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PLAN OF SALVATION.

INTRODUCTION .

May the peace and joy of the Lord come be with you as you read through this book. It is not by accident that you have come across this book, but by the divine plan of God to reveal to you, the coming anger of God upon certain number of people. In these end times, only a few people like to read books about heaven, kingdom of God, Holiness and so on and so forth. A lot of new generation Christian prefer to read and listen to messages about Prosperity, success, achievement, overcoming enemies, Deliverance and deliverance prayer books, and so on.

These prosperity, healing, miracle and Deliverance teachings have been going on for so long and are so rampant that many people no longer look forward to the coming of our Lord Jesus like in those days. Some people do not even want Him to come any more. Some people get angry when you talk too much about the coming of Jesus around them. They have forgotten, even if Jesus tarries, death is inevitable. All they want to do is get delivered, get wisdom, get understanding, make money, possess territories, enjoy life, acquire wealth, die and go to hell because of some unknown little sin or mistakes.

So many new ‘so call’ believers do not even know why they accepted Jesus as Lord and their Saviour , while a large number of them don’t even understand what process it takes to truly submit their lives to into The Lord’s hand.

Many people are in the church because of miracles, some because of financial breakthroughs, some because of protection, some because of healing , some because of deliverance and so many others because of so many blessings they were told , they Could receive by being born again. Some even come to church because their parents, spouses or family members are Christians and some because they were born and baptized into Christianity, as a religion.

All of the above reasons are good reasons to be in the church, but they are not the reasons why God wants you to be in the church.

Have you ever asked yourselves while you should give your life to Christ Jesus or why you should truly and genuinely be born again?

Why would you want to deny yourself of the so called “good life“, enjoyment and pleasure to follow Christ?

Are you even a follower of Christ in the first place? Jesus says, let all those who will follow him pick up their cross and follow him.

Do you have what it takes to endure carrying your cross or do you always drop your cross half way each time you carried it ?All this questions will be answered by the time we get to the end of this book.

I threw a question at a group of Christian in a church one day and it was amazing that I could not get good answers from many of those so called believers. The question was, “Do you have a testimony of salvation“, I explained what I meant further, but not many of them could remember any significant thing that took place when they gave their lives to Christ; some couldn’t even remember dates and venues. All that point to fact that they were yet to meet Jesus as the Savior of their souls. All they know now is Jesus, the provider of bread and the shield around them.

The Lord in his mercy has given me this message and the opportunity to share it with the whole world, because He is coming very soon to take the saints with Him. The bible says the gospel will be preached in all the nations of the world, and then, the end shall come. Mathew 24:14

I was preaching to a young Irish boy one day; at the end of my message,

the young man refused to give his life to Jesus.

As far as he was concerned, my message was a reflection of British religion.

He was taught in school in a history class that the kind of message that I was sharing with him was created by the British, and that the Africans embraced this British religion in exchange for money and other humanitarian aids the British were bringing to Africa many years ago.

I was also preaching to a group of Irish teenagers one afternoon, and

Suddenly one of them cut me shot by saying “I need to get hold on my life first before I give it to Jesus“. I asked what he meant and he said

He had a long way to go in life. As far as he was concern, he needed to put some finishing touches to his Education, get into a promising career, Buy a dream house, buy a nice car and get a beautiful wife, then there could be room for Jesus.

This book is about the purpose and the plans of God for the salvation of man. What did God have in mind? What was the original plan for creating the world, Adam and Eve? We need to know this, we can not be doing or speaking about what we know little or nothing about.

Contrary to the messages you listen to day and night, Christianity is more than a religion, it is a plan God designed for the salvation of the world after the fall of Adam and Eve, our first parents.

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                                   CREATION & FALL OF MAN.

In the Book of Genesis, the Bible tells us God created heaven and the earth’ and created many other things and put every thing in place on earth before He finally created man to live in a garden that he had made . Adam and his wife Eve were living in peace and good health in the garden; They had no reason to go through any hard labor because the Lord provided for all their needs. They also had dominion over every thing that God created; Everything that lives in the waters, in the air and on the surface of the earth.

“Then God said, Let us make a man in our image, according to our likeness,

Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,

And over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing

That creeps on the earth”.

__ Gen.1:26

The man and his wife were to keep the Garden, live there ,reproduce and multiply. They both were living in the garden happily. They were naked, but were not ashamed. This means Adam and Eve were alive, but they were dead to their flesh.

There were two important trees in the Garden where Adam and Even lived;

The tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and Evil.

God specifically showed and warned Adam not to eat from one of the two trees in the Garden. Actually, the two trees were significant in the Garden, but the Lord mentioned only the tree of knowledge of good and evil to Adam because He knew Adam might be tempted to eat from that fruit, but the second (from the tree of life) would be kept secret should ‘plan B’ becomes necessary.

Obviously, If any parent want to leave their children alone by themselves in the house, they would warn them against poisonous or dangerous things in the house. Any parent would say to a child, don’t touch this, it is poisonous or dangerous. We always warn children against dangerous things and say little or nothing about good things. That was exactly what God did. He warned Adam and Even about the poisonous and Dangerous fruit that was in the Garden.

“ The Lord commanded the man ,saying, Of every tree of the garden

You may freely eat; But of tree of the knowledge of good and evil

You shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it, you shall die”.

_ Gen.2:16-17.

The devil had always been against the works of God from the beginning.

He has always been angry that he was sent out of heaven .God could destroy him easily, but God would not, because the devil would still be needed to get man and his descendants back to Him (God), should the B plan becomes necessary.

Just like what can be seen in the world today, it is impossible to get anyone to turn to God or to go to church without troubles or problems in their lives. When you look at the turnout of people in any Evangelical crusades in poverty stricken nations of the world, compared with the developed and rich nations, you will agree with me that it takes the chastening of the devil to get people to run to God.

Right from the time of Adam, women have always been in charge of food preparation for the family. Therefore, one afternoon as the woman was busy looking for the food to prepare for the first family. The devil showed up in the garden; The devil must have seen her around the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and quickly approached Eve to persuade her to get the Fruit for the family. The devil told the woman how good the Fruit was and Eve consequently ate from the forbidden Fruit and also gave her husband to eat. The serpent told Eve that the fruit was not actually poisonous, He convinced Eve that she was only going to be like God if she ate the fruit. The serpent (devil) argued further that the woman and her husband would not actually die, by eating from the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, But that their eyes would only be opened to know the difference between good and evil like God . Gen3: 4-5.

Consequently, the woman ate the fruit and did not die, then the Devil probably gained the trust of the woman through that. The serpent (devil) then made the woman believe that God was indeed not been fair to her and her husband. Therefore she went to her husband to let him know how she had discovered how unfair God was and how disappointed she was.

For the husband to believe in her story, he had to also eat the fruit.

Adam also ate the fruit and did not die. So both Adam and Eve must

have decided that God indeed was not been fair to them and it was not

Worth following and obeying God any longer. Therefore men and the Devil became Friends in all their subtleness.

“Then the eyes of both of them were opened; and they knew that they

Were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made

Themselves coverings”._ Gen. 3:7

God was correct by telling them they would die the day they ate from that fruit of knowledge of good and evil,because after eating from that fruit,they were subjected to many difficulties and were sentenced to death. Gen.3: 19.

The devil did not know what kind of death God was referring to.

The death God was referring to is the wages of sin. The bible says the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is life through Jesus Christ. Romans 6:23.

Adam and Eve were both living without the knowledge of flesh. They became flesh conscious after eating the forbidden fruit. Flesh consciousness produces sin ability. Man was not created to know sin originally, because man did not know good or evil. After eating the fruits, man and wife knew good and evil through flesh consciousness and they chose to obey the serpent (devil) and man became venerable to sin.

“7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. _ Romans 7:7-12

It takes a very foolish child to trust in the words of an outsider rather than the warnings of his father. How could a Father tell his child that a food is poisonous and an outsider works in to tell the child that his father was a liar, that the food is not actually poisonous but delicious and profitable to the body, and the child eventually eats the food, without even thinking if he could truly die from eating

the fruit ? That was what Adam and Eve did; That humanity also inherited.

God immediately knew that they had eaten from the fruit of knowledge of good

and evil. In verse ten of Genesis chapter three, Adam told God that he heard His voice and he was afraid, because he was naked. There was no way Adam could have known he was naked, if not have eaten from the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. God gave both Adam and Eve fair hearing and was expecting them to accept their mistakes and ask for forgiveness immediately, But they did not do so; instead they began to make excuses.

God was not angry with Adam and his wife just because they ate the fruit,

But because they trusted in the Devil and obeyed him.

Adam and Eve lost trust in God after eating the fruit and did not die.

When they discovered that the Devil was right about what he said that there

eyes were going to be opened and that they would have knowledge of all things

like God. Adam and Eve probably became the devil’s friends and decided to be with the devil rather than with God. Adam and Even must have connived with the Devil to rebel against God. This was the main reason why God cursed the serpent And also Adam and Eve, and also sent them out of the garden.

“ Do you not know that to whom you present

yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves

whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death,

or of obedience leading to righteousness?”.

__ Romans 6:16.

Glory to God for His wisdom that surpasses those of the wisest , He did not mention the tree of life to Adam and Eve; Otherwise, the devil would have persuaded them to eat from the tree of life also ; And if they did eat from the fruit of life after eating from the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, there would have been serious chaos in the world today. People would have been committing serious atrocities without fear of death, hell fire or heaven. The world is a little livable place today because when people remember death, they caution themselves a bit. But imagine a life of sin without death, hell or heaven; this world would have been in total chaos because of the fact that no one would be held accountable for their misdeeds.

Devil does not know what is not spoken. He only knows what you release from your mouth. Because God mentioned the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the devil acted on that information only, he wanted man to make God angry by committing serious sin against God’s commandments. God immediacy sent man and his wife out of the garden of Eden to avoid the situation where they both would be persuaded to eat the second fruit from the tree of life. If they ate that fruit of life, they could live in sin and never die.

“Then the Lord said, Behold, the man has become like one of us,

To know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and

Take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”

_ Gen.3: 22

The devil thought perhaps, God would destroy the man and his wife for that act, and equally send man and his wife out of the earth like he was sent out of heaven; but God did not do that. He forgave man and his wife and gave them another opportunity to make their own choices between good and evil that they have known and to also be responsible for the consequences of their choices. If they made good choices and obeyed God, they would have eternal life in the new garden and if they rebelled and made wrong choices then both man and wife would die and join the Devil in Hell Fire.

God then left and went to prepare another Garden, since the first one had been polluted by the first man and woman through the devil. This is the new paradise he has created to allow Him correct the mistake that was done in the garden of Eden. He wanted a Holy and pure earth. A world where no unclean things duels. God wanted the world to be without sin and evil, by not allowing man to identify good and evil; In other words, He wanted man and woman to be alive in the flesh, but dead to Sin , And the children that would also come from the man and the woman and their children’s children would live like-wise without sin , and also live forever on earth without death or punishment.

