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Healing Hands

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  Anchor Scripture: Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and  to heal every disease and sickness. [ Matthew 10:1 NIV]. Unbelievers call it "magic" but we the believers call it "miracle". Do you know that not just pastors can lay hands on you and heal you? 😱 I'm bringing this good news to you this morning… any individual who has been baptized with  the Holy Ghost has healing hands!  HEALING can be defined as the direct interaction between one individual (the healer) and a  second (sick) individual with the intention of bringing about an improvement in the illness.  HEALING occurs through the integrating forces that restore, transform, sustain and nurture the  whole person (body, mind, spirit) at each phase and in every dimension of life, and within  relationships of the person to the creation, to other people, and to God. This definition is giving me amplified version vibe! I've heard so m...

God Speaks!

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Anchor Scripture:   However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not  speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to  come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. [ John 16:13-14 NKJ] The truth is God speaks to everyone, but it all depends on your ability to be sensitive to hear Him speak. God speaks to us through: 1. His word 2. His Spirit 3. People 4. Dreams 5. Past experiences 6. Nature 7. Books 8. Things we enjoy doing etc. ~HIS WORD~ Generally, God speaks to us through his Word. That is why studying the Bible is very necessary. When we read our Bible, we find out new things no doubt, also, we use those things  we learn from the Bible to make our lives better. The Bible teaches us precept by precept because truly it's an  instructional book  & our manual as well! It tells us what/what not to do. By your words I can...

Christian Devotion :)

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  Introduction The human spirit was designed to function best under the the atmosphere  of God's presence but when man fell, his spirit was disconnected from the life and presence of God … The result of this was SPIRITUAL DEATH. When you accept Christ into your life, your spirit was recreated with the life of God  & restored to  it. This new spirit needs to be sustained by CONSTANT FELLOWSHIP with God and by CONTINOUSLY FEEDING on the Word.  With this, it is safe to conclude that we do not only commune with God in our daily devotion but His present is deposited in our hearts so that we are strengthened and edified to function as God wants us to i.e His original plan for mankind. What then is CHRISTIAN DEVOTION? CHRISTIAN DEVOTION is an art of bringing out time to have personal fellowship with God. Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left [the house], and went out to a secluded place, and was praying there. [ Mark 1:35 AMP] Even...

Our most important "Relationship"

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Anchor scripture: No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known (John 1:18) You might wonder: How does one deepen their relationship with an invisible being? Some time back i was texting a friend before an online service started, and just as the theme music started to play, i told her that i had to go. Right then, she sent me a little smiley face and said:  "It makes me so happy to know you are strengthening your most important relationship the more." It has been a while since she has sent that and up till now i still think about that statement, to the extent i am evening sharing this experience with you guys. I had not thought of my relationship with of God in that light before but now that i think deeply about it, it is true! Indeed there is no relationship of greater importance than our relationship with God. But...... Why is it the most important relationship for us to spend time...

Mission Possible

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Anchor Scripture: He said to them, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation". (Mark 16: 15) Fam, our first and foremost mission  "should we choose to accept it"..... Is to go into this crooked world and preach the "Gospel of salvation" . God himself gave us a mission to preach the Gospel, that above the desire to be successful , rich , famous , and established we must also run with the vision of spreading the Gospel to every parts of the world. But somewhere along the line we have taken this message to mean : We must save people . But the truth is that it is not our mission to save anyone. Yes, i know how sad that is ): even if we want to save that close friend of ours who is in desperate need of the truth and the light, we do not have the power to save him/her.  Our only mission is to tell people about the G ood news and let God handle the rest. Our only mission is to intercede on behalf of the unsaved souls around us and l...

Prayer of the satisfied heart

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  I say to the Lord, my God:   “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.” (Psalm 16:2) In Psalm 16, David is taking refuge in God. Taking refuge includes David’s prayer for God to keep him. In other words, the prayer “preserve me”  in (Psalm 16:1) is itself a taking refuge in God .  But David doesn’t simply ask God to keep him. He also speaks and declares truth about who God really his. He stated the importance of God in the equation of his life.  (Psalm 16:2). The last phrase of verse 2 is packed with deep theological truth and precious fuel for worship. So, what does King David really mean when he says, “I have no good apart from you”? That: God is the source of all goodness. Have you ever heard this:  "Every good that is good comes from the God who is Good".   God is the maker and sustainer of all creations. Genesis 1 backs this truth, he creates and then appraises his work: “God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very goo...