REJECTED BUT SUCCESSFUL.

The Stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner/chief headstone. This is the Lord`s doing and it is marvellous in our eyes/sight.........................Builders are very important people as they are involved in building houses, structures etc. Interestingly, there is no builder of houses and structures that does not make use of stones. Stones of different sizes, shapes and qualities are used based on the type of building or structure that is required. Builders or constructors have the ability to reject a particular stone or the other based on their knowledge and experience in their field of endeavour. Some rejection of some stones may be fair or just while some rejections may be unfair and unjust. We as individuals are like stones when we came into this world. We were innocent, single, naive and subject to buildings by people around us. We were subject to teachers, parents, family members/siblings, tutors etc and they were responsible for the moulding/building of our character. As we grew up and became built gradually, we became to share our ideas, dreams, goals, aspirations and visions with them. Some of those ideas/dreams/goals/aspirations/visions were justly rejected by our builders but most of them were unjustly and unfairly rejected by them. Some people have thrown away their lifetime destiny callings due to the rejection they received from their builders while some people through courage, determination and faith in God have moved ahead to pursue their calling to destiny despite rejection from their builders. God is the one that calls every human being into one thing or the other in life and He is interested in backing up any human being that looks up to Him in absolute faith to fulfill that calling despite rejection from man. He is the authentic builder of ALL THINGS including MAN and He specializes in building rejected stones rejected by their builders to become the chief corner stone or the Head Stone. We have several individuals/personalities that were stones rejected by their builders but they later became chief corner stones by the help of God. Joseph is/was a stone that was rejected by his builders. He got a dream from God and shared it with his brothers and his father also. He was rejected but God made him the chief corner stone. David is/was also a stone that was rejected by his father. His father never thought of him becoming the king over God`s people but God made him the chief corner stone. Daniel was a foreigner in a strange land and he stood/abided by godly principles because he knew that those principles were prerequisites for successful living in that foreign land. He was rejected by some people for standing by and for those principles but God lifted him and he became the chief corner stone. Shedrac, Menshac and Abednego were also young lads in diaspora who loved God uncompromisingly and stood for godly principles, They were rejected by king Nebuchadnezzar and he thought he could terminate their lives but the King of kings rescued them from destruction and promoted them and they became the chief corner stone. Job is/was another personality who was rejected by his darling wife when he was going through trials of faith. The wife who should have stood by him through those trying moments rejected him and told him to curse God and die. She was telling him that his case was closed and that God was powerless to turn his situation around. God rewrote the story of Job, restored all that he lost and gave him a brand new beginning and he became the chief corner stone. In the new testament, our Lord Jesus Christ was also rejected. He was rejected by the teachers of the Law, the scribes and the pharisees. They rejected His message of love, Salvation and redemption of mankind to God. They masterminded Hid death and Crucifixion but God raised Him by the power of the Holy Spirit and He became the Chief Corner Stone. In our contemporary days/history, great people have been victims of rejections at one point or the other in their lives. People like Benson Idahosa, E.A Adeboye, David Oyedepo, George Adegboye, Sam Adeyemi just to mention a few were victims of rejections but by the help of God, they became celebrities/chief corner stones. Benson Idahosa was a pusher of trucks at a point in his life for survival and some people rejected him that he may not amount to anything in life but God made him a celebrity/chief corner stone before he was called to glory. E.A Adeboye never knew the comfort of shoes till he was about 15 years of age or thereabouts and he came from a very poor family to the extent that even poor people called them poor. He was rejected as somebody that could not amount to anything in life by some people but today, through the help of God, he has risen to become a celebrity/chief corner stone. David Oyedepo is/was also a victim of rejection when he started his ministry. He started his ministry with 4 people and as a fanatical preacher of prosperity, he owned 2 suits and a volkswagen beetle car. He was rejected by his close friend publicly that there was no proof of prosperity in his life but today, he is an accredited apostle of prosperity with a world wide ministry with diverse proofs that attests to his calling. George Adegboye always spoke of taking God`s word to all the nations of the earth when as at that time, he was a proud owner of a motor cycle and he never left the boundaries of Ilorin(Quara State, Nigeria). He was mocked, ridiculed and rejected by people as a joker who had nothing meaningful to do with his life but as a today, he has taken God`s word to over 100 nations of the earth. He was a victim of rejection but he became the chief corner stone by God`s help. Sam Adeyemi had always wanted to be successful. When ridiculed by poverty for a long time, he thought travelling out of Nigeria to look for greener pastures will make him successful but at the Nigerian embassy, he was refused visa several times to travel out of Nigeria. He was later told not to come back again because his international passport was stamped NO several times. He was rejected but today, he has become the chief corner stone having been a blessing to several nations of the earth in honour and dignity. Dear reader/friend, you might have been a victim of rejection just as the above-mentioned personalities were rejected at one point or the other in their lives. Hold on to that dream. Hold on to that vision. Trust in God to bring them to reality in the sight of people who rejected you because God specializes in making the rejected to become the Chief Corner Stone. I see you walking in the reality of all your laid down goals. I see you flying on the wings of your dreams and I also see your visions becoming a practical fulfillment in Jesus precious name. Please, remember me when you get to the top because you will surely get there. Shalom!