Therefore, God’s judgment was that, man and woman and their descendants (up to this generation) would be given freedom to choose between good and evil and be responsible for whatever choices they make. God also gave humanity ability to rule over sin. Gen 4:6. Those who choose to do good and believe in God through Jesus Christ will all be taken out of the earth to the new Jerusalem, their names will be written in the lamb’s book of life, to enable them partake in eating of the fruit of life that is reserved for those who believe and obey God, and they will live forever in holiness with the Son of God in the new garden (new Jerusalem)

“And He (God) said to me, it is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega,

The beginning and the end. I will give of the fountain of the water

Of life freely to him who thirsts. 7. He who overcomes shall

Inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be my son.

8 but the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually

Immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part

In the lake which burn with fire and brimstone,

Which is the second death”.

_ Revelation 21: 6-8.

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                                                                       POWER OF CHOICE.

God tried to make his humanity return to him and also follow the path He designed for them many times, but humanity failed severally. God then decided to leave both good and the Bad ones to continue living and then He would send messengers to speak to the Bad ones to repent from their wicked ways and turn to Him (God).

When God could no longer behold the Sins of man, He decided to send various messengers and prophets one after the other to correct that mistake that was made in the garden of eden. Then God decided to separate those who obey Him and keep His commandments from the bad ones. God gave the power of choice to humanity, up to this generation to choose between good and evil, Heaven or hell.

In the Book of Genesis chapter 6, God took interest in Noah the son Of Enoch, after Enoch his father, who pleased God throughout his life time. The sins of men multiplied on earth and the Lord was very unhappy about man that He created, He regretted that He had created man. This was because man is naturally evil and prefers darkness to light ,because his deeds are evil. So God decided to destroy every living thing from the surface of the earth.

“Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that

Every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was

Grieved in His heart. , So that He said, I will destroy man whom I have created

From the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the

Air, for I am sorry that I have made them. But NOAH found grace in the eyes

Of the Lord”. __ Genesis 6:5-8.

Humanity naturally inherited from Adam the ability to make wrong choices. This is because man make choices by what man thinks is good to his sight (lust of the eyes), what he thinks is profitable to his body (lust of the flesh) and what he thinks could bring fame and power to him (pride of life).

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh,

and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,

is not of the Father, but is of the world.

_ 1 John 2:16.

“ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,

that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to

make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave

to her husband with her, and he ate.

_ Genesis 3:6

In the book of Genesis chapter 3 verse 6 quoted above, we can see that the woman took three things into consideration before accepting to eat the forbidden fruit.

The Bible says in Gen. 3:6

She saw that the tree was good for food.( lust of the flesh)

She noticed that it was pleasant to the eyes.( lust of the eyes)

She also believed the fruit was able to make her wise. (pride of life)

Man desired to know all things like God. Therefore, the devil used what man loved to get at man. Genesis 3:4.

Through Adam, sin came to reign on earth and forgiveness of sin came to be through another man (Jesus Christ). Just as the devil defeated Adam in the garden of Eden and aborted the plan of holiness and sinlessness on earth, he also tried to abort the process of The Plan “B” in the wilderness. Jesus was tempted 40 days by the devil with the same 3 things that he used to defeat Adam and Even.

Luke 4:1-12.

1- Jesus was hungry and the devil told Him to turn the stones to bread – (lust of the flesh)

2- The devil took Jesus to the high mountain and showed Jesus many beautiful things on

earth and promised to give Jesus if Jesus would bow to him- (lust of the eyes).

3- The devil also took Jesus to the Pinnacle of the Temple and asked Jesus to throw Himself down from there if He was truly a Son of God – ( Pride of Life). The Lord Jesus defeated the devil in at all stages to give us the gift of salvation. Contrary to man, Jesus was in the form of God, but He did not make Himself equal to God, He became humble to the point of death.

“5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name; 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. _ Philippians 2:5-11.

Despite the fact that God really wanted to destroy everything on earth, He still had mercy on Noah and the people He intended to destroy by asking Noah to build an ark, That whosoever would get into the ark, would not perish by the flood, but live. God gave humanity rights to chose between going into the ark and staying out of it. But most of the people did not even believe Noah that God was about to destroy the earth. They concentrated on their merry makings, drinking, fornication, adultery, steeling and all immoralities. The flood eventually came and it was only Noah, his wife, his sons and his sons’ wives that found their ways into the ark. Surprisingly, even animals walked male and female of their kinds into the ark, when human beings refused to listen to the warning of the flood and the instruction to seek refuge in the ark made by Noah according to God’s instruction. Then the rain came, and it flooded the whole earth. Some of the people ran to the ark when they saw the flood, but it was too late. Therefore all living creatures that did not enter the Ark died in the flood, only Noah, his wife, his sons and his sons’ wives and all the animals that went into the ark that survived the flood. Genesis. 7:23

The idea of building of the ark came because God wanted to keep only those who obey and keep His commandments. To also separate the obedient from the disobedient, and the Godly from the un-Godly. To separate the good ones from the bad ones.

Therefore, I am sent by God to let you know that this world is about to be destroyed again. But God has put in place another plan to save only those who will obey Him, the way Noah and his house-hold obeyed Him.

God has given this generation an opportunity to chose between live and death, like the days of Noah. God has always been giving humanity chances of choice since the creation of the world. Now He is offering the same opportunity to this wicked generation.

“37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming

of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood,

they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,

until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until

the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of

the Son of Man be”

_ Matthew 24:37- 39.

In the Book of Numbers chapter twenty-one, from verse four to nine,

God was angry with the children of Israel in the wilderness and decided to destroy all of them by fiery serpent. Many were dying of snake bits, But God created an avenue for them to make their choices to live by telling Moses to make an image of snake and hang it on a pole, that whosoever that looked at the snake on the pole after been bitten by snake, would live. Many did not look at the snake on the pole and they died, but only a few of them obeyed God through Moses, and they lived .

This is the current situation on earth now. God is unhappy with the ways things are currently on earth. Sin has greatly multiplied on earth and humanity is becoming more dangerously wicked. Immorality has greatly multiplied, so is wickedness, Abominable acts and deceits in churches. Angels of darkness are now appearing as angels of light. Nations are rising against nations in war and people are no longer merciful. Men are now making love to men and women marrying and making love to women. This is the abomination of the highest order, more than the ones that caused desolation of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 19:1-29.

“See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,

16. in that I command you today to love the LORD your God,

to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments,

His statutes, and His judgements,

that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your

God will bless you in the land which you go to possess”

— Deut 30:15-16.

During the period I was working on this book, I was invited to preach in a church. I was waiting on the Lord for a message for the invitation, and The Lord showed me a revelation in a Dream. I was taken to a very Big city. The city had a gate that separated it from another city.

Immediately I entered into this city, I saw the inhabitants of this city, old and young, male and female, all necked and crying bitterly. I discovered I was the only one wearing cloth there.

I approached a group of men of the city and I asked why everybody was

Naked and why they were sorrowful. One of the men asked me to go to the palace of their King to find out why. So I decided to go to the palace,

haven been given the directions there. As I was approaching the palace, I was

hearing noises of singing and merriments and at the same time of walling and screaming from pains and agony.

I continued towards the palace until I saw something that looked like a very huge throne from distance . A huge creature that looked like beast was sitting on the Throne and he has his chiefs seated on both sides of the throne with some also standing on both sides. I stopped a while to look from distance what was happening there. I saw human skeletons on one side and a poll of blood on the other corner. As I was wandering what those could be, I suddenly heard the king said “next !” Then one of his men standing immediately took one of the naked men and chopped off his head with a sword and started dismembering the body.

I then understood while everybody in that city were crying and naked.

They were been ruled by a wicked king that took pleasure in heating the flesh and drinking the blood of his citizens in merry making. The king and his chiefs were always happy, but the citizen were daily Under affliction, oppression and were all waiting for when it would be their turn to die the horrible death.

I immediately turned back from the palace and decided to rescue as many as would listen to me and follow me out of the city of sorrow.

What really amazed me was that the gate was left wide open without any form of security or any one preventing any one from going in or coming

Out of the city. No checks and no controls, yet no body could go out of the

City. I started speaking to the people of that city that God did not want

that kind of life for them, and that God had given them rights to choose between leaving the city immediately with me or staying there to continue in their sorrow and pains and eventually die.

One of them said to me, “we can not leave here, You can not understand”. Why, I replied. But you are not bound by any chains or ropes and the gate is wide open, why then can’t you come with me out of this city of death, I insisted. While I was doing all that, the king already knew that I wanted to help some of his subjects (citizen)out, he decided to stop them from going with me. I immediately asked those who would be free to come quickly with me as I was running out of the city. I ran out of the city with only less than 10 of several thousand of citizens of the city. Others refused to follow me. Another amazing thing was that those who came out of the city with me were automatically clothed and the king and his warriors could not go beyond the gate of that city. It was only those that escaped with me that could cross the gate of the city.

I was so scared of this terrible vision and I meditated and asked God the meaning. God used the Holy-Spirit to explain the vision to me with some bible passages, which is Matthew 6:33 Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and every other things shall be added unto you. Also in John 10 verse 10; The gifts that the devil gives humanity is to steal their rights, to kill destiny, and to destroy their souls in hell; But Jesus came that humanity may have life, and eternity in heaven.

God wanted me to let His people know that every men and women has choice of getting out Of the kingdom of the Devil ,where there is pain, sorrow, oppression and death .

“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy

But I have come that they may have life, and that they may have

it More abundantly”

– John 10:10

God has given you ability and power over sin and the Devil.

But if you fail to make the right choices, you may remain in bondage

And be venerable to sorrow, pain, and most of all, death.

Those people of the city of sorrow in my dream had opportunity to be saved from the hand of their task master and killer, but they chose to remain there in his kingdom. The gate was wide open, yet they did not know what it takes to step out of that terrible city of pain and agony.

There was no price to be paid for their liberty, other than what was already paid with the blood of Jesus, yet they turned down the offer to Be bailed out of their bundages. A Saviour was sent to the people of that city of sorrow, yet they ignored Him.

“  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey,

his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death,

or of obedience unto righteousness?”

– Romans 6:16

“ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm,

then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery “

-Gal 5:1.

“ You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of human beings”

1 Corinthians 7-23.

This is the situation that everybody on earth was, before Jesus came to

Bail us all out of the hands of the task master (the devil).

What humanity needs to do now to escape this destruction that looms on both living and the dead is just to accept the Gospel of truth and turn from her evil ways and surrender her lives to Jesus Christ.

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                                         PLAN B.

When God discovered that all the efforts to get the messages across to man and his descendants were profitless through many prophets and reputable men like, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah etc. He therefore designed another plan, which I called, by the help of the holy-spirit, plan ‘B’.

Plan ‘B’ is what I called, the second plan of God to save humanity from the wrought that is coming upon this generation and to give humanity the second chance to live in the plan and purpose of God. This is the Plan that God has put in place to save Only the obedient children through His only son Jesus Christ. The plan to Send Jesus to the world to bridge the gap between humanity and God.

