconditional scholarship to these football stars to compulsorily go and study to any level of education to improve themselves? Many of them that excelled in education amid their football profession did that from their personal pocket which is not encouraging. Kanu Nwankwo is being made fun of when it comes to granting him a press interview simply because his English is not internationally okay. He is a star, and FIFA knows it, so why can’t FIFA spend some of its resources to better him from the much that Blatter has to embezzle.
If leaders can understand what leadership and proper governance is all about no country will have her citizens in hardship, in suffering, in poverty and in lack. God has bestowed every nation with adequate resources such that if it is properly utilized Jesus Word of “many mansions in His Father’s house” will be realized in every country of the world, and humanity everywhere in the world will be at peace with one another. Another area where world leaders especially those called superpowers are mismanaging God’s resources is in the area of war and destructive weapons. Can you imagine how much these leaders spend in acquiring war and destructive weapons whereas their citizens are starving and are hungry? Why can’t they channel these funds and money to bettering their citizens? Well I say unto you, Iraq, Afghanistan and currently Syria is being bombarded and destroyed, her citizens plunged into severe hardship, suffering and the world superpowers are enjoying their “play of power” a word currently used by America to Russia.
Where is this “play of power” with colossal waste of God given resources for the betterment of man going to lead these leaders to? May be according to the word of God that whatsoever you mete out unto your fellow man, it shall be meted out unto you, in equal measure”. In line with this divine word, one day it will be the turn of the superpowers to be bombarded by only God knows who and how and when. For it shall come to pass one day that those who are allies today, shall tomorrow be enemies such that some of the world powers shall come together against one of the world’s most superpowers and they shall together bombard her, so severe that she in turn in defense shall bombard back, that the nations of the superpowers shall be brought to ruin, and when it shall dawn on them that they have all goofed, then they shall begin to call for a cease fire and for a round table peaceful resolution. Not until then, each of them will want to taste this “power play” or “play of power” as America calls it for Russia. But I call it “idiotic resource wastage” by world leaders, which they all will soon be answerable to God and Jesus Christ for. They will all soon be arrayed before the court of God, and do not ask me where and when!
Whenever you find yourself in leadership position, please remember that service to God is service to man, you are called to assist God administer His resources for the overall betterment and good of man on earth. Do not allow yourself to be tempted by self thinking that you are blessed for yourself, your immediate family, extended family, friends, well wishers, lovers, relations etc, no, if you do this you are looking inwards, you are being selfish and self centered, and you will be damned.
You have to realize that your being called into position of leadership is a blessing from God, and as such you have to realize that “you are blessed in other to be a blessing unto others”, you have to look outwards, you have to put the welfare of the people you are leading first before yourself and those around you, for this is service in the right direction.
Joseph in leadership position in Egypt would not have remembered his siblings, if they had not come to buy food in Egypt. Today once many of us find ourselves in leadership position, the first thing we do is remembering all people around us, which the Bible calls our “Lots” a word derived from the circumstances of Abraham and his brother Lot. Remember all the troubles Abraham passed through are simply because he carried his brother Lot along. Whenever we stupidly carry our Lots along they are the one that puts us into diverse troubles that will not cease until we learn how to “separate” from them.
Tell world leaders to take it easy, tell the UN to be what she is established to be and stop playing politics. Tell America that her problems are the blacks and many Muslim immigrants that she has granted citizenship. Tell America that she played too “sweet” forgetting to realize that I God said in the Bible, “if you are too sweet, the world will lick you all off”. Now that America has become too sweet, they are trying to lick her all off. A time cometh and that time is very near, all blacks in America shall be driven away out of America, so blacks that do not want to be taken unawares including some other foreigners should start planning how to relocate out of America before it is late. Tell America that the Lord God Almighty said, that if she does not want to witness what I want to say now with a song, she should restrategize and revisit her foreign policies and some of her internal policies, especially those ones that has to do with governance and granting foreigners citizenship in America. America should not allow people that are not of “pure” America blood to rule America. These “impure “Americans by gene do not have the genealogical traits in their stuff and stock as Americans and as such said the Lord, I cannot use them to realize the aims of the founding fathers of America. That thing that I want to say with a song is:
American has fallen, fallen, fallen
American has fallen to rise no more!
