A Bible Study on the Subject : FAITH

FAITH as we all know is a vital part of the christian walk without which no man will see God , Join me as we examine the scriptures under the anointing of the holy spirit and demystify the subject FAITH....
In His Service
Pastor E.O.T Peter CBT

South African Pastor Daniel Lesego Makes Members Eat Grass And Walks On Them

If you thought some Nigerian men of God are not up to scratch, you will begin to appreciate them when you hear what a South African Pastor, Daniel Lesego, the General Overseer of the Rabboni Center Ministries, located at Zone 2 Ga-Rankuwa,north of Pretoria did to his members, all in the name of working miracles in their lives.

The man of God hoodwinked and hypnotized his followers into going into an open field and feasting on the green grass.

To cap the humiliation, Pastor Daniel Lesego ordered his flock to lay down while he walked all over them. He even justified his actions by saying that the spirit of God can lead His people to eat anything.

The Pastor also defended his actions with these words:

“There were many disciples and you don’t know others. Let God show you as they were deliberately not revealed in the Bible because God wanted someone to do them, new things.

“Nathanael was a disciple yet there is no book of Nathanael. What about the miracles, signs and wonders? What about those who were not mentioned?

“We know about Peter and the rest and it will take God’s power to reveal the Christ in Bartholomew, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two other of his disciples.

“Let the stripe open and God show you and you will begin to do them also. The sons of Zebedee and two others, do you know them? They were there and they were participating in the body of Christ.

“The world cannot see or hear and some behave like the world and they criticize Bartholomew because they cannot see him. What have you eaten? The body and the blood and he lives in me, constantly he is in me, and he lives in me.

“Come and eat so that your eyes may see. Simon Peter said: I am going fishing, this is wrong. He went back to the earthly position where Jesus found him.

“These are the types of miracles that will cause many to repent because this is the message through miracles, signs and wonders.

“Jesus did not come in a friendly manner because they were doing what Jesus did not tell them to do.”

See the pictures of Pastor Daniel Lesego’s grass eaters here.

pulse blogger Kenyan Pastor Charges Money To Check Name In The Book Of Life Is this the end times?

Wonders, they say, shall never end; this assertion could best describe this Kenyan pastor, Bishop Thomas Wahome who has devised a new means of making money off his congregation.

The man of God whose church is called Helicopter of ChristChurch, claims to be able to look up if someone’s name is written in the Book of Life and for that service, he collects Sh1,500, about 20 dollars, (N3, 268.00).

Bishop Thomas Wahome is known as the King ofControversy in the East African country and is known to craft very bizarre ways of conning his flock.

According to a Kenyan website, Nairobixposed, “Bishop Wahome claims that if you give him Sh 1,500, he can actually ask God whether you are among those people who will go to heaven. He claims that he has a direct line to God and he can communicate with him directly.”

In 2012, Bishop Wahome reportedly came up with another“unique scam by charging the sum of Sh 1, 200, (15 dollars), for people to touch his garment, just like the woman with the issue of blood who touched Jesus’ clothes in the bible and was healed,” the website continued.

Bishop Wahome had claimed at that time that people who touched his clothes got instant healing from whatever disease.

Happy Valentine's Day

When I think about Valentine's Day, a day when people give special love gifts to one another, I think most of all about God's great gift to us in the form of His son, Jesus. Then I think of how all the love that we feel for others on Valentine’s Day and every day of the year is possible because of His love. There’s no time for Him that isn’t a time to give. I want to follow His example as much as I can.

I found a poem that was very meaningful to me and expresses some of the gifts we receive from our great Valentine every day of the year. When our love cups are overflowing with His gifts, it makes us want to share that love with others so they can experience it too.

Here’s the poem:

He doesn’t bring me roses,
For He is my Rose of Sharon.
Nor does He leave flowers at my door,
For He grows them in my garden.
He doesn’t kiss my lips,
For He caresses my entire being with the touch of warm sunshine and softly falling rain.
He doesn’t give me sparkling diamonds to wear,
For He set the sparkling stars in the night sky and made them mine.
He doesn’t whisper in my ear,
For His still, small voice fills my spirit and is ever with me.
He isn’t a Valentine who has pledged lifelong love,
For He is eternal love.
He isn’t limited to only sending gifts or making sweet promises,
For He Himself is the ultimate gift and fulfillment of promise.
He won’t fill my life by standing at the wedding altar with me.
For He placed Himself on the altar, that I may know life, that I may know Him,
That I may love Him forever.