This is the plan to send Jesus Christ the son of the living God to the world through a virgin. That the womb of the virgin would be used to carry the Son of God for nine months like every Child. Jesus was Born through marry and He grew up in grace and wisdom . This is to avoid people making excuses of the son of God as living without sin because of his supernatural nature. The only difference was that Jesus was not made from the dust like human. He came to earth to seek and and to safe the lost. Luke 19:10. The son of God had to also go through a very painful death and shed His blood for the atonement of the sins of humanity; That whosoever believes in the son of God will not perish, but have everlasting life .

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son,

That whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life”

_John 3:16

In other words; Because of the level of love that the Lord has towards humanity, He gave His beloved Son, Jesus to bare the sins of the world, to offer His Son to be a sacrificial lamb to bring humanity back to Him(God).

The assignment Jesus was given was to show all men the way out of their sins and live a new life that is offered to them freely by God. To show humanity how to return back to her God ,obey and serve Him. Giving humanity the freedom of choosing between Believing Jesus and returning to God and go the new Jerusalem after death, or rejecting Jesus, live in sin and be vulnerable to sorrow, death and hell fire.

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24_ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”. _ Romans 3:23-24

Jesus Christ was baptized by John the Baptist . When Jesus had been baptized, He came up immediately from the water; John saw the heavens opened to Jesus and The Holy-Spirit descended like a dove and alighted upon Jesus.Matt.3:16.

This was necessary because He left His glory in heaven and came to us like a child,bore by a woman like every other child. Therefore, there was need for the holy-spirit to come upon him to allow Him have a successful ministry. He was also laying a solid foundation for all those who would also come to God through Him. That also happened to let all those who would come to Him know that ordinary people could have supernatural ability through the help of the Holy-Spirit that The Father gives to those who truly repent from their sins and become one in newness of life with Christ Jesus and live in obedience to His words.

“And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.” _ Acts 5:32.

After a successful ministry of preaching, teaching, healing, delivering and reconciling men back to God, Jesus crowned it all by sacrificing His blood for the absolute and total remission of sins of the whole world. He bore the iniquities of all sinners upon himself. He was without sin,yet He died for the sinners. He was nailed to the cross and died the worst death you could ever think of. He died in pains for your sins and mine.

“ But He was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,

By His stripes , We are healed”.

_ Isaiah 53:5 .

Jesus rose on the third day, after combating and prevailing over the power of death and hell. His appearance to the disciples before ascending into His glory was important, to call back the disciples that had already disappeared ,and to also commit them into the continuation of the job of reconciliation of humanity to her creator, and to proof to disciples and humanity that every bit of what Jesus said to them was real, that He will also come back again one day to take those who believe in Him home. Jesus also committed them to the ministry of soul winning with Boldness. His death and the shedding of His blood qualifies those who believe in Him and give their lives to Him genuinely a place in Heaven . He also promised to come back for those category of people. To bring them to His Glorious kingdom.Revelation 21:27

“ In my father’s House are many mansions; if it were not so,

I would not have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. Then

I will come again and receive you to myself;that where I am,

There you may be also”.

__ John 14:2-3.

The Blood of Jesus makes those who believe in Him duel in supernatural breakthrough, obtain divine protection, Possess God’s blessings that adds no sorrow, save them from the coming anger of God upon the disobedient children, and also makes them reign with Him in heaven.

psalms 91:1-2,Joshua 1:8 and John 14:6.

Therefore, You need to surrender your total life to God through Jesus Christ His Son. You do not need to seek to obey The Lord because you just need to have blessings,healing, deliverance or just want to go to heaven. But you must understand that we were all created in God’s image to live a holy and righteous life here on earth and also proclaim God’s glory on earth. This was God’s original plan when He created man in the beginning. Healing, Blessing, deliverance and heaven are all the reward of returning to our maker genuinely and learning to be perfect just like Him. To be like Him that created us all.

The Lord wants you to be holy, righteous and upright to make this world a livable place, even if there is no heaven, healing and blessing promised. There are many that may not live a holy or righteous live if there was no promise of heaven or blessing from God, and those can never be perfect genuinely; They will only struggle with sin and live as if they are saved by their strength. Gen. 1:27-28. 1 peter 2:9-10.

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” _ Acts 3:19

“ But seek first the kingdom of God and His Righteousness,and

All other things shall be added unto you”.

__ Matthew 6 : 33.

The bible tells us to seek the kingdom of God first,then to also seek the righteousness of the Lord and then we can duel in total victory and breakthrough. Seeking the kingdom of God simply means, seeking the way to get to the kingdom of God. And the only way to get there is by believing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, learning from His teachings and Obeying His precepts.

Jesus alone is the way, the truth and the life, No body gets to the Father except through Him. John 14:6.

To get to the kingdom, we need to accept Him totally and Genuinely as Lord and savior and also commit the total running of our lives into His hands for direction; And obey His instructions and corrections.

We need to obey Him, accept His correction and follow His leading. If you are a believer that you have found yourself living this kind of life, then you have found the kingdom of God, But you need to remain seeking the kingdom on daily basis by checking yourself to see if you are still following His lead, accepting His corrections and obeying His instructions.

“ Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith;

prove your own selves. Know you not your own selves

how that Jesus Christ is in you, except you be reprobates” ?

_ 2 Corinthians 13:5

For clearer understanding of the seeking of the kingdom, I want to compare it to someone that needs to travel to a foreign country. He needs to first get his passport, then visa, then buy a plane ticket to travel. This is what I call the process of seeking the kingdom. It is the process of putting together all your traveling requirements or documents. In other words, seeking the kingdom of God is just to get prepared for The journey to the kingdom of God.

“Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not”. _Luke 12:40

To seek His(God’s) righteousness is to seek for the ability to abide by the policies, laws, principles and constitution of the kingdom of God.

Someone that has obtained traveling documents to travel to a foreign land will also need to abide by the laws, policies and constitution of that land as soon as he enters the country. Your ability to abide by all the above principles, shows how long you can live in that kingdom(the country),It shows how victorious you can be in that kingdom and how successful your life can be in the kingdom(the country).

Only those who are able to overcome the world,Satan and sin will be glorified with Christ. The kind of life you live here on earth as Christian will reveal if you can truly make it to heaven. The bible says no unrighteousness will enter heaven. Heaven does not need another sinner there.

“To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” _ Revelation 3:21

Unfortunately, many strong believers, those who claim to be Born-again and that are passionate about God, might not be living in the kingdom’s righteousness.

The world was formed on principles and was established upon principles.

Success has prerequisites, and so are every other blessings that God makes available to His children. The dangerous thing is, if we have not actually found this righteousness of the kingdom, it is impossible to make heaven or live a consistent victorious Life. Someone that does nothing but struggle with troubles, night-mares, sleeplessness, pains and sorrows, year in and out can not be the perfect person that God wants him to be. A believer that should be enjoying the presence of God is busy running from one church to the other looking for deliverance and fighting enemies every day.

“Unless the LORD builds the house,They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early,To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep” _ Psalms 127:1-2.

The prerequisite for blessing is giving. The bible says if you give, it shall be given unto you. The bible also says he that waters shall be watered.

Long life,breakthroughs,establishments,blessings,good health etc. also have conditions. We shall be explaining more on this in another book, titled “The kingdom principles”. The righteousness of the kingdom enables us to have total dominion over every situation and circumstances in the kingdom life.

David was an example of someone that was seeking the kingdom but he was not seeking the righteousness ,that was why He was in the middle of loads of trouble. No wonder he said;“ the rod of the wicked shall not be placed upon the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous reach out their hands to sin(iniquities)”._ psalms 125:3. Also in the book of psalms 119:134, David asked God to redeem him from the oppression of man, that he may keep the commandments(precepts) of God.

Until David discovered the righteousness of the kingdom, he was always in one trouble of sin or the other, crying for forgiveness almost all the time , and the enemy took advantage of every mistakes or sins of David to attack him during those periods.

“Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep your word”.

_ psalm 119: 67.

Job was another example of some one who found the kingdom, whose righteousness was questionable, who had to defend the fact that he was really seeking the kingdom‘s righteousness.

I know some of the readers could say, this is not correct because God himself confirmed that Job was an upright man. Yes he was an upright man of God, as stated in verse three of chapter two of the book of Job. But his righteousness was not ascertained until after his trials. Don’t misunderstand me, I understand from the day a man accepts Jesus as his Lord and savior, the heavens recognizes him as a child of God and God himself recognizes him as child. But the devil knows if you have achieved the righteousness stage or not.

The devil knows people could actually be holy and Godly due to the fact that they have all things going well for them, therefore he wanted God to take all the provisions around Job away, to see if Job was really after the Kingdom’s Righteousness or not. Job was able to survive the trials because he had found the Kingdom and His righteousness. Believers that failed to seek the righteousness along side the kingdom can not overcome the world and the battles of life. Believers that found the kingdom of God without His righteousness live in and out of sin on daily basis. The kind of salvation that The Lord wants from us is a salvation for better or for worse. God gave His son to us because of His love for us, not because He wants from us, but He wants for us. We must also give our lives to Him unconditionally.

“Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him”. _ Job 13:15 “My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. 110-The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precept”. _ psalms 119:109-110   “I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts”. _ psalms 119:141  

“Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:

yet thy commandments are my delights.

_ psalms 119:143

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                                              NEW BIRTH.

New birth means to be born into a new life all over again while you still live; This time into Christ Jesus. It means to stop living for yourself and start living for God. It means to die to your old worldly believes and old sinful nature and walk in newness of life with Christ Jesus. It is when you choose to be dead to the nature of sin that you inherited through Adam and accept the generous offer of God to reconcile you to Himself through His Son Jesus Christ. It is when you are born again into the body of Christ Jesus.

“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”. _ Romans 6:4.

New Birth also means to be dead to the flesh with Christ and live with Him in the spirit. God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. John 4 :28.

Your first birth is from your mother into this world, the kind of birth that came through the creation of man from the dust of the ground. Gen.1:27-28.

This new birth we are discussing is the one that God gives to you through His son Jesus Christ. New life is to completely and genuinely return to God your savior in all humility and to be genuinely sorry for all your sins; Ask God for forgiveness and be willing to forsake them all. It is very important that all those who wish to enter the kingdom of heaven go through this process, to disconnect themselves from the sins that Started from Adam and to also remove themselves from the curses that was placed on sinners through Adam and Eve.

“Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom

of God unless they are born again”.

_ John 3:3

This process is a crucial stage of life of any man and woman on earth.

The process of coming to Jesus for new birth is a significant part of every

Man and woman living. You should be aware of what you are doing when

You are called to give your life to Christ in new birth.

The time you surrender your life to Christ is not a laughing or smiling time.

It is a time of understanding that someone was nailed to the cross for the fulfillment of that purpose. Jesus was humiliated, bitten,bruised and battered.

