ODUNAYO OLAJIDE

We thank God for a new week, we thank God how He has been protecting us since the month started, we are not making mockery of anyone, we are making us to see that God has done a lot for us. It is the grace of God that has kept us safe from dangers and from dangerous people, may God's name be praised. We also thank God for how He has been coming through for us at the point of our needs, we are not put to shame before getting help, may God's name be praised in Jesus Christ name. We are starting with thanksgiving and then we will confess our sins, pray for the Holy Spirit to lead us how to pray right and then we pray reminding God of His promise to us that He will go before us and make all the crooked places straight. Those situations that are giving us sleepless nights, God is promising us that He will fix them for us this week. God also promised that He will break gates of brass into pieces, meaning the blockage on our ways to greater heights, God will scatter them. God will also cut bands of iron assunder. All those gathering against us , God will cut them assunder, they will fight against themselves and they will never be in agreement against us anymore. I pray these words of comfort from God encourages everyone of us today and we go in this confidence this week and this end of the year. Amen.

Nowadays, the end time pastors and prophets are telling their congregation and followers to drop money before they receive a blessing or before they receive a miracle. We thank God for this our small group that is correcting the wrong teachings that false teachers are teaching in the church. God is teaching us today that if He is God that gives us rain, sunshine, life, and all good things without asking for money, then if anyone tells you to give money before receiving any blessing, such person is not telling you about God. Or if anyone tells you to come and give money after receiving a blessing, he is not telling you about our great God of Heaven and earth, our God gives us liberally and upbraided not, meaning He gives in abundance even more than we ask or need and He will never ask us to come and pay for it. The church is for charity, church is not for business. Church is a place people that are weak, poor, broken hearted come and they get their needs met. The money rich people bring to church is to cater for the poor and needy, it is not for the pastors or prophets to use to make themselves rich and oppress the church members. May God pull everyone under the bondage of these false teachings out. Let's embrace God ourselves, don't let us turn any prophet or pastor to intermediary between us and God. It is sin that cause hindrance between us and God, let's take away our sins with the blood of Jesus Christ so we don't have to worship demons or through pastors and prophets that got their powers from demons before getting our needs met. Any pastor asking you to make any sacrifice before getting your needs met is teaching you idol worship. Our God doesn't need anything from us before answering our prayers. All He wants is for us to have a good relationship of Father and child with Him by confessing our sins and going to Him with holy hands and pure hearts.

Today God wants to assure us again that He answers prayers. Because we are humans and there is limit to what our body can endure, we sometimes feel heavy hearted because of what we are going through and we feel the weight can just be lifted right now. This is reason many people find different methods just to get our needs met, some even get what they want but another level of sorrow has been added to them, and the cycle continues. This is what God does not want us to experience by Him assuring us again and again that He answers prayers, He is the God of all flesh, He is the creator of the whole universe and we are part of His creations and He cares about us much more than the lilies of the field or anything we see that God has created, God created humans and made us head of everything He has created. God even tells us He has written us on the palm of His hands just to give us rest of mind that God is taking care of us more than we can imagine. With all these promises of God and words of assurance, whenever situations come that looks difficult don't let us doubt God's power to fix it. Don't let us go and serve other gods to get our needs met, don't let us mix idol worship with the name of Jesus Christ and be saying prayers alone cannot fix it. It is not true. Prayer alone is enough to fix it for us. Jesus Christ gave us example by how He prayed, all He did was pray and He never needed any rituals to get His answers, Jesus Christ is the one we should follow His foot steps, even in the garden, all He did was pray and He accepted to the will of the Father when He saw it was necessary that the cup should not pass over Him. That is also another thing we should hold on to when praying, sometimes God will allow what we are praying that He should take away because He wants to do a greater glory from the situation, that should not lead us to seeking solution from power of darkness that gives a blessing and adds sorrows to the person. God gives us and does not add sorrow. Another thing we should consider when we pray is if there is sin in our lives, God doesn't answer prayer of sinners because God wants us to talk to Him like Father to child, when there is sin in our lives we can't talk to Him as Father to child, first reconcile with God and then ask Him what you need and He will do it.