Janice K. Lawrence, adapted

Our dear Jesus is our ultimate Valentine, the One who has given us limitless love and who loves it when we help Him communicate that love to others, both today and always. Happy Valentine’s Day!

LOVE

Love for others is a part of My divine nature, and when you receive Me, it becomes a part of yours too. Even though it is freely yours, you are still responsible to put it into practice and apply it. How? One step at a time, with one loving deed, followed by another, followed by another.

You can show My love to others in many ways—through forgiveness, mercy, kindness, thoughtfulness, concern, understanding, words of love, words of encouragement, words of praise, taking time to talk, taking time to listen, sympathizing, sharing the load, and giving of yourself even when it’s least expected or least deserved.

Every time you are concerned for others and translate that concern into loving action, you become a little more like Me. Every time you share My love, love will come back to you. As you give more love, I will more than match you; I will pour My love into you in greater measure so that you have more to enjoy and more to share. “Give, and it will be given to you.”1 That’s My plan for giving—the more you give, the more you will receive.

—Jesus

12 Steps to Re-Dis-Covery

12 Steps to Re-Dis-Covery -   Steve Wickham

We all need to recover from something; it's a universal God-given task. And if it's not recovery, it's about rediscovery. Usually it's about both at different points along the spectrum of life.

The 12 Step Program has helped millions worldwide, primarily in overcoming addiction. But its simplicity and structure can help us all as we recover and rediscover within the phases of change in life.

STEP 1 - WE ADMITTED WE WERE POWERLESS ON OUR OWN
There is always something we cannot do on our own; indeed, there are many things. We might deny this fact, but the longer we do the more we delude ourselves.
Real power comes into our lives when we admit we are powerless on our own; that rediscovery and recovery rely so heavily on admitting we are powerless without God.

STEP 2 - CAME TO BELIEVE GOD COULD HELP
For many, believing in God is no simple transaction. Prayer and seeking through open-mindedness brought them to the Lord-to give God a chance to prove his power.
Having seen God's power we cannot help but believe. It is the help we all need.

STEP 3 - MADE A DECISION TO TURN OUR WILL AND OUR LIVES OVER TO THE CARE OF GOD
Here comes the traction. Making a decision is linked with the will to act. And we must act if we are to prove we are committed to recovery and rediscovery.
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"Half measures availed us nothing. We stood at the turning point. We asked His protection and care with complete abandon."
- Alcoholics Anonymous ("How It Works")
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Having understood there is no halfway land where we can escape life, we go on by trudging forward, having committed ourselves to the way.

STEP 4 - MADE A SEARCHING AND FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF OURSELVES
This is the first test of our commitment. Have we got the courage to be further humiliated? Can we delve deeply into our failures, weaknesses, and patheticness? We all have them.
When we take to this task with rigorous honesty, God gets beside us, and we are carried, no less.
The Spirit of God highlights more information than we thought there was, but within us is a strange spirit of acceptance. We are encouraged by our courage and we acknowledge God is giving us power in how he is redeeming us, even now.

STEP 5 - ADMITTED TO GOD, TO OURSELVES, AND TO SOMEONE ELSE THE EXACT NATURE OF OUR WRONGS
With Step 4 the precursor, our courage extends into the actual practice of confession. This need not be humiliating, and indeed may prove powerful, as we turn on ourselves and see our past for what it is in the sight of God.
There is a better reality than having God judge us; that is that we judge ourselves. But we best do it fairly.

STEP 6 - BECAME ENTIRELY READY FOR GOD TO REMOVE THESE DEFECTS OF CHARACTER
I believe Steps 4 and 5 - having made such a brutally honest confession - naturally lead to Step 6. Simply in the transaction of confessing something God convicts us all the more to go all the way, drawing on the spiritual power to expunge such issues.

STEP 7 - HUMBLY ASKED HIM TO REMOVE OUR SHORTCOMINGS
This is a prayer of the utmost sincerity.
Upon such conviction to ask God to remove our shortcomings there is a blessing of a miracle. Some miracles are instant, whilst others are more gradual. But having committed, perhaps tearfully, we are given power to move on beyond those things that once trapped us. We learn to surrender; we learn a momentary surrender.

STEP 8 - MADE A LIST OF PERSONS WE NEEDED TO MAKE AMENDS TO
This is where some of the rubber hits the road. Step 8 is crucial in giving Step 7 traction. If we are to have our shortcomings removed we need to continue along the path of humility. It takes a great deal of humility to make a list of persons we intend to make restitution towards. And we don't hold back.