He was exposed to open shame in public places . Jesus was without sin, but treated as a worse sinner .He carried the heavy cross across the city.

People mocked and spat at Him. He was laid on the Cross and His hands and legs were nailed to the cross with long nails. Heavy harmer landed on the nails several times on each palm and feet to get His feet and palms nailed firmly to the cross. All that was done to give you and i the opportunity to obtain God’s righteousness. His blood was shed as atonement for all sins. This is the plan to save humanity from eternal punishment in hell. God allowed that to happen because He loves us so much that He does not want us to end up where Satan and the Demons are

(in hell ).

“For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7For he who has died has been freed from sin”. _ Romans 6:5-7.

A sacrifice was needed for the seeds of Adam and Eve to have opportunity to obtain forgiveness of their sins and to also enter the Kingdom of God in heaven. The blood of Jesus was offered to disengage Satan and his agents from protesting against partiality of God towards humanity. If not for the Blood of Jesus, the Devil, demons and every human would have been automatically sent to hell fire without pardon. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ paved way for our salvation and obtained a place for whosoever that give his life to Him(Jesus) to inherit the kingdom of God. John 14:1-6

“Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by

Him, and afflicted.5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought

us peace was on Him, and by His wounds we are healed.

_ Isaiah 53:4-5.

Unfortunately, many people now think it is very “cool” to give their lives to Christ. Some answer the alter call smiling while some are not even sure about why they they answered to alter calls. Some think they were forced or deceived to answer the call to salvation. Some of those people now parade themselves around as born-again men and women. Majority of them have even found themselves preaching and mentoring other people. This is why the church is confused and worldliness has pervaded the church. Blinds are now guiding the blinds. Many souls have been mislead by those people I called ,“half-done” believers. We must continue building on the foundation of the Apostles. We must not deviate from the pattern of the Apostles. We do not have 2 Jesus. We have only one Jesus that died and rose again; He is also coming back one day to take all those who believe Him and keep His commandments home.

“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; 21.In whom all the building fitly framed together growth unto an holy temple in the Lord” _ Ephesians 2:20-21.

Brethren, no matter where you are and what you do, please be sure you are truly and genuinely born-again. While you are still leaving, you can quickly make amends; Procrastination might be too dangerous. Remember you need to be genuinely born-again for you to enter the Kingdom of God. It does not matter what position you occupy in the church; please do not go to hell from the alter or church. Seek your savior genuinely today. Confess and ask the Lord for forgiveness of your sins and start living a brand new life in Christ Jesus today.

“For He is our God,And we are the people of His pasture,And the sheep of His hand. Today, if you will hear His voice: 8“Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,As in the day of trial in the wilderness” _ Psalms 95:7-8 (Hebrew 3:15).

The book of Acts chapter 3 verse nineteen says “ Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out and that the time of refreshing may come before the Lord”.

You are not saved yet until you understand what the message of the cross is all about, repent from your sins and be converted to Christ. It is when you become truly converted that your sins are forgiven.

For this reason, i want to really explain what repentance and

conversion is all about. This will help those who already know it to

know more and to help those who are living in ignorance of salvation to

realize the danger of self righteousness and hell through the acts of religion.

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                                         REPENTANCE.

To repent means to remorsefully realize that you have been a sinner and truly sorry for all the sins committed; And be willing to turn away from sin.

In other words, repentance means to be tired and unhappy about a wayward, wicked and un-Godly life and willing to turn to God for a better and Godly life.

“I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. Luke 15:7   “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart These, O God, You will not despise. _ Psalms 51:17.

Sin and sorrow walk together. Where there are sins, there are troubles, pain and sorrow. The problems of today is the result of the sins of yesterday. Most of the sinners that came to Christ brought many troubles and problems originated from their sins yesteryears. Many of those wounds we take to Jesus after salvation could take a few years before they are healed while some could be immediately healed. This is why you need to repent from sins, to stop the flow of pain and sorrow, so that God may sort the ones already gotten from sins. God loves you and loves you to be happy and fulfilled, therefore He wants you to stop sining so that you may know how much He loves you. Continuous sin after declaration of intention to follow Christ makes it look like God is not faithful concerning His promises in the lives of un-repented Christians; And those who live like that think God does not answer prayers. Some of them even think their pastors do not have enough anointing to help them out of troubles.

“Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord”. _ Acts 3:19

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                                       CONVERSION.

Conversion means a change in which someone adopts a new way of life or religion.

A Muslim that gets converted to Christianity will no longer carry kettle of water to the Church for the purpose of ablution before he prays any more; Because he has a new way of life and a new way of praying to God .

Therefore, Any one who claims to be born-again, but still possesses old habits and characters is not converted yet. conversion is to learn from the Lord Jesus how to live like Him, talk like Him and think like Him. Because you are now a supposed converted Child of God, you need now to learn how to live daily to please the Lord. How can you who died to sin live any longer in it ? Romans 6:2. Converted Christians talk God’s way, They chose spouses God’s way, They do courtship God’s way, they sort matters God’s way, They run Business God’s way, They understand God’s way and dress God’s way.

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29-Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. _Matthew 11:28-30

If you are not repented and converted, forgiveness is not effected. Therefore, you may not experience a meaningful moment of refreshing before the Lord. To experience the time of refreshing that is before the Lord, you must be repented and converted, then your sins will be forgiven and the time of refreshing will visit you from God’s presence. Not only the refreshment , but you will make yourself also an apple of God’s eyes, and your name will also be written in the lamb’s book of life in heaven.

“ We know that whoever is born of God

does not sin; but he who has been born

of God keeps himself,and the wicked

one does not touch him.

_1 john 5:18

The good news is, God gives any one that accepts Jesus Christ the right (power) to become His child. The success of your Christian life now depends on how

you make use of the power that you obtained to become a Child of God.

If believers understand this and make use of their authority prayerfully and regularly, they will be successful Christians and also be able to make it to heaven. John 1:12.

Unfortunately, many people in the Church are not believers, and that is why they do not have power to become children of God. They are not spiritually authorized to be enlisted among the Children of God that are recognized by heavens, that is why salvation of many of those unbelieving-believers are not genuine and so they can not overcome sin and flesh permanently.

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage

again to fear, but you received the

Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

Romans 8:15.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”. John 3:16.   “Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26-And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this ?” John 11:25-26.   “Jesus said unto him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believe”. Mark 9:23.  

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                                      BELIEVE.

To believe means to accept a statement, supposition, or opinion as true. It is also to be convinced of the truth or existence of God the Father, God the son and God the Holy-spirit, even though you have never seen them and did not witness the earthly ministry of The Lord Jesus. “ Jesus saith unto him, Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed”. John 20:29  

To believe in God and Jesus means to accept the fact that they existed before the foundation of the world,that they exist now and will be forever more. {Heb 13:8, John 1:1-4,Gen 1:1,John 1:14}; To believe that Jesus Came to the world to show the way back to God (to reconcile man back to God), that Jesus was offered as a sacrifice for the atonement of the sins of humanity {John 3:16}; That Jesus resurrected after 3 days and ascended into heaven, seated by God to intercede for humanity daily {mark 16:19}. To believe is to be convinced that there is no other way to God except though every information that Jesus Christ came to the world to reveal unto humanity. John 14:6.

True believers must also believe (understand,accept to be true and live according to the instruction) in the Holy Bible as the constitution that all Christians must live by and the same will be used to judge the sins of the whole world. The book of correction and instruction to help believers gain perfection and to be fitted in the plans of God. Therefore every true believers must accept all the above truth and manifest all of the above in their daily lives.

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17-that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work”. 2 Timothy 3:16.   —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————   CALL TO SALVATION

At this point beloved, I want to ask you some questions and I want you to sincerely thick where you belong in the lists.

1- Are you sure you have been genuinely made a child of God. John 1:12 .

2- Are you genuinely Born-again ? 2 Corinthians 5:17

3- Do you have testimony about how God saved you ?

4- If you die today, are you sure you will be in heaven or Hell fire? Galatians 5:19-21

5- If Christ appears now to take the saints, will He take you with Him ?Rev.22:12

6- Are you living a constant holy life ?Gal 5:24

7- Are you a broken person ? Psalms 51:17

8- Do you walk by faith or by sight ? Hebrews 11:6

9- Have you been filled with the holy-spirit ? Acts 1:8

10- Are you sure God can call you His child ? 1 John 5:18

If you can not say yes to all of the above questions, then you are not a candidate of heaven yet. But hope is not lost, because God loves you just as you are. No matter what you might be struggling with, no matter how big or small, Jesus is here today to carry all and give you total liberty from guilt, shame, sin and sorrow.

Remember, He was wounded for your sins, He was bruised for all your wrong doings, the punishment of your peace was placed upon Him, And because of His stripes, you are set free today. Isaiah 53:5.

He is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever. Jesus is waiting patiently for you, my brothers and sisters. His hands are open wide to embrace you. Come, come, come unto Jesus today, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, He is here to give you rest, for His load is easy and His yoke is light-Matthew 11:28.

God’s plan for you is good and not of evil, to make you prosper and give you everlasting rest . Jeremiah29:11. The devil has come to steal your blessings, to kill your body and to destroy your soul in Hell fire, But Jesus Christ has come to you today, to give meaning to your life, grant you everlasting joy and peace of mind. John 10:10.

You have been so long, searching for joy, peace, success, good health and love.

All of those come only through one source. He is the way, the truth and the life, no body could have those things without sorrow except through Jesus Christ. John 14:6 .

“ Every good gifts and every perfect gifts is from above,

and comes Down from the Father of Lights,

with whom there is no variation

Or shadow of turning”.

_ James 1.17.

Don’t delay, come to Jesus today, there may not be next tomorrow or next week or next month or next year.

Song.

Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,

calling for you and for me;

1. see, on the portals he’s waiting and watching,

watching for you and for me.

Come home, come home;

ye who are weary come home;

earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling,

calling, O sinner, come home!

2. Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading,

pleading for you and for me?

Why should we linger and heed not his mercies,

mercies for you and for me?

Chorus

3. Time is now fleeting, the moments are passing,

passing from you and from me;

shadows are gathering, deathbeds are coming,

coming for you and for me.

Chorus

4. O for the wonderful love he has promised,

promised for you and for me!

Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon,

pardon for you and for me.

Chorus

End of song.

Are you ready now to give your life to Jesus, to surrender your life to His leading ? Do you want to avail of the opportunities God has here on earth for His children and partake in eternal Glory and joy after death ? Have you been born-again for long, but just discovered a newer life today ? Are you a backslider that wants to come back home to Jesus ? Do you want absolute peace and total deliverance from sleeplessness, night-mares and oppressions ? There is a saying that says “If you are not saved, you are not save” .If you have not given your life to Christ Jesus yet, you are living a vulnerable life. If you want to say yes, I want to give my life to Christ Jesus today, please say the follow prayers now:

Lord Jesus, I come to you today.

I admit that i am a sinner, that i can not help myself.

Forgive me all my sins Lord Jesus, cleanse me with your precious blood.

