SPIRITUAL KEYS TO AVOIDING FORNICATION

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17TH
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER FAUSTINA OBIRI

Four Keys To Avoiding Fornication

~Being honest
Sometimes when there is a problem affecting a believer, he refuses to share. How then do you expect the problem to be solved ?  And in sharing too, there should be total honesty.
If you refuse to share your problems and be honest about it, know that your pride and ego is at work. And this is a kind of spiritual danger.

~Prayer
After being honest with God and anyone else you have shared your problems with, prayer follows.
               Luke 22:46
...rise and pray,lest ye enter into temptation

~Deliverance
Some cases of fornication needs deliverance. Some people, especially those suffering from chronic fornication need to visit their pastor so that he delivers them from evil.
                   Luke 8:29
for he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man....

~Seek Grace and Mercy
Its only grace that can help you resist fornication. Likewise, its only mercy that can help you to be forgiven.
God is merciful to deliver you from fornication.
And woe unto you when you say grace is in abundance so you can go and fornicate and come back to ask for forgiveness. You need emergency deliverance.
Don't think that you are a super human and can resist every temptation. Flee and pray.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the communion, fellowship, contribution, participation, 10 000 children, and the first 💚 of the Holy Spirit be with is now and forever more...
                      Amen

THINGS THAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU TITHE

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15TH
MESSAGE BY CHIEF ELDER FAUSTINA

Ten Things That Happen When You Tithe.

√ You honour God
                  Proverbs 3:9
honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits if all thine increase....

√ Every time you tithe, you remember God
                   Deuteronomy 8:11,18
beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God......but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth

√ Every time you tithe, you worship God.
                    Deuteronomy 26:10
....I have brought the first fruits of the land...and worship before the Lord thy God

√ You show respect for Holy things
                     Leviticus 27:32
...the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord

√ Every time you tithe, you obey God
                      Deuteronomy 26:14
...but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God....

√ You demonstrate faith when you tithe.
                       Malakai 3:8

√ You appreciate full time ministry
                         Nehemiah 13:10

√ You demonstrate your belief in eternity.
                     Mathew 6:19-20

√ You obtain a blessing and avoid curses.
                   Malachi 3:8

√ You demonstrate the knowledge of the source of your blessings
      

WHY NON-TITHERS BECOME POOR

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8TH
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER FAUSTINA OBIRI.

It is very important to pay our tithes. The Bible says in Malachi 3:10, bring ye all tithes..... If I would not open you the windows of heaven...
A lot of people believe that only those under the law are to pay tithes, that if grace and truth are for us then we are not to pay tithes.

These people forget that tithing was started by Abraham. Moses did not initiate tithing but rather documented it.

Why Non Tithers Become Poor
√ They have nothing to harvest.
                  Hosea 8:7
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap whirlwind....

√ They do not attract blessings upon their lives.
                   Malachi 3:10
bring ye all tithes..... If I would not open you the windows of heaven...

√ They are cursed.
                     Malachi 3:8
...wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

√ Because devourers constantly eat their wealth
                      Malachi 3:11
And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes....

√ The fruit of their field is constantly destroyed.

√ They lose their fruits before they get the chance to be harvested.

QUIET TIME, THE MOST IMPORTANT HABIT OF OUR LIFE

THURSDAY MIDWEEK SERVICE
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER FAUSTINA OBIRI

A habit is something we do always and most of the time, unconsciously. When we wake up every morning, we yawn and stretch our body without even thinking about it: habit.

How can we then make having our quiet time our habit?
Quite time is our personal time with God. The best time to have a quiet time is in the morning.

People In The Bible That Always Had a Quiet Time With God.....

√ Jesus Christ went to church everyday.
                     Luke 4:16
....as his custom was, he went into the synagogue...

√ Daniel always went on prayer retreats.
                       Daniel 6:10
....he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed...

Ten Things A Christian Must Know About Habit.

~ A habit is an act that is repeated without thinking or planning.
~ A habit is an act that becomes your custom whether you become conscious of it or not.

