THANKSGIVING IS WHAT YOU DO TO QUALIFY FOR THE COMPLETE PACKAGE.
IF I THANK HIM FOR COMMENCEMENT, IT WILL METAMORPHOSE TO COMPLETION.
THERE IS A WAY YOU THANK HIM AND HE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU IN 2023 TO HELP YOU!
YOU CANNOT SEPARATE THE WORK OF GOD FROM THE SERVANT OF GOD!
IF YOU CANNOT NOTICE WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU, YOU WILL NEVER SEE WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO FOR YOU!
GOD’s MIRACLES DON’T COME IN COMPLETE PACKAGES BUT WHEN YOU GIVE HIM THANKS, HE GIVES YOU THE COMPLETE PACKAGES!
GOD WILL TEST YOU WITH THE PARTIAL TO SEE IF YOU ARE QUALIFIED FOR THE PERFECT!
GOD WILL TEST YOU WITH THE SMALL TO SEE IF YOU ARE QUALIFIED FOR THE BIG!
REAL MIRACLE COMES AFTER THANKSGIVING NOT BEFORE THANKSGIVING!
A HOME IS A BLESSING FROM GOD, A HOUSE IS A STRUGGLE!
GOD MAY NOT HAVE GIVEN ME THE GOOD THINGS THAT I DESIRE BUT I’M ALSO GRATEFUL TO GOD THAT I DON’T HAVE THE BAD THINGS I DESERVE!
INGRATITUDE MAKES GOD GIVE YOU THE PUNISHMENT AND THE PROBLEM THAT YOU DESERVE.
THANKSGIVING IS THAT WHICH GOD WILL SEE AND HE WILL REMOVE HIS EYES FROM THE MISTAKE YOU MAKE THAT HE SHOULDN’T SEE!
YOU CANNOT FIGHT THE COVENANT AND WIN ANY FIGHT IN LIFE!
SOME PEOPLE SAW MERCY DROPS AND THEY MISSED THEIR SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS!
YOU CANNOT BE OUTSIDE THE COVENANT AND ANYTHING WILL ANSWER FOR YOU!
THERE IS STILL AN ASPECT OF YOUR SOLUTION THAT IS RESERVED, WAITING FOR YOUR THANKSGIVING TO GOD!
WHEN THANKSGIVING IS MISSING, WEAPONS BECOME USELESS!
WHEN THANKSGIVING IS MISSING, EVERY SPIRITUAL EFFORT AND EVERYTHING YOU DO BECOMES USELESS!
IN THIS LIFE, ENEMIES ARE EITHER RUNNING FROM YOU OR YOU ARE RUNNING FROM THEM!
THERE IS WHAT THANKSGIVING CAN DO THAT FASTING, PRAYER AND PROPHETIC UTTERANCE CANNOT DO
MOVE FROM THE REALM OF ‘THEY LAUGHED AT YOU’ TO THE REALM OF ‘THEY LAUGHED WITH YOU’!
NEVER FEEL GOD HAS LEFT YOU!
IF YOUR ENEMIES DO NOT STRESS YOU, YOU WON’T SUCCEED!
IF YOU DON’T END WHERE THE ENEMY WANTS TO END YOU, GOD WILL MOVE YOU TO YOUR NEXT LEVEL!
WHEN GOD IS THROUGH WITH YOU, THE PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE TO KEEP MALICE WITH, WILL JOIN YOU TO DO THANKSGIVING, DANCE AND LAUGH!
PRIDE IS A FEELING THAT I AM BIGGER THAN THIS KIND OF TESTIMONY!
SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT GOD HAS NOT DONE AND THEY FORGET THE THINGS THAT HE HAS DONE!
PRIDE WILL MAKE YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE BIGGER THAN WHAT YOU SHOULD THANK GOD FOR!
THOUGHTFULNESS IS THE KEY TO THANKFULNESS!
REFUSE TO BE OFFENDED! REMEMBER! YOUR CASE IS NOT THE WORST!