Deliver me from sin and Satan, to enable me stand blameless before you.

Oh Lord Jesus, I accept you as my Lord and personal savior today.

Take total control of my life from today, Lord Jesus.

Write my name in the book of life.

Thank you Jesus for saving me.

Now I know that I am born-again

Now that you have successfully prayed those prayers,

I want to congratulate you on your new found life in Jesus.

Enjoy your life in Christ as you begin to learn to follow Him and grow.

Now that you know what it takes to be a true child of God, and have true knowledge of what salvation is, you need to re-examine your salvation story

by reading more of the word of God (Bible). You need to start growing in the faith.

A child that does not eat regularly, does not grow. Therefore, if you want to grow in the faith, you need to begin to seek after the milk of the spirit. Read the word of God (Bible) every day and night and digest every bit of it. Making sure that you read every bit to your understanding, and seeking help from other older and genuine children of God. Bearing in mind that there is no other translation to the meaning of what is written in the Bible that is different from what is written there, all you just need is to get better understanding of what you read from it.

“ As a new born babes,desire the pure milk of the word of God,

That you may grow thereby”.

_ 1 peter 2:2

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                                      CHURCH.

I want to define a church as a gathering of Christians in one body, one Spirit, one hope of calling, having One Lord, in one faith, with one baptism, serving one God and Father of all; Who is above all. Ephesians 4:4-6.

In other words, the gathering of people who have common interests of worshiping God and rightly dividing the word of God for spiritual nourishment that is necessary for spiritual growth is called a Church. 2 timothy 2:15

Therefore, a church could also be defined as gathering of sinners that have obtained mercy from God; Those that have been chosen from the multitude and called out of darkness into God’s marvelous light to show forth His praises .

1 peter 2:9-10.

“So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart ,47praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved”. _ Acts 2:46-47

It is Christians that gathered for the purpose of God that are called church and not the bricks, building, woods or walls, as the case my be.

Buildings are erected for various purposes. There are commercial buildings, Residential buildings and warehouses. But the moment a group of Christian acquire any of those buildings for the purpose of worshiping God, gathering for Prayers or sharing of the word of God, the building is automatically referred to as a church. Therefore the building is technically not a church, but the Christians in the building that make the building a church.

“Now the company of believers was of one heart and soul,

and not one of them claimed that anything which he possessed

was [exclusively] his own, but everything they had was in common

and for the use of all”

_Acts 4:32.

The purpose of the gathering of believers was seen in the lives of the first believers in the book of the acts of the apostles. They shared the word of God daily and also shared everything and anything to make sure no one was with a need amongst them. They were in one spirit ,one mind and one Love. In other words,they demonstrated the life of the kingdom of heaven on earth. They gathered together basically for the purpose of the kingdom of God and not for any gains and not according to tradition of man. They all sought for and got the Holy-spirit and were all passionate about Christ and His teachings,Growing daily and living to please God.

“Then those who gladly received his word were baptised;

and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

42 .And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and

fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. 43. Then fear

came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through

the apostles.44.Now all who believed were together, and had all things

In common, 45.and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them

Among all, as anyone had need. 46.So continuing daily with one accord in

the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with

gladness and simplicity of heart,47.praising God and having

favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily

those who were being saved.

_ Acts 2:41-47

Unfortunately ,this generation has turned the supposed gathering of believers to gathering of celebrities, party venues, show rooms and fashion parade centers and where they buy and sell and raise Money. Church is more of a business center now than a place of worship.

In this generation people go to church for different reasons.

Some go to church to look for husbands, some to look for descent wives, some for job opportunities, some to kill boredom, some for political reasons ,some to seek for protection,some to get deliverance, some to get healing, some to fight their enemies and so on and so forth. But what ever reasons you think you want to be in the midst of other believers, please see that you are genuine and want to be in the church to grow spiritually and learn how to live your daily life to prepare yourself for the second coming of our Lord Jesus; And keep yourself together with other believers who are on flight to heaven, making yourself a light that the world depends on to see..

Only believers and sinners who are willing to repent have business in the church. Therefore, those in the church should demonstrate the character of Jesus that they have accepted. The believers were seen in Antioch in the Book of the acts of the apostles and they were immediately called Christians,because they saw the image and character of Christ Jesus in all of them.

“And when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch.

So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church

and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called

Christians in Antioch”

_Acts 11:26

How could you be serving God and have the image of the devil ? How could you claim to be for Christ while you are still an habitual sinner ?

The bible says he that sineth is of the Devil, because the devil has sin in his nature, while the nature of God is holiness through Christ Jesus. 1 John 3:8.

Therefore I beseech you brethren, seek the Lord while He might still be found call on Him while He is near. Psalms 55:6

Forsake all your evil deeds and seek God for the sake of heaven and not for earthly gains. Love not the word or the things of the world, for the lovers of the world are enemies of God,And the world will pass away with all it’s lusts,but only those who seek the Lord Genuinely shall stand. 1 John 2:15-17.

All you church politicians, power brokers in churches, ushers, Deacons, Deaconesses, Pastors, Evangelists, Apostles, Bishops, Archbishops and what ever position or post you hold in the church or that you called yourselves, please think about the day of terror,the fearful day,the day you alone will stand before your maker to give account of your stewardship to Him. 2 Corinthians 5:10

Repent therefore today, all You that fight for and give yourselves posts and positions in the church as if Jesus was called by any Title apart from His name “Jesus” .

Jesus was a great street preacher, yet was not called an evangelist.

He was a wonderful teacher and possessed other gifts yet was not called an Apostle. Jesus had wonderful gift of prophecy, but the Title of prophet was not attached to His name. He had great followers, yet was not called a Bishop, He fathered and mentored many, yet He was not called an Archbishop.

He performed many miracles, yet non of them was used for advertisement. How then should you followers of Christ fight daily to have those Titles attached to your names. Will you be welcomed home or casted away from His (God’s) presence the day you will appear before Him ? Think about your answer.

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                                      R E S T I T U T I O N.I want to define restitution as an act of returning to a person(s) or former state, anything Obtained or taken deceitfully from someone or somewhere. It could also mean offering to a person(s) or former state, the value or an equivalent for any loss, damage or injury done to another person(s) or place through deception or otherwise. In other words, restitution means to pay back or return back anything that was Obtain deceitfully or it’s equivalence to the rightful owner(s) or place(s), or to make corrections of any deceitful or illegal acts committed during the times of ignorance. Restitution could also be defined as an act of making-up for any moral or emotional loss, damage Or pain we have caused others during the times we were sinners. Restitution is also to settle quarrels differences or disagreements. Calling all parties involved together and speaking out all hidden matters to resolve troubles. This could also be linked to confessing every hidden sins. Confessing sins and asking for forgiveness from anyone that one has offended.“Again, when I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right, if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16.None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live”

_ Ezekiel 33:14-16.We all have made several mistakes at some stages of our lives, which we regret whenever we look back at many things we have passed through in life. Some of them were done out of ignorance and some deliberately. What ever way it could be that we have taken, stolen or offended anyone unjustly or unlawfully, we still need to apologize and return back what needs to be returned and uncover what needs to be uncovered. When you are genuinely saved, the first thing you want to do is to return all the things you stole or took unlawfully back to the owners.

“Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”

_ Luke 19:8

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                                     WATER & HOLY-SPIRIT BAPTISM.

After a new life encounter with Christ Jesus, the next thing to do is to seek to know about water baptism and get baptized by immersion into water by any true minister of the Gospel of Christ. It is a symbol of your death and resurrection with Jesus Christ. This exercise is a very important aspect of your new life in Christ. Your new birth is incomplete without water baptism. Water Baptism is not an opportunity to go swim, but for those that are truly and genuinely changed from their old ways. Water Baptism is not an opportunity to get baptismal certificate, neither is it a religious exercise.

“ Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly,

I say to you, Unless one is born of water and

the spirit, he can not enter the kingdom of God”.

_ John 3:5

Water Baptism could also be described as an open declaration that a believer is repented, converted and believed the Gospel of our Lord Jesus and also willing to obey every message God sent to humanity through His Son Jesus.

“3.Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death ? 4.Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”. Romans 6:3-4

In the Bible, water is often refer to as the Word of God. The story of a Samaritan woman that met Jesus by a well is one of the Bible passages that explained this.

John 4:1-15. Therefore, water Baptism identifies that the work of salvation of a believer has been completed through thorough understanding of the message of the cross and acceptance to live in total submission to the leadership of the word of God.

“On the last day, that great day of the feast,

Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified”.

_ John 7: 37 – 39.

Doctrinal misinterpretation of Bible has caused a lot of damages to so many churches and people world-wide. This has made many strayed away from the foundation of the Apostle. Ephesians 2:20 .

People have mis-interpreted passages of the Bible that talk about blessings, healing, deliverance, miracles, salvation and growth. They have neglected messages of water and holy-ghost baptism,second coming of Jesus and heaven.

You need to seek to be baptized by immersion into water as Jesus laid down as example and also seek to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Before Jesus departed, He promised us Holy Spirit to help us live a successful Christian life and also make it to heaven.John 17:7-8; Acts 1:4-8.

“5.For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,6.knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him,that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.7.For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8.Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,9.knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.10. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God”. Romans 6:5-10.

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                                    HOLY-SPIRIT

Before our Lord Jesus departed from the earth, He promised to send His Holy-spirit to us, to help us through life. Jesus knew it would be difficult to make it through life to heaven without the Holy-Ghost. In many of His teachings in the Bible, Jesus taught His disciples about Holy-Spirit and all His functions.

A believer is not complete without the power of the Holy-Spirit.

Body profits nothing, but the Spirit helps us where our flesh wants to yield to sin. The Holy-Spirit is part of the ‘B’ plan of salvation, to enable believers combat sin and overcome. Adam and Eve had not the Holy-Spirit, that was why they yielded easily to the Devil’s advised and ate the forbidden fruit. The Holy-Spirit helps our flesh to argue with the advise of the Devil and overrule sinful imagination.

“But you shall receive power when the Holy-Spirit has come upon you;

And you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea,

And Samaria, and to the end of the earth”.

__ Acts 1: 8.

Peter and the other Disciples of Jesus were very fervent and followed Jesus whole-heartedly. Peter was the boldest of the twelve Disciples, he promised his life and death to Jesus, and was even ready to go any length with Jesus, but he did not have the Holy-Spirit to translate that into reality at that time; That was why he denied Jesus 3 times before the death of Jesus. He swore never to have known or did anything with Jesus.

Matthew 26:69-75.

Immediately Jesus was crucified , Peter and the rest disciples went back to their various businesses. That was a stage of backsliding. They thought the party was over and perhaps, thought the chapter of Jesus’ relationship was over.

If you asked me, I would say they never really believed or understood all what Jesus taught them all the period they spent with Him.

“But the helper, Holy-Spirit, whom the father will send in my name,

He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all

Things that I said to you (thought you)”.

