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  • WHY YOU ARE POOR AS A FULL-TIME PASTOR 3

    WHY YOU ARE POOR AS A FULL-TIME PASTOR 3

    #3 You use your money for what you shouldn’t use your money for and you use God’s money for what you should not use it for.

    There are things you can do to a business start-up that will bring you a loss. If you do the same things in the ministry, it will not only bring you a loss but a curse.

    You want to buy fuel in the ministry, you dip your hands into your pocket and buy. Then, you wanted to buy a Coke to drink, you dip your hands into God’s money and buy. That’s a malady.

    That’s why I talk about imprest. Even if you buy fuel with your money, get a refund and then buy your coke with your money. If you go for an official (ministry-related) assignment, you are not buoyant but hungry, buy a Coke, account for it and let the ministry pay for it. If you need recharge cards for official work and you can’t bear it from your personal purse, let the ministry pay for it but ACCOUNT FOR IT.

    As simple as these things are, they are things that put pressure on full-time ministers. If you sort it out accordingly, you will be less burdened. Meanwhile, I don’t expect you to abuse this. If you drain the ministry all because you want to drink a crate of coke, you’re on your own. In our early days in the ministry, I waited to subscribe at night for 25 naira so I can upload KBI lectures. I am talking of KBI, our business arm. It was meant to make money for the ministry but it was a start-up then and wasn’t making much yet. I used to cramp the lectures together and upload them at once in the middle of the night. It is the day I planned to upload that I will start feeling sleepy but I will still ensure I keep the vigil. Today, I don’t care what the MB is. I don’t even check, I just upload any time of the day.

    There are 3 phases to this:

    Entry phase– at this phase, you allow the ministry to bear some minor things that are not burdensome on it. Ministry can bear official call cards, transportation fares and so on. You also have to endure at this phase. Where the ministry can’t bear all the transportation costs, you may have to trek some distance. Those days, (even now), I was very reluctant to charter a bike or tricycle or cab. Not that the ministry can’t bear it but the cost would be burdensome.

    Second Phase: Ministry can now bear some higher responsibilities. Like house rents and the like. If you do things right, your personal finances should be improving at this point too. So, you can bear some things while the ministry bears other things. At this point, Bishop Oyedepo said he paid for his personal flight tickets instead of the ministry bearing them.

    The third Phase– is a more stable phase for you and the ministry. You can take up more expenses. At this stage, you have also fully separated ministry expenses from you. For instance, you don’t concern yourself with how the Church generator is fueled. The ministry can buy and maintain an official car(s) or aircraft(s).

    Note: these phases are interwoven and overplay. It doesn’t mean you clearly come out of one before another. it flows together.

    The point is that let the ministry bear things it can bear and be very frugal while doing that else, you will kill the ministry. Today, I still manage here and there to save costs. That is inspite of how God is blessing us.

    And importantly, if you have something to give, give it to the ministry, don’t use it to sort things out. Like, instead of bringing money from your pocket to buy fuel, pay that money into the ministry purse and let the ministry buy the fuel. That is the seed that attracts blessings. Not the one you spend without a record. Don’t say I used my seed to pay for the ministry NEPA bill.

    Full-time ministers who work with a ministry should ordinarily meet a system that settles these things. The level of sacrifice you will make is determined by what phase the ministry you serve with is. If you have a unique situation that is not covered in this write-up, state it so I can give input.

    Comment in the section for the link to Part 1-2.

  • CHEAT CODE FOR DELIVERANCE – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    CHEAT CODE FOR DELIVERANCE – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    There are two cheat codes for deliverance.

    Engage the demon to tell you it’s legal stand.

    Don’t get too deep conversing with demon else, you’ll be charged with a crime called “consulting a medium”. But from experience, you can’t cast some demons out until they reveal or you know their legal stand. I have seen cases where until we loosed the attachments on the lady’s head, the demons didn’t leave. Not that attachments are demonic, e get why e be like that, if you want to learn, ask ni, don’t argue.

    Another case, she was coming to my house. She quickly wiped her eye brown (hope I get it).

    She met us praying. She fell and started manifesting. Demon told us she used a friend eye paint. We didn’t seen any on her but we cleaned the eye with water. We cast, demon left. When she woke, I asked her. She said ” BUT I CLEANED IT BEFORE GETTING HERE. That’s one of the reasons our apostolic fathers banned all these things. Again, eye paints are not demonic- e get as e follow.