While I was hurting, pained, disappointed, crying because I want to move forward but help from father is not coming, God kept speaking to my heart in soft voice His sweet promise that He will never leave me nor forsake me. Then God put it on my mind to encourage everyone of us with this word of God that is the sweet promise that He will never leave us nor forsake us. When father choose to watch us suffer and brag about his achievements, God says He will never forsake us. When family members claim to care but won't lift a finger to help, God says He will never leave us nor forsake us. When even mother doesn't understand the deep pain we feel and she cannot help, God says He will never leave us nor forsake us. I have used my own experiences to tell us different ways God can come through for us at lonely roads. I don't know what anyone's situation is, but I am sure this promise of God is for you too. God will never leave us nor forsake us. If God has been there many times in the past without failing is, He won't start to fail us now. God will surely come through for us again and again and He will have all the glory. Amen.

It is easy to forget that God loves us because of whatever we are going through at any particular time, today God is telling us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. This Psalm 23 is a psalm of David, a man who was once a shepherd in the wilderness, he saw how he cared for the sheep and he see that is the same way God cares for us to as His children. Many times we want something and God sees this is not going to give us an expected end, God doesn't allow us to get it, it is still God's love for us, God knows the green pastures, He leads us there. If someone had told Lot that Sodom and Gomorrah is a fake green pastures that will soon be destroyed, he would have doubted it because his physical eyes was seeing green pastures. Today God wants to encourage us that He loves us, don't use another method that is against the will of God or that doesn't have the fear of God to fix anything for yourself. If God chooses not to give it to you then it is out of His love to protect you. God also leads His children to the path of righteousness. God knows where our faith can be built in Him so we can fulfill His purpose for our lives. God will not lead us to the path that will make us fall into sin. Let us trust His leadings, He knows more than us. Another thing God does for us is to prepare a table of greatness for us in the presence of those who once looked down on us and thought we are nothing. God has not finished with you yet, He is working the best out that will give us the perfect things we need that God will be glorified.

We thank God for not leaving us blinded and deaf to the truth of the gospel this end time that people are running after the fake gospel that keeps getting them trapped and putting heavy loads on them. Today God is teaching us that the Spirit of God is one. Every child of God has been redeemed by the the same blood of Jesus Christ, yet it is the same Holy Spirit that is given to us. We don't need to fake it, we don't need to assume it, we are to pray until we receive this Holy Spirit. The work of the Holy Spirit in us is to help us to be witnesses unto Jesus Christ to a world of sin. We are not ashamed to stand out of the crowd among people that don't know God even though they will consider us to be odd and unaccepted into their group. These are the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us comfort in times of troubles. The Holy Spirit teach us all truth, hence there is no need to idolise any man just because he calls himself a pastor or prophet. The same thing pastors know, the church members know too if we are all born of the same Holy Spirit. We can go boldly to the throne of mercy by ourselves without waiting for prophet to do that for us. Any pastor claiming to you that he has more power than you is not talking about the power of God, the power of God that comes with the Holy Spirit is the same. Let's be watchful this end time. Don't enter the traps of unholy pastors and prophets before you learn. Learn now by knowing that Christians are saints of God here on earth. We are going to be like the saints in heaven, it is the same reward we will have in heaven, so why should we start being different from one another here on earth. The fruits of the Spirit of God is the same for everyone that has it. So run from gatherings the pastors or prophets wants you to see him as more powerful than the church members. Spirit of God is not boastful or proud, it doesn't put people in bondage or turn people to slaves, Spirit of God gives freedom. Run from pastors that want you to idolise them and worship them, they don't have the Holy Spirit. They are using spirit of the devil, they are bringing strange fire to the altar of God. And God will judge them. Don't partake in their punishment, run from them. Seek the true Holy Spirit that gives freedom and peace and comfort.