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"I pray this will encourage anyone with HIV or any illness, God Bless".

I want to start off by saying, everyone has been through something in life that was bad, some people have been through horrible situations, but now I know that God has always been there to help us.

Growing up from child age to my teenage years was hard for me, I felt like I didn't belong here on this world, but if I had just trusted Jesus & put my faith in Him, He would have made it better for me to bare those years. Then in my twenties, I just went astray & I got lost in the world. I ran to sex to comfort me, & back then for me sex comforted me from my anger & pain, but it just made my anger & the pain I had inside worse and I became bitter, that's what Satan wanted was for me to just give up on myself.

I knew Jesus, but I didn't have a personal relationship with Him then, I didn't run to Him for help & forgiveness, but I ran to the world in a pit of destruction. I am a sinner, but I know God loves me & He chose me & called me to do a great work for Him, even though I am not worthy of God's mercy, but His grace He has forgiven me and washed me clean by abundantly giving me His Glorious Spirit to live in me & guide me, He loves me & I love Him. Jesus is my Lord & Savior, and I thank God that He lives inside of me & He gave Himself for me & shed His blood for me for the remission of sins.

God has given me many Spiritual gifts, I have a very strong passion for giving and helping the hungry & the homeless. I want to help all people who have no place to go, & help them find their way and Jesus is the way, the truth, & the life. Being a blessing to the homeless, the hurting, & the suffering is a passion & a gift of mine that God has given me.

I thank God that He finds me worthy of my walk with Him, even though I still do wrong, but God is faithful. He has called me & has chosen me for a great work and He is bringing it to pass by blessing me along with my mom to fulfill our ministry, "St. Barnabas Faith & Hope Recovery Center".

I want to bring God's word to all & to strengthen & encourage them by building up their faith, hope and their trust in God, we can do nothing without Jesus. We all can trust God because His word is true and everything He does it right, I know because I am a walking miracle of God's mercy.

I was diagnosed with HIV in 2001 with phenomena & I almost died in the hospital, but God- He sent a angel to me, I believe she was an angel & she told me everything is going to be ok. But yet I was still living for myself & living in sin on my way to death. God's grace, His mercy, His faithfulness & His forgiveness, i believe God was tired of me playing around and He wanted me to come back to Him.

I had a vision that woke me up & this is the vision i had, I saw the coming of the clouds & the way we will be going up in the clouds & it was so breathtaking & beautiful, then all of a sudden it was over. The Lord is coming "SOON" to take the saints His church home with Him to God's glorious kingdom in heaven, & that vision is what got me together to be at peace with God (JOB 33:28,30).

God's mercy and His love for all of us is that He wants us to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ His Son and be saved. God saved me and pulled me out of the pit (ISAIAH 38:17) and He healed me from HIV in 2010 (PSALM 107:20), after I came back home to Him & obeyed God (2 CHRONICLES 7:14), Amen.

My Father has given me a strong faith & my faith is in the Son of God Jesus Christ my Lord & Savior & through my obedience to Jesus, God has made me well and He wants to make us all well, the Lord is a Healer & He loves us all. God is good! I hope in God, I belong to God, He chose me & formed me & He predestined me for His glory to do a great work.

I live my life fully for Jesus being led by the Holy Spirit, I left myself & I have took up my cross, I'm a child of the Most High God, the living Father. I am married to Christ, & Jesus is my Lord & Savior. "I pray this word encourages many people." God Bless, Amen.

Jesus Delivered Me From Spirit Of Bondage & Depression

Praise the Lord!

I was born and brought up in a christian family and was grown in faith. I accepted the Lord at a very early age and was filled with the joy of salvation. As I grew up, I guess I might not have safe guarded my life with the weapons Bible provides to safeguard life. Slowly I started being under the bondage of a spirit of blaspheme. I keep thinking and blaspheming all the things of God/Jesus in the mind and then keep crying to myself. Slowly this had led me to depression and had to even take pills which only increased my depression and affected my health. I started having a heavy heart and a burden felt within. I was unable to enjoy anything. I was unable to praise God and started thinking of the days I glorified God joyfully which made me still more depressed. Then I started looking around if their is a means of deliverance from this great bondage.

I struggled with it for few years. After my marriage, I shared the sad state of my mind with my husband and we prayed together with tears. There were days, months and years spent in tears and prayers. We started approaching ministers of God for prayer, but their was no full deliverance. I pleaded with God for a deliverance and was looking for the cause which could be a family curse or bondage that has taken hold of me. By persistent faith, God slowly helped me get out of it. After I delivered my second baby, things changed and now I am able to enjoy life and praise God as my early childhood. When a man of God prayed over me he mentioned that God had delivered me from a cage that was set by the devil and has set me free. I realized it myself and glory be to His holy name.
Sometimes we don't understand why we come across such situations in life but God is in control of everything. He is our deliverer.

After being delivered from this clutch I was having a kind of wheezing and unable to breath many times in a day. I confessed in my heart with the words "By His stripes I was healed". By confessing it frequently God has set me free without any doctor or medicines. Glory be to his name. He is our healer.

Prisci's testimony

7 Steps to Healing the Hurt

1. Begin thinking about God as Jesus. If you are serious about healing your spiritual abuse wounds, make an intentional choice to begin seeing Jesus whenever you think or talk about God. As I said earlier, the beginning of change is calling a thing by its right name. So, start by calling God Jesus rather than by the name of your father, stepfather, grandfather, or uncle.

Read and study the Gospels to learn how Jesus interacted with people. How did He treat people who were struggling with sin? Ill give you a hint. Jesus was astonishingly kind and gentle with people who knew they were sinful and amazingly confrontive with those who thought they were perfect.

2. Learn about Gods general attributes. Learning to see God as He is revealed in Scripture most clearly in Jesus, of course will help you replace distorted God-concepts with the truth. And this will help you love and trust God more.

3. Learn about God as a loving parent. God wants us to know that He is not like hurtful human parents. Even though our own parents forsake us, he will receive us (NIV) or take [us] up (KJV) (Psalm 27:10). That seems to picture God reaching down and adopting us as His own child, like a loving father would do for a child abandoned on His doorstep. In fact, Scripture repeatedly emphasizes Gods tender concern for the fatherless and for orphans (see Psalm 10:14; 146:9; Hosea 14:3). Those verses have always been especially precious to me, a fatherless child.

4. Write about what youre learning. Use your personal journal to write about how God differs from the perception you have of Him that was shaped by your parents. How would that truth change your life if you began acting upon it? One Christian adult raised by hurtful, perfectionistic parents made this observation: I am blown away by Jesus description of the father in the Prodigal Son parable. He is entirely different from my dad. I have been afraid and very reluctant to confess my sins to God because I always pictured Him with His arms folded over His chest, a disgusted look on His face, and shaking His head back and forth just like my dad. I think I can pray more easily if I can hold onto the picture of God as loving and forgiving.

5. Get help to deal honestly with the pain of the pain. When we begin to mourn our childhood losses and to feel the grief and despair, the pain can be debilitating. It can feel like dying. And the worst part may be the pain of the pain.

The pain of our pain is that God allowed it. I will not insult refugees from childhood hells by offering easy answers to the imponderable questions that such experiences raise. I dont know why our loving Father God permits children to undergo such unspeakable suffering. But I cling to my belief that somehow in ways that are light-years beyond my capacity to understand God will fulfill His promises to comfort the mourning and bring joy out of the pain (see Isaiah 61:2-3 and Psalm 30:11). If the pain of our pain is that God allowed it, then the joy of our joy must be learning that God can heal and redeem our pain and lead us into lives of genuine joy.