MANY WOMEN HAVE PROBLEMS IN MARRIAGE TODAY DUE TO UNWHOLLY COMPETITION!
THINGS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN OKAY, BUT GOD IS THE REASON WHILE THINGS ARE NOT COMPLETELY FINISHED!
LIFE IS IN PHASES AND MEN ARE IN SIZES! LIVE YOUR PHASE AND YOUR SIZE PER TIME, DON’T BE UNDER PRESSURE!
-Bishop Wisdom Irabor on “DANGERS OF INGRATITUDE” || Answers Assembly Warri || First Sunday Service
Luke 17:17-19. Anytime that you get angry that a Pastor is angry, that you did not come to thank His God for helping you! Never forget that you can trace it to this Scripture! Jesus was not happy! Church Gist. ‘I healed ten but it was only one that came back’! Do you see why in most Ministries, the Man of God is more useful to strangers than some and daughters!
The other nine might not be strangers, if they are strangers, He wouldn’t say, ‘Where are the nine? None of them are found except the one’! Church Gist. All those ones are disciples- Followers who should return back but they didn’t return except this stranger!
Any Pastor whose anointing does not bless strangers more than members, the anointing is not yet complete! He is yet to start Ministry. True Ministry begins when you begin to ask God, ‘Why am I blessing outsiders and my members are stranded’! Church Gist. A few members would be blessed and touched!- Those who understand how to follow grace!
But generally, there are those that will say, ‘I won’t come back to thank Him’! Church Gist.
After all, ‘na God power em use, na God do am nobi em power’! You cannot separate the work of God from the servant of God! God’s servants are channels for the workings of God!
Luke 17:19. This is where I will be charging you this morning! That’s our running text for this thanksgiving! Church Gist. And very briefly we are looking at ‘THE DANGERS OF INGRATITUDE’! From where we read, one of them came back, the reason why that one came back- He could notice there was a change! The change may not be complete but the change has commenced!
And if I thank Him for commencement, commencement will metamorphose to completion. Hear me, if you cannot notice what God has done for you, you will never see what God wants to do for you! The one who came back, He could notice that He was already cleansed! He might not be made whole and He might not be perfect at the moment, but he was already cleansed!
In the place of cleansing, I need to give Him thanks then whatever He needs to do, He will do after I am done with thanking Him. Let your Spirit be in this service, this service is the link between you and 2023. There is a way you thank Him and He will be waiting for you in 2023 to help you and there is a way you thank Him, He will say, ‘No, this person is not grateful’!
Gratitude is what perfects your miracle! Thanksgiving is what perfects and completes your miracle! So if you can notice the cleansing and thank Him for the cleansing. He will do what He wants to do- Which is the perfection after the cleansing!
‘Father thank you that someone has even said that he wants to come and see my family to pay for my dowry’! When you thank God for ‘coming to see’, you qualify yourself for God to move you from coming to see to ‘coming to do’!
So Thanksgiving is what you do to qualify for the complete package.
God’s miracles don’t come in complete packages! They don’t come complete! But when you give Him thanks, He gives you the complete packages! God will test you with the partial to see if you are qualified for the perfect! Partial healing! Partial miracle! Partial touch! Just the partial, it is not the perfect! Church Gist. Then when
you thank Him for the partial, He will give you the perfect!
‘I’m not feeling too well! I’m not feeling too strong but I know that I’m not the way I used to be! I’m not weak but I’m not that strong! Church Gist. Thank Him for where you are now!
That I missed my period for two months! Thank Him! I missed my period for three months! Thank Him! I missed my period for one year! Thank Him! Even though the miracle baby is not yet manifested! Thank Him! Some have never missed it once! Thank Him! Some have never miscarried once all through their lives! Thank Him! I travelled and there was an accident! Church Gist. Thank Him! Some never had accident, they just died in the process!
Some never had accident! They slept but they never woke up! Some got to where they were going alive but they slept on arriving there and never woke up! Thank Him!
