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  • Lecture On DIVORCE

    Lecture On DIVORCE


    Long before this topic came into the public domain, one of my spiritual daughters once asked me a question on divorce. She said something like, daddy, “what’s your take on divorce?”

    NB: if you read this lecture to the end, I have a joke for you which I shared at the tail end.

    Before the lecture commences, let me point out that, I could decide not to tell that inquisitive lady or even you about such a Biblical subject but you would get the answer some other way even though it could be the wrong one. So, it is my responsibility to teach you…right?

    To the lecture –

    Many people will tell you that ADULTERY is the only condition for divorce. I wish to disappoint you by saying “adultery” is not even enough reason for divorce. The Bible teaches unconditional love and forgiveness. When Peter asked how many times should we forgive,¶ Jesus said 77×7. ¶The Bible says love shall cover the multitude of sins- isn’t it?

    Meaning what? This means that adultery like every other sin is forgivable. You can’t argue that.

    So, what is the implication of the word “fornication” set as a condition in the Bible context? ¶

    Let’s explain the scripture in the light of another scripture.

    1 Corinthians 7:13&15
    And if a Chris­tian woman has a husband who is not a be­liev­er and he is will­ing to con­tinue living with her, she must not leave him.
    15 But if the husband or wife who isn’t a be­liev­er in­sists on leav­ing, let them go. In such cases, the Chris­tian husband or wife is no longer bound to the oth­er, for God has called you to live in peace.

    Here, Apostle Paul says if you have an “unbelieving” spouse who “wishes to stay” with you, let them remain. But if not, you are free.

    Before I go further. The Bible didn’t say you can marry an unbeliever, it is if you both marry as unbelievers but you got converted and the other person is not yet saved. However, if you thought you marry a believer but it turned out otherwise, the Scripture covers you as well.

    Jesus said it is not all that call me LORD that will see the Kingdom but only those that do the will of my Father. ¶The Scripture also says, show me you’re in faith by your deeds; faith without complementing works is dead. One of my daughters once said she had to ask herself, ” wait o, am I engaged to an unbeliever?” Show me your faith, through your works. ¶

    The second condition in that passage is “wish to stay” with you. Okay, is it by saying “I don’t want to stay with you” or “I want to stay with you?” What if their attitudes show that they don’t even want you alive? I hope you get it now.

    In short, if the situation is convincingly LIFE-THREATENING, they are not willing to stay with you. Or better put, they don’t want you to stay with them. Or we should say, they want you dead by their deeds. The Bible says God has called you to a life of peace and not bondage.

    Now, let’s go back to the word adultery as used by Jesus. Adultery is life-threatening. Killer STDs are plenty. I have seen marriages and children devasted by HIV and STDs. These things are real. I have attended to a few HIV+ cases from 2013 to date. A doctor once said that if you visit the HIV counselling section in teaching hospitals, you will think everybody on earth is positive.

    What’s my point? Leaving a marriage because of un-forgiveness is different from life-threatening situations. And many things could be life-threatening- adultery, battery (beating) and lots.

    SO WHAT happens to a divorcee?

    You see them as divorcees, God sees them as SINGLES because the old things have passed away by the reason of the works of Christ.

    This is what God says about singles- He set the singles in families.
    Psalms 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

    The Bible also says no single will lack a partner- Isaiah 34:16.

    WHAT if someone just pack their things and left the marriage citing a flimsy excuse?

    Many consequences come with taking the wrong steps or disregarding holy matrimony. We are not God to judge or punish the offenders but one thing is sure if a person commits a sin and repents, God forgives and the person becomes new. In short, the person becomes a SINGLE and fit for marriage. If you’re angry about that, raise your hand if you have never sinned.

    CAN the person marry again to the person they left?

    The next thing after leaving a marriage is not to walk into another but to heal and get led by the Spirit. God can take you back to the person or lead you forward. I have journeyed with at least a counsellee in such a situation. She got back with the man she left after two years. Anyone in this shoe should be patient and get God’s mind when making the next move.

