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Testimony Time:-You must know if indeed you are a true child of God. Those who fall into temptation and transgressions allow the dark shadows of life to trickle into their path. Significantly too, they still perceive themselves as a true child of God. However, when they fail to give unto God what is God's; their level of unrighteousness simply turn into floods that run severely unchecked. Apostle Paul wrote in Titus 1:15 that "to the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted." Hence, the faint in spirit cannot get anything significant from God and so in life. Whilst they dither on what their next move will be in serving the Lord, the Angels sent to fulfil their dreams may consider them to have given up in their search to receive answers to their challenges. Quite frankly, this could be at a point when they must be so close in attaining their blessings. Although, "they claimed to know God, but by their actions have denied Him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good". Titus 1:16 Therefore "brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8 And "whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you." Amen (Philippians 4:9) Just Checking into His Presence... 

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Testimony Time:-Within your Christian life, what sermon have you received which hammered so much on the truth? Have come across any message truthfully dissecting the word and commandments of God? Tell me if you have really sat down to consider the reasons why you cannot maintain those standards? If what is keeping you away from God is money; what happens if the market fail and the frequency at which the money is received drop and fail altogether? Can it be work? Suppose a health issue suddenly occur: do you really believe this can limit proficiencies at work? Is your beauty taking a centre stage? What happens when the beauty fade? Apart from considering plastic surgery, what would you have in return? Therefore, what do you have in this world that is greater than God? Also note, prophecies will come and go as much as the work that keeps you away from God. Pride will expire: it will go with time and beauty will always fade. If in doubt, you only need to consider how you were many years ago and what you have been able to achieve with time now. If you don't know; God is in all of these virtues and there is a big challenge if He is missing in any of them. "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." 2 Peter 2:20-23 We have known the way of righteousness Father: we want You to keep and guide us because we have no help except from Thee. Amen Just Checking into His Presence...

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Testimony Time:-The world indeed is becoming smaller day by day and time is responsible. Now we can see time itself seemingly moving faster than the original; trying so hard to work out the conundrum surrounding what is happening in the Christian world today. Let us be reminded that it is not far from what the Bible foretold some 2000 years ago. Quite simply, it is about how Christians will begin to lose the grip on the overall essence of why Christ surrendered Himself to be crucified: so that our former position with God can be resuscitated. Within the same time we enjoy today; it is not impossible to see many claiming to be with Christ. As well, it is also not unlikely for many to be working without Him. If we continue by using this method; we are likely to die without any evidence of Christ in us. Consequently too, we have to pay for our sins having lost the insurance cover which we have received through the blood of Jesus. In Revelation 20:11-15, we read about "a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Therefore today, I encourage you to "sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you."- Amen (Hosea 10:12) Just Checking into His Presence...

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Testimony Time:-It is natural for those who fell below the benchmark of righteousness to always blame the devil. Believe you me: this system operates in the ideal world and some of its foundation and natural growth can be traced back to churches too. Systematically we have seen trust breached, positions abused and out of routine; people have now started using God's name as an excuse. Intrinsically, it has become a general norm used deliberately by the culprits and those who perpetrate such erroneous acts. Their mission is to see themselves become immediately acceptable by their victims. This is in an open attempt for them to regain back their position of trust with the possibility of committing such act again. How then can you claim to know God? Do you understand the fundamentals of the precepts of God? Have you in anyway tried to discover yourself first? Maybe you don't know that one needs to study and understand oneself before one can be able to invite the presence of God into his/her life. Let us look at what David wrote in Psalm 119: 98-106-"Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies is my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word." "I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I understand: therefore I hate every false way. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments". Before you claim any immunity whatsoever by using the name of God: when God speaks; do you know? How well can you understand God's constant nudges when you are prone to defiling the obvious? God's commandments are obvious in the bible and He expects nothing more! However, it is not untrue that Christians live their lives away from God and they offer constant excuses to justify every unrighteousness. Quite ironically the devils names do play a part in some of these excuses even though we already know what the bible says about him in 2 Corinthians 11:3. "But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ." Interestingly too, some excuses have also come under superfluous attachment to spirituality. Today, how sweet is God’s word to your taste? Could it be sweeter than the devil in your mouth? Do you understand through God's precept so you can hate every falsehood? Thy word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path: so we have sworn; give us the understanding and the will to perform them so we can keep Your righteous judgments". Amen Just Checking into His Presence...