This song will come to pass if America do not re strategize, revisit her foreign policies and restructure her constitution especially on the area of who becomes a president in America. Tell America to “watch her back”, otherwise, said the Lord, it shall come to pass that many world powers such as: Russia, China, may be France, many of the Arab world and others shall constitute themselves ‘’enemies’’ of America and they shall team up together to fight America from diverse directions and when America shall eventually see that it appears these people want to overpower her, shall so “fight a once and for all fight” that shall devastate the whole earth and shake its pillars, the fight shall be so severe that if “Christ come not quickly “ as He promised, things might get out of hand. But because Christ shall come quickly, the destructive war weapons shall fail the leaders of the world powers and this shall force them to a negotiating table. When this shall come to pass, tell Africa to show her love, by feeding the world. This is why it is important said the Lord that African leaders to embrace mechanized agriculture for mass food production because said the Lord; I want to use Africa to save the world and to bring about global peace just as I used Egypt to save the world of that time from famine starvation. Nigeria should awake in this responsibility. Tell Nigerian government and the state government of Ebonyi and Enugu not to allow people from Israel, China, India or the Mediterranean area to occupy any land in Ebonyi state, this will lead to trouble with time in connection with resources deposits. Nigerian government and that of Ebonyi state should know that these are people far advanced in technology, they can use their instrument to site a resource deposit and because of that want to acquire the land without your knowing and when eventually you find out that you have being out smarted, it will be late.
Nigeria should watch her constitution said the Lord God Almighty so that it does not turn to be a “slicing knife”. Do not ask what a slicing knife mean, you use a slicing knife to slice your bread is it not? So if Nigeria does not watch her constitution properly and all activities that has to do with it, it might become the slicing knife that will slice Nigeria first into three, four, or more slices, with each slice claiming autonomy and later, some of the slices will agree to come together and become one ‘’big delicious slice’’ –THE NEW NIGERIA so called for this counseling material, only the leaders know what they will/might agree to call it then said the Lord. But I see that two or three places will tend to drag the capital of this NEW NIGERIA, namely Enugu, Port Harcourt and Lagos. But tell the NEW NIGERIA leaders and the authority then that I the Lord said it is/will be better and best sited in Enugu.
Tell the Northern part of Nigeria Nigerians said the Lord that they should not move out of Nigeria anyhow they want, tell them that I love them said the Lord, and will not want them to take any move that they did not do their home work properly because I foresee that such a move will put them in a situation that will be likened to being enslavished where the kind of freedom that they now enjoy will be no more. Many things are about to happen in Nigeria and the world. The Lord God Almighty said that He is not happy with what man is doing to the earth and its habitants, the fullness there off. Man has turned away from Me, reverencing and worshipping the things that I created as if they are the creator.
That is why I have turned loose nature, the things that I created against man said the Lord, and so that man will begin to contend with them and know that they are not the creator. I shall so send/let them loose to come after man to the extent that they shall nearly over run man, then and only then will I step in, and command them to cease or stop and man then shall behold how the creature, shall obey me and stop, and then I must have succeeded to demonstrate to man the difference between I the Lord, the Creator and the things that I created, the creature and then decide who and which he wants to serve, reverence and worship.
Tell Nigerians and Nigeria said the Lord that I do not want them to be like America, Russia, and even Britain, China and sometimes France that like destroying cities, houses, infrastructures that cost so much in terms of money, energy and time to build and put in place, tell Nigerians that I do not want them to destroy Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan etc. Tell them to always do whatever they want to do in a peaceful manner or way. Tell them to always seat down in a round table and peacefully discuss either to agree or to disagree. Tell them not to discuss anything or agree on anything with guns and destructive weapons as they did before.
Look at what is happening in North Eastern Nigeria today said the Lord, it is nothing but the handiwork of few too ambitious people, a thing they started like a “play of power” according to America, has today become something else. One group that is now favored wants it stopped, the other group is saying aha, because you have gotten what you want so you want it stopped, no, we will not stop because we have not gotten what we want. Tell Nigerian politicians to be very careful said the Lord, let them not kill themselves, because a time cometh due to the level of incessant killing of politicians, politicians will run and abandon politics and even if you ask somebody I thought you are a politician he will deny just like the way Peter denied Jesus.
So Nigerian government should be at alert to guide against this issue of political killings. The 82 Division of Nigerian Army Enugu should always be at alert so that Eastern part of Nigeria will not be invaded by insurgence. I will empower and help the 82 Div. to save the situation said the Lord as at that time.
False service of God on earth has brought about false use of resources on earth resulting to total hardship, suffering, poverty and enslavishment of man.
Recall that earlier in this write up we have talked about the soul or heart of man as part of the whole individual that make up man as the house of God. Let it be known that apart from the soul and the body, there is the spirit, so man is made up of the body, the soul and the spirit. The spirit part of man is what enables him to have communication or connection with the spirit world or realm. The spirit realm or world is of two parts, the negative spirit realm or world and the positive spirit realm or world. The general Overseer of the positive spirit realm or world is Jesus Christ via God Almighty Jehovah, while the general Overseer of the negative spirit realm or world is Lucifer popularly called Satan. The negative realm of the spirit world is hell while the positive realm of the spirit world is heaven.