UNVEILING THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS(2).

The mystery of godliness implies conformity with God in holiness and in righteousness. Simply put, it is maintaining a daily walk with God in reverential fear. Like the Lord Jesus who followed the Father`s pattern at all times conforming to God`s pattern for our lives is what guarantees our triumph over all evil, It is what guarantees our triumph over all evil. It is what secures our all-round breakthrough. God commands us to live godly lives and if He has so commanded us, then godliness is a state we can attain in our walk with God. It comes via... !. A passionate craving for righteousness...Everyone who craves for righteousness will always be satisfied. 2. A conscious guard against spiritual emptiness...Any believer who is spiritually empty is easily vulnerable to Satan`s craftiness. So it is important to fill your spirit-man with the Word of God through consistent study and meditation. The mystery of iniquity is the devil`s antics to rob man of his divine destiny. These antics are the strongholds that withstand our precious and glorious destinies. One of such is the lying spirit. The Lying Spirit. This is a demonic influence on people that makes them utter falsehood with an intention to deceive others (tell lies). A lying spirit robs its subject of God`s presence bringing him perpetually under the wrath of God. To conquer the spirit... 1. Live in the consciousness that you carry the Seed of God...The Seed of God that we carry is our defence against sin. It is what enables us to produce godliness. Our empowerment for dominion comes as we consistently follow after righteousness. 2. Engage the power of vow...Making a vow against sin is a violent step of faith that guarantees a consistent walk in holiness. 3. Appropriate the Blood of Jesus...The Blood of Jesus brings us ultimately into God`s will through the cleansing of our sins. You become a threat to the devil every time you engage the Blood of Jesus. This prevents sin from exercising dominion over you. Benefits of Godliness. Godliness guarantees access to the promises of God. These include... 1. Divine honour...Godliness makes you shine as a star. It gives birth to rulers who naturally command dignity and honour. The Spirit of God in the righteous distinguishes and makes for enthronement. Joseph`s ascent to the throne, though in a foreign land is a testimony of the reward of living a righteous life. 2. Divine health...Some infirmities are rooted in iniquity. A lifestyle of holiness will therefore keep you healthy and strong. 3. Eternity with Christ...It is only those that overcome iniquity that will inherit the Kingdom of God. The promises of God can only be accessed through godliness. Godliness begins with accepting Jesus Christ into your heart. Therefore accept Him today as your Lord and personal Saviour and be empowered for all-round triumph.

THE GOD KIND OF LOVE.