6. Choose to trust God in the midst of your pain and questions. If we insist on waiting until the pain and doubt go away before trusting God, well never do it. God never promised pain-free lives in this sin-stained world. But He has promised to be with us and to comfort and strengthen us in the midst of our pain. I invite you to examine His record of faithfulness to that promise and, after doing so, to purposefully decide to trust God. If you are willing to practice this choice (or even willing to be made willing), ask God to empower you.

7. Choose your church family. We couldnt choose our birth families, but we can choose our church families. Deliberately evaluate your churchs spiritual health and decide whether you should stay. Make sure you are in a church that has the biblically balanced emphasis of 2 Peter 3:18, which tells believers to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Many churches put all their emphasis on the latter while neglecting the former all the while calling themselves Bible-believing. It is possible to find churches that balance both; I know because I am in one. Ask God to lead you in this critical choice.

By Sandra D. Wilson

Seven Ways God Uses Tough Times to Shape Our Lives

By: William D. Black

Tribulation tests our identity as Christians – Tribulation tests our identity. In the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-23), Jesus described several situations. The seed that landed on rocky places did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. When the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Jesus said that the one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. Since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution come because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. The seed that fell on good soil produced a good crop. By implication, that seed that fell on good soil stayed connected to the source of its life and was not destroyed by trouble, persecution, the worries of this life, or the deceitfulness of wealth. When we deal with tribulation as we should, it authenticates our true identity as believers.

Tribulation tests our faith – "These [trials] have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed" (1 Peter 1:7).

Tribulation tests our sense of purpose – When I was in my first year of medical school, I was about one minute late to histology class two or three times in a row. Our professor approached me in the laboratory and notified me that my tardiness reflected on my "sense of purpose." I was never late again, because I realized how it would reflect on my character. As it says in James, "Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him"(James 1:2).

Tribulation tests our obedience – "The reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything" (2 Corinthians 2:9).

We are tested to teach us to rely on God – "We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many" (2 Corinthians 1:8-11).

We are tested so that it will go well with us – "He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you" (Deuteronomy 8:16).

Some people do not pass the test – In the New Testament, there is a Greek word, adokimos, that speaks of people who are tested but do not pass the test. It is used several times in the New Testament. I have included selected quotations:

"No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize" (1 Corinthians 9:27).

"Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you – unless of course you fail the test? And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong" (2 Corinthians 13:5-7a).

"They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good" (Titus 1:16).

"But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned" (Hebrews 6:8).

Consider what 1 John 2:19 says about some who left the fellowship: "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going out showed that none of them belonged to us."

As I study these concepts, I can only come to one conclusion: Salvation is a gift from God, but if your life does not show evidence of God working in it, you likely never received the gift.

True Confessions of a Pastor

"As a young pastor, I had a beautiful wife, incredible children and I had a wonderful church. On the surface everything seemed to be perfect, but what people didn’t know is what was going on behind closed doors."

Bryan McKnight was only 22 when he became the senior pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

"It was very intimidating being young, but it was a good church and we had a vibrant ministry there.

With his career off to a good start, this should have been a happy time for him, his wife Teresa and their two children. But the reality was that his marriage was slowly falling apart.

"We argued all the time. If you walked by our house in any given evening, you may hear screaming and fighting. Most of our arguing was because of the pressures of life. She always felt like I gave more time to other people in the church than to her."

One night, while they were arguing, she confessed that she had an affair several years before.

"I realized that in our marriage everything pointed back to that moment, that hidden sin, that bondage that was on her life that poured over into both of our lives."

Despite their problems, Bryan and Teresa were determined not to become another divorce statistic. But as the church started demanding even more of his time, once again Bryan had trouble finding balance.

"The church was growing faster than ever before. We started building a new building, hired a new staff, and a lot of different dynamics came in that created even more stress in our marriage than I was prepared to deal with as a young father and a young husband."

In desperation, Bryan resigned as pastor of Canaan Baptist and made plans to re-locate his family to a church in Denver. He recalls, "I thought that making a move geographically and having all of our surroundings change would not only benefit my life but our marriage."

But a few days before their big move, Bryan and Teresa had a bitter fight.

"I looked at her right in the eyes and told her I wanted a divorce. I didn’t care what my kids would go through. I didn’t care what she would go through. I didn’t want anything else but out of that marriage. Thirteen years and I had more than I coudl take"

After several months of separation, they divorced. Teresa and the kids went to live with her family in Kentucky. Bryan remained in Arkansas, overwhelmed with shame. He did stay in close contact with his children

"I felt like such a failure. I failed as a husband, a father. I failed as a pastor. I failed in every area of my life and I was lost. I felt like God could never use me again."

His lifestyle changed dramatically. He moved into a trailer with a woman he had known for only a few months. Then, one afternoon, he had a revelation.

"All of a sudden the Holy Spirit came down on me and I realized how far I was from God. I dropped my cigarette in the dirt and I dropped my beer. I told my girlfriend we have got to turn this around. She immediately felt that same presence of the Holy Spirit that I did. We got down on our knees and prayed and asked God to forgive us."

In the weeks that followed, Bryan and Dana got married and started attending church. He got a job at a uniform company and, in 2002, they had a son named Brandon.

"Then one day, out of the blue, I walked into my office only to find out that I lost my job that day. So any stability that I had in my life was gone again."

Almost immediately, Bryan sank into a deep depression.

"It wasn’t just the stress of not being able to pay the bills. It was just the lack of worth. I just didn’t feel like I was worth anything to anybody."

Then a pastor from his past invited him to a men’s bible study. During the class, he talked openly about his struggle for the first time. The other men prayed for Bryan, reached into their pockets and gave him all the money they had.

"These men loved me at the most broken time in my life, and the Holy Spirit said, 'If these guys can love you where you are now, how much more can God love you?' And the light went on."

One year later, Bryan moved his family to Nashville where he worked for a Christian radio station. But it wasn’t long before his friends and wife encouraged him to go back to being a pastor.

"At that point, I began to consider it for the first time since I left the ministry that maybe God did want to use me in that place again."

In October 2008, he established The Summit Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. Today, that church is expanding and his passion for the ministry is stronger than ever.

"Through a long, hard road, I discovered that God’s forgiveness is far-reaching and unconditional. I also discovered that my value was never what I became by myself, but it was what I became in Jesus.

"Ten years later, I sitll have guilt for my children who had to live through a broken home. But today, I’m happier than I’ve ever been. I’ve got a beautiful wife. We have a wonderful son from this marriage and somehow we’ve figured out how to live life to the fullest. God is a God who does not keep a list of your sins and He’s got a better tomorrow for you."

Words Are Supernatural By Pastor Sam Adeyemi

John 3:8
Your words are more spiritual, potent and impactful than you realise. When you understand the importance and nature of words, you will not trivialise them or treat them casually (John 6:63). The fact that you cannot see words does not mean that they are not real. Words can be likened to the wind; you can hear and feel it but you cannot see it. Remember that the unseen world created the seen world. In the realm of the unseen, words are real (John 1:1; Prov. 18:21). Words come from your heart and they are a projection of who you are on the inside. Your words show if you are a victor or a victim. (Matt. 12:34). Words are powerful! If you want to change what you say, you have to change your belief system. Words do not work until they are in perfect alignment with your heart. In the spiritual realm, words have force and they have the capacity to make things happen.

