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DOMINION OVER DARKNESS (PART IX) HOW TO STAY RAPTURE READY
4. Don’t let your Christian life and the quality of your relationship with God be determined by the problems, pressures and challenges of life. A lot of people are caught up in this; they follow the direction of the pressure. In search of solution to the pressures of life, they are ready to do anything and in the process allow the love of God in their heart to wax cold. Matt. 13:21 “Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended”. …
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DOMINION OVER DARKNESS (PART IX) HOW TO STAY RAPTURE READY
3b. Faith without consecration is equal to confusion. God will not lower his standards because of anybody. The meaning of sin is ‘to miss the mark’ and it is very easy to miss the mark. If you study the story of king Uzaiah in 2 Chro, you will notice that as long as Zechariah was his mentor, he was powerful, prosperous and successful. But after the death of Zechariah, he allowed a presumptuous sin – pride – to enter. With the coming of pride came corruption. Any kind of perversion is corruption. From that moment, he began to fall. It was the presumptuous sin that made him to commit a…
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DOMINION OVER DARKNESS (PART IX) HOW TO STAY RAPTURE READY
2d. Recently, a man of God opened my eyes to something very important. He said one of the reasons why a lot of repentance prayers are not genuine is because people repent for the things they do and not for who they are. If you tell lies, you are a liar and so when you come to the presence of God, acknowledge that you are a liar; tell him to have mercy on you and change you, otherwise, there is tendency for you to repent of lying and still continue to be a liar. Why? It is because the nature of lie telling in you has not been removed. This…
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DOMINION OVER DARKNESS – (PART IX) HOW TO STAY RAPTURE READY
2C. However, somewhere along the line, in the early 80s, everything changed. Messages changed, holiness was no longer emphasized, sin was no longer denounced for what it was; you can live anyhow it doesn’t matter, as long as you pay your tithe and sow seeds. What kind of Christian are you? Today, we have Christians who occupy front seats in Churches on Sundays who falsify documents on monday. We need to return to the basics. Anybody who does not know holiness does not know God because holiness is his nature. ‘Be ye holy; for I am holy” is a command, it is not optional. If you don’t want to be…