And as He loved those who were His own in the world, He loved them to the last and to the highest degree.........................There are many definitions of the word...LOVE. It means different things to different people. I will like to write to you about divine love that originates from the all-loving God because I am known as the God`s Own Writer and I write Godly-inspired articles and write-ups. God is the creator and the originator of true love because He is love Himself. The Bible stated it metaphorically that God is love. His nature is love. The material essence with which God is made up of is love. It was love that moved Him to create man. He thought of creating a living being that is a lower than Himself in his image and likeness. He thought of granting that being inexplicable dominion over all the works of His hands on earth just as He exhibits the same dominion in Heaven. He thought of having fellowship with him daily because man has a spirit that needs to stay consistently in touch with God`s Spirit for his normal day-to-day functioning and existence. When man messed up to sin, love moved God to establish the plan of salvation, reconciliation and redemption. Love moved God to save man from his sins. Love propelled God to reconcile man to Himself after saving man from His sins and love caused God to redeem man to his original state of the edenic life. The edenic life was a unique lifestyle that was rooted in sound spiritual connectivity with God, joy, peace, abundance, prosperity, sound health, fruitfulness and success just to mention a few. Jesus Christ is/was the manifestation of God`s love to humanity as if He refused to come down from Heaven to earth to take the form of man, die for man`s sins and reconcile man to God...man would have never received God`s love. Jesus could have died at the age of 15 and redeem man to God by His shed blood because it was His sinless blood that was needed to seal the deal but God planned it that He would set up a ministry of love at the age of 30 and the ministry of love would run till He was 33 before willingly giving His life for humanity. The ministry of love that God gave Christ was rooted in compassion, pity, undeserving mercies, selflessness and everlasting love. Jesus` ministry of love which was showcased in compassion, pity, mercies, selflessness etc touched countless number of people while He was alive on this earth. For example, He had love/compassion on Blind Bartemeus and He opened his eyes. He looked with pity on a woman that was bowed/bent down permanently for seventeen years and he straightened her back. He looked upon five thousand people who were hungry and worn out after listening to His sermons and He fed them until they were filled to the brim. He delivered countless number of people from the cruel oppressions of the devil by opening their blind eyes, deaf ears, paralyzed feet etc. When Lazarus was dead and stinkingly smelling due to decay as a result of death, love moved Him to raise him from the dead. The prophetic word for today states that...He loved His own who were in the world and He loved them to the highest degree. God`s love for man is always to the highest degree but the problem of many people is that they are blind to this love. The greatest need of people is love as everybody wants to be loved. Anyone that is shown the right amount of love at infancy and childhood stage of his/her life is likely to grow up to become a responsible human being in life. We have social vices like prostitution, drug-addiction, armed robbery etc because the victims of these vices were starved of genuine love when they were young. We have to come to the knowledge of God`s love for us and accept the truth of that knowledge. God loves us and that love is eternal. If you are not born again, accept that love by giving your life to Christ Jesus. If you are born again, grow in that love by living a Spirit-controlled life...a life that is ruled and controlled by the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is always speaking to our spirits/hearts. As we catch what He is saying to us per time, we will continue to grow in love because God`s love is shed abroad continuously in our hearts by the Holy Spirit and one of the cardinal fruits of the Spirit-controlled life is love. The Holy Spirit wants to inspire you as a result of His love ministry to open that orphanage. He wants to inspire someone to start reaching out to prison inmates. He wants to inspire somebody to reach out to social miscreants on our streets. He wants to inspire someone reading this article to clear off prostitution, drug-trafficking, child-trafficking from the nations of the earth especially Nigeria. He wants to inspire someone to reach out to teenagers and the younger generations in preparation for a glorious adulthood, relationships and marriages. These are love-driven-Holy Ghost-motivated/inspired-ideas which He wants to transfer into your spirit/heart but you have to be sensitive to Him always by being in the Spirit and saying NO to all forms of carnality. I believe that if Christians in Nigeria and other parts of the world will take it as a personal responsibility to love other people than themselves genuinely the way God loves them, our world will be a better place to live in. This is coming straight from my heart of hearts....Shalom!