When God speaks and when you speak, angels move (Ps. 103:20). When Jesus was on the earth, He moved demons and cast them out only with His words. At the beginning of creation, the Holy Spirit was present but dormant until God spoke. The spiritual world is moved by words (Gen. 1: 2-3; Hebrews 11: 3). You can literally create your world with your words. With words you either curse or bless. When you bless, you introduce spiritual resources and entities into the recipient’s affairs. When you curse, you impose limitations and introduce spiritual forces into people’s lives to hamper and hinder them. In Bible times, people understood the import of words as demonstrated in the case of Isaac, Esau and Jacob. Isaac wanted to bless Esau as the firstborn but Jacob cunningly received the blessing instead. When Esau arrived, he craved his father’s blessing which could not be replicated. Esau wept because he knew that his father’s blessing was not just ordinary words; they had the power to transform his life.

Jacob was a man who learnt about the importance of words the hard way. In spite of the prophecy that there were two nations in their mother’s womb, Esau and Jacob were named according the circumstances of their birth. Esau was so named because he was hairy while Jacob means “supplanter”. For a long time in Jacob’s life, he felt he always had to scheme to get ahead even though God had promised to bless him. Years later, Jacob was instructed by God to leave Laban and go back to Canaan. On his way back, while alone after sending his family across the brook Jabbok, Someone showed up at night. Jacob wrestled with the Man; not realising that it was God who had shown up to help him. It wasn’t until morning before Jacob yielded to God and got his name changed to Israel meaning “prince with God” (Genesis 32).

If you are going to change your circumstances, you must change your words. Call yourself who God calls you. Say what you’ve heard God say about your life as He inspires you. Your level of authority will determine the impact of your words.

You Are Created For Dominion By Bishop David Oyedepo

You are created to dominate and rule over circumstances and situations. When you give your life to Christ, you are automatically connected to divine life where God dwells. You are no longer subject to human life but eternal God-kind of life.

This is so because according to the order of creation, every seed is expected to bring forth after its own kind. Since new birth enlists into the family of God where God reigns eternally, it means you now carry the same eternal life of God which can no longer be corrupted by natural elements. Jn. 3:16.

The eternal God who lives by His eternal life has transmitted eternal life to you through the mystery of redemption. By professing Jesus as Lord of your life, you have now been imparted with God’s eternal life. This eternal life is superior to satanic harassments of sickness, failure, poverty, demonic bondages and other forms of oppressions of the devil. You have been set at liberty from every opposition because whosoever the son shall set free is free indeed. Jn. 8:36.

This life is also called everlasting life. That is, unending life that cannot be stopped. It is a kind of life that guarantees rest even in adverse circumstances. It can never be stranded nor get involved in car crash.

Jesus demonstrated eternal life in full measure during His ministry. At age twelve, doctors of law were all amazed at the wisdom with which He spoke. He displayed mental soundness everywhere He went just as was found in Adam before the fall.

Furthermore, new birth has made you a kind of God. God speaking in Psalm 82:6 said, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.” Jn. 10:34. So, you are god in human form.

This is dominion confirmation scripture of the saints. It makes you see yourself in the same class as God. Thus, you must do all you can to allow this revelation sinks deeply into your heart. There is an anointing upon those words that will establish you in permanent dominion over all devils.

As a step of faith therefore, you must understand in depth how this revelation will impart your daily lifestyle. Don’t approach issues of life and spiritual battles as a human being otherwise you are bound to fail because the flesh profiteth nothing. It is the spirit that quickeneth! Jn. 6:63; Is. 59:19.

Now, be conscious of the image of God you carry. Know it, understand it, live it and walk everyday in the reality of it. It is this consciousness that will make Pharaohs that want to frustrate your progress to submit to you. Diseases, sicknesses, poverty and the lot will have no choice but to submit to your authority. You then become unshakable, immovable, triumphant and ever winning child of God.

The Wonder Working Power Of Faith By Bishop David Oyedepo

Faith is an all-important subject that every believer must give diligence attention to. It is the anchor, substance and interpretation of Christianity. It is what delivers good reports, and without it, nothing else works in this kingdom. Salvation is impossible without faith, likewise healing and victory.

There is no mountain faith cannot level. Signs, wonders and miracles are products of absolute faith in place. In actual fact, the mission of faith is to bring heaven down to the earth. It is to make Jesus real in His resurrected form inside us who are redeemed. By faith, we are able to take our place and manifest our sonship in its fullness.

However, there are steps to take that will make your faith produce desired result. This is what I will be showing to you one after other.

1. Apply yourself to the Word. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing from the Word of God. Revelation is the baseline for any faith that will work. God’s Word is what gives substance to faith. Every functional faith must be rooted in the Word. So, you have to apply yourself to every instruction and detail from the Word. “Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.” Job 22:21.

2. Release yourself to the Word. God’s Word is for obedience not negotiation. Every instruction from the Word is to be obeyed and not be subjected to human’s philosophy or reasoning. Jesus mother told the disciples, “…Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it…” Jn. 2:5. You have to release yourself consciously to what you have read or heard before it can produce in your life. “Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.” Lk. 1:45.

3. Put your confidence to work. Be assured that God is committed to whatever He has said. God is not a man that he should lie neither the son of man that he should repent of whatever promise He has made concerning you. Num. 23:19. And in Psalm 89:34, God says “My covenant will I not break, not alter the things that is gone out of my lips.” So, approach God with this understanding when you are talking to Him concerning any issue of your life. Is. 41:21.

4. Speak to that situation. After you have reminded God, because He abides faithful and can never deny Himself, then go a step further to address the situation. Mark 11:23 says, “…Whosoever shall say unto this mountain…” God won’t speak to the mountain for you; you are the one to do it. Many people are so busy talking to God, but we have not said a thing to the mountain. Prayer is not the end of it; you need to clear the debris and obstacles out of your way. So speak to the mountain. Micah 6:1 “…Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.”

5. Demonstrate your victory. After addressing the devil oppressing your life, then you should stop doing as if it is still there. God is a God of knowledge, by whom all actions are weighed. 1 Sam. 2:3. Your action is what shows that faith is there. Don’t let it betray your expectation. Jam. 2:18 “Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.”

6. Refuse to give up. You are not permitted to quit neither are you permitted to draw back. You must keep at it. There is nothing you are facing that is new to God. Every happening around your life is not peculiar to you either. Don’t see your case as special! We are serving a covenant keeping God; there is no impossibility with Him. He will surely do for you what He has promised. So, work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Go back to the Word and seek for more revelation. Everything you need in life has answer in “The book”.