God will test you before He can trust you with what He wants to do! God will test you with the little to test you to see if you are qualified for the much! Church Gist. He will test you with the small to see if you are qualified for the big! So, the real miracle comes after thanksgiving not before thanksgiving!
Anything you are thanking God for now is not the real miracle! I pray for you, the real miracle will begin to manifest after this thanksgiving!
God will test you for the imperfect to see if you are qualified for the perfect! So, I pray for you this morning, may you not fail Heaven’s test in the Name of Jesus! So today’s thanksgiving is a test to see if you are qualified for what is coming! I’ve given you an expo, a secret that I shouldn’t tell you!
God said, ‘My son, the thanksgiving today is a test to know who among my children is qualified for something that is coming’! He said something big is coming but I want to test them today and let Me know who among them is qualified for what is coming!
-You’ll not fail that test!
Four dangers of ingratitude:
1.Ingratitude turns your blessings into a curse! Malachi 2:1-2. This thanksgiving establishes who is your source! Church Gist. Which name has helped you? Is it the Name of God, the Name of Jesus or the name of amadioha! The name of one shrine or the name of one juju somewhere!
God knows who will thank Him and those who will not thank Him, so He will curse the person already because he cannot lay it to heart Malachi 2:2. Church Gist. I can see your heart that you won’t do it no matter how the Pastor preaches it or emphasises on thanksgiving! Ingratitude turns blessings to a curse! It turns your glory to shame, it turns your blessing to curses! It turns your business to barrenness! That your marriage? Have you thanked Him? Before you begin to complain that since you married nothing has happened! Your mates are still single yet they are grateful to God!
Anytime that you see one single girl that is your senior, go back and thank God for your marriage! Church Gist. Anytime that you see a single lady that is older than you by ten years, eight years and fifteen years and is still not married! Go back and thank God, but you that is ten years younger, you are married with children! Go back and thank God!
Never complain about that marriage, go ahead and be giving Him thanks otherwise that marriage will be hell! You will see pain! That is, that marriage that you never see as testimony can never give you anything good in this life- That is what is fighting most people now!
‘God no do anything for me this year oo, na only sickness I no sick this year’! ‘Our family no dey sick like that! Nothing wey God do’! Church Gist. It’s just my health’! Will you now say that my health is testimony or my health is a miracle? Haba!
Money can buy any kind of drugs in this life, money can pay any kind of bills in this life, money cannot make it work! For it to work? God must be involved! Money can give you any kind of house, money cannot give you a home! A home is a blessing from God, a house is a struggle! House is a hustle, you can hustle and buy land and build a building! Church Gist. But for that house to be a home, God must be involved! Because if He is not there, you can never find peace!
-Your blessings can never be turned to curses in the Name of Jesus!
2.Ingratitude makes God give you the punishment and the problem that you deserve. In your life, never forget these Scriptures that I am reading, they are not the regular Scriptures for thanksgiving! Psalm 28:4-5, if God wants to do you according to your deeds forget it oo. That God wan do you as you take do am? Forget it! Forget this life! Why am I treating them according to the wickedness of their heart? Church Gist. Psalm 28:5, because they regard not the works of the Lord.
Wetin God do! You say that it is your schemes and skills! Eh! I go to shop everyday, I do it everyday! He shall destroy them and not build them up! Ingratitude makes God give you the punishment and the problem that you deserve! Church Gist. I may not have the miracles that I desire but I am aware that I do not also have the punishment that is deserved! God may not have given me the good things that I desire but I am also grateful to God that I don’t have the bad things I deserve!
In Daniel’s Club where we started Answers Assembly, somebody came to me for counselling and her problem was Human Immune Virus (HIV). And I began to talk to her about character and morality! Why are you living this kind of life? Look at what has happened! Church Gist. And to my greatest surprise she said, ‘Sir, that is why I am confused, I don’t even have a boyfriend’! I don’t even sleep with people! I am confused, I don’t know where this thing came from! Are you a virgin? She’s not a virgin! She said, ‘I have only done it once’! That once she did many years ago gave her Human Immune Virus (HIV). I was shocked!