UNVEILING THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS(1).

The will of God concerning you is that you walk in holiness. That means your calling is to a lifestyle of righteousness. It is holiness that identifies you with God for He is the Most Holy God. Doing the will of God is what enables you access His promises. Thus, in your walk with God, perfection should be your ultimate target. However, until there is a departure from iniquity, there can be no arrival at holiness. According to the scriptures, there is a mystery of iniquity that works unrighteousness in us but thank God, there is the greater mystery of godliness that makes a lifestyle of holiness a possible feat for us. What is a Mystery? A mystery implies hidden truth...that which is concealed from man but open to God. It only comes to us via revelation and transcends sensual knowledge. The Mystery of Iniquity. This is the working of satan with all his craftiness and deception, through his agents to make us fall into sin thus corrupting their destinies and robbing them of their glory and dignity. The Mystery of Godliness. This is God`s likeness. It implies thinking, talking and behaving like God. It is the summation of righteousness, holiness, purification, sanctification and perfection. It is God working in man to bring him out of corruption into holiness. The spirit of iniquity is always at war with the spirit of holiness because the devil wants to deprive you of glory and honour. However, temptation is not sin. It is the decision point between the mystery of iniquity and the mystery of godliness. Agents of Iniquity. 1. Unclean spirits. These are demons responsible for sinful lifestyles. They are behind the battles against every glorious destiny. Unclean spirits make people do dirty/sinful things. The counter force against these spirits is the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Holiness). The Holy Spirit is the permanent resident Helper. He is the Spirit of power and might that can deliver you from all forms of satanic forces. The Holy Spirit also purifies you of all uncleanliness by fire. . 2. Spirit of this world...It takes away from you every consciousness of heaven and makes you earthly-minded with no connectivity to Heaven. It operates through the five human senses to keep you carnal. However, there is heaven`s grace and strength for the righteous. This can be accessed via the provision that Christ has made available through God`s word. a. Spirit of love... Passionate love for God and His Word will keep your heart captivated by God and enable you escape undue consciousness of the things of the world. b. Right company...Keeping the wrong company influences you and makes you go against God`s perfect will. To live a godly life therefore, you must keep the right company. c. Guard what you see...Your eyes are one of the gateways to your soul. Therefore, be careful about what you watch. d. Guard what you hear...As faith comes by hearing, so does iniquity and worldliness. Therefore, be mindful of what you listen to. Benefits of Godliness. (1). Divine Favour. (2). Fresh unction/empowerment. Your connectivity to the mystery of godliness begins with accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal Saviour. Become born again today and receive power to exercise dominion over the mystery of iniquity.

THE SPIRIT OF LIFE.