    And here is the joke.
    I asked my daughter her reason for asking about divorce. I love dealing with some sensitive questions before asking for the reason.

    She said the Pastor in her former Church left his wife because according to him, God said she’s a witch. But he couldn’t re-marry because he believed the woman must die before he can take another wife. So, from time to time, he would gather some pastors and select people in the Church to pray that mama should die. In short, they are still separated, Baba is around 90 years now and mama is also very old but has refused to die.

    ¶Mathew 18:22, 1 Peter 4:8, Mathew 5:32, James 2:14-28

    Ife Adetona
    SADOZ President Worldwide.
    ©2022-04-12

  • DISCIPLESHIP MANDATE LAUNCHING

    DISCIPLESHIP MANDATE LAUNCHING

    I’m happy to inform you that the book we’ve been waiting for will be released today. I’m so glad for the grace granted on to me to be the Author this great book, it’s not by power nor by might but by my Spirit says the Lord.

    HOW I RECEIVED THE INSPIRATION TO WRITE THE BOOK

    After publishing the last book (PRAYER ENERGIA) , I asked the Holy Spirit that which book are we writing next, but He was quiet. He didn’t say anything, but He came back to tell me to write about Discipleship when I was Counselling one of my Disciples.

    The young man said he covets the grace of God over my life, and further asked “what are the secrets of your exploit in the Lord?”

    After thinking for a few minutes, I told him the major factor responsible for that is my discipleship journey. Right there, I shared with him my personal discipleship story, from which he picked some lessons and was tremendously blessed.

    Just as I was telling him my story, the Holy Spirit said to me expressly that my next book will be on Discipleship, which I heeded to and started working on it few days later.

    WHAT’S THE BOOK ALL ABOUT?

    As a believer, your Spiritual life can never be in good shape if you’re not in a Discipleship relationship under a Discipler.

    And perhaps you’re already in one discipleship relationship or you intend to initiate one soon, it is much more important to have a proper understanding of what to expect from it, as well as your own duties in such relationship. Some of the important things you’d get from this book include:

    1. An explicit explanation on the major reason why Discipleship was commanded by our Lord Jesus.

    2. The Duties of a Discipler to their disciples.

    3. The Duties of Disciples to their Disciplers.

    4. Discipleship story of some men of God and lessons to learn from there.

    THE LAUNCHING

    Philippians 4:17
    _[17]Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account._

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    I therefore request this book it the body of Christ to do that which God had wanted to do with it in the name of God the Father,Son and the Holy Spirit.

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    May the Communion of Holy Spirit be with you.

    Damola ABEGUNDE
    Author

  • SLEEPLESSNESS: The Bible Cure

    SLEEPLESSNESS: The Bible Cure

    So, one of my daughters has been complaining about sleeplessness. I told her what to do but she wouldn’t do it.

    She was in my house and I told her that if she want to sleep, she should read her Bible. I assured her that she won’t have read two chapters before she would sleep off. I humorously added that the devil that doesn’t want her to sleep would leave and Satan may even send the one that would make her sleep.

    The following day, I asked her: “how was your night?” She didn’t want to tell me what happened. Maybe she was feeling carnal. At last, she burst into laughter and said she had not read one chapter before she slept off.

    Maybe that sounds unspiritual to you as well. Do me a favour, forget about the fact that I asked her to read the Bible. Let’s say I asked her to read just a random book- did you think she would still have slept? Did you say- Yes? What if it’s a chemistry textbook or further maths? Okay, assume I told her to play a message and listen to it, do you feel she would have slept off as well?

    I presume that your answer to all is YES.

    None of those materials is a sleeping pill neither is the Bible. When we are sleepless, we are restless, many things run through our mind but when we focus our mind on one thing, our mind goes to rest and sleep sets in like magic.