Then the same Daniel’s Club, as I was doing deliverance one time again, another person came for deliverance. ‘Papa, they say you can help me, I no fit do without man! Anywhere I see man, I must sleep with ‘am’. I said, ‘Em mean say you fit sleep with me as you see me now’? She said, I cannot do without a man! I said, Are you doing it for a living? She said, ‘No! The thing started as a hustling! But now na spiritual problem as I dey even sleep with man, pay them money! I can’t do without man’! I said, ‘Be careful because you will destroy your life! You have a good future and destiny! Church Gist. Be careful! Let not the enemy give you Human Immune Virus (HIV)’! You know what she said? ‘Na wetin dey even dey surprise me be that’! She said, ‘At a time she said the day she gets Human Immune Virus (HIV) she will stop’. That she will still do her Human Immune Virus (HIV) test and still be negative! Her Human Immune Virus (HIV) test a few days ago was still negative!
That kind of person will say, he doesn’t owe God thanksgiving? The punishment you deserve, God did not give you oo. The person who does not deserve Human Immune Virus (HIV) only once, they gave her! Somebody slept with a man once and got it but another person slept with more than one thousand men, no Human Immune Virus (HIV)! Church Gist. You say, God is not involved? There is nothing like mercy and the faithfulness of God?
When you want to count the mystery of thanksgiving, mercy and faithfulness of God, you will see some people, the punishment that they deserve, they don’t just have! Church Gist. The thing go dey vex you but you dey vex for nothing sake! Then you see another person, the punishment he does not deserve, too holy and righteous to be punished dem go just punish am!
That person that has done more than ten thousand without Human Immune Virus (HIV), may be sponsoring the widow’s children in school. There is something God sees and removes His eyes from what He shouldn’t see! Because He said that His eyes are too pure to behold any evil, but anytime He sees you are doing too many evil and He can’t even look at it or anytime He see any evil and want to punish you, He’ll see how you take care of orphans, help widows, how you do things for the Church and for His servants!
Thanksgiving is that which God will see and He will remove His eyes from the mistake you make that He shouldn’t see!
-You will not die from your mistakes! For all the evil you deserve in this life, may this thanksgiving take it away from your life! May you not get the punishment that you deserve in the Name of Jesus!
3.Ingratitudes may return your problem back to you or ensure that your miracle is not perfected! Like 17:17-19. To run away from Church after the sight of three mercy drops! Two things will happen, it is either he loses it or he will miss the showers of blessings! Church Gist. And God will say, ‘What is in my mind is to open the showers of blessings’!
Most of you have been tested with three mercy drops and you backslide meanwhile what is in the mind of God is showers of blessings! Some people saw mercy drops and they missed their showers of blessings! Church Gist. And God may also decide that He will withdraw the three mercy drops for you to return back and look for Him! As a merciful God, I leave you with that mercy drop but for the Atlantic Oceans and windows of blessings that I plan for you, I withdraw it!
Some of you don’t know that the first miracle is that you, who people don’t want to identify themselves with, God has so decorated your life that people are also calling you their friends! Lepers should be ostracised and kept where people should not touch them! Church Gist. When Jesus said, ‘Go and show yourself to the priest’. It means that they can be cleaned but not cured!
That is to say people that see them will know that there is a problem with their lives. The leprosy will go but the signs and symptoms will still be there! And the signs that show that this person was once a leper will still be there. Church Gist. I’ll wait for the one that will come and tell me, ‘Thank you’! And I’ll create a brand new body. In their mind, they are saying, ‘We don collect the miracle, make we dey go’! They don hammer! They don use Church! They don use the Pastor!
Jesus said, I know that they won’t come back so I only cured leprosy! They won’t be made whole! They will still be taking drugs and they will still fall sick! Where are the nine? Church Gist. There is still an aspect of your solution that is reserved waiting for your thanksgiving to God!
4.Ingratitude will render all your spiritual weapons useless thereby making you to run from your enemies on the day of battles! In this life, enemies are either running from you or you are running from them! Pursuing you from one place to another- That is one aspect of life! Another aspect for those of you giving thanks is that your enemies will be running away from you!