__ John 14:26.

They could not even understand most of Jesus’ teachings and parables.

All they did was following a “super man” that was famous due to His signs and wonders. Believe me, every body likes to be associated with money, power and fame, all that was present in the ministry of Jesus.

“Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” _ Matthew 19:27.  

The quotation above was the question of peter when Jesus was dealing with the case of the rich young Ruler in Matthew Chapter 19. Peter discovered that there was no prospect of material gain and wealth attached to the work that he was called to do. He was confused and wanted to know what would be his benefits for forsaking everything to follow Jesus. He saw Jesus as a highly influential and powerful man that had healed many people in his presence and brought money from Fish’s belly and fed thousands of people on two occasions with few pieces fish and bread. Jesus knew the disciples expected to make a lively-hood from being His followers, that was why he asked peter many times if he truly loved Him.

Peter claimed he loved Jesus so much that he could even die with Him.

But as soon as Jesus was arrested, they all vanished .This was because the Holy-Spirit was not present in their lives as at that time, to help them remember all what Jesus taught them; To teach them things they did not know, and to grant them boldness. Jesus appeared to Peter and the rest disciples after He resurrected . He reminded them all He had promised them concerning the Holy-spirit and asked them to wait until they receive the Holy-Spirit, which He was going to send to them through His Father. Acts 1:4-8.

“And when the day of Pentecost has fully come, they were all

With one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound

From heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole

House where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided

As of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were filled with

The Holy-Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the

Holy-Spirit gave them utterance”.

__ Acts 2:1-4.

Perhaps you are a believer like peter and the rest disciples, who does not have any clue about the purpose of God for being a Christian.

May be you are one of those who seek the powerful, Rich and famous Jesus, And when you do not get what you expect from Him, you pack up your belongings and go back to your former way of life.

You have been that way because you are yet to receive the Holy-Spirit of God into your life. Immediately peter received the Holy-Spirit of God, he became a totally new person. The spirit came upon him and the rest, powerfully that they remembered all that Jesus taught them and they had unusual boldness to confront the same people Peter had told he never had any relationship with Jesus.

“Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We are going with you also.” They went out and immediately got into the boat, and that night they caught nothing “. _John 21:3

“So when they had eaten breakfast,

Jesus said to Simon Peter,“Simon, son of Jonah,do you love Me more than these?” _ John 21:15. After Peter and the rest Disciples were Baptized with the Holy-Spirit, Peter did not only tell them that he knew Jesus this time, but he also preached about Jesus to them and confronted their laws and believes. Acts 2:14-38.

Because of the power of the Holy-Spirit in Peter’s life , he stood in the midst of thousands of men and woman to witness Jesus and about 3,000 souls were saved at just his first sermon. That was awesome ! This is peter that could not defend Christ in the presence of only one young lady, now in the midst of thousands of people.

It was really awesome ! How great is our God.

Unfortunately, in these end times, many preachers do no longer reckon with the fact that new believers need to be placed on beginner’s and baptism courses as soon as they come to church or give their lives to Christ.

A new believer needs to be baptized with water and the Holy-Spirit, So that he can prepare a solid foundation, upon which he will build a successful Christians life and be fulfilled in the purpose of God for his life.

“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus”.

_Acts 4:13

Many people now posses strange spirits and think they have Holy-Spirit.

You posses strange spirit if your life does not change after receiving the

Holy-Spirit. Some people never experienced any manifestation of the Holy-Spirit upon their lives yet they claim they have gifts of the Holy-Spirit. How can you posses the Gifts of the Holy spirit that you do not have ?

You can not heal the sick, cast the demons out, prophecy and see visions when you have never experienced any significant manifestation of the Holy-Spirit upon your life. How could you not manifest on your life, the Fruit of the Holy-Spirit you claim to have received ? Some Claim they have holy-Spirit, They speak in tongues and demonstrate some strange gifts of the Holy-Spirit, yet they do not manifest the Fruits of the Holy-Spirit on their lives. Brethren, when you have the Holy-Spirit, You should also manifest the Fruit of the Spirit on the Outside of your body (your life).

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law”.

_Galatians 5:22-23.

New converts are now being taught many other things like how to get deliverance, how to access miracles, how to posses supernatural wealth and have many other things. Many believers have now been turned to movie actors and actresses, given scripts to study and act according to scripts. Those preachers do not seam to know the end times devices of the devil at all; if they do, they would not have left the things they should do, to lay emphases on irrelevant matters.

Please do not misunderstand me, i do sincerely know that miracles, money, healing and deliverance are very important. But the message of the kingdom of God is more important than any of those topics in the Church. When we teach the way God has asked us to teach; Miracles, healing,deliverance and other things will surely manifest. Where ever Jesus went preaching the message of kingdom of God and also the Apostles during their times, The Lord was always confirming their messages with signs, wonders, deliverance, fame and Church growth. Therefore, we are not sent to do any other preaching and teaching other than that of repentance and the kingdom of heaven.

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. 24Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them”. _ Matthew 4:23-24.

We need to understand that devil can bless people in exchange for their souls .

Any wealth that comes to anyone that is not in the will and purpose of God is obviously not from God. All we need to do is to build the army of God.

If we have a clue of what the devil has in stock, we will not be busy serving the table when we need to be serving the genuine word, fulfilling the purpose of winning souls and making them stand till the kingdom come. John 15:16

“ Go into all the nation and preach the gospel to every creature.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does

Not believe will be condemned. And these signs shall follow

Those who believe; In my name they shall cast out demons;

They will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents;

And if they drink any deadly thing, it will by no means hurt them;

They will lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

_Mark 16:15-18.

How then do you expect genuine miracles to happen when the purpose of the miracles, signs and wonders is not in the agenda? How do you expect divine deliverance and healing when the purpose of the deliverance and healing is omitted. Any miracles, deliverance and healing without soul winning agenda is

merely magic and such magic can never last.

Any church planting that has no soul winning agenda in it is merely Business establishment. Churches are now spreading all over the place without soul winning and Apostolic Discipleship Agenda.

So many churches are now turned to lecture rooms.

They offer classes on Economics, Accountancy, philosophy, psychology, Mathematics, Natural science, Business administration, Anger management, money management, family law and counsellings etc.

The only way you could know they are churches is because they sing and pray.

Some of those “so call” preachers who manufacture their own miracles for commercial purposes will be exposed sooner or later,

While unfortunately, many will not have the opportunity to be caught until death visits them. They could die in their sins and go to hell fire because of fear of shame that may come after confession of their sins.

God is just a merciful God ,that is always waiting that sinners should repent from their sins,no matter how long it takes.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into

the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my

Father which is in heaven.

_ Matthew 7:21.

“ Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites !

For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin,

And have neglected the weightier matters of the law:

Justice and mercy and faith. This you ought to have done,

Without leaving the other undone. 24)Blind guides, who

Strain out a gnat and swallow a camel”.

_ Matthew 23:23

Finally Brethren,you must have the Holy-Spirit to enable you make heaven.

The Bible says if you do not have the Spirit of God you are not among His own.

Romans 8:9. The Holy-Spirit will help you in many ways on your Christian journey to heaven. It is the Holy-spirit that will even help you hear the trumpet during the rapture and transform your body into the celestial body. Therefore, Pursuing to have the Holy-Spirit is a serious task that must be done.

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                                     RENEWAL OF MIND.

Renewal of mind means to erase every immoralities and corruption that have stored up into your mind since birth and take up the mind of God. This means that you need to change the way you used to think and the way you look at things, people and situation when you were still a sinner. Your thinking has to be Godly and Spiritual, being guarded by the Holy-Spirit that now lives inside of you.

If you really have the Holy-Spirit living in you, you must produce the fruits of the spirit. An Orange Tree can not bare apple fruits. Therefore, you can only produce on the outside, what you carry on the inside. The Holy-Spirit will help you, with your cooperation to accomplish this.

“ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you

Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is

Your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world,

But be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove

What is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God”.

__ Romans 12:1-2.

Most of the bad attitudes you cultivated, immoralities and wickedness you stored up in your mind before you met Christ were gotten from what you saw, what you heard, what you read and from negative live experiences. Those things in your mind are not automatically removed when you are saved. They will still come to your thought-live occasionally, and if care is not taken, they may still keep you maintain a sinful thought-life. When you got Born-again, your soul was transformed but your mind has still got all those things you stored there.

It is just like a computer. You need to delete those things from your mind and replace them with new ones before you can start having a brand new life that you deserve. In the case of a computer, you delete old to re-fill new; But in the situation of human, you refill new information to erase the old. Therefore,stop reading further junk books and magazines, start reading Bible and Christian Books at all times.

There are many Christian Educating movies that could teach you the things of the kingdom if you are the type that love to see movies. You must also stop listening to mind-polluting information and be more around the people that will speak positive things to you; Including listening to the messages about God, Jesus, kingdom of God and spiritual growth. You also need stop listening to worldly or circular music and replace them with pure Gospel music, not partial Gospel music. There a lots of worldly Gospel music in these end times.

“ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things

Have passed away, behold, all have become new.

18-Now all things are of God, who has reconciled

us to Himself through Jesus Christ , and has given

us the ministry of reconciliation”.

_ 2 Corinthians 5:17-18.

Let me tell you the truth brethren, you must be an Apostolic believer if you really want to get to this heaven we are talking about.

Deliverance can not get you a place in heaven. Healing can not take you to heaven. The miracles you received does not guarantee you a ticket to heaven. Many wealth that you have amassed, cars you have bought, jet that you have and houses you have can not take you to heaven. What shall it profit a man, after gaining the whole world and looses his own life to hell fire. I am not against those blessings, but all I am saying is, do not make them your priorities in life. Do not let them come first in all that you do. Make sure that you do not sell your salvation to get any of those worldly blessing. Make sure you get them from God. Seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and make sure that you have gotten them. Sit down and ask yourself, if you die right now, can you make heaven ?

If Jesus suddenly comes this minute, will he take you with him ?Ask yourself these two questions every time until you can answer, yes i know I can make it ! I know he is coming to take me home some day!!

Please do not be among the Christians who think a holy and righteous life is difficult and unattainable. You can be what God wants you to be by His Grace. His grace is sufficient for you. You must wake up and be violent to take your place in Christ Jesus. Matthew 11:12 says, from the days of John the Baptiste, the kingdom of God suffers violence, and the violent takes it by force”.

There is no other translation to this Bible passage other than what it says, take the kingdom by violence. The book of Hebrews chapter twelve verse four says, we have not yet fought sins to the shedding Of our blood’.This shows that the kingdom of God is real and requires every-bit of your determination,concentration and focus to get there.

Every believer that must see and enter Heaven must be perfect, even as God is perfect. Do not be among the believers that say, no one is perfect.

What ever you always say and believe is what you have. Always profess that you are perfect and watch your ways daily to see that you are walking towards perfection that is in and comes from Jesus Christ Our Lord and savior.

Remember, no imperfection is allowed in heaven and no unholy thing is allowed there. The earlier you start to believe this and walk towards this, the better for you.

“Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. “

_Matthew 5:48

Brethren, you must not be deceived by the end times doctrines, modern Christianity and strange teachings that is currently going on across the earth. All you must do is to hold on to that old message of the cross. The Gospel of salvation that is built upon the Foundation of the Apostle and not on modern Christianity. The Gospel of new birth, the Gospel of The purpose of God for every man and woman that lives across the earth. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Disciples, and The Apostles. That old rugged cross of more than 2,000 years ago must be alive in you. At this junction I would like you to sing the following song.

The song goes like this…….

SONG.

1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering and shame; and I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost sinners was slain.

   chorus:

   So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.

2. O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, has a wondrous attraction for me; for the dear Lamb of God left his glory above to bear it to dark Calvary.

     Chorus

        So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.

3. In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, a wondrous of beauty I see, for it was on that cross Jesus suffered and died, to pardon and sanctify me.

Chorus

So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.

3. To the old rugged cross I will ever be true; its shame and reproach gladly bear; then he’ll call me some day to my home far away, where his glory forever I’ll share.

Chorus.

So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown.

 

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                                       HOLINESS.

Holiness could be Biblically defined as total abstinence from sin, inwards and outwards. Holiness is when you refuse constantly to buy devil’s ideas in all situation. It is a life of Godly thinking and Godly actions. It is a divine spiritual realm life. Holiness is to have Christ Jesus increase in you to give you total control of your live, body and emotion. It is a life of gaining victory over all known, unknown and visiting sins.

“ Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord : 15- looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled”

Hebrews 11:14-15.

Now that you are a new creation, you must pray for the Grace to be completely out of sin as you live your daily life. Bearing in mind that the Holy-Spirit that is in you will accomplish the purpose if you cooperate with Him. Don’t expect Jesus to come down and make you Holy. You must work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Do not forget, we have inherited power to chose between good and evil when we inherited sin from our first parents, Adam and Eve. That was from the fruits of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, we have natural power and the Power of the Holy-Spirit, plus the Grace through Jesus Christ our Saviour.

_ Romance 3:23-26. Nothing can stop us from being Holy, when we make the decision to be completely holy.

“Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal;

The Lord knows those who are His own, and ,Let everyone

Who bares the name of Christ(those who calls themselves

children of God), Depart from iniquities(depart from sins)”.

_1 Timothy 1:17

Brethren, it is suicidal to continue in any secrete sins after you have confessed Christ as your Lord and savior. This life of sin after new beginning exposes you to attacks from the enemies and the devil; It also brings shame and sorrow.

The very day you made decision to follow Christ, you have become a business that devil wants to take care of. Only your continuous efforts in prayers, Regular studying of the word of God with determination to make Heaven that can give you a total liberty from sin and the devil.

The life of total freedom from sin, is the life of holiness. Remember the Bible says we should pursue peace and Holiness, without which no one can see God. Hebrew 12:14. This means we can not get to heaven without holiness. Therefore we have to look at sin as a serious business that needs serious attention to be dealt with.

I have heard some believers say, it is God Himself that can grant us a complete Holy life ,because He is the only perfect being. Yes I believe God is a Perfect being and He said in His word that those who believe in him will be able to do all what He did and greater things than Him shall they also do. You have acquired power to be a child and sin has no more power over you, if you are truly born-again. John 14:12, John 1:12 and Matthew 5:48

“ But now, having been free from sin, and having become

Slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end

Everlasting life”.

__ Romans 6:22.

The more interest you show in getting rid of sins completely from your life, the more Grace you have to overcome sin.. God loves people that always check their lives and work on the areas they need completion quickly and daily too. Little and unknown sins in the lives of believers make them struggle with one problem after the other. They open doors for the sins of the fathers and fore-fathers to be re-visited upon the children. They also make room for evil-spiritual police(accusers) to hold unto your Blessings and subject you to Deliverance upon Deliverance without success.

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                                       BROKENNESS.

I want to define brokenness as the genuine manifestation of the fruit of the Holy-Spirit upon a child of God. It is also a life of being dead to the flesh and alive in Christ. This can be compared to the life of Adam and Eve before they ate the forbidden fruit. They were naked, yet they did not know. They knew they were naked as soon as they ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. This means that we become spiritually unconscious to offenses, insults, abuses, punishments, difficulties, problems, challenges of life, our personalities, our interest, our position,

our age ,influence and affluences. Demonstrating only Godliness, Righteousness, Holiness and manifesting all the fruits of the spirit on the outside.

“ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,

A broken and contrite heart

These, O God, you will not despise”.

_ psalm 51:17

Brokenness is a major concern in this end times among believers.

We have believers with excellent gifts, anointing and charisma without Brokenness. You may be a devoted and gifted choirs in the church, anointed and powerful preachers ,giant and prayerful workers , spirit-filled pastors, anointed intercessors and still have anger problems, minor lying problems, arrogance problems, envy, jealousy, backbiting, gossip problems, eye service, evil thought and so on and so forth.

Brokenness is to serve the Lord with total humility in what ever area you find yourself being useful in the vineyard of God. Do not let the manifestation of the gifts and anointing upon your life drive you into sin of arrogance. There are lots of people that God intend to take very high in life or ministry, but as soon as He lifts them a little, they allowed arrogance to kill what God had deposited in them.

There are also some categories of believers that can not just get out anger problem, despite the anointing and charisma. Jesus said in the Bible that We must be gentle as dove. If any one strikes us on the right cheek we should turn the left to be stricken also. Therefore, If as a child of God you are still easily provoked, easily offended and you still keep grudges, you are not yet broken and also not ready to make heaven. If you are someone that still ‘can not take nonsense’ from other people, or you are one of those that always say‘ Christianity is not foolishness, if you hit me, I will hit you back‘, you are not yet a broken Christian. There was a story I was told, One of the workers of a church stopped attending the church because she was changed from offering-counting department to another department. She felt her integrity was insulted, and so she left the church. There was this other church where a worker got angry because another person was placed on the program he loved to take. I have seen and heard about cases of few that resigned their choir membership and church staff membership just because they could not cope with too many conditions that was attached to their posts. Any one that behaves in such manner is not broken yet. And has not started the journey to heaven yet

You might be a super child of God and Holy-Ghost filled, but hate someone for whatever reasons you believe is right; Believe me, you are not broken and any unbroken person is yet to be qualified for the kingdom of God. No wonder the Bible says, not all who say Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of God, but those who do the will of the Father and keep His commandments.

The load of work you have done or doing in the church or vineyard does not guarantee you a place in heaven, but your ability to accept Jesus as Lord and savior, and live a consistent holy and Broken life. If you are a pastor that was corrected because of an offense or mistake and all of a sudden you left the church to start your own church because you felt insulted,You are not broken .

Are you a child of God that gets angry or unhappy whenever you are not introduced properly or called up to high seat or high tables, you are a very unbroken child of God and your heaven if not sure.

“ He who despise the word will be destroyed,

But he who fears the commandments will be

Rewarded”.

__ Proverbs 13:13.

Are you a child or man of God that always thinks no body is holy or upright besides you; May be you are the type that is always busy looking for faults in others, and forgetting building your own life, I want to announce to you that you are not yet prepared to make heaven.

May be you are a believer that is always full of thoughts of what others should do and not doing, the ways others should talk and not talking, you have made yourself judge to all other people’s characters and situation; you have made it your duty to know who is arrogant, who is a fornicator and who is a sinner in the church, like a busy body; let me tell you the basic truth, you have not yet even started to be born-again, not to talk about making heaven. Matthew 6:41-42.

Are you the type of child or man of God that no person can confront or correct, or even approach easily, you need to repent today before it is too late; Because you are not only unbroken, but also unrepentant person.

Maybe you are the child and man of God that is always defensive and putting every other person around you down, due to your unsecured-mindedness, You fall into the same category of the believers who can not be corrected, therefore you need to repent and be broken.

God does not score the works that you do in the vineyard and whatever job you do in the vineyard is useless without Brokenness. The best sacrifice a man can ever offer God that will make God happy is offering your body unto him in perfect Brokenness.

“ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,

That you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,

Acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service”.

__ Romans 12:1-2

Let me just send a serious warning to those who have turned the pulpit to a place where they could fight their enemies or those they have termed to be God’s enemy. Preparing messages to confront those who offend you instead of getting a divine message from God through the help of the Holy-spirit, is a sin against God and humanity. Therefore, you need to repent today, before the wrought of God befalls you heavily. Your job is to win souls and not to send them away by your careless habits. John 15:16.

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                                    FAITH.

Faith is as simple as seating on a chair and believing the chair can carry your weight. Faith is also as simple as a child that tells his father that he is asked to bring some money to school, believing that his father will give him. When children ask their parents for anything , they are confident that they will get it when due, and they get it. They do not want to know how their parents will get whatever they want , but they believe beyond any doubts that they will get it. All they need to do is just ask for what they need and they believe they will get it, and that settles it. No wonder Jesus compared the altitudes of children to those who want to enter the kingdom of God. Mark 10:14-15. Faith is believing that what you ask God will be given to you, and believing that you have them already, and keep on reminding Him until you have it.

“ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence

of things not seen”.

_ Hebrews 11:1.

Here faith is defined as the substance of things that you are believing God to have and having feelings of assurance of receiving the things you ask God in prayers .The Bible tells us in the same book of Hebrew chapter one and verse 6, that without faith it is impossible to please God. Those who want to come to God must believe that God is real and that He is the rewarder of those who seriously seek Him.-Heb.1:6

The world was created by faith through the spoken word of God. Everything about God leads to faith. Therefore, any one that wants to follow Jesus must have faith. The conception, birth and live of Jesus were all about faith. Any Christian that want to have a successful Christian live and make heaven must live by faith and not by sight.

Every genuine children of God must be able to read and believe every thing that is written in the Bible . They must develop themselves to pronouncing the words to any negative situation around their lives to make positive changes. Faith makes children of God stand in times of trials and tribulations. Faith makes a Christian stand up-right till the coming of our Lord Jesus, without loosing courage or hope for the kingdom.

“As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations.

In the presence of Him whom he believed. God who gives life

To the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though

They did”.

_ Romance 4 : 17

Therefore as a believer that wants to stay out of trouble and also make heaven, you must trust God for whatever you want to do in life. Faith would make you ask God before you make Educational choices, career choices, investment choices, business choices, marriage choices and many more things you intend to do in life. In most cases anything that you jump into, without God’s consent turns bad and adds sorrow and pain to your life.

God knows everything about you and He knows what is best for you.

He knows the careers, schools, investments and businesses that suits His purpose for your live. When you do not have faith that He can provide all those things for you, then you live in your own understanding and work by sight. You must believe that He is able to supply all your needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19. You also need to grow into casting all burdens and troubles upon Jesus daily, believing that He cares for all your needs. No matter how long it takes for the answers to reach you, trust Him to provide all your needs. If you can lay a solid foundation of faith in your Christian life, you will surely be victorious and can then make yourself the ‘heart-bit’ of God.

