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THE POWER OF DEDICATION IV
Things you need to know about Dedication There is a close relationship between dedication and worship.What you worship is what you dedicate to. If you are a worshipper of a deity, you will dedicate things to the deity with the priest of the deity officiating. If you dedicate your child to the deity, he or she will not depart from the deity unless a serious deliverance ministry gets involved. This is part of the problem of many Africans. If you do not understand this, your Christianity will be superficial and you will find it difficult to understand people you interact with. You don’t know me until you know the spirit…
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THE POWER OF DEDICATION III
Luke 2:21-24, “And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons”. That was the…
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THE POWER OF DEDICATION II
It takes wisdom for one to recognize one’s strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. In our previous discuss, we saw how a perfect man that was created by a perfect God and placed in a perfect environment could not keep a simple instruction. Looking at the circumstances that led to the fall of Adam in Eden, you will discover that at the heart of it was the seed of ingratitude. The first sin was not outright disobedience but lack of recognition. It takes recognition for you to be thankful. You can’t be thankful to a benevolence you do not recognize. The root of the fall of man can be traced to…
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THE POWER OF DEDICATION I
The cross was the greatest display of God’s love, grace and glory. Before Jesus went to the cross, it was an accursed thing but Jesus turned it around from curse to glory. That is what happens when you give your life to Christ; anything you hand over to God is enhanced. The wisest thing any believer can do today is to live in readiness of Christ’s second coming. The Advanced Oxford Dictionary gives some interesting definitions of the word, dedication: “Complete and wholehearted fidelity”. At the heart of it is truthfulness and complete one hundred percent commitment; “A ceremony in which something such as building is dedicated to some goal…