Tuesday, 26 March 2019

FROM THE ARCHIVE: #HYMNALLY: FLOW WITH THE TIDE OF GOD // BY: OGUNSUYI OPEYEMI

Vol. 19.03.42

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1.       There are times when all seams vague
The times when all not clear
Such times when all seams not too well
Just flow with the tide of God

Chorus: 
Just flow with the tide of God (2x)
When all seems so blink and
Confusion seams to set in
Just flow with the tide of God

2.       Just flow with the tide of God
You can be sure it will take  to safety
In the midst of life swallowing waves
I will flow with the tide of God

3.       3 I will flow with the tide of God
Its the surest current in which I trust
When life's compass seams lost and nothing is clear
Brother flow with the tide of God


4 Brother flow with the tide of God
Sister flow with the tide of God
Life is full of confusion and not a man you can trust
Flow with the tide of God


5. Just flow with the tide of God
Wherever it takes you
However it swings you
Safety to destination is sure
Just flow with the tide of God

Selah!

Author
Ogunsuyi Opeyemi
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Editor-in-Chief
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Tuesday, 29 January 2019

2019:PRESSING TOWARDS THE HIGHER MARK


Vol. 19.01.41
Bible reading: Phil 3: 1-16
Joshua 13:1 ‘Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.’.
At the end of a year, there are often two categories of people;
1.         Those who feel underachieved
2.         Those who feel fulfilled
For the first category, it is time to review the cause of underachievement (sin, laziness, carelessness e.t.c.) but remember there are more lands to possess. In fact, we have a God of restoration and recovery.
Joel 2:25 says; And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the Palmer worm, my great army which I sent among you.
vs. 28; And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

The Word assures us that God is able to restore lost time, and He is God in charge of times and seasons. For this reason, as many that fall into the category of those who feel underachieved, there is hope, trust God to help you maximize every moment as we journey in this new year.
To the second category, there tends to be merriment, because we can count our achievements, we set goals and we achieved them; but just yet we should;
1.         Be thankful 
2.         Forget the former things
3.         Look ahead 
Philippians 3:13-14;
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

Joshua 13:1 
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
This was after about 31 kings have been defeated. This shows us that after every achievement, there are still greater feats that can be done and we must not rest on our oars.
More land to possess could mean;
1.         More souls to be won
2.         More lives to be impacted
3.         More heights to attain
4.         More laurels to be won
5.         More people to disciple
As much as we celebrate when we achieve our goals, we must, like the Apostle Paul, ensure we do not remain at that level.
Philippians. 3:12; ‘Not that I have already attained, or I am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me’..
We must learn to look forward while forgetting the past, because indeed, as God told Joshua, there are yet very much land to be possessed.
2019 is another year God has given us; we must set out to conquer the lands that remain.
God is limitless, and there is always more with Him. Keep pressing!
Trust God to direct you on the purpose He will have you achieve for Him, be deliberate about it and press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

May you have a rewarding Year 2019 in Jesus Name
Amen
COT Admin




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Wednesday, 26 December 2018

Christmas Digest: The True Identity of a Christian //Compiled from Change of Taste Daily Prayer Program