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Testimony Time:-God is not who the whole world thinks He is. Those who claim to know Him may simply have nothing to do with God because He is bigger than what people made Him to be and will never go back on His covenant. Without exaggeration, when you move closer to God, you must experience His power and the hidden secrets surrounding the essence of His glory in a new dimension. Therefore, those who are called Christians should understand the precepts of God and how they work. Besides, they must have the ability to demonstrate genuine love in the area of seeking God and keeping to His Commandments. Characteristically, it is possible to define God's privileges to those who are obedient to His word. Among them are to be able to subdue challenges posed by our arch enemy- Satan and his cohorts without drawing any sword. When you look for God and operate with His truthfulness: be rest assured that His cups of glory will be your portion; only you must live your life 'hating uncleanliness' in the face of living according to the riches and glory of God. Hence, let the Christ in you speak to someone today. If you have been half way with offering genuine love of Christ, I suggest you allow the world to know of your genuine home coming to Christ in all you do. Move away from the mere affirmation occasioned in words to God's principle. Allow your light to shine so much to show you as a true disciple of Christ. Hebrews 4:15-16 says- "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. "I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron" wrote in Isaiah 45:24. “In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” (Proverbs 3:6) Amen Just Checking into His Presence... 

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Testimony Time:-Do you know that the pride we parade today will not always make it to the hit list of tomorrow? Have you considered must be overridden with time: and age must play a significant part. Generally, beauty will fade away, bodies will wane and wrinkles will take hold of where once our pride stood. That notwithstanding, we can either choose the process whereby we can age gracefully as a result of the labours of our hands or surfer some disrepute at old age because we have been so unkind to the true works of faith and the way we have led our lives. What excuse have you got that is not allowing you to give your life to Christ? Is it marital problems, unemployment, disappointment, hatred, unfruitfulness, homelessness or the value of being poor? Would you believe that similar issues occurred during the time of Jesus? Do you know that despite it all: Christ was able to lead and teach His own on how to be a child of God in those circumstances? Indeed, if Jesus Christ were to focus on those challenges and any other negative news emanating from their direct result, He would have been faced with so much distraction and undoubtedly, these will have taken Him away from the purpose of saving mankind. However, Christ was much focused and remained faithful to His words. There was never at one time did Christ forget God's plan for Salvation. "God's original plan is to test and redeem His children from the effects of sin and Satan's influence. Those who believe in Him must begin to experience the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ which was designed by God to bring about man's immortality and eternal life. As well, the plan of Redemption or Salvation by God ensured Jesus Christ became the only begotten Son of our Heavenly Father who was sent to Earth as the Saviour even though at that time too, the Roman Empire were seen to be perpetrating evil against God's original plan. So "much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. “Romans 5:9 And "if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 Let the blood of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of our Lord God Almighty cleanse us from all sin in Jesus name. Amen Just Checking into His Presence...

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Testimony Time:-Today's story is a replica of God's love being passed from generation to generations; and what every true Christian fail to understand is God can only give up on the value of His secret to those who simply love Him enough. Christianity however offers everyone the opportunity to give God true passion in worship and in obedience. In return, we can expect His love which will be on offer till eternity. Understandably, life will always bring flashes of the wrongs we have committed whilst in this world. We must be aware that the wisdom of choosing to live rightly with the commandments of God ultimately ushers in the prosperity of God. Don't you forget that this opportunity can only be transferred to those who are enthusiastic enough; in keeping to God demands. Therefore, "what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statutes which I command you today for your good? Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God, also the earth with all that is in it." "The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day. Therefore circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be stiff-necked no longer." Deuteronomy 10:12-16 Circumcise the foreskin of our hearts oh God and soften our stony hearts so that we are not stiff-necked any longer. Amen Just Checking into His Presence...

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When men desert you under any guise, be rest assured that God will not leave you. If you are truly in Christ, it is not a taboo that friends will disappoint; your genuine calls can be intentionally diverted into voicemail; while your network service provider can create unnecessary problems with your line. In addition, your mobile phone batteries may choose to be flat intermittently. In all these, God's love will ever be constant because He sees and knows everything. The Bible confirms God does not sleep or slumber.-("Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep")-(Psalm 121:4) so; if your life were to be played as music, will your tune appeal to anyone to dance to? Which song are you dancing to? One that pleases the demons or that of the angels? Maybe you don't know: some ways of life pleases the demons instead of the angels. Therefore, I will encourage you to stop the process of camouflage in your life today: replay it and then see what happens. Does it put you in the right mode of worship with Christ? Job 1:8 says- "Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." Can this assessment be true description of your life story? Stop and ponder for a while if you are still in the race of faith proclaiming to be Christ Ambassador. Don't forget, it is not impractical to see some people in the church but still they can be out of the church. They will bear no link with their positions, costumes, prophesies and other attributes they may be using to cajole unsuspecting culprits. Today, I encourage you to rise from your slumber and stop being clothed in your former glory. Though you are in the presence of God, you may be overwritten with bondages; the sad thing is if you don't know of this dilemma. If indeed you do know, what have you done about it? Now listen to this-"O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbour nor takes up a reproach against his friend; in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honours those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved." Psalm 15 Father; do not allow the affairs of this world to cripple the covenant of peace You have apportioned for us. Amen Just Checking into His Presence... 