    And it won’t be bad if the Bible is the last thing you read before going to bed, is it? Besides, the Bible says- “He gives sleep to His beloved”- Psalms 127:2

    Did you find it hard to sleep after getting to bed? Do this and thank me later.

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  • MUMMY G. O

    MUMMY G. O

    If not that “Mummy G.O” overplayed her hand and added to the scripts…if she had stayed with the scripts like her predecessors and simply condemn Baba Adeboye, Prophet Obadare, Bishop Oyedepo, Arch Bishop Benson Idahosa, Bimbo Odukoya and others who are the regular mentions when it comes to their hellish vision–may be you would have believed her. May be you would have bought her books. May be you would have distributed her tapes. May the LORD help you.

    Hear this, any vision that makes it looks harder for a believer to enter heaven and makes hell easier to go to IS FROM HELL in order to discourage you from the heavenly race.

    It is very difficult for a believer (a person who confesses Jesus as Lord and lives in the consciousness of that confession) to miss heaven and quite easy to make heaven. A believer cannot be on the way to hell and not know it. It is not something you enter into by mistake.

    While you are busy praying, groaning and crying to God to help you to make heaven- angels are busy saying to you that heaven is not a problem but your dominion here on the earth. You are asking for the Kingdom of Heaven, God is saying no problem but you haven’t occupied the earth with the power of the gospel. See- you can’t reign on the earth as His priest and His king and lose heaven.

    I have said this 100 times- some have chosen to go to heaven like the poor Lazarus but I have chosen to go like the rich Abraham.

  • GARRI WITHOUT JOY (THE FORCE OF JOY)

    GARRI WITHOUT JOY (THE FORCE OF JOY)

    This is likely not the first time you heard me say if you’re drinking Garri, don’t shed tears. Garri water and tear water doesn’t give a good mix. In the same light, whatever you are going through today, don’t wear yourself out with self-pity.

    I don’t know what the high cost of stuff is doing to your pocket right now or how many meals you could afford a day as a result. I don’t know how angry you get when you hear that the cost of bathing soap has increased or when the Gas man made you turned back because of additional #50 but GOD IS SENDING ME TO YOU. Don’t feel bad. Cut your cost if you have to but don’t feel bad.

    on this link to be receiving notifications of new articles from Healing Nexus Blog : https://wa.link/b45ppc\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou see, when you lack every other thing, never lack joy. And don’t try to be like your neighbours. If you are forced to cook with sticks or charcoal today, do it with gladness because that is not your end.

    In 2017, I was there soaking on a cup of Garri, the thing poured on the table, I packed it smiling. Today, hot water splashed on my leg, I said- thank you, Jesus, it wasn’t more than that. I opened the tap on it and it started hurting, I said: thank you, Jesus, my cells are not dead.

    The reason you’re sad is not because things are hard, it is because you haven’t learnt to look beyond the unpalatable circumstances. Things have never been cheaper in this nation especially. Every New Year, people tell how better the previous year was and how expensive things are now. You should be tired of lamenting about this already.

    I stopped lamenting in 2016 when I saw a supposed rich woman told me in January how things were hard “these days”. I was like, you mean things are hard already in January? From that day, I stopped lamenting and stopped condoling lamentators around me. You need to stay away from such people and discussions. It has never made life better for anyone.

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  • HAVING ENCOUNTERS WITH ANGELS

    HAVING ENCOUNTERS WITH ANGELS

    Don’t let any man bully you into thinking that without a #heavenly vision or a celestial visitation, your christian life is not complete.

    If your assignment requires you having such visit, you won’t even pray for it.

    From the days of Cornelius, most people who had such visit weren’t even a believer before having their first “encounter”. They needed those encounters because they were NATURAL men who lack the word of God.

    A young man once called me and said that he wanted one of such encounters. I simply told him that he was born into the church, he grew in the church, he lives in the “word environment”. His encounter will come from Communion with the Holy Spirit and the Scriptures.