And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.........................The story of creation is a very interesting story that opened the Bible to us. Among all of God`s creation, Man is worthy of note because the Holy Trinity were involved in man`s creation...For God said, let us make man in our own image and after our likeness and let them have dominion over the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, the beast of the field and every thing that creeps on the ground. Of all God`s creation, man is the only one that was created in the image and the likeness of God. When he was to be created, God moulded the clay/dust of the earth into a unique statue and He breathed into the statue and the statue gave birth to man...a living being. God breathed His Spirit into man and man became a living being. Without God`s Spirit in man, man would have been lifeless, motionless, immovable and useless but the Holy Spirit who resulted from the breath of the Almighty God gave life, meaning, significance and usefulness to that motionless statue of clay called man. The LIFE that the Holy Spirit gave to man resulted in the creation of the vital organs needed for the day-to-day functioning of God`s man. Without these organs, man would still have been regarded as dead. For example, the Holy Spirit who resulted from the breath of the Almighty God created the life-organs of man which includes the heart, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, liver, spleen just to mention a few. These organs gave life and meaning to the existence of man. Can you imagine a man without a heart, lung, liver, kidney, etc...that man is as good as dead. So in summary, the Holy Spirit gave life to the normal functioning of the organs of the body of man at creation. When man fell, he was Spiritually disconnected from God. The Spirit that gave him life left him and sickness came into being. Sickness tampered with the organs that gave life and significance to man and man became a weakling which often times led to his death. Sickness dealt with the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, brain, skin and other vital organs of the body of man and man became dead. As a matter of fact, that was when death came into the world. It was sickness which came as a result of sin that opened the door to physical death. God had always wanted to fellowship with man because man is the exact image and the likeness of Him. The angels were not created in His image and neither were the host of Heaven fashioned in His likeness. The fellowship God had with man was on-going and consistent until sin came in to separate man from God. This is why it is absolutely impossible for God to fellowship intimately with a sinful man because His eyes are to pure and holy to behold iniquity. The Law of Moses was instituted to deal with sin but instead of combating sin, sin grew and multiplied greatly. God, in His infinite wisdom, knowledge and understanding had to look for another way out. The way that He schemed out was to send forth His only begotten Son to die for man in order to restore the fellowship that was lost in the beginning. Indeed, Christ died but He also resurrected. His resurrection from the dead sealed the fellowship between God and man that was lost at the beginning. It is to be noted clearly that it is the Holy Spirit that gave life to man at his creation also raised Christ triumphantly from the grave of death. If you have accepted Christ into your life, the Holy Spirit is in you to give life to your mortal body. The same Spirit that created you in the beginning is in you to give life to you. The Holy Spirit is in you to restore life to you. If there is anything in your body that is tampering with the life of God in you in the form of sickness and diseases, the Holy Spirit is in you to bring about restorations. You can activate the power of the Holy Spirit that is in you by living a holy lifestyle. As long as sin that led to sickness and diseases in the beginning is dealt with by embracing a holy lifestyle, living a healthy life by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit becomes cheap. I see the Holy Spirit restoring abundant life to everything within you as you consciously and deliberately choose to embrace a holy lifestyle in Jesus precious name. The amazing power of resurrection will wrought amazing wonders in you by the help and assistance of the Holy Spirit. Shalom!

PERFECTING YOUR DOUBLE PORTION ENCOUNTER VIA THANKSGIVING.

To keep the fire of your double portion encounter burning, you must be thankful and full of the word of God. Thanksgiving and meditation on God`s word are two important requirements for keeping burning the fire of double portion encounter. The third requirement is prayer. Prayer Mountain is the mountain of change. Everyone that wants to get out of their chain must go to the prayer mountain which is the prayer altar. In the Bible, Jesus Christ went to the mountain to pray and by the time He came down, He was manifesting power. Double portion will not deliver through wishing but through prayer. Keeping the fire burning is a personal responsibility. No one can know your spiritual state than you do. When you notice that your fire is dwindling, you should refuel/re-fire through prayers. If you are on fire, it will show and if you are not on fire, it will be evident. When your prayer fire is going down, you will see little problems overwhelming you easily. You do not know the challenge that will come next, so it is important you stay on fire always. If you are on fire, demons will run away from you because they will not to be consumed by the fire around you. When you are on fire, you will know what is about to happen...this is because the Bible says that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth and will show us things to come. If you are prayerful, you will be filled with the Holy Spirit who will reveal unto you things to come. If you are prayerful, your words, clothes, house, cars will be full of fire. We are in the days when the fire of satan is raging. Calamity, disasters, diseases, economic problems are rife. If you are not on fire(prayerful), you will be consumed by the raging fire of the devil. You cannot command in the supernatural without fire or else satan will deal with you and you will be helpless. One of the missions of Jesus Christ while on earth was to raise a new generation of believers that are full of fire of the Holy Spirit. To excel and be in command in this year, you must be on fire. No strange fire can burn around you if you are on fire of the Holy Spirit. When you carry the celestial fire, you become untouchable and unstoppable. WHY MUST I BE PRAYERFUL? You must be prayerful in order to... 1. Get the fire of the Holy Ghost. More prayer, more fire. 2. Keep or maintain the fire. 3. Emit or manifest the fire. 4. Preserve the fire. You can preserve the fire till death like Elisha whose dead body raised the dead. Prayer is the medium for fanning the fire of the Holy Spirit. The prayer altar is the altar of fire, of deliverance and healing. Whenever you go on the prayer altar, you contact fire and virtue(s). The Apostles prayed and were filled with the fire of the Holy Ghost. Their words became powerful. No business was more important to the Apostles than prayer. You must be fervent in prayer and pray without ceasing. Pray until you are enveloped by the fire of the Holy Ghost. Pray for grace to pray fervently daily. If you are not born again, God does not listen to the prayers of sinners...You should therefore give your life to Jesus so that all your prayers can be answered.