-From today, you will no longer be running away from your enemies! Your enemies shall run from you!
‘Papa, I can do all night, all night shall be useless! I be fasting machine’- If you like, fast three days, you finish three and seven days dry fast, the problem will still be there! There is what thanksgiving can do that fasting cannot do! Church Gist. There is what thanksgiving can do that no prayer can do! There is what thanksgiving can do that no prophetic utterance can do! There is what thanksgiving can do that nothing else can do!
Look at it, in your life don’t forget this verse. I saw it in August 1996- Psalm 78:9. How do you see armed robber with empty hand- Armed robber no carry anything, you wey carry AK47, you hold a piston with two Mobile Police standing with you, as the armed robber show, you come dey run! The armed robber dey call you make you come, ‘I no hold anything for hand, come’! With your AK47 and piston, you are running! Church Gist. You shoot gun, em no work! Mobile Police shoot, em no work! You will tell yourself, of what use is these weapons! This weapon that is not working and this man that is having no weapon, the two of us are the same!
They give you charm, say use am! Em no work! Dem give you anointing oil, em no work! When thanksgiving is missing, weapons become useless! When thanksgiving is missing, every spiritual effort and everything you do becomes useless! Church Gist. Have you ever been in this condition? Where you have bows, you have weapons Psalm 78:9-16. You have fasting, you have prophets, you have Man of God, you have Church and you have Zion but you lack thanksgiving!
They didn’t keep the covenant! Covenant there in Psalms 78:10 could mean tithing! Tithing fit dey hold you! Not tithing could make your prayers useless! You cannot fight the covenant and win any fight in life! You cannot be outside the covenant and anything will answer for you! They have weapons, skills, schemes, talent, glory, capacity, knowledge and helpers but nothing is working out because they refuse to keep to salient instructions.
Can you see that even the Red Sea wey dem cross, they no do thanksgiving? Psalms 78:13. God made the sun to shine at 2 am for you not to miss the road, then in the morning, you are still thinking, Is there God? Psalms 78:14. If God wants to start counting on your head what He has done that you have never thanked Him for, will you be guilty or not guilty? I leave you to your conscience!
That your health that is no longer troubling you! That your child that is now doing well in school! That your marriage that is now working! That your sister that you think might not marry that got married! You that also got married! Church Gist. That last journey that you travelled and came back alive! That school that you entered and finished! That your car! Old car is better than the newest leg in this life! That your car? You don’t know what God has done for you! Always thank Him!
God says, since you don’t value the marriage that I gave you, I break it! Since you don’t value the business that I gave you, you will look for shop rent after this rent expires and you will know that I am in this business! When I hear Pastors come out and testify that they owed Church rent and God intervene. I say, ‘Haaa’! And me I dey inside building dey complain? The last time that I told God about Church rent in this Warri was in 2014 and the Church started in 2013.
After one year, we renewed the rent for one point two million naira in the first and second year. Even the Landlord talk say ‘all em problem dey for the rent’. That we should pay for an extra year or he would bring another Church that will replace us while he refunds our money. God solved it for us! Church Gist. The Church is 9 years old now and we conquered rent in the second year. For seven years now, we have lived a rent-free life in Warri! If I don’t understand these things, all I would be telling God is, ‘God, where are you’? We have not built schools, we have not built Pastor’s quarters, the crowd, the gallery, I want people to fill everywhere and so on. But God who builds it will fill it!
🎶 Lord, I remember the place You brought me from, Lord I thank You for where I am today, I see you doing a new thing in my life, God I thank You for the future I see🎶
That is the life that I live! That’s my secret! Ingratitude will turn your blessings into a curse if you don’t give Him thanks. During coro in 2020, no Church, no service! We used different member’s houses for Churches and my own house was one of them. On that day we said, since members are coming to our place, they should have food to eat! Food was ready! Church Gist. We have arranged the house preparing for members to come. And then the next call that we got was that members were at the gate that nobody is allowed to enter this estate due to coro restrictions and I said to the management that I am a Pastor, we pastor a Church and they are coming to do fellowship in my house and they said that it’s not possible!