~ A habit is often an insignificant act that seems to have no power to affect the future.
~ A habit can be good, bad, natural or spiritual.

~Bad habits lead to consistent failure and defeat without realising what is happening.
~ Good habits lead to consistent success and victory without the person realising what he is doing.

~ Bad habits are easy to form but difficult to leave and good habits are difficult to form but easy to leave it.
~ Good habits are repeated as easily as bad habits.

~ Every successful Christian has a number of good habits that has brought him to success.
~ Habits are a safety procedure for Christians.

Make having your quiet time a habit.
God bless you as you have your quiet time everyday.

MINISTERING TO YOUR LEADER: Blessings Involved In Honouring Your Father

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER FAUSTINA

√ When you honour your father, it shall be well with you.
                    Ephesians 6:3
...... that it may be well with you.
The woman with the alabaster box honoured Jesus by washing His feet. Jesus blessed her, it was well with her.

√ When you honour your father, you have long life.
                            Ephesians 6:3
...... and thou mayest live long on earth.
                             Proverbs 3:1
... and long life shall they add unto thee.

√ When you honour your prophet, you will be delivered from strange men and women.
                            Proverbs 6:23
.... to keep thee...from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman

√ When you honour your father, you will be honoured.
                            John 12:18
Abraham honoured God's call snd God made him a great nation    

√ When you honour your prophet, you are delivered from costly mistakes.
                    Proverbs 5:1
...... and that thy lips may keep knowledge

√ When you honour your father, you will prosper

√ When you honour your father, you receive your father's blessings.
                          Genesis 27:25
...... that my soul may bless thee

√ When you honour your father, heavens are opened unto you.
                          Genesis 28:10
.... and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending.

√ When you honour your prophet, He provides all your needs.
                      Philippians 4:19
..... but my God shall supply all your needs

WHY MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD BY BISHOP DAG HEWARD-MILLS

GOOD FRIDAY MESSAGE:APRIL 14TH

Opening Scripture
Luke 1

Second Scripture
John 3:16

It is easy for people to believe Jesus is the son of God, mostly due to his declarations and what He claimed to be .

Jesus said 'I  am the way, the truth and the life. No  one goes to the Father, except through me'

Jesus said 'I am the shepherd '

Jesus said 'I am the comforter and the resurrection "

The most important is that Jesus died for us.

Through His death and resurrection, we got our salvation.
Through Jesus' death and resurrection we get our healing.

When God decided to save us, He did not  use the blood of  an angel, the blood of a Ghanaian nor the blood of a  Nigerian. But He used the blood of his son, the only begotten,  blood that never loses power, the blood that speaks.

You can never be saved by the preachings your hear all the time.  Only one thing can save you and that is the blood of Jesus.

It is  the blood that gives us strength from day to day.
The blood that has power, the blood that never expires and  that is why even  after two thousand and seventeen years, the blood still saves and works wonders.

Jesus the saviour will save you, accept Him and confess Him as your Lord and personal saviour.

Jesus has already made you a new person and you are a new creation.

Remember, to love the lord is the greatest command.

love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your might.

                       

                       Jesus is our first love

YOU AND YOUR PROPHET BY CHIEF ELDER FAUSTINA

A prophet is a man whom God has sent and has the power to take you out and bring you in

And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
                               Hosea 12:13

From our Scripture, it can be inferred that..

*Your prophet can take you out of poverty, difficulty, distress and bring you to safety.

*Your prophet can cause your rise and your fall.
                            Luke 2:34

*There are different kinds of prophets who work in different ways.
                          1 Corinthians 12:4

After knowing who a prophet is, the question that comes to mind is      "What must you  do with your  prophet "?

-Receive him
.                       John 13:20   Matthew 10:41

-Honour him
.                      Mark 6:2-4    Malakai 1:6

-Accept him
.                       John 8:48

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THE SERIES OF THE TRUTH BY PROPHET BENJAMIN BAAH

SATURDAY, APRIL 1ST

And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set ye free....
     ......John 8:32-38

For you to be free, you must know the truth. Until then, you are in bondage.
It is not just about knowing the truth, but you have to accept it, before it can work for you.

