I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL THAT SAVED ME. WHEN THEY ARE READY TO DIE FOR ME LIKE JESUS, WE CAN TALK!
I WILL RATHER BE WRONG WITH MEN AND RIGHT WITH GOD.
BREAK UP WITH THAT MARRIED MAN. HOW MUCH CAN HE GIVE YOU? CAN HE SAVE YOUR SOUL?
DON’T MARRY AN UNBELIEVER
YOU SHOULDN’T BE ASHAMED TO SAY YOU ARE A VIRGIN, IF YOU ARE NOT MARRIED YOU SHOULD BE A VIRGIN
Pastor Mildred Okonkwo at Just Us Girls Conference Tagged ‘Revived’ 2021
- Boldness, if you are going to be revived, you have to be bold, Apostle Paul said I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. I shared with you guys how the important thing is the Word. Satan comes for persecution for the sake of the Word not for you because he knows that the Word has the power to produce. Church Gist. We must make up our minds to not be ashamed of the Gospel because these days, people celebrate wrong, even you doing right will now be ashamed. I have people who are ashamed to say they are virgins because people will say you are a dry girl. If you are not married you should be a virgin, you shouldn’t be ashamed that you are a virgin, we must change that. You must be bold; persecution will come because of it.
I woke up a while ago, before then I had preached a few messages where they asked me to address radical feminism in marriage, I preached the Word of God, I didn’t have an opinion, I preached the Word. That morning I woke up and Gideon sent me a message, blogs carrying ‘Feminism in marriage is rubbish, Pastor Mildred’, everywhere, people started sending me messages, the comments started, she is a fool, she should shut up, if you don’t know anything don’t attack it. People started to respond, when they put up the message I preached for the men, they will delete it, block the person. There was no balance to the message. I am constantly in flight mode. If this is what God said, I am going to say it. Church Gist. Enough of social media because people are going to say this let me tell you I will rather be wrong with men and right with God than right with men and wrong with God. You have to be careful to be politically correct. Must it be at the expense of being spiritually wrong?
I am not moved. When they put this thing up, people were calling me to ask if I am okay. I am very okay, the worst that can happen is that they will leave social media for me but that I cannot preach the Gospel, that I will be ashamed of the Gospel that saved me? When they die for me we can have a conversation but as far as I know, the only person who laid down His life for me is the Lord Jesus Christ, I am going to be preaching until He returns.
If you are going to live a revived life you must be bold, if you are going to sustain revival, you must be bold.
I was taking a prayer walk in my estate one morning, I was talking small small, one man was looking at me as if I was crazy. When he came close to me I kind of turned it down a bit, the Holy Spirit said, is that what we are doing now? We are now ashamed, if that guy was smoking do you think he will put it down for you? The thing triggered something in my kidney, are there revived ladies in the house. When he passed again, I started to speak in tongues the man ran, I followed him, I said let’s do this.
He said if you are ashamed of me in front of people when it really matters, in front of my Father I will be ashamed of you. You don’t want that to be your story. Church Gist.
Boldness.
You must be like Daniel and his friends, that is true revival, use your full chest and serve Jesus.
At some point in my life, I backslid, I call it my wilderness years, I lived in Port Harcourt that one year. I dated an unbeliever, what ended our relationship was that I opened his bag and saw a wedding invitation. After the wedding he called me that he wanted to see me at the office, my boss called me that somebody was here to see me. Church Gist. I saw him and was like what are you looking for? He said his marriage is a mistake, I said okay, how do I come in because I don’t talk to married men. A lot of you will romance him, a married man will be telling you about his marriage and how his wife is not good and you counselor general, you don’t know the devil is destroying your destiny. I was in a work environment and you know you have to behave at work. He said he needs to clear his head so he was wondering if we could go somewhere to talk, I said let me walk you to your car. When we got there I said look at me, the God that I serve will help me to punish you, the guy looked at me, I said ‘because I dey follow you speak English you no know say I no well? I no good to marry but I good to go somewhere to clear your head’, look at me, the God that I serve will help me to punish you and peradventure you want to repent, you will collect the punishment before you repent. I was that mad.
Let me tell you there are some things you have to face head-on. You have made a mistake; must you stay in that mistake. Don’t marry an unbeliever, they care about nothing but themselves, if you allow them to treat you anyhow they will useless your life, you must carry yourself with dignity. Church Gist. After that woman sinned, the one that was caught in adultery and was brought to Jesus, Jesus said something, He said does anybody condemn you? She said nobody, he said neither do I but however, go and sin no more, as you are leaving here, don’t go back to the person you were with. The problem is not the sin but the mindset that it is okay. Shebi Jesus will forgive me; that is the problem, you are destroying your soul. Whether you sin or not it doesn’t affect Jesus, He is God, you cannot UnGod Him. Your sin is not enough what it does is it separates you from God. Some of the mistakes I have made in the past I can use them positively now because I am not going back there. Church Gist. To leave this place and go back to continue life as usual, no, Jesus offered grace and truth.