    Second cheat code –

    After all effort and tarry. Get the person to talk if they know of any legal standing for the demons. Anything at all. THEN, LET HIM DELIVER HIMSELF. This is a case of the door being locked from inside, you can’t open it from outside. He should open from inside with a simple CONFESSION. Then pray for him. FAITH & SHALOM.

  • DEMONS AND ATTACHMENT – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    DEMONS AND ATTACHMENT – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    I made a post on the easy way to handle deliverance where I stated my experience in some deliverance sessions. I mentioned cases demons refused to leave their hosts until we had loosed the attachment on the person’s head and a case we had to clean the eyes’ paints. Deliverance ministers will tell you that they experienced a lot of cases like this. And this is one of the reasons the apostolic fathers of faith totally condemned the use of those items.

    However, I added in the post that those items are not demonic but there’s a reason demons may demand cleaning them or losing them before they could depart their host. I will explain this by citing Rebecca Brown MD. Rebecca Brown is a topmost deliverance minister that resides in the USA. She doesn’t deal with witches, wizards and possessed people, she deals with SATANISTS. I mean real Satanists and not the ceremonial ones. Those that hold meetings with Satan and demons. They have covenanted with him. She has delivered some top-ranking Satanists. She said Lucifer once appeared to her threatening her PHYSICALLY (not a vision). She was attacked by a werewolf. She said a male friend of hers who I believe is her husband was attacked by a vampire. Not in the dreams but PHYSICALLY. I tell you this so you know she’s an authority in the field of deliverance. I learnt many things about deliverance from her.

    Talking about attachments, paints and so on, she explained that those items are used when Satanists hold their meetings with Lucifer. Ex-Satanists confirmed this to her. Because of that, demons could easily attach themselves to those items. Other factors could aid this to happen anyway. Most especially the person’s spiritual life just like the lady I prayed with. She was low spiritually. She borrowed eye paints from a friend in a tutorial class. That way, a demon was passed unto her.

    To be on the safe side, if you must use these items, PRAY OVER THEM, CAST OUR DEVILS AND ANOINT THEM. I usually anoint any new thing we bring or buy into the house especially the ones we have to use or wear.

    As I flashed back on those days when I was neck deep into deliverance, casting and binding, I was asking myself, if I am in a deliverance session today and the demons asked me to lose the hair of a lady before they can leave, will I obliged? I guess, I won’t. I will lay my hands on the hair and break their grip over it. If she bought the hair, she owned it and the devil cannot lay claim to it. I haven’t put this into practice anyway because I haven’t been much involved in “casting out” in a while. The few I get involved with didn’t take me through this route. I will be on the lookout to put this into use. If have any experience in this line, do share.

    Should I tell you that it is not all demons in deliverance sessions that SPEAK AUDIBLY? Some don’t speak at all and some talk in the spirit. You need to hear them spiritually before knowing what to do. This happened in Jesus’ ministry. It is a post for another day. If you demand it, I will write on it.

  • #MySADOZEncounterstory

    #MySADOZEncounterstory

    Still in the mood of anniversary, Every SADOZite are to share their SADOZ encounter story, Use this format that will be posted shortly to write the story in the comment box, it will reach the president and be published for all to see

    1.Name:

    2. Who introduced you to SADOZ/How did you get to SADOZ?:

    3. Who is your best leader in SADOZ/the person that planted you in SADOZ?:

    4. Tell us how SADOZ has been a blessing to you:

    5: Which study or SFA topic has been a great blessing to you?:

    6. What is that thing you love most about SADOZ?

    7. Have been in any KBI course before? Share with us your experience:

    8. Have you been to retreat, MAS or LFR before, share with us your best moment:

    9. Where do you see this ministry and yourself in the next 5 years?:

    10. Do you have any recommendation to the house? Please go ahead

    11. Pray for SADOZ

  • SADOZ @ 9

    SADOZ @ 9

    Hurray!!!

    Sons And Daughters Of Zion [SADOZ] Global Harvest Ministry is 9 years old today May 1st, 2023.