STEP 9 - ACTUALLY MADE AMENDS, UNLESS TO DO SO MIGHT INJURE THEM
With nothing of us, and everything of God, we pray for the right opportunity to make amends, but we do something that is so crucial by a very cautious method.
If we aren't careful we will hurt people.
Making amends is always about the other person, not us. When the other person is head of the agenda our eventual amends is right. It brings healing, but not because we did so; more because God paved the way and we obeyed with diligence.

STEP 10 - CONTINUED TO TAKE PERSONAL INVENTORY AND WHEN WE WERE WRONG, WE ADMITTED IT
The 12 step program is initially a program of humiliation, in strangely teaching us the noble art of humility. We are all so commonly wrong. When we acknowledge that truth we understand admitting our wrongness is just about interpersonal integrity.
Being wrong and admitting it is no big deal, yet there is the power of God in it as we rest within our humility to do such a thing.

STEP 11 - SOUGHT THROUGH PRAYER TO IMPROVE OUR CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH GOD, PRAYING ONLY FOR KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL FOR US AND THE POWER TO CARRY THAT OUT
Prayer is simple. All we need to pray for is the knowledge of God's will and the power to carry out. Knowledge is about awareness and the power to carry something out is about courage.
We are blessed to keep it simple.

STEP 12 - COMMITTED, AS PART OF OUR TRANSFORMATION, TO CARRY THIS MESSAGE TO OTHERS IT MIGHT HELP
This step, along with the previous few, sustains us in our recovery and rediscovery. It's so important others have access to this power for healing and transformation, and the only way they will see is via our testimony.
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God has a plan for all of us in terms of recovery and rediscovery. Let us not limit the power within that plan. Let us instead take proper steps in constantly recovering and rediscovering our divine purpose in this life.

Promises , Problems and Provision

Daily Word
Thursday 6th Feb
Promise : Problems : Provision

E.O.T William

Every Promise of God for your life is sure (2cor 1:20) Nothing can change it and it will be fulfilled as He has said it, As sure as the Promises are , so are the Problems; Every Promise of God has an equal amount of Problem that must be overcome (weathered in good faith) before Promise is fulfilled. Problems are not stop signs , they are only bumps, that allow you slow down and continue moving on ..........

Oftentimes , the problems come as a means of checking on our preparedness. When next you are faced with a problem , don't run away , demystify it , a promise is about to be fulfilled. Samson , solomon , David and Jesus christ all encountered mountains and they pulled them down and were crowned.
2Cor 4 : 7 - 9
For every Promise of God , there is Provision , God won't say a thing when he hasn't arranged the details , every promise is already pre-programmed, Positioning is the key to proper provisioning , if you're rightly positioned you'lld be rightly provisioned.

Check your alignment today, are you still positioned for provision?

Let us Pray : Our Sovereign Lord, we ask that you re-position us today for Provision and you bring to pass all promises in Jesus name , help us to see d lustre of our gold in the furnace and grant to us grace to weather in good faith and be rewarded adequately.