I need Cash by Pst. Mrs. Faith Oyedepo

Why do I need cash?
If you were asked the question: Do you need some cash? Without thinking for too long, the likely answer will be: ‘’Yes I do!’’ I won’t be surprised at your answer, because cash is an important factor in the buying and selling world today. Cash or money is required and is the acceptable means of exchange both for goods and services in everyday living, ranging from provision of food and clothing, to provision of shelter.
Some times in the past, humans were exchanged for goods and services. But in our world presently, cash or money is the legal tender, universally acceptable ever since the abolishment of slave trade. So, irrespective of where you live, work or school, it is necessary to have a handy cash to be able to meet your daily needs and wants.
So far, we have been able to establish the fact that it is not a sin to want to have some cash in hand.
Where have I gone wrong in my need for cash?
Cash or money is described by the Bible as the unrighteous mammon. For clarity of purpose, Luke 16:11 says: If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
As good as it is to need cash, if care is not taken and due process observed, the unrighteous character of money begins to rule your mind, as a youth. Therefore, be careful not to allow the need for cash to lead you the wrong path. Some youth would even prefer to steal or rob others, or even prostitute themselves, just to satisfy their need for cash. This is displeasing to God, and unacceptable in the society.
In 1 Timothy 6:10, the Bible makes us to understand that the love of money is the root of evil. 1 Tim 6:10-11 says: 0 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
We, therefore, as youths must never allow ourselves to come to that point when our love for God and love for His kingdom becomes substituted by the love of money.
I always tell the youths each time I have the opportunity to talk on cash, that the reasons why they probably have lost faith in God’s ability to meet their financial needs are mainly based on two factors. These are ingratitude ( unthankfulness) and discontentment.
Ingratitude:
For every need, whether met or yet to be met, God expects us to show appreciation. He expects us to give Him thanks.
Col 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Grumbling and murmuring do not bring solution to any of your financial needs. They only block your access to God’s throne; this is why God expects nothing less than thanksgiving in all things (Ps 92:1).
Remember that it was after Jesus gave thanks for the seven loaves of bread and few little fishes that they multiplied. After that the multitudes were fed to their satisfaction with seven basket full as left over, Matthew 15:36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. Maybe you have been thinking that God has forgotten you; probably you also think that He has no idea of your need for cash. Good news! He wants you to have abundance of life and all that makes life good, and this include supplying all your needs according to His riches in Glory. Philippians 4:19 says: But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Food for thought: When was the last time you said ‘Thanks Lord for the cash in my hands and for the one I need?’
You need Jesus in your life; you must be born again to live that excellent kind of life. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and other things will be added unto you (Rom 6:33). Say this prayer in faith with me as I lead you to Jesus. He loves you and wants you safe in His arms: Lord Jesus, I come to You today, forgive me my sins, wash me in Your precious blood, come and dwell in my heart and be my Lord and Personal Savior. Thank You for saving me for I know that I am now born again. You are now a new being, congratulations.

The Trap For Sexual Abuse by Pst. Mrs. Faith Abiola Oyedepo

What is Sexual Abuse? Sexual abuse can be defined as when you're being touched in a way you don't like, you're being forced to have sex, you're forced to look at sexual pictures or videos, you're made to watch someone do something sexual (this can include someone flashing or exposing themselves to you; this can be via webcam, pictures or in person), you're made to do something sexual to someone that feels uncomfortable or wrong; again, this can be online or in the real world.

The trap for sexual abuse or some behaviours that may raise concern include, when someone pays unusual or unnecessary attention to you, seeks opportunities to spend uninterrupted time alone with you, frequently buys you expensive gifts or gives you money, often walks into the bathroom while you are there. It also includes when someone shows unusual interest in your sexuality (for example makes comments about your body), pursues physical contact with you through hugging, touching, tickling, wrestling, even when you have indicated that you don’t like it, spends most of his free time with you, rather than with persons of his calibre, asks to take you on overnight trips alone, frequently offers to care for you, or asks if you can keep secrets, etc.

However, this is where the necessity for the Spirit of God comes in. It helps you as a child of God to discern what is pure and of negative intention (1 Corinthians 12:4-11). As explained in the above paragraph, if anyone comes around with contrary motives, the Spirit of God in you will make you uncomfortable with such individuals. In other words, if you choose to focus upon the Word of God, you will be enabled to be spiritually discerning.

Since every person and situation is different, victims of sexual abuse respond in various ways. The number of occurrences is staggering. But more staggering than the number of occurrences, is the acute damage done to the victim. The effects are physical, social, emotional, psychological and spiritual.

After a person has been sexually abused, he/she often experiences a range of feelings and reactions. Though these individuals cope in their own way, some have very strong responses after being sexually abused, while others are calm or numb. Some feelings and reactions might be experienced directly after the abuse or days and weeks later. Understanding that these feelings are normal and experienced by others who have been sexually abused, may make the feelings and reactions less frightening.

Immediate physical effects may be pain and bodily injuries, especially if the perpetrator used force. It may also include: bruises, broken bones, STIs, nausea, vomiting, headaches, and pregnancy. Longer-term physical effects may be disturbed sleep patterns, nightmares, insomnia, loss of appetite, stomach pains, etc.

Sexual abuse also causes harmful emotional, psychological, or physiological effects that are more severe than the effects of other crimes. These effects include self-blame, shame, guilt (or embarrassment), anxiety, stress (or fear), shock, impaired memory, confusion (or disorientation), anger, hostility (or aggression), sexualized behaviours (sexual perversion), denial, irritability, erratic mood swings, depression or despair, social withdrawal, decreased energy and motivation, suicidal thoughts, etc.

After all said, I like to introduce to you, friend, the surer escape route from sexual abuse – Jesus. Acknowledging Him as your Lord and personal Saviour will give Him access to leading and guiding you away from sexual abuse at any point in time in life.

Are you set to confess your sins and allow Jesus into your life? If you are, please say this prayer of faith from your heart loud and clear: Dear Lord, I come to You today. I am a sinner. Forgive me of my sins. Cleanse me with Your precious Blood. I accept You as my Lord and Saviour. Now I know I am born again!
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How to Defeat Sex Addiction

“Some guys had trophies on their walls of their playing a sport or doing something, my trophy was I kept a book with the name of all the girls that I had sex with. And that was my trophy.” Paul's twisted view of women and relationships began in his childhood. “A friend of mine had a magazine and, of course, with naked pictures and other stuff and they just kinda captivated us,” he said. “Then it was shortly thereafter that I can remember wanting to see it firsthand, so I found a little girlfriend and we went into a woodshed and exposed ourselves to each other.”

As he got older, he delved more into porn and eventually started having sex. After high school, he joined the Navy, and things only got worse. “I can remember being on my first ship. Because, of course, you’re underway, there’s no women, and there’s lots of pornography. And when you go to port with friends it was always, you know, “Where’s the next girl I can find? Where’s the next thing I can do with them.” When Paul got out of the Navy, he decided he needed to change his life, so he started going to church. But come Monday morning, he went back to his womanizing ways. Then he met Barbara, who was a single mom. “She was a professional and she’s very attractive. She’s very beautiful. And I was like, ‘Wow. I want to have that.’”

Barbara recalls meeting Paul for the first time. “He was very nice and caring. I ended up having him around more than I expected initially.”

They moved in together and eventually they got engaged. One night, Paul was watching television and came across the 700 Club. “He was talking about how you could get to know God in a personal level in a relationship with his Son, Jesus. He put out the Gospel and asked anybody if they wanted to pray with him, and I was like, ‘Yeah, absolutely.’ You know, and I prayed with Pat on TV. And I was like, ‘That’s great. I did a good thing.’ Then I went to bed. I didn’t think anything of it. The next day there was just a light, airy feeling to me that something had happened. I didn’t know what. I really didn’t understand because I already thought I was a Christian but something was different. And I can remember going to work and the first thing I remember noticing is I didn’t curse anymore. I went out and bought a Bible. I never bought a Bible, let alone read a Bible. But for some reason I wanted to buy one, and I didn’t just read it, but I devoured it,” Paul remembers.

As he studied the Bible, he realized their live-in relationship was wrong and wanted to move out. Barbara didn’t understand. “I started to see changes in him, but I think I misread and maybe he even misread what was happening to him as he just didn’t want to be with me anymore.”