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Vol. 18.12.40
What a Christian is not
1. A Christian is not only known by name: if you like call yourself a Christian a million times, it does not make you one rather by your character and deeds, you show that you’re a Christian.  'By their fruit you shall know them' Mathew 7:2.
So does your character qualify you as a Christian? Selah
Prayer
Lord, help me to sincerely evaluate my character and make amends where necessary
2. A Christian is not an angel: A Christian is a mortal being with flesh and blood, flaws and weaknesses, emotions and reasoning who is working towards perfection daily by the grace of God.  If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall’. 1 Corinthians 10:12
How are you standing? Carefully? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, never let me loose sight of you like Peter did and started sinking
3. A Christian is not holier than God: The gospel ministry of Apostle Peter would have been greatly limited for trying to be holier than God for calling unclean what God has cleaned but thank God for the grace of God in his life that opened his eyes. ‘But the voice spoke again: “Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean’. Act 10:15.
How do you see a repentant sinner in your church? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, help me to work out my salvation with the right perspectives
4. A Christian is not an automatic citizen of heaven: There is nothing automatic about God's kingdom. It’s all a process. So being a Christian has simply positioned you on the path to forever in paradise but the final destination depends on what you do here on earth.  Holiness is the only guarantee of heaven.  ‘Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone who practices shameful idolatry and dishonesty—but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life’. Rev 21:27.
How are you living as a Christian? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, help me to live holy daily
5. A Christian is not lazy: I know you know this already but just to re-echo it. Never replace hard work for miracles. Miracles always come in the midst of work. ‘But Jesus replied, “My Father is always working, and so am I’. John 5:17.
What are your values? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, help me to value hard work and bless the works of my hand by your mighty power in Jesus name
6 A Christian is not to use less of his brain: That you walk by faith and not by sight is not an excuse to be mentally lazy as a Christian but an avenue to maximize it through the power of the Holy Spirit. God has given the brain to be creative in thinking, don't push that responsibility back to God. ‘The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer’. Proverbs 30:25.
Have you wondered how Joseph quickly developed a survival master plan for Egypt? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, fully explore your power in me through creative thoughts in Jesus name
7. A Christian is not exempted from temptation: Take it or leave it, as long as we exist in this mortal body, we will be exposed to temptations. Jesus became prone to temptation because he had on the mortal body, and the devil only left him for a while. So face the reality and get ready to always stand in God through God and for God.   ‘These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world’. John 16:33.
How are you coping with the world? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, help me to always be victorious over the temptations of this world
8. A Christian is not a changer but only a change agent: Many Christians have gotten hocked to unbelievers either in marriage, business or friendship with them, believing that they can change them only to later regret. No fellow man can change anyone except the Holy Spirit. Be wise! ‘No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day’. John 6:44.
Are you sincere enough in any relationship? Selah!
Prayer
Father, make me a true change agent in Jesus name.






What a Christian is

1. A Christian is expected to show love: We really don't need to go into the definition of the different kinds of love but as a Christian, a deep sense of compassion is expected for a fellow human irrespective of color and faith. You are not to disdain a sinner but his sin. Love then is practical and will show in the way you treat others. Mathew 25: 35-40; “For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home.  “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’
 How do you treat people around you? Selah!
Prayer
Father, let the love of Christ fully radiate in me.
2. A Christian is a leader: When the Bible describes us as light what do you think it means? Lights are for clarity, directions and guidance.  So every Christian bearing the light of God is expected to be the one to give leadership by lifestyle. It's only strange today that darkness even lead the light How strange! 1 Timothy 4:12; ‘Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity’.
Are you a good example? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, let my light shine to the darkness of this age.
3. A Christian different: Exactly! A Christian is different and is expected to do everything differently from the world. Our standard is Christ in heaven and not a star on TV.  John 17:16 ‘They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Who influences what you wear, eat and say? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, let me never loose sight of the cross of Calvary
4. A Christian is limitless: After God gave Jesus Christ, His precious and only begotten Son for us as ransom for sin, the capacity of man to obtain anything from God became limitless. However, Christian because of their limited reasoning capacity often limit their God. Well, I still don't know what God cannot do for his children who truly belief in Him.    Romans 8:32 ‘He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things’?
When you pray, do you actually expect God will answer? Selah!
Prayer
Lord, whatsoever limits your works in my life, take them away today in Jesus name

5. A Christian is a role model: Not much talk, let's just digest the following scriptures.
1 Timothy 4:12: Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2Chorinthians 3:2: Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
Mathew 5:14: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on the hill cannot be hid.
Mathew 5:16: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
What do your neighbors say about you? Selah!
Prayer
Father, make me light indeed in Jesus name.

Season’s greetings from all of us at Change of Taste Ministry







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Wednesday, 31 October 2018

LIVING BREAD - SERIES 4: THE SEX GATE //BY: NEJO HARRISON



 
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Vol. 18.10.39

GATES:
What is a gate? A gate is an opening on the wall of a building that serves as a point of entry and exit to confined place.  It is where traffic (activities) and determined and controlled. It serves as a unit of security determining what activities take place in the protected area.