    You are having 3 things to do today:

    1. Drop the story of who added you to SADOZ or how you heard about SADOZ in the comment box.

    2. Tell us how SADOZ has affected your lives as well and the aspect of SADOZ you loves lot.

    3. Text or call the person that added you or planted you into the ministry to say THANK YOU.

    N:B- You can drop any suggestion you have as well for the ministry

  • WHY YOU ARE POOR AS A FULL-TIME MINISTER 2- Pst. Ife ADETONA

    WHY YOU ARE POOR AS A FULL-TIME MINISTER 2- Pst. Ife ADETONA

    #2 You mix God’s money with your money.

    Many GOs, founders and presidents of ministries dabble into God’s offering committing the sin of Hophni and Phinehas. They say to themselves: “God’s money is my money and my money is God’s money”. That’s sacrilege.

    Bishop David Oyedepo told us a story of a man of God he went to preach for. After the service, the man dived to where they were counting the offering and dipped his hands into the box. He took some cash and drove off. While on their way, he stopped the car, got down and came back with sardines, bread and orisirisi in his hands. Bishop exclaimed: “is it the money you took from the offering box that you used to buy all these things?” He said: “Yes, we are going to take care of the man of God, isn’t it?” Bishop said- “God forbid I eat from that money”.

    Nobody counted the money.
    Nobody recorded it
    And he is not going to report how it was spent to anyone.

    We can’t even begin to mention the consequences this act is costing you and the ministry.

    First, to take unaccounted money leaves others with the power to do the same when you turn your back.

    You are building trust issues around yourself.

    You are not preparing for a great ministry. You can do that because you are small and you will remain small.

    Above all, you are heaping the curses of Hophni and Phinehas upon yourself and your generation.

    In our ministry, if my family has any kobo to give to the ministry, we send it to the ministry’s account and it is recorded as a seed.

    There is something called impress. If I need to make any purchase on behalf of the ministry, the money is released and I return with a breakdown to the last dime. The treasurer will put all in her records. It is the same with whoever is taking any money out to get a thing done on behalf of the ministry. That is how we run the ministry from 2014 till date. It is all recorded in a hardcover.

    Taking and spending unaccounted money for whatever reason is STEALING. It doesn’t matter if you spend it on the ministry or even added your money to it. You are still a THIEF. Please, REPENT and put things in order.

    THE LORD BE WITH ALL OF US. Amen

    Lookout for part 3.

    Link to part 1 https://healingnexusblog.com/reason-youre-poor-as-a-full-time-minister-pst-ife-adetona/

  • REASON YOU’RE POOR AS A FULL-TIME MINISTER – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    REASON YOU’RE POOR AS A FULL-TIME MINISTER – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    #1 Wrong expectations.

    When I decided I was going to go full time, I started asking God some questions like: where am I going to live because I was staying in an official lodge? I also asked God: “WHO IS GOING TO PAY MY SALARY?”, ” Where will my money come from?” Do those statements sound familiar? I first heard it from Bishop Oyedepo as some of the questions he asked God and so I decided to do the same.

    God asked me, “Who pays a Teller that works in a bank? The bank or the customers? I said: the bank.

    Then, He said: customers bring money to the bank in other to save it. The Teller must not look at the customer or the money in expectation to be paid from it. I said YES.

    He went on: but the Teller must attend to the customer well even though she’s not expecting to be paid by the customers or from the money that was brought by them. “YES SIR”.

    Also, He said: the Teller’s salary and promotion are based on how well she attends to the customers. Again, I said YES.

    Then, He explained the meaning of the illustration: I am your Employer, I am the one to pay you and not the people or your members you minister to. They will have testimonies just like customers bringing money to the bank but they are not to pay you. You must also attend to them well because that determines if you will be paid or not.

    I argued: BUT IT IS MEN THAT GOD WOULD USE.

    He replied: look up to God that will use men and not the men that God would use.

    It is painful that pastors would labour on someone, they will have testimonies but not remember their pastors. But it is very wrong for any pastor to feel OFFENDED BY THIS. It’s like a teacher getting offended that his students didn’t pay him or bankers getting offended that customers who came to deposit a huge sum of money didn’t pay them.

    It is this wrong expectation that leads to OFFENCE, BITTERNESS, CUSSING, and ANGER towards yourself and those you are ministering to.

