Christ Diplomat (Exhortations)

Text: Mal. 2:14-16 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.  15  And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. note note note  16  For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. MESSAGE God has made His mind known concerning our homes. As a legal consultant for a leading civil society organization on the eradication Gender Based Violence, it pains me how much homes are under the attack of the enemy. Every day more homes are breaking up. Divorce rate is increasing tremendously. M...

TEXT: 2Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. MESSAGE A past President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria noted that one reason why the most populous and arguably the most endowed African country was living very far below its capacity is because there are more think tanks than there are 'do tanks'. How true is that of us today? How many brilliant plans, ideas, prophesies and revelations of yours have killed by procrastination and left embalmed in the pages of your diaries and planners? Oh: did you think that you simply manufacture that brilliant concept? Is that why you think you have the right to either implement of kill it? No! As a child of God, you have the mind of Christ (if you study God's word) and many of our concepts are Holy Spirit inspired concepts. They could revolutionalise our world and lives if only you allowed them to manifest. In all these, what do you think has been your bane all these ...

TEXT: Matthew 8:2‭-‬3 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.  And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. MESAGE: Many times, we don't have trouble believing in the power of God. The Christian who is dying of a terminal disease believes strongly in the power of God to heal him instantly. The one that's suffering under the burden of lack and poverty believes that it doesn't take God a snap of the finger to turn around his fortune. The issue actually is that while most of us believe in the power of God, we don't believe in his willingness to use that power for us or in our case. We believe God CAN heal us but are not sure whether he WILL do so. That exactly is the case of this man in our text. But Jesus clears our doubt here. He says, "I will" Friend, the willingness of God is never in doubt. He is always willin...

TEXT 1Thes 4;16-18  16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  17  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words MESSAGE Someone dies, at least so he c laims, and goes to hell, sees some great men of God are in hell alongside some horrible sinners. Then he sees a very infuriated God because there is non righteous. "Blow the trumpet!". He orders. Then Jesus falls to his knees begging for a postponement because everyone would go to hell if God ends it all now. He weeps profusely such that his Calvary wounds begins to bleed again. God finally agrees. Jesus quickly dispatches angels in one last frantic effort to warn men and allows some dead men including himself to resu...

HOW TO DESTROY YOUR OBASTACLES TEXT: Exodus 14:16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. MESSAGE When Moses needed to divide the red sea, all that God did was to teach him how to use the all purpose weapon that God has given to him. That which to Moses was the rod, is now to us as the Word of God. Many of us are in a fix today because we are still  unskilful in the word of righteousness  (Heb 5:13). The word of God is the sword of the Spirit that can vanquish any adversary. Its quick (that means its alive) and powerful and sharper than any twoedged sword. It can sever that cancer from your body.praise God! Your level of success in the use of this sword of the spirit is totally dependent on the level of your understanding of the word on righteousness  God told Moses to lift up the rod  God is teaching us today to lift up the word...

NOTABLE POWER TEXT: Exodus 14:15; Ephesians 1:18-20  15  And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: Ephesians 1:18-20 18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,  19  And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, note  20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, MESSAGE Moses was a man acquainted with the miraculous. He had seen the rod turn to snake. He has seen and done other miracles. But this is a sea! Is the rod going to create a ships or what? Parting the sea was totally incomprehensible. It was out of this world and beyond the imagi...

WHAT DO YOU SEE TEXT: Exodus 13:13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever MESSAGE Moses did not say stand still and you WILL see the salvation of the Lord. Rather He said "stand still and see..." What he was saying was that they should relax and consider, contemplate, visualize and fix their attention on the salvation that God has for them and not the condition thy found themselves. Whatever has your attention in the time of crisis, whatever you focus your mind on will determine your outcome. Abraham had a very nagging challenge. His wife was barren. God promised him to make him the father of nations yet he could not father a boy for another 25 years. He had every reason in the world to cry and whine and charge God with unfaithfulness to his word. But Abraham remained strong in faith. He hoped agains...

1Pet 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. MESSAGE Every one of us is concerned with one issue or the other at various time, season or period. We worry about getting married and for that matter, married to the right person. We worry about what to eat, what to wear, where to stay and even what someone may say about us. Some have spouses that don't care about them and their feelings. Others have troublesome children that give them concern. For these and many more, many have cried themselves to sleep and others have wearied themselves to death. It shouldn't be so, dear Chritian. You have a Father that you can actually speak to. He cares, He hears, He listens. He is interested in you and so He wants to bear your burdens for you. Now that is a work of Grace. God's grace is so great that He wants to be your burden bearer. God says that you should cast ALL your cares on Him. All means ALL to the exclussion of none. In as much as it is a cause of concern, i...

TEXT: Exodus 14:5&9 5   And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us? 9. But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses  and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth , before Baalzephon . MESSAGE: The children of Israel were delivered from bondage but their slave masters would not let them be. They made frantic efforts to bing them back to their slavery. You might have been saved from the world, sin, sickness, bad habits, bad friends, demonic oppression, and other power of the devil. But the devil will not just sit back and accept defeat. He will continue to make efforts to bring you under his dominion. He will send you old friends to try to lure you back to sin. They will blackmail, threaten and laugh at you. That is...