It wasn’t just conviction that urged Paul to move out. He still struggled with his desire for other women. “One of the biggest fears I had was – and it kept coming to my mind - ‘if you do, this is the last woman you can ever have sex with,’ because I knew from Catholicism that once you’re married you’re just supposed to be with your wife. ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery.’ That kept hitting me and kept kinda driving me away from her to where I didn’t want to fully commit to a marriage with her.”

So Paul took a job in Ohio. After he moved, he forgot about God and his fiancée, and started looking for sex but something had changed. “There was a young lady there that I had taken an interest in and went back to her place. And I had every intention on having sex with this woman, and couldn’t do it. I laid there. She was right there in bed, naked next to me. I could move, but I could not move towards her. There was something that was hindering me from making a physical advance on this woman. It wasn’t physical because I could still move around, but there was something in here (my mind) and something in here (my heart) that was saying, ‘No. You’re not touching this woman.’ I think it was the Holy Spirit, you know, that when I trusted Christ I didn’t realize what was happening. I had no idea what happened to me. I got back my stuff and I got in my car and I started driving back to my apartment and of course my thoughts immediately go towards Barbara, my fiancée, and it was like, ‘How could I leave her? I told her I would marry her and here I am over here.’ And I just began to immediately just cry to God, ‘Lord, I’m sorry.’ You know, ‘Please – I want to make this right.’ You know, ‘Please forgive me.’”

“I was ready to tell him I wanted to break the engagement. But he started telling me some things that have been going on with him, as far as the struggles he was having. I didn’t even know he was having those struggles. Frankly, I didn’t know the reason he was withdrawing. I just know that he was. I had never heard him like that before. I had never heard him that remorseful. Once he started explaining everything to me I felt like maybe we needed to go ahead and move forward,” Barbara remembers.

Paul and Barbara married and over the years, their family has grown. “God has changed me. He’s changed Paul. It’s like we are different than we ever thought we’d be back then – but much better. He’s become a whole different person than who he was then, and so have I,” Barbara says.

“I did not wake up one day and say, ‘I need to turn over a new leaf.’ I just trusted Christ as my Savior. And He came in and He gave me new desires, and He did it in such a way that I’m very thankful for,” Paul added.

Some Of Pastor E.A Adeboye's Testimonies

SOMEBODY SHOUT HALLELUYAH!!! This is amazing. read and pass on. then meditate and wait for God's abounding blessings. God is powerful. He will bless you all.

1. A Dump Child Speaks
(GO) A woman brought her child. That child will probably be between 9 and 10. And said this child had never spoken before please pray for this child. (GO) I laid my hand on this child and I said, In the Name of Jesus and the child said 'Amen!' I have not prayed yet! I just said: In the Name of Jesus! And the child that had never spoken before said 'Amen! I nearly jumped out of the window. The mother was on the floor rolling! That kind of miracle that will make you roll on the ground for joy God will give you this year! (Amen!)

2. Divine Promotion
(GO) Once upon a time when I was a lecturer in one University I won't mention which one; there was a particular man who was not promoted for 12 years because somebody hid his file. But when his time came there was a change of Head of Department and the new Head of Department said I want to see the file of everybody in my Department. They searched and searched until finally they dug it out where somebody hid it.. Your file that had been hidden by the enemy shall be brought out this year. (Amen!) And they discovered this man should have been promoted at least twice and they gave him double promotion.

3. Sick Woman Healed
(GO) I was invited to Port Harcourt , Nigeria . Full Gospel Business men had a program, they asked me to come and preach. When I finished the first preaching that night one man came and said sir, my wife is sick, in hospital; please could you come and pray for her. So we made arrangement for the following day. The following day we went there. The wife had been completely helpless on the sick bed, she could not even turn but I prayed for her and the one who had not been able to even talk escorted me to the door! I didn't come to Port Harcourt for this man! I came for a program, heaven was just passing by and this man tapped into it! Heaven is passing by tonight, somebody is going to tap into it and your sickness will disappear. If you believe that let me hear you say 'Amen!' (Amen!)

4. Marriage made Possible
(GO) A sister came to one of the Programs in Ebute Metta, Lagos years ago, and the Word came just as it is coming now that there is a sister whose mother didn't want her to marry. That if the mother does not release her, Mama herself will be buried within 7 days. A Word just came like that and I announced it. I don't know which sister was concerned. The following day the sister came with the mother. The mother was very furious. That's the way you stupid prophets spoil the head of our girls, telling my daughter that I will die because I didn't allow her to marry. I said me? Sister did I say that? She said the prophecy that came yesterday. What God said is that there is a sister here did I mention your name? I said Mama don't mind her, nobody mentioned her name, she was just claiming what is not her own.

The mother said, oh-oh is that so? She said, all right. She asked the lady to go out and the lady went out and she said Pastor, but is it true that the mother will die? I said I'm not talking about you oh I'm not talking about you, but what God told me is going to come to pass, so if you are the one and I'm not saying it is you before the week runs out whoever it is, is going to be buried. Ehhhh, I'm not asking her not to marry but who is going to take care of me after. I said Mama that's simple; I can tell her and tell the husband to take good care of you. I will make them promise. That's if she can marry within 6 months, this girl who was almost 40 years old and nobody had looked in her direction before, there is somebody here today anybody who says you will not marry will not see the end of January because loneliness must end!

5. Little Girl Delivered from Death
(GO) I went to visit a family and at that time I didn't know that the woman of the house was a number one witch and that she had reached an agreement with her husband in the spirit realm that of every two children born one will die one will survive. And there was this little girl that she had given birth to. She was one of those that were to die. In fact that was the day that the girl was to die. We didn't know at that time so we went there to greet the family and as I was about to leave that girl stretched forward towards me. She was at the back of the mother stretched out, stretched towards me in such a manner as I had not option other than to carry the child. We were to learn later that this child never, never allows anyone else to carry her. But something told the girl, you are dying today unless just stretched towards me so I carried the girl and I prayed. I didn't know what I was doing: Father bless this child, keep sickness away from her, keep death away from this child�. And the yoke was broken! It wasn't long after that when the mother began to confess: I killed this one, I killed this one, I killed this one, I killed this one the day I was to kill this one he this troublesome pastor came by and took the child from me. Today every one of you that the enemy had decided death for I cancel that one in Jesus' Name! (Amen!)

6. No More Sorrow
(GO) There's a young man that had been coming from America again and again to testify. When I first met him, old as he was, he was always weeping like a baby. He's married; he's got children but he's always weeping! My wife used to say before you begin to weep again don't start oh! Because he had known so much sorrow. The father left home when he was a child one sorrow after the other but now it is one miracle after the other. He was telling his church people, because he's a Pastor, he said, some how since I met Pastor Adeboye it's one miracle after the other! One miracle after the other!

7. Blessed with a Baby
(GO) We went to a Holy Ghost Service in Kaduna , Nigeria and I wanted to go to the toilet while the choir was singing and there was this brother who was an usher standing somewhere near the toilet. So he greeted me and I shook hands with him. I didn't know he was rejoicing.. So I went to the toilet. Apparently he has told the other ushers. He shook my hand, he shook my hand! When I was coming back there were about half a dozen of them! So I shook hands with them. I didn't know that one of them had received one before he shook my hand the second time and he put his hand in his pocket. He got home and he told the wife who had been barren for years bring your stomach, the GO shook my hand 2 times! 9 months later the baby came. Your hands will be blessed tonight! (Amen!) I say Your hands will be blessed tonight! (Amen!)