And one devil told me, ‘If you were a landlord in your own house, you go suffer like this? God don forsake you! This Gospel is not working! Commot your hand for this Gospel! Do what other people are doing’! Church Gist. Then I came home and carried the whole food to my car booth and called Ahmed (a member) that we are coming to fellowship in his house. I carried both the members at the gate and the food.
Some of you would have stopped Church, backslidden, depressed or called God names! We did the Church there, ate the food and celebrated there and rejoiced and then I came home and knelt down and said, ‘Father! I am even grateful to you that at my level I can even pay for a three bedroom flat in this estate where I am staying! Church Gist. Father, they did not disgrace me, Father they did not disgrace you! Father nothing happened! I am happy that I am serving and following you’!
God said, ‘What! They disgraced you because you are a tenant and the only house you have in this Warri, you gave me as a sacrifice’! He said, I’ll give you duplex under that attack, shame and mockery! The land and the little decking on it was eighteen million naira. Church Gist. The house where they disgraced me that year was one million naira per year!- The rent! But the one that He gave me as land alone and just small decking they did! Eighteen million naira! I have spent a little above seventy to seventy five million naira! God brought it!
If you don’t end where the enemy wants to end you, God will move you to your next level! House already completed, just to do the second to the last thing and then if I don’t have a taste for excellence, I can move in now! Church Gist. Some people dey house, no fence, no screeding, no security house- There is a one storey security house there!
Finished tiled, screed, everything ready!
Just to paint and do the interlocking or concrete floor! Church Gist. And enter! But I did not stop where my enemies wanted me to leave God! Do you know why you put your hand in that evil? Some people made you feel that God left you! Never feel God has left you! Anytime they want to make you feel that God has left you, look at it well and look for something to thank God!
How many men can pay one million naira per annum say na rent? The house where they disgraced me na one million naira per annum, they are increasing it now to two point five million naira! Church Gist. Even! That you can pay the rent, means God dey with you! That I can marry, go to school, born these children, that I can dress like this? God dey with me!
🎶 When I remember what the Lord has done, I’ll never go back anymore🎶
Look at me! No hard feelings! Let me shock you! One of the persons who came in here a few months ago was the man who stood at the gate and said that nobody should enter. Church Gist. He was the same person that I gave the microphone to preach and bless you!- I didn’t say that you should hold it against him oo!
See! If your enemies do not stress you, you won’t succeed! If people don’t mock and challenge your God- Asking you, ‘Where is your God’? ‘The God no show up’! This same Church that you believe in to come, and members were coming to their Pastors house, na you be the secretary general that stood at the gate that nobody should enter! We are best of friends, I’m telling you with a pure mind, no hard feelings!
When God is through with you, the people that you are to keep malice with, will join you to do thanksgiving! Dance and laugh!
Sarah said, ‘God has made me laugh, and everyone that hears will laugh with me!
You have always been in the realm of, they are laughing at you, but prophetically I push you to the realm of they will laugh with you!
🎶 See what the Lord has done..🎶
-From today you switch seasons! No more people laughing at you, now enter the season of people laughing with you!
🎶 What the enemies meant for evil, God has turn it around…🎶
Everybody must share a testimony today, if you don’t have a testimony. Just come and say: ‘Answers, it is working! My name is Bishop Irabor Wisdom. In 2010, my wife was sick and the doctor said that every night, you must give her drugs for the rest of her life! Church Gist. The day you stop it, you will come back with her for treatment! I started it in March 2010. And in April, 2010 my wife said, they didn’t born me with this drug, we will not continue with it’.