The security and safety of a place depends largely on the strength of the gate/doors that opens to the place. We have seen that naturally a fenced house having a gate sends  a no-go-area message to everyone who passes by, no one seeing a fenced compound with the gate/door shut, goes close except he has something important to do in there, It is not so with a house without a gate, it is opened to all manners of activities, a man with insanity can carelessly pillow his head on the corridor of the house and pass his night before anybody wakes up and disappears. A thief can as well drop stolen items and go his way, strangers popped in and out unchecked because there are no gates or because the gate keepers are asleep or out of work, but a house closely secured is free from unwanted interference. A wise enemy thrives to conquer at the gate because once the gate is opened or the wall is broken, the subjects in there are disarmed, hence the need for strong gate keepers whose work is to ensure the gate is kept shut against intruders.
Joshua 6: 20- 21, So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the PEOPLE WENT UP INTO THE CITY , EVERY MAN STRAIGHT BEFORE HIM , AND THEY TOOK THE CITY.... the Gate is opened the city was taken no wonder dangerous men were assigned to watch the way to Jesus' tomb to prevent his disciples access .

There are gates at different levels in the Spirit and in the physical. Below is a list of some
Nation gates. Joshua 6:1,
City gate. 2 Kings 14:13,
Family Gates where the father is the keeper (Exodus 12:7)

There are PHYSICAL GATES and there are SPIRITUAL GATES.

But the latter is going to be our emphasis because everything represented in the physical is an adoration of a spiritual message. Every physical thing in the kingdom stands for something in the realm of the spirit and the spirit realm is real, more real than the physical realm seen with our optical eyes.
Spiritual gates that open up to our lives
Gates occur at different levels of life ranging from individual life gates, family gates, community gates, city gates, national gates to planet gates (having earth gates). You will see that in each of them, they are in plural forms, e.g man's life gate-S, not gat-E, because every good building contains more than one gate, one sometimes at the front, another at the rare in case of disaster, robbery, fire disaster, and a door is not accessible, another will be used.

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. Exodus 12 : 7 and then life gates, including the head gate, the eye gate, the mouth gate, the ear gate, the heart gate and SEX GATE which is the emphasis of this message, all these are the doorways to a man's life
 SEX GATE
Sexual intercourse is the mating together between a male and female partner through their respective sex organs, this enhances intimacy between two individuals, not only does it play the role of reproduction, but gives pleasure and satisfaction, leading to soul bonding. It is one of the most effective passages/doorways through which the devil gain access into human life. Through this medium, there is practically nothing the devil cannot do to the destiny of a man (or woman) who is sexually loose. It does not matter how violently he can pray or how gifted he is in Spiritual gifts, he becomes open to Satan's activities all the time because of this loose gate. Many people today especially the youths and the teenagers,  have become victims, carriers and embodiment of legions of demons today while some have their destinies thwarted all because they fail to lock up this gate that has made giants fall like mere men and men of velour die like chicken e.g Samson. Judges 16v1-19.

