THE EARLY DIVISION OF THE CHURCH

The division in the church of Christ today have started since the time of the early church.

1Cor. 3:1-10

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. ² I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. ³ You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? ⁴ For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”are you not mere human beings?

⁵ What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. ⁶ I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow.⁷ So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. ⁸ The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. ⁹ For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building.

¹⁰ By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. NIV

This was as result of there ignorance and lack of revelation about these things:

• What the Church is
• Diversities of the ministerial gifts in the church
• The power of the united Spirit given to the church
• That we are co-workers together with Christ for the expansion of the Kingdom of God
• The owner of the church
• The importance of the church as a light in the world
• The savour of the church
• Our mission as a church
• The coming marriage of the church

So, because of all these ignorance the devil in his craftiness have divided the church of today. We are all carring about a denominational mentality and not inter-denominational in our thinking. We need a renewal of mind to have thesame mind with Christ
A song says:
Though we are many
We are body…
In Christ
Though we are many
We are body
In Christ.
We are heirs of the Father
We are joined with Son.. A..men
We are Children of the Kingdom
We are family we are one.

The pray of Jesus was make them one are we are one. The enemy is against the oneness of the church.
Let us rise up in faith to resist the arch-enemy of the church.No matter the plans of the devil the word of Jesus standest sure that, the gate of hell shall not prevail over the church because it was built upon the Rock of Ages.
Let us go back to our calling, vision, and mission. “Occupy till I come.”

A RESTLESS SOUL

A restless person will never give God rest through prays until all visions and promised of God for him/her comes to fulfillment.

Never stop praying until He bring to pass all His promises.

Do not give sleep to your eyes concerning your visions and aspirations till you see them coming to manifestation. Isaiah 62:6 – Those who call upon the name of the Lord should not rest, and should not give God rest. There is a saying that says:”it is not over until it is over”.

Every believe should stop relaxing at this level and arise to eat for the journey is still far.

Stop resting while soul are perishing. Have forgotten the command of the Master that says: Occupy till I come.

Rest is always sweet after labour. After we have fought the fight of faith and finished our course on earth, rest can be sweet then.

Pray: Father, help me to be restless in prayer and the preaching of the gospel in Jesus name.

PUTTING YOUR DAY INTO ORDER

We must learn to put our days in order early before day break –early in the morning. In the same we must learn how to put our lives in order early in life (in our youthful age), before the time of old comes. Learn to put your ministry in order early before your ministration.
Mark 1:35 “And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed”.
Jesus went to a solitary place early in the morning to put His day into order. He was also led by the Holy Spirit after departed from river Jordan into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. There, He prayed and didn’t fall into temptation. He was putting is life and ministry into order before there time of manifestations. Couldn’t be He did put His life and ministry into order, He might have failed. He also instructed His disciples to pray so that they won’t fall into temptation. Your early preparation in prayer will help you put the day into order and when temptation comes you will have the inner strength to over come it.
Jesus put his ministry in order before He started. It makes everything work together for His good. All the miracles Jesus performed during the day came as a result of His early preparation in prayer. The multitude He preacher to came as a result of His early preparation. Even the persecution that came up during His days, came as a result of His early preparation, so that what has been written about Him in the volume of the book might be fulfilled. All thing walks together for Him in the day and ministry for the Father to be glorified. Even though there was wickedness and sin during His days, but they all work together for Him. They all bring out one result, “fulfillment”. If you want to have a fulfilled day and purpose, learn to put that day in order by the confession of God’s word before that day light shows up. Good or bad things that show up during the day must work for our good.
Always use God’s word to redeem your days or times in prayer. “The worlds are framed by the word of God. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil-Ephesians 5:16 (KJV).
Through faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews 11:3(KJV).
All things were made by him (the word); and without him was not anything made that was made. Your day can only be visible or fulfilled through the light of God’s word – Psalms 119:130.
Command favour, goodness, abundance, peace, love, speed, prosperity, good health, grace, faithfulness, the glory of the Lord and fulfillment into your days and see them happening.
Confess this; all thing works together for my good, either good or bad. Always practice these early before the day. God bless!

ANTI-CORRUPTION

There is corruption before the antagonist of it. There won’t be a need for anti-corruption if there is no corruption. As corruption is rampant in Nigeria and some other part of the world, there is a need for anti-corruption. The physical manifestation of corruption is a result of the spiritual corruption. If the devil has not corrupted our mind, we will live peacefully without corruption. The devil is the father of all evil. He is the custodian of all evil. Every corrupt lives and nations, the devil knows about it. He corrupts minds of men and leaders of nation through deception, devices and strategies and what their body is in need of through worldly materiality. We thank God, for He has foreknew it, that is while He set up anti-corrupt agent to protect us from corruption and get reed of corruption in the heart of men and nations. The anti-corruption agent is the person of the HOLY SPIRIT. He can do that by transferring and installing of His program application into the heart of men. The anti-corruption agent is restricted to the church, we have to go out to transfer and install the original copy of the anti-corruption software-which is the WORD of LIFE by the POWER OF THE ANTI_CORRUPTION AGENT (By the enforcement of the anti-corruption agent). If the anti-corrupt agent arrests two prominent criminal of corruption, the rest will be under the tension or fear of the anti-corruption agent. They will be subjected to the commands of the anti-corruption agent. While, because they know that the anti-corruption agent can do anything to them. Mind you, the anti-corruption agent of God do not receive bribe.
The anti-corruption software (the word of God) will be used by the anti-corruption agent to scan through corrupted hearts and the nation to terminate the corruption in them. Like an anti-Virus to a PC. The church have to go out and share the anti-corruption software – which is the word of God and install it in their heart to guide them from corruption, so that through the activeness of the anti-corruption software (God’s word) by the power of the anti-corruption agent (The Holy Spirit), they also might share it will others. And corruption will be nowhere to be found. Amen.

THE VINE

A vine is used for making wine. Jesus is the vine; he turned Himself into wine at the marriage at Cana of Galilee. The head of the ceremony tasted it and he was not happy for bringing it at the end of the ceremony. Only those who have tasted the goodness, life and power of Christ Jesus can testify of His sweetness and mighty doing.
Anyone who speaks with new tongues will begin to speak new word and new things will begin to spring out from his or her life. Acts of the Apostles is the manifestation, and demonstration of the Spirit of the Father through His children. The Apostles believed on the word of Christ that, they should tarry in the city of Jerusalem, until they are endued with power for on high. The word they believed in was Jesus who was the vine and the Spirit of God came to turn the vine into abundance wine in their live. The life, word, knowledge, wisdom, Spirit and power of Christ now became unlimited in the lives. They were intoxicated by it and Peter preached the best sermon ever and new things began to manifest through them. It is the addition of the vine and the river of living water that became a wine on the day of Pentecost. The people of Jerusalem thought they were drink. That is what you need to be intoxicated with for a new move and change to take place in your own time or generation. The vine is a product of a village with the divine blessing of God to cause it to germinate. It became a source of sweetness and refreshing to the world, despite where it came from. No matter where you came for or what people called you, you can become a source of sweetness, blessing and refreshing to your generation, if you will just embrace the wine that came to the product of the vine and river of living water and your life will never remain the same again. Can anything go come out of the Nazareth of your life? Yes, it can.