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SPIRIT-BASED PLANNING AND STRATEGY 11 (THE MIND OF CHRIST)

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Beyond the fellowship with the Word of God is fellowship with the Spirit of Christ. The first thing about fellowship the Spirit of Christ is the consciousness of His presence. You need to first and foremost be conscious of the Presence of the Holy Spirit with and in you for you to be able to fellowship with Him. Sure, this is very difficult for some people whose lives are ruled by feelings and what they experience through their five physical senses. You should not be like that. Your life should be ruled by the Word of God. That is the exact reason why we started with understanding and submitting to the Lordship of the Word of God. Thus, no matter what you see, feel, hear or experience in any way, let the Word of God be the only thing that matters to you. Whatever negates the Word of God is not worthy of your consideration. Now, Jesus has already assured you in His Word that "...the Father, ...shall give you another Comforter [the Holy Spirit], that he may abide with you FOR E...

FEAR NOT

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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 ...

THE CHANGE, THE CHANGED AND THE CHANGER 4

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TEXT: Romans 1:3-4 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead MESSAGE The the manifestation of the son of God is by a divine declaration which is marked with power. Our template is the Lord Jesus and so we'd once again observe Him to understand this process. The first of the two times that God audibly declared Jesus as His son, He directed the statement to Jesus himself. He said, "Thou art my beloved Son..." (Luke 3:22) . The first person God wants to manifest His son to is the Son himself. Each christian can either trace his ancestry to God or to his earthly parents. That which you are conscious of will take precedence and determine your experiences and scope of operation. If you live your life being conscious of your earthy ancestry, circumstances and personality, you can't amount to much ...

THE CHANGE, THE CHANGED AND THE CHANGER 2

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TEXT: Isaiah 60:1-3 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. MESSAGE: Yesterday we found out that we're the change that the world is waiting for. But take notice that the world is not just waiting for us, they await our MANIFESTATION. Unless you manifest as a Son of God, nothing will happen. In fact, you will he affected by the darkness that covers the people and Satan may continue to have a nice time in and around you. But when you begin to manifest, you can save the whole world. God says arise, shine for your light is come. The eternal life that is in you is the light of the World. According to John 1:1-5, in Him (Jesus) was life. The life is called eternal or everlasting life. This life of Go...

THIS LIFE OF GOD IN YOU

YOU HAVE A NEW LIFE IN CHRIST TEXT: Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himse lf for me. MESSAGE Like a very Reverend Man of God would say, "When you got born again, nothing happened to you. In the real sense, you are what happened" Oh how true! You are the miracle of the season. The Almighty God who ihabits eternity and the spirit realm has just stepped into the earth realm and into time through you!  What happened in the spirit, is that you actually died--ending the life you got from your ancestors; life that is in the blood and sustained by the blood; a life affected by ancestral covenants, curses and sin which are passed down through the bloodline. They ended on that moment of receiving Jesus into your life. Then you got born again. This time not by blood or the will of man but by the Word of God and His H...

THE LIFE OF GOD IS IN YOU

TEXT: 1John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. MESSAGE When I was younger, I sang and prayed "I want to live eternal life God save my soul". I prayed, oh how I prayed. I prayed fervently with strong crying and tears. Of course, I thought eternal life is the life that we'd be given when we resurrect or rapture to meet with Christ. Then and only then, I thought, one could have eternal life. Evidently, my challenge was that I didn't know what eternal life (or everlasting life) means. Eternal life is not simply a life without end or an undying life. Eternal life is the life of God. Just like plants have plant life, animals have animal life, humans have human life, so God has the divine life. This divine life has no end, thus it is refered to as eternal or everlasting. This life is not susceptible to death, decay, or wea...