Prophesy 2013- Pastor E.A Adeboye. Rccg General Overseer

This is year of signs and Wonders
Generally, God says this year will be better than last year.

Individual:
1. No matter the darkness around you, your star will shine brighter
2. God says, He will speak peace to your storms.
3. Certain individual have been stagnated for sometimes, the reasons for your stagnation will become known, will be addressed and will be eliminated, therefore progress will follows.
4. In many senses of the word, this year will be of completeness.

Nigeria:
1. The prayers of some of you minimized death of prominent Nigerians last year, don’t stop praying.
2. Before the middle of the year, many will say hope rising.
3. Learn from disasters of 2012 and take precausion soonest to avert bigger ones.

International:
1. The Lord says, prominent world leaders need a lot of prayers so as not to die in office.
2. Prominent Church leaders need prayers against planned scanders.
3. Weather conditions may get worst, much worst, unless prayers are intensified.
4. We should expect a major breakthrough in medicine this year.
5. Nations who pass unholy laws will have a taste of divine fury.

A Shocking Miracle

“As soon as the branch hit the wire, there was a quite large fireball from the electricity. I never saw what happened coming. I do remember thinking, ‘Am I dying?’”

Tim Williams has run his own tree service business for over 20 years. What happened on June 15, 2009, nearly changed life as he knew it.

“It was like any other Monday should have been, and I had everything lined up. We got situated, got started, everything was going as planned.”

Tim was trimming branches from a tall tree, something he’d done hundreds of times. But then the branch hit an electrical wire.

“And immediately I felt the sensation of electricity without even touching the branch because the current was going through the branch into the rope. The only thing that was going through my mind was try to figure out how to make it stop. So I thought that if I could just reach out and grab the branch and pull it off the wire, that would do the trick. But that’s when things went from bad to worse.”

As Tim took hold of the branch, 13,000 volts of electricity shot through his arm.

“I just repeatedly said, ‘Help me, Jesus! Help me, Jesus!’ over and over I don’t know how many times because I knew at that point it was really bad. I got myself turned around in a position where I was going to try to grab this arm like this to try to help pull. If I had touched this arm with my other hand it would have gone through my heart and that would have been the end. My eyes started rolling back into my head. This is the image I had just before I blacked out. I was this close to touching this hand. I just think that was God saying, ‘No, not yet.’”

His assistant immediately called 911. Tim lay there waiting for help, wondering if he would ever see his wife and eight children again.

"I remember thinking, 'This is it.’ I didn’t want to go. I couldn’t bear the thought of not seeing my family again.”

The amount of electricity that passed through Tim’s body, 13,000 volts, was enough to kill him instantly or at the very least shatter his bones. Tim suffered second and third degree burns and was rushed to the burn unit. Doctors grafted skin from his leg to cover his burns. After eight days, he was released to go home.

“When I saw my older kids come in for the first time, I absolutely lost complete control of my emotions. At that moment, I went back to the point in the accident where I was losing consciousness and thinking, ‘Is this it?’ It was too much. I couldn’t handle it. You know, I was so grateful to be able to hold them.”

As grateful as he was, new challenges arose: Tim was the sole breadwinner, and now the Williams family had no source of income.

“I was out of work for three months, where I wasn’t able to do anything. It was a heavy blow to our finances, and we’re still dealing with that. But the Christian community, people in our church, even outside of our church, we were so blown away at how the Body of Christ came to our aid.”

Eventually Tim was strong enough to return to work, but he chooses to stay out of the trees and keep his feet firmly planted on the ground.

“I’m basically a subcontractor. So I basically am in the sales end of things now. I know in my heart that when I said, ‘Help me, Jesus,’ as it was happening, He really did. Even though the injuries were fairly severe, it should have been a lot worse. I just hope through this whole process that somebody can understand that God’s real. And that God has our best interest at heart.”
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Dead Man Walking

“The last time I used drugs was in 1996, and I was 56 years old.”

For 40 years Gerald Jones of Indianapolis, Indiana, was hooked on drugs.

He recalls, “All these may look like burns but this is from needle marks where I would stay up day and night just using drugs. Just injecting myself.”

Sadly, he was influenced at a young age by those closest to him.

“My dad worked for the city and he grew marijuana out in the fields. And when he came home he would smoke,” says Gerald. “That always stayed with me the smell of marijuana and jazz being played in the house.”

When Gerald was five years old, his mother died of tuberculosis, and then his father abandoned him. After years of being shuffled between family members, he felt like he didn’t belong anywhere. The world of drugs became an easy escape for him.

Gerald says, “At the age of 14, I began to smoke marijuana, and at the age of 16, I became addicted to heroine unfortunately. I tried it. Even though I became sick, it seemed like all of the other problems and things that I had came up under… it just took it all away, and so I easily became addicted.”

To supply his growing habit, Gerald began selling drugs. At 19 he was arrested for possession and went to prison.

“I was young. I was a little curly head guy. I did a whole lot of stuff but the prison experience that I had was very rough,” he says.

In order to survive Gerald sought out a place to fit in. That’s when he became a prime recruit for the nation of Islam.

Gerald says, “They made sure that nobody messed with me.”

The Muslims not only provided a safeguard for Gerald, they also taught him a new way of thinking.

Gerald recalls, “I easily received the doctrine that the White man was the devil, and the Black man was the original man. All this fitted my mind, and it gave me a reason to understand why my behavior was like it was. And somewhere to put the blame.”

Gerald began to study the Koran, the Torah and the Bible. For the first time in his life he developed a discipline in something he thought was worth living for.

“I would get up each day and I would say all of my prayers. It’s five prayers a day. I would say all five of them. When it come to the month of Ramadon, I would do the 30 day fast from sun up to sun down.”

After a year in jail Gerald was released -- only to return again. Over the next 15 years he spent his life in and out of prison systems.

In spite of it all, Gerald remained a loyal follower of the teachings in the nation of Islam, in particular Malcolm X.

Gerald remembers Malcolm X as a “grassroots speaker.” Gerald says, “He had a way of reaching the Black man in a way that had never been taught or spoken before.”

But drugs continued to dominate and dictate his every move.

“I really felt it was all right for me to deal the drugs, to get high and to do the things I was doing as a Muslim long as I went to prayer five times a day. I looked good on the outside but inside I was a dead man.”

After years of drug abuse Gerald contracted HIV by sharing needles with other heroine users. Within four years the HIV turned into AIDS.

Gerald says, “The lowest point was when the HIV had become AIDS, and the doctors had given up on me. I had went down to maybe 112 pounds.”

That’s when Gerald received a phone call that would change his life forever.

“My brother called me from Indianapolis, and he ministered to me. He said, ‘You’ve tried every way. Are you ready to accept the Lord Jesus Christ?’ I knew that his life and my life had been similar. I knew his life had changed, and that was one testimony that I could never get out of my mind. He had changed. Prophet Muhammad, Allah had not done it for me. When he called and said, ‘Are you ready to accept the Lord?’ I did. When I prayed over the phone with him, I broke. The Lord came into my life and met me right there on the phone.”

Even though Gerald gave his heart to God, he still had a difficult time giving up the disciplines of his Muslim faith.

“I was reading the Bible, and I was saying to myself, ‘Jesus if you are real, then You need to show me because I can’t keep going in between like I’m doing.’”

God did just that. He began to open up His word to Gerald. Eventually God started to transform Gerald’s thinking and strip him of Islamic practices.