And the thing was bigger than my faith, and we prayed! But I allowed her faith to flow! We are always arguing faith issues! Mama’s faith is stronger than my faith oo. I’m a man of wisdom, small faith plenty wisdom! Church Gist. Mama own na plenty faith, small wisdom! I’m not ashamed to tell you na. And then I called my mother and mother-in-law and I told them, ‘My hand no dey oo’! At the end of the day, she stopped it that April, 2011 to date she didn’t take it and till forever!
What am I trying to say? Even if you no get new testimonies, thank Him for the old one otherwise the old problem will come back to your new life! Thank Him for the old one! Church Gist. I can also start again, ‘Answers, it is working! people wey help me see when I start this building and they say na here they go bury me! But thank you Jesus that we are inside the same building thanking God and serving God today’!
🎶 You’ve done so much for me, I cannot say it all… Nara ekele m oo🎶
Four reasons for ingratitude
1.Pride. Why will I thank God for my marriage? You hear say I married the man wey I wan marry? I’m a society lady! At this my level! See me thank God for three bedroom flat where they reproached me and mock me, I thank God! Pride will make you think that you are bigger than what you should thank God for! How will I come and thank God? My mates have six to ten shops! Me I get only one! Some of your mates no get one! God tried! Thank Him! Pride goes before a fall Proverbs 3:18.
And you see this issue of not thanking God? Being boastful! Being prideful! Not being able to thank God, is the spirit of the last days! When you are too proud? You will not give Him thanks because you think that you are bigger than the thanksgiving! 2 Timothy 3:1-2. Church Gist. They will be covetous! The weavon that I am wearing, is it only these people that can wear this bone straight? You come bone your face for God because you no wear bone straight! God go say, ‘You will turn to bone! You will die and turn to bone, they will put the bone inside your grave! You won’t shake! You will see the weavon but you can’t wear it’!
One of my greatest secrets- I don’t have anybody that I want to be like! I am inspired by people, I love people and I am motivated by people but nobody can replace me! I like me, I am okay with me! Covetous! Boasters! Because Papa said that you should thank God and you still follow dey thank God? You no go wait make God do wetin em wan do? Wetin God do this year wey you wan thank am for? Ah! Can the dead thank God? Can the grave and cemetery thank God?
When we close, go to any cemetery where they bury people, sit with them and be talking, you will end up in Psychiatric hospital!- They will say, we saw one mad person talking with the grave! Pride is a feeling that I am bigger than this kind of testimony!
I wore this clothes two weeks ago! The white one that someone sewed and sent from outside Warri to me. I said, Give me the red, yellow and blue ones! When they told me the price of the white one, I first of all went to do thanksgiving for the white one! I thought the white na normal clothes wey we dey see for Warri! But when em tell me the package, he said that I just gave you that one as a seed! So now let’s talk business!
Most of you think that you are bigger than what God gave you! You are not bigger! Thank God for Ordinary National Diploma (OND), thank Him for Higher National Diploma (HND), thank Him for making you a nurse! Thank Him for making you graduate! Thank Him for that semester without any carryover! Thank Him! Your business might not have been doing very well, thank Him that you can still pay shop rent! Church Gist. Thank Him that you can still go to market with a capital! Thank Him! That you still have goods in your shop! The profit might not be coming the way that you’d expect, but thank Him! That you still have the activities that show that you are alive! Thank Him! Nobi everybody get activities. For some people, activities have left them! No activity or sign that anything is happening!
2.Forgetfulness. Psalm 78:9-11. People forget easily. ‘Daddy, don’t be surprised if not for you my enemies would have killed me. I remembered many years ago when God used you to deliver me!- It is that remembrance that made me send this seed! Some people always remember what God has not done and they forget the things that He has done! Even in your dance, offering and thanksgiving Deuteronomy 8:18.
Even if you want to forget, remember! I don’t hate any member! I have never hated any member and will never hate anyone in this Church! The only member that I don’t want to pastor, that I don’t wish I pastor and I regret that I pastor is a member who have a very short memory. A member who forgets how God has helped him in Answers Assembly! A member who forgets the level he or she was when he came to Answers Assembly! Past miracles! Church Gist. Past blessing! Just because of one current challenge! You forget your records of testimonies!