Marriage is used to communicate God's way of bringing us into communion and partnership with the nature of Christ through the Spirit Every arrangement of God is capable of giving life if rightly applied and capable of bringing death if approached wrongly... The same tree of life brought about death, the same word that gives life killed the unproductive fig tree. The intention of God for sex is that it should be practiced between married couples. God forbids it between unmarried men, not between friends, between business associates, not even between men in courtship, not between boyfriends and girlfriends, only between married couples. That is the standard of God, anything outside that is a SIN.
Genesis 2: 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
They Shall CLEAVE... This is all encompassing. Cleave, fuse and join together and shall become ONE FLESH, this does not end with wedding ceremony, but a lifetime process. The outcome of the fusion is to make TWO, not three or more, not one, but two. The intention of God for sex is making two become one, the oneness is not in merging them together, but that though they be two, but are now one Spiritual inseparable person, such that even after the man leave the woman physically and he travels, there is the remains of that person he has left inside of her and he goes to where he is with the component part of the woman.... One person leaving in two separate bodies....
1 Corinthians 6:15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. v16. What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh. v17. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
Don't you know your bodies are the members (parts) of Christ? How come is it possible to associate this parts with harlot? Verse 16, do you not know that joining with a strange partner makes you become one body with him/her? Aramic Bible translation puts it as, anyone who CLEAVES with a harlot comes into oneness with her. The word helotry there does not only talks about one who engages in sex as a business, but activities of sex outside wedlock… He says it is a means of joining. The oneness here means he becomes partaker with her, so that all that is her constituent does not just diffuse to him, but becomes fully embodied in him. So that when A and B, come together, they no longer become A/B But they become A's B and B's A, that is, A becomes B's and B becomes A's. Hmmm... They therefore fulfill this scripture that Apostle Paul searched out by the Spirit of God. A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does... 1 Corinthians 7:4. Hmmm... The implication of this is that, A can no longer say I own my body, neither can B, because A is already part of B's body and vice versa, because he already through intercourse has shared part of his components, his being, his entirety to the partner. He is now two people in one and so is she, my wife carries my wisdom, I carry her dimensions too, she carries my presence and I do of her too...This is God's intention of making two become one, he gave us a practical experience of this to become partakers of that very nature of Christ, that is, having the life of Christ in us, we access that through fellowship and Intercourse with the Holy Spirit, through the fellowship/communion with the Spirit, the gift of Spirit which is also called character of Christ (nature/life of Christ) is manifested in us.. So a woman through fellowship with her husband takes the nature and character of the man. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the PROMISES that enable you to SHARE HIS DIVINE NATURE and escape the world's corruption caused by human desires. 1 Corinthians 1:4
Satan knows this secret of oneness of two becoming one, so he came in and the oneness that is supposed to take place among people who have come under wedlock and cannot be disjointed, he brings the oneness among men that mostly will not join. So he can cause one of his children who is a carrier of demons or other cabbages, to be joined to a child of God, defiling him in the process.
Friends, I like you to know that two persons are in context for possessions of your body, the Spirit of God and Satan. When you through sex welcome such activities, Jesus vacates naturally, he does not struggle for space.
1 Corinthians 6: 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?
Meaning that, I will rather leave. Jesus will never struggle for indwelling, then you hear him say in Rev 20:3, I stand at the door knocking again. Satan has taken advantage of this gate to penetrate the life of many young people today, some cannot even control the urge anymore because it's no longer a natural urge, but a spirit calling for it.

Dear sister, any man who is desperate to see your nakedness as the condition to marrying you is nothing but an agent of the devil in disguise. It does not matter if he is costumed in suits, he could be your youth pastor or choir coordinator. He is under the influence of Satan. You have to lock your gate and keep the key with Jesus until that glorious night, you are too precious to open up to that careless man who has not even found his bearing with God who will only include you in his confusion. This body of yours belongs to the Holy Ghost. He bought it with a price, the blood of Jesus. If you want to know the value of a thing, consider the cost on it, the cost that purchased you was the BLOOD OF JESUS, you have been bought with a price, you no longer own your body, it belongs to the one who died for you. Jesus the owner, is jealous over it. I hear every day from sisters, up till today how that brothers condition the term of marrying them to sex, why not be that different lady that will say to that player boy to go away and watch as he loses you into better hands, do not be terrified that you will not find one to marry you, I say it's not true. Dear brothers, you appear so decent and spiritual, and sisters trust you, but you take advantage of their innocence, as the coordinator in one post of duty or the other, your secret work shall soon be visited and rewarded in the open.

Many today have become partakers and partners with things they never bargained for all because of the looseness of their sex gate. They only bargained for a little enjoyment, all to have come into lawful partnership and union into generational patterns and covenants that be in the life of the other partner, the ones they knew not and they wonder how certain things came into their life, please know that you become partaker with whoever you sleep with, no matter how many or few they are. May I ask you? Can you count the number of people you have partnered with? If each one carried at least two devils and you have come into fellowship through sex with 3, I believe you know what that amounts to. The entirety of sexual intercourse either in or outside wedlock is to make two become one body... Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh. 1 Corinth. 6:16

GOD BLESS YOU

Author
Harrison Nejo
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