THE GOD KIND OF FAITH.

Abraham did not weaken in faith when he considered the impotence of his own body which is as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old or the barrenness of Sarah`s womb. No unbelief or distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he give praise and glory to God. Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He has promised. That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness. But the words...it was credited to him were not written for his sake alone but they were written for our sakes too. Righteousness, standing acceptable to God will be granted and credited to us who believe in God who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and raised to secure our justification.........................FAITH is an inevitable asset that we need in order to have a quality walk with God and also to access our inheritance in Christ. Without it, the Bible says that it is impossible to please God. People that recorded remarkable feats in the Bible were men and women of faith. In the prophetic text for today, faith is simply described as believing God`s words and promises to us. When you believe the totality of God`s words and promises to you and accept them as part and parcel of your being and existence, you can be regarded as a man and woman of FAITH. When words and promises of God come to us, it may be difficult for our minds to accept and believe them because of the situations and circumstances that may surround us when those words and promises come to us. The human mind may find it difficult to accept and believe God`s words and promises of fruitfulness when one has been barren and unfruitful for a long period of time. That was the case of Abraham. When God`s word and promise of fruitfulness came unto him, He was seventy-five years of age. By the time he was approaching hundred years of age, his mind found it difficult to believe and accept God`s word of fruitfulness unto him. Our circumstances and situations are FACTS of life and as a matter of fact, they are true. It is medically true that Abraham and Sarah were barren but the beauty of faith is that IT CHANGES FACTS. When the faith of Abraham rose up within him, the facts which were revealed as the impotence of his body, barrenness of Sarah`s womb were thrown into the trash-can. When you pay attention to the facts surrounding your situations and circumstances, unbelief/distrust/faithlessness sets in. With unbelief at work in your life, your faith will not be able to produce and when your faith is not of the sufficient level, you will not be able to access the desired promise of God. Instead of giving in to unbelief in the view of the indisputable facts on ground, Abraham started to give praise and glory to God knowing fully well that God was able to do what He has promised. Singing praises to God is a powerful spiritual weapon that gives credence to our faith. When we praise God, He is enthroned and lifted up and He goes to work to do all that He has promised us. It is very difficult to praise God in the midst of doubts and unbelief but it is a proven weapon of moving God to do what He has promised us. When Abraham was singing praises and giving glory to God instead of giving in to unbelief, his faith was fired up to a sufficient level according to God`s scale of measurement and His faith was credited to him as righteousness. When your FAITH is credited to your account as RIGHTEOUSNESS, there is no promise of God that you will not be able to access as written in the Holy Bible. It is the same year that Abraham was hundred years of age that the promise of fruitfulness was delivered unto him. The faith he had in God changed the facts of his circumstances and he became a proud father of Isaac even at hundred years of age. The good news that I have for you today is that you can have the faith of Abraham if you believe in God who raised Christ Jesus from the dead because of your sins and for your justification. After the faith has been deposited in you at new birth, you will have to feed that faith by feeding on God`s word consistently. In that way, your faith will be able to grow to a sufficient level to access the promises of God unto you. I see you accessing all that is yours by inheritance as you grow your faith to a sufficient level to access them by feeding on God`s word. Shalom!