-I will not forget where He picked me from! Where He brought me from! And where He took me from!
Na people dey use shoe give you before, now na you dey use shoe give people. You normal? I carried this red shirt this morning, and I needed a shoe that is black and red. And that shoe, I bought it forty five thousand naira then in 2017, em no dey gree spoil. As I go where I keep am, I no see the shoe and I said, ‘Eh! I dash someone’!
I said, ‘Father thank you say na me dey dash shoe now! Formerly, I go go person house, Bros this your shoes, ‘what is God saying! I go say I don collect am because I heard God! Church Gist. Em go talk say God never speak say make I collect am! Em go drag am! The shoe is still good for me to use it but in dash someone! Never forget!
3.Unwholly comparison and competition 2 Corinthians 10:12. I released a video during the Ministers’ Conference last month, and in that video I was talking about contentment! Church Gist. I said in that video that I am not ashamed that some people in this Church dress more than my wife! I said that Mama is not the number one and the Mama because she is the best dresser. Members must dress based on their own level! Level of their husband! Level of their lineage! Level of their life! And me and my wife and children will dress based on our own level- There is no competition!
In some Churches, once a woman dresses better than their Pastor’s wife, the woman must have a problem in the Church, they will say that you are competing! And one of my sons saw the video and he called me and said, ‘Bishop! You are my mentor for life! Me and my wife are constantly under pressure for my wife to dress better than any woman in the Church’! He said, Bishop, you have delivered me and my family! As you said that, something like a burden left us!
Most people are suffering from unwholly comparison and competition! That’s why many women have problems in marriage! You marry a man who can dress you as a local government chairman’s wife while your best friend is a senator’s wife or the wife of a president. Church Gist. And when your husband is dressing you at a local government level, something is telling you that my destiny is not to be in the local government level! I regret this marriage!
Most women regret marriage because of unwholly competition! One of the things that I do is that when I notice that you will corrupt me from living under pressure. I’ll disconnect from you! When I notice that you will corrupt my wife to live under pressure, she disconnects from you!
Life is in phases and men are in sizes! Live your phase and your size per time, don’t be under pressure! Some of you owe God the biggest thanksgiving, but your problem is, ‘That my friend bought Mercedes-Benz, GLK that my friend bought a new car, bought land and travelled abroad! That your friend also died! Church Gist. Another one is getting ready for kidney transplant! Another one? Liver is failing! Anytime that they want to compare you with people- ‘My mate did this and that’! Remember your mates who are in the cemetery!
- Being offended in God Matthew 11:6. There is nobody in this life that something bad has not happened to! Don’t be offended in God! Let nothing offend you! You know offences? ‘I should have been married by now, God where are you’! God you told me that 2022 is the year that I’ll marry! Few days to go, I’m not happy with God, I’m offended! That’s why a wise man said, ‘If you can think, you can thank’! Thoughtfulness is the key to thankfulness!
🎶 King of Kings, Lord of Lords you are worthy!🎶
Listen to me, Church! God told me that I’ll not have carryover, but when the result came, I had two carryovers! Sometimes in life, you have to choose between carryover and madness! A mad man cannot carry anything over! Church Gist. A Psychiatric patient cannot vote and cannot be voted for, he cannot enter school or gain admission, God told me, ‘By now, I should be married’! My daughter, there is a blind girl on the street using sticks to walk. You are not better than her! He kept you alive! You can still see and walk!
Refuse to be offended! Remember! Your case is not the worst! Your case is not as bad as the enemy is presenting it! God has done me well! God has been good to me! I may not be where I want to be, but I’m not where I used to be. Things may not have been okay, but God is the reason why things are not completely finished! This person may not be healed at the moment but God is the reason why this person is not dead! Church Gist. I miscarried! Say, ‘Father thank you because I’m alive to tell my story’! Some people carry it to nine months and carry it to their grave! They delivered but they died!
🎶 I see what you are doing, one more time I lift my hands in praise of Your Name!🎶
So if you can think, you can thank!
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