Chidiotamiri @Chidiotamiri@dingdash.com

The holiest and greatest angels can't live in this evil world as humans. That's the reason why angels respect humans, especially those who have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb and who're no more under the dominion of sin and Satan. Beloved, to be alive and standing at this time proves that you're a hero. Please celebrate yourself even if no one does.

I always see INFLUENCE as a unique class of the anointing. Influence can easily do what the anointing may not do. It's reported by some media that Saudi Arabia is willing to bend their marriage law just to permit Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner, Georgina Rodriguez, live together, even though they're not married.

The children of the kingdom of God must always aspire to excel in various sectors of life so as to be able to wield influence in the world. Kingdom influence is God's strategy for the spreading of His kingdom even in the most difficult terrains.

We once had need for a volunteer missionary to be resident in one of our mission fields. By my calculations, I contacted a Christian brother whom I thought would be the best person for that role. But the brother politely declined after weeks of prayer to know the mind of the Lord. Honestly, I felt sad and disappointed. I was wondering why the Lord didn't touch this brother to agree to work with us as a missionary.

A few months later, I realized that the brother's decline of my offer was one of the best things that ever happened to our mission work. Another brother who was the most suitable for the role cane by himself to volunteer his services as a missionary. We have witnessed great results in just few months.

Today, if I see the other brother who rejected our proposal, I'll like to shake hands with him for his decision.

Sometimes, we should learn to celebrate it when people turn us down. They turned you down just because they don't qualify to fill up that vacancy in your life.

Lord, this sound that You hear
Is the voice of my faith;
In broken soul's anguish,
Clinging on You lest I perish;
Lord, the sound from this altar
Is the groaning of my faith.

Lord, these tears on Your feet
Are the droplets of my faith;
Streams of my love for Thee,
Break through the hardness in me;
Lord, the liquid in my eyes
Is the content of my faith.

Lord, this vow that I make
Is the promise of my faith;
Thy will and purpose is my pursuit,
Worldly trusts and ambitions I refute;
Lord, this pledge that I make
Is the token of my faith.

Lord, this song in Your ears
Is the joy of my faith;
Through Thy staff and Thy rod,
My joy blossoms like Aaron's rod;
Lord, this music that You hear
Is the melody of my faith.

Lord, this life that I live
Is the life of my faith;
Walking and working before Thy face,
To receive daily supply of Thy grace;
Lord, this breath that I breathe
Is the breath of my faith.

Christ is both a Gift and a Prize. As God's Gift, we're to receive Him by faith. But as a Prize to be won, it will cost us everything we have to win Him. You can freely receive this Gift if you've not done so. And if you have, are you willing to happily lose all you have to win Christ?

"Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ." Philippians 3:8

MY GOLD, MY MYRRH, MY FRANKINCENSE

Lord souls are my Gold
Hearts flayed by moral failure
Feet manacled in hell’s allure
Hands shackled in sufferings untold
I offer them to You as my Gold
True, eternal and pure.

My tears are my Myrrh
Dropping from my heart’s hearth
To preserve the treasure in this jar of earth
Droplets: bitter-sweet
Liquid: "cold-heat"
Substance: hearty and meet
This is the lyrics on my lyre.

On my knees I offer my Frankincense
Garbed in my priestly ephod
And enabled by the Spirit’s effort
Its fragrance rises to Your throne
As the particles awaken the drugged in sin
My incense is frank and quickens my sense
Happy birthday my Lord and my Own.

You don't need to read the predictions made by anyone about 2023 to know what the year holds for you. The Bible, which is the more sure word of prophecy, is most reliable and should guide you through next year.

It gives me joy to know that Jesus Christ isn't the second Adam, but the last Adam who came to terminate Adam's race and bring forth a new race called CHRIST.

The main reason why Jesus was born also became His main accusation that led to His crucifixion. Jesus was born to be the King of His kingdom on earth. This new kingdom is to be established in the hearts of regenerated men and women.

"Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." John 18:37

The accusation against Jesus that was hung over His head on the cross was, "THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS." Matthew 27:37

"I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil." Psalm 119:162

There are times when you need to raise a song before your closed down springs can flow again.

"Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it." Numbers 21:17

Did you know that church growth doesn't necessarily imply the growth of God's kingdom? The church is an agency of God's kingdom and whenever church growth doesn't translate to kingdom growth, it means that ecclesiastical emperors have hijacked the church and converted it to their personal empires.

The Christhood of Jesus Christ was ordained by God fundamentally to establish God's kingdom on earth. The church was established on earth strictly to spearhead this project.

When God seems to delay in answering your desperate prayer, watch out, He's up to doing an unprecedented work in your life.

"When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby... When he (Jesus) had heard therefore that he (Lazarus) was sick, he (Jesus) abode two days still in the same place where he (Jesus) was." John 11:4, 6

God used 10 different precious stones to create Lucifer. Yet when He sinned, there was no redemptive plan for him and the angels who followed him. But when man, who was made of ordinary dust sinned, God sent His Son to redeem him.

"O the love that sought me,
O the blood that bought me,
O the grace that brought me to the fold,
Wondrous grace that brought me to the fold!"

May we not be among those who mock the Lord with our worship.

"And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him." Mark 15:19

The first Adam was a farmer, wielding his farming tools. The last Adam was a carpenter with his nails, hammer, chisel, etc. Your profession is a suitable platform to fulfill your ministry. Please don't despise it.

We often speak about the prophetic rod of Moses which he used to subdue Egypt, rout Pharaoh and the entire army of Egypt. But we easily forget that it was first a shepherd's staff before it became a prophet's rod. But Moses had to first drop the rod in the presence of God for there to be a transmutation.

God is still in the business of transmuting your ordinary "professional rod" into a prophetic rod if you'll yield to Him your so-called secular business and surrender it to God as a suitable platform for kingdom advancement.

With that your professional rod -
You'll execute judgement on the gods of the land.

You'll compel the heathen to submit to our God and His Christ.

You'll deliver God's people held in captivity.

You'll divide the red sea.

In this end time move of the Holy Spirit, you may not need to cast away your professional rod. Take it with you back to Egypt and you'll see wonders happening in our business places.

The kingdoms of this world will surely become our Lord's.

It's amazing that after God created Adam and gave him the mandate to rule over the world, God made him a FARMER in order to fulfill the Edenic Commission. God didn't wear Adam an apostle's cloak, a bishop's cassock, or a prophet's mantle. Rather, God gave Adam the non-spiritual tools of agriculture.

Agriculture provided enough platform for Adam to wield both spiritual and secular authority. Never despise your so-called "secular jobs". The Spirit-filled apostle isn't superior to the Spirit-filled classroom teacher in a nursery school or a street sweeper. Learn to use your profession as a platform for kingdom expansion.

When we sin against God, we often go to Him in penitence asking for forgiveness. And we tell God with all sincerity: "I promise You that I won't do it again." God, knowing the future that we're likely going to commit the same sin again and again (and we actually do most times), still forgives us as though He believes us that we're not going to commit that sin again.

This is how God expects us to forgive our spouses when they offend us repeatedly.

We often quote, "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." But many of us don't know that the truth that makes free is only revealed to those believers who continue to follow Jesus Christ in discipleship (John 8:31, 32).