Gerald says, “It was when I got to the Lord Jesus Christ that I began to understand that all of mankind was under the dominion of demonic activity. The whole race as a whole and only through Jesus Christ who was manifested to destroy the works of the devil was that gotten ahold to in my life.”

And over time the healing power of Jesus Christ broke a 40-year addiction to drugs.

“Some people such as myself, there’s a process that He takes you through because of the deep-rooted desires that I had down in me for drugs,” he says. “I didn’t know how to function without drugs. But I do know that even going through the process the Lord will stay with you all the way. He won’t let you go.”
Today Gerald Jones is 65 years old. The HIV and AIDS that nearly took his life are in total remission.

“I can’t express the liberty and freedom that I feel in getting up and wanting orange juice and eggs and a breakfast,” he says. “Things like that they may seem so natural to people wherein my first thought was drugs.”

And wherever he goes he loves to tell others about the healing power of Jesus Christ.

Gerald explains, “I enjoy seeing a life change. Not just to get them to the Lord but to see the transition to see the Lord at work in their lives and to see them go through the process. Once you come to God and you surrender your life to the Lord he is faithful and he is able to do exceedingly abundantly all that you can ever ask or think. And it’s true. It’s true.”

His name is Wonderful By Bishop David Oyedepo

Every child of God is born to be a wonder to the world. According to John 3:8, everyone born of the spirit is born a living wonder. Mark 16:17-18 says” And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”

By divine ordination, every child of God is born a sign and wonder by divine ordination. Isaiah 8: 18 says “ Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion”.

Even though we know who we are, we need to know how to operate in that realm. What do you need to do to be a sign and wonder.?
Exodus 4:17 says “And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs” and Isaiah 11:1 says “And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” Combinning these two verses, it is clear that to be a sign and wonder you need to carry Jesus every where you go. The name of Jesus is so full of wonders and engaging that name ‘Jesus’ is one way to evoke signs and wonders to flow in our life.

In Acts 3: 6 Peter had no money to give the lame man but with the name of Jesus he was able to do wonders and the lame man got up and began to walk. The name of Jesus can bring anybody out from issues of life.

You need to know how to engage the name of Jesus to see wonders in your life. There is healing, protection, blessing in the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is key to answered prayers, when you pray to God in the name of Jesus,you grab God’s attention. The name of Jesus opens the doors of heaven ( John 14:12) The name of Jesus is anointed, the name of Jesus destroys yokes, demons are subjected to the name. When you engage that name against the operation, the anointing goes forth to fight on your behalf.The name of Jesus guarantees peace in troubled times. There is counsel in that name so when your soul is troubled, call upon the name of Jesus. The bible calls Him the Prince of peace.


With the name of Jesus in your hand, a new day dawns on your life. With faith in the name of Jesus, there is a change of story for you! The bible says in that the signs will follow those that believe, the name puts you in command of every situation in your life. When we engage the name of Jesus n faith, miracles, signs and wonders will follow.

The depth of understanding you have in the name of Jesus will determine the result you get when you make use of the name. Your spiritual understanding of the name of Jesus is key to experiencing your signs and wonders, the name of Jesus is full of wonders

Christianity without the supernatural is fake religion, if the supernatural is not happening around you then you are not experiencing true Christianity. By engaging the name of God, you experience the supernatural things, you start to get things . The name of Jesus is a gift from God to the believer, the name of Jesus is the key to every door, you can use the name of Jesus to cross your red sea and overcome your problems.

From Jihad to Jesus

Jerry Rassamni vividly remembers when the war came to his mountain village of Choueifat.

“People were slaughtered because of their religion. And there was so much hatred. I remember growing up practically in a bomb shelter. Bomb shelters and daily bombings were a fact of life. And the enemy was at the gate and he wanted me dead,” Jerry said.

As a Druze Muslim, Jerry’s fear of the enemy turned to hatred.

“Christians were bombing us daily. And I really thought that they were the devil incarnate. I hated them with such passion and if I hated the Christians, I hated the Jews ten times more,” Jerry said.

Eventually Jerry joined the militia, and entered the fighting.

“I had to defend my land and my existence. I had to kill or be killed,” Jerry said. “And pretty soon gunpowder became my outlet, my escape, my addiction. Sometimes it manifested itself in an AK-47 assault rifle. Sometimes it was a hand grenade, a land mine. Whatever it was, it had gunpowder in it.”

In time, however, the atrocities of war led Jerry to question the principles of his Islamic beliefs.

“I saw the unrestrained evil that man is capable of. When religion tells you that man is basically good, it is a lie of colossal dimensions, for I saw the true heart of man and I was changed by the horrors of it,” Jerry said.

“I remember seeing men lying on the streets in pools of their own blood, no better than dogs. I began to see that there is nothing redeeming about man. How could man, who is capable of such overwhelming evil, have goodness in his heart and evil at the periphery, as Islam claims? Isn’t it the other way around?” Jerry said.

After three years of fighting, Jerry realized that the war was pointless, and so did his mother. She feared for her son’s life and produced fake paperwork to get Jerry and his brother out of the country. Months later, Jerry started a new chapter in his life, in America.

“This is what I have dreamt about all of my life, coming over to this country that represents freedom, represents liberty. I came from a country where I was, basically I didn’t have a lot of freedoms because of the war,” Jerry said.

Soon he met a young woman, and fell in love. But she was a Christian.

“When I first laid eyes on her, something happened in my heart. It was love at first sight. I knew she was the one for me. The fact that she was a Christian, I turned a blind eye to that because I was so blinded by love,” Jerry said.

Within months, Jerry proposed to Jennifer.

“I knew at 19-years-of-age to pray and ask the Lord if it was His will for me to marry Jerry,” Jennifer said. “And after much prayer, I just, I finally had a peace about it. But my conditions were that we would attend church as a family and that our future children would be raised Christian.”

Jerry agreed to the conditions, but vowed to never convert to Christianity.

Jennifer recalled, “He said, I told you I would never convert. I’m – I was born Druze Muslim, I’m going to die Druze Muslim, and not anything you could say or do is going to change that.”

“So I just, I never said another word and just began praying,” Jennifer said.

As Jennifer prayed, Jerry studied the Bible. He wanted to disprove its claims. Instead, he began to see fundamental differences between Islam and Christianity.

“As I began to examine the scriptures, I came across some revolutionary teachers. In the excellent names of Allah in Islam, not one is love. Not one is father,” Jerry said. “But I read about a God who loved mankind so much, even after they rebelled against him, that He made a way that we could come before Him and call him Abba. This was not the God of Islam.”

And so, during a Sunday morning church service in October, of 1998, Jerry stepped forward and accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior.

“It was as though the scales had fallen from my eyes, as though I could see for the first time that God was guarding me and protecting my life all these years. When I should have been six feet under, He was guarding me for such a time as this,” Jerry said.

Their lives have never been the same.

“After I accepted Christ we truly became one and we worshipped the Lord together,” Jerry said.

“It’s a wonderful blessing that Jerry came to know the Lord before we started our family,” Jennifer said.

Jerry tells his life’s journey, from the killing fields of Lebanon to the loving arms of Jesus Christ, in his book, From Jihad to Jesus.

He knows that God has a plan to reach Muslims with the gospel.

“God says ‘in the last days I would pour out my spirit on all people.’ He said, ‘Your young men shall dream dreams. Your old men shall see visions.’ And we are seeing the fulfillment of Joel 2:28 in the Muslim world all over. Where people in Islam are seeing visions and dreams of Christ and they’re coming out of darkness into light,” Jerry said.