Until you accept it and believe it, you will still be in bondage.

In this world, everything is based on facts, based on assumptions, based on guesses and ideas :that is the definition of truth to them. Hiding what is beneath, which Is the truth.

The fact limits you, the fact cannot cross boundaries, but the truth can go into generations.
In the world lies fact, but in Christ Jesus we have truth.
We Christians live by faith, and it is our truth. The truth gives us assurance. The truth gives us purpose, The truth does not give us assumptions.

What you accept automatically becomes the truth. It creates a false identity that you live in.
If you tell yourself you are a failure, that is how your life will be. If you see yourself ugly, as a liar, as a fornicator, till thy kingdom comes, that's how you will be.
Stop accepting the false identity of the devil and accept the truth from Jesus Christ.

What you accept rules you and gives you identity ,until you reject it, accept the truth and reverse the false identity.

The truth is what the Bible says about you. The truth is what has been prophesied about you.  The truth is what thy Lord thy God Jesus has said about you  and so accept the truth.

What you accept has the power to
Set you free or put you in bondage.

You can only effect a change when you know the truth.

.             
                                            There is minsheeee

THE SIX ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH BY LR JOY BRUCE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15TH

It is better to obey God than to please man - LR. DR. JOY BRUCE

Jesus Christ assured His followers one thing: the gate of hell will not prevail against us.

The Enemies

*Those who are ignorant.

*Those who pretend: given all sort of intimidation in church.

*Those who forget: if you are forgetful, you become ungrateful.

*Those who are dangerous: some people are in church, they go to different mallams for spiritual protection.

*Those who are disloyal.

The number one enemy of the church :
*Those who accuse
Revelations 12:10
Every time. you open your mouth to accuse,  you are working for Satan

Whenever accusations go down, salvation increases.
Whenever accusations go down, the strength of the people of God increases.

The kingdom of God will do well …
The kingdom of God will be established when accusations go down.

Accusations is close to madness: looking for evidence that don't exist, then we start making up stories.

Our musics may be different
Our clothings may be different
Our dances may be different

But if we all believe that Jesus came to die, and shed His blood for us, then it is okay.

Warning To Accusers
Psalm 109

            He is God, the defender of His people and you are not alone...

SPIRITUAL ENTITIES BY LR DR. JOY BRUCE

THURSDAY, MARCH 16TH

If you are a Christian, you are always in a war -LR. DR. Joy Bruce
1 Tim. 1:18      2 Tim. 2:4           2 Cor.  3&4

One of the main things we have to know is our enemy.
Some of us, we negotiate with the devil. Many of us are falling apart because we are not laboring: we just warm the chairs in church.

What are these entities??
Revelations 9:2-11
In the scripture, some people wanted to die, but death wasn't coming, because some locusts were released onto them.

Rev. 16:13    Rev. 9:17   2Kings 2:11   Gen 3

As we are moving on  this Earth, there are spiritual entities everywhere.

Do you have it takes to sit and study the word of God until a seal breaks in your life?

Main Scripture Rev 6:1-8

There are many things that happen to us that we think the causes are just physical. But there is nothing physical about it.
Some of us in our entire family we are the only  persons that has ever attended  a  university - its spiritual
Some of us too when we look in our family, divorce is everywhere -it's spiritual
Some of us come from families where we quarrel over everything impossible and possible -it is not normal, neither is it natural.

Could it be a horse or locust that has been released? Sometimes we pray, but we pray amiss. What we always care about is I, Me and Mine.
So many things we plan in life and suddenly it changes. Just as in Exodus when the Israelites began to complain when Pharaoh changed his mind and Pharaoh's people were approaching them.
Some of us face little problems and we start to blame and talk against God and talk against the men of God that lead us.

There is only one truth. If there are devils entities, there are more powerful entities from God working for you.

A certain cloud has shielded you from the claws of the enemy.