    If you feel bad, take it to God. If you’re angry, take it to God. If you feel cheated or neglected, take it to God. It is God that employed you and not those people. If you try to look up to them, the biggest they can give you is what they call ” tipping”. And if your Employer catches you asking for tips, you can be fired! Many are pastors whom God has left to enjoy the “tipping” while their salaries are withheld. Stop cheating yourself. Satan is not the one that kept you poor. Get over the wrong expectation.

  • Pastor Ife  at 11 years in ministry

    Pastor Ife at 11 years in ministry

    Celebrating 7 Years in Full-Time ministry plus 4 years in the ministry I served full-time, making 11 years.

    You all know that I am a staunch advocate for full-time ministry. Probably, another side of me you don’t know is that I have discouraged a good number of people who came to me for counsel concerning going full-time. That’s usually due to timing and the fact that some didn’t have something to build full-time ministry upon. I have also refrained from advising some people because they didn’t let me talk. They come with the attitude of: “GOD SAYS and there is nothing you can say to me.”

    Another thing you should know about me is that I strongly believe in the office of the part-time ministry. The church is designed to have much more volunteers than full-time staff. Part-time ministers are elevated church workers or ordained workers just like the 7 deacons selected in the book of Acts. It only becomes funny when part-time ministers push an agenda that there is no point in full-time. Many of them know only little about full-time ministry and it shows in the way they talk and act when the issue of full-time ministers is raised. That’s a discussion for another day.

    Above all is my forward passion for FULL-TIME MINISTERS most especially in the area of finances because that is the area people mock the most. Finance is also the reason many people meant for full-time has settled for part-time.

    In lieu of this, I want to do a series titled “WHY FULL-TIME MINISTERS ARE POOR“. It will be short daily nuggets. I hope to cover as many reasons as possible because there are a lot of factors that can contribute towards it.

    I hope to also link it together so much that you can see all the previous series.

    Take this walk with me and do well to share and tag those you believe needs to see it either as full-time ministers or aspiring full-time minister.

    DROP A WORD OF PRAYER FOR DADDY IN THE COMMENT BOX

  • TEBAH: The mystery of the Ark

    TEBAH: The mystery of the Ark

    Welcome back to the Christocentric Series❗ Don’t forget that we are comparing Jesus in Shadow and Jesus in pictures☄️.
    Oh Yes❗❗
    He’s the central theme of the Bible.

    In the last series, we looked at the SCARLET THREAD and saw the significance of the blood of Jesus. Today we shall be looking at Jesus as the TEBAH. Tebah is a Greek word meaning THE ARK.

    After sin crept into the world, the earth started to become more corrupt. And what God was seeing wasn’t His initial intention of creating the world. Sin thus, began to be the order of the day, and wickedness became the attitude of people on the earth and the wrath of God started to be growing on humanity and this made God sorry for making men.😟😟

    Genesis 6:5-6

    “And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually .
    And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.”

    Of course, God is Righteous and what made God Righteous is that He won’t, and can’t condone what is wrong (sin). God hates sin because Righteousness is His nature and this made God search the whole earth to see if any man can withstand His Righteous Nature. And Alas!!! Noah and His family were found.

    Genesis 7:1

    And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

    Noah was a preacher of Righteousness and through Him, God wants to express the twin nature of the RIGHTEOUS NATURE which is the LOVE NATURE and the intercept is called the ARK .

    He used 120 years to preach but the result was Zero(0) convert, no one responded to his preaching. Himself and His family (alone) entered the Ark which was built by him, following God’s instructions. And God released the fountain of the deep to rain on the earth.

    Genesis 7:15-16
    And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
    And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.

    MORE THAN AN ARK;
    JESUS IN THE PICTURE

    1. God has judged the world in Righteousness and Showered His Mercy at the same time through Jesus Christ.
      He gave Jesus to show and fulfill the requirement of our sin(Righteousness) and also to rescue us(Mercy/Love). John 3:16
    2. The water was God’s instrument of Judgement (Anger) while the Ark (love/Mercy) was God’s means of rescue
    3. The Ark saved People from God’s judgment (the flood)
      Jesus saves people from God’s Just(Eternal Damnation)
    4. Those in the ark were spared from death.
      Those in Jesus are spared from Eternal destruction (Hell fire)
    5. God’s wrath and love are most vividly on display on the cross and also in the Ark. Are you enlightened?
    A subsidiary of Healingnexusblog…… Hope for the hopeless

    Type LIGHT in the comment box.