Jerry is truly grateful for his life journey

“I should have spent eternity in hell. That’s where I belong. But God, in his infinite mercy, sent His Son to die in my place so that I don’t have to spend eternity in hell. And it’s through nothing that I do, but it’s through what the Savior has done on the cross for me 2,000 years ago,” Jerry said.

The year was 1975, and the Lebanese civil war had begun. In 15 years of fighting between Muslims and Christians, over 100,000 died in a war that nearly destroyed Lebanon.

The Open Doors of the Occult

“If anybody would have told me I would be living my life the way I’m living it now -- from where I started -- I would just not simply have believed them.”

June and Wally Blume own Moose Tracks and Denali Flavors, Inc. Their ice cream flavors are some of the most popular in the country.

“Whoever would think that one scoop at a time, we would have the ability to get the gospel out to the world,” says June.

Wally says, “We have between 30 to 35 flavors now. We license them to dairies across the United States. We’re in between 80 to 90 dairies. They use our concepts to produce ice cream.”

While their success is unparalleled in the ice cream business, life was not always so positive for June and Wally.

June grew up in the church and knew what it meant to be a Christian. However, she longed for a deep, spiritual experience that she didn’t get in her church. So she went on a search to find spiritual power.

“We’re spiritual beings, and we are looking for something to fill that void within us,” she says. “Because I didn’t see the miraculous working power of Jesus Christ in the church, I went to the occult.

“I had a friend whose grandmother was solidly in the occult. She read crystal balls, tea leaves, cards and all of those kinds of things. She would invite me to go. We would have readings.”

June’s trek into the occult took her deeper and deeper into enemy territory.

She even planned to host a seance.

She says, “Now, I didn’t know that was not what we should be doing… I had God’s protective circle around me, but when I went that direction, those doors were broken. I allowed the enemy to march right in to my life. I experienced a lot of physical problems.”

Before long, a task as simple as walking across the room became unbearable.

“I was in pain constantly,” June says. “I went to a number of doctors. Back in those days, it was difficult to diagnose endometriosis.

“I was in the bed and on the couch most of the time. So it was difficult to be the wife that I needed to be for Wally.

“There were times when all you could do was just cry. It hurt so much.”

One day June asked her sister, who was a Christian, why her life was such a mess?

“She was very straight with me. She said, ‘June, it’s because you have sin in your life.’ She took me straight to Deuteronomy chapter 18 and showed me according to the Word that I was going to someone other than our Father for information. That was an abomination to God. I said, ‘What do we do?’ She said, ‘Would you like to repent and recommit your life to the Lord?’ I said, ‘Yes, I would like to do that.’ So she led me in that prayer.”

June’s search to fill the void in her life was finally over.

It was only when I recommitted my life to the Lord and asked for more of Him that that void literally went away. He filled that void for me,” she says. “Then the next night her husband had a Bible study and was teaching on healing. They laid hands on me. They prayed for me. It was just revolutionary. It changed my life.”

June’s symptoms disappeared, and her newfound joy was infectious. Her husband Wally was amazed.

Within two months, he also accepted Christ.

“Her energy level just jumped about 500 percent when she came back,” Wally says. “Before she was sick and couldn’t do anything. All of a sudden, after she came back, she was just a ball of fire. The difference just spoke to my life. I’m sitting there saying, ‘There’s something real here. This is something that really happened.’


June and Wally want to share the love of Christ with others every day, and they are doing it through ice cream!

“The goal for our business is to fund the gospel,” says Wally. “To bring people into the kingdom.”

They thank God daily -- not only for His blessing on their business -- but for what He’s done in their lives.

June says, “In my life I’ve seen so many people who have broken hearts, who need deliverance, just really bankrupt. Instead of running to God, they blame God. ‘Where were You? Why weren’t You there for me?' He was there all the time. My question to them would be: Why would you run away from the only One who can help you?”

A Man of God in Prison

"I was seduced by the lifestyle,I started selling dope and making money, eventually became my own best customer and started smoking up my product and my profits. It was downhill from there."

His drug lifestyle caused led him to make a terrible decision: break into a home and rob the man that lived there. Kevin kept watch outside, while the others attacked the man inside.

"I’m looking through the window, and there was an altercation in the house. I saw him go down. We left."

That night, Kevin went back to check on the man they robbed. But, when he got there, he found him dead. He called the police, but fled the scene. Eventually, police brought him in for questioning.

"They asked me what happened. 'I don’t know. I wasn’t there.' 'Your story’s not adding up. You need to tell us something. You need to tell us more than you’re telling us.'”

Kevin confessed to the murder. Even though he didn’t actually kill the man, he felt responsible since he planned the robbery.

"I felt like I set him up. If I had not been for that, nothing ever would have happened. He’d still be here if it wasn’t for me."

Kevin was found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. He says, "I’m going to spend the rest of my life incarcerated. How am I going to do it?"

Kevin’s girlfriend Brenda was devastated. They had two children, and now she would have to raise them alone. She recalls, "I didn’t think he would ever see the light of day. I was really worried about his survival, the kids growing up, especially my son, without his dad being here."

Kevin says, "She came and told me that, 'If you dedicate your life to me and your son, I will do as much of this time with you as I can.'"

Brenda and Kevin were married in a prison waiting room. Life inside was rough for the first-time offender.

"I felt really bad about myself. Really like worthless."

But as he dealt with life behind bars, a stranger visited him, who told him that God could forgive his crime and change his life.

"I remember telling him, 'Man, I blew it. It’s over.' I was taking the Ten Commandments literally: 'Thou shalt not kill'. I said, 'I’m done.'"

But the man told him about Jesus.

“'God’ll forgive you for that. God’ll forgive you.' He convinced me that God will forgive us for anything if we repent and confess it to him. So, he led me through the sinner’s prayer."

Kevin started going to the chaplain’s Bible studies.

"Initially it was to get out of the cell and then started to really come to know God through reading my Word. Jesus means everything to me. Jesus is my example, my strength, my hope. That’s what I live for. I live to breathe. I live to please God."

Kevin earned a college degree and eventually started helping the chaplain. As he connected with Christians inside, back home, his family was falling apart.

Brenda says, "I had to ask myself, Who am I? What is it that I want? Why am I really doing this? Am I doing this for myself? For the kids, for Kevin? So it just came to that cross in the road. I really loved my husband, but I just felt I couldn’t do it anymore."

After seven years, they divorced, but Kevin refused to let go.

"I always had in the back of my mind I would marry her again," Kevin says. "After I went through my little pity party, I would marry her again when I got out."

After serving 19 years, Kevin was released on good behavior. He says, "I became a man in there. I became a man of God in prison. If you can really get a grip on God, really trust Him and know that He can change lives, we can make it."

He kept his promise to Brenda.

"We talked and decided to start dating again. We decided to start right this time. We’re going to do it God’s way. We did that," Kevin says. "We dated for six months before we got married."

Brenda says, "It’s beautiful now. We’re back together. We’re fellowshipping at the same church together."

Kevin has started a gospel group called "Redemption". Most of the band members are former prisoners.

"The music is really secondary. It’s about becoming men of god and understanding discipleship. That’s what God’s been giving me lately. Men need to be discipled."

Despite spending almost half of his life behind bars, Kevin is grateful for a second chance.

"He saved my life. When I went to prison, I got rescued. I didn’t get arrested. Jesus rescued me."

Kevin Kemp was an up and coming musician in the L.A. nightclub scene. -->