Life in heaven is very blissful, while life in hell is tortuous. It is because of the tortuous nature of life in hell; hence the Holy Spirit is working hard to save mankind from heading to hell, which is why the only begotten Son of the Most High God Jehovah Almighty Jesus gave His life as a sacrifice on the cross. The soul of man is that side of him that deals with man’s feelings, passion, desire and appetites which the Bible calls life. See Gen. 1:20. You can now see that the soul of man is the center of thought and decision. Through feelings, passion or love, desire and appetite a man decides either for good or bad. No wonder Jesus said what it shall profit a man to gain the whole world and loose his soul. In other words, Jesus is saying, what shall it profit you man if you use your soul to feel, love, desire and eat all the goodies of the world and end up losing your soul or destroying yourself. That is why everything that Christ is doing today appeals to the soul or is directed to the soul of man, knowing that it is through the soul that a man is destroyed. It is very important for him to be very careful of what he feels with his soul. Man has got to be careful of his feelings, his love life called passion, what he desires in terms of want/need and his appetite in terms of his eating habit. Remember that eating includes eating and drinking. The soul of man is the center of: feelings, passion or you call it love, desire or you call it needs or wants, and appetite or you call it eating and drinking.
Through any of these tendencies or windows, man can be destroyed, can be rendered useless both physically and spiritually that is why so much is being said about it for your alertness.
The spirit aspect of man is the most valuable part of man and that is the part of him which he uses in communicating with the spirit of God in other to have interactions with God. When Lucifer failed and was banished from heaven, he was thrown down to earth where he established his dark Christ- less kingdom called the fallen world, occupying almost 3/4 of earth. Any man that is not conscious of his Christ content wallows in the fallen world ruled by Lucifer and his agents. Lucifer and his agents struggles, trying to deprive of man his spirit through contamination, rendering it an apostate spirit, a counterfeit spirit from the original divine spirit that God created it, by introduction of a beguiling charm or substance figured in the Eden Apple.
Today man has been made an apostate spirit through what Lucifer and his agents administered to him through his appetite (eating and drinking) a content of his soul.
Lucifer and his agents in order to render God’s plan to redeem man a failure has carried out numerous attacks focus on the spirit of man in order to render man unable to interact and communicate with Christ and God through his (man’s) spirit because he knows that once he succeeds to spoil man’s spirit by rendering it an apostate spirit, man will not be able to have and enjoy interactions/communications again with his creator God who is a spirit and thus will be cut off from divine guidance to his complete ruin.
That was what he tried to do to Jesus on the cross and failed, when he wanted to administer vinegar to Him. That was what he through man’s sin which Jesus bore/took over aimed to cutting Him off from His Father in heaven, but when he realized that sin of the world people which Jesus bore could not severe Him from His Father in heaven, he resorted to severe Him with vinegar wanting to take advantage of His appetite (in terms of thirst) because He was getting dehydrated from the sweats of His pains.
So as a true Child of God with your divine spirit purity still intact, be very careful with your soul, through the content of your soul: feelings, passion or love, appetite or eating and drinking know that you are open to being converted through spiritual attacks to being an apostate spirit man from the divine spirit man that God created you to be from your mother’s womb. It is through this process that many people have become witches and wizards, including “ogbanje”, “abikun” etc. it is this evil spirit that cult, freemasonry, Eckankan, Ogboni, etc converts your God given divine holy spirit to, once you join them and become an apostate spirit person different from the divine spirit man God created you to be and thus you can no longer be able to do any good thing anymore, no matter how zealous you may be, hence our today’s leaders cannot do any good thing for the people.
However, this is what he did to Adam and Eve in Eden through the serpent beguilement and the eating of the Apple and thus rendered them apostate spirit human different from the divine spirit man and woman that He created them, that was why they were banished from the earth–heaven called Eden, and since then this earth-heaven environment was withdrawn by God from earth, awaiting its return when Jesus Christ will appear in His 2nd Advent Mission.
Consequent to the failure of the patriarchs and prophets, apart from Jesus Christ, Lucifer and his agents have not allowed any man or woman hundred percent development of their divine spirit content to the extent that God can use it as He used Jesus’, the prophets like John, Elijah, Moses, David, Samuel, etc tried but Lucifer has constantly invaded man’s soul, making it difficult for development especially since the 18th centuries till date. But let us see how far we are going to go now that God has started the preparation in man that will usher in the 2nd Advent.
Current witches and wizards should not be discouraged rather let them know that activities in coven are a direct opposition to activities in Heaven. Coven is where Lucifer forces man under his beguilements to fight and destroy activities in heaven thus furthering the rebellion which he started in heaven to make God’s plan for man not to work out. So coven members should resist Lucifer, rebel against him, it is true he will fight you very seriously as he has always done, but I assure you, if you are sincere, God will come to your rescue and you will gain heaven. Moses, Magdalene, Paul are examples of those who resisted Lucifer and God assisted them to overcome. Peace be unto you all.