The guy at the Pool of Bethesda, when Jesus healed him, when he came back, Jesus said go, don’t sin again, unless something worse happens to you, don’t do it again. Break up with that married man, money is not everything. How much can he give you? Can he save your soul? That boy makes you feel good? Did you not feel good in worship today? no lover like Jesus. Money is not everything, don’t wreck that woman’s home. Church Gist. Live well, don’t give us prayer points, you are getting away with it, one day you will meet one prayer woman and you will not be able to tell the story. You can fight me and win but you cannot battle with the Lord now and win. The most dangerous prayer is Lord fight my battle for me so I am shouting now, leave that man alone, stop it, it is not worth it, God can give you your own. Once you sleep with somebody’s husband, you can never sleep again because once you get married you will think your husband is doing the same thing. This revival is real, stop being jealous, stop bringing people down. You can’t do anything when you pull other people down, you are too busy destroying, you can’t build anything.
What does God want us to do when we are revived?
Ezra 9:9
We were all slaves to sin, I don’t think there is anyone here who has not sinned before. I was a slave to anger, I used to go and fight in the market, I once gave a tailor my clothes, I went to school, came back to him, his name was Yemi. ‘Yemi wey my clothes’, he said they are just putting zip, we stayed in the shop, I was an ajebo so this my behavior is Satan. We sat there, after we have waited long he thought we would have left so he came back, I said ‘Yemi wey my clothes’? I blocked the door he said okay wait, aunty wait make I go bring am, he wanted to bring something then I saw my fabric, they had not even cut it I said ‘Yemi no be my clothes be this’. I slapped him, locked the shop, took the keys and left. Anger!
As I was going, some old women were praising me.
Another tailor, every day I go he won’t be around, I had already paid. One day I went they said he was not around, I was outside, he thought I had gone then he came out as I saw him, anger, I didn’t see the gutter in front of me, I fell into the gutter and he gave me water to wash my body. The most famous one where I almost killed somebody because of malt is on YouTube.
Everybody has struggled with something. Your revival is not for you to make noise in your neighborhood but to build, how many of you know that these days, God is building His church. Church Gist. Your revival and being revived is for the work ahead, to build His Temple, that is why I don’t understand people who want to make money from God. Some people will learn a skill from church and still want to make money from the Church, if you are to pay for the air you are breathing can you stand? What is the price for mercy?
My only passion is chasing after God, that is all that matters, only one thing is needed. Obedience of one is what has brought you people in this room today. You may not like the assignment but do it first. It is not about you, ask God, what have you revived me for? What assignment is mine? Do I always feel energetic? No, I keep moving. You don’t know how many people have tried to take me out but we keep building, it is not about how we feel, you want more of God? You can’t be full of yourself. I am calling you today to a life of obedience, revival, Jesus has laid a pattern down, can you follow it?
I saw a picture of this our T-shirt and I fell in love with it. God told me that He was going to set our hearts on fire and at the same time, He was going to cause us to be revived by the living water, so I knew that we are going to put it on the T-shirts. God showed me that it is possible, that there is going to be fire and water in the same heart and life and it is for the King.
- I want you to pray that you will burn for Him Jesus and yet you will be refreshed by the living water that will flow in you because you will not thirst again.
- Be like Jairus, he knew he had a need and he came to Jesus. If you are here and between 2020-2021, some major tragedies have happened to your life, something that made you questioned the love of God for you, you know you need to be prayed for. It is okay to cry, just tell the Lord you are still here, I think you should have answered me but you know best, ask God to carry you.
Father, I know you see your daughters and you feel their pain, Father we ask that your love will begin to heal, restore and repair. Church Gist I release strength to your daughters. I pray for healing in their hearts so that they can love you more. Let there be recovery. There is water in this room and because of that I declare revival in your heart in the name of Jesus, you will fall in love with Jesus all over again, every pain in your heart will be healed in the name of Jesus, all the questions in your heart, you will come out of it. The Lord says some of you will not come out of it but however, He will give you the strength to come out of it. He said there is a strength of going through and when you come out of it you will come out stronger and you will be able to strengthen your brethren.
There was a time I felt that God didn’t love me. I was serving, sowing, doing all I was supposed to do and yet I couldn’t carry a child, people were mocking me but when God did it, now it is not me celebrating my babies but the many Hannah’s Heart Mum’s we have today, a ministry has been born out of it. Church Gist. I don’t know what you are going through but if you allow God to take you by the hand and lead you out of it, what you will come out with will blow your mind.
Weeping may endure for a night but listen to me, your joy has come.
I carry a grace for boldness, when it comes to the things of God I am not ashamed or afraid but I find that some people are. If you need that boldness to stand for Jesus, one of the things I found about God is, if you allow Him He will make you greater. That thing people say my female friends are this and that is not true, some of my greatest relationships are girls. If you are not a bad person why do you think others are bad? To the pure all things are pure. Church Gist. I use my full chest to love, I love deeply, you can’t offend me, it is too late. I am trusting God for women like that who will preach the Gospel. We must be the hand of God, God is not going to come down, somebody needs a hug, hug her, don’t pray for God to hug her. I am talking about the boldness of service, I serve my husband, I serve my church, I am not ashamed. People say how can a man tell you what to do, when my husband tells me to follow my heart I tell him I don’t have a heart, you are my heart tell me what to do. Some people are having healthy relationships, I can do this because my husband loves me. You are ashamed so that people will not say you are weak, some of you need boldness to tell your children ‘no’, my son throws tantrums sometimes, when I ask what is wrong he will say I am angry, I say okay be angry but don’t sin. Some say my children cannot cram King James, have you heard them sing secular songs? Be bold in raising your children. The boldness is not on the Pulpit but anywhere you find yourself, the type you take to your office, that is the one I am talking about.
Father in the name of Jesus I release the grace of boldness on your daughters, the voice of change and Godliness.
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