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Now listen to the definition of love: It is when you stop at nothing so you can become someone's everything. Is that the case in the world today? It is so easy to claim we love but events around us has proven there are some unspoken truths about the love we claim to share and it carries the tendency to kill. Truth may be unspoken at any level; does that erode on its potency? No! so children of God, it does not matter how you look at it- truth works and quite often with speed. Let me assure you that oftentimes truth sometimes acts very slowly; however let us remain assured that truth will always work. So, what truth do you hold that remains unspoken? How many people have you killed because you have refused to say the truth? Have you lied your way into your position? Apostle Paul in Ephesians 4:25 lead the admonition to be truthful in spite of all the odds. It says "therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another. However, “today not only in philosophy but in politics, government, and individual morality, our generation sees solutions in terms of synthesis and not absolutes. When this happens, truth, as people have always thought of truth, has died.” ~ Francis Schaeffer ~ J. C. Ryle also suggests we should "never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace" Thomas Aquinas chips in-“As a matter of honour, one man owes it to another to manifest the truth.” ~ and “Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.” (~ Albert Schweitzer) and because “I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.” ~ John Wycliffe "Therefore look! A messenger is coming over the mountains with good news! He is bringing a message of peace. Celebrate your festivals, O people of Judah, and fulfil all your vows, for your wicked enemies will never invade your land again. They will be completely destroyed!" Amen (Nahum 1:15) Just Checking into His Presence... 

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Testimony Time:-What gives us strength as Christians to overcome the travails and intricacies of life depend so much on the value of the quality time we spend in the presence of the Lord. Don't forget that the Lord takes into account the experience we share and gain through fellowship if only the purpose is to recruit disciples for His Kingdom in heaven. In that “where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them." (Matthew 18:20) It should therefore not be strange to anyone that those who maintain this link with God can always find the greatest treasure in His Presence even without actually searching for it. Isaiah 55:6-7 says "Seek the LORD while He may be found; Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way And the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the LORD, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon." The Lords instruction is very poignant to all Christians in Jeremiah 29:13. It says "you will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart." The same promise echoes in Proverbs 8:17: that the "Lord loves those who loves Him; and those who diligently seek Him will find Him." It goes without saying that if you don't understand the true purpose of your calling; abuse is inevitable! But you are those "who have come out of the great tribulation; washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, “they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence". Revelation 7:14-15 so, where are you with Christ? Thou who sits on the throne of Grace we beseech You to shelter us with Your Presence. Amen Just Checking into His Presence...  

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What sounds so peculiar about the true nature of every day is that they will all run out of fashion. The same day we planned so much about will pass away and soon become our yesterday. Undoubtedly; everyone will come to that bus stop: believe it or not, we will end in the same path as of yesterday. It does not matter what we have on record as success stories and or quite glaringly what we may be considering as underachievement. Irrespective of this position, the success value of each day goes with the day. Somehow people must work hard to protect such position; but as sure as the sun will sidle away, all positions too will become faint for the moonlight to take over and such will be the case on day of reckoning. Human beings can then begin to enjoy the same quest; either good or bad. And there would be no alternative to improve on what counts as achievement or failures in our spiritual life. At any rate, let the success stories of our lives be measured against the precepts of God so that whether we live or die we do through Christ account. This is because it "is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."-Ephesians 4:20-24 Empower us Father to be made new in the attitude of our minds; let us be able to put on the new self and create us to be like You in true righteousness and holiness. Amen Just Checking into His Presence...

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Most assuredly, if a man does not know where he is from or where he is going and or what he is capable of achieving under the guidance of the Holy Spirit: it is certain that Satan would have upper hand in the way such person leads his/her life. In every situation however, Satan has the power to give perfect answer to everything life has on offer and more to those whose hearts are filled with uncertainty when it comes to issues concerning God. "Keep this in mind: The Teacher was considered wise, and he taught the people everything he knew. He listened carefully to many proverbs, studying and classifying them. The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true." The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Ecclesiastes 12:9-12 Therefore, "let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water"- Amen (Hebrews 10:22) Just Checking into His Presence…

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A message worth sharing by Pastor Yinka Oyelusi: If God was a traffic Police officer: How many times would you have been fined for parking your life wrongly, over loading it with lusts of the flesh or pleasures of the world?, Not carrying the fire extinguisher always (bible)? over speeding (ahead of God's plan) ? driving your body without a license (holy spirit)? not observing traffic lights (commandments)? and forgetting to put on your safety belt (prayer) ? #think about it......."Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth".John 4:23-24 Jesus Loves Us Anyway!!! Just Checking into His Presence...