“ By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land,

Whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned”.

_ Heb.11 :29.

The Bible tells us that faith makes believers overcome difficult situations of life that unbelievers can not cross. Only supernatural faith could grant supernatural answers to prayers. If you expect supernatural miracles, you must apply supernatural faith to that situation of your life that needs God’s intervention.

“ As new born babes, desire the pure milk of the word,

That you may grow thereby”.

_ 1 peter 2:2

I would recommend that you develop a chronic bible reading life. This is the only way your faith can increase. There are many bible passages that would speak directly to that situation of your life. Many times during bible reading, I had jumped and shouted and gave praises to God as a result of powerful words I had encountered in the Bible. Guess what, the words of the bible increased my faith.

“ So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing

By the word of God”.

_ Romans 10 : 17.

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                                  SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS.

Every believer that wants to make heaven and prosper here on earth should be spiritual minded. That means, you must see with the eyes of your heart. A true believer don’t see things the same way as ordinary people. You must always be patient when the spirit of God talks to you by that “still quiet voice” that could drop into your inner ears or heart before you board a car to travel, before you eat, before you contribute to a conversation or discussion, before you advise people, before you agree to any thing and when ever you finish personal prayer sessions. God always want to communicate with His children, but many don’t have time to listen to Him. Many believers are always in a hurry to leave God’s presence after prayers. This is why some believers run into many problems, die in auto-crash, plane crash, etc. If you raised up many believers that died tragic deaths, and asked if they got any messages before they made that trip that killed them, I am sure they would tell you God warned them, but they were pushed by the importance and urgency of the trips and programs.

“ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the

Flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not canal but mighty

In God for pulling down strongholds, Casting down arguments and

Every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,

Bringing every though into captivity to the obedience of God”.

_ 2 Corinthians 10 : 3-5

Walking in the spirit is ability to live a life that sees beyond natural.

Not finding fault in anyone that offends or hurt you, but believing your enemy only hired a vessel to oppose you in the physical. Therefore, fight back all physical challenges or battles on your knees. The higher spiritual minded you become, the more victorious you become in the physical and the spiritual . A canal Christian or a Christian that is not spiritual minded always eat in the dream, get injected in the dream, always being pursued in the dreams and even beaten in the dreams etc.

In summary, to be spiritual minded means eating where and when the Holy-spirit allows you to eat, speaks when and where the Holy-spirit permits you, look where and when the Holy-spirit allows you, go where and when the holy-spirit permits you, stay where and when the holy-spirit permits you, travel when and where the Holy-spirit permits you and do whatever whenever the Holy-Spirit allows you.

“ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually

Minded is life and peace. Because the canal mind is enemy

Against God; For it is not subject to the law of God

Nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh

Can not please God”.

__ Romance 8:6-8.

Therefore, you must do all that you do, as a child of God to the glory of God alone. Let every motive behind what you think, see or do, be to the Glory of God. Do not fight to defend yourself, either verbally or physically any more, let the Lord do all your fighting for you. He sees what you pass through and He knows when men cheat you. Let forgiveness be your watch word. Remember the Bible says it is only those that are lead by the spirit of God that are children of God. Rom 8:14

You must look at all things and situations surrounding you with the eyes of God that now lives inside you. If you believe that your battles are not physical but spiritual as we already seen in second Corinthians chapter ten and verse three to five, you will discover that it will be easy for you to forgive all the people that offend you with no hard feelings attached.

You must not allow any immoral thoughts in your heart; Be it lustful thought of opposite sex or any other ungodly thoughts. Let your thoughts be pure and holy, for the Lord sees your heart before your actions.

“ If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me”.

_ psalm 66:18.

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                                PERFECTION.

Brethren, you must at all times know that everything that God allows to happen to you is to your advantage. To mold you into a man and woman that He wants you to be and make a way for you.

“ And we know that all things work together for good

To those who love God, To those who are called according

To His purpose”.

_ Romans 8:28

God permits the devil sometimes to touch believers to help redirect their lives, to correct their steps, to build them up for the kind of assignment He has for them and to perfect their righteousness. We have seen part of this in chapter one of this book, when we were dealing with Job’s case. Job was without blame or sin, but God allowed Satan to try him. Job 2: 6.

In the book of Matthew chapter 4 verses one to eleven, we can see also the temptation of Jesus by the devil. Test ,trials and tribulation are permitted by God, and whosoever overcomes them automatically gets promoted and increased spiritually and physically.

“ Blessed is the man who endures temptation; For when he has

Been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the

Lord has promised to those who love Him”.

_ James 1:12.

“For our light affliction, which is But for a moment,

Is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal

Weight of Glory. While we do not look at the things which are seen,

But at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen

Are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal”.

_ 2Cor.4:17.

God does not test anyone, but grants permission for trials, temptation and problems of life. Therefore, whenever you face any strange challenges in life, find out what you are doing now, that you should not be doing or what you are not currently doing, that you should start doing immediately. This could be done prayerfully.

If God shows you that your position in Him is right, then you must know that God has an assignment in mind for you, and He is preparing you for the assignment. Unfortunately, many believers stay longer than necessary in one class for too long without getting promotion; Because they fail to find out quickly while the problem was allowed and what God has in stock for them. They will rather be crying, blaming God and murmuring. So many of those believers run from one deliverance program to the other, instead of spending time with God, to find out what the problem is. I do understand, however that some cases might need some deliverance prayers, But those cases are those that have demonic attacks or demon possessed. Whatever the case might be, you must know that all cases are permitted by God to lead such victims to Himself (God).

The complete deliverance might not be obtained, until such person decides to surrender all to Jesus.

Most of these afflicted people run from one pastor to the other ,looking for miracles and deliverance instead of renewing their relationships with their maker. How could God be interested in someone, and the person is only interested in miracle and deliverance. It is very advisable to go quickly to God in prayers to find out why the problem persists, instead of running around for solution. If you know why God allowed that problem or trial, you will not be in the problem for too long before you get your victory or permanent solution and eventually gain your promotion.

“ Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted by God,

For God can not be tempted by evil, nor does He

Himself temp any one”.

__ James 1:13.

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                                SHARING THE GOSPEL.

Beloved in Christ, After such a wonderful experience you have got in Christ and many things you have seen Him do in your life and the word that you have acquired in the Bible, you now need to start sharing the Gospel that saved you from the devil and hell with other people.

This Job of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and heaven is not only for pastors and evangelists alone, But for all that have benefited from the fountain of life. He has saved you, so that you may save others.

This job of soul winning is a work of commission to all those who are saved from the anger to come. Those that are redeemed by the blood of the lamb of God.

“ And He said to them Go into all the world and preach the

Gospel to every creature , He who believes and is baptized

will be saved; But he who does Not believe will be condemned”.

_ mark 16:15-16.

Every believer is committed to spread the Gospel of Jesus to all nations.

As you are doing this, you will begin to grow more and more and also begin to experience some gifts of the Holy-spirit that you need for the purpose of the Gospel that you spread. In the course of spreading this Gospel, you will be coming across sick people, demon possessed and less privileges. You are to be ministering to their needs. God does not give the gifts for showmanship or for commercial purposes. He makes the gifts available to meet the needs of the people that you preach to. To make them realize that you are preaching the Gospel of the living God.

“ This signs shall follow those who believe; In my name they will

Cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

They will take up serpents, and if they drink anything

Deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands

On the sick, and they will recover”.

_ mark 16: 17-18.

Therefore, if you notice any of the manifestation of the power of God during your period of sharing of the Gospel of Christ,please let all glory and praise go to the Lord. You are not to share part of the Glory,either by publicity or broadcasting of it. Your ability to experience miracles in your ministry does not signify that your heaven is guaranteed. God is not interested in the number of signs,wonders and miracles you perform, but your soul and all the souls of those you preach to. .

“ However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you,

but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

_Luke 10:20.

You may start by sharing the Gospel to the members of your family that does not know Jesus yet and your friends, then to your school mates, colleagues at work and every other person you come across. You may also organize a group evangelism to hospitals, prison yards etc. Necessary permission may be obtained from necessary authorities before you can do the hospital or prison evangelism .You are not advised to go on evangelism alone, especially, if you are preaching to the people other than those you know.

“ Calling the twelve to Him, He began to send them out

Two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits.”

_Mark 6:7.

“and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea

and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Acts 1:8b

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                                        FRIENDSHIP.

As you grow in faith, you will need to stop having unbelievers as your intimate friends. You must find some genuine children of God to be your friends. Friends you keep determines how far you can go with Christ.

Keep friends that will add to your spiritual value and not those who will relegate your spiritual growth. There is always a reflection of the friends you keep in some areas of your life or character. Your life in Christ needs to be guided with all diligence, therefore you must do away with ways that the enemy might come through to mess up your new found life. Don’t forget that an unbeliever may be an instrument in the hands of the devil, which can be used against your Christian life at any time. You may still keep the previous friends as acquaintances, but not as intimate friends.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:

for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?

and what communion hath light with darkness?

– 2 Corinthians 6:14

“ As Iron sharpens Iron, So a man sharpens the

Countenance of his friend”.

_ Proverbs 27:17.

It is only a genuine Bible believing child of God that you could always share the word of God with, pray with and share views about life with.

Any unbeliever does not have Godly advise for you when you need encouragement. Their advise will send you away from God’s presence and if care is not taken ,you will be pushed into the process of backsliding and many more troubles. When you have friends that do not allow you to pray, read the word of God and fast, you must quickly be separated from such immediately. Some of the process of backsliding is when you can no longer, read the bible daily, when you find it difficult to pray or lost concentration in prayers ,when fasting does not interest you any more and when you see that you suddenly lost confidence in presenting your programs before God before executing them. All those are the symptoms of backsliding. Be vigilant !

Song

O what a wonderful, wonderful day, the day I will never forget; After I’d wandered in darkness astray, Jesus my Saviour I met. O what a tender, compassionate friend, He met the need of my heart; Shadows dispelling, with joy I am telling, He made all the darkness depart.

Chorus Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, (filled my soul) When at the cross the Saviour made me whole; (made me whole) My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day, Heaven came down and glory filled my soul! (filled my soul)Born of the Spirit with life from above into God’s family divine, Justified fully thru Calvary’s love, O what a standing is mine! And the transaction so quickly was made, when as a sinner I came, Took of the offer, of grace He did proffer, He saved me, O praise His name!Chorus Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, (filled my soul) When at the cross the Saviour made me whole; (made me whole) My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day, Heaven came down and glory filled my soul! (filled my soul) Now I’ve a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time;I have a future in heaven for sure there in those mansions sublime. And it’s because of that wonderful day, when at the cross I believed; Riches eternal and blessings supernal, from His precious hand I received.Chorus Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, (filled my soul) When at the cross the Saviour made me whole; (made me whole) My sins were washed away and my night was turned to day, Heaven came down and glory filled my soul! (filled my soul)

End of song

God Bless you. I hope to See you in Heaven some day.