  • READING BOOKS MADE EASY – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    READING BOOKS MADE EASY – Pst. Ife ADETONA

    We started the study on PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
    We close it by stating the importance of BOOK READING in the transformation of a leader
    2Ti 4:13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
    How did Paul whom was never among the 12 knew so much and become so prominent?Books✅

    Jesus opened the book and He discovered what was written about Him
    I believe most people know the importance of books but the challenge is they don’t know HOW TO START
    It all starts with SELECTION
    Select books that you NEED
    Adults learn faster when they read what they need
    You hate books, right?
    But in school, you read those handouts and textbooks.
    Why?
    Do you say it’s a must?
    That’s just it! Select a book or title by need!

    Click on this link now and ask Lydia to send the list of all SADOZ books to you.
    wa.me/+2349035972506
    Which of it, do you need right away in your life?
    Do not aim to read 100 books at once
    How many did you read last year?

    Let that guide how you will set your goal
    You can start by ONE in a month.
    Divide it into weeks or invest the holiday of this weekend on it
    When I ask people about their interest in book, they cite two challenges

    Problems with reading

    1. I don’t enjoy reading books.
    2. I don’t enjoy reading PDF
    Then I used to ask them, DO YOU LISTEN TO MESSAGES?
    They usually answer yea!
    People that read a lot don’t like much of sounds.

    And those who love a lot of sounds feel bored with books
    So, I proffer a solution to them:

    1.TURN PDF BOOKS INTO AUDIO BOOK

    This is easy given the technology available on your phone
    But first let me talk some more about PDF and E-book
    Hard copy books are good and has their own place but you will be at a disadvantage if you don’t embrace e-copies
    The last book I bought was #2,500
    Those days we used to buy books for around #800 to #1,500. That’s almost the highest
    Tell me, how much can you spare on books per month?
    I even bought a book last month for #5,000
    One book o
    But PDF gives you the room to get books for FREE!
    THERE are several channels and platforms today where you can get books from various authors for free!
    pdfdrive.com for instance has up to 84,000,000 free books from different authors and subjects
    Scribd also has a lot of resources

    So, you are losing a lot if you don’t learn to read PDF
    I read all the God’s General series in soft copy

    2. You can get books at lower price

    Some books can never go for absolutely free
    But you need them
    Most foreign books are available for free but most indigenous books are available freely
    Most foreign books are available for free but most indigenous books are available at a cost
    Reading from someone who is using examples you can relate with makes a lot of difference
    Foreign authors speaks in dollar terms but an indigenous author will speak in your own terminologies and make it simple
    Now, PDF gives you their book at cheaper rates if at all you are paying.

    3. You can carry several books around on your phone including the ones you have read

    If you need references, you can easily check for it

    4. You can read anytime and anywhere

    I think that is the biggest advantage of PDF books
    In the toilet, on the queue, in the bus etc
    You can easily read on the go

    5. You can also highlight

    People said you can’t highlight on hardcopy or make jottings but you can
    You can joy on your phone or jot on a notebook
    Look at this.

    It’s as highlight from ULTIMATE PURPOSE FINDER
    The big deal is that if you open this book after 10 years. The highlight will still be there. Even if you open it on another device!

    Converting PDF into AUDIO BOOK

    let me ask you,
    If your phone can be reading the book to you either on the road or in the book or as you’re doing your house chores, will you like it?
    You can be sweeping or washing the plates and be reading
    You can lie down, play a book and sleep off
    When you wake, reverse it to where you were before you slept off

    All you need is an app like this. This one is called Epub reader
    There are many like it
    Once you download it on your phone, just open a book with it and it starts reading
    You can also set the speed and the volume

    TIPS FOR FAST READING

    1. Read for One hour per day.

    If you do this, you will read 50 books in a year.

    2. Read at your Prime time

    Your prime time is your best time. If you read at this time, you cover many pages quickly and retain better.
    Divide large books into part
    Like first 50 or first 5 chapters
    When you complete a milestone, there’s joy that comes to your heart and motivated you further .

    3. Set targets

    Put some pressure on yourself
    Like, announce on your status!

    I will finish this book before Salah break is over
    You can promise a review after you are done or on each chapter
    And finally, the promo ends today
    I am happy we have an holiday
    If you are blessed by this study, let me know
    If you find it helpful, tell me