The Lord may not take you out of a problem. But rather take you through.

Every problem you face, just like the Red Sea, when you pray, may they be dried. As you stretch your rod and pray the Lord will bring all your problems and enemies down.                                                                                  
                  Amen
May The Good Lord Be With Us All...

THE TYPE OF LEADERSHIP TO AVOID BY LR JOY BRUCE

TUESDAY, MARCH 14TH

It is better to be inside the church than outside.... just like Noah's ark, no matter what happened in there, it was better to be inside than outside -LR Joy Bruce

The type of leadership to avoid is the leadership of a child.
Reasons why the leadership of a child should be avoided

*The leadership of a child is characterised by a lot of disorganization.

In Isaiah 3:1-5 , the Bible says that anarchy will prevail if a child leads.
It is a child who in times of prayers would just walk to mother to ask for water, an adult would not interrupt the flow of the holy spirit …
Some of you, your churches are so disorganized that when service is to start at 9, by 10 only one person will be there.
Every office you go to and there is total chaos, the people there are not productive.

*The leadership of a child is characterised by not understanding anything that is a little complex.

When they say 1+1 is 2, and they change it to 1+1*5-1, people don't get it. But life is complicated like that. And when you think that church is a simple thing, then you are a child.
When you support only your denomination, you are a child.
If God wanted all churches to be the same, He would have given us only one apostle.

But because that is not the case, we would be one body, enjoying our differences and thriving with it.
Never rejoice in the downfall of another.

*A child does not understand the financial cost of anything.

There are some leaders as soon as there is little money, anything at all they want to celebrate. Many churches cannot even repair and replace their faulty instruments, yet they celebrate their first, second and third anniversary.

*The leadership of a child is characterized by the desire for toys

There are some people, every phone that comes out, they want to get one.
The church does not have a building, yet you have a car.
The church has no proper instruments, and yet your office is decorated with different kinds of AC.

*The leadership of a child is characterized by the inability to find practical and realistic solutions to problems.

We haven't solved most Of our problems because the solutions are not practical.
There are always a lot of talkings: impossible things brought about as solutions.

Many of you have spent most of your time criticizing others, thereby bearing no fruit.

The Lord who has set your heart on, will never forsake you.
And when you get up to pray, pray that your leadership will not be like that of a child , but the leadership God brings.

                         Amen

LEADERSHIP BY LR JOY BRUCE

SCC WEEK, MONDAY MARCH 13TH

"Unto other nations He gave them leadership, but unto us Ghanaians, He gave us happiness: let's not take it for granted "  -LR Joy Bruce...

Leadership is a circular subject and at any point in time one will be in this position one way or the other.
The Bible says in Isaiah 3:1-5 that, If ye that are supposed to lead fail, He will give children and babes the authority to lead.

KEYS TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

*The key of hiding and flourishing

Proverbs 10:19         Ecc. 5:2-3
People are too much in a hurry to come out and be seen. Be like the snake and hide. When you finish hiding and flourishing and you come out, it is just between you and your God. And the God who was there in your beginnings will take you to an awesome and successful end.

*The key of making decisions

Decisiveness is the greatest attribute of a leader. If you are going to be a great leader, you need to have the courage to decide.

Instances God made decisions
Let there be light
Let us create a woman for Adam

Anytime you make a decision, accusers will arise, but do not let that stop you.

To make decisions, one needs to.....

*be courageous
*see ahead
*consider the consequences of failing to take a decision

When you make a decision, make sure to implement it.

                          Is There Joy??????

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A NEW CREATION

SUNDAY, JANUARY 22ND
SERMON BY CHIEF ELDER JOHNSON
     

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
  2 Corinthians 5:17

It is written in the Bible that, ye are in the world, but ye are not of the world 
In the same vein you are in your family, but spiritually you are not of  the family..

Great Principles About The New Creation
*man is a spirit and has a soul and lives in a body.

* the spirit of an unsaved man is dead and desperately wicked

*spirit of the saved man is righteous and holy