    Such angelic visits is meant for two things among others: if a man is a natural man. That is, he his not in the faith and God needed to attract his attention like the burning bush, He would visit them supernaturally. They don’t have to believe in God to even have this.

    Secondly, if a man assignment requires it and in the wisdom of God, He feels you need it. I read of a great healing evangelist in the similitude of John G. Lake whose encounter came from Acts 10:38.

    Kenneth Copeland told of a man who fasted his lungs out to see Jesus appear to him. Copeland said that the things he said Jesus told him, if he sit with 1 Corinthians chapter 1, he would get even more.

    See, the biggest encounter is with the word. And you don’t need an angelic visitation or that of patriarchs of faith to validate your calling or the extent at which God would use you in the ministry.

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  • IF YOU DESIRE GREATNESS, YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS (PLATFORM)

    IF YOU DESIRE GREATNESS, YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS (PLATFORM)

    They have #PLATFORMS
    The moment you hear of a successful person especially someone of the same line of a career as yours, your mind quickly goes to work searching for the reason why he is succeeding and you are not.

    It is not uncommon to hear words like: he’s from a rich background, he is only leveraging on the influence of his parents, his church has a ready platform for him, he is a white man, he lives in Lagos, it’s because he is short and so on.

    I remembered the time I was discussing with people about the pressing of God upon my heart to go full time in the ministry. A man literally told me that if it was someone like his own son, he would have agreed to it but for someone like me, it is a wrong decision. What was his reason? He said, his own son for instance has a parent that can fund him at the initial stage but someone like me doesn’t have such a background to rely upon. Please, don’t fault him. That is how a lot of people think and we are making a big mistake.

    That someone has some background or whatever to leverage upon is not the reason for his success. There are many people with the same opportunity who are nowhere near it. And there are many more a lot of people without those opportunities and they are making waves.

    Let me even agree with you for a second that the platform some have is the reason for their success but you must also agree with me that the lack of it, is not a determinant for your future. So, stop thinking that way.

    Don’t accept that statement into your heart again. It kills the striving spirit in you. You may not know it. But it’s simply giving you an excuse for being at the point you are thereby failing to see what God can do through you and what you can do with God.

    If you say the Bamiloyes have a ready-made platform, what would you say about Baba and Mama? Yet they made it. If you cannot be “the Bamiloye Junior” then you should be the “Baba or Mama Bamiloye” for your children.

    Besides, everyone has a platform. Everyone has a unique opportunity. You may fail to see yours but you do. The fish cannot fly but it can swim. The bird cannot run but it glides through the winds. The Elephant has no claws but it has muscles. The Lion is not a giant but it is a skilful hunter. The soldier ants have no bones but they have unity. The ants are very tiny but they are organized.

    My conclusion from the onset of my ministry is that I have no platform or charisma or the character to lobby but I have God and I have me- that’s enough.

    Decide to be a creator of the platform you lack.

  • Prayer ENERGIA is now AVAILABLE!!!

    Prayer ENERGIA is now AVAILABLE!!!

    PRAYER ENERGIA LAUNCHING

    I am happy to announce to you that the book we’ve been waiting for will be released today.

    What’s the book all about?

    The book Prayer Energia is a great revival tool in the body of Christ, the book as it title connotes is all about prayer; it encompasses all that you need to know about prayer and it’s divided into 3 part

    Part A: Exposes us to the concept of Prayer, it gives us a new and broader perspective Into the concept of prayer

    Part B : This part gives us the Principles to follows if you really want to have an effective prayer life,. These Principles have been proven to be true, it have been tested and it also birthed prayer hi.

    Part C: This part exposes to us the WHY of prayer, the reasons why every believers must pray and why Prayer must be our lifestyle.

    What inspired me to write the book?

    The Holy Spirit is the inspiration behind the book, when I released the twinned of this book titled “MY BIBLE MY FRIEND” He asked me that will I just teach people on how to read Bible and don’t expose them to the way to pray? I said No, that’s why He started disctating the chapters to me and to the glory of God, the result amazed me too.