Amen
Good morning
In His Service
E.O.T William CBT
www.eotwilliam.blogspot.com

5 Secrets to Discovering God's Will Part 3

Part 3 - If You Won’t, Someone Else Will   Secret #1 - The Kingdom Comes First   This Bible study has been taken from chapter 6 of LIVE BEFORE YOU DIE   Esau was the firstborn son in his family. He should have been his father’s heir, the one who would carry on the family name and through whom God would fulfill His promise to Abraham. But Esau “despised his birthright” (Gen. 25:34). God passed over Esau because of his disregard and found in his younger brother a willing heart. Jacob inherited the destiny that should have been Esau’s by birth and became one of Israel’s greatest patriarchs. Eli was the high priest, and his family had been called and anointed by God to serve Israel in the priestly office. But Eli’s two sons had no regard for the Lord or His calling (1 Sam. 2:12). They desecrated the tabernacle, stole from the sacrificial offerings, and blasphemed God. They had a sense of entitlement and indispensability because they had been born into a family of power and privilege. But God tore the priestly calling away from them and from Eli’s family and gave it to a young man named Samuel, who led the nation in their stead. God chose Saul to be the first king of Israel. But he disobeyed the Lord and hardened his heart time and time again. Saul’s children and grandchildren were destined to sit on the throne, but because of Saul’s rebellion God cut his family off and instead anointed a young man named David through whose lineage the Messiah would eventually be born. (1 Sam. 16:113). Kathryn Kuhlman undoubtedly had one of the most influential ministries of the last century. She was a healing evangelist who witnessed extraordinary miracles and inspired many others to follow in her footsteps. But Kathryn said she was not God’s first choice. She believed the Lord had called other people before her, but they had been unwilling to obey. She said, “I believe God’s first choice for this ministry was a man, his second choice, too. But no man was willing to pay the price. I was just naive enough to say, ‘Take nothing, and use it.’ And He has been doing that ever since.” Kathryn Kuhlman believed she received her mighty anointing and calling not because she was the best but because she was obedient. Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke has preached to multiplied millions of people. Since 1987 our ministry, Christ for all Nations, which Evangelist Bonnke founded, has received more than sixty-seven million registered decision cards during our massive evangelistic campaigns around the world. It is truly one of the most remarkable ministry success stories of all time, and it is still continuing. But it wasn’t always cake and ice cream. In his autobiography, Living a Life of Fire,Evangelist Bonnke tells many stories of the difficulties he faced, especially in the early years. His beginnings in Africa were humble. He often preached to small handfuls of people who were uninterested and did not want to respond to the gospel message. The tide began to turn, however, when in four consecutive nights he received a prophetic dream in which he saw the continent of Africa being washed in the precious blood of Jesus, and he heard the voice of the Holy Spirit cry, “Africa shall be saved!” He took hold of that promise with all his might and began to move out in faith, but everyone did not welcome his ambition or enthusiasm. Provoked by jealousy, other missionaries began to complain to their denominational authorities that Reinhard Bonnke was able to exercise more freedom in his ministry than they were, and this prompted the missions board to order him, in writing, not to expand the ministry any further. “My soul was smitten within me,” he wrote, “as if I had been disowned by my own family. I had to . . . go off by myself in desperation. I needed to talk with God, and even more, I needed Him to talk to me.” He decided to take a sabbatical to fast and pray. “I want to be at peace with my brothers,” he pled. “I want to submit . . . and stop being driven by the burning vision You’ve given me of a bloodwashed Africa.” It was then that the Lord spoke to him words that shook him to the core. “Yes, you can do this,” the Lord responded. “But if you drop My call, I will have to drop you, and I will have to look for someone else.”That ultimatum was the only word he needed to hear. He immediately went home and wrote a letter of resignation to the mission board. “Let everyone else drop me,” he prayed, “but, oh, Lord, don’t You drop me.” Had Evangelist Bonnke dropped the vision of a blood-washed Africa, God would have found someone else to reach that continent with the gospel. We often mistakenly feel we are indispensable, but the reality is that our failure to answer the call of God will not cause the purposes of God to fail. Rather it is the one who chooses to disobey who will suffer. God’s plan will still come to pass, even if He has to raise up someone else to fulfill it. John the Baptist gave a sobering warning to the Jewish leadership of his day. He knew that, as part of God’s chosen people, they felt superior to other races and had a sense of indispensability. But in Matthew 3:9 John says, “Do not suppose that you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham” (nas). God is able to raise up the next world changer overnight. He can take someone from the gutter, like Esther, who was a “nobody,” and put her in the palace—and He needs no one’s permission. Mordecai told Esther essentially, “God’s purposes will come to pass one way or another, with or without you.” But his warning became even more severe. Mordecai went on to tell Esther, “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance shall arise for the Jews from elsewhere, but you and your father’s house will perish” (Esther 4:14, amp). God’s purposes are like a freight train that cannot be stopped, and the most dangerous place in the world to stand is in the way of those purposes because they will not slow down to avoid running over you. If you doubt this, just ask Pharaoh, who refused to let the children of Israel go in the Book of Exodus. God has absolutely no chance of losing. We are the only ones who stand to lose when we fail to obey. In the amazing book Burn: Melting into the Image of Jesus Eric Gilmour brings the weight and gravity of the situation home. “Every man will one day have his final thoughts; he will turn around on life’s path and see where his blood has been spent. There, in that moment, will undoubtedly be the true test of a man’s love. For our lives are one long love letter to God, written today and presented to Him and read aloud before all saints of the ages and angels in glory, tomorrow.” My friend, we have been placed in this world for a purpose: to propel God’s kingdom forward. This is more than a preference or privilege; it is a divine responsibility and duty for which we will be held eternally accountable. Propelling God’s kingdom forward is not a side issue—it is the reason you were saved, it’s the reason you were born. You have come into the kingdom for such a time as this! We will continue this study in Chapter 6 "Five Secrets To Discovering God’s Will" Part 4 - "Meaningless Meaningless" in two weeks.