    Why do you need the book?

    You need the book because every body needs growth, I tell you all the principles in the book are what myself also need to be applying every day of my life.

    The book will teach you
    1. How to overcome sleeping while praying
    2. How you can pray long hour
    3. The timing of Prayer
    4. How to have an effective prayer walk etc.

    You really need to read this book.

    How much is the book?

    The book will be sold at #500/$2 each and note that it’s a soft copy book.

    Click on the below link for your order
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    Abegunde Damola Samson
    Author

  • Pastor’s Diary: Dispensing Value

    Pastor’s Diary: Dispensing Value

    I met with one of my Discipler on campus some weeks ago, when we he first saw me what He said was that since many years we see last, I didn’t increase or decrease in height and width and I was laughing. And I started to be looking at my stature and campus memories begins to be coming back to me.

    When I had the opportunity to be the Central Christian Body President and we were to be welcoming the freshers to campus and be helping them with their registration, you’ll see some freshers just reacting to you as if you’re their younger brother and saying “Sir” (giving accolade) to my subordinates that are having big stature than I do.

    I even caught one to my fellowship and when he got to the Wednesday prayer meeting, he was trying to prove spirituality by telling us some “spiritual vision” of which when I checked in the Spirit, I saw that it was given so that we can know that he is spiritual. Some will even be greeting me and be telling me “How far” and I’ll exchange with I’m fine sir😂

    But as time goes on, some of them knew that I was the president at the break time fellowship on campus, Just a ministration I took wiped off what my stature had painted in their mentality and defines whom I am to them. After that ministration, they started to be bending their posture before greeting me, and before leaving campus ALL of them started to be calling me their Dad and I mentored so many of them to the point that they started bringing up children as well.

    Not on campus alone, I’ve been to so many places to minister that, at the introduction that I’ll be the one that will minister, it will be obvious in so many people’s faces that they are disappointed, I was even at a place that immediately I got there the ushers have welcomed me like a member before the man of God that invited me to minister came around but after my ministration in those places, what I do receive I exchange of how I was initially treated is Honor. Why Honor? Because of the value, I dispense while ministering.

    Dear Pastor, Don’t take any opportunity to stand on the pulpit for granted, Don’t be discouraged by the numbers of people you want to minister to, but think about value, think about what you can add to the lives of your audience, think about the souls of men. Dispense value because the value will command honor.

    📝 *Damsam*
    October 2021

  • BLIND MENTORSHIP

    BLIND MENTORSHIP

    You all know that story of three blind men taken to the Zoo to touch an Elephant. When each was asked to describe what an elephant looks like, they all said three different things based on their experiences.

    The first one had touched the trunk of the Elephant and so, said an Elephant is like a long rope. Another had touched the skin and said an Elephant is like a wall. The last one touched the tail and so, he said an Elephant is short and full of hairs.

    Your mentor is like a dice 🎲, they have up to six dimensions. Until you have observed and understudy them from all sides, you can’t really say what they look like or what they are. You can observe a man of God and conclude that he’s a prosperity preacher. Yes, he could be a prosperity preacher but have you studied him enough to hear him preach about prayer? I bet you, the day you hear him preach prayer, you would think that he’s a prayer & deliverance minister.

    That’s why some of you have come into shock and surprises hearing your mentor speak about concepts you never imagined they have an idea on.

    Learning and observing from all sides is what makes a mentee a mentee and not looking from one angle only or listening to just a message or reading few books else you may not learn all what God has prepared for you to learn. That explains the reason people jump from one mentor to the other without really learning from any. They switch mentors as if they are changing clothes.

    And that’s one reason I try to read ALL THE BOOKS or most of the books of my mentors. I go as far as reading about them on Wikipedia where available. I really want to KNOW because that is how mantle falls and not by seeing someone in the dream.

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